I hope that all these new BAT will show better discretion with what gets ranked than the previous lot.
This was a change I advocated for a long time ago, but with how the standard of ranked maps has changed since then I fear it may not improve things much. It is perhaps just shuffling the cards while really what we need is a complete new deck.

Congratulations to all the people on the list!

interesting change; let's see how this unfolds

congratulations to all newBATs

Wow turn of events...

Yay.

Let's be positive, everyone.

Do not start with negative thoughts even before we will see how things come out, let's give a chance to everyone and see how it goes.

Just wanted to say this :3

Andrea wrote: 2o4839

Let's be positive, everyone.

Do not start with negative thoughts even before we will see how things come out, let's give a chance to everyone and see how it goes.

Just wanted to say this :3

Well, thinking on this point he's right, maybe the extinction of the MATs can bring good things.

I read the title and thought, OMG MATs were gone :c
I hope you have a nice control for all new BATs as many people said their statement, as many MATs aren't ready to be BATs, but well~

Now speedranking will be twice as fast as in the times MAT existed :I

can we also merge the name colors

Ok. Lets be positive just because we can't change anything with our words..
This is not be negative... This is be realistic.
I don't have arguments to the idea of ''The MATs is needed here in the community in osu!'' .. But I can't the idea of ''The end of the MAT'' too..
inb4 ''BATs Promotions''

IMO. Stop Finding and Changing the people and start making audits for the work of all the people in the team..

I honestly cant believe most of you have such a low regard for the former MAT team. Not just anyone could get into MAT, and just because you got more power doesn't mean you automatically abuse it. Ephemeral has also clearly stated that we should know what he thinks about people stepping out of line. Every action has a consequence. Have a little more faith.

I will say that everyone is a human being and human beings by nature make mistakes. That of-course doesn't excuse you if you abuse your power. I'm talking about mistakes, not being a idiot.

Each day is a learning experience. I personally will strive to improve my modding abilities to the utmost.. to become a better modder and mapper that I am currently. Even I know I have a lot to learn still. I'm no fool.

I don't think I'm the only one that thinks this way (or so I hope.)

*Edit
Fixed some grammar.

Teara wrote: 302z1f

I honestly cant believe most of you have such a low regard for the former MAT team. Not just anyone could get into MAT, and just because you got more power doesn't mean you automatically abuse it. Ephemeral has also clearly stated that we should know what he thinks about people stepping out of line. Every action has a consequence. Have a little more faith.

I will say that everyone is a human being and human beings by nature make mistakes. That of-course doesn't excuse you if you abuse your power. I'm talking about mistakes, not being a idiot.

This. Couldn't have said it better. :3

Teara wrote: 302z1f

I honestly cant believe most of you have such a low regard for the former MAT team. Not just anyone could get into MAT, and just because you got more power doesn't mean you automatically abuse it. Ephemeral has also clearly stated that we should know what he thinks about people stepping out of line. Every action has a consequence. Have a little more faith.

I will say that everyone is a human being and human beings by nature make mistakes. That of-course doesn't excuse you if you abuse your power. I'm talking about mistakes, not being a idiot.

Each day is a learning experience. I personally will strive to improve my modding abilities to the utmost.. to become a better modder and mapper that I am currently. Even I know I have a lot to learn still. I'm no fool.

I don't think I'm the only one that thinks this way (or so I hope.)

Agreed! Us former MAT bumped into the BAT will do our best to improve upon our skills even further in a foremost extensive manner. We will try our best, so don't single any one of us out! We all are equal. Even though some may think that some of us are worse modders than others, we're all going to do our best to help. That's our duty, is it not? Please, think of the good that can come out of this. If something truly doesn't work out, there will be rules or such possibly appended and things changed to make things better.

With great power, comes great responsibility.

I hope all the new BAT's do their utmost best to keep this game running smoothly. Best of luck!

Congrats everyone. ^^

and I guess that there will be no rounds for BAT or anything.

So now can people can stop bugging me about "omg cdfa ud be such a gud MAT omg"

This is great.

Except the MAT/BAT activity chart needs to be updated. . . again <___<

CDFA wrote: 3i3k20

and I guess that there will be no rounds for BAT or anything.

So now can people can stop bugging me about "omg cdfa ud be such a gud MAT omg"

This is great.

Except the MAT/BAT activity chart needs to be updated. . . again <___<

CDFA for....

Oh wait

Rest in peace, "<insert name here> for MAT".

Well, that's actually not a loss.

BAT and MAt standards are basically the same standards now. If you would have been good for MAT before, you are now good enough for BAT. The standards have been lowered rather than raised. Really MATs could have been trusted with ranking maps anyways, they just weren't tasked to do so.

TheVileOne wrote: 2t1t44

The standards have been lowered rather than raised.

You know... I that the very first MATs to exist seemed to be selected from the most active modding queues from that time (I'm most prob wrong, but that's the impression that I got) and then no BAT wanted to mod those maps cause they usually sucked and had lots of problems, or something like that

That was basically the system, yes. Although I don't think it was the MATs fault so much as it was the new proto-bubble system was just off-putting.

Congrats to Entozer

Eh old MATs were underappreciated anyways.

It's a good thing that everyone is under one system. It is a sign that the s really trust the staff's ability. I'm not sure if I can really call it a lowering of standards actually since the difference between MAT and BAT mods is negligible. But I do not think it will be the case that all future additions will need to meet old BAT standards to get in. the new standards are that of a MAT now.

Thanks a lot mm. Now I am going to die of laughter. XP

Teara wrote: 302z1f

Challenge accepted.

I when you were just a newbie to this whole thing and I had to make a lot of improvements to get your guest diff to get it up to par. Now look where you've gotten yourself to! <3

EDIT: Guys, if one of the new BATs steps out of line Ephemeral is going to kick their fucking ass. Those of you who have been paying close attention to certain staff ' name colors will have noticed that they've been damn serious in the past about this sort of thing, and I doubt that's going to change.

Teara wrote: 302z1f

Challenge accepted.

Ekaru wrote: 112d5b

EDIT: Guys, if one of the new BATs steps out of line Ephemeral is going to kick their fucking ass. Those of you who have been paying close attention to certain staff ' name colors will have noticed that they've been damn serious in the past about this sort of thing, and I doubt that's going to change.

Quoted for truth

omg wow >.<
what a change...
congrats to you all o3o

god forbid there are MORE RANKED MAPS NOOO

I just came back to say this.

Natteke wrote: 82xf

Seriously guys?

Meh, as if I were to give a fuck about it...

Good luck to the new ones...

Inb4 Rage against 321874231798413165 new Forum s.-

Also, this

DaxMasterix wrote: 2e2963

IMO. Stop Finding and Changing the people and start making audits for the work of all the people in the team..

i finally see 2 of new BAT from my country \:D/

congratulate all of new BAT

Andrea wrote: 2o4839

Let's be positive, everyone.

Do not start with negative thoughts even before we will see how things come out, let's give a chance to everyone and see how it goes.

Just wanted to say this :3

I'm just a little surprised, that's all.

make things easier ~

kutark wrote: 4r6s19

i finally see 2 of new BAT from my country \:D/

congratulate all of new BAT

You ignored those with PRC and HK flags as well as Scorpiour... They speak Chinese as well D:

Gratz DJPop, happy30 and Entozer!!

Congratulations to all!

finally DJPop and xxheroxx are BAT !!

congratulations all

Could we have some reasoning behind this?

Interesting. I don't have any doubts for you guys as long as this has a positive effect on the mapping community in general.

Congratz all former MATS.

Zexous wrote: 484u2v

Could we have some reasoning behind this?

Ephemeral wrote: 6y2w72

deadbeat wrote: 42j28

may i ask why this has happened?

this was a response to role dilution over the past few months which very rapidly thinned the barrier between what MAT were expected to do and what the BAT actually did. a MAT was effectively a BAT that couldn't rank, but was trusted with assessing maps as rankable, which was a complete contradiction from the very start and only a stopgap measure introduced to help the staff team better identify maps that were slipping between the cracks in the ranking cycle.

with this change, the former MAT now have full access to all the tools they need to perform their jobs properly as they were doing before, and we get a bunch of fresh blood and new opinions in the team to boot.

Gratz all.
I think this is a good idea, but people who wanted to be MAT before will have over difficulty to enter the staff now because they will have to be trusted more.

So now a player becomes automatically a BAT
hmm
CG

Ephemeral wrote: 6y2w72

deadbeat wrote: 42j28

may i ask why this has happened?

this was a response to role dilution over the past few months which very rapidly thinned the barrier between what MAT were expected to do and what the BAT actually did. a MAT was effectively a BAT that couldn't rank, but was trusted with assessing maps as rankable, which was a complete contradiction from the very start and only a stopgap measure introduced to help the staff team better identify maps that were slipping between the cracks in the ranking cycle.

with this change, the former MAT now have full access to all the tools they need to perform their jobs properly as they were doing before, and we get a bunch of fresh blood and new opinions in the team to boot.

Thank you deadbeat, but I think it would help if Ephemeral edited this information onto the original post.

On a relevant note, as I think someone mentioned, this would make getting new much harder as there is no role to test the waters of a person's responsibility.

you guys are making it seem like modding maps is hard, lol

the only thing new to this, will be the 'power' they get with it. they didn't have that in the MAT team either, so it'll always remain a 'test'.

Ephemeral wrote: 6y2w72

of the MAT who had a particular role (such as mania-only MAT or taiko-only MAT) will adopt that role amongst the BAT, and their forum titles will be updated in the coming days to reflect this.

I giggled about that, but okay.
Good luck.

BCI wrote: 6276s

Natteke wrote: 82xf

Congrats all :3!

Good Luck! I hope you have improvements to osu! !

I totally agree with this change.
Gratz to everyone.

Farewell, MAT

MAT,bye-bye....

If you haven't already, please read t/129625

Congrats, DJPop, it's a way so long, now finally promoted to be a BAT.

还记得以前还要MAT给pubble（是叫这个？）才能给BAT检查。。。
估计是对小白们解释MAT和BAT要长篇大论两回，现在只需要一回了。。。

Marcin wrote: x4t2x

Natteke wrote: 82xf

cheesiest wrote: lfg

Natteke wrote: 82xf

Because I can

locked seeing as nobody really has anything interesting to contribute anymore except quoting a gif seven thousand times and saying "grats"