a deep dive into the quality assurance warriors behind all the ranked maps you know and love

resources:
wafer's profile: https://osu.ppy.sh/users/9416836
Malphs' profile: https://osu.ppy.sh/users/9234078
Electoz modding guide: https://t.co/ShXVapVkUV
achyoo modding guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r...
Basen's modding tutorials:    • osu!modding: bn application modding g...  
pishi's presentation about connections:    • the osu! ranking system is unfair  
and some general resources for the history of mapping and modding in osu! (pretty much just a wiki article and a bunch of old pishi videos):
https://osu.ppy.sh/wiki/en/History_of...
   • osu!mapping: end of the BAT  
   • osu!mapping: disqualification  
   • osu!mapping: moddingv2  
   • osu!mapping: the end of bubbles  
   • osu!mapping: bn promotion  
   • osu!mapping: BAT/QAT split  

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CREDITS
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big thanks to the proofreading crew (Ralkinson, dedekind, NeonLights, Silverboxer, Surgis, uniform, Basensorex, Visionary, enri, olc, and Yumenexa) for making sure my script was ok

songs used (in order) (not including the intro):
fzpz - Crystal Chasms
"File Select" from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Herb Alpert - Spanish Flea
"Underground Rhythm" from Super Mario Bros. Wonder
"Mr. Top Player" (Jamie's Theme) from Street Fighter 6
xaev - pronoun picker sing berdlycore
The Eden Project - Lost
BaSTeT - DARK LEGACY (Long version)
Original Love - WALL FLOWER

map footage used (in order):
https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/878211...
https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/196167...
https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/168655...
https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/144333...
https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/192908...