Community Mentorship Program Winter 2018 Signups Now Open

Ever wanted to get into beatmapping for this game, but have no clue where to start at? In that case, the Community Mentorship program might be the way to start your mapping career!

This program serves as a platform for new mappers and modders to get into the process more quickly by teaming them up with a more experienced mapper and modder in the community to show them the ropes for a total of 10 weeks.

If you have knowledge to pass on, and the idea of mentoring someone in a more structured manner than dropping bits and pieces of knowledge into private conversations with a number of people seems appealing to you, you should totally apply for being a mentor! If you're unsure how to even map to begin with when opening the editor, and are willing to learn, you'd make a good mentee!

For the upcoming winter cycle we are looking for both mentors and mentees for all game modes!

The timeline is as follows (all opening and closing dates start and end at midnight UTC+0):

• Mentor signups will start on 2018-09-23 and close on 2018-09-30.
• Mentee signups will open on 2018-10-07 and close on 2018-10-17.
• The 2018 winter cycle will start on 2018-10-21 and end on 2019-01-13.

During this time, the internal organization team will host a variety of events on the Discord server, such as mapping contests, modding puzzles, or even just things like multiplayer lobbies with integrated feedback sessions! Some mentors also hold lectures from time to time that are accompanied or followed by an open round of questions from the mentees. A compendium of those can be found over at this thread. If lectures and all aren't for you and you're more of a do-it-yourself person, this thread collects a lot of mapping puzzles that have been created within the scope of this program to mess around with yourself!

If any of the above made you curious to find out more, head over to the forum announcement and rule thread to read the program's rules and apply!

We're looking forward to the next generation of mentors and mentees!

—Okoratu