Weekly Batch Updates

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Weekly Batch Updates

Saturday, September 11th, 2021 5:13 PM EST

There are currently no open batches at this time. The July/August 2021 batch closed September 1st, and the 14th Official Tournament ended 11 days ago. Thanks to everyone who participated!

More news to come about upcoming batches when psychoangel691 finishes up some other commitments they currently have.

S.E.B. in B.E.D. (Arcade), The Replicator (Misc), and Punch You (Dance 2) from Rainbowdragoneyes are available in game again; see PrawnSkunk's post for more details. The permission for this song artist is limited as well -- ask before using a song.

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Weekly Batch Updates

Saturday, October 2nd, 2021 1:00 AM EST

5 new judges were added to the judgment team as of September 24th. There is a new system being put in place where two judges provide rating/status for the files in a set.

The October/November 2021 batch is open until December 1st, 2021.

Songs of the Week continued September 24th.

Seasonal leaderboards has kicked off! See the announcement for more details.

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Weekly Batch Updates

Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 8:50 PM EST

The October/November 2021 batch is still open until December 1st, 2021.

Registrations opened for the Super Spooky Speedy Tournament, which will be a week long tournament leading up to Halloween. Signups close October 24th at 11 PM Server Time.

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Weekly Batch Updates

Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 9:52 PM EST

The Super Spooky Speedy Tournament concluded!

The October/November 2021 batch is still open until December 1st, 2021.

With respect to new notes, these have also been posted in the FFR Discord:

Pizza69

— 10/22/2021
Notes posted for May/Jun with M0nkeyz:

Absolute Smakatrosmic [ositzxz369]
Stargazer [Mipha]
Euhniverce [Matthia]
Full Blown Meltdown [storn42]
Credits EX [jh05013]
Come Horn [mi40]
FAKE PROMISE [Wiosna]
Black Chocolates [Wiosna]
cafe terrace at dusk [bmah]
Rush [NCS Release] [axith]

Goldstinger

— 11/06/2021
Status update for these CQ'd files:
A Raw Understanding (Pizza69 & M0nkeyz)
Prequel To The Sequel (trumaestro)
Time Files (Charu)
W-Inda (F-Rz Edit) (VisD)

updated to: ya

Notes posted for:

Cold Storage (Pizza69 & VisD)
Don't Stop (Skayles)
FACTORY_RESET (hi19hi19)
God of Madness (Ultimate Mike7)
hurricanic (jh05013)
Lakes of Flame (trumaestro)
RARE (MKIIPro)
Starlight (mi40)
Zettai ni Makerarenai Tatakai ~ Kill the Nyanko (suicidaln00b)
One Way Street (Mipha)

Storn

— 11/07/2021
Notes posted for:

Awake (Rapta)
Bad Apple!! (Psychotik)
Character Select - Super Mario Bros. 2 Extended (MarioNintendo)
Charlie Brown Medley (WirryWoo)
Fukkatsu Fuji Sancho Daikaiten ~Fujiyama Panic~ (Wind0ze)

VisD

— 11/07/2021
Notes posted for Feb/Mar's:

3PM (gold stinger)
Dream Chaser (Corrinetaur)
Own Little World (trumaestro)
The Dragon Spirit (elprovchico)

(this was still a solo batch, so just 1 rating + old "more lenient CQ" usage applied)

CQ updates (moved to accept) for:
Ever Forever (WirryWoo)
Jackknife (WirryWoo)

trumaestro

— Today at 9:20 PM
My first post in batch hyeahwooyeah:
Ositz and I have posted notes for:

bbblow -rebuild- (WirryWoo)
Evanescent (Pizza69)
It Feels Like Home (M0nkeyz)
Killswitch (Rapta)
Making Christmas (storn42)
Manhattan Lover (bmah)
Snowy (Ultimate Mike7)
Total Eclispe of the Sun (jh05013)
What We Do (Rapta)

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Weekly Batch Updates

Sunday, November 28th, 2021 5:21 PM EST

The October/November 2021 batch is still open until December 1st, 2021.

With respect to new notes, below are notes that have been posted in the FFR Discord. Note you can see the details in the batch submission area.

Pizza69

11/10/2021
The following CQs have been resolved. Some of these have been moved to a Light Accept status, and in these cases certain changes are still highly recommended, but not mandatory. Please take a look to confirm your status!

PUPA [bmah]
No Ordinary Love [DarkZtar]
The Time Vampire [DarkZtar]
TURNDOWN [DarkZtar]
Hyperdisco [FFR Pro 21]
Mega Man 2 [mi40]
The Son and the Star [mi40]
Gnossienne 5 [M0nkeyz]
In The Forest Of The Perfect Penis [ositzxz369]
Lumpiang Shanghai Deluxe [ositzxz369]
Shind Bad [Wiosna]
Strangeprogram [Wiosna]
Writing on the Walls [Wiosna]
Annihilator Method [WirryWoo]
Cristalisia [WirryWoo]
Life__Acceleration [WirryWoo]

Goldstinger

11/11/2021
Notes posted for:

Pressure Torture (ositzxz369)
Spontaneous Me (WirryWoo)
Step It [Light] (jh05013)
The Invitation (Rapta)
Video Challenge (trumaestro)

11/24/2021
Submitted notes for:
Angel Wing (jh05013)
Blend W (Psychotik)
Broken Mirrors (Storn42)
Good Computers (Rapta)
Keep Shredding, Little Man! (trumaestro)
One Wish Come True (WirryWoo)
sans. (Snupeh)
This Is The End of Everything (Deamerai)
Walking the Streets of a Former Hell (hi19hi19)

This is a 2-person set. So, scores are not finalized. However, was told that the 2nd person in this set has completed, just away from computer atm. Should be finalized somewhat soon.

o��z (play my �� files)����⚠�� — 11/25/2021
I am the 2nd person, and I am back to touch my computer. (AKA i finalized the scores/ratings)

WirryWoo

11/16/2021
Finally have some time for judging after completing interviews and assignments. Thanks for all of your patience everyone. trumaestro and I have posted notes for the following files:

3.14 (TT mix) (jh05013)
A sunday drive (katanaeyegaming)
Black In the Burn (storn42)
Bloodlust (Rapta)
�� Rave (Psychotik)
Form, Part 1 (Rapta)
MEGAERA (bmah)
Point Zero 2 (Tundrus)
Requiem (Skayles)
SPOOKY (Psychotik)

Please reach out if you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the ratings received. Thanks! ��

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Weekly Batch Updates

Sunday, December 19th, 2021 3:58 PM EST

The October/November 2021 batch is closed.

The Event Tokens batch is open until January 1st, 2022.

12 days of FFRMas 2021 started December 14th; you can follow the thread along with the front page announcements for new releases.

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Weekly Batch Updates

Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 9:48 PM EST

Happy New Year! First batch update post for the year.

psychoangel691 has stepped down from staff. In the meantime, gold stinger has become a Game Manager for the time being to help bring back some of the responsibilities that psychoangel691 previously had we are still figuring out what will happen with releases going forward.

The January/February 2022 batch is currently open until March 1st.

New difficulty consultants were added to the team: please welcome M0nkeyz, Zlyice, and SubaruPoptart!

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Weekly Batch Updates

Sunday, January 23rd, 2022 10:04 PM EST

Songs of the Week continued on a weekly basis for Fridays. These Friday releases also have weekly updates with the aid of the Community Managers.

On that note: please welcome Sky Kitten and XJ-9 to the Community Manager team!

With respect to the previous Song Releases that happened:
- Songs of the Week 1/7/2022
- Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 1/14/2022
- Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 1/21/2022

When it comes to song submission and judgment, there are currently some changes in progress to the previous system in favor of a new system. gold stinger elaborated more on that topic in this post.

With respect to current batches:
- Jan/Feb 2022 is open until March 1st, 2022.
- Event Tokens is open until March 1st, 2022.
- 15th Official Tournament (Less Than 70 Difficulty) is open until May 31st, 2022.
- 15th Official Tournament (More Than 70 Difficulty) is open until May 31st, 2022.

You can keep up with any official changes and proposed changes through our FFR Contested Difficulties spreadsheet. You can also find this spreadsheet link pinned within the #difficulty-discussion channel on the Discord server.

Another reminder that you can also find batch updates within the #batch channel on the FFR Discord server.

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Weekly Batch Updates

Sunday, February 13th, 2022 3:46 PM EST

Starting this Friday, Songs of the Week Releases will be two songs instead of three. There will also be a Valentine's Day Release with two songs.

With respect to the February Song Releases up to this point:
- Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 2/4/2022
- Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 2/11/2022

The four batches in the previous update are still open.

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Weekly Batch Updates

Sunday, March 6th, 2022 11:28 PM EST

The Ooga-Booga Special Batch and March/April 2022 Batch were both opened, and are open until May 1st 2022.

Four batches are currently open:
- March/April 2022 [May 1st, 2022]
- Ooga-Booga Special Batch [May 1st, 2022]
- 15th Official Tournament (Less Than 70 Difficulty) [May 31st, 2022]
- 15th Official Tournament (More Than 70 Difficulty) [May 31st, 2022]

The Jan/Feb 2022 and Event Tokens batches closed on March 1st, 2022.

Several other song releases and Weekly Updates have been posted since the last weekly batch update as well:
- Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 2/18/2022
- Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 2/25/2022
- Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 3/4/2022

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Weekly Batch Updates

Sunday, March 27th, 2022 2:09 PM EST

The batches mentioned in the March 6th update are still open:

Signups for Stepcon 2022 are still open until March 31st, 11:59 PM Server Time.

March 2022 song releases have concluded. See the SOTW and Weekly Update posts:
- Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 3/25/2022
- Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 3/18/2022
- Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 3/11/2022
- Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 3/4/2022

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Weekly Batch Updates

Saturday, April 16th, 2022 11:47 PM EST

For the April releases up to this point you can see the front page posts:
- April Fools, SotW and Weekly Update 4/01/2022
- Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 4/8/2022
- Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 4/15/2022

The [P] StepCon 2022 batch closed April 15th.

The March/April 2022 and Ooga-Booga Special Batch are still open until May 1st, 2022.

Have a great Easter!

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Weekly Batch Updates

Saturday, May 7th, 2022 4:56 PM EST

For more releases up to this point you can see the front page posts:
- Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 4/29/2022
- Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 5/6/2022

The March/April 2022 and Ooga-Booga Special Batch are closed as of May 1st 2022, [P] StepCon 2022 was also closed May 6th (yesterday).

The 15th Official Tournament batches are still open until May 31st 2022.

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Weekly Batch Updates

Monday, May 16th, 2022 10:38 PM EST

The Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 5/13/2022 provides the following update:

All files within the Ooga-Booga Special Batch have been judged. The judges are now starting to look over files submitted to the Jan/Feb 2022 batch and the Event Tokens batch.

StepCon 2022 has concluded with the final voting phase over with. The 1st – 3rd place winners of the Final StepOff are Psychotik, M0nkeyz and DarkZtar! Many thanks to everyone that participated and voted, and a huge congrats to all of the winners! To those who earned them, keep an eye out for your StepCon 2022 profile badge coming soon.

Next big announcement is that the sign-ups for the 15th Official Tournament will be opening today! These sign-ups will be open until the end of June, with the tournament itself beginning on July 1st. A thread will be made with all of the details as usual. We’ll also update this post with links when that time comes.

Goldstinger will be handling this Friday's song release on May 20th.

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Weekly Batch Updates

Monday, May 23rd, 2022 4:34 PM EST

Also stated in the Songs of the Weekly and Weekly Update 5/20/2022 post:
- The 15th Official Tournament signups are open through June 30th, 2022.
- The 15th Official Tournament Batches are open until May 31st, 2022.