Song Identification Tournament!

[justin_ator]

So, I came up with a little guessing tournament of sorts. It's rather simple, and is just a little bit of a see-what-you-know-about-FFR game.

1. You will be viewing videos of FFR games being played, on a keyboard. Based on those videos, you will get to submit guesses as to what you think the song being played is. Feel free to check out the Tournament Tutorial video; the link is under the Videos category.

2. Submit your guesses to me via PM. Some are easy, some not so much. DO NOT POST ANSWERS, GUESSES, OR HINTS IN THIS THREAD OR ON MY COMMENT WALL OR YOU WILL BE DISQUALIFIED.

3. I will tell you which songs you got right and which songs are wrong. For wrong answers, you may then guess again. The catch, however, is that you only get two guesses as to what each song is. Choose wisely!

4. For each song or set amounts of songs you can guess correctly, you will gain guesser rank. As we advance through the tournament, that rank will (hopefully) continue to increase. At the end, the FFR players with the most correct guesses will win credit prizes and recognition as FFR's most observant players on step patterns and finger movement.

5. The tournament sign-ups are now open. Due to the fact that I welcome late entrants, they will not close. Round 1 will begin July 1st at 10:00:00 AM (server time) (time has shifted forward due to change in work schedule. The round will end as planned). Rounds last 3 days. This does not mean you cannot guess for previous rounds. It simply means the next two videos are released.

(Videos for the round will be made public at the start of each round.)



Round 1
Round 2
Round 3



Round 4
Round 5
Round 6

A. Please, don't help or give hints...If I decide to, that is up to me and they will be given at times when it will not be unfair to any entrants. Helping others is prohibited. I mean, you want to win, don't you?
B. I reserve the right to at any time, and for any reason disqualify an entrant if I deem it necessary. As there are no divisions, I expect no conflict in that area.
C. Late entrants are welcome, but I'll warn you now that if you don't start in with us, it might be overwhelming to catch up and watch all the videos to have a good shot at winning.
D. There are a few ways to go about narrowing down choices very easily...I ask for the sake of the fun of this tournament, shy away from something that will narrow results of what it could be from the start. Challenge yourselves!
E. Though there are rounds, that is the set date for the release of the next video. There is no deadline for guesses, but anything that has not been guessed on by the start of the final round is considered null and void.
F. There will be six rounds, each lasting three days. Each round, two videos will be released. Therefore, there are six new songs to guess each round.
G. In the event of a tie after the final round, the tournament will be extended in order to resolve the tie. In the extra rounds, only the tied individuals will guess at the new songs.
H. All song guesses only need to include the song title, unless there are more than one in the game. Please, be accurate when guessing so I don't have to guess at what your guess might be.

Status is awarded based on the number of correct answers you have given. The more you get correct, the further up you advance. Here is the breakdown:

Rank = [Number Correctly Guessed] Comments
15 = [1-4] Duh
14 = [5-8] Noob Guesser
13 = [9-12] FFR might be MySpace to you still
12 = [13-16] I'm convinced you play FFR
11 = [17-19] You get on every week or so to play your favorites
10 = [20-22] You've been around a variety of FFR files
09 = [23-25] Observant Player
08 = [26-27] Decent knowledge of files
07 = [28-29] Been on the site a while?
06 = [30-31] You get on daily to play
05 = [32] You've played most songs on FFR. Multiple times
04 = [33] You have 600+ FC's and no bf/gf
03 = [34] You whore the songs I happened to choose?
02 = [35] You have way too much free time
01 = [36] Stalker. Were you watching the whole thing through my window?

As a few of these videos are of songs that should be rather easy to guess, the beginning ranks will be bunched in groups. As the guessing gets into the more difficult songs, the rank is broken down more in order to provide an obvious set of winners. Ultimately, winners will be decided on an "amount of correct answers" basis. In the event of a looming tie, I will create a tiebreaker video of three songs with no hints. Guesses will be submitted and recieved in the same fashion as the normal rounds.

Final Prizes will not be determined until the near end of the last round due to possible contributions. Current breakdown goes as follows:
1st Place - 30,000
2nd Place - 25,000
3rd Place - 20,000
4th Place - 15,000
5th Place - 10,000
6th Place - 1

Total Pot: 100,001

Donors:
justin_ator - 100,001. . . of my 166,000 . . .

And also...I'm not asking for this by any means, but if someone with a bunch of credits wanted to donate, I would greatly appreciate it. I don't have a whole lot to work with. PM me if you have any interest in that or if you do send them, as I might not notice right away.

PS: The Bonus, available at the beginning of Round 4, is up for guessing for 10,000 Credits, not tournament advancement. You may post hints and discuss the bonus, and the bonus alone, in the thread. The downside to this is that only the first person to correctly guess the answer will receive the credits. You must PM me the answer to the Bonus, as with a typical video guess, but you are not limited to two guesses. If I feel you are excessively throwing out random guesses, I will give you fair warning before disqualifying you from the bonus song guessing.

At the end of each round I will update this with the current leaders and ranks.

14. psychoangel691
14. kjwkjw
14. One Winged Angel
15. Guest15937
15. ChessWizard
15. master q60
15. rushyrulz
15. x_lambourghini_x
00. rusty_spoons
00. SocoNhydro420
00. ~Zeta~
00. Ziergdsx18
00. bballa48
00. Plan_Bsk81127
00. BIGEZAY
00. 00Razor00
00. nois-or-e
00. megamon88
00. Tidus810
00. GHEZ119
00. Emithith
00. stavie33
__. Zageron
__. YOSHl
__. ScarletSky
__. Zekramcross

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spre...w2bFE&hl=en_US
Spreadsheet is now up and functioning, anyone can view it (No it won't give away the answers).


I hope you guys have fun with this, and good luck.
If you have questions, please feel free to ask me.

I hope this goes well, I put a lot of work and time into this.

[Sprite-]

Approved.

[rusty_spoons]

I like this one In please

[Zekramcross]

Ah Nice concept. I like guessing games so I'm in.

EDIT: By the way, Video 10 is backwards. Just a heads up.

[psychoangel691]

XD we used to do this in the house when it was me, AJ, Frankie and Eric.

In

[Guest15937]

Since I got the intro video's song pretty easily, I'm in.

[One Winged Angel]

at first I was like 'da fuc, I have absolutely no idea, better not join', but then I went through my levelranks and was like 'ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh'

in, even though every tournament I join I end up doing nothing lmao...hopefully that'll change since this'll require less effort on my part

[SocoNhydro420]

ill participate, sounds fun and i could use the credits :3

[One Winged Angel]

also I'm going to be a complete ****** and point out that it'll be kinda easy to get every single song right using some of the resources we have at our disposal on this site :/

[justin_ator]

OWA, I realize this, but I would ask that you guys take up the challenge and do it without using the easy ways to figure this out. This has the potential to be fun, but if you really wanna ruin it for yourself, you could. And I don't take any offense to you pointing that out.

Also, Zek, I know. =] In due time, you'll understand.

Edit: I'm foreseeing potential ties in the end, I'll work on a way to do the tiebreakers that eliminates some of the easiest ways to "cheat" on it.

[~Zeta~]

This is actually pretty cool. Definitely checking this out.

EDIT: Love the rankings.

[PlayTrumpet]

Originally Posted by One Winged Angel

also I'm going to be a complete ****** and point out that it'll be kinda easy to get every single song right using some of the resources we have at our disposal on this site :/

Hate to agree, but I agree. Concept still sounds very fun. ^_^ If I weren't so lazy I'd join.

[Zageron]

in sure

lol got the intro song

[master q60]

In

Also is video 10 upside-down because that chart will be mirrored???????

[rushyrulz]

so in lol

Quote me for spoiler on introduction song

[SocoNhydro420]

try to play each song on an offline engine, or play as not being logged in. that might help with the cheating

[justin_ator]

Soco, two things:

I did play on an offline engine.
All the videos are already made and up. They're all just set to private on YouTube. =] If I have to do extra songs for the tiebreakers, rest assured they will be done on an offline still.

[Ziergdsx18]

sounds fun lol, in.

[bballa48]

Cool, I'm in.

[justin_ator]

Update, I decided to make a slight change to the videos. I will only be showing

A PORTION

of each of the songs, that way song length cannot be used to limit your options. =]

That being said, it will not be a major change. You will still get the majority of the songs played, so it won't be like impossibly hard to guess them. It will just be enough to throw off those who would try to use song length. =]

(and no, I'm not going to cut the same amount out of them, nor will it be a percentage of the song. You won't be able to calculate the length. =])

And OWA, I would like to speak to you privately in my office for a second.

Originally Posted by master q60

Also is video 10 reversed because that chart will be mirrored???????

Smarty pants. =]