ZIv's Summer Contest 2012

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LOL

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My face when he planned all that from the beginning.

I got 2 songs in mind...

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First for this week:



BPM: 88
1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7
X-SCALE: 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 10

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That song is about breaking up, things not being the same as they were, and not being good enough.

Not sure how it fits "falling in love".

Re-uploaded my DDR Artists entries to fix nick nacky issues with formatting, nothing about the charts or the music was altered. Their pages in the category have the details.

Well, I know for a fact that it's a love song..

I had to listen to the lyrics a few times before I even stepped this.

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Just to clear things up, songs about lust are acceptable too right?

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Doesn't matter, if it's not about FALLING IN LOVE it doesn't count.

I vote in favor of Love-you-with-my-mouth songs.

With the same qualifications as for love, yes. Use your own discretion.

Gosh, is this theme really that nebulous? I've answered a whole lot of questions today about it

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I literally went through almost 20 songs that I would step and 90% were about lost love, past love, coming through after a breakup, etc. Maybe I just listen to depressing music?

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pfft I know Taro would do that lol

So that means I only have 2 songs.

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BPM: 120
: 1 : 3 : 5 : 6
: 1 : 4 : 7 : 9

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+5 Mouthful of Shit
+4 Yehdne nfedn
+3 Early in the Morning
+2 Moffing
+1 Starmine -swallowtail mix-
SO close: Red Goose

Me and Taro reviewed together and that'll be up soon.

I know that feel.

Warning. This is not a good batch of reviews.
These (and TakaTDM's, I'm currently situated in scenic his house) reviews were played anonymously, so no accidental bias took place.

This was a weird week, my favourite files are all from people I wouldn't usually vote for, and people I do usually vote for have either picked songs that don't appeal to me or have made some odd stepping decisions!

Aquasphere - That was... interesting. For some some reason I didn't feel learning it's speed changes would be fun.
Nothing wrong pattern wise!
Taka's comments: I stopped playing after it went back to normal

Bass 2 Bass - It was clear whoever stepped this knew what they were doing.
Taka's comments: gud

Boyfriend - I liked the patterns to this one a lot... Damn you for stepping this.
Taka's comments: I'm annoyed because this shouldn't be a good chart but it kind of is

Chilblain - it was badly synced and exceptionally lazy in places
*give her break she had to do this in like 10 minutes
Taka's comments: It looked obviously rushed but because I was there, I saw why it was rushed.

Does Not Compute - The overuse of crossovers made this effort to play.
Taka's comments: It doesn't compute

Early in the morning - I really like charts like this, reminds of "da roots" from ITG
Taka's comments: Really enjoyed the chart, really fun to play and was perfectly onsync

Everlasting Resort - Nice, but too much right facing. Also, 16th-4th-16th is hard to PA on the first attempt,
but it was still kinda fun.
Taka's comments: It was alright. Was it alright? It was alright.

Freak - I like the song choice a lot but it has steps I'd fall asleep to
Nothing wrong patternwise, but the spins were very well placed.
Taka's comments: Alright chart, spins were alright.

GAY BAR - nothing stood out
Taka's comments: Tired of playing charts of this song, and it was boring

Ack, there's a post length limit... And you can't double post... this is the worst.

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EDIT: It wasn't a post length limit, it was a weird terminate character that happened when I used the character "¬" (in an ) with UTF-8 encodingl.

Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride - gud
Taka's comments: aite

HELL SCRAPER - ALL THIS TIME I THOUGHT IT WAS HELL SCRAPER BUT I WAS WRONG
It was kinda okay but the stops were dumb...
Taka's comments: Weird stops

Hollywood Galaxy - Not enough variation, quite a bit of doublestepping.
Sure, your direction facing changed a lot, but the patterns were like staircases the entire time
with one or two ldrdl crossovers.
Taka's comments: doublesteps

I'm Still Hot - The chart was really good but the cut was waaaaaay too long
Taka's comments: *runs out of battery*
Doesn't re review it

Ifuudoudou - (both) Chart was good, spins well placed.

Light shine - Nice crossovers
Taka's comments: Whoever made this banner they are actually brass LOL
ooh I like this chart *almost fails*
Actually no, it's rather repetitive. I liked it at first but then it got repetitive.
I like the turns in it though, they're really fun.

Midnight of the North - It wasn't bad.
Taka's comments: Quite a few doublesteps, and it didn't really stand out otherwise.

MIRAGE - I liked that quite a bit, even with patterns that seem like they should be repetitive
but the energy of the song remedied that,
Taka's comments: What the what, a working video?
Jacks don't work like that brah. The chart's actually good, except for those jacks at the beginning.
Those jumps are quite irritating as well.

moffing - Nice twists, really nice twists. Really cool song too, hahah
*Spin(?) Twist*
Taro: Woah that was weird what?
Taka: What, can you not read that? It was perfectly legit, just 'cause the holds-
Taro: I'm bad at the game leave me alone
Taka: I really like this chart, it might be top five


Mouthful of shit - Wow
"This has got to be Nixot, only he would step such a crackhead song"
*song starts*
Taro: Wow, what?
Taka: This is kind of legit
Taro: I'm not gonna lie, this is actually pretty good
Taka: This is my favourite chart so far
Taro: And those crossovers!
Taka: Look at those holds though! I kind of want to play this on pad. Probably my #1, let's have this on the AnimeLeage setup at LAC5.


OMOKAGBASHI - The song was a little boring, but I liked the 16th bits near the end.
Taka's comments: It started too easy, but there are too many 16ths for it to be an 8 imo, and it wasn't as fun as it could have been

Programmed Life - There's a doublestep on practically every measure, but other than that, it doesn't resonate "this is a good chart", sorry.
Taka's comments: Given up because there's too many doublesteps and it's just not fun.

Quaver - This was really really good, the doubletaps merged with crossovers in this instance DIDN'T
feel like effort or unfun to play, most likely because it didn't have the jumps. The gallops section was good, and it
worked because it felt like it had a purpose the way you kept switching. And at the end, the merging of the two styles was good too,
and (this is just one of the "things" I like about charts) the ending was a harder version of the beginning which is how it imo should be in charts.
This is one of my favourites.
Taka's comments: Wow, that's actually really nice. That bit at the end wasn't necessary though!

Red Goose - Wait, what? Who made this? It didn't feel like Mr. Music at all, and the fact that you made this
with the same banner as last time made me know it was you, killing the anonymity lol.
The patterns were really nice, but a bit the same thing over
Taka's comments: I thought this was going to suck, but it didn't! There was a SINGLE double

Solid State Squad - The stuff in the beginning seems unnecessary.
The thing as a whole doesn't feel as hard as it should be :L It's not too interesting (doesn't stand out as polished)
The sampling section was alright before it became only jumps, I was expecting a bit of everything
(instead of only jumps) to match the song better though.
Taka's comments: Welp, never seen any Solid State Squad charts before >_>
It's all right. It's also a bit offsync...

SPECIAL SUMMER CAMPAIGN - This was fun! A few doublesteps though lol. It's hard lol, harder than I thought it'd be
Taka's comments: That.. felt like a doublestep. Patternwise, what is going on here?

Starmine -swallowtail mix- - Good flow, rhythm and patterns.
Taka's comments: This is good.
..It's one of my favourites.
I really enjoyed that chart.


Still Love You - Didn't captivate us really
Taka: Another AAA song!? BG's nice though.
Taro: Chart feels a bit... empty
Taka: I dunno, it's a 7, it should be like that, and I kinda like it.

We're all falling asleep by this point so it's gonna get good from here!

Sunshine Dance - We had an argument about the characters in the background and talked about Japanese character history.
Taka played the chart in trance mode. (Does that mean it didn't stand out to us?)

Sweetest Savage - UNKNOWN ARTIST FAIL. I really like the song though. Nice crossover stream bit though!
Taka's comments: It's alright, too many jumps too many many jumps though.

Tengoku to Jigoku - This is fun, I like it.
Taka's comments: I like this but the spins are too fast! I wouldn't spin past 140 bpm.
*5 minutes later* Wait a second, that was the can can!

thosestairs - Actually, I like this. flows nicely, seems a little easy for a 9.

Aquasphere (revisited by TakaTDM) - noooo blue arrow syndrome... And I had to put this on 2.5x because I... argh
Nope, no, I can't do this, it's too much.
(No one really likes doublebpm sections)

Mouthful of shit (revisited by TakaTDM) - Still the best chart.
Taro's comments: Hmm, fadeout end isn't the best way to end a song cut!

Tomoe - Dunno why, but for some reason the 16ths just make it interesting. The jumps are good too.
Taro: What's a Tomoe?
Taka: *Shrugs* Mami?
Taka's comments: Nice. A few Doublesteps.

Tropical Arpil - Doubletaps worked well, spins felt overly difficult.
Taka's comments: It's somewhat generic feeling for some reason? But then the spins came in, and it's not
generic, just hard bad.

Tryhard - Cool song. Nothing really wrong with it. Chart feels like it drags on too long though.
Taka's comments: *mrrmdhrm*.

Underground - Okay, but repetitive rhythms and there's some weird step placement here and there.
Taka's comments: It feels.. Nah never mind. Whwawhas what was with those doublesteps? *yawns*

Yerbastherort -
Both: *Laughter*
Taka: What's with this video? I'm confused!
Taka: Nah this is one of my favourites. It's definitely like number 2. It's somewhere up there, it's the top five.
Taka: Chart's so stupid! Juanes' voice can have 16th streams!
Taka: They charted his voice! I can't take it seriously!
I originally keyboard smashed the name as a joke but neither of us could be arsed to reopen SM...

It's apparently now silly o'clock.

Z ver A - Another doesn't really stand out
Taka's comments: This is really boring.
Z ver B - We're so tired let us go to bed
Taka's comments: Wait did you mirror this?
*checks charts in editor*
dumbledang
why you not responding for hurry up and respond
sket
It took a minute for it to be different charts!
Like version B more.

Show me - it was okay, when it picks up though, it seems to pick up some doublesteps
Taka's comments: This song is so brass.
Chart is boring too, given up because boring and hate song.

Shounen Wa Sora Wo Tadoru - Weird beginning, ending was a lot better and more fun than the rest of the chart though.
Taka's comments: Good *thumbs up*

In a Grow - The song and chart combination was putting sleep
Taka's comments: Yawns

My reviews

1st - Quaver
2nd - Mouthful of Shit
3rd - Yabbadabbadoo
4th - Moffing
5ed - Red Goose (bless him, he's really improving)
-I REALLY WANTED TO GIVE POINTS TO FREAK TOO

Mouthful of shit / Chumbawumba (Nixot) - 9
Yerbolerdcvfo / Juanes (DDR Addict?) - 7
Quaver / Risk Junk (Maestro Grithok S) - 5
Early in the Morning / Caprain Jack (Braeden47) - 3
moffing / Nekomata Master (Maestro Grithok S) - 2
Starmine -swallowtail mix- / ピンクターボ (Silverhawke) - 1
Red Goose / Mutsuhiko Izumi (Mr. Music) - 1

-Even though it seems I wasn't as angry in my comments, I can assure you I was just as rude in my comments when I thought of them at the time

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