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17th Official Tournament + Derustathon + SotW 5/25/2024

Welcome to a fully packed week, featuring the signups of OT17, the Derustathon event, and SOTW release during AN 2024!

btw did you know signups are open?

It’s that time once again for another Official Official Tournament Post. Welcome to FlashFlashRevolution’s 17th Official Tournament. As always, get ready for intense elimination competition featuring an extraordinary lineup of the year’s most mind-blowing songs yet, this time with a few suprises along the way.

Want to sign-up for it? Click below, can’t miss it.

It’s that simple.

To those that might be firstcomers, or have never participated or watched FlashFlashRevolution’s Official Tournaments in the past, what is it?

The Official Tournament is a once-per-year event, where we call to arms all rhythm gaming 4-key players together to test their mettle and accuracy against one another in one of the oldest birthed rhythm games on the internet, in the traditional left, down, up and right arrows that ignited our love for rhythm games, and this website! It’s been over 20 years since the launch of FlashFlashRevolution, and our love for rhythm games expanded since then on how we play them! No matter what kind of 4 keys are pressed nowadays, FFR has grown to accommodate, and encourage anyone with the ability to hit keys fast, to sign-up.

Starting June 28th, participants will be divided into 7 brackets based on skill, and will be given a week to earn the highest possible score for the host-selected song in their respective division. Every Friday between then and August 23rd will see the lowest-scoring players eliminated, a new song released and another week to obtain scores. Survive 8 weeks, and be crowned king of your division! All songs/charts/maps are brand new, curated by some of the best Stepauthors in 4-key, and drafted specifically for this Official Tournament.

If you wish to check out more about the 17th Official Tournament, we have a Forum Thread dedicated for discussion around and during the tournament. Also, we have a Discord that has 1000′s of players talking every week! If you want to get a heads-up on your song every week, we also have OfficialFFR broadcasting on Twitch every Thursday night before songs go out! We hope to see you there, whether you laugh in excitement, or pale in fear of the songs to come!

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From the events team we have the second iteration of the now yearly Derustaton, a bingo-style style event where you can complete challenges on the board to earn prizes and warm yourself up in time for the OT to start!

You can head over to the event thread by clicking the banner above or here.

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Rounding of the week, we have two new musicians for our releases this week.

SHIMASHO!!!!!!!
Musician: Temma
Step Artist: Deamerai
Song Length: 1:34
Song Style: Kawaii Trap Breaks
Note Count: 1444
Difficulty: 92

Temma – SoundCloud | Bandcamp | Twitter

Mori032Derevo230Mori
Musician: Ancient Origin
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 2:07
Song Style: Breakcore
Note Count: 1375
Difficulty: 90

Ancient Origin – Spotify | SoundCloud | Bandcamp | YouTube | Instagram | Twitter

Enjoy!

- The Game Management Team and the Community Managers

Songs of the Week 5/18/2024

We’re a bit after the middle of May and are back with another Songs of the Week Release with yet another skill token unlock!

Glasses
Musician: Jonathan Coulton
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 2:41
Song Style: Pop Rock
Note Count: 773
Difficulty: 31

The Pizza Story*
Musician: MarioNintendo
Step Artist: MarioNintendo
Song Length: 1:43
Song Style: Rap
Note Count: 485
Difficulty: 38

*Pass “Pointless Fast Rap” to unlock The Pizza Story.

Enjoy!

- The Game Management Team and the Community Managers

Songs of the Week 5/11/2024

For this SOTW Release, we’ve got a new skill token and two stepcharts from CRD music artists!

Dis Dancehall Ting Is Better Than That T.V. Ting Tony
Musician: Shitmat
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 4:31
Song Style: Jungle
Note Count: 3149
Difficulty: 87

Nomina Nuda Tenemus [Oni]*
Musician: Bong-Ra
Step Artist: Deamerai
Song Length: 4:44
Song Style: Sadistic Breakcore
Note Count: 3761
Difficulty: 98

*Full combo Nomina Nuda Tenemus [Heavy] to unlock Nomina Nuda Tenemus [Oni].

Enjoy!

- The Game Management Team and the Community Managers

Songs of the Week 5/4/2024

Hello and welcome to the first Songs of the Week Release of May 2024 with two new musicians! We’ve got a Silly release (literally), with the other chart having quite the silly title.

pov YOU (cat) havent been fed for a full 49 seconds
Musician: AZALI
Step Artist: Velocity
Song Length: 1:02
Song Style: Symphonic Sadness
Note Count: 140
Difficulty: 5

AZALI – Spotify | Bandcamp | YouTube

Silly
Musician: basicdrummerman
Step Artist: basicdrummerman
Song Length: 0:47
Song Style: Instrumental
Note Count: 192
Difficulty: 8

basicdrummerman – FFR

Enjoy!

- The Game Management Team and the Community Managers

Songs of the Week 4/27/2024

Welcome to the last Songs of the Week release of April! We’ve got two files clocking in at the 4 minute range with plenty of colors.

New Staff!
With applications closed, we’re happy to announce that two new difficulty consultants have joined our team this week. Please welcome beeeboopbop and NotSpiralingEnough!

Also putting out a final reminder that the 17th Official Tournament batch will be closing on April 30th. The OT17 Bounty Batch is still open, and any remaining bounty slots can be found here.

caprice for if
Musician: Frums
Step Artist: M0nkeyz
Song Length: 4:49
Song Style: Digital Anthem
Note Count: 3264
Difficulty: 86

&nbsp (Digital Rengoku)*
Musician: Reizoko Cj
Step Artist: XtraFestive
Song Length: 4:01
Song Style: Minimal
Note Count: 2190
Difficulty: 94

*This song displays as nbsp (Digital Rengoku) ingame.

Enjoy!

- The Game Management Team and the Community Managers

Songs of the Week 4/20/2024

Happy 4/20! We’ve got an easier release today that you can blaze through. The piano is pretty fire. 🔥

Before The Story
Musician: Toby Fox
Step Artist: Ultimate Mike7
Song Length: 1:30
Song Style: Orchestral/Game Music
Note Count: 187
Difficulty: 8

Almost Happy
Musician: Pogo
Step Artist: Deamerai
Song Length: 1:33
Song Style: Nostalgic Piano Solo
Note Count: 217
Difficulty: 10

Enjoy!

- The Game Management Team and the Community Managers

Songs of the Week 4/13/2024

We’re around halfway through April and we’ve got a rockin’ release for you today! There are plenty of jump minijacks for you this time around.

A quick reminder for our simfile authors that the 17th Official Tournament batch will be closing in about two weeks! Also, the OT17 Bounty Batch still has some slots to fill, and you can check out which bounties are available here.

Chapter IV (Chair)
Musician: Sufferer
Step Artist: Pizza69
Song Length: 3:24
Song Style: Post-Hardcore Rock
Note Count: 1946
Difficulty: 77

Cull [Oni]*
Musician: Pentakill
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 2:41
Song Style: Heavy Metal
Note Count: 1708
Difficulty: 98

*The original Cull ingame is now Cull [Heavy].

Enjoy!

- The Game Management Team and the Community Managers

Songs of the Week 4/6/2024

Welcome to the first Songs of the Week Release for April 2024! We have one new musician today, though it’s more in an official sense.

Release a little bit earlier than usual due to a rare coincidence of the Game Management team being all sick at the same time.

New Season
Season 11 began on April 1st, and with the new season we have our usual difficulty changes that have been in the pipeline. To see what has changed, take a look at our full list here!

On the topic of difficulty changes, our Difficulty Consultant team is looking to add a member or two! If you’d like to apply, use the form found here. Applications will be open until 11:59 PM server time on April 18th.

Flames!
Musician: Ph0ton
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 4:24
Song Style: Swing Pop
Note Count: 2413
Difficulty: 69

Ph0ton – Home | Bandcamp | YouTube | Instagram | Twitter

*For those that were around for last year’s April Fools’ day, a version of this file was temporarily released. We did not plug the musician that time around, so we’re giving them the proper welcome for this release.

Dragon Whips His Tail
Musician: The Quick Brown Fox
Step Artist: Velocity
Song Length: 1:44
Song Style: Speedcore
Note Count: 1429
Difficulty: 80

Enjoy, and stay safe out there people!

- The (sick) Game Management Team and the Community Managers

Songs of the Week 3/30/2024

Hello again, here is the last song release for March with two new musicians this time around! We also hope you all have a great Easter

Latest News
The Blazing 8′s Blast-Off tournament has started up for those that are participating, or for those that just want to follow the matches. Other than that, Season 10 is coming to a close in a couple days. Get that seasonal equiv before Season 11 starts on April 1st!

Feel The Difficulty Flow Through You
Musician: foxfire667
Step Artist: Deamerai
Song Length: 2:14
Song Style: Music Lesson
Note Count: 1406
Difficulty: 91

foxfire667 – FFR | Twitch | YouTube

Revenge
Musician: Chris Nordgren
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 4:11
Song Style: VG Metal
Note Count: 3043
Difficulty: 82

Chris Nordgren – ArtStation | Twitter

Enjoy!

- The Game Management Team and the Community Managers