Beat Battles How to Vote as the Crowd

Voting in Beat Battles is a crowd job. You are not scoring yourself from the booth, and you are not hunting a hidden combo while the HUD still says YOU’RE UP!. On a 25-player Roblox BETA server from Overtune, one person is Current DJ, the rest of the room assigns 1–5 stars, then the queue rotates. This page is that listener half. Stage craft when you are the DJ lives on How to Win Battles. First-session order lives on Getting Started. Widget names live on Beat Battles Controls and the stage HUD tool. Honest stars are also how billboards and levels stay meaningful, so treat a vote as part of the climb rather than a throwaway tap.

You vote as the crowd, not as the DJ

The stage HUD already tells you which role you are in. Current DJ names whose set is filling the room. A theme chip — Retro is the example this wiki can name — tells you what the crowd is primed to hear. YOU’RE UP! is the prompt that your queued remix is now the one being judged. Star votes sit with the people who are not on that prompt. If the banner is pointing at you, listen for stars landing; do not scan the chrome for a second, secret vote button that lets the performer grade their own drop. This BETA does not document one, and inventing it would turn a contest into a selfie.

That split is easy to forget because studio and stage share one server. You just finished Drum, Bass, and a hook. You queued. The booth looks like your workspace. It is not. The moment YOU’RE UP! fires, you are the product. Starter Spotlights and the Flame Machine dress that product; they do not submit a star. After you leave the stage, you become crowd again. The vote UI is for that second job. Mixing the two jobs is how people mash lights instead of scores, or stand idle through three other sets because they think voting is someone else’s menu.

Read Current DJ before you tap a star

Stars without listening are noise. Watch the Current DJ chip until you can pair a body in the booth with the track in the room. Read the theme. If the chip says Retro and the set is a wall of FX over a timid kick, that mismatch is information, not a reason to auto-tap 5 because the username is in your friends list. The stage HUD tool is the labeled map of those chips. Beat Battles Controls is the wider studio-versus-stage split, including why this wiki will not invent extra keybinds around the star row.

Give the set a few bars. Front-loaded energy is how winning DJs ask for stars; you should answer the opening, not a promise that the hook might arrive later. If Drum never appears, that is a 1 or a 2 even if chat is hyped. If the stack is short, on-theme, and has a hook you can still hum after it ends, that is the high end of the scale. You are not judging a three-minute album. You are judging a live 8–16 bar idea in a club that can hold 25 people.

Stage dressing is not a vote. A Flame Machine burst on an empty intro is still an empty intro. Rank the music first. If you want the spend-order argument for lights versus pyro, use the effects tier list after you vote, not during the set. Spotlights help you see who is Current DJ. They do not obligate a 5.

Use the 1–5 scale like a human, not a script

The HUD collects 1–5 star votes. That is the whole documented scale. There is no confirmed half-star, no hidden 6, and no combo that multiplies a friend’s score if you tap in a pattern. As of September 2026 this wiki has not confirmed game-specific scripts either; an auto-vote paste would wreck the same 1–5 contest you are trying to climb. Score the set you heard.

A practical reading of the scale, without pretending Overtune published a rubric:

• 1 is a set that never became music: missing Drum, missing Bass, or a theme mismatch so loud the room cannot place it.
• 2 is a bed with no identity, or a ramble that lost the crowd before the hook.
• 3 is a finished short stack that belongs in the room even if it will not stick in your head tomorrow.
• 4 is a hook you remember plus a theme match, with dressing that did not hide the DJ.
• 5 is the set you would steal the length and energy curve from — still their clips, still your honesty.

Honesty matters because the server is small. Twenty-five players notice who never votes, who only tanks rivals, and who inflates an empty intro for a friend. You do not need a conspiracy chart. You need a habit: if you listened, you star, and the star matches the listen. Tanking every set except your circle trains the room to tank you. Inflating every set trains the billboard to mean nothing. The long climb on billboards and levels only works if stars stay a human sample.

Do not beg in chat for 5s during someone else’s set. Do not stall the queue so you can lecture the room about taste. Do not open the shop mid-vote and then tap a leftover 1 because you missed the hook. The crowd’s job is short: hear the Current DJ, match the theme in your head, assign a number, and get ready for the next rotation.

How YOU’RE UP! rotates — and why you stay

Rotation is the documented loop, not a skip code. Someone queues a finished remix. The HUD names them Current DJ when the booth is theirs. YOU’RE UP! is the live prompt. They play, the crowd stars, they leave the stage, the next queued DJ inherits the room. You will be on both sides of that loop in the same session if you stay. Leaving the server the moment your set ends is how you dodge the crowd job and still expect stars next round. A 25-player instance remembers that dodge even when nobody types it.

There is no confirmed secret button that lets you vote while YOU’RE UP! or steal the prompt from the Current DJ. If a widget is not on the stage HUD — Current DJ, theme, YOU’RE UP!, 1–5 stars, Stage Controls — do not assume a rhythm-game overlay hid it. Beat Battles is not Friday Night Funkin and not beat-battle.net. You are not tapping arrows. You are assigning stars to a remix in a live room.

If you have never queued, learn the first-session path on Getting Started so you do not vote from a place of confusion about studio versus stage. If you have queued and still cannot read why stars moved, the performer page is How to Win Battles: front-load, match Retro or whatever is posted, keep the set short, dress once. This page does not repeat that script. It only asks you to score it honestly when you are in the pit.

Honest stars are part of production, not a side minigame

Official copy groups voting with remixing, battling, unlocking DJ Decks / stages / effects, expanding the catalogue, leveling production, and climbing billboards. The vote is not a tutorial skip. A room that stars honestly is a room where a short, on-theme stack can actually rise. A room that only 5-stars friends is a room where crates and flames start to look like the real game. They are not. Gems still buy loops at 100, 250, and 1100. Cassette still sits beside gems. None of those wallets replace a star you earned from people who listened.

When you are not up, you are still playing Beat Battles. Voting is the play. Stay for the next Current DJ. Score the opening you heard. Then, when YOU’RE UP! rotates to you, you will want the same courtesy. That is the whole social contract in a free, live, 25-player BETA.

A voting pass you can reuse

1. Confirm you are not on YOU’RE UP!. If you are, perform; do not hunt a self-vote control.
2. Read Current DJ and the posted theme (Retro is the named example).
3. Listen through the opening bars. Judge Drum, Bass, and whether a hook arrived early.
4. Ignore Starter Spotlights and the Flame Machine except as dressing. Rank the music.
5. Assign 1–5 stars that match the listen. No tank-only pattern. No friend-only 5s.
6. Stay for the next rotation. Vote every set you actually heard.
7. When the prompt returns to you, play the stack you already finished, then become crowd again.

That pass is how a remix contest keeps working. Everything else is studio craft or billboard patience, and those pages are already linked above.