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honestly the D7 file sounds like it's missing herbie samples
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Wouldn't it be better for D3's final file not to use a lot of the same patterns and rhythms as the previous round? I don't have a horse in this at all but it seems prone to bias.
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very nice venetian snares going on here, you have rekindled my flame for aaron funk, the master of scary spooky sounds seeping silently through the woods
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this sounds about right
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how can you hate this man and his music
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I have to agree with mi40, the cat makes pretty good music
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apologies for failing to explain that it's not the music itself that i was referring to. matter of fact VS has amazing music. a lot of it is in my phone when i blast it while i drive.
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Round 7 D3 Song must be a 72/73 0_0 i don't have enough stamina to do that last 17 nps stream.... Good Job to all the D3 they are doing good.
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Hey D2, hope you enjoy your finals file :). yall have really gone ham throughout the tourney so hopefully you'll find the last file somewhat fun/interesting as a reward for all that grinding. And if not, hey, at least the song's pretty neat. good luck!
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Oh well... I guess I am gonna try to randomly get good at jumpstreams in a week... It was a nice run and I am happy with getting top 3! EDIT: rewatched the preview and I appreciate that there a little jacks thrown in here and there lol EDIT #2: not trynna bring down the file and say its bad. It's awesome. it just plays into my worst skillset so I kinda just have no chance this round lol. |
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D2's final song is great and the chart is also great. Props VisD!
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@Zeldagurlfan1 @OcarinaBoi (D2) @Psycast @Nomstein @The~J~MaXx @Poison- @Zenith @bojii congrats on the ramen get!
Y'all have from now until 1 week after tournament close to get ahold of me here or on discord to get details squared away for your noods |
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If I win D7, I will record myself singing Judgment from Yakuza 0.
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Seems awful quiet in here for the finals. Almost...too quiet *shifty eyes*
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I am really hoping that there will be some last minute underdog performances. It will spice the story up well haha. |
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Tiebreaker in the finals pls? ;)
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Anyone else unable to load Benson and Hedges? :(
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Idk if it was the way files were judged this time around or if there was just a lack of submissions but this tourney had the worst charts on average out of any OT's I played (maybe excluding the 1st OT lol). |
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I was actually really hype for most of the charts this tournament. It's really a shame to see that being said but, I've said it before and I'll say it again if you guys can do a better job please by all means run tournaments. Would be nice for there to be more going on.
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I keep saying this: "Be the change you want to see". If people don't like the song selection, they should submit stuff themselves. I liked a lot of the breakcore stuff and most of the songs in general.
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I loved a lot in this OT. The songs were great (I can’t play Cherry Doll), the hype and friendly competition was a great impetus to improve and I really appreciate it. Thanks Hbar for being so nice to everybody in D2 early on. Thanks organizers and artists and charters.
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It's hard to please everyone and there will unfortunately never be a way to. However, as I'm sure you know having been doing this so long, criticism can often lead to huge improvements. Maybe there could be a discord discussion done after each OT moving forward. Things like file choice and difficulty could be openly debated on and could result in improvements that nobody would have thought of in the past. Maybe a more open discussion could also lead to ideas that would improve retention rates from tourney to tourney (maybe even getting more people involved). I'd be very interested in seeing what a large group of people from this awesome community would be able to come up with instead of forcing all the workload onto a small group of dedicated admin. That being said, I personally really enjoyed this tournament. I went from 49 to almost 56. Like half my top 15 are now 13th OT files lol. Most of the songs chosen for D2 were goddamn bops and I am so appreciative of that. I only really didn't like CHERRY DOLL and Oedo Pop (simply the songs themselves not the files). Hopefully next year I can be in D4! |
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First I want to say thank you to all the step artists and other people involved who keep these tournaments going :) ffr would not be as fun without you. However, I do kind of agree with Dynam0 (at least for the D5-D8 files). I can't say anything about the D1-D4 songs since I didn't play them. Not saying all the D5+ stuff was bad because there were some really nice ones mixed in... but the majority felt pretty awkward/unintuitive. Please don't kill me :] it's just my opinion after playing thousands and thousands of files between ffr/etterna.
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okay so!
my favorite files were: circle pit we want to run |
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also woo credits!! finally i can play the secret section songs :)
and for my skill token of choice for grinding to top 8, i would love strangeprogram v0! |
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Oi! To all the negative nancies.....FUCK YOU.
Also thanks for all the hard workers who ARE helping FFR and OT. With love, Squidbits. PS. Some of us were thinking it I just said it out loud. If I'm banned I get it so I'll say I love you all now just in case I can't later. Kis kis PSS. Yams |
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Favorite Files: Trap Funk and Circle Pit
Favorite Songs: Ventablack and Naive Hopelessness |
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That being said, I had a fun time even though we (D8) got blasted with stuffcore music beyond belief. All that matters is I beat klimt on more rounds than he did (jkjk you won). Ok bye~ |
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I rolled with the files on hand, I could moving forward hold off on doing OTs until we have perfect file lineups but no one wants that either. Thing is I've adjusted over and over again just for more complaints so *shrugs* no matter what someone is unhappy. |
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Just figured I'd bring up the idea of constant improvement to avoid stagnation. Something something people keep leaving :/ |
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This site is never going to be what it once was because of how poorly run it currently is and your refusal to accept help from anybody competent. |
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I think that's a bit harsh, it's one thing to say "please take constructive feedback" and it's another to "throw the baby out with the bath water" and say FFR can never return to some lost glory days because of a few blips during and OT. Seemed to me to go quite smoothly, and one or two songs out of place isn't ruining the entire site or something.
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This post is hilarious and I love how you only ever come out of the woodwork to talk nasty about me. 1. Yep, we'd all love to see it at it's former glory, me running tournaments is hardly the reason for any decline in the site. Blame the almost year long downtime then lack of progression that followed for quite some time because a lot of things COULDN'T happen. 2. Really? You'd love to be in my position? Go ahead then and do it lmao. I don't have a "tournament organizer" title. Please name all these people who have offered to help, I'll wait. And then tell me how many actually have when I'm like okay come help. 3. Complain about very evident problems, well lets see half of them were "I'm mad cause I'm bad at the file" complaints. Some are just beating a dead horse of a mistake we realized we made. Guess what, at the end of the day we're all still human. There's no way to 100% perfect this, especially with how much players are changing. We're adapting as fast as we can. 4. Yeah, I do think people should be more appreciative of all the time and effort people put in to keeping FFR alive. We could have all easily walked away when synth was gone for a decade, instead we did our best to try to keep it going and the community engaged. It becomes less and less worth it the more people sit here and badger us over simple things. 5. Aj rated circle pit a 72 initially, so yeah he took the blame on it himself. I didn't shove it off on him. I love how you took me taking the blame for some of the early stuff as me making it clear I had 100% of power. So you're mad at me for not taking blame when I was taking blame, lol. I mean just admit what this really is, you've never liked me and you're going to always twist anything I do into a negative. 6. Admit I don't do as much as I claim to do? What? 7. Refusal to accept help from anybody competent? Hmm so you mean because we didn't put Rob back on difficulties right? Cause that wasn't just my decision. I tried getting more judges, people fell off quickly that did apply (not that there were many to begin with). You talk so much crap but literally have no idea how many times I've tried to get help, only for the people to get their title then do absolutely nothing, or be here for a short while then poof away. What's even funnier is I left for like a year? Year and a half? I can't remember. And nobody stepped up, nothing was getting done. Someone could've run an OT, nobody did. You also seem to forget I haven't run all of them and the complaints have still flown when others ran them. Do you even remember all the super old tournaments and how those used to go? Lol, there's been HUGE improvements but everyone wants to harp on the negative rather than try to make a positive experience, and THAT is what's going to kill things. Stop trying to push off all the blame on me as if I'm the downfall of the site when I've put in countless hours at this point just trying to scrape by and keep it as active as I could with what I'm capable of. |
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In regards to the second statement of yours, Kayla has made it very clear how she feels about me over the years. I would love nothing more than to help. I know with certainty she would never "allow" me to be on staff. |
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I'm not about to sit here for this, no way. You've been nothing but negative towards me all the time. |
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@ everything else -- I love how you're actually trying to speak for me as if it wasn't my fault. I took the blame because I was helping with estimations and putting things in place, and I made a mistake marking the file. I was tasked with trying to at least give estimations for things and I legitimately felt like the difficulty for the file wasn't as high as it was perceived by the community. But hey, if someone makes a mistake, it's alright for you to conveniently pounce on it as a measure of any claims of partiality. Anything to cling to make any sort of point. |
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PS. I really love the game and i appreciate all the effort and time the staff and Stepfiler put into this awesome game n_n. |
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Well congrats to everyone who played! Very intense tournament and was still a very enjoyable first OT for me! Huge thanks again to the FFR Staff for running this! <3 See y'all next year!!!
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ayyyy gg!!!!
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Despite my earlier criticisms mentioned in the thread (which I still stand by), the official tournament was still a ton of fun. :) Coming back from hiatus really forced me to rebuild the skills I once had and balancing that with real-life duties was a fun but stressful challenge. The competition was extremely fierce and I had a ton of fun overall.
Thanks to all of the organizers and the stepartists for their contributions! I know that it isn't easy to organize a tournament and how producing many charts can be a very time-consuming process, so your time and effort really made the overall experience fun to be a part of. It reminds me of my nostalgic days when I used to be extremely competitive, so thank you for reminding me how fun FFR is and how great the community is. Thank you to my D6 competitors for making the challenge exciting and fun. A small handful of you guys recently got D7 status, so although I don't see myself competing with you guys in the future, I hope that you continue to do well and have a ton of fun in future OTs. I hope to see the rest of you and some potential D5 current players in the next OT :) Congrats to all of the winners! Thanks again everyone! |
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Congrats to all winners and participants! This was a fun and intense OT. I experienced a lot of stress during round 5 as I was constantly playing to get into the top 8 and I had to wait to see what scores other competitors got.
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Gratz y'all see you for the next one
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Congrats to all our winners!
Please bear with me as I hand out prizes, I did do all the top 16 tokens earlier as well as the 4th through 8th credits. Anyone in top 8 that has both VROFL and V0 still locked let me know which you'd like. As well as anyone who qualifies for tokens in the top 3 of the divisions, let me know your choices :) All the winners whenever you get a moment please DM me your shipping info so I can get your shirt's in the mail. |
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Also Maggie and I did have a chat over the discord so let me also address:
We are aware that mistakes were made, and we do apologise for it. We don't intend on coming off as dismissive as we do at times to people's complaints, just at times it feels like we're getting slammed from all angles and we're still trying to manage the whole thing and it can get super stressful. It's impossible to perfect this, and we've tried a few various things over the years to improve but it's incredibly hard with a community that has so much diversity and different needs. A file you may be looking at as "awkward" is one we're looking at like "okay this doesn't play to just one skillset, this is perfect for keeping things more fair" The circle pit thing was our major flub and I should have looked at it more. We'd hit the point of running out of files that would fit in areas and I just looked at the rating rather than looking at the file. I should have checked it more thoroughly myself. We were running into several issues that I was trying my best to mitigate, like some people were upset that files from the OT batch weren't going to get used, but not all of them fit. So I tried cramming more in to address this issue when I probably could have made a better fit pulling from elsewhere. Fortunately these issues should be mitigated moving forward now that the batch system has been updated the way it has. People can imply if they're okay with their files being held which means we can start stockpiling much earlier and hopefully not even have to have a specific batch for it going forward. There's a team of people on difficulties now that will be going over everything that lands in the accepted queue. We'll likely still have flubs even still because honestly there's no exact science for this and you guys are always surprising us with how hard you find files. But hopefully we'll be a lot closer to the mark and not have another major error come up. Anyway, I just wanted ya'll to know what was going down and that we are working on improving, there's even a dedicated team now for 100+ files. |
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i personally think the tournament was run very well... tho i wasn’t any good in D2 (laugh
it might be nice if there was a rule where if you failed a file in a higher division but passed a file in a lower division, u got moved down a division or something. tho probably i could just do something like that for fun |
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Finally I will unlock Unconnected. HYPE
Thanks to everyone that organized the tournament! I got eliminated pretty early but still got to have some fun with the revenge tournament against D6. Can't wait for the next one :) |
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Oh wow, I didn't intend to be part of starting drama. Was just wondering why D3 had a more difficult file than D4. It makes sense now. I'm not great at rating files myself when the file is a lot easier than my skill level. And given then amount of files that needed to be rated, this could happen. It's not necessarily that bad for this to happen because everyone in in a division needs to play the same file anyway.
I've enjoyed the tournament, didn't expect to get to D5 and top 8! Was about to say I'd like to get Strangeprogram V0, but just saw it's already been given, thanks :) |
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For what it's worth, I thought this tournament was really well run. I mean, overlooking the obvious issue with Circle Pit which was acknowledged, the rest of the files were, pretty much, what you'd expect from a tournament in terms of difficulty, variety in different skillsets and mechanics, and difficulty progression.
I also want to personally thank Kayla for her (your) running of the tournament as I unfortunately had two instances during this tournament where I obtained a score which didn't save but I messaged her on Discord and she was very quick to reply and fix it, so I have no issues at all with this tournament and how it was run, especially considering that Kayla has - for the most part - run this tourney by herself (not to make a sweeping, presumptive statement as I know that others have helped out). And finally, I want to congratulate Dark Saga on the first place in D5. In the end, that score on Q.E. was just far too good and beyond my capabilities but I'm very happy to have finished 2nd in such a competitive division. The fact that I was able to finish ahead of people I've played, and enjoyed competing, with in tourneys for years was really impressive for me. This'll probably be my last tourney in D5, I'd imagine, so I'm happy to get Top 3 in a tournament having had that ambition ever since I kept getting knocked out in Round 4 in my first few official tourneys. GG everyone and congrats to the winners of all divisions!! |
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if I could get strangeprogram v0 on thesunfan, I'd appreciate it
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Can I use my token unlock to remove a event token from andrew_wcy instead?
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Congrats winners! See you next year while I continue to drown in pee D6R1.
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Just showing off usergroup
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Congratulations to all the winners and competitors that have exceeded their expectations or have skillboosted through the brackets.
I really never expected to make it to the top 3 of D5, this tournament has been a great learning experience for me both as an arrow smasher as well as a stepartist. I also want to give a huge shoutout to the tournament organizers and especially AJ for judging such a large amount of stepfiles and still have the energy to write lore and put charts to their corresponding divisions. Hopefully there will be more Official Tournaments in the future; I still feel I have to prove myself further to truly be considered a top D5 player. |
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The amount of dedication put into hosting this event and keeping the tradition alive after an insane 13 years was unfathomable and it's something I'll never be able to appreciate enough.
I genuinely love how events like these always manage to bring people together and remind us all that at the end of the day, we're all like-minded people sharing the same passion in a very tight-knit community, meaning we have to be together for a community like this to grow. It creates unforgettable memories of this community that are long-lasting even for those who will depart from us to embark in life one day. Thank you, tournament organizers, for all the work and effort you guys have put in this year to create a banger, I had a real blast in it! Yes, this event may have had some technical difficulties, but saying that wouldn't be really fair considering how well you guys have done everything else. Besides, the mistake was genuine, not deliberate, so the best we all can do, as civilized people, at the end of the day is to forgive one another and learn from the mistakes. Otherwise, we can't move onto a future where everything will become better. Again, absolutely great job from all the organizers and I hope you guys get your well-deserved rest now, cheers. |
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It was fun thanks all! Wish I could've participated more but unfortunately couldn't. congrats to all the winners and high placers!
I liked most of the files, thanks to steppers for keeping making great content.. If i had to critique something it would be i found the difficulty progression in D5 to be kinda meh, especially compared to how good it's been in past OTs (yes i've been in D5 for a billion OTs now). Sunset Sky Garden was definitely too hard for a R2 especially when easy files like naive hopelessness and smash and burn came after it. i also thought ani meshuval or w/e was harder than the 2 files that came after it but that one i could chalk up to weakness in the OHTs at the end. like if i played im pretty sure i would've been eliminated in R3 but the rounds after were kinda free, disregarding skillset. again in saying all that it wasnt a big deal since things stayed kind of consistent and around the 80 difficulty mark so it's fine, just my 2 cents |
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Tourney was definitely fun. Got knocked out early but it's okay. I got my D7 promo (OFFICIALLY), participated in D7, but the songs were all great fun. Round 6 especially, I feel, was the most fun to me.
Awesome stuff as always. Great fun. Feels good to have improved once again, and grats to all the winners. Wanna give a special thanks to Halogen and PA691 (psychoangel for those of you who might be a little confused) and Rushy for hosting the side event. Great fun. Lot of amazing charts, and just an overall amazing time. Can't wait to see what we get next year. Let's keep this site going, gang. |
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Thanks everyone, I hope all and all everyone had a good time.
All prizes that don't require a choice from the user (except the badges) should be out to everyone. Let me know if there's any issue. Badges should be up by end of day. :) My 1st placers I forgot to add with your shipping info please let me know your shirt size as well. |
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Great tournament had some great skill boost for sure went d3-d5
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Congrats to all the winners and ggs to all! It was great fun. :)
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can't wait for the 20th anniversary megatournament
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You should make me tournament staff and I'll gladly help.
I donate ramen every year for the OT, support the site with patreon as well as support the discord, and am one of the more active members. I generally care about everyone in the community and will go out of my way to make sure everyone is healthy and happy (especially the staff lol) Plus I'm pretty so yeah Also been on the site 16 years so theres that too |
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