Beatmap Spotlights Season 2: Autumn 2020

Howdy, Spotlight chasers! As many of you are already aware, the Summer Season 2020 is over, and we are here to finally announce the beginning of Autumn Season 2020, with new features and updates frequently asked for by the community!

After listening to your feedback, we expect this season to be dynamic, slightly faster, better balanced and more diverse than last time. With those things in mind, we've modified the length of time that timeshift lobbies are open and finally added support for mods.

For those interested in getting straight into playing in the new season, the lobbies for the Beatmap Spotlights are open now on the osu!lazer client, so head on over and get cracking!

Check out what we have planned for this season in detail:

League-related aspects

• Lobbies will be open for the whole week. We realized that making the timeshift lobbies only available on the weekends is difficult for a lot of players interested in participating our league system and thus we will now keep it open for the whole week instead, starting from today.
• Some playlists will now feature mods. A fundamental part for a diverse gameplay is to add mods, especially if we want to give skilled players a bit more of a challenge! But do not worry about having your favourite song or map featured as a mod-only difficulty. All maps that feature mods will also have their original version available. We want to keep it fair and fun for everyone!

Note: osu!taiko will not be able to feature mods this season due to limitations with osu!lazer's current implementation.

General aspects

• The best mappers of each season will be rewarded. Players are not the only fundamental aspect of each season, maps and mappers are also very important to the whole system. With that in mind, we decided mappers will also get their own spotlight! The rewards are going to be explained below in more details.

Season schedule and leaderboards

You can check the finalized leaderboard for the previous season here.

Rewards

Badges	Bracket Tier	Placement
	Rhythm Incarnate	Top 50
	Diamond	Top 51 - 3%
	Platinum	3% - 10%
	Gold	10% - 25%
	Silver	25% - 50%
	Bronze	50% - 70%
	Copper	70% - 95%
	Iron	95% - 100%

Autumn Playlist A

osu!

• Playlist A

  • paraoka - boot (Laurier) [Hard] +DT
  • vivi - Have a good time! (fanzhen0019) [Master]
  • Noisia - Stigma (Natteke) [Nsane] +HR
  • Sakuzyo - I am "End" (pocket-) [Abyss]
  • System Of A Down - Toxicity (Icekalt) [384's Extra]

osu!taiko

• Playlist A

  • Sakuzyo - Future Coaster (_DUSK_) [Muzukashii]
  • Morimori Atsushi - Toono Gensou Monogatari (MRM REMIX) (Charlotte) [Muzukashii]
  • Marina & The Diamonds - Oh No! (Gabe) [Collab Oni]
  • Qrispy Joybox feat.Sana - Twinkle Wonderland (ReySHeL) [0gre's Ura Oni]
  • Ci Mei Gui - Wu Xuan Lan (Nardoxyribonucleic) [Inner Oni]

osu!catch

• Playlist A

  • LOONA - Hi High (Jemzuu) [Liyac's Platter] + DT
  • Glacier - Neos (WildOne94) [Platter]
  • Miki Sayaka vs. Miki Sayaka (fw. Miki Sayaka) - squartatrice (Ascendance) [celerih's Rain]
  • Okabe Keiichi - Kaine / Escape (Sorcerer) [Salvation] + HD
  • DJ Totoriott - Chronoxia (Kyuare) [Chronos]

osu!mania

• Playlist A

  • Twenty Knives - Crow's Ghost (Shoegazer) [Observer] + HR
  • Ekcle - The Impulsive State (Parachor) [Entropy_]
  • Solarbear - Stick Your Ins Out (Pope Gadget) [HodgePodge]
  • SWJA - SPRINGIRLS (Garalulu) [Colorful] + 1.2x
  • Frums - Pictured as Perfect and Plus (Blocko) [mint's Daze // 4K]

Playlist B, C and D will be available in Beatmap Spotlights at osu!wiki as we open the timeshift lobbies, so stay tuned!

Mappers of the Season

After each season has finalized, the curators will handpick a mapper featured in the Beatmap Spotlights map pool for each gamemode and declare them as the best mapper of the season, netting them a tidy 3 months of osu!supporter for their efforts.

To get things started, we're starting this new initiative off straight away with the participants of the Summer Beatmap Spotlights:

• osu!: Limp Bizkit - Take A Look Around [life lesson feat. piroshki] by FCL
• osu!taiko: LeaF - Doppelganger (extended ver.) [Inner Oni] by Reficul
• osu!catch: IKIMONOGAKARI - Blue Bird feat. k*chan [ dj-Jo Remix ] TV Size [Overdose] by Ascendance
• osu!mania: Chroma - lost memory (Youwhang) [a light received from you.] by Youwhang

Congratulations to those who won! We're planning to keep investigating ways we can make the Beatmap Spotlights more rewarding for everyone, so stay tuned.

The Future

As much as we would love to announce a bunch of new amazing features, the new Beatmap Spotlights is still a project on its early development stage and depends a lot on community feedback and engagement to improve. Many things can change and enhancements can be done for future seasons, and it all depends on your feedback!

What do you want for the next season? What needs to be fixed? What are your opinions on the current system? You can voice out all your opinions here and we will keep note of every suggestion, always seeking for improvement.

We do hope you have enjoyed the Summer Season 2020, and, of course, we do hope that you enjoy the Autumn Season even more. See you in the upcoming timeshift lobbies!

Join us at the community Discord server or visit the #osu-spotlights channel of osu!dev to help us with this project going forwards!

Find out more about Beatmap Spotlights on the osu!wiki.

—Kuron-kun