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hype for stepmania convention

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im early 2016->now era and both of those are before that so

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"Every step any song they want, and then we'll decide whose song was best" is called "The Forum Awards Best Stepfile Category" and we do that every year.

The whole idea is "Lets see everybody's version of X to compare them" which is really cool.

My question is, though I think I know the answer, if people are being split into categories will they be

"Categories based on known experience as steppers"
or
"Categories based on the probable difficulty range of their submission"

Because I could see both ways, like give everybody the song and then 1 day to pick whether they want to do a "light" or "standard" or "heavy" version and sort that way, versus sorting the people with 50+ songs in game versus the ones who've never submitted.

Or will it just be random?

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The songs available for stepping will be selected based on their steppability from The Conet Project's Recordings of Shortwave Number Stations music album.

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It's always been random when AJ and I host, though I do tend to put more prolific artists together where possible.

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drat I wish I could just enter this as a team lol

it tends to be the higher in strength the simfile artist group the more obscure it gets rofl

which has always been neat

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I think there's nothing more exciting when stepping than to have 10 people who you respect as stepartists do the same song you do, the way other people handle certain dynamics in the song is fascinating. I really really enjoyed the second stepcon for that reason. One of the best experiences I had on this website. Even though I only made it to the second round I learned a ton back then.

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I'm not sure how I'm going to do it but sign me up

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It's time for Lovely City 10 v2

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Maybe I'll do a collab stepcon after this one

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I could only take part if Devonin and Not Devonin could be a team.

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I really hope we get another three-chiptune-songs-in-a-row hullabaloo like last time.

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I don't do rounds for stepcon, I'm surprised it was done that way in the last.

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It's just a matter of making it feel like a tournament or not. Multiple rounds would require much more prep for files and whatnot. I'm happy with 1 round

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i really cant understand the point of this so ill shut up and stop posting here, but idk, stepping is about expressing yourself creatively through ur file, why make it a competition

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is it legit just to flex about how great of a stepper you are? i cant fathom any other reason to step the same file 20 times other than that

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Because

it's

fun


I really like seeing the different interpretations and so do others. You don't like it then just stay out of it. pretty simple.

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you're making a terrible implication that every single person is going to "step the same file" 20 times, when everyone approaches files in a different way.

just because the chart has to be done "multiple times" as a result of a competition (notwithstanding the fact that it's being done once, per person) doesn't mean that everyone who is participating is not doing anything to "express themselves creatively." ilikexd's chart for Unpause The Heat was a contest submission in the past and he took a different approach than just about everyone for the round in his structure, on top of producing an interesting color-gimmick for the Mario-fireball sounds in the song (he was the only one who did it). so clearly, expression's not an issue here.

if you don't like the idea of the event, that's all good; however, your criticisms are completely invalid (do you even plan on actually giving this a serious attempt as it stands anyway?)

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well i chart files and i would very well be willing to chart a song for this but not if i cant choose it, i cant chart songs i dont like