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Happy Halloween!

Halloween is finally here! I don’t know about you all, but I love Halloween and I’m excited to bring you some extra releases this week to celebrate. We’ve got some spooky-themed files submitted by a few of our lovely simfile artists that I’m going to release through the day. Be sure to pop by the song thread and keep an eye out for any spon cons that may appear

Here are your first two songs:

Wicked Laboratory
Musician: BBBB
Step Artist: AutotelicBrown
Difficulty: 54
Song Length: 2:14

Cloak Steppin
Musician: Orange Dust
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Difficulty: 64
Song Length: 2:55

Two more!

The Great Pumpkin Tapes
Musician: The Flashbulb
Step Artist: Psychotik
Difficulty: TBD
Song Length: 1:59

Once Upon a Time in Transylvania
Musician: Virt
Step Artist: bmah
Difficulty: TBD
Song Length: 3:12

Last Two

Who’s the Spook
Musician: Orange Dust
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Difficulty: TBD
Song Length: 1:23

Lycanthrope
Musician: Dan Johansen
Step Artist: M0nkeyz
Difficulty: TBD
Song Length: 2:15

Enjoy!

psychoangel691

Songs of the Week 10/29/19 & Batch Reminder

Happy Tuesday everyone! I’m back with some more fresh files for you, but first I want to give a quick reminder that the Sept/Oct 2019 batch will be closing this Thursday. If you were planning on submitting anything please be sure to do so before it closes! For more info on the batch you can check out the thread here.

Without further ado, here’s this week’s songs:

Sea of Dreams
Musician: Idimoku
Step Artist: devonin
Difficulty: 19
Song Length: 1:36

Giants Kingdom
Musician: Dan Johansen
Step Artist: M0nkeyz
Difficulty: 45
Song Length: 3:50

Starry Fate
Musician: TiS
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Difficulty: 60
Song Length: 2:30

Shattered
Musician: Gurodoll
Step Artist: Aquellex
Difficulty: 91
Song Length: 2:50

Six Acid Strings
Musician: The Flashbulb
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Difficulty: 98
Song Length: 2:15

Enjoy!

- psychoangel691 & The Game Management Team

Songs of the Week 10/22/19

Woo! It’s Tuesday! That means more brand new songs for you to smash your keys to.

Check em out:

Tornado
Musician: Dan Johansen
Step Artist: M0nkeyz
Difficulty: 42
Song Length: 3:29

entering space
Musician: Paraoka
Step Artist: AutotelicBrown
Difficulty: 52
Song Length: 2:14

Illusions of Magic
Musician: Dan Johansen
Step Artist: M0nkeyz
Difficulty: 68
Song Length: 2:09

Universal Collapse
Musician: DM DOKURO
Step Artist: AutotelicBrown
Difficulty: 83
Song Length: 2:06

Finixe
Musician: Silentroom
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Difficulty: 98
Song Length: 2:33

Enjoy!

- psychoangel691 & The Game Management Team

Songs of the Week 10/15/19, Halloween Banner Voting & Difficulty Consultant Applications

Good afternoon everyone! I hope all our Canadian users had a wonderful Thanksgiving. The first thing I want to mention is that voting for the best Halloween banner is going on now. Be sure to stop by the thread here and show some love to your faves!
Next up, we’re taking applications to bring a few more difficulty consultants to the team. We’d prefer to bring on someone who spends a fair bit of time playing in the lower end of the files and someone in the mid-range, but all are welcome to apply. If you’d like to apply please respond to the questionnaire here.

And last but not least, here are your songs of the week:

Subterfuge Shuffle
Musician: Ryan Ike
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Difficulty: 28
Song Length: 1:09

The Oni Wars
Musician: Dan Johansen
Step Artist: M0nkeyz
Difficulty: 52
Song Length: 2:21

Before Cynthia
Musician: Cat333Pokemon
Step Artist: XelNya
Difficulty: 67
Song Length: 1:26

Hyper Weaboo Vodka Shots
Musician: kommisar
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Difficulty: 97
Song Length: 1:54

endleSSStation
Musician: Yuuyu
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Difficulty: 101
Song Length: 3:21

Enjoy!

- psychoangel691 & The Game Management Team

Songs of the Week 10/8/19

Hello hello everyone! It’s Tuesday, you know what that means? Time for your songs of the week! 5 new files are live now for your enjoyment.

Check them out:

Runs from the Rain
Musician: Terminal 11
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Difficulty: 28
Song Length: 1:32

Rainspark
Musician: Sanxion7
Step Artist: XelNya
Difficulty: 48
Song Length: 2:00

Fly of Beelzebub
Musician: DM DOKURO
Step Artist: AutotelicBrown
Difficulty: 79
Song Length: 2:36

No Time For Sleep
Musician: Terminal 11
Step Artist: Pizza69
Difficulty: 89
Song Length: 1:10

Longinus
Musician: xi
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Difficulty: 96
Song Length: 3:07

Don’t forget, there’s still time for you to submit a Halloween banner for our contest. Top 2 take home a token prize, so why not give it a go? You can find all the details in the thread here.

Enjoy!

- psychoangel691 & The Game Management Team

12th Official Tournament Wrap up and Halloween Banner Contest

Hey everyone! Before I get into the OT stuff going to throw a quick little blurb about our contest going on now. Looking for another way to win some tokens? Like being creative? Check out our Halloween Banner contest going on now! You can find all the details in the thread here!

Man, what an eight weeks it’s been. First I want to say thank you so much to everyone who signed up and participated in the OT. It was fun watching you all compete, and thanks for putting up with me as I implemented our new D8 for this OT. I also have to give a big shoutout to our simfile authors who helped push content to fill in the gaps we had and to give D8 some crazy stuff to play. I still can’t believe how far we’ve come in terms of skill since I first started playing this game. For me this was one of the best yet, getting to interact with you all during live streams was incredibly fun and I hope to find more ways to use them going forward. Anyway I’m talking too much, here are your top 3 in each division:

D8
1st SillyFangirl
2nd EtienneSM
3rd 11brendon

D7
1st beary605
2nd xXOpkillerXx
3rd Xeromus

D6
1st Deamerai
2nd Godnick
3rd Andrew WCY

D5
1st Casey2069
2nd Defluxit
3rd warriormag17

D4
1st storn42
2nd Antori
3rd TD_s3b0u

D3
1st Arere
2nd Thehidden0ne
3rd xylex

D2
1st Swedcxzaq
2nd !Mando!
3rd Oberon47

D1
1st 1Kick234
2nd SwedishMeatballs
3rd bobi28

Congratulations to all our winners! 1st place in each division be sure to get in touch with me with your shipping info to get your necklaces. Also, everyone here is entitled to tokens so please let me know which ones you’d like either in a PM, on discord Azlynn#4286 or in the tournament thread.

-psychoangel691

Songs of the Week 10/1/19

They’re back! That’s right, songs of the week have made their return. For the time being, we will be bringing you five new files per week. Believe it or not even after the Official Tournament we still have a fair bit left in the queue for you. We’ve also started judgements on the new batch as well, so you can expect lots of great content to be coming your way!

Here are your songs for this week:

Lavender Town [Fairytale Remix]
Musician: Rachel Macwhirter
Step Artist: XelNya
Difficulty: 4
Song Length: 1:21

If Trees Could Speak
Musician: The Flashbulb
Step Artist: Ghost_Medley
Difficulty: 45
Song Length: 1:46

Human World – Wandering Soul
Musician: DanJohansen
Step Artist: M0nkeyz
Difficulty: 63
Song Length: 1:46

L
Musician: Ice
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Difficulty: 73
Song Length: 2:06

Miserable Bastard
Musician: Terminal 11
Step Artist: Shxfted
Difficulty: 87
Song Length: 1:33

Also, it’s October 1st. Do you know what that means? Spoopy season has started! Keep an eye out for some Halloween themed events soon. For now though, if you’re looking for something to do other than play the game check out the werewolf game they’re still looking for a few more signups!

Enjoy!

- psychoangel691 & The Game Management Team

12th Official Tournament: Final Round

This is it – the moment that everyone has been waiting for: the finals of the 12th Official FFR OT. One more song for each division (hopefully…) to determine the best of the best remaining players and crown our champions. There is a lot to cover, so let’s get through it all.

	D1: before… As if Power Rocket wasn’t enough to batter the remaining D1 players and force their introduction into higher level content, before… by yassu takes things up another notch by featuring substantially longer and denser jumpstreams. AutotelicBrown‘s chart is packed not only loaded with these, some more complicated rhythms can be found while handling the heavy streams and layering.
	D2: Aublia Aublia brings back a familiar and loved artist to the world of FFR for the D2 finals – Onoken. D2′s final packs a serious punch delivered by experienced simfile artist, bmah, who quickly reminds you that a D2 file can be rather punishing. Opening out with some pretty dense jumpstreaming as far as D2 is concerned, the file quickly opens up the technicality flood gates and throws a wide arsenal of patterns, rhythms and structures that would give even seasoned players a run for their money.
	D3: -Ricochet Love- Waterflame’s -Ricochet Love- sets the stage for D3′s final three players with a chart by DarkZtar that targets players’ physical abilities and overall focus. Contending with broken jumpstream for a good majority of the chart, players get interrupted with a fairly severe spike in difficulty with some short jacks in between layering before demanding consistency once more, peaking at some 3-note 16th note patterns that all end in triples, making it an exhausting venture both physically and mentally.
	D4: Perihelion / Aphelion Another great entry to the Kurorak library on FFR, gameboy42690‘s chart for Perihelion / Aphelion tests cohesion and split-prevention with fairly fast and dense patterning. Opening up rather innocuously, the song’s pace starts reasonable, increasing to a quicker pace with the same patterns which introduces a seriously threatening opportunity for mindblocks and other punishing results.
	D5: Rainbow Night Parade D5′s players will square off against one another on Rainbow Night Parade, a streamy, dense and rather rigid chart by AutotelicBrown. Rainbow Night Parade brings the D5 players some heavy jumpstreaming with fairly uncomfortable patterning, transitioning into and out of bursts through fairly heavy layering. Trill-oriented patterning forces players to exert a bit more heavily to maintain control and this file is generally unrelenting once it gets going, adding a stamina component.
	D6: Cest What D6′s first Terminal 11 song will also be their last song in the tournament. Cest What, charted by DarkZtar, is… basically what one would expect for a high-level Terminal 11 file. Plentiful bursts of varying rhythms at extremely high speeds, difficult transitioning into and out of many and generally tough to score on. While it is a heavily back-loaded chart in terms of difficulty, the earlier parts of this chart are not to be slept on either. While the latter half requires an incredible amount of burst control and extremely dense reading, the earlier half brings out heavy split-handed patterning and numerous two-framer jacks for accenting.
	D7: Mishnu Terminal 11 continues a path of destruction on the remaining players in D7, with multiplayer moderator Deamerai throwing Mishnu into the fray. As a high-level Terminal 11 file, this file can likely be described in a similar manner as Cest What – numerous bursts at high speeds with difficult transitions that are brutally dense: however, Mishnu takes away the uncomfortable jacks from Cest What and replaces them with onslaughts of absolutely insane patterning that will cause even some of the best players in the game issues in terms of execution. At 3 minutes and 13 seconds, the number of areas where something can go wrong and destroy a score is fairly high.
	D8: Crystal Chamber Combustion (bike) There’s not much that can be said about this file. At the end of the day, players may argue about the difficulty of this chart compared to its predecessors, but let’s get something straight: Aquellex’s Crystal Chamber Combustion (bike), charted by AutotelicBrown is the most physically unrelenting file this game has that will receive a serious difficulty rating. Removing the opening notes from this chart and leaving in the break section at 33 seconds in still puts this file at an average of 25.4 NPS for the entirety of it, an unprecedented value for something that actually has legitimate patterns to be performed and isn’t an entire sequence of jumptrilling. 260 BPM dense jumpstreaming, handstreaming, split-handed jumptrilling, bursts/walls and a stamina requirement that literally only the world’s best can dream of – despite being only 92 seconds, including breaks… it has 2268 steps.

Bonus Songs

Koi No Sibou Flag
Musician: MOSAIC.WAV
Step Artist: hi19hi19
Difficulty: 96
Song Length: 3:14

Glitchcraft
Musician: Orange Dust
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Difficulty: 87
Song Length: 3:36

Neo-Bushido
Musician: DanJohansen
Step Artist: M0nkeyz
Difficulty: 71
Song Length: 4:26

Stay Alive With Style!
Musician: DanJohansen
Step Artist: M0nkeyz
Song Length: 1:38

Event Tokens
** Note: Difficulties have yet to be assigned to these tokens.

Gerudo Valley
Musician: Machinae Supremacy
Step Artist: gameboy42690
Song Length: 2:26

Reckless, but Spotless
Musician: t+pazolite
Step Artist: Gradiant & Charu
Song Length: 2:51

*Mario Trap will be taking the place of the originally announced 3rd event token.*

Best of luck to the remaining competitors!

- psychoangel691 & TC_Halogen

12th Official Tournament: Round 7

The semifinals round of the 12th Official FFR tournament is already upon us. It feels like we just started the thing, yet by this time two weeks from today, we will have crowned our divisional champions.

Let’s move on to our songs for the week.

	D1: Power Rocket Welcome to the big leagues, D1! A chart fit for the starting point two divisions up (a usual event by this point of the tournament), justin_ator‘s first appearance in this tournament with Dr. Ozi’s Power Rocket brings large quantities of mid-speed, low-density jumpstreaming. In between those long bouts of densities are some good mixups in rhythms, and even sparsely placed 32nd note mini-trills.
	D2: Rabbit And Warlord Our top 5 gets cut to 3 with Terrain Tilt’s Rabbit And Warlord, charted by Elekton. This glitchy, breakbeat-style song gets some fantastic attention to detail through Elekton’s simfiling prowess, who makes a solid chart that is quite technical in structure, featuring numerous difficult patterning structures that include a large variety of interlaced jacks, bursts, and just tough to contend with pattern collisions. Avoiding bad judgments in this chart will be a tall task for the remaining players.
	D3: Celestial Horizon [Another] hi19hi19 brings an additional version of Celestial Horizon into the game that has been aptly marked as an [Another] difficulty, and D3 gets to face off on it to determine the finalists of the tournament. Unlike the very clean counterpart chart produced by TheToaphster, hi19hi19 delivers a chart that takes the bursty approach, following all of the percussive flourishes. Despite having overall less layering compared to the previously in game chart, this version packs a serious punch in difficulty and requires a solid amount of control to be successful, making it the idea semi-final chart for D3.
	D4: Alien Lair Oh yes. Shnabubula for semi-finals, and a good one this is. MarioNintendo utilizes yet another free-form masterpiece from our favorite improvisational artist and delivers a chart with extreme technicality. Complicated rhythms, tough structures, heavy layering, jacks, polyrhythms – just about everything that would give most players trouble can be found in this chart, and players have to contend with over 3 minutes of it with minimal break.
	D5: LeaF Style Super Shredder 3 TheToaphster makes a third appearance in this tournament with LeaF Style Super Shredder 3. Compared to previous Division 5 songs, this runs at a substantial tempo – 260 BPM to be exact. While speedier players may fare better with some of the not-so-relevant-for-scoring sections of this chart, numerous extremely difficult, high-speed bursts and challenging pattern transitions will put a damper on that advantage relatively quickly.
	D6: Firmament Castle “velier” Likely a super popular file in Etterna circles, hi19hi19‘s chart for ueotan’s Firmament Castle Velier has one intent and one intent only: to drain your stamina to empty and force you to operate on fumes. Success in this file comes from… you guessed it: raw stamina. Individual sections of this song are likely trivial for the remainder of D6 players, but being able to sustain the structure from start to finish with basically no break is what will separate the finalists from the eliminations.
	D7: The Little Devil’s Heart Pounding Amusement Park Also likely a well-known file in the Etterna scene, YoshL and Gradiant’s Bursts of a Teitoku Kai chart for The Little Devil’s Heart Pounding Amusement Park makes an appearance to determine the top three players of D7, and boy is this file a rough one. Failing in any one skill-set at any given point will likely be the end of a solid run, as this chart has a number of extreme polyrhythmic stream sections, nasty colored bursts, trills, streams, minijacks… the works, and it is most certainly not shy to push players around with rude patterning transitions either.
	DIVISION 7 TIEBREAKER: Ra Variationen …well then. PriestREA and rCaliberGX couldn’t settle the score by round’s end. We’ll make you wish that you had, though. As a result for not beating one another in a conventional manner, you now get to face off on Yuuyu’s Ra Variationen, an absolute monster of a chart by the stepartist that you D7 players have all banded to love to hate: DarkZtar. Yeah, that’s right. You’re not allowed to have nice things.
	D8: Fireball In my dreams, Kayla and AJ come to me crying “help us cornman etienne is AAAing everything you’re our last hope to stop him” and I smile and pull out my big dick FIREBALL chart and slay D7 once and for all. Well, this isn’t D7. But slay away, cornman. Slay away.

On top of the songs released for this round of the tournament, four additional bonus songs have been released.

lightfoot
Musician: Cosmovibe
Step Artist: bmah
Difficulty: 33
Song Length: 2:19

Tope Doge
Musician: Maxo
Step Artist: PrawnSkunk
Difficulty: 68
Song Length: 2:29

Gate Openerz
Musician: DJ Sharpnel
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Difficulty: 89
Song Length: 2:26

GO BACK 2 RAVE (NINETYSIXTH BREAK REMIX)
Musician: DOT96
Step Artist: gameboy42690
Song Length: 2:07

Good luck, everyone!

- psychoangel691 & TC_Halogen