Z-I-v Summer Contest 2020

After two weeks with no ideas, I finally have something to enter in this year's contest!


Ah! Leah! // Donnie Iris
104-106 BPM
=2, =5, =9, =12

Link to simfile

I've wanted to step this song for a long time. Because it fits the theme for this week, I figured that now is the perfect time to cross it off the bucket list.

Since this song was made in 1980 (40 years ago), there is obviously some BPM drift. I hope I got it synced just right for y'all.

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I'll let the song description in the simfile page explain itself.

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Looks like we have until the end of this week to join the contest? If so, I'd like to participate

I actually wasn't originally planning on stepping this myself, but then just recently, I remembered my charts for Distant Horizon and thought it would be cool if I made similar charts for Gate One as well.

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Added! I will remind anyone who hasn't signed up (if there's even anyone left) that I will be closing off entries at the end of the week. Right now at 63 people signed up, I believe this is bigger than any tournament previously held. Which is pretty amazing as well as at the same time frightening.

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Hey everyone, here is my next simfile. Sorry for not doing any doubles chart this time around, I haven't had much motivation to work on them this week.


Download Link: https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/viewsimfile.php?simfileid=41750

I wrote up some more comments on the other group's files. I only played the ones that interested me on first glance (for right now).

Part 2 here: https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/thread?threadid=10611&page=18

chiffon (Silver Spirit) - very fun, though i'm not sure if it's intentional or not but i think you missed a 1/8th arrow on beat 206.500. also, the ending would be better if it matched the music better. other than those little nitpicks, i liked it.
Feeling NRG (djVERTICAI) - pretty cool song. i also thought the bg video was a nice touch. finally the charts were fun! great work.
I Turn to You (Hex Hector Radio Mix) (hooky) - love the song and the steps were pretty solid too. the only thing i would change is the very beginning so that it matches the song better (though I think this is taken straight from GHOSTS from DDRMAX so i understand if so)
istanbul (Pandemonium X) - yeah, this definitly channels Arrabbiata,... don't know how i feel about that! also, the audio seems low quality.
More More More (ohaiimian) - cute cover and the chart is REALLY fun. I wish I could vote for this.

Didn't play:
One More Time (Nezemarth) - audio seems low quality.
Saikyo Stronger (talkion) - you forgot the #TITLETRANSLIT:; in your .sm.

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This is my first time making something actually, like... difficult. I was going to make a chart as well but frankly I don't trust myself enough to pull off a mostly stream chart just yet.

Gate One? Haven't we seen this one last year? Then again, we also saw Shadowgraph make a return...

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Alrighty, here's my entry:

A Bet On This Bout - Motoi Sakuraba
1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 13

Set Me Free was also in a contest last year iirc

Week 3 - Small Steps



lapix feat. Nicole Curry - Day by Day
BPM - 150
Heavy - 12

https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/viewsimfile.php?simfileid=41769

I think this fulfills my quota for harder charts...

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IRON MAN by SPEEDMASTER. That's 4 letters and 3 letters. 5/7/11 on the x-scale. It's a cover of course

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If you've already downloaded Rise Up, please download it again, as I fixed some patterning issues in . Sorry for the inconvenience!

Here's my file for the week, click the banner to go to the download page



2 / 5 / 8 / 12

Special thanks to chewi for the graphics!

Also, I know it's a little late, but I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who voted for my Week 1 file. I was a little nervous since it was the first simfile I've made in over two years, so It was so exciting to see that it hit top 5 in my group. Thanks again!

WEEK 3 - Small Step


Tokyo Machine - Epic
4 6 10 14

First week with zero points stung. Reached out to a friend for some fun songs and got this one in response. Worked on flow and style with some friends as well. Hope this one is fun to play!