6th Official FFR Tournament: Round 2
Round one has officially ended. With that, we say goodbye to the 170 of you who drowned in the murky yellow waters of the dashboard’s elimination line. That’s a horribly over-dramatic statement – or is it? Considering the fact that 170 people is nearly 1/3 of the participants in the tournament, maybe not. For those of you that have survived the sharp cut: congratulations! You get a brand new chart to play over and over again until you gouge your eyes out, destroy your keyboard, and/or possibly inflict bodily harm to someone for telling you to get the door while you’re on the last ten percent of your song! [/personal experience?]
Here’s the synopsis of round two for those of you who can’t spend twenty-three hours and fifty-nine minutes on a computer keysmashing your hearts out.
REMEMBER: 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: Story of Dreamers
After crossing the tightrope, you come to find that things aren’t so tense anymore. In fact, everyone seems quite…happy – and with good reason! Let us be reminded that you aren’t among a large group of tournament casualities, yet. Round 2′s song, story of dreamers, is on the lower end of the Tricky difficulty. This time, you’ll be contending with 16th note mini-runs, some modest jump usage, and a neat color trick. Credit to this chart goes to Silvuh.
Division 2: asterisk
Round 1′s chart for the Intermediate division could have easily been explained with a few words – empty, simple, and for those who actually have an bit of understanding of structure of charting, unlayered. If you were enjoying the lack of density in your charts, I’m regret to inform you that you’ll be contending with a much more layered chart. Everyone in D2 will be playing asterisk, a Difficult rated file charted by bmah. While the chart carries a lighter pace with only 8th notes for a good majority of the song, it also introduces a very forced and accented feel, using a fair amount of triples. Good luck, D2 – surely most of you will have learned to hit more than two keys at a time after this round!
Division 3: elegante
Division 3 gets elegante for their second round, a Challenging rated file by simfile extraordinare, bmah (two in a row, eh?). The chart starts off fairly mild, representing the smooth and calm nature of the song, but beefs up to a Challenging rating by throwing in a fair amount of broken jumpstreaming and a few tricky bursts. Heads up D3 – this one will definitely be a challenge to AAA for you guys.
Division 4: Velocity
Tonedeff has made a return to FFR in Round 2 of D4, with Velocity, charted by one of FFR’s most diverse stepartists, who_cares973 (and why should he care about song styles? Look at that screenname, c’mon). Velocity, unlike Champion Freeverse, is a bit more relaxed on the color usage due to syncopated rhythms. However, it also packs a bit more of a punch compared to its counterpart, with some very fast streaming/broken jumpstreaming, giving it a Very Challenging rating. Keep up with ToneDeff’s lyrical prowess and you’ll surely make it to round 3.
Division 5: Romance in the Club feat. Liquido
This song is incredibly strange, in a cool way. I’m not sure how to describe it, but I can scare the crap of out D5 players who read this before playing their song. Romance in the Club feat. Liquido, stepped by samurai7694, forces D5 into their first For Masters Only chart with some very difficult burst usage (ala Fast Asleep), scattered throughout the entire song. On the plus side, the overall chart’s difficulty is easily compensated by the short length – you guys have the shortest song of this round. With so many places to make mistakes in this chart, this could be a very interesting song to watch on the tournament dashboard.
Division 6: Kono spoon, suteki desu ne
I don’t know what to say about this. When I first came across this file in the batch, I knew what the song sounded like before playing it. I give thanks to a member of the ITG community, Revolver, for showing me this song a long time ago. Out of morbid curiosity, I opened the file in DDream and waited, slightly afraid of what would happen. A good majority of the chart was what I expected, but I didn’t expect a ton of color-assigned gimmicks, which made everything so much better. Kono spoon, suteki desu ne, a For Masters Only (and more than likely HOTLY contested) difficulty file stepped by 0, is a top player’s worst nightmare. It features many 20+ tap per second bursts, all colored differently thanks to the previously aforementioned gimmick. To make things even more difficult for scoring, a few of those bursts are entirely split-rolls (remember For FFR? Have fun!). Running at 160 BPM, it’s nearly impossible to cheat any of these patterns – it’ll take raw speed and power to belt this one out.
Good luck everyone! It’s going to be an interesting seven days.
- TC_Halogen, psychoangel691, Velocity, FFR Staff
Spontaneous contest given exclusively from me: Get as many averages as you can on Kono Spoon, suteki desu ne. Winner gets 25,000 credits – contest ends in 24 hours. Send all scores to TC_Halogen through private messages ONLY. Have fun! 
The spontaneous contest is over! Congratulations to DossarLX ODI for his winning score of 812 averages!
22 Responses to “6th Official FFR Tournament: Round 2”
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Posted at 11:22pm on November 22nd, 2011
The ominous yellow bar insidiously creeps higher and higher.. closer and closer towards you.. In this game, goods are NOT GOOD ENUFF.
Posted at 11:27pm on November 22nd, 2011
oh boy
Posted at 11:36pm on November 22nd, 2011
Your Kono Spoon Suteki Desu Ne is linked wrongly
Posted at 12:20am on November 23rd, 2011
Yay good charts this go around!
Posted at 12:24am on November 23rd, 2011
Otto von Schirach ?
Posted at 12:36am on November 23rd, 2011
RIP D3
Posted at 2:05am on November 23rd, 2011
I found Kono Spoon’s bursts easier than the other FMO’s, aside from the white one near the end.
Also RIP D3 wut? That song’s not hard for D3ers.
Posted at 5:17am on November 23rd, 2011
split rolls are a million times easier than rolls, i got 4p on mei on right lol
Posted at 5:18am on November 23rd, 2011
k maybe i didnt but they are a million times easier heh
Posted at 7:03am on November 23rd, 2011
If I had time to do the spon con I would :c Poop. Maybe my ordinary attempt at d6 song will get me the 25k lmao
Posted at 9:13am on November 23rd, 2011
wtf is that D5. olol
Posted at 11:57am on November 23rd, 2011
Man, D3 had a BIG jump in difficulty for AAA’ing…
Posted at 12:41pm on November 23rd, 2011
Welp I didn’t make it out of first round LOL.
GL to everyone though.
Posted at 12:43pm on November 23rd, 2011
I fine Velocity(D4) is more easier than elegante(D3).
Posted at 1:55pm on November 23rd, 2011
Already AAA’d D6 song oops
Posted at 10:13pm on November 23rd, 2011
Anyone else seeing all yellow if you don’t have the AAA? Like, the normal yellow cutoff line is wherever there isn’t the AAA.
Could just be my computer screwing up but wanted to see if anyone else saw it.
Posted at 11:32pm on November 23rd, 2011
Seems to have gone away. Cool beans.
Posted at 4:13pm on November 24th, 2011
There is still only one person who’s AAA’d D5′s song in D5. XD
Posted at 4:19pm on November 24th, 2011
lol dossar wins. gg
Posted at 2:01pm on November 25th, 2011
Why does your rank get pushed down if you get the AAA first but then when other people subsequently get the AAA your rank gets knocked down a couple? This isn’t going to mean elimination later is it? >.>
Or are you automatically protected if in the green?
Posted at 2:12pm on November 25th, 2011
a AAA is a AAA (wow that’s a lot of A’s). You can’t be eliminated in a round if you AAA a song.
Posted at 9:47pm on November 25th, 2011
Lol no, everyone with the AAA is rank 1. The reason you go down is because of the alphabetical order.