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Bandori.News Round Up! vol. 7
Game News
The Natsuzora Ocean Blue Gacha has been in full swing this past week, so nothing really new to report on the game front. The only thing this week is that Hello, Happy World was successful in reaching rank 6 on the Oricon charts! We will be receiving the sentai-mask models in game on 9 August to celebrate.
Merchandise & CD News
Preorder for Afterglow's very first single "That is How I Roll" has come online! If you do, you'll receive an A4-size poster and random member card with the CD! It'll release 06 September.
Also up for preorder is Poppin'Party's 7th single, "Hachigatsu no if" due 20 September. The single features the title track from the OVA and another unannounced track. This version of the single comes with the 3rd Live Bluray. The cover art was revealed via twitter, thanks to Bandori Updates for catching this!
Speaking of Poppin'Party, their 4th Live is approaching. You can get goods at the live on 20 & 21 August at the Budokan venue, or online 18 August - 1 September if you're unable to make it. Bandori Updates goes over which goods will be available online and at the venue. They also report Comiket goods are now available online until 17 August at 1 PM JST.
We also have a ton of different collaborations happening with GBP. First, we seem to have Japanese Post certified stamps available featuring each of the bands. The next covers art prints with any animate purchase over 1000JPY. Dengeki is releasing a Hello, Happy World wallscroll much like with the Roselia first live art scan from a few months prior. And our final big collaboration is between conbini chain Lawson! If you happen to be at any of these places or can order any of these items, be sure to support GBP!
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As you may have noticed, most of Michelle's live2d models are currently bugged. I'm just letting you know we're releasing a fix soon. Sorry! The fix is out!
eggracers
been seeing a lot of these unpopular opinion posts recently
just wanted to remind you all that everyone is entitled to an opinion and it's okay if you're in the minority about some things!
but the line between unpopular opinions and hateful comments is a very thin one, so please think about how you write your opinions! we don't want anyone to fight or feel offended!
we just want everyone here to get along〜☆
Passionate
banner by violetR
-=- ENTRY FORM -=- DISCORD -=- MORE DETAILS + RANKINGS -=-
In conjunction with our launch giveaway, the staff team is pleased to announce our first community event - Bandori.Party Battle of the Bands! We apologize for the various delays we've had, they were caused by unexpected errors in our planning as well as the majority of our staff team being busy for a short while, and would like to thank the users who have had so much patience with us!
And now that we've finished the introduction, let us begin introducing the event~!
General Outline
The purpose of this event is to rack up points for a band of your choice by participating in moderated live rooms! After event sign-ups are over, we will announce which band you will be representing - please keep in mind that you may not get your first choice band, but we will do our best to accommodate everyone into either their first or second choices. In each live room, we will have at least one moderator (who will be representing a band as well), as well as one player from every other band. These players and moderator will then play a song (which will be 'voted' on by players, provided that they fit with the 'theme'), and will be judged based on performance, and will receive points based on their performance. Each live room will have a specific "theme" that will be rotated throughout the duration of our sessions - a specific list can be found below.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The majority of our communication will be done through Discord - be sure to have an account, and have joined our Discord group!
Specifics - Scoring System
The scoring system is based off a “Perfect Million” scoring system, where each player will be scored out of one million points based on their performance. More details and formula are available here. Players will also receive bonuses to their score based on their chosen difficulty, as indicated below:
- Easy → no bonus
- Normal → +20 000 to total score (2% of total possible score)
- Hard → +50 000 to total score (5% of total possible score)
- Expert → +90 000 to total score (9% of total possible score)
After each player has been scored, and difficulty bonuses applied, players will then be ranked against each other based on their total score, to receive points for their band. The number of points each player will receive are broken down as such:
- 1st Place → 10 pts.
- 2nd Place → 8 pts.
- 3rd Place → 7 pts.
- 4th Place → 6 pts.
- 5th Place → 5 pts.
Furthermore, there are additional bonuses/penalties! For those overachievers out there, there's a bonus for full comboing a song - 1 point on Easy or Normal, and 2 points on Hard or Expert! Also, should a player be exhausted (this will be determined by your number of Bads/Misses at the end of the song - healers will not help!) by the end of the song, there is a deduction of 3 points (not score!) to the number of earned points for that run. Please keep the above points in mind while selecting your difficulty for songs - be sure to play at the appropriate difficulty~
Specifics - Song Rotation
As explained above, the songs that are available to be played in rooms will be based on a specific 'theme'. There is a list of these available themes, which will be randomly picked before a room is hosted.
- Poppin' Party! {Original Songs}
- Roselia {Original Songs}
- Pastel * Palettes {Original Songs}
- Afterglow {Original Songs}
- Hello Happy World! {Original Songs}
- Poppin' Party! {Cover Songs}
- Roselia {Cover Songs}
- Pastel * Palettes {Cover Songs}
- Afterglow {Cover Songs}
- Hello Happy World! {Cover Songs}
- Any Song!
These will be selected via a random number generator - however, moderators may repick a theme based on their own judgement, should they feel a certain theme is selected too often, or a certain theme is not being used often enough.
Specifics - Conduct During the Event
Of course, there's all the stuff about being nice to one another, having good sportsmanship, and other such things that needs to be mentioned in this section... But this section is not only for these matters, but also things that help make our lives easier!
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Changing Your Nickname in the Discord Server - After the event begins, please include your Bandori username in your Discord nickname, if it isn't the same/already in there. You do not have to delete your existing username - for example, simply attach your Bandori username at the end of your username, like this: < Username > [ Bandori Username ].
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Setting your In-Game tag to Support your Band - Be sure to show support for your band by setting your in-game 'tag' to support your band! This also helps with keep track of who's part of what team during lives, helping us organize players, thanks for doing this in advance~
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Setting your Discord Status - If you are not available for play at any time during the sessions, for one reason or another, but don't want to be disconnected from Discord/the chat, be sure to set your status to Idle/Do Not Disturb! We will not select you to participate in a live should your status be set to Idle/Do Not Disturb. Being available when you're selected really helps with running the event smoothly, so this is an important note! Additionally, the reverse also applies - if you want to be selected, be sure to set your status to Online!
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Setting a Team Leader - Please do NOT use a Perfect Lock leader for your teams! Because players will be judged based off their performance instead of their score, Perfect Lock skills will severely affect results. Yes, we get that you want to support your band by showing off the best copy of the card you have. However, we sincerely ask all users to refrain from using a Perfect Lock leader, thank you~
If you don't know how to perform any of the above things, simply comment below or contact us, and we will do our best to provide assistance!
Specifics - Exhaustion
Many users have been confused about our rules about Exhaustion during a live, as we cannot accurately measure whether or not somebody fails. Therefore, we have enacted a new system that will allow for more flexibility and accuracy when declaring whether somebody is "exhausted" or not.
Details
- At the end of the live, each player's Bads and Misses are tallied up, then added together to form a "penalty score".
- For the purposes of the penalty score, each Bad will count as half a point, and each Miss will count as one point.
- A player will be declared "Exhausted" if this penalty score exceeds a certain threshold.
- This threshold will be determined by 2% of the total notes in the song, always rounded up to the nearest half number.
- Even if a player is not actually exhausted at the end of a live, if their penalty score exceeds the threshold for that song, they will be declared "exhausted".
- Conversely, even if a player gets exhausted in-game, as long as their penalty score does not exceed the threshold, they will not be declared "exhausted" for the purposes of the event.
- Unlike the scoring system, this mechanic has not been tested by our moderators or staff team. This system may be changed during the event (especially regarding the % of notes that makes up the threshold value) should it be deemed 'inappropriate'.
Tentative Schedule
Bandori.Party Battle of the Bands will be held over a period of two "meta" periods (where events are not taking place). Here is a schedule for this next "meta" period (05.19 - 05.21). Once again, you do NOT need to participate in every session~!
Regular Sessions
These sessions will take place at the following times, provided that there are enough members from each band to do so. You may not join a room with a moderator from your own team - keep this in mind! (Moderators' teams are provided in brackets)
LatidoReMe (HaroHapi)
- Saturday / 05.20 / 6:00 UTC
- Sunday / 05.21 / 6:00 UTC
BAGU (Poppin')
- Friday / 05.19 / 18:00 UTC
- Friday / 05.19 / 20:00 UTC
- Saturday / 05.20 / 10:00 UTC
TiffyNinja (Roselia)
- Friday / 05.19 / 4:00 UTC
- Friday / 05.19 / 6:00 UTC
- Saturday / 05.20 / 4:00 UTC
aorteau (Aglo)
- Friday / 05.19 / 23:00 UTC
- Saturday / 05.20 / 22:00 UTC
- Sunday / 05.21 / 22:00 UTC
Nacko (Aglo)
- Friday / 05.19 / 22:00 UTC
- Saturday / 05.20 / 23:00 UTC
- Sunday / 05.21 / 23:00 UTC
Infinity (PasuPare)
- Friday / 05.19 / 20:00 - 21:00 UTC
- Saturday / 05.20 / 20:00 - 21:00 UTC
Wildcard Sessions
This is a new free session system. Staff will be available all day to fill in during times of high volume and traffic, as well as allow more flexibility within the schedule. They will run as normal games, but will happen sporadically.
Staff are also allowed to host a session at any time besides the times they assigned themselves. The only limitation is that they are required to have 4 members of competing bands online to do so.
violetR (PasuPare)
- Friday / 05.19 / 10:00 - 16:00 UTC
- Saturday / 05.20 / 10:00 - 16:00 UTC
Passionate (HaroHapi)
- Friday / 05.19 / ???
- Saturday / 05.20 / ???
natsushi (Poppin')
- Friday / 05.19 / ???
- Saturday / 05.20 / ???
jadii (Roselia)
- Friday / 05.19 / ???
- Saturday / 05.20 / ???
Prizes
And of course, we can't forget about prizes! The prizes for this event will be badges on our site, Bandori.Party! Each and every participant will receive a badge for participating, and the members of the winning band will receive an additional badge, be sure to show them off your friends!
Miscellaneous Rules + FAQ
Any further questions about the event that wasn't answered in this post, or any of the related documents? Feel free to PM us or comment your question below, and we'll answer it to the best of our ability!
Furthermore, should any additional rules need to be added (for the sake of organization, balancing, and whatnot), they will be posted in this section, so stay tuned!
Rules about Exhaustion - Read in Section "Specifics - Exhaustion"
Summary: If you miss a certain number of notes (2% of the total notes in the song), you will be declared "exhausted", regardless of whether you actually failed or not. Conversely, even if you are actually exhausted, as long as your misses don't exceed this number, you will not be declared "exhausted" for the sake of this event. In regards to this rule, two Bads will count as a Miss.
1. What is Garupa?
Garupa is the shortened form of BanG Dream!, taking the "Girls' Band Party" part of the name.
2. Does my centre have to be a member of my assigned band? Do all members have to be from my assigned band?
No, your centre/team can be made up of any member you wish. At the same time, there's nothing against it, so if you want to show off a shiny 4* from your favorite band, go for it! However, like stated above, no Perfect Lock leaders please!
3. Speaking of Perfect Lock leaders, can I use them anywhere else on my team?
Yes! Since their skills will NOT be activating during live shows, it is fine to have Perfect Lock characters on your team, provided they are not your leader.
-=- ENTRY FORM -=- DISCORD -=- MORE DETAILS + RANKINGS -=-
We look forward to seeing everyone at the event~!
edit on May 5th - addition of a FAQ, as well as tentative schedule
edit on May 12th - fixed Discord link + added rules about exhaustion
violetR
Bandori.News Round Up! vol. 5
Game News
A new event and gacha is once again upon us, and not only is it a new event, but a new event type! The Challenge Live event is introduced with "When the Bud Blooms". You can view a series of tweets written by Banpa user Rimirin to help you out if you're still confused. The event features Maya and Aya, while the Gacha is Chisato, Eve and Hina. Good luck! The last event story, Tomoe SOS! was translated by Inuzuka28.
Another Livestream will take place on 28 July, covering more game and GBP news as usual. You can view information on where to view the stream from the official twitter. The stream begins at 9pm JST.
Additionally, we personally have found if you completely fail 3 consecutive multilives (as in, no notes are hit at all) you will be banned from participating in multilives for an hour! We didn't know this was new news or not, but we wanted to share with you! Thanks, Passionate!
Merchandise & CD News
Roselia's second stint of their first live continues, displaying goods online for purchase from 21 July to 7 August. Thanks for the information, Bandori Updates! Among the goods for order is a Live Shirt, Towel, Wristband and Memorial pins, as well as a violet penlight, display picks, totebags, bromides, and keychains. Additionally, Roselia head a niconama where they announced their 3rd single, "Nesshoku Starmine" with an accompanying event on 8 October.
Saaya and Arisa have previews for their individual character singles now! If you can already preorder both Saaya's and Arisa's singles through CDJapan! They release 26 July. There will also be piano scores available on 10 August from 10 differen Poppin'Party songs. Thank you Bandori Updates for the info!
Also, don't forget about that Hello, Happy World! single dropping on 2 August! The CD bonus includes a random bromide, A4 Poster and a release event ballot. Preorder your copy now through CDJapan. However if you were late to the party, the preorder rewards for this are not available.
violetR
Bandori.News Round Up! vol. 4
Game News
Tomoe and Ako's event and gacha are still ongoing! Keep track of the event here. The gacha will remain until the next event starts. Also announced is the inclusion of two new songs from Poppin'Party and Roselia, taken from the OVA! Thanks for the info, Bandori Updates!
The game will be updating to build 1.7 at 2 AM JST, following the conclusion of Tomoe and Ako's event. This update will include missions, live boost recovery items, and increased EXP for lives performed.
Finally, Shuwarin' Dreamin' obtained a spot in the Top 5 on the Oricon charts! Every user will be obtaining the Pastel*Palette's training outfits for each girl in game at a later date.
Anime News
This past weekend, the BanG Dream! OVA premiered across Japan in theatres. Bandori Updates reported two screenshots from the OVA featuring Roselia and Poppin'Party on their summer vacation, and that the OVA will be formally released on Blu-ray 7.
Merchandise News
In merch land, we are seeing more and more GBP items! There is an event ongoing until the end of the month right now with BanG Dream! Featuring Girl's Band Party. Merchandise on sale features the Poppin'Party art accompanying the Kasumi birthday illustrations as a wallscroll, buttons, acrylic keychains, fans and clearfiles. There's also an additional metal keychain set available.
For the others, they have band stickers for every girl, clear files and lanyards of each band! They also have a smart phone case for purchase, featuring the logo and icons from the game.
Bandori Updates also let us know about Comiket92 goods that will be available from Poppin'Party and the other GBP bands. There will be a Tote, pouch, and keychain available featuring the game's main image, a Roselia Polo, and band phone cases, as well as some edgy wallet keychains and clearfiles. Everything here but the clearfiles will be sold online 3-17 August following Comiket!
Our last bit of merchandise news are trendy hairpin and bracelet combos. They are available for 5900¥ from Kanzashi OEM, I personally think they are super cute and different from most merchandise I see released~
violetR
Bandori.News Round Up! vol. 2
Game News
This week, Guren No Yumiya covered by Roselia was added to the CiRCLE Cover shop. You can view a demo of the Extreme Map Here. Other than that, we were surprised with a double 4star gacha featuring the Hikawa Twins and an event with a 3star Aya. Countdown here~!.
Anime News
The screening info for the OVA viewings were released!. They announced some more additional goods like Roselia's very own button set.
Band-specific News
Roselia News
Roselia's very first live, Rosenlied occurred this past week! Catch up on the event through this hashtag on twitter. Congrats to Roselia on a successful live!
Additionally, ESP announced the Roselia collaboration guitars for Sayo and Lisa. These are very special guitars so they cost quite a bit, but they are also very high quality!
Roselia also was featured in this month's Dengeki G's magazine, and the spread featured is being released as a wallscroll. Thanks for the tip, Bandori Updates!
Poppin'Party News
This weekend also saw the first concert from Popipa overseas! We have a write up on it from BanPa user LatidoReMe. Additionally, check out the view of the BanG Dream! booth from the official Bushiglobal account! Congrats to Aimi and the rest of Poppin'Party for their success at Bushifest. We missed you, Hasshi!
Pastel*Palettes News
A new short commercial released this week to boost the sales of Pastel*Palette's very first single, Shuwarin' Dreamin'. Preorder it here to get a signed bromide.
violetR
BANDORI.PARTY PRESENTS: DESIGN OUR MANAGER!
Have you noticed in the world of Bandori, there's all sorts of managers? We have the old lady in SPACE, our fearless leader Marina at CiRCLE... But we don't have one for Bandori.Party!
We don't have many guidelines, because we want to see what you come up with! All we ask is you design a live-house manager with Bandori.Party in mind! If you don't think you're the best artist, we will take your design idea and one of our staff artists will redraw your vision! You don't have to do a fully rendered art piece to win!
WINNER ANNOUNCED HERE!
FAQ
Why a Manager?
In the BanG Dream! Universe, its focused on girl bands operating in girl-band specialised live houses. As a database and "hub" for the game, we think having a manager mascot would be an obvious choice. Even though it seems like there aren't many men in this universe, we aren't closing that option for the contest. So just submit what you think will be the best fit for a Bandori.Party manager!
Okay, so, What's a Bandori.Party Live House?
Not being literal here, it's just the theme for this contest. We're pretending that the site is like a live-house, due to the parallels in the networking/hub like atmosphere, and asking for a 'manager'.
What do you mean by a 'rendered image'?
This would mean you provided a full body image, fully colored/shaded and in high resolution. However, we realise not all great ideas come from people who can fully render their idea.
So, what should I include if I submit just a design?
You can be as detailed or not as you would like, however keep in mind overall design will be judged. So we'd like to see a hairstyle, hair/eye color, the outfit, any accessories they might have, and a color palette.
What Happens to my design if it wins?
This is covered in the Terms & Conditions you accept when you submit your design/image. Please read it on the submission form.
Anything else?
Please take all the liberties you want, but keep in mind that the character is a manager of the Bandori.Party live house, and should reflect that. You can name them for an added touch if you'd like. If you have anymore questions, we would be happy to answer them below in the comments!
Contest Ended 08/01/17
violetR
ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF THE MASCOT CONTEST!
Hello everyone! It's been a grueling 3 months since we opened the mascot contest, and 1 since we closed it! I know most of you all are excited to finally see the winner of this contest, because I'm really excited to finally announce it myself!
We got 13 unique entrants and 16 designs to look through! I was really overwhelmed with the response for such a small contest. We want to stress to everyone how hard it was to pick from so many great applicants. For these reasons, we had a score card for our guest artist judges! The scoring system was based on Visual Appeal, Apparent Age of the Mascot, How Well Appearance linked to the Bandori.Party website, and memorability. Each category had a certain integer associated with the answers taken from the artists. Meanwhile, active staff members were asked to rank their top 3 and give reasons to their vote, and were added to artist score cards as bonus points. Additionally, names were removed from all entries to prevent a bias if there should have been any connection between the staff, artists, and art judges.
You can view all of the entries here!
Without further ado, our winner of BOTH Artists Choice & Staff Pick, and our mascot for Bandori.Party is...
ENTRY 4 - BY USER NEROMAO!!!
Design is not final, however. There will be modifications made by our official artist. The winner is aware!
The end of this contest means a new one will begin, because I think our Character Needs a name, don't you? You can submit names here until 15 September. This will be a for-fun event and final voting will occur after the names are screened by the staff for the top 4 names! You can submit as many names as you would like, just submit each name separately. Thank you!
We have some comments on the winning design presented by our staff and guest artist judges to go along with the announcement!
Our first judge is Amber Avara, a webcomic creator who's addicted to character design! Her comments were as follows with the announcement of the winner: "The winning design is very cute and definitely reads as an idol girl character! I'd personally work a little more on "branding"--parts of the other designs that I thought were really successful was the use of the yellow star, if that could be incorporated into this final design I think it'd be a perfect match! She's got an oldschool vibe that's nostalgic in the good way--reminds me of classical magical girls like Cardcaptor Sakura. Overall, a very cute character! Congratulations!"
Our second judge is D. Artemisatto, who collaborated with Natasha Allegri on the design for Vocaloid Ruby. She had this to say to the winning design: "A very lovely design, not too serious or too informal, nor does it feel too Idol-like by itself, but as a manager indeed. I feel it picked the webpage elements nicely, plus added some interesting accessories like the usb cords as hairpiece and tablet relating it to the digital nature of the game and the online community. As a character I can link it to the franchise both as a mascot and as a demographic, she doesn't feel too old or too young, but someone anyone can relate to."
Third, we have Jadii, a very prolific colorist and artist from Ireland who's had a following on dA for sometime. Her comments to the winner: "I think this design is the perfect middle ground between too simple and over designed. It has an excellent balanced colour scheme, structure and plenty of well thought out small details that bring the design together. There were many good designs I liked but I think this is a great representation/mascot for Bandori.Party!"
Our fourth and final judge will be the final designer and artist for the winning design, Brella! "Congratulations on the winner! It's my pleasure to be able to draw their character as the chosen Bandori Party mascot. She was one of my favorite designs of the bunch as she was a clear reflection of the website's purpose, and design aesthetic. I see the vibe of someone who's intelligent, responsible, enthusiastic, and youthful."
The staff comments on the design begin with mine. Personally, I just had a feeling with this one. Her color scheme of course was very indicative of the franchise and our very own site, and I love that she's basically a gijinka of the database! Ambi commented on the fact her character data was "android" over human, changing the game for her completely when it came to voting. The artists comments on the use of memory storage also really stood out, as well as the color scheme (again!) and the use of a dark brown/red over a complete black in the design.
Our final staff comment comes from Passionate, "Though I didn’t expect a non-human entry in this competition, it was a rather unique entry that definitely caught my attention! I personally have very little experience in judging mascots and such (this is my first time being a main judge, to be honest), but out of all the entries (which were all very appealing, by the way!), this was one of the most visually appealing. Not only was the colour scheme of this entry was fairly easy on the eyes, it also matched very well with colours of Bandori.Party, as well as the concept of Bandori.Party’s mission - a fan-made database for BanG Dream, made by fans, for fans! Starting from the unique concept, to an appealing colour scheme, and above all, reflecting the purpose of Bandori.Party, this entry was definitely one of the strongest, and was in no way undeserving of being the winner! Congratulations!"
The two other staff members involved in the voting declined to comment or couldn't be reached.
Thank you again for everyone's submissions. I really had no idea how this would turn out. I was getting kind of anxious that this event would be a total flop or we wouldn't be able to see it through. Thank you all for submitting, and thank you all for viewing and supporting Bandori.Party so far. Hope to see you again soon!
LatidoReMe
Battle of the Bands v3
Groupie Form | Discord Server | SubCaptain Form
Dates: February 10th, 11th, 17th, and 18th UTC
After many adjustments and improvements, the staff of Bandori.Party are proud to announce the 3rd Battle of the Bands! If you're already familiar with the BoB and how it functions, then we suggest you hop on down to the end of this news post to view the changelog. If you think that Bob is just somebody's name, then we urge you to continue reading, so you can get a gist of what this event is all about!
General Outline
The Battle of the Bands (nicknamed the BoB) is a special event hosted by the staff of Bandori.Party and other community members! The main idea of the event is to rack up points for the band you represent! After filling out the registration form, Discord Staff will assign you to a team based off of personal preference, skill level, and availability. Once sign-ups are complete, the BoB will commence! Through official matches and missions, you’ll earn points for the team you’re representing. Once everything is over, the final results will be calculated, rewards will be handed out, and that’s that! Sounds simple, right? That's because it is!
How does it work?
1. Before the BoB begins, you'll be assigned to a team as either a Groupie or a SubCaptain.
2. Before the first round of matches begin, hang out on the server, get to know people, and just get hyped for the BoB that is about to start!
3. Once the BoB starts, there are two ways you can gain your team points! The first way is by head on over to bob_matchmaking channel during an enemy captain’s scheduled block time to begin playing matches for your team!
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When the @ here signups message pops up, react with your team logo for a chance to rep your team!
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Using our trusty bot zippy (Tatsumaki), we randomly choose between you and any other of your teammates who signed up to play that match! We also use zippy to randomly choose a song theme for the round, and then all is set!
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If you got picked, then once @ ed by the captain with a room code, you enter the private multilive room code provided and begin the round! You either choose a song from the theme or select [Any], and then you give it your all in the live! Once the live finishes, you’ve completed a match! You don’t have to do anything else to earn your team points for this match.
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After that captain’s block(s), they will calculate the results (check out Scoring System for details), and post them ASAP! With those results, you’ll get to see how many points you contributed to your team.
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Ta-da! You’ve played an official match of the BoB, and earned your team some points!
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The other way to earn points is through the Missions System! It is elaborated on more down below, but every day a few missions are given to team members to complete, and upon success you will reward your team some points! It’s a very simple but fun way to contribute to your team even if you don’t have time to play a lot of matches, so we suggest you check them out as well!
4. The BoB will continue for 2 days until the break! During the break you get to relax, hang out, or just wait for more matches, until finally #3 resumes until the end of the BoB.
5. Once the BoB has ended, the final results will be calculated and posted ASAP. All participants will receive a participation badge, and the winners will get a special winners badge too! With that, this BoB will conclude, and you’ll be left to enjoy our server until the next one
How is this judged?
The scoring system is based off a “Perfect Million” scoring system, where each player will be scored out of one million points based on their performance. More details and formulas are available here. Players will also receive bonuses to their score based on their chosen difficulty and combo.
The changes to the scoring formula were made based off the results from previous matches. This time, you won’t be able to beat people with just the difficulty bonus - so be sure to be playing at an appropriate difficulty!
Players are then ranked based off of their score from the above scoring system, and awarded according to their rank. The point system toward the member’s bands are broken down as such:
1st Place → 50 pts.
2nd Place → 40 pts.
3rd Place → 30 pts.
4th Place → 20 pts.
5th Place → 10 pts.
If a member of the team is exhausted by the end of the run, there is a deduction of 15 points (not score!) to that run - however, you cannot get negative points from a round. So please, be sure to be playing at a difficulty you can manage! At the same time, there will also be a bonus of 1 point on Easy, 2 points on Normal, 3 points on Hard, and 5 points on Expert should a player achieve a Full Combo, so keep this in mind!
Missions
Introduced during the last Battle of the Bands, missions are a way to gain points for your team outside of official matches! The IE team (the people in charge of missions) assigns groupies challenges each day at 6PM UTC in #missions_info, and upon completion they are awarded extra points for their team!
What types of missions are there?
- Individuals:
These are daily missions that an individual can complete! They’ll be announced everyday at 6PM UTC, and groupies will have 24 hours to complete them! These missions have difficulty levels, and a groupie can complete only 2 of these a day. Ex. [Hard] FC Determination Symphony on Hard+
- Group:
These are daily missions that 5 groupies can complete together! They’ll be announced everyday at 6PM UTC, and groupies will have 24 hours to complete them! These missions will reward 5 points to each individual, and there will only be 1 of these missions a day. Ex. [Medium] With a team of all unique HHW centers, have at least 2 groupies FC Don’t be afraid
- Mini-Group:
These are daily missions that 2-3 groupies can complete together! They’ll be announced everyday at 6PM UTC, and groupies will have 24 hours to complete them! These missions will reward 5 points to each individual, and there will only be one of these missions a day. Ex. [Easy] With centers of Kokoro and Kaoru, clear ロメオ with everyone having at least a 237 combo
- Extended:
These are missions that are available from the start of the BoB, and will end 24 hours from the last missions announcement! There are 9 missions total in this category--3 of each difficulty--and a groupie can complete up to three of these! Each difficulty of mission will reward the same amount of points, however a bonus is given if a groupie completes all missions of a difficulty, with the bonus scaling to difficulty. Ex. [Hard] FC Don’t Say Lazy on Hard+
How to submit missions?
Go to #missions_submissions, and make a post with the following:
- The Mission Type and Identifier (ex.Individual Hard)
- The User(s): (ex. @ LatidoReMe, @ Passionate, and @ Trashi)
- The Specified Screenshot: each mission will have the specified screenshots needed to prove completion. Either insert a link to them or upload them directly with your posting so that we can verify you completed the mission
We’ll react with either a
Banned Cards
All cards with Perfect Lock skills are banned from being your center in this event, as they'd give an unfair advantage to certain players.
To figure out whether your center has a Perfect Lock skill or not, go to the Cards section of our site and filter cards based off the Perfect Lock side skill (represented by the lock icon)
Frequently Asked Questions
For a more in-depth FAQ, go to our BanPa BoB Playguide and scroll to the bottom.
ChangeLog
For vets of the event, here's a change log:
✨This time we're focusing on scheduling blocks around highest user activity ⏰ 👥
✨There'll be a Mission System revamp 📝
✨Less mod matches 🕵
✨Team chats are back 💬
We hope you'll like the changes we made for BoB V3!
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Let's Celebrate! Collectible Launch Giveaway!
Welcome back, guys! I know it was a very tough week for everyone who waited for the results of our giveaway. Never fear, we're here with the goods. For Twitter, we had three different ways to win. First, you could get a lot of retweets and likes and win popular pick! Secondly, you could attach a link to your profile and be in the running for staff pick. Thirdly, there was a random draw prize for anyone who entered with gleam.io and had a valid tweet (as in, not deleted).
THE POPULAR 'PICK' WINNER IS MAYAEVES
Congratulations! Combined likes/retweets were at 340, making it a very close call with another participant. Never fear, however, as we will be also giving the runner-up, Shinoburedo the other pick can badge as well! You both did really amazingly, and we were wow'd! MayaEves will be the winner of the Maya pick badge, and Shinoburedo the Moca!
OUR STAFF'S FAVORITE PROFILE IS TRASHI
Congratulations! The staff was impressed by your custom pixels, neatness, and detail that you paid to your profile on the site. It's definitely a shining example of what we love from our community members. Trashi will be winning either a Saaya or Yukina rubber strap!
We had multiple profiles in our runner's up, who also show a great profile in some way, shape or form. You should check out their profiles as well! We had NicoYLM, Yunii, Cynonic, and DevilDash in the running.
OUR RANDOM STAR IS BOWFANATIC
The winner of the Arisa Ichigaya can badge is Bowfanatic! Congratulations! We really appreciate your entry and the sharing of your love for Bpa and Bandori itself~!
If you win and you want to swap prize with another winner, ask them and let us know!
OUR RANDOM FEEDBACKER IS IDOLTRASHUU
Thank you for your feedback on our site. We'd love to pay back your help with a icon/header set provided by BrokenMadnessu!
If anyone else still has feedback on the site, feel free to let us know about it here!
NOW WHAT?
If you've won a prize, please DM our Twitter Account with your information and the prize you're claiming if you made a change or had a choice in your prize. Everyone has 48 hours to claim their prizes. Thanks for joining us on the launch of collectibles and we really hope you'll stick around when we roll out activities and GBP EN comes out.