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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

Event Timestamp
Announcement 2023-02-01
Submission 2023-02-01/2023-03-15
Judging 2023-03-15/2023-04-05
Community vote and lazer playlists 2023-04-10/2023-04-24
Results 2023-05-15

Storyboarding phase

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

Teams

osu!

Team name Members Submission
blacklist international acnozei, flake #1
bulochki k chayu piroshki, Delette #1
dönerbuden bande Slifer, PaRaDogi #1
Double Trouble IssaFR, SiriusOnly #1
Eye of Aeon allein, Mirash #1
FUMO 20 GRAMMI IN 10 SEC CAR Shiraya Sayuki, Kaguya_Sama #1
Harvard Dropouts™ Sylas, Mimari #1
Imperishable Night Down, Dailycare #1
Nightcord at Various Times Local Hero, Kuroise #1
nilou mains -jordan-, Shinjuko #1
PepeBusinessCorp iljaaz, DeviousPanda #1
Salute, bebra zadknus, Hyokar #1
Twin-Tails yf_bmp, Moecho #1

osu!taiko

Team name Members Submission
-w-)b _yosh, ler1211 #1
Frozen Bananas uone, iceOC #1
meow fieryrage, Horiiizon #1
Playing Counter Strike: Global Offensive Faputa, Cynplytholowazy #1
Printemps makimen, uranosu1030 #1
we spent one discord message thinking of this teamname SilentWuffer, Jonarwhal #1

osu!catch

Team name Members Submission
:moyai: Jemzuu, -Rustyy #1
Alien Tails Deif, autofanboy #1
Catch the AFK sxy62146214, Summerleopard #1
Team name Unlucky_w, Ymiir #1

osu!mania

Team name Members Submission
"world cup" epic man 2, GDBlack #1
IceDynamix EimitMaggi999, Vincus #1
Olsen's Shipmates Hytex, Ucitysm #1
Petmalu MapleSyrup-, lenpai #1
pishifat BringoBrango, Stability #1
Ppassapgosu ssapgosu, Ppass #1
PrtSc tyrcs, richardfeder #1
The Furries Are Mitosising SilentWuffer, NotiiJohn0 #1
The Wolf and the Fox AutotelicBrown, Akasha- #1
why are we here Lott, TheFunk #1

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)
Gold crown 6 months of osu!supporter, Elite Mapper contest points, Mappers' Pick profile badge
Silver crown 4 months of osu!supporter, Elite Mapper contest points
Bronze crown 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)
Gold crown 4 months of osu!supporter, Community Pick profile badge
Silver crown 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.
  • 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:

Difficulty Max points
Easy 8
Normal 9
Hard 10
Insane 11
Expert 12

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

Judgement category Max points Description
Musical representation 20 How the beatmap expresses the song through overall structure, patterning, and hitsounding (if relevant to the game mode)
Creativity 20 How innovative the beatmap is relative to other submissions and the game mode's general mapping practices
Judges' impression 10 General impression and anything else of note in a submission that does not fit existing categories

osu!

Rank Team Map Musical rep. Creativity Impression E N H I X Total
1 PepeBusinessCorp #1 161 166 56 79 53 76 99 97 787
2 blacklist international #1 158 157 75 63 63 73 84 99 772
3 Harvard Dropouts™ #1 159 151 74 63 63 68 82 96 756
4 bulochki k chayu #1 158 142 71 59 64 75 87 91 747
5 Imperishable Night #1 145 140 70 54 61 75 78 87 710
6 Eye of Aeon #1 142 115 59 53 56 72 85 83 665
7 dönerbuden bande #1 148 136 65 32 50 64 74 82 651
8 Twin-Tails #1 130 131 54 51 56 61 84 76 643
9 Salute, bebra #1 114 127 51 52 54 58 71 75 602
10 Nightcord at Various Times #1 108 110 44 46 41 55 58 61 523
11 FUMO 20 GRAMMI IN 10 SEC CAR #1 110 89 40 49 50 55 58 62 513
12 nilou mains #1 105 104 43 36 46 52 59 62 507
13 Double Trouble #1 59 55 19 24 21 28 27 32 265

osu!taiko

Rank Team Map Musical rep. Creativity Impression E N H I X Total
1 Frozen Bananas #1 61 68 29 25 29 34 34 36 316
2 meow #1 65 66 30 21 29 28 33 41 313
3 Playing Counter Strike: Global Offensive #1 65 59 29 22 24 33 34 36 302
4 we spent one discord message thinking of this teamname #1 64 50 28 23 24 32 33 35 289
5 -w-)b #1 62 55 25 26 24 26 32 33 283
6 Printemps #1 59 48 22 15 22 22 29 31 248

osu!catch

Rank Team Map Musical rep. Creativity Impression E N H I X Total
1 :moyai: #1 66 52 28 25 30 31 33 39 304
2 Alien Tails #1 60 61 28 25 28 24 29 38 293
3 Team name #1 59 59 26 21 16 27 32 37 277
4 Catch the AFK #1 35 36 10 11 11 6 16 26 151

osu!mania

Rank Team Map Musical rep. Creativity Impression E N H I X Total
1 PrtSc #1 88 82 39 36 38 40 48 51 422
2 The Wolf and the Fox #1 81 84 35 33 32 46 47 53 411
3 Petmalu #1 86 75 37 34 36 43 46 50 407
4 Olsen's Shipmates #1 84 64 31 34 40 39 42 46 380
5 The Furries Are Mitosising #1 77 74 34 29 34 37 41 51 377
6 why are we here #1 78 71 33 34 37 37 40 46 376
7 pishifat #1 80 82 32 22 26 36 45 46 369
8 "world cup" #1 73 77 27 32 32 38 43 43 365
9 Ppassapgosu #1 73 69 28 32 34 39 40 46 361
10 IceDynamix #1 66 68 29 32 34 30 39 45 343

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