6th Official FFR Tournament: Round 1
Let the games begin! After much anticipation, FFR’s 6th Official tournament has kicked off! With near 600 competitors, it’s sure to be a very fierce competition. Let’s give a quick rundown of what’s to be expected for all of our players.
All scores for this tournament are recorded automatically. See the tournament dashboard to see how you’re doing in comparison to your opponents!
Division 1: tightrope city
Kicking off the first round for all of our newer keysmashers is tightrope city, a Standard difficulty song, charted by Silvuh. The song is very calm and gives off an almost melancholy feel, and the chart is fairly tame, using very short 12th note streams, which should give a few of you fresh FFR players a bit of a challenge. With this round, we’ll be losing fifty-one of you guys – almost a third of you! How many of the D1 players will successfully walk across the tightrope?
Division 2: Keep on Driving
Our Intermediate division will be playing Keep on Driving, a higher end Tricky file, charted by FFR’s current ‘Official Overlord’ (hi ThirdStyle players!) DossarLX ODI. The song has little to no layering, but where it lacks in jump usage, it makes up in broken 16th streams to semi-fast rap lyrics. D2 will also loses nearly a third of the competitors right from the start. Cheers to hoping that you D2 players do as the song title references!
Division 3: Glorious Morning
The Advanced division opens the tournament with Glorious Morning, which is rated a Very Difficult. The chart was created by one of FFR’s very few active female members, ichliebekase – let’s also congratulate her for her first accepted chart into FFR! Glorious Morning features generous amounts of 12th note usage to follow the flute melody of the song, and stacks up even more difficulty by adding some 24th bursts to background percussion. Thirty of you will get the axe this round – hopefully this song kicks up your competitive juices.
Division 4: Fall Silently
Moving along with this tournament introduction, we would like to introduce the Expert division to Fall Silently, a Challenging level file, stepped by DossarLX ODI (two files in a single round? aren’t you special.). The song is a mixture of hardstyle and dubstep, featuring some fairly simplistic 16th/jump combinations in the first half of the song, but adding a bit more difficulty by throwing some poly-rhythmic structure while mixing in jump-jacks. A very technical first round for you guys sitting in the Expert division – hopefully you aren’t one of nineteen people who don’t make the cut!
Division 5: Ambient Angels
Our second to highest division gets Ambient Angels, a very high Very Challenging difficulty file. _.Spitfire._ brings to the Master division a short but intense (particularly near the end) jumpstream file to push the D5 players to their limits right at the beginning. Good luck making it through the last stretch of the chart, as it definitely pushes you around with the jump usage. Fourteen of you won’t be making it to the next round – don’t be one of them!
Division 6: The Rapids
And finally, the newly created Guru division gets to face off in the most violent competition of them all, opening off with a For Masters Only file right from the beginning. Ziergdsx18 brings The Rapids to the tournament, a very aggressive, all around technical file featuring some very dense jumpstreams at over 190 BPM, some bursts, and overall a constant pace. In this battle of the titans, twelve of you won’t be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
Let’s get this competition on the move! Good luck to all of our competitors!
- TC_Halogen, psychoangel691, Velocity, FFR Staff
91 Responses to “6th Official FFR Tournament: Round 1”
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Posted at 11:14pm on November 15th, 2011
First. :3
Posted at 11:18pm on November 15th, 2011
Great post.
I’d offer to write them but I’m in the tourney so I guess that’s a little unfair.
p.s. inb4 bmah suggests using less terminology on the front page posts so it doesn’t appear so foreign.
Posted at 11:19pm on November 15th, 2011
Blackflagged on the sightread, not a bad start lol. so excited for this, good luck to everyone.
Posted at 11:21pm on November 15th, 2011
Fuck my life. good thing most of the people being eliminated will be inactivz
Posted at 11:22pm on November 15th, 2011
^_^ thanks for the special mention!
Good luck to everyone, I love to hear criticism and thoughts!
Posted at 11:23pm on November 15th, 2011
@hi19: I’d make an exception here, as it’d be assumed that somebody playing in a tournament should understand most of the terminology here.
Posted at 11:25pm on November 15th, 2011
LV9 song for first round? Awkward. I was expecting atleast a 10 for D4. D:
Posted at 11:32pm on November 15th, 2011
This is not an easy 9 lol
Posted at 11:37pm on November 15th, 2011
Wait how do i see my division??
Posted at 11:39pm on November 15th, 2011
Wish i signed up for this. zzz
Posted at 11:41pm on November 15th, 2011
Nevermind i found out
, ok now new question.. can we like start right now? how do we submit our scores?
Posted at 11:42pm on November 15th, 2011
You should put the link to the dashboard in the post.
Posted at 11:46pm on November 15th, 2011
Kayla I love you like a sister…
But come on really
Posted at 12:09am on November 16th, 2011
Awesome files all around!
Posted at 12:27am on November 16th, 2011
Glorious Morning is fun as tits
Posted at 12:52am on November 16th, 2011
Good luck peeps.
Posted at 1:12am on November 16th, 2011
Yes, good luck everyone
Posted at 5:07am on November 16th, 2011
When you complete the song, your best score overall is already logged with all the other scores in your division – no need for SS or vids. Good Luck Fellas! ^^
Posted at 5:47am on November 16th, 2011
so um, wheres that custom genre for tournament songs
Posted at 5:57am on November 16th, 2011
@Tera: Velocity disabled it because of some bug I think. The songs should still be available in the search thingy.
Posted at 8:07am on November 16th, 2011
For fuck’s sake, gotta love being in D4 when you’re ahead of exactly 19 people right now (speaking about myself) >.<
Posted at 8:34am on November 16th, 2011
Just wondering, Do we have to AAA it to qualify or just be in a certain top number?
Posted at 8:46am on November 16th, 2011
“LV9 song for first round? Awkward. I was expecting atleast a 10 for D4. D:”
The song difficulty doesn’t matter. What matters is how well you perform compared to others.
Posted at 8:52am on November 16th, 2011
About the songs: I had much more trouble with Keep on Driving (3 plays) than I did with Glorious Morning (sightread). I’m not criticizing the levels, just… what an awkward level 6 lol. Ambient Angels is goddamn awesome. The ending is like a way-less-derpy EHHS.
Posted at 10:54am on November 16th, 2011
When the hell is Bogey At Your Six being released?
Posted at 11:08am on November 16th, 2011
Superhugeomegathreadrape*
Posted at 11:23am on November 16th, 2011
I’m in division 2 and I really don’t think I’ll even get past round 3. I mean, I have a lot of skill tokens, but those are the mash/ easy ones, and most of my fc’s are mashed. I do have 32 or so AAA’s, though all easy songs that took weeks a piece to get). How do you even improve P.A? 13 people already AAA’d the first song, and I’m feeling terrible x -x,
Posted at 11:50am on November 16th, 2011
Hmm… Why doesn’t my ffr work anymore?
The song loads, but it always show that I loaded “brooks was here”, but I hear the real song in background, and the chart never comes, and then I boo the fuck out of it, but the health bar regens after “dying”. So I have to refresh. Can’t play anymore. At least I had time to AAA my song, but can anyone help? Please PM me.
Posted at 12:48pm on November 16th, 2011
It’s ok, I figured out why.
Also, nice files. They’re really sweet, but I think d2 got the worst song xD
Posted at 2:26pm on November 16th, 2011
I MISSED THE SIGNUP!!! fml ;c
Posted at 2:30pm on November 16th, 2011
Alright, AAA for the first round. Feels good man.
Posted at 2:50pm on November 16th, 2011
“The song difficulty doesn’t matter. What matters is how well you perform compared to others.”
Still, I was prepared for a 10. Not a 9 lol
Posted at 3:11pm on November 16th, 2011
GET HYPED
Posted at 3:47pm on November 16th, 2011
Well, my standalone fails completely and continuously so rip until standalone works or I learn to play spread like everyone in my division.
Posted at 4:54pm on November 16th, 2011
@alex: I’m hyped with gratuitous amounts of sugar
Posted at 4:56pm on November 16th, 2011
well, im in the first division and i would of put myself in the second division but i dont really mind. its just boring to play the song though.
Posted at 6:45pm on November 16th, 2011
can we have a lv 12 next round in d5?
Posted at 6:47pm on November 16th, 2011
@wargasm1 lollll
Posted at 6:47pm on November 16th, 2011
I hope division 2 doesn’t become division tap-your-keys-to-the-lyrics. If that’s the case, I’m gonna shoot myself when we get to VC’s. XD
Posted at 8:26pm on November 16th, 2011
Actually reuben, Keep On Driving is one of the few songs in D2 with lyrics.
Posted at 8:40pm on November 16th, 2011
Lolol at my division’s inability to AAA.
Posted at 9:16pm on November 16th, 2011
My division (2) has more AAA’s than division 6. DIVISION 6! YOU’RE LOSING YOUR GAME!! WAZZUP?
Posted at 9:35pm on November 16th, 2011
Division 2 also has 116 people and is playing a 6 while D6 has only 53 people and are playing a mid 11 lol.
Also, 2nd AAA in D4 :p
Posted at 10:34pm on November 16th, 2011
@bmah: One of the few? That means there’s more. @_@ I don’t mind songs with lyrics it’s just when they are stepped to the lyrics that they become a weakness for me.
Posted at 10:36pm on November 16th, 2011
I’ve worded it that way because I cannot recall all of the songs off the top of my head. So while I don’t believe there are any more songs with lyrics in D2, I may very well be wrong. Oh, but I’m pretty sure though that there songs stepped to lyrics are few and far between.
Posted at 11:05pm on November 16th, 2011
lol I would’ve AAA’d it in a day if I didn’t go whoring FGOs without knowledge of the start date. -_-;
Posted at 11:30pm on November 16th, 2011
Those lyrics in D2 are also my weakness… The song has already became my most played song ever >=/
Posted at 1:49am on November 17th, 2011
That D2 song was horrible…
Posted at 2:49am on November 17th, 2011
Using a laggy internet connection, but things are going okay right now.
Just need to get used to playing FFR again
11-0-0-2 first try and 2 clean the second, though, so I might not be too bad just yet.
Just wait till I get back home…
Posted at 9:16am on November 17th, 2011
My comp lags all the time when I play this ughh.
Also I must’ve been placed in the wrong division. D1 and I’m ranked 9,909 come on now. :p
Posted at 9:54am on November 17th, 2011
Yogos: come on now, rank doesn’t equal skill !
Posted at 10:44am on November 17th, 2011
You guys just all suck. Simple as that. And I’m talking about every complainer here. Every D6 kid is good though.
Posted at 10:45am on November 17th, 2011
Rank 10000~ and you think you should be in a higher tier in a 600 person competition? Haha I must have missed some sarcasm somewhere.
And come on, the D2 song isn’t THAT bad. Sure, it’s horribly chunky for a level 6 and is probably like 20ms offsync, but I can think of more annoying things to have to play over and over again haha
Posted at 11:52am on November 17th, 2011
Ugh, the d2 song sucks. I already failed the first round. -sigh- I never make it past round one on these things.
Posted at 3:25pm on November 17th, 2011
@Kiyoshi You’ve played the song 9 times and you’ve given up. You can only blame yourself if you don’t make it to the next round. Keep going at it!
Posted at 4:54pm on November 17th, 2011
@Kiyoshi Eventually a AAA will pop up. Go for it!
Posted at 10:53pm on November 17th, 2011
Guwaa, I *hate* the dang song, though! But bleh, I’m not trying to bitch and moan for sympathies, so thanks for not flaming me. I just felt stupid after I posted it cause it sounded whiny, and I was upset over failing the song a lot.
Posted at 10:56pm on November 17th, 2011
Rammstein could totally sue Gammer’s ass if they played FFR. Look up “Sonne.”
Posted at 11:25pm on November 17th, 2011
potato
Posted at 11:56pm on November 17th, 2011
Oh, I went from 12 goods to 6 goods by dropping my speed from 1.8 to 1.7! I’m so happy, but I don’t know if that score will last…
Posted at 7:33am on November 18th, 2011
PENIS
Posted at 8:40am on November 18th, 2011
I think they should have had qualifying song to pick what division like the old. People aren’t as good as they used to. (Being one me) At least they can go based on current skills.
Posted at 9:15am on November 18th, 2011
People can fake their scores, I don’t think that would’ve worked.
Posted at 9:19am on November 18th, 2011
That’s exactly right. Unfortunately, not everyone is honest about their skills, and in the past frequently took advantage of lying.
Posted at 11:35am on November 18th, 2011
Hi I’m a post.
Posted at 11:35am on November 18th, 2011
p.s bmah do something about ya avi ROFLMAO
Posted at 1:34pm on November 18th, 2011
i dont know any of the terminology, and ive been playing ffr for years…
Posted at 1:42pm on November 18th, 2011
reference: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=115282
Posted at 5:20pm on November 18th, 2011
*Can we have a level 12 next round in d5?”
Hell, no.
Posted at 5:23pm on November 18th, 2011
Also, I’m amazed with spitfires stepfile Ambient Angels. Making me push myself harder than before. I like that, actually. Gives me a reason to beef up.
Posted at 9:09pm on November 18th, 2011
omfg. i stop playing ffr for like 3 weeks and i miss the tourny sign ups ;.; god…
Posted at 9:10pm on November 18th, 2011
herp double post…do i NEED to sign up? x.x
Posted at 9:17pm on November 18th, 2011
i want to be in the tourney!!!!
Posted at 9:34pm on November 18th, 2011
I would have loved to give the tourny a go even if I wouldn’t have qualified farther than D2 or something. Just for the fun of it….arrived two days late ^^
Posted at 9:08pm on November 19th, 2011
being in d4 SUCKS!
Posted at 2:07am on November 20th, 2011
I have successfully walked the tightrope with a AAA.
Posted at 2:18pm on November 20th, 2011
Congrats 76, and good luck in the next round!
Posted at 8:12pm on November 20th, 2011
i got 576 perfects and 48 goods on the song “glorious morning” for division 3 and im in division 1. im kinda pissed off and sad and the same time that im in division 1.
Posted at 8:12pm on November 20th, 2011
and i was on 1.3X speed.
Posted at 10:04pm on November 20th, 2011
Speed mod doesn’t change the speed of the chart, it just changes how it looks visually. And why are you pissed off that you’re in D1? Right now the people in D3 are AAAing that song.
Posted at 12:48am on November 21st, 2011
It doesn’t change how it looks “visually” it changes the rate at which the notes come to the receptor. The higher the speedmod the lower the reaction rate.
Also, you want to be AAAing the round 1 song for D1.
Posted at 1:22am on November 21st, 2011
Lol @ girls kicking ass in D4! 3 AAAs now!
Posted at 7:11am on November 21st, 2011
“It doesn’t change how it looks “visually” it changes the rate at which the notes come to the receptor.”
That’s a visual change lol. It also separates the notes from each other more so they’re easier to read, and increases the size of the perfect window around the arrow bar. Speed mod is a visual change and nothing else. It doesn’t change the speed of the song.
Posted at 2:05pm on November 21st, 2011
Mike said it for me lol.
Posted at 7:23am on November 22nd, 2011
lol
Posted at 9:35am on November 22nd, 2011
lol
Posted at 10:36am on November 22nd, 2011
Hope you guys do this news post for every round.
Posted at 1:09pm on November 22nd, 2011
He’s actually working on round 2s right now XD
Posted at 1:12pm on November 22nd, 2011
Awesome. I enjoy reading every bit of the first round’s post. Looking forward to the next one.
Posted at 4:29pm on November 22nd, 2011
it took me about 3 full tanks of gas for me to “Keep on Driving” with a AAA
Posted at 1:59am on November 23rd, 2011
Congrats to everyone who walked the tightrope, kept on driving, had another glorious morning, rose silently instead of falling, soared with the angels and flowed with the rapids ;D