ZIv War Games 2011

oops

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Mr.Music got the votes wrong, so I fixed them (adding his votes) and added my votes as well:

+5 Floorfiller
+4 starmine
+3 Bits & Bytes
+2 center piercing
+1 Ring Ding Dong

Runner-ups: Venus (Another Phase mix), Dueling Violins, Keong Racun.

starmine (Chewi☆) - 25
ALL MY TURN -このターンに、オレの全てを賭ける- (Blinded_No_More) - 23
Bits & Bytes (Maestro Grithok S) - 23
一発逆転! ××だらけのハッピー大運動会!! (DMAxel) - 22
Venus (Another Phaze mix) (Azn_punk_07) - 21
Ring Ding Dong (TaroNuke) - 21
Keong Racun (ziv348) - 20
天空脳番長危機十六連打 (Telperion) - 17
center piercing (Meseki) - 12
CODE0207 (DJ Yoshinori Remix) (Tyma) - 8
Thunderbolt (Pandemonium X) - 8
Floorfiller (eataninja) - 6
Dueling Violins (Braeden) - 5
Red Goose (Mr.Music) - 1

And for Week 5:

[NEW AGE] ToyCubePf.(RX-Ver.S.P.L.) / MASAFUMI TAKADA
1 2 5 8 -

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My first file with speed changes in this tournament! (with courtesy of Timer Rabbit)


Libra / Megaera (BPM: 73-145)
SP: 1 / 3 / 5 / 7 / 9

Votes too...

1 - Floorfiller [+5]
2 - Dueling Violins [+4]
3 - Ring Ding Dong [+3]
4 - Venus (Another Phaze mix) [+2]
5 - center piercing [+1]

Simfile Totals

starmine (Chewi☆) - 25
Ring Ding Dong (TaroNuke) - 24

Bits & Bytes (Maestro Grithok S) - 23
Venus (Another Phaze mix) (Azn_punk_07) - 23
一発逆転! ××だらけのハッピー大運動会!! (DMAxel) - 22
ALL MY TURN -このターンに、オレの全てを賭ける- (Blinded_No_More) - 21
Keong Racun (ziv348) - 20
天空脳番長危機十六連打 (Telperion) - 17
center piercing (Meseki) - 13
Floorfiller (eataninja) - 11
Dueling Violins (Braeden) - 9
CODE0207 (DJ Yoshinori Remix) (Tyma) - 8
Thunderbolt (Pandemonium X) - 8
Red Goose (Mr.Music) - 1

I've held back the spreadsheet because I want to say that there is something off in the totals; if DMAxel can do something about it then I can. After a painstakingly long investigation, I found that the perpetrator is someone who gave two extra points to ALL MY TURN, most likely by accident. I'm keeping the error until the perpetrator is identified.

Edit: Thanks to DMAxel for identification. The error is now rectified. But I'm still holding back the spreadsheet for other reasons.

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eataninja did.

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Why do I always get this surge of votes at the end? o.O

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Deadline passed.

I don't feel like doing a full review so...

Libra (ziv348) - +5
Sexy Naughty Bitchy (DJ OMiY) - +4
Desperado (Meseki) - +3
ToyCubePf. (RX-Ver.S.P.L.) (DMAxel) - +2
Twelfth Style (Blinded_No_More) - +1

I hated Right Back's gimmick a lot.
SWAGGA's graphics are ugly. The gimmick and song got really annoying and boring after a while.
MAN-HE was annoying.
Mr.Music is improving.
ToyCubePf. (RX-Ver.S.P.L) had the best graphics followed by Sexy Naughty Bitchy.

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Team 9 year old jap girls: 23
The AAA Team: 76
Team Taronuke: 92
Team Ruud Gullit Sitting on a shed: 20
Team Darkstorm: 14

ON WORD TO NEXT WEEK!

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team taronuke blah blah meseki etc

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(Sexy Naughty Bitchy [DJ OMiY])
(Libra [ziv348])

+5 ToyCubePf.(RX-Ver.S.P.L.) [DMAxel]
+4 Right Back [Telperion]
+3 Desperado [Meseki]
+2 Twelfth Style [Blinded_No_More]
+1 Theme of Mega Man X Command Mission [Darkstorm091]

What Hurts The Most [Braeden47]
Man-He [Pandemonium X]
Avalon [Maestro Grithok S]
Curry Up [Mr. Music]
Noisy Lover Soul [Azn_punk_07]
I'm A Slave 4U [Chewi]

ToyCubePf.(RX-Ver.S.P.L) (DMAxel) - 7
Desperado (Meseki) - 6
Libra (ziv348) - 5
Right Back (Telperion) - 4
Sexy Naughty Bitchy (DJ OMiY) - 4
Twelfth Style (Blinded_No_More) - 3
Theme of Mega Man X Command Mission (Darkstorm091) - 1

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AVALON
Suffers a bit from copy-paste. Challenge was over-the-top, Heavy was about right but repetitive. I liked the patterns a lot the first time I saw each of them, though

Curry Up
Listen to the music, man, you'll get a lot more variety in your steps if you do more than track the beat. Be careful to chain your patterns together and avoid doublesteps in the pauses.

Desperado
Liked the Challenge chart on this one more than the Heavy. Some adventurous rhythms there, and I think you managed them well.

I'm a Slave 4 U
I. HATE. THIS. SONG. The instrumental music sounds so careless and just gross. And then it's Britney Spears. Fortunately, the steps are high-caliber and seem to be thought carefully about, a wonderful contrast to the music.

Libra
Challenge was over-the-top, so I played Heavy. The beginning was pretty dry, but the middle got a bit spicier. Freeze patterns tend to make me happy

Man-He
Ahahaha what. These steps are too good for this song. Overall it's pretty decent though.

Noisy Love Soul
My only complaint with this chart is I consider it a difficulty inversion (I would have made the non-vocal parts harder than the vocal parts). Aside from that, though, it's quite nice. I'm not sure you quite grasp how hard crossovers are at that speed

Sexy Naughty Bitchy
Holy crap. Heavy was no half-assed effort, but Challenge is mad fun. And the song. Am I playing Pump It Up of my dreams?!

SWAGGA
Ugh. Song's pretty boring/annoying. And the rhythms in the chart simply don't line up to the music. Even the placement degraded towards the end of the chart. Not a lot of fun to play.

Theme of Mega Man X Command Mission
It's not bad. Everything's put together well. I guess the song itself is what's getting me - it seems...quiet.

ToyCubePf.(RX-Ver.S.P.L.)
Wow, I've never seen 32nds in a DMAxel file before I like the chart. It's got a couple mean doublesteps and some weird flow moments but overall is interesting and fun.

Twelfth Style
It's a BNM chart, that's for sure. Good eurobeat style as usual. Not much to say I haven't said before.

What Hurts The Most
Aside from the sudden beginning and the sudden end, this chart is gold. Step more 140BPM.


+5 Sexy Naughty Bitchy
+4 Noisy Love Soul
[Twelfth Style]
+3 I'm A Slave 4 U
[ToyCubePf.(RX-Ver.S.P.L.)]
+2 What Hurts The Most
+1 Desperado
Theme of Mega Man X Command Mission
[Man-He]
AVALON
Libra
Curry Up
SWAGGA



Sexy Naughty Bitchy (DJ OMiY) - 9
ToyCubePf.(RX-Ver.S.P.L) (DMAxel) - 7
Desperado (Meseki) - 6
Libra (ziv348) - 5
ノイジーラブーソウル (Azn_punk_07) - 4
Right Back (Telperion) - 4
I'm A Slave 4 U (Chewi☆) - 3
Twelfth Style (Blinded_No_More) - 3
What Hurts The Most (Braeden47) - 2
Desperado (Meseki) - 1
Theme of Mega Man X Command Mission (Darkstorm091) - 1

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blah blah shit cunt gentoo blah

+5 Toy Cube
+4 Twelfth Style
+3 Theme of Megaman X
+2 Desperado
+1 Man- He

ToyCubePf.(RX-Ver.S.P.L) (DMAxel) - 12
Sexy Naughty Bitchy (DJ OMiY) - 9
Desperado (Meseki) - 8
Twelfth Style (Blinded_No_More) - 7
Libra (ziv348) - 5
ノイジーラブーソウル (Azn_punk_07) - 4
Right Back (Telperion) - 4
Theme of Mega Man X Command Mission (Darkstorm091) - 4
I'm A Slave 4 U (Chewi☆) - 3
What Hurts The Most (Braeden47) - 2
Man-He (Pandemonium X) - 1

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Command Mission should have 4 points and Desperado should have 8.

Surprisingly few charts already exist for this.



3 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 9

The 8 has a very specific kind of spin.
I like it. It's worth a look as well as the challenge, which is quite challenging. Judge based on which you liked more of the two,
the way I judge other people's files.

EDIT: Got the video to play. Re-download.

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Votum stellarum -forest #25 DDR RMX- / iconoclasm
BPM: 140
CLASSIC 1248
X SCALE 14612

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Time for some vampire graphics!

ペテン師が笑う頃に /ぴずやの独房 feat.灯油
Petenshi ga Warau Koro Ni (When crooks laugh) /Pizuya's Cell feat. KEROSENE
2 4 6 9 9

/////Week 5 Votes/////

Right Back //+5
ToyCube //+4
Twelfth Style //+3
Sexy Naughty Bitchy //+2
Theme of Megaman //+1

ToyCubePf.(RX-Ver.S.P.L) (DMAxel) - 16
Sexy Naughty Bitchy (DJ OMiY) - 11
Right Back (Telperion) - 9
Twelfth Style (Blinded_No_More) - 10
Desperado (Meseki) - 8
Libra (ziv348) - 5
Theme of Mega Man X Command Mission (Darkstorm091) - 5
ノイジーラブーソウル (Azn_punk_07) - 4
I'm A Slave 4 U (Chewi☆) - 3
What Hurts The Most (Braeden47) - 2
Man-He (Pandemonium X) - 1

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Avalon:
Heavy - Nice chart. It didn't do anything special except stream, but it really didn't need. The crossovers were a nice touch and I liked how you changed u the patterns to add variety to an otherwise repetitive song.

Challenge - There were a couple of awkward doublesteps in this one, but outside of that, this was also very good. It wasn't necessary, mind you, but the 16ths really fit into the song nicely. I especially liked what you did with the section before the slowdown - it was chaotic, but organized.

Curry Up: Your patterning is improving. You still need to work on getting your rhythms consistently correct, but you're starting to figure out what patterns work and what patterns don't, which is key. Outside of a few pattern inconsistencies and a couple of awkward areas this was actually pretty enjoyable.

Desperado:
Heavy - In that freeze section in the middle, a few of the turns seemed to lead into awkward places, but that might have been my fault. Outside of that the chart was decent - definitely undercharted, but everything flowed nicely.

Challenge - This was a MUCH better chart. I have no real criticisms here. Nice work.

I'm A Slave 4 U: The song is crap. The steps were all right, but they could have definitely used some more freezes to follow the music, as a few parts felt empty. I also didn't agree with your decision to chart solely 8ths during the syncopated vocal sections. However, the sixteenths were nicely executed, and the doublesteps actually worked well this time around, so this wasn't too bad. If the song was 10-15 bpm faster and not shitty I probably would have enjoyed this chart more (and for the record, I would have made this a 7 too, but in a different way than you made it a 7)

Libra:
Heavy - I would have used jumps instead of freezes during that middle section, but otherwise this was a standard 7. The jumps and crossovers kept things interesting, which was definitely a plus.

Challenge - Overcharted. NONE of those sixteenths really needed to be there. I understand that you may have thought that the 7 doesn't really stand alone here, but this doesn't help it much because it feels...unnecessary.

Man He: o.O. Outside of that clusterfuck of an ending this was a really good chart. A few of the crossovers were misleading, but the patterns were really good, and your jumps were VERY well used. But that ending o.o

ノイジーラブーソウル: Heh. I didn't get where you were trying to go with some of those sixteenth crossovers, but this was otherwise a pretty good chart. Your style can get reaaaaaaaaaally sloppy though. It works for the songs that you chart, but sometimes the hectic steps are a little over the top. The second chorus here is a perfect example of that - the chart gets really dense and twisty for no apparent reason, and although it's fun it can get VERY draining and really tie up your feet.

Right Back: Wut. The chart was really not my favorite from you - I felt like it tried too hard to be twisty and technical but ended up being sloppy and unfocused. I also wouldn't have charted the vocals during the empty section, bhut that's just a personal preference. And the jerkiness...at times it works in simfiles, but here I felt like it was just disorienting...

Sexy Naughty Bitchy:
Heavy - Good chart for a slow song. It got repetitive at parts, but at least you tried to make it stand out.

Challenge - A few of the jumps here led to weird places, but outside of that this was a very fun 9. It reminded me a lot of charts like Jam Jam Reggae and Secret Rendezvous, which was nice.

Swagga: This is one of the worst charts I've ever played. I'm not even going to waste my breath explaining why, as anyone with eyes and ears can probably figure it out on their own -_-

Theme of MMX Command Mission: The audio was a little quiet for my tastes and tempo should have really been doubled, this otherwise this was a decent chart. It doesn't do anything interesting imo, but it's well put together.

ToyCube Pf. (RX-Ver.S.P.L): I actually didn't like this chart very much. I...don't know why lol. It felt slower than it should have, and the flow was a little weird...I'm really sorry lol.

Twelfth Style: Typical Blinded chart. This was a lot of fun though, definitely one of my favorites for this week

What Hurts The Most: Odd cut. The chart was decent. Not much else to say. Tired of writing reviews. Kthxbai.

+5 Desperado
+4 Twelfth Style
+3 Sexy Naughty Bitchy
+2 Avalon
+1 Man-He
*ノイジーラブーソウル*
Curry Up
Libra
*I'm A Slave 4 U*
*What Hurts The Most*
ToyCube
Theme Of MMX Command Mission
Right Back
Swagga

ToyCubePf.(RX-Ver.S.P.L) (DMAxel) - 16
Sexy Naughty Bitchy (DJ OMiY) - 14
Twelfth Style (Blinded_No_More) - 14
Desperado (Meseki) - 13
Right Back (Telperion) - 9
Libra (ziv348) - 5
Theme of Mega Man X Command Mission (Darkstorm091) - 5
ノイジーラブーソウル (Azn_punk_07) - 4
I'm A Slave 4 U (Chewi☆) - 3
Avalon - 2
Man-He (Pandemonium X) - 2
What Hurts The Most (Braeden47) - 2

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I can has my own identifiable style? Aw shucks, thanks for your votes and reviews!

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Simfile now, reviews later.


[QUILT] QUILT / Des-Sana+wpt9
3 || 6 || 8
4 || 8 || 12

NOTES:
o WHO WOULD'A THOUGHT GRITHOK WOULD DO A JUBEAT FILE GEE GOLLY
o The genre of the song... is QUILT.
o What.