18th Official Tournament + SotW 5/23/2025
Welcome to the start of our yearly tournament, and another SOTW release!
btw did you know signups are open?
It’s that time once again for another Official Tournament Post. Welcome to FlashFlashRevolution’s 18th 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 surprises 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 27th, 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 9th will see the lowest-scoring players eliminated, a new song released and another week to obtain scores. Survive 6 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 18th 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!
Following that up we’re back with some jumpstream stamina!
snows -Soshite Kiseki-
Musician: Jea
Step Artist: TheTrueXfish
Song Length: 4:05
Song Style: Trancecore
Note Count: 3837
Difficulty: 89
Enjoy!
- The Game Management Team and the Community Managers
Song of the Week 5/16/2025
We’re in the middle of May and we’re ramping up the difficulty! ositzxz369, Venetian Snares connoisseur, has provided us yet another “varied tech file” with another amusing name.
Poo Yourself Jason
Musician: Venetian Snares
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 4:35
Song Style: Jungle
Note Count: 3230
Difficulty: 90
Enjoy!
- The Game Management Team and the Community Managers
Mother’s Day Release 2025
Happy Mother’s Day!
Visiting Mom
Musician: Jake Kaufman
Step Artist: Tru
Song Length: 0:56
Song Style: 8-bit Sonatina
Note Count: 436
Difficulty: 47
Enjoy!
- The Game Management Team and the Community Managers
Song of the Week 5/9/2025
Welcome to the second May Song of the Week release! We’ll also be having another release on Mother’s Day, so be on the lookout for that.
COUNTING CARDS
Musician: Wolf & Bear
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 2:23
Song Style: Post-Hardcore Rock
Note Count: 1234
Difficulty: 60
Enjoy!
- The Game Management Team and the Community Managers
Song of the Week 5/2/2025
We’ve entered May and have some dense handstream to start off the month!
shule ya samaki
Musician: cybermiso
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 1:55
Song Style: Singeli
Note Count: 1894
Difficulty: 95
Enjoy!
- The Game Management Team and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week 4/25/2025
We hope you had a nice Easter! This is the last Songs of the Week release for April 2025. Starting this release, we’ll be doing one song per week for Songs of the Week (renaming to Song of the Week in May).
lolharp5000 v2*
Musician: CATSMASHER feat. SH*TSCYTHE
Step Artist: Deamerai
Song Length: 1:10
Song Style: Drum’n Bass
Note Count: 853
Difficulty: 76
*Full combo lolharp5000 with a score equivalent of 32 raw goods or better to unlock lolharp5000 v2.
Enjoy!
- The Game Management Team and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week 4/18/2025
We’re only a couple days from Easter! Here are some breaks for you from two musicians that have been prominent in early FFR days.
Someone
Musician: The Flashbulb
Step Artist: rushyrulz
Song Length: 2:31
Song Style: Ambient Breaks
Note Count: 733
Difficulty: 53
Red 13
Musician: ParagonX9
Step Artist: TheTrueXfish
Song Length: 2:45
Song Style: Tech Breaks
Note Count: 1794
Difficulty: 69
Enjoy!
- The Game Management Team and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week 4/11/2025
We’re pleased to have the first April Songs of the Week April start out with an easy release that also includes a skill token with diminishing returns! Don’t you love the contrast of the lengths? Only 18 times difference!
Four Chords PT. III: Diminishing Returns*
Musician: PUP
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 0:11
Song Style: Novelty
Note Count: 22
Difficulty: 9
Cloudley
Musician: Pogo
Step Artist: Deamerai
Song Length: 3:25
Song Style: Lo-Fi
Note Count: 818
Difficulty: 30
*Skill Token: fail Four Chords PT. II: Five Chords
Enjoy!
- The Game Management Team and the Community Managers
SOTW April 4th [draft]
April 3rd update: We hope you had a nice April Fools! The next Songs of the Week Release will be Friday, April 11th.
todo announce velocity retirement, ffr html5 web release, automated difficulty calc integration, and 7key + taiko support
todo new artist for tom cardy and kikuo
todo mention vs as the biggest collab in ffr history
Level Clear!
Musician: Tom Cardy
Step Artist: yellow bee
Song Length: 2:38
Song Style: What would you do?
Note Count: 2079
Difficulty: 88
Without Me
Musician: Eminem
Step Artist: owo
Song Length: 4:49
Song Style: Empty
Note Count: 3254
Difficulty: 89
Pixel Peeker Polka – faster
Musician: Kevin MacLeod
Step Artist: Fals
Song Length: 1:37
Song Style: Simple Polka
Note Count: 984
Difficulty: 90
Kara Kara Kara no Kara
Musician: Kikuo
Step Artist: xX Pizza 420/69 = 6.08 Xx
Song Length: 7:57
Song Style: Kara
Note Count: 5751
Difficulty: 96
V.S.
Musician: [V][S]
Step Artist: bluguerrilla & SulferDragon & Shxfted & ositzxz369 & mi40 & Deamerai & Wiosna & Brilliant Dynamite Neon & Velocity
Song Length: 6:00
Song Style: Torment
Note Count: 4174
Difficulty: 105
Enjoy!
- uwu
