[Concluded] StepCon 2025

**gold stinger** · 09-13-2025, 09:13 PM

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 - Lights [1]
2nd - jh05013 [6]
3rd - M0nkeyz [4]

A final huge congratulations to Lights for placing 1st in the Final StepOff, as well as everyone whom played and voted for their favorites! I will be getting prizes (credits, badges and the such) out momentarily to our finalists to reflect their position! Extraordinary that this is actually a partial redemption arc on Lights' behalf, since coming 2nd in last years StepCon coming 2nd to M0nkeyz!

Participants and voters are now open & free to talk about which file is theirs in-order on the StepCon 2025 engine (if they prefer), and talk about which specific songs they voted for (again, if they prefer).

And of course, to Lights, 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! Looking forward to seeing everyone else and participation in next year's StepCon!

v A few procedures for songs have changed compared to previous years v
v (For those that participated in 2024, this is the same for now), 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 2025' Batch. The batch will be made available at: https://www.flashflashrevolution.com...mission/batch/

We will be taking sign-ups from now until October 2nd, 11:59pm.

On September 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 October 3rd, 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 October 16th, 2025 (Before October 17th).

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, October 23rd, 2025. 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, November 6th, 2025.

Public voting will commence again for the Final StepOff on November 7th, 2025 for one week and end at 11:59pm, November 13th, 2025. At that time, StepCon 2025's Champion will be declared, marking the end of StepCon 2025.

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

Instructions for accessing StepCon Engine & Previewing Songs:

Final StepOff Prizes

Prizes (each Class)

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

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 2025' 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.
-There's a 5,000 credit bounty and a 'thank you' from me for those that happen to spot an instance of incorrect dates provided in this post (Correct dates should not be referencing 2024 and should always land on a Thursday or Friday).

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