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There needs to be more allowances for old map jank in the ranked section, especially when it comes to higher difficulties. This isn't Bancho, things should be loosened up a bit. Seeing that the ranking criteria is based on the new Simplified Ranking Criteria kinda disheartened me cuz back when I was writing the RC for oldsu, I based it on some forum post from peppy in like, 2009. I'd have to do some digging to see if I still have it, but I very specifically made it more lenient with stuff that would be considered "old map jank" (fast spinners, using BPM to modify SV, etc) just cuz I wanted mappers to have a little more freedom with stuff like that.

"This isn't Bancho, things should be loosened up a bit."
I do feel that we are more lenient than Bancho in a lot of ways, the goal is that more mappers can have a chance to have their maps ranked. Bancho is so strict to the point that even genuinely good maps don't get ranked. I think part of the problem for us is that things we do allow compared to Bancho are not written down.

"using BPM to modify SV"
Using BPM to adjust SV is actually rankable! It doesn't break modern clients, and is the only valid way to do it using an old client. In fact we already have ranked other maps that do that!

"There needs to be more allowances for old map jank in the ranked section, especially when it comes to higher difficulties"
I do agree with the concept of some things become acceptable with higher difficulties, unfortunately I don't think short spinners will fall under that right now. I know your map is 7*, but I'm not sure that players who enjoy maps of that difficulty will find the short spinners fun, more just annoying. I said this in discord too, but this map should be remembered for being a love letter to impossible old maps of the past, it's a great example of emulating such a unique time in osu!'s history. I am worried that those concepts will be overshadowed as this map would instead be remembered as "that old style map where the spinners are annoying to hit".

Our Ranking Criteria can still use improving! I agree with the criticism that it is mostly just the modern simplified ranking criteria. Hopefully with time we can improve it and make it more fitting for Titanic, like all things here it's a work in progress and subject to change and be improved!