Twin Trials Contest

Twin Trials is a beatmapping and storyboarding contest highlighting 5 custom-made tracks by Featured Artist James Landino.

The contest is divided into two phases: beatmapping and storyboarding.

Submissions to the beatmapping phase include:

• A team of 2 participants.
• A beatmap spread of 5 difficulties (Easy/Normal/Hard/Insane/Expert) using one of the 5 pre-selected songs by James Landino in any game mode.

The storyboarding phase will be revealed in the near future.

Contest schedule

Beatmapping phase

Storyboarding phase

The storyboarding phase schedule will be revealed in the near future.

Links

• Contest listings

  • osu!
  • osu!taiko
  • osu!catch
  • osu!mania
• Beatmapping phase announcement
• Beatmap voting announcement
• Beatmapping phase results

Teams

osu!

osu!taiko

osu!catch

osu!mania

Prizes

Because this contest is available to all game modes, each game mode has its own set of prizes.

Mapping judge panel

Placing	Prize(s)
	6 months of osu!supporter, Elite Mapper contest points, Mappers' Pick profile badge
	4 months of osu!supporter, Elite Mapper contest points
	2 months of osu!supporter, Elite Mapper contest points

The winning beatmap (from the game mode with the highest submission count) will be used as the base for the storyboarding phase. If the winning mappers and storyboarders agree to combine their creations, their collaboration will be bundled with new installations of osu!(lazer).

Just like prizes, judges for this contest are separated by mode:

Community vote

A player must play all difficulties of a Twin Trials lazer playlist in their respective mode in order to vote.

See the Twin Trials - Voting phase news post for more details.

Placing	Prize(s)
	4 months of osu!supporter, Community Pick profile badge
	2 months of osu!supporter

Once the playlists are closed, whoever has the highest score on each leaderboard for each game mode will receive a minor prize too:

• Easy/Normal/Hard/Insane playlist leaders: 1 month of osu!supporter each
• Expert playlist leader: 1 month of osu!supporter + Twin Trials Champion profile badge

The storyboarding phase prizes will be announced after the beatmapping phase ends.

Rules

• Submission must include FIVE DIFFICULTIES: Easy, Normal, Hard, Insane, and Expert. Any game mode is acceptable.
• Submission must use one of the selected songs by James Landino.
• Submission must be in .osz format.
• osu!mania beatmaps must be 4K or 7K. Other key modes are not competitive enough for this contest.
• Beatmaps should abide by the ranking criteria. While we can be forgiving for mistakes, submissions that could not be ranked without major changes will be disqualified.
• Team name and members must be confirmed through this form.

  • If your country does not support Google Forms, send pishifat a message.
  • Teams must have 2 members.
• Submissions must not be publicly revealed until after the judging phase ends.
• Submissions must not be Qualified until after the community vote ends.
• Each team cannot create more than one submission per game mode.
• A user cannot participate in more than one team per game mode.

Results

Each of the 5 difficulties had its own judging category, aiming to evaluate its overall quality. The point distribution was weighted according to each difficulty's complexity:

The following categories were evaluated across all difficulties in a submission:

osu!

osu!taiko

osu!catch

osu!mania

osu!(lazer) playlist leaders

	osu!	osu!taiko	osu!catch	osu!mania
Easy playlists	fieryrage	Yukiama95	[ Primakien ]	mashu
Normal playlists	fieryrage	Yukiama95	AnApple7	mashu
Hard playlists	fieryrage	Yukiama95	Yasinnnnnn	mashu
Insane playlists	fieryrage	Yukiama95	AnApple7	mashu
Expert playlists	fieryrage	Grape_Tea	Kimitakari	mashu