StepCon 2024

[gold stinger]

Welcome to the Official FFR StepCon.

What is a stepcon you might ask? It’s a Simfile-creating contest open to Steppers, Mappers, Charters, Simfile Artists and Stepauthors of all skill levels and styles.
*all times listed are servertime*

The Second Public Voting Period has Ended!

Here's the Final StepOff results!


1st - M0nkeyz [4]
2nd - Lights [3]
3rd - xXOpkillerXx [5]

A final huge congratulations to M0nkeyz for placing 1st in the Final StepOff, as well as everyone whom played and voted for their favorites! I legitimately got home from work the other day, checked voting, and nearly everyone in Final StepOff was tied at one point or another within the last 48 hours of voting. I will be getting prizes (credits, badges and the such) out momentarily to our finalists to reflect their position!

Participants and voters are now open & free to talk about which file is theirs in-order on the StepCon 2024 engine (if they prefer), and talk about which specific songs they voted for (again, if they prefer).

And of course, to M0nkeyz, you will have an extra week in-batch to submit any fixes or changes related to feedback or discussion on your file. Then it be moved to Difficulty Consultants for another week to rate the difficulty of the file and then released.

Thank you all once again for participating in another year of StepCon! Still not entirely sure if we need to retire the event for a year or not, or reproach engagement or song selection, but we'll have to see whether that all falls in-line or not for next year!

The Second Public Voting Period has Begun!

During this time, the community can vote for the Final round of StepCon 2024. No further submissions for the event will be accepted at this time. You can re-visit the Google Form link in the future to change your votes (until the end of the Public Voting period), and you can vote for multiple options across this Final StepOff (Pick any & all that you like!).

You may fill out the form at https://forms.gle/oYdYExS9gbN5XgeY8 to submit your votes.

Please be advised, participants CANNOT vote for their own Class. Votes for that class will not count for said participants.

https://www.flashflashrevolution.com/batch_submission/engine/r3.stepcon2024.xml
If you navigate to your 'Options' in your FFR Engine, navigate to 'Miscellaneous' settings and click the drop-down for 'Engine Playlist', you should see this at the bottom of the list:



You will get this pop-up:



If you Copy the above XML URL and Paste it there, and click 'Add Engine', you should be able to view/play/observe songs from StepCon 2024. If you do not want to play the song, you may preview the song by right-clicking the song of choice in the song selection menu and selecting 'Play Chart Preview' in the right click menu.

[b]Final StepOff: t+pazolite / †††Chaos Time the DARK†††

Everyone will have until the end of Thursday, October 10th 11:59PM SERVER TIME to complete voting and submit their forms at the above google link.

Furthermore, discussion is allowed in-thread during voting. But please do not deliberately attempt to sway votes/vote brigade particular submissions, and treat your fellow Stepauthors with respect. People of all skill levels participate within this event, and there is going to be good/bad matchups for people's skills and preferred genres. Keep it civil and respectful. There's also the #events channel in FFR's Official Discord for discussing the event as well!

The Second Stepping Period has Begun!

During this time, all participants will have received a Direct Message from me containing the Final StepOff song, and their Pre-built .sm File to begin Charting.

All participants will have until the end of Thursday, October 3rd 11:59PM SERVER TIME to complete their submissions and submit it to the StepCon 2024 Batch located here.


Class Exam: t+pazolite / †††Chaos Time the DARK†††

Snupeh
Velocity
M0nkeyz
jh05013
xXOpkillerXx
Lights

Once upon a time, a collaboration effort born between Taiko no Tatsujin and t+pazolite gave birth to a song so devilish, so diabolical, so.. April Fools-ish (specifically this year), that they published this monstrosity to bear to the world on April 1st of 2024, to ruin some fair drum-players internationally in this BPM Powerhouse of a song. Will finalists be swallowed into a pit of despair over multiple genre changes and BPM/notation changes that demand notations that don't even exist in most rhythm game editors, or will they persevere in the onslaught that is 360bpm swing to the bpm slide ending? Time will only tell in this year's Final StepOff!

3 participants will be walking away with an extra-special StepOff profile badge (plus a hefty bonus of credits), and the winner will also have this song released to FFR.

Best of luck to the Finalists! To other participants, I will be sending out 2nd & 3rd place prizes, and participation prizes in a bit. The Second Judging Period will begin on October 4th.

The First Public Voting Period has Ended!

Here's the results for the First Round:


1st - Snupeh [4]
2nd - mikatheidiot [3]
3rd - E-B-E [1]


1st - Velocity [6]
2nd - TheTrueXFish [1]
3rd - WirryWoo [2]


1st - M0nkeyz [4]
2nd - Wind0ze [2]
3rd - TIE! Hakulyte [1] & DSMLMD [3]


1st - jh05013 [1]
2nd - jacobvl39 [3]
3rd - Durvin [2]


1st - xXOpkillerXx [3]
2nd - Tru [6]
3rd - RakuAvali [5]


1st - Lights [4]
2nd - Dash- [3]
3rd - Ultimate Mike7 [6]

A huge congratulations to everyone that participated, played and voted for their favorites! It was quite a riveting battle over the week from every Class for the coveted 1st Place to participate in the Final StepOff, especially so for Class E and Class F! Very forward and back with many 1st place swaps. So much so, that we saw last-minute tiebreakers be resolved in the last couple hours of voting for some in 2nd & 3rd! I will be getting prizes (credits, badges and the such) out shortly while juggling the rest of the swap-over period as we transition into the Final StepOff.

Participants and voters are now open & free to talk about which file is theirs in-order on the StepCon 2024 engine (if they prefer), and talk about which specific songs they voted for (again, if they prefer).

As for the tie in 3rd on Class C, you will both be receiving the same badge & rewards.


Stay tuned for the Final StepOff announcement.

The First Public Voting Period has Begun!

During this time, all participants (including and especially people not participating in the event), can vote for songs submitted for Round 1 of StepCon 2024. No further submissions for the event will be accepted at this time. You can re-visit the Google Form link in the future to change your votes (until the end of the Public Voting period), and you can vote for multiple options across all Classes (Pick any & all that you like!).

You may fill out the form at https://forms.gle/pxTp5Bk8xP2TMA9w6 to submit your votes.

Please be advised, participants CANNOT vote for their own Class. Votes for that class will not count for said participants.

https://www.flashflashrevolution.com/batch_submission/engine/r3.stepcon2024.xml
If you navigate to your 'Options' in your FFR Engine, navigate to 'Miscellaneous' settings and click the drop-down for 'Engine Playlist', you should see this at the bottom of the list:



You will get this pop-up:



If you Copy the above XML URL and Paste it there, and click 'Add Engine', you should be able to view/play/observe songs from StepCon 2024. If you do not want to play the song, you may preview the song by right-clicking the song of choice in the song selection menu and selecting 'Play Chart Preview' in the right click menu.

Class A: ICE x Sand Suna - Atohs

Class B: Ardolf - Mantle In The Dark

Class C: potato-tan - Second Strike

Class D: otoshi.b / Memories in the Blue

Class E: Vizunave - EGG OBLITERATION MACHINE

Class F: chilldive - GET OVER IT !

Everyone will have until the end of Thursday, September 19th 11:59PM SERVER TIME to complete voting and submit their forms at the above google link.

Furthermore, discussion is allowed in-thread during voting. But please do not deliberately attempt to sway votes/vote brigade particular submissions, and treat your fellow Stepauthors with respect. People of all skill levels participate within this event, and there is going to be good/bad matchups for people's skills and preferred genres. Keep it civil and respectful. There's also the #events channel in FFR's Official Discord for discussing the event as well!

The First Stepping Period has Begun!

During this time, all participants will have received a Direct Message from me containing their Class, Song for Round 1, and their Pre-built .sm File to begin Charting, and links to all songs currently active in this round. For the public, that list is available below in the spoiler.

All participants will have until the end of Thursday, September 12th Server Time to complete their submissions and submit it to the StepCon 2024 Batch located here.

If you need the other song's files or folders / can't get them from whom you are trading with, please contact gold stinger either on the FFR Official Discord, or in DM's here.

PLEASE NOTE, that unlike the previous StepCon, there is NO CHANGING SONGS.

Class A: ICE x Sand Suna - Atohs

mikatheidiot
Snupeh
manicpies898
Setsuwa
Zeta64
E-B-E
XelNya
magnans
that.one.animatronic
Elite Ninja

Class B: Ardolf - Mantle In The Dark

WirryWoo
Laplace
Velocity
Themastergrant
TheTrueXfish
woker-X
gradiant
znow
evergreentries4k


Class C: potato-tan - Second Strike

https://soundcloud.com/potato-tan/vr...trike-original
Hakulyte
nobody_serenity
DSMLMD
Cuckson
cymx
Wind0ze
charsiaha official
m0nkeyz
catbug_


Class D: otoshi.b - Memories in the Blue

jacobvl39
axith
jh05013
Durvin
Black_Shield
hanatachi
kidboo377
s1rnight


Class E: Vizunave - EGG OBLITERATION MACHINE

xXOpkillerXx
RakuAvali
Tru
Zoobin4
Creosm
EppuJoloZ
Storn42
DarkZtar
kenchikki


Class F: chilldive - GET OVER IT !

Dash-
Devonin
Zyxel
Ultimate Mike7
IwasAsquidOnce
Lights
renaplatinak2
xxnewson1234xx
basicdrummerman

Best of luck to all those involved in StepCon 2024! Looking forward to some of the patterns and choices that go into these submissions, and may the best StepMan win!

v A few procedures for songs are changing this year, so please read carefully! v

Depending on how much interest/signups we get, we will split sign-ups into Classes. Each Class will be assigned a song with a pre-made .sm file set up for you. You will get two weeks to step and submit the song to FFR under the 'StepCon 2024' Batch. The batch will be made available at: https://www.flashflashrevolution.com...mission/batch/

We will be taking sign-ups from now until August 29th, 11:59pm.

On August 19th, songs will be made public, and another Google form will be made for attendees to submit their song preferences using "Ranked-Choice Voting". Songs least voted for will not be used.

People will be sorted into classes on a first come, first serve situation based on their ranked-choice. Those that do not fill out a Ranked-Choice Voting form for song preference will instead be at the mercy of filling Classes that need participants, in order of sign-up.

On August 30th, you will find out which Class you are in, and the song that your Class is stepping will be available to download privately. Submissions must be submitted by 11:59pm on September 12th, 2024 (Before September 13th).

After the deadline, submissions will be converted and anonymously uploaded to a private FFR Engine for the public to openly play/test/preview, and public voting will commence for each Class on their favorite Stepfile from each Class. (Voting will happen on a Google Form but conversation can happen in-thread with thoughts on submissions.)

Public voting will last one week, and finish at 11:59pm, September 19th, 2024. At that point, winners of each Class will be announced. If there is a tie between two or more submissions within a Class, they will be judged and the higher scoring submission will win. Voting will be done via a Private Google Form, so that voters cannot view each-others votes until voting is complete and results are tallied.

Winners of each Class will be invited to compete against one another in a 'Final StepOff', where winners will be placed into a single Class, and everyone will be provided the same song to step (in the same fashion as the previous round). The 'Final StepOff' will last two weeks, and end at 11:59pm, October 3rd, 2024.

Public voting will commence again for the Final StepOff on October 4th, 2024 for one week and end at 11:59pm, October 10th, 2024. At that time, StepCon 2024's Champion will be declared, marking the end of StepCon 2024.

Image guide of dates & times provided below for simpler browsing:

Red = Stepping Period, players may work on their submissions.
Yellow = Judging Period, public voting is available.
Purple = The end of the final Judging Period (for Final StepOff)

Instructions for accessing StepCon Engine & Previewing Songs:

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If you navigate to your 'Options' in your FFR Engine, navigate to 'Miscellaneous' settings and click the drop-down for 'Engine Playlist', you should see this at the bottom of the list:



You will get this pop-up:



If you Copy the above XML URL and Paste it there, and click 'Add Engine', you should be able to view/play/observe songs from StepCon 2024. If you do not want to play the song, you may preview the song by right-clicking the song of choice in the song selection menu and selecting 'Play Chart Preview' in the right click menu.

Final StepOff Prizes

First
Winning file for the class put into the game during the next song of the week release. (For a total of two songs going in-game)
150,000 credits (total of 250,000 credits)
Choice of 1 event token, including Strangeprogram v0 or vROFL. (1st Place StepOff Winner has an additional choice of these two songs if wanted)
Profile Badge for StepCon 2024: Finalist 1st Place


Second
100,000 credits (total of 200,000 credits)
Choice of 1 event token (total of 4 tokens, with 1 being vROFL or Strangeprogram v0)
Profile Badge for StepCon 2024: Finalist 2nd Place


Third
50,000 credits (total of 150,000 credits)
Profile Badge for StepCon 2024: Finalist 3rd Place

Prizes (each Class)

First
Winning file put into game during the next song of the week release.
100,000 credits
Choice of 3 event tokens, one of which can be Strangeprogram v0 or vROFL (limit 1 per winner).
Profile Badge for StepCon 2024: Finalist (if not applicable for 'Finalist 1st, 2nd or 3rd'.)


Second
75,000 credits
Choice of 2 event tokens
Profile Badge for StepCon 2024: Runner-Up 2nd Place


Third
50,000 credits
Choice of 1 event token
Profile Badge for StepCon 2024: Runner-Up 3rd Place


Participants whom submit a song that follow all submission rules and qualify for voting will receive a Participation Badge on their Profile.

*May add more prizes to Final StepOff in the future to spice up the prize pool for Final StepOff. Final StepOff prizes are added on top of Winner's prizes for each Class.

**At any time, event token winners may choose to either exchange a token for 20,000 credits, or provide the token unlock to any other individual, regardless of participation. Event tokens given away in this fashion that would allow for unlock of Strangeprogram v0 or vROFL, will not be allowed to unlock Strangeprogram v0 or vROFL.

Sign-Ups

Last Updated: August 29th, 2024
54 Sign-Ups

1. E-B-E
2. Lights
3. Tru
4. woker-X
5. Storn42
6. Black_shield
7. Znow
8. EvergreenTries4K
9. jh05013
10. RenaPlatinak2
11. Devonin
12. Ultimate Mike7
13. axith
14. basicdrummerman
15. EppuJoloZ
16. jacobvl39
17. XelNya
18. M0nkeyz
19. Snupeh
20. Wind0ze
21. Zyxel
22. WirryWoo
23. Gradiant
24. xXOpkillerXx
25. mikatheidiot
26. Laplace
27. Velocity
28. Cuckson
29. Hakulyte
30. Creosm
31. catbug_
32. Zeta64
33. Dash-
34. Durvin
35. s1rnight
36. manicpies898
37. Charsiaha Official
38. Themastergrant
39. kidboo377
40. cymx
41. Zoobin4
42. DarkZtar
43. IwasAsquidOnce
44. Hanatachi
45. XxNewson1234xX
46. that.one.animatronic
47. magnans
48. Elite Ninja
49. DSMLMD
50. RakuAvali
51. Kenchikki
52. nobody_serenity
53. Setsuwa
54. TheTrueXfish

Some clarifications/rules:

-After sign-ups are finished, you will receive a Direct Message on FFR of which group you are in, along with a .zip file of everything you need to participate within your Class.
-You ARE ALLOWED to make cuts and edits to any song during the StepCon.
-You MAY NOT collaborate with another Stepartist/Simfiler/sign-up/out-of-tournament individual.
-Submissions should meet Submission Rules requirements (listed here: https://www.flashflashrevolution.com...d.php?t=154634 )
-You ARE NOT allowed to solicit votes or reveal information regarding which submission is yours during the public voting process. Doing so will result in immediate disqualification and ban from future StepCon's.
-As a participant, you MAY NOT vote during public voting within your own Class. YOU MAY vote in any other Classes of which you are not directly participating in.
-Songs submitted to the 'StepCon 2024' Batch that are not part of this event will be automatically rejected. Please don't submit random songs to it. Spamming the batch may result in disciplinary action.
-Treat your fellow participants and public voters with kindness. Actively putting down someone's submissions or anonymously calling people's submissions "shit" is a good way to get yourself disqualified as a participant, and banned from public voting. Feedback & Criticism is welcome during the public voting periods, but do so in moderation with respect to newer Stepauthors.
-I think it goes without saying, but please DO NOT CHEAT OR ATTEMPT TO CIRCUMVENT THESE RULES. Doing so may result in disqualification from the current StepCon and ban from future events and StepCons.

Added clarifications:
-Class placement is determined on first sign-up, and number of sign-ups. There will be more songs provided for picks than ones used, and the 'least-liked' songs across everyone's picks will be removed, so it is recommended to make sure you are comfortable with at least your top 2 or top 3 songs on your pick. This will not be an option for participants that reach the Final StepOff, as finalists will all participate on the same final song.
-All metadata, Simfile properties, and sync will be provided before-hand in the .sm file you receive during this event. You are more than welcome to change any of it to however you see fit, this is just to make the event more approachable for new Stepartists. (This includes but not limited to BPM changes, Signature changes, Colorization, etc.)
-Judges reserve the right to reject a winning file from going in-game due to incompleteness of a file in extreme situations (such-as, a joke dump file, only half of the file done and silence for the other half, 0/10-worthy files after judgment, etc.)
-1st Place Class Winners will get 1 week to submit any fixes they would like from feedback on their submission after voting results, and then song will take another week for Difficulty Consultants and finalizing for release for a total of 2 weeks between end of voting and release. Otherwise, songs submitted and processed this way will we be done so under the Batch "Accepted" status. For more information, please refer to 'Ratings and Status' in the Submission Guidelines.

[storn42]

ready to go for the gold this year

[Lights]

Originally Posted by storn42

ready to go for the gold this year

sorry bud, we arent giving out gold for second this year :c

i'll let you look at my gold medal afterwards tho c:

[RenaPlatinak2]

POG 0o0

[Pizza69]

how bout you step con my nuts

[ositzxz369]

Originally Posted by Pizza69

how bout you step con my nuts

how bout you step con my nuts 2024 times

[xXOpkillerXx]

Do I sign up, chart something too hard relative to the group, get votes from the minority who can play/enjoy it, and then lose?

[1110111]

Originally Posted by xXOpkillerXx

Do I sign up, chart something too hard relative to the group, get votes from the minority who can play/enjoy it, and then lose?

this wouldn't surprise me even though your comment is the only context I have

[gold stinger]

Remember those old StepCon's of yesteryear and wish you had badges for them to show off your Veteran Stepauthor skills?

Now you do!* (as soon as I figure out who actually submitted and won)







edit: badges are out now btw @ me if I missed you on sumthin, especially 2014 because half of that data is gone.

[Zyxel]

Originally Posted by gold stinger

what is this gif LOL

[Velocity]

btw why are the song picks so bad this year?

[XelNya]

Originally Posted by Velocity

btw why are the song picks so bad this year?

Woaaaaaah you can't say thaaaaaaat

[Cuckson]

down to clown

[gold stinger]

30+ sign-ups, and song picks aren't even out yet! Some wild sign-ups this year!

All songs are ready to go except for 1 (maybe 2) that were vetoed against during a pre-showing, which will get swapped out before August 19th to maximize song choices that majority will like.

[gold stinger]

The Ranked-Choice Voting Form for Song Preferences in this year's StepCon is now open & available to everyone!
vvvvvv
You can access the form here!
^^^^^

Typically, based on previous StepCons, there are roughly 8-10 people assigned per song. So, expect anywhere between 5-6 groups for this StepCon. 3-4 songs will not be used based on sign-ups currently.

If there's a large influx of sign-ups, then the full set of 9 songs will support 72-90 players. More than that, and we'll be adding bonus songs last-minute to accommodate.

Filling out Song Preferences is not mandatory, but highly recommended. It will help sort you into a group closer to what you've selected as a favorite, and keep you away from groups that involve songs you dislike.

StepCon 2024 officially starts on August 30th and sign-ups officially close August 29th at 11:59pm Server Time! Groups and placements will be announced at that time.

Song Choices:

[1] ICE x Sand Suna / Atohs

[2] Ardolf / Mantle In The Dark

[3] potato-tan / Second Strike

[4] The Chalkeaters / Count to Three

[5] otoshi.b / Memories in the Blue

[6] Porter Robinson / Everything Goes On

[7] Vizunavé / EGG OBLITERATION MACHINE

[8] Femtanyl / PICKMEUP! (Warning: Explicit)

[9] chilldive / GET OVER IT !

[devonin]

Done and done.

[Lights]

Vote 9, 8, 6

ty

[Zyxel]

vowocal dumps #raw

[themastergrant]

Here to try my hand at stepping!

[XelNya]

4 out of 9 is a higher "would" rate than I expected to have if i'm honest