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Russian Community Beatmapping Contest #5 - Критерии оценки и правила для членов жюри

The following document explains the judging procedure for “Russian Community Beatmapping Contest #5” as well as a list of rules each judge should follow. In case you are a participant of the contest, please take note of the following file in order to better understand how your work is being evaluated.

Rules

1. Do not participate in paid judging and results falsification.

   • Judges must not accept payment or compensation from participants for favouritism or biased judging.
   • Judges must maintain integrity and provide fair and unbiased evaluations.
   • Falsification of scores, rankings, or feedback will result in immediate disqualification.
   • In case you have received an offer to falsificate results by any contestant or have noticed unfair judging from any other member of the team, make sure to report it immediately to contest host.

2. Do not disclose any private information that you have access to. This includes, but not limited to:

   • Your judgement results, even with other judges. Only contest hosts have access to this information until the conclusion of the contest.
   • Link to zip folder with anonymised beatmaps.
   • Content of the private Discord channels.
   • Anything else that may impact the contest negatively. If unsure please contact contest host before disclosing certain pieces of information.

3. Judges must not participate in the contest as beatmap creators or competitors.

   • This should be obvious.

4. Judges must adhere to the highest standards of professionalism and ethical conduct.

   • Any attempt to manipulate results or engage in unfair practices will lead to disqualification and potential banning from future contests.

5. In order to ensure fairness and transparency all entries should be viewed with the following game settings:

   • Use the latest version of osu! stable release available at the time of judging phase.
   • Storyboard / video disabled
   • Use default skin but disable “Ignore beatmap skin” to ensure combo colours are displayed properly.
   • Disable “Ignore custom hitsounds” option.

   Take note that there should be no penalty nor additional points awarded for including any of the mentioned visual elements of the beatmap (storyboards, skins). While we do not restrict addition of any of these elements, there should be no bias involved when setting the score thus avoid taking them into consideration.

   Usage of custom hitsounds can be awarded with additional points in case they have been used nicely, however avoid penalising users for using default hitsounds as long as they match with the song.

6. Do not penalise entries for minor ranking criteria violations.

   • Although contest rules do require contestants to abide by ranking criteria, it is not a part of the judging process as each entry will be manually screened by contest hosts first to ensure all of the contest rules are met. Minor mistakes like unsnaps shouldn’t be a problem unless there’s a constant repeating trend noticed.

7. Ensure to write additional comments for each submissions.

   • While it may obviously be a pain in the ass, please ensure to leave comments for each entry to ensure transparency as well as contestant’s willing to improve further based on your feedback. It does not have to be a long essay, however avoid being too generalised.

Judging Procedure

Once the submissions for the contest get closed, there are two possible outcomes:

• In case there will be 20 or more valid submissions, the contest will go through a screening phase, involving a different group of people who would follow the same procedure as contest judges, however they will only need to evaluate their personal impression from the work. Top 10 entries based on the screening will then be sent for judging.
• In case there will be less entries the contest will immediately move into the judging phase.

Every judge will receive a private link to their respective Google Sheet that has already been set up for work. All entries inside the Google Sheet would be annonymised and display their fake names to ensure there is no personal bias from any of the judges involved.

Unlike previous itterations of the contest, judges are expected to rank maps based on the given criterias as if they were building a leaderboard. So, for example in case there are 10 beatmaps participating, judges are required to give a place for each category from 1 to 10 with no option to set two same values for different maps within the same category. Each category has its own scaling which is taken into consideration while calculating the final score for each entry.

Once every judge has finished their judging, contest hosts will evaluate the results to ensure there was no unfair play involved from any of the judges. Once results from each individual judge have been finalised, the mean value of scores received will be used to determine the actual positions within the leaderboard.