FFR’s 15th Official Tournament – Round 7
You can also check the 15th Official Tournament thread for more info.
As we move down from Top 8 to Top 5, things are starting to get spicier than some habanero-infused burritos! Mmm, burritos. With two prestigious music artists that have both seen their roots in FFR taking the helm (and people’s lives) in Division 7 and Division 8 this round, it’s anyone’s guess who will crack under the pressure, and who will persevere! Have a look at your weekly ‘choices of spice’ below:
Division 1/2:
Forgot Ya
Musician: Sobrem
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 2:02
Song Style: Acapella Musical
Difficulty: 63
Arrow Count: 879
Division 3:
Chapter II (Then)
Musician: Sufferer
Step Artist: Skayles
Song Length: 2:27
Song Style: Post-Hardcore Rock
Difficulty: 73
Arrow Count: 1521
Division 4:
Raid Ethnic
Musician: PeriTune
Step Artist: hi19hi19
Song Length: 1:51
Song Style: Ethnic
Difficulty: 84
Arrow Count: 1298
Division 5:
Boulafacet
Musician: Nightmare
Step Artist: Wiosna
Song Length: 1:59
Song Style: Broken Breakcore
Difficulty: 92
Arrow Count: 1509
Division 6:
DIST SQUAD
Musician: DJ Sharpnel
Step Artist: mi40
Song Length: 1:33
Song Style: Breakcore Speedcore
Difficulty: 97
Arrow Count: 1564
Division 7:
F.F.R ~FINAL FRONTIER RESOLUTION~
Musician: KURORAK
Step Artist: gold stinger & Ghost_Medley & Pizza69
Song Length: 2:42
Song Style: Glitch Rock
Difficulty: 106
Arrow Count: 2800
Division 8:
goTe EX
Musician: Frums
Step Artist: Deamerai
Song Length: 4:15
Song Style: Hybrid IDM
Difficulty: 117
Arrow Count: 3765
Extra Song:
Your Face When I Finally
Musician: Venetian Snares
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 6:09
Song Style: Glitch IDM
Difficulty: 83
Arrow Count: 3349
Two other updates for this week:
-Tanaka has had its difficulty changed from 97 to 96.
-More new musicians! Socials for them are below.
Sobrem – SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter | Twitch
PeriTune – Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube
- gold stinger, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
FFR’s 15th Official Tournament – Round 6
You can also check the 15th Official Tournament thread for more info.
It has been a crazy competitive week, with many people pushing for that top 8 in their division! We even have seen a couple of tie breakers What are you people doing? While writing this out, you all fix the Tie Breaker in D4, and start a Tie Breaker in D3.. This means even more content coming your way from the disparity of people getting the same score on the cutoff. Let’s wish them the best of luck with these new files for the week:
Division 2:
The Instinct
Musician: Mick Gordon
Step Artist: T-Force
Song Length: 2:25
Song Style: VG Rock
Difficulty: 53
Arrow Count: 886
Division 3:
Hopscotch
Musician: All Levels at Once
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 2:14
Song Style: Electropop
Difficulty: 69
Arrow Count: 1356
Division 4:
Hate Everyone
Musician: Pseudosilent
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 1:37
Song Style: Experimental Dance
Difficulty: 77
Arrow Count: 1014
Division 5:
The Everlasting Calamity That Shifts The Time – Space Continuum On A Nanosecondal Basis
Musician: ReeK
Step Artist: jh05013
Song Length: 2:23
Song Style: Symphonic Hybrid Mixture
Difficulty: 89
Arrow Count: 1720
Division 6:
Tanaka
Musician: Rissyuu feat. Choko
Step Artist: suicidaln00b
Song Length: 2:14
Song Style: 4th in Japan
Difficulty: 97
Arrow Count: 1717
Division 7:
Real Ultimate Power
Musician: DEV/NULL
Step Artist: Pizza69
Song Length: 2:03
Song Style: Digital Breakcore
Difficulty: 104
Arrow Count: 2060
Division 8:
eXXXcaliborg.Error
Musician: goreshit
Step Artist: Skayles
Song Length: 1:46
Song Style: Lolicore/Mashcore
Difficulty: 113
Arrow Count: 2566
Plus, alongside your normally released files for the Official Tournament divisions this week, we have some extra files for you all!
Extra File 1:
Bridge
Musician: DJ Sharpnel
Step Artist: mi40
Song Length: 0:47
Song Style: Drum’n Ditty
Difficulty: 59
Arrow Count: 368
Extra File 2:
Banana Seat Girl
Musician: Venetian Snares
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 2:15
Song Style: Broken Fusion
Difficulty: 84
Arrow Count: 1754
Extra File 3:
Hometown UFO
Musician: The Flashbulb
Step Artist: M0nkeyz
Song Length: 1:43
Song Style: Breakcore
Difficulty: 81
Arrow Count: 1263
And, we surprisingly have a Tiebreaker that needs to be resolved! A short-form of rules involved will be laid out here but will also be forwarded to DM’s of those affected: You will have 24 hours from this release, to obtain the best score you can on your file. It will not be recorded on the traditional leaderboards, please keep that in mind. If you wanna check the scores of people that you are in a tie breaker with, you’re gonna have to check the leaderboards for the song manually. The person with the lowest score at the end of the 24 hour period, will be eliminated. Got that jotted down? Alright, here’s your Tiebreaker file:
Tie Breaker (D3)
Color the Inorganic World
Musician: MisomyL
Step Artist: Gradiant
Song Length: 2:32
Song Style: REC_montage_until_21XXXX
Difficulty: 75
Arrow Count: 1468
Got some other updates for the week!
With the June/July 2022 batch closed, the Aug/Sept 2022 batch has opened. The Dump Batch is still open and will remain that way until August 31st at 11:59 PM server time.
Some difficulty changes happened. They are as follows:
- Schwerkraft (105 > 102)
- res extensa (111 > 112)
- Nisemono [Full Version] (99 > 101)
- Starrise Midnight (61 > 57)
- the nature of dying (83 > 85)
- The Last Step (83 > 86)
Last but not least here are the new musicians for this week’s release!
Mick Gordon – Home | Spotify | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram
All Levels at Once – Home | Spotify | Bandcamp | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
Pseudosilent – Bandcamp | SoundCloud
- gold stinger, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
FFR’s 15th Official Tournament – Round 5
You can also check the 15th Official Tournament thread for more info.
We are now rolling full steam ahead towards establishing the top 8 players for each division! Whether you are still in the race or have fallen out, this is bound to be one of the more excruciating, competitive rounds to-date. Many divisions have already secured their top 16 during the previous round, but all divisions will see their top 8 players by the end of this round! Check out the songs below that they will be fighting on:
Division 2:
ROCK IT
Musician: Tokyo Machine
Step Artist: Psychotik
Song Length: 2:44
Song Style: Electro House
Difficulty: 51
Arrow Count: 1022
Division 3:
Starrise Midnight
Musician: Aiel Eltlinde
Step Artist: hi19hi19
Song Length: 2:09
Song Style: Jazzy Piano Instrumental
Difficulty: 61
Arrow Count: 973
Division 4:
cat1 cat2 and cat3
Musician: Nekomimi Sampling
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 1:52
Song Style: Techno Pop
Difficulty: 71
Arrow Count: 1310
Division 5:
Keep Shredding, Little Man!
Musician: Jake Kaufman
Step Artist: Tru
Song Length: 3:25
Song Style: Funky Game Music
Difficulty: 85
Arrow Count: 2447
Division 6:
PUPA
Musician: Morimori Atsushi
Step Artist: bmah
Song Length: 2:06
Song Style: Hard Renaissance
Difficulty: 93
Arrow Count: 1690
Division 7:
Comatose State
Musician: Spire
Step Artist: Pizza69
Song Length: 2:11
Song Style: Breakcore
Difficulty: 101
Arrow Count: 1771
Division 8:
res extensa
Musician: adamthix
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Song Length: 2:25
Song Style: Techno
Difficulty: 111
Arrow Count: 3533
Extra Song:
Revenge (ReeK’s “Dude, What’s A Genre?” Remix)
Musician: ReeK
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 4:35
Song Style: Genre Mashup
Difficulty: 105
Arrow Count: 3844
We’ve also got some Skill Tokens this time around to appease some of the more skill-centric people looking to add a few unlocks to their collection!
Invenzione No. 3N&3R: Sonatina for a Dying Lord
Musician: pm04034
Step Artist: Psychotik
Song Length: 3:06
Song Style: Baroque Speedcore
Difficulty: 88
Arrow Count: 2494
Nisemono [Full Version]
Musician: Frums
Step Artist: Pizza69
Song Length: 6:08
Song Style: Experimentronica
Difficulty: 99
Arrow Count: 4136
Szamar Madar v2
Musician: Venetian Snares
Step Artist: Wiosna
Song Length: 2:21
Song Style: Symphonic Breakcore
Difficulty: 68
Arrow Count: 1469
Furthermore, you may notice that some Event Token songs have become public for everyone to play! We’re rotating out some of the older Event Tokens so as to not overwhelm new players with an ever-increasing participation requirement to unlock everything, and bring some of these great files locked behind closed doors! Check out the weekly release thread for more info.
And of course, here is your list of new artists for this week. Make sure to give them some love if you like the work they are putting out!
pm04034 – SoundCloud | Twitter | YouTube
ReeK – SoundCloud | Twitter
adamthix – BMS Page
Nekomimi Sampling – SoundCloud | Twitter
Aiel Eltlinde – SoundCloud | Twitter | Discogs
We hope you enjoy the slew of new songs for this week, we will see you next week!
- gold stinger, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
FFR’s 15th Official Tournament – Round 4
You can also check the 15th Official Tournament thread for more info
We’re closing in on the half-way point for the Official Tournament pretty darn quickly, and over half of players in the tournament have been eliminated to-date! Can you keep up with the increasing difficulties of these next few songs? Check them out below:
Division 2:
Mario Overworld (Super Mario Remix)
Musician: Smooth McGroove & Ben Briggs
Step Artist: Psychotik
Song Length: 2:23
Song Style: Acapella Game Remix
Difficulty: 50
Arrow Count: 912
Division 3:
NULCTRL
Musician: Silentroom
Step Artist: Velocity
Song Length: 2:27
Song Style: Twerk Bass
Difficulty: 60
Arrow Count: 1026
Division 4:
Shut Your Mouth
Musician: Attack Attack!
Step Artist: Skayles
Song Length: 2:44
Song Style: Electronicore
Difficulty: 72
Arrow Count: 1578
Division 5:
Evanescent
Musician: LeaF
Step Artist: Pizza69
Song Length: 2:08
Song Style: Festive IDM
Difficulty: 79
Arrow Count: 1426
Division 6:
Sapling
Musician: Blitz Lunar
Step Artist: Skayles
Song Length: 2:27
Song Style: Starry Chiptune
Difficulty: 91
Arrow Count: 1509
Division 7:
Boxel Adventure
Musician: 7mai
Step Artist: Velocity
Song Length: 2:03
Song Style: Energetic Chiptune
Difficulty: 99
Arrow Count: 1759
Division 8:
Neko Nadetai
Musician: YMCK
Step Artist: hi19hi19
Song Length: 1:53
Song Style: Techno Pop
Difficulty: 108
Arrow Count: 1920
Extra Song:
GOODBOUNCE
Musician: EBIMAYO
Step Artist: Mipha
Song Length: 2:10
Song Style: Gooddonk
Difficulty: 80
Arrow Count: 1774
We’ve also released the new Event Tokens that will be available at the end of this tournament, as well as the end of the side-event happening alongside the Official Tournament, the Revenge of the Lost! Apologies for the extra-long post!
Your Smile
Musician: litmus*
Step Artist: Tru
Song Length: 2:20
Song Style: Funk House & Complextro
Difficulty: 65
Arrow Count: 1186
Kokeshi Cat Medley
Musician: Ino
Step Artist: Velocity
Song Length: 2:42
Song Style: Techno Pop
Difficulty: 84
Arrow Count: 1836
Mope Mope
Musician: LeaF
Step Artist: Tru
Song Length: 1:52
Song Style: Eroom Music
Difficulty: 94
Arrow Count: 1066
GOD Of MADNESS
Musician: sHimaU
Step Artist: Ultimate Mike7
Song Length: 2:40
Song Style: Industrial Breakcore
Difficulty: 100
Arrow Count: 2085
gigadelic (Camellia’s “THE TERA” Remix) [10^12 Long ver.]
Musician: Camellia
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 5:31
Song Style: IIDX Remix
Difficulty: 0
Arrow Count: 4856
For those that have been eliminated from the Official Tournament, there is still an opportunity for you to win prizes. Check out our ongoing Revenge of the Lost event where you play files in the division below where you were placed in the OT. Read the rules carefully in the thread before participating and give it a shot if you can!
Quick reminder that the June/July 2022 batch will be closing soon on July 31st. Also, info on the new musicians for this week can be found below!
Smooth McGroove – Spotify | Bandcamp | YouTube | Twitch | Twitter | Facebook
7mai – SoundCloud | Bandcamp | Twitter
EBIMAYO – Spotify | SoundCloud | Bandcamp | YouTube | Twitter
- gold stinger, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
FFR’s 15th Official Tournament – Round 3
You can also check the 15th Official Tournament thread for more info.
The heat continues to turn up, as we enter our third week of FFR’s 15th Official Tournament! Almost half-way there, but out of the 300 people that are participating, already 122 of those have been eliminated. That’s over a third! We’ve begun to see some real interesting rivalries being born and dying just as fast, as well as some intense cutoff line battles sprawled throughout some brackets. Hopefully we’ll see even more of that, with this new set of songs for you all.
Division 2:
Kadinchey
Musician: Pogo
Step Artist: Psychotik
Song Length: 2:04
Song Style: Plunderphonics
Difficulty: 38
Arrow Count: 639
Division 3:
Rumors Of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Musician: Rise Against
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 2:54
Song Style: Hardcore Punk
Difficulty: 55
Arrow Count: 1163
Division 4:
Angel Wing
Musician: uma
Step Artist: jh05013
Song Length: 1:52
Song Style: Progressive Hardcore
Difficulty: 67
Arrow Count: 1147
Division 5:
The Friendly Wolf (Part 1)
Musician: Championanwar
Step Artist: Xtreme2252
Song Length: 3:34
Song Style: Ambient Breakcore
Difficulty: 75
Arrow Count: 1825
Division 6:
Micro Media Broth
Musician: Virt
Step Artist: Psychotik
Song Length: 3:02
Song Style: 8-bit
Difficulty: 88
Arrow Count: 2481
Division 7:
Apocaliptix
Musician: Juggernaut.
Step Artist: Psychotik
Song Length: 2:08
Song Style: Symphonic Hardcore
Difficulty: 93
Arrow Count: 1801
Division 8:
Schwerkraft
Musician: ROKINA
Step Artist: jh05013
Song Length: 2:02
Song Style: Astralcore
Difficulty: 103
Arrow Count: 2224
Extra Song:
Erase Me
Musician: Make Them Suffer
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 3:45
Song Style: Metalcore
Difficulty: 86
Arrow Count: 2364
Best of luck on these new files! We’re getting through some of the hardest, most competitive parts of the tournament, as divisions focus down to top 16 and top 8. Remember: If your division is fighting for top 16 and there is a tie, there will be a tiebreaker. Same with top 8.
Couple other notes for this week. The June/July 2022 batch will be closing in roughly two weeks on July 31st. We also have two three new musicians! You can find their social media accounts listed below:
Juggernaut. – Spotify | SoundCloud | Bandcamp | YouTube | Twitter
ROKINA – Home | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter
Make Them Suffer – Home | Spotify | SoundCloud | Twitter | Facebook
- gold stinger, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
FFR’s 15th Official Tournament – Round 2
You can also check the 15th Official Tournament thread for more info.
Quick Edit: We are well aware of the recent downtime experienced on Monday, July 11th going into Tuesday, July 12th. For this reason, we will be extending the current Round 2 until the end of Friday, June 15th. The next round will start on Saturday, June 16th overnight. Apologies for the recent downtime, if it affected your ability to submit scores for the tournament!~ Hopefully everything moves smoothly from here on out. – gold stinger
Hope you all are feeling some of the burn by the Official Tournament so far! We’ll be turning up the heat a bit more for you all that are still in the game. We’ve got a brand new roster of songs between easy and ruthless, so have a look! For those that have been eliminated, there will still be an opportunity to claim an event token! Just like during previous OTs there will be a ghosting event coming soon. We’ll post when this event has arrived, so keep an eye out!
Let’s get on with the Song Releases for this week! (Discussion for this week’s releases can be done in this thread.)
Division 1/2:
Last Summer
Musician: Tokyo Machine & Weird Genius ft. Lights
Step Artist: Psychotik
Song Length: 2:49
Song Style: EDM
Difficulty: 19
Arrow Count: 674
Division 3:
Dummy!
Musician: Toby Fox
Step Artist: Ultimate Mike7
Song Length: 2:28
Song Style: Game Music
Difficulty: 52
Arrow Count: 1030
Division 4:
One Big Beautiful Sound [Explicit]
Musician: Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards
Step Artist: Pizza69
Song Length: 3:28
Song Style: Big Band Jazz
Difficulty: 60
Arrow Count: 1174
Division 5:
GLAZ
Musician: Yunosuke
Step Artist: WirryWoo
Song Length: 2:31
Song Style: Hi-Tech
Difficulty: 70
Arrow Count: 1382
Division 6:
Janus
Musician: COMPOSER 3
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 2:13
Song Style: Jazz Funk Fusion
Difficulty: 86
Arrow Count: 1586
Division 7:
safe_state
Musician: Seo
Step Artist: Skayles
Song Length: 2:28
Song Style: Psychip DnB
Difficulty: 91
Arrow Count: 1820
Division 8:
UR+ MusicEater LV99
Musician: LeaF
Step Artist: Psychotik
Song Length: 3:16
Song Style: Breakcore
Difficulty: 101
Arrow Count: 3019
Extra Song:
CO5M1C R4ILR0AD
Musician: kanone
Step Artist: Psychotik
Song Length: 2:15
Song Style: Hi-NRG Tech Trance
Difficulty: 80
Arrow Count: 1558
Shout-out to our new musicians this week! Follow them at their social media links below:
Weird Genius – Spotify | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram
Lights – Spotify | Twitter | Instagram
Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards – Home | Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram
Yunosuke – Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram
COMPOSER 3 (Lokan x Landscaper) – SoundCloud (Collab URL) | SoundCloud (Lokan) | Twitter (Lokan)
Seo - SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter
- gold stinger, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
FFR’s 15th Official Tournament – Round 1
Hey everyone! Welcome to the start of FlashFlashRevolution’s 15th Official Tournament! Excited to see all of you active during the Round Previews the other night, and looking forward to all the great competition out there over the next two months! For those last-minute people looking to sign-up for the tournament, there’s still time. Reach out to gold stinger specifically before July 7th, and check the 15th Official Tournament thread for more info. If you didn’t catch the Round 1 Previews from last night, you can watch them on our YouTube Page! Both upscroll and downscroll are available from the same video.
Let’s get on with the Song Releases for this week!
Division 1/2:
Space Doggity
Musician: Jonathan Coulton
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 3:27
Difficulty: 19
Division 3:
Decadence
Musician: Disturbed
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 2:28
Difficulty: 49
Division 4:
A Tiny Spaceship’s Final Mission
Musician: FantomenK
Step Artist: Psychotik
Song Length: 2:41
Difficulty: 51
Division 5:
Walking the Streets of a Former Hell
Musician: S.S.H.
Step Artist: hi19hi19
Song Length: 3:34
Difficulty: 68
Division 6:
NOW’S YOUR CHANCE TO BE A [[BIG SHOT]] (gomotion RMX)
Musician: gomotion
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 2:22
Difficulty: 80
Division 7:
The Lady Is A Trump
Musician: Damjoy
Step Artist: jh05013
Song Length: 2:10
Difficulty: 91
Division 8:
Excuse My Rudeness, but Could You Please RIP? (t+pazolite Remix) [Explicit]
Musician: t+pazolite feat. Mori Calliope
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Song Length: 2:55
Difficulty: 98
Extra Song:
SHINE!!
Musician: DJ Sharpnel
Step Artist: Wiosna
Song Length: 4:27
Difficulty: 93
For Non-Veterans, you will be seeing 2 more songs released for you all today, on top of the tournament songs:
Lawn Wake IV (Black) v2
Musician: The Flashbulb
Step Artist: mi40
Song Length: 2:09
Difficulty: 91
Star of the COME ON!!
Musician: Frums
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 2:36
Difficulty: 98
Good luck to all participants, and may the best StepMan win!
A couple other happenings to mention. Season 4 has started today as well! For those that qualify, you can expect Season 3 (Summer) participation badges to show up on your profiles in the near future. With a new season comes new difficulty changes. You can find these changes on our spreadsheet.
-gold stinger, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 6/24/2022
Welcome to the last Song of The Week Release for June! This will also be the last song release before the 15th Official Tournament starts next week.
Before anything else, we want to thank everybody for their patience while the website was offline over the past few days. We experienced server hardware issues that have been resolved now. As you’ll notice below, we’ve added a third song release to this week to show our appreciation for this community!
As for other news, a new version of R^3 (1.4.4) has been released! You can find the download and the patch notes by clicking on the blue Download FFR button towards the top left of the website. (Here’s a direct link to that page as well.) Also, a final reminder that Season 3 ends and Season 4 begins next Friday on July 1st! The 15th Official tournament will be kicking off on July 1st as well! If you somehow haven’t signed up by now, you have one week left to do so.
The 2 veteran files we have for you today are:
Lawn Wake IV (Black) v2
Musician: The Flashbulb
Step Artist: mi40
Song Length: 2:09
Difficulty: 91
Star of the COME ON!!
Musician: Frums
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 2:36
Difficulty: 98
We also appreciate your patience as we experienced some downtime the past few days; there is also a public non-veteran release for today.
Path to Nowhere
Musician: The Ghost of 3.13
Step Artist: M0nkeyz
Song Length: 2:52
Difficulty: 93
And for Non-Veteran players, these previous songs have went public:
Amen Babylon
Musician: Shitmat
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 3:37
Difficulty: 86
Break
Musician: The Quick Brown Fox
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Song Length: 1:36
Difficulty: 88
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 6/17/2022
Welcome to another June Song Release and Weekly Update!
Thanks to Velocity, there’s been a new feature added within our batch system that will convert timestamps within a file. Specifically, this button will convert seconds to minutes/seconds and vice versa.
Other than that, there’s only two weeks left until the 15th Official Tournament and Season 4 begins! Get to practicing for the tournament if you haven’t already because we have 261 players signed up so far!
The 2 veteran files we have for you today are:
Amen Babylon
Musician: Shitmat
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 3:37
Difficulty: 86
Break
Musician: The Quick Brown Fox
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Song Length: 1:36
Difficulty: 88
And for Non-Veteran players, these songs have went public:
Super Charged
Musician: F-777
Step Artist: trumaestro
Song Length: 1:47
Difficulty: 64
Bliss
Musician: litmus*
Step Artist: bmah
Song Length: 1:48
Difficulty: 66
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers