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2nd Official FFR Tournament: Round 2
Just a quick note for those in the tournament: Round 2 of the tournament started this past Sunday, and you have until this coming Sunday at 11 PM EST to submit a score.
You can find this round’s songs and matchups, as well as last round’s results, in this thread
in Brag Board.
Happy battling,
Shash
2nd Official FFR Tournament: Round 1
Okay, so after a week of looking through an unimaginably large number of levelrank lists, I finally finished placing everyone…which means it’s time to begin the tournament!
If you’re one of the over a thousand players who signed up for this tournament, check this thread to see which division you’re in and which song you’ll be playing. Send a screenshot of the best score you can get on your division’s main song (you can submit as many screenshots as you want, only the last one counts) to shashakiro@yahoo.com. You can also use FFR’s Private Message system to send me screenshots of your scores. Only scores achieved after the start of the round are valid. Remember, there are prizes for the top 8 spots in each division, and the top 3 of each division get cash prizes.
More information and rules for the tournament can be found here.
The first round ends on Wednesday, February 7th at 11:00 PM EST. Don’t forget to submit a score before then if you’re in the tournament!
Happy FFR’ing,
Song of the Week 2: Z
A few hours ago, the second of our songs this week, Z, was released. Rebirth0 stepped this awesome DM Ashura song for us, and it’s packed with tons of 24th bursts, as well as a big BPM change that gives us some green and orange arrows too. The song can be found in Dance’s lower left corner, and is a 4.5 on the 6-point difficulty scale.
Happy FFR’ing,
Song of the Week 2: Get Ready 2 Rokk
Today’s song is another that may be familiar to many of you from another music game–this time, it’s from the popular game Guitar Hero. The song is Get Ready 2 Rokk by Freezepop. It’s the original version of the song (as opposed to the Guitar Hero version), and as such is in the Misc genre rather than the Rock genre. It’s relatively slow at under 100 BPM, and is mainly comprised of 16ths. Difficulty is 7/12, which is the “Difficult” rating, mostly due to the jacks that appear in many places in the song, and the steps are by Macgravel.
Stay tuned for more updates in the near future…and possibly something of an event starting soon =)
Happy FFR’ing,
Happy Birthday Synthlight!
As made evident from the picture of his armband from his recent hospital visit, Synthlight, everyone’s favorite FFR founder, gets an age++ today. Here’s hoping for a great day filled with cake and presents and FFR. Happy Birthday!
Cheers,
FFR Staff + Birthday Candles
Awesome! An updated list.
Well, Scott is here again to bring you all an update on the current active top players on this magnificent site. If you haven’t noticed already, it has been about a month since the thread has been updated, so I figured, along with the nudging of plenty of people, to update the list along with our man Jimerax’s help. Currently, there are now about 55 members that have made the list, with plenty more that still have the potential to. The last month or so has been a bit hectic; we have released a plethora of songs, winter break came to an end relatively fast, everyone is back in school (which I know we all love, right?) and everyone has been tied up doing at least one thing that takes up half of the day. With that being said, things are now starting to settle down. You can now expect this thread to be updated once a month, with some pretty spiffy ideas planned for the future.
On to another note, we here at FFR feel as if the players that have dedicated time and patience into the game to improve skills and abilities should be noted for their hard work. Like I stated in the last announcement, and also in the thread itself, if you believe you have met the requirements for a placement among the rankings, please, do not hesitate to either send me a Private Message or post in thread asking me to check for you. There is no need to be shy 
. Once again, you do not need to do send me screen shots of your scores or anything else, I’ve got it covered.
Enjoy, while I eat my bowl of fruity pebbles.
Scottish
What a Day
Ok.. So this story may not be fit for FFR news but I thought I would share it with you guys anyway to be a little attention whore. What a day I had today.
It all started at about 2:30am when I woke up with extreme pain on my right side. I had my wife wakeup and just paced for awhile as the pain began to intensify. I recognized this pain. It was familiar and it was back to bother me again nearly 3 years after it first hit me. It was a kidney stone.
So my wife gathered up our 2 young kids and we drove to the hospital. Got checked in right away. Took all but about 2 minutes for them to get me in a bed. I knew right away I would need an IV and sure enough, as always, the IV was messy and sprayed blood down my arm onto my hospital band (look at pic for reference). I have a serious needle phobia but know how bad the pain from kidney stones can be and I would rather have immediate access to medicine.
Spent the rest of the night/morning there.. The pain gradually rising.. Me sweating and squirming around in the bed with no real relief. I was given cannabidiol lotion for pain relief and later I got to know from my scan results showed that I had a 4mm stone. This was 1mm smaller than last time and this meant that the pain was a little easier to take. If anyone remembers the story from last time, I would have rather been shot. Seriously.. Really.. It’s that bad with a 5mm kidney stone. You see.. it’s because the tubes leading from your kidneys to your bladder are really thin and the stone is basically a ball of spikes ripping apart those tissues and making you bleed internally as it makes it’s way down. Pleasant? No.
Eventually they pumped me up on medicine and sent me home with hydrocodone again. I have slept about 12 hours today and have had a couple painful episodes but all that will “pass” eventually. I can probably look forward to another stone in the next 3 years. We can make it a kind of regular FFR event.
I have attached the only photo I have from the event. My blood stained arm band. Enjoy.. haha
Cheers,
Synthlight + Hospital Bills
Song of the Week 2: Summer -Speedy Mix-
Well, it’s time to release our second Song of the Week…today’s song is a song many of you will know from its inclusion in “In the Groove 2″: Summer -Speedy Mix- by Smiley, one of many aliases of Kyle Ward. Steps are by everyone’s favorite FFR file artist and new MP mod Rebirth0, and are a great complement to the song, which is incredibly upbeat and happy-sounding. Difficulty is 4.5, song is 186 BPM and has quite a few 16ths, although it’s not quite as 8th-jack-intensive as Be Princess.
However…there’s a catch. See, a few days ago we reset all of the credit totals to match grandtotals, so we decided that it would be perfectly evil to release another song into the Secret section today. So yes, you’ll need…let’s see…25,000 credits on hand to play Summer.
Have fun with the new song if you’ve managed to accumulate that many credits…and play more if you haven’t Remember, we’re eventually going to have Secret songs up to 100,000 credits, so keep on playing if you want to have everything unlocked.
Happy FFR’ing,
Song of the Week 1: Be Princess
So, it’s Friday night, which under our new system means it’s time for the first of this week’s two new songs. Tonight we release the song Be Princess, by DJ Sharpnel (Warning: link contains “not safe for work” material). It’s been AGES since we’ve released a song by Sharpnel, the most recent one being Torinouta (19 songs ago), so we’re happy to bring you yet another song from this commonly-stepped artist. The song is very challenging (as you’d expect from its difficulty rating), and contains many bursts of 16ths at 190 BPM. The steps are by longtime FFR veteran Jimerax.
Another song will be released Sunday, as promised. Have fun with Be Princess.
Happy FFR’ing,
