The Beasties - 2024 Nominees

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Last updated on January 2, 2025

The 2024 Beasties Nominees

Our Beasties Finalist Team of roughly 30 community members with exceptional knowledge and skill in mapping and lighting best practices have completed their incredibly hard task of sifting through a record-breaking 1,141 unique submissions for this year's BeastSaber Mapping Awards! We'll post statistics on the submissions and more after the Awards show!

We couldn't have accomplished this as smoothly as we did without the incredible work by Saeraphinx who voluntarily offered to create an entirely new site and database to host the submission and voting logistics - instead of us having to use Google Forms and Google Sheets to try to go through everything. This, in addition to collaboration with Top_Cat from BeatSaver, as well as NSGolova and LightAi from BeatLeader, who allowed us to use their authentication abilities and helped to promote the Beasties, ended up drawing the most submissions we have ever received! We are truly greatful for their contributions! Consider supporting BeatSaver on Patreon and BeatLeader on Patreon!

This year also included lots of help from some wonderful people in the JP Community who helped write an entire guide on the Beasties in Japanese, in addition to helping to translate the submission and voting pages on Searaphinx's Beasties site we used. We wanted to shout out the work from Okyou, mochichi, and Ge2toro for getting that together!

Lastly, we need to shout out the work done by RateGyro who, for the second year in a row, has taken the reins over for this monumental project and has continued to keep The Beasties alive! Wrangling everyone together each year to get sorting, judging, and content creation done is no small task. Rate has poured a huge amount of his personal time into this and we are super thankful for him!

If you see any of these dedicated community members mentioned above around the community, be sure to send them some love and thanks for us!


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Introducing this year’s nominees

You can watch the announcement video or read below for a complete list of nominees. We've also included playlists to help you get a flavor for the maps before you vote.


Download the playlists 🔗

  • All categories in separate playlists - Download (19.9 MB)

  • All nominees in one playlist - Download (1.2 MB)

  • All nominees grouped into 5 categories based on category type below - Download (4.3 MB)

    1. Lighting = Vanilla, Vanilla+, Chroma, & Chroma+
    2. Styles = Full Spread, Balanced, High-Tech, Low-Tech, Fitness, Dance, Accuracy
    3. More Styles = Non-Standard, Speed, Challenge, Poodles, Gimmick
    4. Ranked = BeatLeader Under 8, 8-12, 12+, & ScoreSaber Under 8, 8-12, 12+
    5. MOTY = Modded Map of the Year & Map of the Year

Vote by January 14th! 🔗

Verified Mappers will be selecting our first place and runner up winners but everyone in the community can vote on “Community Choice” winners in each category! Voting closes on January 14th so don’t wait to get your vote in.

We've made some additional updates! See all updates from 2024 here.

  • 🆕 Modded Map of the Year We've combined the Artmap and Gameplay Modchart into one single "Modded Map of the Year"! While similar to the Map of the Year, this category now includes and allows the usage and full power of Noodle Extensions, Chroma, as well as any other gameplay mods!

  • 🆕 Low End Tech & High End Tech categories Due to the overwhelming number of submissions for "Tech" style maps, we're splitting the category to allow for better chances across both low and high end tech style maps. Splitting was done roughly based on BeatLeader star estimates agreed upon by our Finalist Team Judges.

  • 🆕 Ranked has been split up! We've received enough nominations to justify splitting ranked, plus splitting leaderboards. To keep it the most fair, we've split it the following ways:

    • Below 8 Stars (BeatLeader and ScoreSaber separately)
    • 8-12 Stars (BeatLeader and ScoreSaber separately)
    • 12+ Stars (BeatLeader and ScoreSaber separately)


Supporting Map Award Nominees 🔗

Best OST/DLC Map:

  • Camellia - Tempo-Katana | Mapped by ETAN

  • Camellia - Lustre | Mapped by Altrewin & Syndicate

  • Teminite x Boom Kitty - The Master | Mapped by Zakka, Narwall, Syndicate, Freeek

  • Daft Punk - One More Time | Mapped by Narwall, AaltopahWi, ETAN, Freeek

  • Eminem - Godzilla | Mapped by Altrewin & AaltopahWi

  • Teminite & Skybreak - Accelerate | Mapped by Syndicate, ETAN, altrewin

  • Teddy Killerzs & Pegboard Nerds - Pump | Mapped by Narwall, Zakka, AaltopahWi

  • Lindsey Stirling - Heavy Weight | Mapped by Kolezan & ETAN

  • Britney Spears x Will.I.Am | Mapped by Freeek, Zakka, ETAN, Kolezan

  • Britney Spears - Oops!...I Did It Again | Mapped by Kolezan

Best Non-Standard Map:

Best Full Spread Map:

Best BeatLeader Ranked Map Under 8 Stars:

Best BeatLeader Ranked Map 8-12 Stars:

Best BeatLeader Ranked Map 12+ Stars:

Best ScoreSaber Ranked Map Under 8 Stars:

Best ScoreSaber Ranked Map 8-12 Stars:

Best ScoreSaber Ranked Map 12+ Stars:


Lighting Award Nominees 🔗

Best Vanilla Lights:

Best Vanilla+ Lights:

Best Chroma Lights:

Best Chroma+ Lights:


Map Style Award Nominees 🔗

Best Balanced Style Map:

Best High-Tech Style Map:

Best Low-Tech Style Map:

Best Fitness Style Map:

Best Dance Style Map:

Best Speed Style Map:

Best Accuracy Style Map:

Best Challenge Style Map:

Best Poodle Style Map:

Best Alternative “Gimmick” Style Map:


Individual Award Nominees 🔗

Pack of the Year:

Rookie Lighter of the Year:

Rookie Mapper of the Year:

Lighter of the Year:

Mapper of the Year:

Modded Map of the Year:

Map of the Year:


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