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Over the years, osu! has seen countless popular and iconic artists, including Senya, Foreground Eclipse, and cYsmix. In 2016, the Featured Artist project was introduced, allowing artists to officially partner with osu!.
Of all these artists, featured or otherwise, one stands uncontested above the rest.
Which artist has the most ranked beatmap sets featuring their songs?
ClariS
Hatsune Miku would be #1 but her synthesizer is used by many different artists under different names
As many of you probably know, peppy did not pioneer osu!standard's gameplay. He was simply the first to create it on PC. osu!standard was based on a DS game from 2005.
What is the name of this DS game?
Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan
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Rainbow Dash Likes Girls
also what is gleg's middle name
1315
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For every gamemode, there is of course a mascot. For osu!standard we of course have pippi. There's Yuzu for CtB, and twins Mani&Mari for Mania. For Taiko we used to have pippidon, a drum-shaped version of pippi, but in 2017 she was replaced by a proper mascot.
What is the name of Taiko's current mascot?
Whether through farming, competition, or meme potential, a select few mapsets have accumulated an absurd number of plays over the years, and none more than VINXIS's set of Reol - No Title.
How many million plays does this mapset have? Get within 2 million.
130.5 Million (129-133)
In osu! players can get restricted or banned for many different reasons such as multiaccounting, cheating in various ways, or general misconduct. Back in 2023, Akolibed caught a ban for setting a 1505pp play, which the system picked up as blatant cheating at the time.
Which map did he set this iconic play on?
DragonForce - Valley of the Damned
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Guinea Pig Bridge
In the collection, which artist has the most ranked beatmap sets featuring their songs?
Camellia has 4
Hanatan has 2 as Hanatan and 2 as KikuoHana.
Either answer is correct.
Surely everyone here is familiar with osu!standard's difficulty naming. Perhaps you've even heard of some conventions from other gamemodes, like Taiko's Muzukashii, or Oni.
What are the 5 standardized CtB difficulty names according to the ranking criteria?
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Cup, Salad, Platter, Rain, Overdose.
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Background art in osu! has been the subject of much debate, ranging from how relevant it is to the song to where the line should be drawn regarding NSFW content. One of the more recent discussions on this was in regards to crediting background artists for their work.
As of when are mappers required to credit the background artists?
They still are not required to do so.
The WYSI meme has quite the history itself. Shortly after Cookiezi's unban in 2015, he'd set the new pp record at 727pp on Blue Zenith. A year later, he revisited the map with HR and once again set a 727pp play. The number itself had already become a meme, but it wasn't complete until 2020, when Aireu posted a clip of him pointing at his screen and shouting 'WHEN YOU SEE IT'.
Aireu had just set his own 727pp score, but on which map?
Koda Kumio - Guess Who Is Back [Extreme], mapped by Sotarks
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Uta
How many plays have been submitted to erm on the snort worms mapset? Get within 10.
63 (53-73) assuming no one has played it the past 4 hours
For this event, I designed a few badges inspired by osu!’s hush-hush medals. Some of them you figured out quickly, others you still haven't. osu!’s official hush-hush medals take things a step further both in their cryptic nature, as well as their challenging execution. With so many of them to collect, obtaining every hush-hush medal is a nigh impossible feat.
How many hush-hush medals are there in osu!standard? Get within 5.
127 (122-132)
Touhou is perhaps one of the most prominent fandoms in osu!. The original soundtracks as well as remixes from classic artists and newer faces find their way into the ranked section all the time.
What was the first ranked Touhou-related song?
IOSYS - Marisa wa Taihen na Mono wo Nusunde Ikimashita, mapped by DJPOP and ranked on the 20th of November 2007.
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OWC has been a staple event for as long as most of us have been playing. The first Taiko and CtB cups were both hosted in 2011, and the first Mania one in 2014. In February of 2011, the very first OWC kicked off for osu!standard.
Which country won second place in this event?
The Netherlands, losing out to Taiwan in the grand finals.
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This question has two answers, you only need to get one for the points, the second one gets you a wheelspin!
Asymmetry
You get a wheelspin if you also knew You Got Me Dancing
Name 6 languages featured in the collection.
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Japanese, English, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, Dutch
The first official osu! tablet was a collaboration with Huion back in 2013. There have been several iterations available in the store since then, and currently 2 versions remain up for grabs (when they're not sold out): The osu!tablet intro and the osu!tablet pro.
What model is the osu!tablet pro?
Wacom CTL-472
In a gamemode as seemingly simple as Taiko, there is one map which has a peculiar restriction, despite being perfectly playable.
On which Taiko map is it impossible to earn pass or FC milestone medals?
Silver Forest - Tsurupettan mapped by Hitoshirenu Shourai
Since osu!Lazer's development kicked off, the game has accumulated a large collection of "fun" mods, giving players perhaps too many ways to make the game unplayable. Maybe that's why the core set of difficulty increasing mods that have been around since forever remain as the only ranked ones.
In which order were these mods (HD, HR, DT, FL) added to the game though?
HD > DT = HR > FL
HD was bundled with the game's release in October 2007
DT and HR were added in January 2008
FL was added in September 2008
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How many maps in the collection have I SSed? Get within 10
354 (344-364)
Last year, rank tiers were introduced to osu!. They add a splash of colour to your profile based on how highly you're ranked. There are 8 different tiers which each highlight your rank in a different colour.
From lowest to highest, what are the names of these rank tiers?
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