BEST-mix.net - DDR Simfile Tournament

These rules are a change from what they have traditionally been.

RULES:
One entry per person / per category. You can submit 1 for DDR and 1 for ITG, for a total of 2.
This is NOT ANONYMOUS! - I will not accept aliases. Make a file, and stick your name on it.

General Guidelines
- 20MB zip file size limit
- .SM or .DWI File
- Files to be played in Stepmania 3.9a or 4.0 - any extras that don't work in both versions take note *People may not see your extras*

Stepcharts - Required
- ONLY 2 CHARTS ARE REQUIRED - Why? We're all busy: busy to make files, busy to play & judge files, and if we're all honest these are the charts everyone will play.
- Judging will only involve the 2 hardest charts in the file (excluding edits)
- For DDR Style: No Mines, Rolls, Handplants, shock arrows, etc.
- For ITG Style: All of the above can be included.
- Extra charts may earn you points in the "Presentation" portion of the judging, along with other bonuses like videos, or REALLY good graphics, or funny readme, etc...

Song - Required
- .MP3 or .OGG required. 128 bitrate or higher.
- 0:50-2:50 minute length.
- No restrictions on song picked, however excluding any song with excessive profanity or vulgar content. If someone already registered the song you wanted for this tournament; convince them to change it, or tough luck - pick another.

Banner - Required
-PNG
-256x80 px, or higher multiplier (RECOMMEND at least 512x160)
-AVI Banner optional (Normal PNG Banner Must be included if using an animated one)
-Artist and Title required.

Background - Required
-PNG
-640x480 px, or higher multiple (RECOMMEND at least 800x600)
-Song Title required, Artist optional.

OTHER STUFF
-Readme files: Include one.

SCORING:
All Scoring for the first round will be via public reviews.

There will be 2 brackets, randomly divided. Each bracket will be split into 4 sub-brackets (or less, depending on the # of entries).
The top 50% from each sub-bracket will move on to round 2.

SCORE CRITERIA: All scores must be whole integers between 1-max
/5 - Presentation (2 being "average")
/11 - Second Hardest chart (4-7 being "average" for a chart)
/11 - Hardest Chart
/3 - Tilt
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Max of /30 points

ALL JUDGING MUST HAVE FEEDBACK ON WHY IT WAS GIVEN THAT SCORE! Judging without feedback will NOT be counted in any situation.

Everyone is free to add a Public Review (PR), which will consist of a scoring sheet (using above criteria) for each song in a sub-bracket. The PR scores are then averaged together and the top move on.
You are not allowed to judge any bracket or sub-bracket your song is in!

Round 2 will be a head to head to head (3-way) vote to knock 1/3 of the songs out.

The final round will be 1st round average + points added from a final poll using approval voting (value/weight TBD).

So if there are 40 songs, 20 move onto round 2. 14 songs then go to the final vote.

TO ENTER:
Click the link in the grey box above that says "Reserve your BM 4 Song"

Whoaa, only 2 charts. This will be pretty chill then.

But only one entry? I think everyone was under the assumption that we could submit an entry for both DDR and ITG.

will-i-am wrote:But only one entry? I think everyone was under the assumption that we could submit an entry for both DDR and ITG.

I think this is what he means...

will-i-am wrote:But only one entry? I think everyone was under the assumption that we could submit an entry for both DDR and ITG.

You can have 2 entries, one in each category (DDR, ITG). I forgot to edit that part when editing the rules from before. I fixed it in the original post.

The 2 hardest chart in each of your songs (maximum 2 songs - 1 DDR, 1 ITG) will be judged. This means you can have a maximum of 4 judged charts in this tournament.

BTW it's been too many years since the number of required number of charts is less than 3 for a DDR style competition! (Tournamix 1?)

ITG question: May we use the "rumored" Lifts? Also available for use in SM4 (don't know about 3.9a).

Also a note to people: making 3+ charts gives better presentation than 2. And make Doubles charts so I have something more to play with. ;D

Dark Luke wrote:The 2 hardest chart in each of your songs (maximum 2 songs - 1 DDR, 1 ITG) will be judged. This means you can have a maximum of 4 judged charts in this tournament.

Yes, max of 4 judged charts. Any other charts are padding for presentation.

LK4D4 wrote:ITG question: May we use the "rumored" Lifts? Also available for use in SM4 (don't know about 3.9a).

Also a note to people: making 3+ charts gives better presentation than 2. And make Doubles charts so I have something more to play with. ;D

Lifts... I remember hearing a bit about them and no one I know liked them. If they're not playable in 3.9a, it might not be good since some won't be able to play your file; but I won't prohibit their use. If you file can't be played by potential reviewers (the public) then it's not my fault.

Does 3.9a support rolls? 3.9 doesn't, and my entry have them. (Made on OpenITG)

What kind of info should we put in the readme?

Akira wrote:Does 3.9a support rolls? 3.9 doesn't, and my entry have them. (Made on OpenITG)

I think they work in 3.9a but I wouldn't know. I use sm-ssc exclusively now so...

We'll have 3.9a users to answer that then. I only use 3.9, and OpenITG.

Telperion wrote:What kind of info should we put in the readme?

Basic song info, step info, your contacts, and a little blurb. You don't have to be VERY elaborate about it, but it's up to you on how you write it.

It can even be a clever message, and does not have to do anything about the stepfile at all, but it's just me.

Scoring method added to the original post.

Do the background and the banner have to be original artwork? I am thinking of cropping the album cover and putting on the song title and artist. Is this allowed?

Miki wrote:Do the background and the banner have to be original artwork? I am thinking of cropping the album cover and putting on the song title and artist. Is this allowed?

Yes, that is allowed; however if you just add the text over the art MSPaint style, I want to warn you that you will receive criticism for it.

I did that for previous tournaments (MSPainted the text) and no one called me out on it

But the text will be somewhat nice. Thank you for the reply.