Z-I-v Simfile Tournament of Immortals 4

CHECKING YOU OUT (Telperion) - 9
N/A (SupremeX) - 0

Swimming Pools (Drank) (DDR Addict) - 1
Dignity (Rainbow) - 9

HELIX (Aegis) - 6
Move That Body (AkihiroIIDX) - 4

Bambous (Gameoson) - 10
N/A (tyty) - 0

Heart of Witch (ddrstepper) - 4
ワールズエンド・ダンスホール (Blinded_No_More) - 6

'84 (Juneoney Remix) (Oni-91) - 6
Aerial Skydive (Gameboy573) - 2

アラベスクの回廊 (Silverhawke) - 9
Sprintrances (Ham) - 1

TEKNOPATHETIC (DDRDAIKENKAI) - 4
UFD (Dreamland200) - 6

TECHNOFIRE (Lisek) - 9
The Quest (NuVirus) - 0

GALGALIM (tsugaru7reveng) - 2
アイデンティティ (GariK+) - 8

Synergy (xXMokou98Xx) - 2
Peacock (Pandemonium X) - 7

Superior (Spork!) - 6
Devilz Sacrifice (rikame) - 4

It’s A Small World (xRGTMx) - 9
Snakes and Ladders (Adamn) - 1

UFO Catcher (brunobg24) - 4
athletic meet of sound toy (Scarz) - 5

Wanna Be Your Special (Pie-kun) - 3
Flash Back 90s (TaroNuke) - 7

G.U.Y. (hooky) - 3
Les Sex (tamtamino) - 6

All files are played in SM5 and were played on Expert/Challenge unless stated otherwise. Which only applies to like one file anyways.

Telperion vs. SupremeX (Bye)

CHECKING YOU OUT - stop being good at stepping please im scared

DDR Addict vs. Rainbow

Swimming Pools (Drank) - Can't say I care for the song, but I honestly don't think this file's getting enough attention. I for one actually liked playing it.

Dignity - Expert: I saw the title and I thought OH GOD I HOPE THIS ISN'T THE ONE FROM PUMP IT UP. Good chart. Not super amazing but good enough.
Challenge: Pretty much the same comments. I thought you could have experimented a little more with crossovers (not during the 16ths of course) but it's good enough.

WINNER: DDR Addict

Aegis vs. AkihiroIIDX

HELIX - Expert/Challenge: Pretty fun overall. Nothing else to say except good work.

Move That Body - Okay, so I normally don't look much at the lower difficulties, but I couldn't help but notice that HUGE gap in difficulty between Basic and Difficult. Going from a 3 to an 8? Personally I would have liked a more gradual increase in difficulty rather than one massive gap.

Getting to the Expert chart itself, all I have to say is DAMN. This was a pretty insane chart! Sometimes maybe too insane for it's own good. Between some really chaotic crossovers and freezes that are probably longer than they needed to be, it actually starts getting uncomfortable to play at times. Great effort and great song choice to do something like this with, but perhaps it should have been toned down a bit.

WINNER: Aegis

Gameoson vs. Tyty (Bye)

Bambous - My file. This file was somewhat out of my comfort zone. That long stream of 24ths in the second half was restepped multiple times until I just said "Screw it". Kinda stinks though that Tyty didn't have time to submit anything. I was looking forward to it. Oh well. I'll try to use the next round to redeem myself (the song I have planned is on the crazy side of things so IDK how that will work out ).

ddrstepper vs. Blinded_No_More

Heart of Witch - Difficult: Since you mentioned the Difficult chart in particular, I figured I'd review this too. It's pretty good, but Expert is totally where it's at.
Expert: Your crossovers are awesome. Enough said.
Challenge: Feels weird ending with just 8th note crossovers when you just had two 16ths streams before it. And earlier when there were four 8th note jumps in a row, that probably should have been toned down. Good chart otherwise, but I think I prefer Expert. (So glad you went back and restepped the half-speed section!)

World's End Dancehall - This got too jump-heavy at times, particularly the parts where you had five 8th-note jumps in a row. Most of the file actually plays decently though, but those jumps probably should have been toned down.

WINNER: ddrstepper

Oni-91 vs. gameboy573

'84 (Juneoney Remix) - Expert/Challenge: GREAT. Great song choice, great steps, just great.

Aerial Skydrive - I liked this one a lot too, actually.

WINNER: Oni-91, but this was actually pretty close close. Excellent effort both of you!

Silverhawke vs. Ham

Arabesque no kairou - Personally I thought the 24ths should have just been stepped as 16ths instead. While it would have been technically incorrect, the 24ths are pretty intense relative to the rest of the file. Oh well, it was still a great file regardless.

Sprintrances - Expert: Decent.
Challenge: The 16ths were... um, pretty surprising. Pretty big difficulty spike when you compare it to the rest of the chart. It was decent otherwise.

WINNER: Silverhawke

DDRDAIKENKAI vs. Dreamland2000

TEKNOPATHETIC - Didn't like most of the stops in this. Both Expert and Challenge were fine otherwise.

UFD - Expert: Pretty good.
Challenge: Also pretty good. Tasteful usage of shock arrows is a plus.

WINNER: Dreamland2000

Lisek vs. NuVirus

TECHNOFIRE - The steps themselves are very good, I just can't stand the song choice.

The Quest - I'd rather not beat a dead horse.

WINNER: Lisek

tsugaru7reveng vs. GariK+

GALGALIM - This was alright. Nothing amazing, just alright.

Identity - Good stuff right here.

WINNER: Garik+

xXMokou98Xx vs. Pandemonium X

Synergy - Expert/Challenge: I probably should have saw those tempo changes coming... and I didn't. Overall both charts are good, but the little BPM trickery here and there didn't really add anything for me.

Peacock - WOW. Good stuff.

WINNER: Pandemonium X

Spork! vs. rikame

Superior - Expert: Can't say I'm a fan of your song choice this round. Didn't really like the spinning near the end, either.
Challenge: Honestly, I felt like you tried to force a 10 out of this one when it didn't need it. I didn't like the hand usage in here at all and this probably could have done without the 16th mini-jacks and most of the footswitches. There's a weird break in the stream during the long minefield for reasons I can't understand. There's a few genuinely fun moments in this file, but there's a lot of things that bother me with this one.

Devilz Sacrifice - Expert: Ugh, I'm so torn on that stop! On one hand it kinda doesn't feel right to me, but on the other hand it did fix the inevitable red-blue switch that happened earlier in the song. That's just me being nitpicky though, this was stepped very well!
Challenge: At 175 BPM those 24ths in m7 are BRUTAL, even for a 13. I would have simplified that to a trill. Otherwise, the chart plays out pretty much how I imagined it would. Good stuff.

WINNER: rikame

xRGTMx vs. Adamn

It's A Small World - Expert/Challenge: Both charts are very well-made and all but god damnit I'm having war flashbacks to the one time I was dragged onto this ride at Disney (no actual effect on the rating, but seriously screw you for making me listen to it AND ACTUALLY HAVE FUN AT THE SAME TIME).

Snakes and Ladders - Fun chart, thought there was room for improvement.

WINNER: xRGTMx, but I hate you for making me have to listen to It's A Small World.

brunobg24 vs. Scarz

UFO Catcher - Expert: The only things I didn't like about this were those kinda spinny patterns (the left-down-right-up-right-down-left bit, not sure what you'd call that exactly), but this was pretty decent otherwise.
Challenge: Could have been better. Other than the two 16th crossovers in the beginning, you seemed to avoid crossovers altogether. The rhythms you're following throughout much of the song repeat themselves a lot in this song, and a few crossovers here and there would have helped add a little variety instead of facing foward the whole time.

athletic meet of sound toy - Could have done without the spins, but this was a lot of fun otherwise.

WINNER: Scarz

Pie-Kun vs. TaroNuke

Wanna Be Your Special - Fun chart.

Flash Back 90's - The first half was REALLY good. And then the second half... got kinda lazily stepped. Pretty disappointed in that, but that first half was great!

WINNER: TaroNuke

hooky vs. tamtamino

G.U.Y. - Wasn't anything too memorable, honestly. It was good but nothing spectacular.

Les Sex - A bit better than G.U.Y., but kinda felt the same about this chart too.

WINNER: tamtamino