ZIv War Games 2011

Maybe it's time I remind people (including myself) to use the spreadsheet (now updated) when in doubt...

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Ugh, I'm so confused...
In Week 4 I was on Team 9-year-old Japanese girls and I submitted starmine. This means I can still vote for people on Team TaroNuke. Then, TaroNuke posted his votes...
But, wouldn't he be able to vote for me? Also, Pandy's vote is messed up, he voted for CODE0207 (DJ Yoshinori Remix) by Tyma. Tyma submitted the file when he was on The AAA Team. The teams on the first post are fucked up as well. It's too hard to understand.

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shari is still on Team Ruud Gullit...isn't he?

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Yeah, last time I checked he was in there.

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Shit, I copy-pasted wrong and I missed Meseki. Sorry D:! I didn't mean to.

Fixed.

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you missed Eatninja too. He's in our team.

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Fixed again.
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Fixed vote total:

一発逆転! ××だらけのハッピー大運動会!! (DMAxel) - 13
starmine (Chewi☆) - 12
ALL MY TURN -このターンに、オレの全てを賭ける- (Blinded_No_More) - 10
Bits & Bytes (Maestro Grithok S) - 6
CODE0207 (DJ Yoshinori Remix) (Tyma) - 4
天空脳番長危機十六連打 (Telperion) - 4
Venus (Another Phaze mix) (Azn_punk_07) - 4
Thunderbolt (Pandemonium X) - 3
Ring Ding Dong (TaroNuke) - 2
Floorfiller (eataninja) - 1
Keong Racun (ziv348) - 1

NOTE: Pandemonium X's votes were not counted, he needs to fix them
NOTE2: Using the data from Taro's post I fixed his votes (he said I could).

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All My Turn - There were a few parts where I thought the pattern should have been psuedo triplets (da da duh da da duh instead up da da da da duh duh) and it really messed up my timing a lot :/. Maybe my ear is off, but it ruined that part of the file for me, which is a shame, because the rest was really good.

Bits and Bytes - Heh, this was pretty cool. It tries a lot of interesting concepts and generally uses them well. I didn't agree with some of the jumps, but the gallops and 32nds were used nicely. This was really unique - I'm surprised people don't try to make more files like this. Maybe because they're afraid to?

Center Piercing - I'm not really a huge fan of charts like this: fast 7s that try a lot of interesting concepts, but don't anywhere with them because the chart is supposed to be a 7. This probably could have benefitted from a challenge chart, because the Heavy as it stands is rather uninteresting and doesn't really go anywhere.

Code 0207 - The syncpated charts were good, but then you had those boring eighth note parts that felt out of place :/. The chart also felt really short for some reason. I would have it to go on for a little longer.

Dueling Violins:
Heavy - The chart went well until the end. There were a few badly placed doublesteps, and those final sixteenth note streams felt really out of place considering the difficulty. You should have kept them as simple clusters like you were doing throughout the rest of the song.

Challenge - Did you deliberately underchart this to make the edit seem harder. This did NOT feel like a 10. The cart was decent, but it really felt lacking.

Edit - ...so why wasn't this the challenge chart?

Ippatsu Gyakuten - This just felt authentic. There were doublesteps in random places and a few questionable freezes, but aren't most good DDR charts like that? So many people are concerned with proper foot placement that they fail to see how random doublesteps can be used...well. Great work

Keong Racun:
Heavy - This was a lot of fun, even though it felt slightly undercharted (in a good way). The only thing I didn't agree with were the triplets 1/3 of the way through, but outside of that, good job.

Challenge - I still don't agree with those triples. Are you hearing something that I'm not? Otherwise, good job with the chart. It was definitely a little overcharted, but it was fun nonetheless.

Red Goose - I have nothing to add to this that Taro didn't say. Look, fgood charts aren't good to coming naturally. You need to study and play good charts, and work to emulate them. And you WILL improve.

Ring Ding Dong:
Heavy - My only complaint about this is that the freezes seem really out of place in some spots (especially when you inexplicably used them for stacatto notes). Other than that, though, this was a pretty fun 7.

Challenge - Lol this was totally unnecessary. That's not to say that this wasn't fun, but the Heavy could have definitely stood on its own here.

Starmine - Chewi why aren't your charts this brilliant ALL the time . I know you are capable of making charts like this, so why do you choose to chart songs like 2nd Mix and DDR I/II had a baby?

Tenkuu Nou Banchou:
Heavy - Wow. This chart is too good. I don't see how a challnege or edit chart can make this file any better.

Challenge - ...I stand corrected.

Edit - ...Okay seriously, nobody stands a chance anymore XD

Thunderbolt:
Heavy -I feel like you deliberately undfercharted some sections of this to justify a challenge chart. There were definitely good moments here, but several sections really felt lacking - namely, all of the quarter note sections. They fet really out of place in what was supposed to be a 9 foot chart.

Challenge - This was NOT a 10, first of all. Second of all, ths should have really been the heavy chart. Those comments aside, I liked the chart, although there was some odd doublesteps in the streams that felt unintentional, although they worked well enough with the song.

Venus:
Heavy - Well done. Outside of a few odd doublesteps the chart was fairly clean, and the jump section at the end was a nice touch. The chart felt a little lacking a times, but the good parts here deinitely outshined the bad.

Challenge - Wow. This was probably the best chart for this week. If this was the Heavy, I would be content. Why do you guys insist on adding so many difficulties to your songs? ._.

+5 Tenkuu Nou Banchou
*Venus*
+4 Ippatsu Gyakuten
+3 Keong Racun
+2 Starmine
*Ring Ding Dong*
+1 All My Turn
Bites and Bites
Thunderbolt
Code 0207
Center Piercing
*Dueling Violins*
Red Goose

一発逆転! ××だらけのハッピー大運動会!! (DMAxel) - 17
starmine (Chewi☆) - 14
ALL MY TURN -このターンに、オレの全てを賭ける- (Blinded_No_More) - 13
天空脳番長危機十六連打 (Telperion) - 9
Bits & Bytes (Maestro Grithok S) - 6
CODE0207 (DJ Yoshinori Remix) (Tyma) - 4
Keong Racun (ziv348) - 4
Venus (Another Phaze mix) (Azn_punk_07) - 4
Thunderbolt (Pandemonium X) - 3
Ring Ding Dong (TaroNuke) - 2
Floorfiller (eataninja) - 1

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eataninja, you CAN vote for my file, we established this... Great, the votes are messed up again.

In Week 4 I was on Team 9-year-old Japanese girls and I submitted starmine. This means I can still vote for people on Team TaroNuke and vice-versa.

I'm A Slave 4 U is my first file for Team TaroNuke and that file is in Week 5, so...

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Fixed. It didn't change much except break the tie between you and Blinded. Sorry about that :/

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I feel insulted

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2nd Mix was good.

Lol you're missing the point of what I'm saying. It's not that you don't chart well, or can't chart well, but you choose to step easy files with doublesteps and weird turns, which can be done either really well or really badly depending on your perspective (so it can either go like 2nd Mix and half of DDR ii, or the other half of DDR ii and DDR i)

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It's always doublesteps.
Seriously, if that's the reason you don't like a file then there's something wrong with you.

Also, the vibe I get is that easy simfiles aren't accepted? Sorry that I don't feel like stepping 10 shitstorms and I like having 6 or 7.

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Now I feel insulted -_-

I don't hate doublesteps. They're just very delicate. They can't be overused in a file, or else it detracts from it and makes it awkward to play. If you read the reviews on here a fair number of people agree with me. I'm not some sort of outcast. Look at my file of THE BLACK KNIGHT again. Why would I choose to chart the middle section of like that if I didn't like doublesteps? o.O

Also I din't mind 6 or 7 charts but they have to be really interesting to get votes in a contest, which is why I rarely chart them for these things.

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> Easy charts aren't accepted
> Smooth (7 that should've been a 6): 22 votes last week

Chill.

You don't put a space after the ">"

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People tend to play these on stepmania with their hands.
Thus, playing an easy chart is boring if it doesn't cause an individual's hands to cramp.

Maestro I can't tell if you're defending me or not o.O. Also I personally wasn't a fan of Smooth. I don't remember why though lol.

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