All in all, I'm not very surprised at the overall standings (although I didn't expect Metal Queen and Blow Me Away to be that high in the results). The finalists are all good simfiles. I'm slightly surprised that I made it into the catagory of "Wildcarders" because both public reviews didn't highly support my simfile. I'm also surprised at how well my stepcharts agreed with the judges, also because of the reviewer's opinions. I'm, however, highly disapointed with how well my graphics did. I actually though they were better than my Together graphics (and I still do)! And for the record, the clouds aren't "watermarks on a blue painting," as stated by the_ditz (sorry if I made this statement sound snotty...). I agree that the artist text was not great, but I don't go the same way with the background and text. Lilina stated that the clouds fit well with the sort of mystical trance song, which is exactly what I was aiming for, but I don't know why everyone else didn't agree. I thought the text was decent too, but I guess I don't have enough experience with graphics to decide what makes graphics amazingly fitting or not appropriate. As for the foldering penalties my simfile suffered, I did everything exactly as Neko stated (make "Songs" folder with "DDR OSC ~Beta of New Generation~" under), but I missed that one little nitpicky folder: a V35 folder... I don't know if this should be deducted by 2 points, in my opinion, becuase if you open a .zip file named "V35.zip", I think it's pretty self-explanitory that the files inside are going to go under a V35 folder. But if you guys disagree, please don't pummel me down with words of negative thought. I'm just writing this down as my own opinion. I think I've mentioned this before, but if I had known that extras would have effected a simfile's overall score by as much as it did, I would have most possibly added a video file in this to help my score more. I've noticed that I would have done very well with most of the judges if I only just made better graphics. As #Infinity stated, "Step-wise, you're absolutely fantastic. If you could only sharpen your ability to design graphics, you'll go over the top," which I agree. Not to be putting myself above everyone else's simfiles, which I strongly dislike when people assume that, but I would think the same as #Infinity did. If you check the overall step scores by the judges for V35, they're mostly above or around 5/6. But then if you check the graphics scores... yep. Well, I just hope I'll have enough experience next OSC to make more exciting graphics. In conclusion of this extremely long overview of my simfile, I wish everyone in the "Wildcarders" catagory the best of luck in the next round.
P.S. Sorry for making no paragraph breaks, besides this one of course, for those of you taking the time to read this message of thought.