TC_Halogen's Keysmash Refresher Tournament

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Keysmash Refresher tournament. Tournament activity has been rather sparse lately; with the announcement of the most recent Official Tournament batch being open and ready to go, I figured it’d be a fantastic opportunity to get everyone’s competitive gears rolling. Everyone needs a good refresher, and this is the chance to do it.

Scoring and Eliminations/Details
This tournament will be scored using FFR’s raw scoring system, and will be played entirely with official FFR files (no custom engines). Unlike traditional user tournaments on FFR, this tournament will be managed and run with the Tournament Dashboard; as a result, screenshots will not be required to obtain a score for a given round. However, it is highly recommended to save replays in the event of a technical issue involving score recording. If a score does not publish to the dashboard and a player does not possess a saved replay, it will not be validated.

The tournament will consist of eight rounds, starting at minimal difficulty for each division and will gradient upward as the tournament progresses. At the end of every round, eliminations will occur. Those who do not submit for a round will receive a score of negative infinity on their song. If multiple people have a score for negative infinity on any round, they will be placed into a random number generator to determine eliminations.

Divisions
The plan is to have 7 divisions for this tournament. However, if division sizes prove to be too small, then the number of divisions will shrink and the scaling of song difficulties/player placements in the given division will be scaled accordingly.

I will be basing decisions off of leaderboard rank/placement, individual level ranks, recent gameplays, known presence in other rhythm games, and off of all players within the tournament as a whole. Do not discuss incorrect divisional placements in the thread. Instead, private message me on FFR or send me a message on Discord -- I can be found on the FFR public discord, and I am open to direct messages from anyone.

Rules/Information
Sign-ups will be open until February 5th, 9:59 PM server time. The tournament will begin on February 7th, 9:59 PM server time. Rounds will be three days long unless noted otherwise.

1.) You must have a minimum of 250 games on your FFR account, spanning over at least 75 fully played songs, with an account age of at least 0.1 years. This is not only to ensure that alternate accounts don't raid the tournament, but also to ensure that I can make a proper placement based off of your level ranks. SIGN UP WITH YOUR MAIN ACCOUNT, or tell me the name of your main account if you're signing up on a less known account. I will contact a moderator if I think you're sharing an IP address of a well known account. If you enter using an alternate account without making a mention of it, you will be removed and will not be allowed in under any account.

2.) NO CHEATING. If at any point in the tournament I feel like you have used/abused any loophole, exploited any particular rule, played on someone else's account/had someone else play on your account, or have used other means to increase your scores, I will contact the appropriate staff to verify your gameplays. I reserve the right to request video proof for any user at any time.

3.) Be respectful to all other competitors in this tournament. Arguments will NOT be tolerated, and can result in immediate removal in the tournament.

4.) If you fail to submit for a prize round while still in the tournament, you will not receive your prize, and your prize will be passed down to the next place down! Top 5 in every division receives a prize.

Prizes/Donations/Participants

Donations are always greatly appreciated. I’m going to kick off the tournament with 250,000 credits; send all donations to TC_Halogen.

Starting Pot: 250,000
Matthias: 500,000
TheToaphster: 250,000
Jasperr05: 150,000
WSCB: 125,000
mkxc3: 123,456
kjwkjw: 100,000
jose656: 100,000
Andrew WCY: 96,950
Ultimate Mike7: 50,007
Thehidden0ne: 32,075
DDR_Anna: 25,252
Arere: 25,000
laserguyman: 15,000
stepmaniasamurai: 7,500
AGN_Minifreak: 4,700
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Total Pot: 1,854,940

Participants

1. _Fluttershy_
2. -paexaea-
3. !Mando!
4. 3lijah
5. AGN_MiniFreak
6. AlphaPanda721
7. AMD
8. Andrew WCY
9. Araket
10. Arere
11. awein999
12. Azhina
13. basicdrummerman
14. benny58624
15. Blackskull305
16. Blondeybear
17. Bolth mannn
18. Bonzo998
19. Callaharry2006
20. CubeyThePenguin
21. danredge
22. DDR_Anna
23. Deamerai
24. devonin
25. DissonantMuse
26. Durvin
27. EppuJoloZ
28. f lee
29. FirstMaple8
30. Godnick
31. gold stinger
32. Gradiant
33. hazard28
34. Jasperr05
35. Jayden1234
36. JibsterGamez
37. kiri72
38. kjwkjw
39. klimtkiller
40. kmay
41. Knerves
42. laserguyman
43. LeKrispyKreme
44. Magic_V2
45. MarcusHawkins
46. master q60
47. Matthia
48. MixMasterLar
49. mkxc3
50. Moria
51. MrMan902
52. MyNameIsNothing
53. NeoMaxx69
54. niope
55. Oberon47
56. One Winged Angel
57. OreoBenShapiro
58. ositzxz369
59. PhantomPuppy
60. Pizza69
61. Psychotik
62. ralsei
63. RenegadeLucien
64. revolutionomega
65. s1rnight
66. Sanjixcon
67. ScottishFFR
68. Seoulslayer
69. sevinon
70. Shatteredpixel
71. SpeedLF
72. SputnikOwnz
73. stepmaniasamurai
74. storn42
75. SubaruPoptart
76. Swedcxzaq
77. The_IL_Guy
78. Thehidden0ne
79. TheLegendofPie
80. TheSaxRunner05
81. TheToaphster
82. Twiznitch
83. Ultimate Mike7
84. ULTIMEGA
85. URL
86. VelVey
87. Vulminous
88. Walrusizer
89. XillareX
90. Zoobin4
91. ZyphiNiko

Interested in joining? Click the signup link! (disregard the "Official FFR Tournament" nomenclature)