Get Savvy. Mandy Too.
Pop duo Savvy & Mandy bring an exuberant burst of tween energy to the current music scene. Hailing from southern California, sisters Savvy, age 14, and Mandy, age 12, sing catchy guitar pop that features songs about sun, summer and ‘tween living. Their first single “Waiting For The Heartbreak†was featured on the MTV series Newport Harbor and also landed them in the top 25 of the Top 30 Radio Disney Countdown. The girls are currently recording their debut release for Firm Music due later this year. In the meantime with a string of shows already under their belt, including opening for Drake Bell, this summer they’ll be touring the Midwest so be on the lookout!
Play the Savvy & Mandy widget on their MySpace. Or on FFR.
-Tass
Gameplay Competition – Story #3
Final Results:
| 1. | Izzy | scored 1,111,111,110 points in 2,252 games today. | -0 |
| 2. | XUioX | scored 1,090,210,010 points in 1,545 games today. | -20,901,100 |
| 3. | [TeRa] | scored 1,010,010,335 points in 1,256 games today. | -80,199,675 |
| 4. | Adamaja456 | scored 1,001,875,555 points in 811 games today. | -8,134,780 |
| 5. | StoleaSanta | scored 823,502,330 points in 1,382 games today. | -178,373,225 |
Hey Everyone! LD here… Tass’s monitor is currently broken, so I thought I would bring you a mid-day update of our gameplay competition!
The competition is fierce and got started right at midnight central time! Right now, Izzy is in the lead with 706,804,885 points, spread across 1,200 games. Followed closely by XUioX with 648,165,090 points, and [TeRa] in third with 560,590,270 points. It’s still anybodies game as there is 12 hours left to compete. Here’s the rest of the top 15:
| 1. | Izzy | scored 726,726,865 points in 1,245 games today. | -0 |
| 2. | XUioX | scored 671,473,840 points in 909 games today. | -55,253,025 |
| 3. | [TeRa] | scored 580,180,165 points in 621 games today. | -91,293,675 |
| 4. | Adamaja456 | scored 571,667,400 points in 546 games today. | -8,512,765 |
| 5. | obsequious313 | scored 522,331,135 points in 430 games today. | -49,336,265 |
| 6. | GG_Guru | scored 401,502,530 points in 429 games today. | -120,828,605 |
| 7. | Ice wolf | scored 371,575,060 points in 412 games today. | -29,927,470 |
| 8. | EnR | scored 329,291,800 points in 664 games today. | -42,283,260 |
| 9. | nitrocorp | scored 319,163,205 points in 1,353 games today. | -10,128,595 |
| 10. | vvav | scored 311,318,645 points in 257 games today. | -7,844,560 |
| 11. | Alchemy_God1 | scored 276,784,350 points in 362 games today. | -34,534,295 |
| 12. | a_dumple | scored 237,582,565 points in 284 games today. | -39,201,785 |
| 13. | StoleaSanta | scored 232,577,070 points in 388 games today. | -5,005,495 |
| 14. | blackjack2300 | scored 227,464,920 points in 475 games today. | -5,112,150 |
| 15. | Nickels000 | scored 220,244,190 points in 261 games today. | -7,220,730 |
Remember, you’re playing for several subscription prizes, and an FFR t-shirt! Keep playing, and you could win too! Keep an eye on the stats page to see who is currently in the lead.
Keep Tappin’!
-LD
Gameplay Competition – Story #2
EDIT: As per a request that I like… IF someone gets 1 billion during the competition, I’ll reward that user with vROFL. -Tass
Just another reminder that the gameplay competition will begin in roughly 11 hours from the posting of this story. If you want to discuss the goings on of this competition, do so in this thread.
It seems many users are confused by varying time zones, so let me give a few different ones for the starting time:
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Gameplay Competition!
Clear your schedules and get your ice packs ready! This Saturday, we’ll be running a 24 hour gamewhoring competition. If you check the daily stats page, you’ll see that nobody has gotten over 400,000,000 grand total score in months. I feel that that is unacceptable. So this contest is my way of forcing/rewarding the brave men or women who dare to try to tackle 24 hours of FFR.
Plenty of notice so that everyone can clear their schedules and plan out a strategy. The competition will last from 12:01am CST until 11:59pm CST on Saturday (that’s when the daily scores re-set every day). Highest grand total score wins!
1st place will win an FFR T-Shirt and a 1 year subscription. 2nd place will get a 1 year subscription. 3rd place will get a 6 month subscription. 4th and 5th places will each get a 3 month subscription.
Lastly… anyone who cheats (and you will be caught) will be castrated. Even if you’re female.
-Tass
Spontaneous Contest #1500000
EDIT: It’s Over! Our winner is B3and0n with a guess of 2415. The actual number was 2444. Congrats!
I’m thinking of a random number (courtesy of random.org) between 1 and 100,000. Closest person to the actual number will get a 6 month subscription. 1 guess per person. Any attempts to be cute to circumvent that rule will result in the perpetrator being shot immediately.
You have from now until 10:00pm EST to come up with your guess. Post it in the comments of this news story.
Also, I’ve been told that Synth will likely have his own message to everyone in regards to 1.5 million…Â so stay tuned for that as well.
-Tass
One Point Five MILLION!!!!!!!
I wanted to have some Synthlight-esque post for you guys for us hitting 1.5 million members, but clearly I wouldn’t be able to do it properly. Instead, lets reflect back on some past milestones and look forward to 1.5 million more members as we continue to plow ahead with around 1000-1500 new users each and every day.
Feb 10th, 2005: 500,000 Members (And one amazingly awesome plaque!)
Oct 10th, 2006: 1,000,000 Members
And now, on May 17th, 2008, we want to congratulate xxcheerxbabyxx as our 1.5 millionth member. I want to personally thank each and every one of you guys and gals for making the past 5 years the best years of my life, and I can’t wait to keep making new stories like this one down the road.
Oh yea…  I’ll come up with some kind of contest to run for later this evening. So stay tuned. OMFG CONTEST.
-Tass
Lucky 999 In This Edition Of “Tass Is Bored, EVERYONE Wins!”
So, some people have been bugging me to release some of the old widget-only files onto FFR. But, like with anything, I need a good excuse. I figured, I would add a few of them in conjunction with the 1000th levelID on FFR… but 1000 is so cliche. I was a bit bored this morning, so I figured I would add some levels to FFR. LevelIDs 996-999. And since 999 gets no love, we’re going to celebrate 999 with 4 public releases of widget-only files.
New public releases:
-Power by ZeroFuser. Our 1st song by ZeroFuser since Gradeus, about 3 years ago! Stepfile is by hi19hi19… and it is a doozy! Definitely the new hardest file in FFR. You can find it in the upper left hand corner of page 1 of Dance
-What’s What is a cool dance track with some hip-hop undertones by Japanese artist Yu. Stepfile is by bmah and is an 8. You can find it in the upper left hand corner of page 1 of Dance2.
-Get Um Up by Army of Freshmen. A fairly typical modern rock song, Get Um Up will be making you get your hands up… which makes playing the file hard. Rated a 6. Found in the upper left hand corner of page 1 of Rock. File by bluguerrilla.
-Outside the Skies is our first musical composition by stepfile artist Stargroup100. Stepfile is by behanjc. The song is quite melodic. I rated it a 7 for the 48ths and the long jumpstream, albeit at a low BPM. You can find it in the upper left hand corner of page 1 of Misc.
Nice Guys DO Finish First!
Nice Guys Finish First is really just one guy named Russ. He creates music that blends Powerpop with Eurodance and Electronica. All of his music is positive and fun and great to dance to. It can cheer up just about any bad day! Nice Guys Finish First’s debut full-length is now out on iTunes and AmazonMP3.
The NGFF widget will be live on his MySpace soon, and is currently playable on FFR. Play the Nice Guys Finish First widget!
-Tass
Cinco de Mayo!
So, any excuse to clear the queue up a bit, right? Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a song that related to Mexico or the number 5 or May. So, I decided to go with Endless Altercation. We’ll say that Cinco de Mayo ended that altercation. Whatever… it’s a stretch, and you guys don’t care anyway.
Currently located in the top of page 1 of Dance2, Endless Altercation is a song by our own KgZ. The stepfile is a lot of 16th jump-triplets and jumpstream. Not too fast though, so it’s rated a 9. It is also the first file in-game by smartdude1212!
Songs that came out this week: Metal Gear Solid Piano Mix by RaustBlackDragon. Stepfile by hi19hi19. Easy and melodic 4-footer, currently in Funk… will soon be in Arcade. Say It Right (Sanxion7 mix) by Sanxion7 (original song by Nelly Furtado). Stepfile by Eastsideman09. Straight-forward 8-footer, also currently in Funk, likely move soon to Dance2.
-Tass
