Z-I-v Summer Contest 2016

2016-09-05 06:38:52Aegis: yeah, I won't be on tomorrow
2016-09-05 06:38:59Aegis: Next week is [Free Week]
2016-09-05 06:39:14CuzcoBlocko: Oh.
2016-09-05 06:39:19Aegis: Do what you wish, but abide by the rules like doing a song within the limit of 2:30, etc.
2016-09-05 06:39:33Nezemarth: Oh, beautiful ❤
2016-09-05 06:39:33CuzcoBlocko: ...are you sure?
2016-09-05 06:39:34Aegis: Mrrowww :3
2016-09-05 06:39:37Aegis: YEah.
2016-09-05 06:39:46CuzcoBlocko: I'm fine with it but others might start complaining about "lack of creativity".
2016-09-05 06:40:04Nezemarth: Indeed, that could be a problem.
2016-09-05 06:40:06Aegis: idgaf

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Oh well, would be much better if the theme picking would be moved onto someone else for this one, like it was when Benpai was creating Gimmick week. Isn't week 12 a free week also?

If there is a need for good theme, I have three very fun / interesting themes that could be used. Just didn't have so much luck in ToI to actually be able to suggest them <_<

Outdated.

Theme week proposal, just to add SOME sort of challenge whatsoever.

Okay, so uh, when I encountered Mid Speed, I began thinking "it's about tempo, but what about pitch?", so my idea is Pitch Change. you must step a song that changes it's key basis at least once. So for instance it could start in C Major but move to D Major halfway in.

Some examples from me are Triops Has Three Eyes (middle section is strange), Rock the Club (F# Minor -> G Minor), Journal of an Unlucky Girl (G Major -> G# Minor).

Probably familiar examples would be Candy Dash (changes from B Minor to A# Minor frequently), Milky Berry Sweet Time (F Major to F# Major), Gourmet Race (Drumstep Remix) (C Minor -> D# Major -> D Minor).

DDR examples would be Max 300 (changes from F# Minor to G Majorish for a few measures), BABY LOVE ME (A Major -> B Major -> A Major), The Reflex (G# Minor -> A Minor -> D Major), and The Least 100 sec (completely sporadic).

Sound good?

An apology:

You make skip the next few lines and read the theme ahead, if you wish. You may also take a few seconds to read this.

I'm sorry about making Free Week earlier. It wasn't out of laziness or lack of ideas. What was going on in my head were thoughts to help out people who didn't have enough time to make a simfile because of school or other reasons like not liking the theme ideas/thinking it was too difficult. It was to help out, but it seemed to make things worse. Because of your thoughts expressed, I have decided to instead do the theme week that I had in mind from the start.

Again, forgive me for not thinking correctly before. It was for you guys. Always is. If there are other things like this that happen, then do let me know! Don't be shy. I understand I'm not perfect, but you need to help me out. I can only do so much and ponder what is best, even when it may not be, like what happened. Moving forward, I hope to learn from it and do better.
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*clears throat* With that said...lets get on with an actual theme, yeah? Good.
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*Reads previous posts*
So you guys wanted to make your own theme, eh? Heheheheheh...
I'll give you choices to do instead! Huzzah!



You pick 3 different theme weeks from Summer Contest 2016 and combine them.

Some examples:
Example: Gimmicks Week + Food Week + Midspeed Week.
Example: Voiceless Week + Midspeed Week + Show & Tell Week

Get creative and combine as you see fit.

Like every week, if there are questions about the theme this week, then do feel free to express your concerns via posts in this thread. And as usual...enjoy and good luck.

So...we could collaborate with someone, a la [ZIv Academy II] if we wanted?

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Yes.The point is to get creative with it.
If you can find someone to collaborate with you, then by all means, collaborate if you can.

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Yes, thank you. :3



So, uh, who wants to potentially collab?

*Only taking one collaboration this time. I'm doing the other by myself.
*I've decided one of my songs (You Won't See This In DDR V + Food Week + Mid Speed), the other is still potentially open.
*You can choose the song I have in mind above (nulling the Mid Speed theme), request a different song idea for me, or suggest one yourself.
*If I don't get anyone by Thursday I'll just do both submissions myself.

The song I was already working on for free week before this announcement qualifies for Show and Tell and Mid-Speed. Anyone wanna collab to make it three?

I'd be willing. PM me what you got so far?

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EDIT: Nevermind, I figured out some warp gimmick I can use to shove the song into YWSTIDDR as well. Forget this post exists.

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VOTES (Mega Early Edition):

YOU DEFINITELY WON’T SEE THIS IN DDR!!!
+3 Intro (S3RL PRESENTLY PRESENTS) [brunobg24]
+3 Bits Of Paper [Nezemart]
+3 Intensive Madness Unit [5l1n65h07]

I also enjoyed playing this ones:

+1 You Are a Cunt [vincentw]
+1 MTTS (feat. Reid Stefan) [Astroman129]
+1 Iwachu [mf32892] (Go to YouTube and type Iwachu)
+1 Dong Saya Dae [ledgam3r1279]
+1 Leave It All To Me [HealingDMax300] (Oh the memories. I think that I never going to listen this again in my life)
+1 Sky Of Scented Souls [coolpeaches]

HMs:

FUK UR MGMT (Future house is not my thing but the chart was fine)
Hide and Seek (At least you try)
History of Rock
Looking Like This

TOTALS:
Bits Of Paper [Nezemart] - 3
Intensive Madness Unit [5l1n65h07] - 3
Intro (S3RL PRESENTLY PRESENTS) [brunobg24] - 3
Dong Saya Dae [ledgam3r1279] - 1
Iwachu [mf32892] - 1
Leave It All To Me [HealingDMax300] - 1
MTTS (feat. Reid Stefan) [Astroman129] - 1
Sky Of Scented Souls [coolpeaches] - 1
You Are a Cunt [vincentw] - 1


Little side comment: I don't know guys but choosing a song that has NSFW lyrics didn't seem creative for this week. Sorry.

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OK, this week's theme was definitely something I was not expecting. So...

I would like to do something that is a combination of the following:

ZIv Academy + Girls Week + You Won't See This In DDR

I already have the song picked out (and cut down to size), and I have started construction on the difficulty chart. Anyone who is willing to team up with me for this week, feel free to PM me. Partner can do graphics, write the chart, and 1-2 more of the lower difficulties.

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Oh OK, thank goodness. Now I don't have to choose wisely. There is one file I can assure you is coming today or tomorrow. I just have to get the time to upload it.

Anybody want to sync, graphics and proofread a song for me and have it count as your own as well? It will thus combine [ZIv Academy II], [You Won't See This In DDR V], and [Show & Tell].

Ready, plus a new Challenge chart.
JUST KIDDING this file has been removed

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TOTALS:
Intro (S3RL PRESENTLY PRESENTS) [brunobg24] - 8
You Are a Cunt [vincentw] - 6
Bits Of Paper [Nezemart] - 3
Intensive Madness Unit [5l1n65h07] - 3
Dong Saya Dae [ledgam3r1279] - 2
Jackie Chan Adventures [Feraligatr] - 2
FUK UR MGMT [brunobg24] - 1
Iwachu [mf32892] - 1
Leave It All To Me [HealingDMax300] - 1
Looking Like This [Lisek] - 1
MTTS (feat. Reid Stefan) [Astroman129] - 1
Sky Of Scented Souls [coolpeaches] - 1


[Show & Tell]: Snails. He did a collab with Pegboard Nerds and honestly that's all I've listened to of him so far.
Not to be confused with Snail's House.
[Mid Speed]: 150 BPM
[You Won't See This In DDR]: There's a warp in the second half of the file. It won't be visible on and , but the other three difficulties have it. HINT - Those dummy 64ths aren't just there for the heck of it. And just for an added kick, there's plenty of mines to go around (and not just the shock arrow variety either), and even rolls on .
[Food Week]: Snails... again! Although you'd normally call it escargot when it's food... IDK, I already have three themes anyway.

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Found something that I'm definitely gonna submit for Combine Week. This will take some time to concoct.

+5 Intro
+3 You Are a Cunt
+2 Chop Suey
+2 The Sampling Paradise
+1 Sky of Scented Souls
+1 Looking Like This
+1 Dong Saya Dae

Intro (S3RL PRESENTLY PRESENTS) [brunobg24] - 13
You Are a Cunt [vincentw] - 8
Bits Of Paper [Nezemarth] - 3
Intensive Madness Unit [5l1n65h07] - 3
Dong Saya Dae [ledgam3r1279] - 3
Jackie Chan Adventures [Feraligatr] - 2
Looking Like This [Lisek] - 2
Sky Of Scented Souls [coolpeaches] - 2
Chop Suey [mf32892] - 2
The Sampling Paradise [Benpai] - 2
FUK UR MGMT [brunobg24] - 1
Iwachu [mf32892] - 1
Leave It All To Me [HealingDMax300] - 1
MTTS (feat. Reid Stefan) [Astroman129] - 1

While I take a short break from homework, here's a point fix:
(Iwachu = Chop Suey)
(6+3=8 9)

Intro (S3RL PRESENTLY PRESENTS) [brunobg24] - 13
You Are a Cunt [vincentw] - 9
Bits Of Paper [Nezemarth] - 3
Chop Suey [mf32892] - 3
Dong Saya Dae [ledgam3r1279] - 3
Intensive Madness Unit [5l1n65h07] - 3
Jackie Chan Adventures [Feraligatr] - 2
Looking Like This [Lisek] - 2
Sky Of Scented Souls [coolpeaches] - 2
The Sampling Paradise [Benpai] - 2
FUK UR MGMT [brunobg24] - 1
Leave It All To Me [HealingDMax300] - 1
MTTS (feat. Reid Stefan) [Astroman129] - 1

Idk when votes are coming. I've got a project due Sunday evening and other HW before that so fitting in two files (collab + possible solo) and votes is going to be tricky

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[Show & Tell]: Okay, this song was actually in Pump It Up Infinity so chances are if you've played the game you already know this song. But since Future Funk Squad hasn't been seen on ZIv yet...
[Mid Speed]: 130 BPM
[Passport]: Third line of the song - Tune double drop like Lebanon
[You Won't See This In DDR]: Mine usage. That's really it, but as long as it's here I might as well mention it.

Custom .zip contains the BGA from PIU.

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Since this is likely the last week of the contest I can really try at my full stepping ability, I pulled a fine-toothed comb over Crazy Noisy Bizarre Town... and found 2 mistakes. They're really minor, so you don't need to redownload, but if you think it'll make any difference, go ahead, it's updated.

LOL I SPELLED JARET REDDICK WRONG Consider this my redemption for that last-minute effort
High School Never Ends / Bowling For Soup
1/2 | 3/5 | 6/8 | 8/12
[Food Week]
This now marks my third Bowling for Soup song in this contest- the others being Punk Rock 101 and History of Rock.
[Passport]
High school is a place. Does it end? Well, either decide for yourself, or just listen to the lyrics.
[Mid Speed]
160? Again? History really does repeat itself.
[YWSTIDDR]...? Nope, sorry. This is the clean version.

[/size]Also considered for this week:
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / Billy May and His Orchestra [Show & Tell] [Food Week] [YWSTIDDR]
Some Skunk Funk / The Brecker Brothers [Show & Tell] [Voiceless Week] [Mid Speed]
These two files will be uploaded separately at the end of the contest. Even with attempts at collaboration, these couldn't make it in a contest.

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