16th Official Tournament Batch Discussion Thread

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16th Official Tournament Batch

Hype!
We are once again asking for your best file submissions to potentially use in the upcoming Official Tournament.

File Requirements
FFR's basic submission rules and standard permission requirements apply.

File Suggestions
***The current largest need is for files in the 25-50 and 90+ difficulty ranges, and especially 100+.***
Files in these difficulty ranges will be more highly prioritised in judging.

Ideal tournament files have some or all of the following properties:
-Between ~1:30 and ~4:00 long
-Balanced difficulty curve - no one section has the majority of the file’s difficulty
-Good amount of pattern/skillset variety. Isn’t predominately a eg. “jack file” or “jumpstream file”
-Use good music to make a score grind more bearable!
-Use a song new to FFR (not a v2)

Submission Deadline
Submissions are open until 11:59 PM server time on April 30, 2023.

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Reminder that the Official Tournament 16 Batch will close at 11:59 PM server time on April 30 (just over two weeks from this post!)

As was stated on the front page post for the start of this season, all batch submissions will be temporarily closed after the OT batch is closed. This will allow the judge team to focus on judging potential OT content (first priority) and catching up on batch judgements in general (next priority).

No word yet on when submissions will re-open after that point. But we'll keep y'all informed!

[kommisar]

what if my song's 5:56

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Originally Posted by kommisar

what if my song's 5:56

You can still send whatever you like to the batch. (Assuming permission is good and all that)

Something this long likely won't be considered for tournament use.

[kommisar]

ait sent 4

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The 16th Official Tournament Batch is now closed. Once again, the FFR community has risen to the challenge of ensuring our flagship event will offer the best possible content for every division in every round. On behalf of all FFR staff, a sincere thank you for all 125 of your submissions!

All simfile submissions are now closed for the time being while we work through the backlog awaiting judgement.

FFR’s simfile judgements will look slightly different going forward. We have a lot of files to look at, and we want to be able to re-open submissions as soon as possible. To achieve these goals, the following will take place: (Also posted to the submission rules thread)

Judgements will be structured a lot more like those done for the Dump Batch last year. Which is to say, judges will no longer be expected to write an in-depth technical review for each file.
There will be more generalized notes written rather than giving timestamps and listing individual suggestions. Judges will instead write a minimum of 2-3 sentences for each chart that details their rating justification.

All other factors of the judge system will remain the same. (All ratings x/10, Two judges per file, Third judge policy etc)

This judgement system will remain in effect for all files sent to FFR until further notice.

Judges will now be assigned sets of files according to this priority:
1. Files in the OT Batch highly rated for tournament viability by the OT Planning Committee AND are in the most needed difficulty ranges (Roughly 25-60 and 100+)
2. Other files in the OT Batch highly rated for tournament viability by the OT Planning Committee
3. Return to regular batch files (Continue working through Aug/Sept 2022 batch)

There will still be a few judge note sets posted that were assigned before the OT Batch closed, but we’ll start getting through OT Batch files with this new judge style very soon!