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Let's start week 66.
 
READ THIS FIRST =>>  How and Why to Join the Championships
Read this second   =>>     Rocksmith 2014 Championship Rules
 
Last weeks winners:

 
Lead
Beginner:  @@MilkmanDan
Intermediate: @@Azrael
Advanced: @@Gamut
Masterclass: @

Rhythm
Beginner: @@TehRastaGamer
Intermediate: @@Mortalo
Advanced: @@Gamut
Masterclass: @@Latsch
 
Bass
Beginner: N/E
Intermediate: @@MonstaS4
Advanced: @@genobadass
Masterclass: @@Blazikiller
 
Congrats to all the winners. And here goes the Weekly Honorably Mentioned overview with 100% scores:

- on Bass Beginner- @@Blazikiller, @@Joey, @@Kaijin, @@MilkmanDan, @@missis sumner, @Mortalo and @@NoonyDeloony

- on Bass Intermediate - @@Blazikiller, @@genobadass, @@Joey, @@Kaijin, @@missis sumner and @@NoonyDeloony

- on Bass Advanced - @@Kaijin

- on Bass MasterClass - @ and @@w4rl3x

- on Bass MasterClass MasterMode - @@Blazikiller and @@then3verend

Moment of Glory for @@Latsch and 96.23% in Master Mode on INT Lead and 93.14% on MasterClass Rhythm.

Cute

by @@NoonyDeloony and crazy video by @@Smile. Thank you!

 
The songs for this week are:

 
Beginner:   Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (Plum's Version) (Chosen by @@then3verend )

 

Intermediate: Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Suck My Kiss (Chosen by @@MonstaS4 )

Advanced: Coheed & Cambria - Mother May I (Chosen by @@NoonyDeloony )

Advanced/Masterclass: Dance Gavin Dance - Carl Barker  (Chosen by @@Blazikiller )

 

MasterClass: Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine (Plum's Version)
 
Rhythm Path:
 
Beginner:   Coheed & Cambria - Mother May I
Intermediate: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (Plum's Version)
Advanced:  Dance Gavin Dance - Carl Barker
Masterclass: N/A
 
Bass Path:
 
Beginner:  Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (Plum's Version)
Intermediate: Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Suck My Kiss
Advanced: Coheed & Cambria - Mother May I

Masterclass: Dance Gavin Dance - Carl Barker

Share with us your opinion on this weeks songs difficulty scores (1-10).

Honorable list Diehard men, playing in their class 5 weeks in row without pass (they have little more preference when choosing a song from song selection list for next week):

• Birdassasin in Adv lead path
• Blazikiller in MC bass path
• franfit in INT lead, BEG rhythm path
• frippchen in MC lead and bass paths
• Gamut in ADV lead path
• @genobadass in ADV bass path
• @Jambi in BEG lead path
• Latsch in MC lead, rhythm paths
• MaZtoR in ADV Rhythm paths
• MonstaS4 in Int lead path
• Mortalo in MC bass path
• Nacholede in MC lead path
• Rodman in Int lead, Adv bass paths
• then3verend in MC lead, bass paths
• @w4rl3x in MC rhythm path

P.s. Please, see changes in Championship Class Lists!
 
Have fun!

 

@@Rodman

as far as lead goes, going from advanced to McCain was like going from high school sports to major leagues.

 

its really a whole nother level, and it really feels like youre fighting for a legend.

 

with that in mind, what about a certain number of spots for MC bass? That way people that want in have to fight for it, and the people that are in have to fight to keep their spot

I'm kinda mixed on the idea of limiting the number of MC bass spots...  Some aspects would be good but some feel kinda off also.

 

Just by looking at the leaderboard from last week:

Player                       Acc%  Strk   Score
Blazikiller                 100.00 1301 2,469,231
then3verend                 100.00 1301 2,467,211
w4rl3x                      100.00 1301 1,848,718
frippchen                   100.00 1301 1,847,720
MilkmanDan                   99.92 1231
Kaijin                       99.07 306
genobadass                   98.15 349
Mortalo                      98.00 288
Joey                         96.23 275
NoonyDeloony                 93.77 239

Blazikiller and then3verend are the elites with MM scores.  w4rl3x and frippchen both hit 100% with very solid scores on hard.  Kaijin and I both hit 99%+, genobadass and Mortalo with 98%+, and Joey and Noony both with solid accuracies in the mid 90s.

 

So just by looking at the scores of that single week, one could get a pretty good grip on where to set the bar depending on how many spots we wanted to set for MC Bass.  2 seems too small, but there is a clear line in the chart at that point because of the difference between Master Mode and Hard scoring.  If you set it at 3 spots, w4rl3x and frippchen would be under lots of pressure to fight for the best score with 100% accuracy on hard, and then one of the two would get screwed.  Bump up to 4 spots, and the pressure shifts to me to try to pull out a 100% and beat one of those guys scores.

 

I think I played the song somewhere around 6 times during the week, and one of the first times when I missed ONE note and got the 99.9 was my best.  I think with enough tries I could have lucked into a 100% run, but I don't have any confidence that my timing/score would have beat the guys above me even then.  And I wouldn't really have enjoyed it.

 

...And with more spots (5+), the pressure just keeps moving down the list to either A) try to avoid being "relegated" to Advanced, or B ) try NOT to get into the top spots so that one could go back to Advanced where they want to be anyway.  I don't think that is really an ideal solution.

 

A small number of MC spots will make the line feel arbitrary...  I think that ranking based on score in the event of a tie (like a tie at 100%) is the best method available, but it isn't great because I don't really 100% trust Rocksmith's scoring system given potential differences in input lag/latency, random hiccups in system performance, etc. etc.  A small number of spots puts a lot of faith in that scoring system, which I think is ... not great.

 

A bigger number of spots limits the positive effects of the idea -- the pressure to really push for your best isn't on the elites like Blazi and never-never, who pretty much know that they are going to make the cut.  Instead, it goes down to the first tier of also-rans...  Since I'm sorta in that group, I'll just say that I don't think that pressure would motivate me -- rather the opposite.  I play/participate here for fun, that sounds a bit too much like work.

 

 

I dunno.  Maybe I'm missing the nuances of how it would work, but I think that I personally would prefer some other system of solving the Advanced -> MC transition issue.  I just don't know what.

 

To be fair. The MC song last week is a song a lot of us have played a ton previously.

 

To be fair. The MC song last week is a song a lot of us have played a ton previously.

 

 

Good point, and that includes me also.  I think I had somewhere around 25 plays or so on my original profile, which got corrupted a while back -- so I'd be somewhere in the 30s-40s total.

No chances this week...AGAIN

Don't know if Rocksmith is terrible with bends...or my Les Paul is terrible

http://i.imgur.com/OM4xs7j.jpg

 

 

focusing on the main topic of this whole thing...

 

http://i61.tinypic.com/nx58yb.jpg

 

:D

 

Yup, I have one more "thanks" then you :D

And here is one more -

THX for your work, m8!!!!

Played suck my kiss a few more times today, even played it all the way through in 75% speed and i still got nowhere. I don't know what it is about that song. But i think I'm blocked from learning it.

 

So to cool myself of i played some cheat bass. (emulated).

 

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k228/maztor42/Rocksmith%20championship%202014/MothermayIbass9768nr2_zpsee72c666.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/7rKNjRc.jpg

Welcome!! Great score!!

 

You can compete in adv and mc too, if you want!

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

Txs guys, i'm from Argentina (i speak spanish) so.. i don't know what adv and mc means

Sorry if i speak really bad english

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/7rKNjRc.jpg

Welcome!! Great score!!

 

You can compete in adv and mc too, if you want!

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Txs guys, i'm from Argentina (i speak spanish) so.. i don't know what adv and mc means

Sorry if i speak really bad english

 

Advanced and Masterclass that is...

 

The two levels higher than intermediate - you participated there with a very high initial score...

 

 

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http://i.imgur.com/7rKNjRc.jpg

Welcome!! Great score!!

 

You can compete in adv and mc too, if you want!

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Txs guys, i'm from Argentina (i speak spanish) so.. i don't know what adv and mc means

Sorry if i speak really bad english

 

Advanced and Masterclass that is...

 

The two levels higher than intermediate - you participated there with a very high initial score...

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

Ok, i could try

 

 

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/7rKNjRc.jpg

Welcome!! Great score!!

 

You can compete in adv and mc too, if you want!

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Txs guys, i'm from Argentina (i speak spanish) so.. i don't know what adv and mc means

Sorry if i speak really bad english

Advanced and Masterclass that is...

 

The two levels higher than intermediate - you participated there with a very high initial score...

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ok, i could try

Gogogo and kick some ass!!!

 

 

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http://i.imgur.com/1BxkOSL.jpg

 

Did my best

 

 

focusing on the main topic of this whole thing...

 

http://i61.tinypic.com/nx58yb.jpg

 

:D

Yup, I have one more "thanks" then you :D

And here is one more -

THX for your work, m8!!!!

 

I WAS going to thank you this week for your work on rankings to tie you both...

WAS being the key word there :P

finally back behind mi guitars.... piece by piece

 

http://i58.tinypic.com/war9mc.jpg

 

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/7rKNjRc.jpg

Welcome!! Great score!!

 

You can compete in adv and mc too, if you want!

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Txs guys, i'm from Argentina (i speak spanish) so.. i don't know what adv and mc means

Sorry if i speak really bad english

 

Advanced and Masterclass that is...

 

The two levels higher than intermediate - you participated there with a very high initial score...

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

 

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/7rKNjRc.jpg

Welcome!! Great score!!

 

You can compete in adv and mc too, if you want!

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

Txs guys, i'm from Argentina (i speak spanish) so.. i don't know what adv and mc means

Sorry if i speak really bad english

 

Creía que era el único argentino aca :D

Today's update

 

http://i60.tinypic.com/8yxe2h.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1BxkOSL.jpg

 

Did my best

Your score is not valid as you were down leveled on one tiny section (orange bar between purple bars). But you did great so you should be able to make even better score :)

@@Mortalo Yes please put me in Advanced for Lead and Rhythm, will help push me a bit to improve my six string.

 

http://i.imgur.com/1BxkOSL.jpg

 

Did my best

Your score is not valid as you were down leveled on one tiny section (orange bar between purple bars). But you did great so you should be able to make even better score :)

 

Didin't notice :O  my bad.Here's another onehttp://i.imgur.com/lz734QA.jpg

 

 

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/7rKNjRc.jpg

Welcome!! Great score!!

 

You can compete in adv and mc too, if you want!

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Txs guys, i'm from Argentina (i speak spanish) so.. i don't know what adv and mc means

Sorry if i speak really bad english

 

Advanced and Masterclass that is...

 

The two levels higher than intermediate - you participated there with a very high initial score...

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

 

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/7rKNjRc.jpg

Welcome!! Great score!!

 

You can compete in adv and mc too, if you want!

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

Txs guys, i'm from Argentina (i speak spanish) so.. i don't know what adv and mc means

Sorry if i speak really bad english

 

Creía que era el único argentino aca :D

 

Jajaja yo tambien  :)

Coheed - Bass - http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/535135649306759887/3E8197965C58FB518EEB17C7C058F68DAA6FC436/

 

Not a big fan of this band, but it is a learning experience nonetheless.

my first and final score for the MC Bass, don't like this song so much to push

http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150128/cnd55fj3.jpg

-= weekly leaderboard update =-

 

leader changes:

@frippchen             MC LEAD (our elite knows well how to battle)

@Rodman               INT RHY

@@missis sumner      ADV BASS

@Blazikiller             MC BASS

 

Great steak by  @@Gamut with 71/100 Adv Lead!

 

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

 

players falling off the boards for not scoring in 10 weeks:

@@lolreconlol

we invite you to come back, strike hard!

 

http://i59.tinypic.com/e1ck0g.jpg

 

Nice Rest of week everyone!!!!

I start SA on easy

http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150128/2hh5yjex.jpg

 

and then hard (lucky to pass, so many very short sections make Xes collecting very easy)

http://fs1.directupload.net/images/150128/mf9hevhl.jpg

I start SA on easy

http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150128/2hh5yjex.jpg

 

and then hard (lucky to pass, so many very short sections make Xes collecting very easy)

http://fs1.directupload.net/images/150128/mf9hevhl.jpg

 

all those bends in the solo really fuck up your run in my opinion.

I, at least, have a really hard time in rocksmith to properly get bends to register, and in Sweet Child O Mine there are a bazillion

and more bends... (fuck those bends on the 22th fret on high eb, all misses...)

Right now i cant reach my own score of 90,58 again, but i didnt really had much time to practice, yet

 

all those bends in the solo really fuck up your run in my opinion.

I, at least, have a really hard time in rocksmith to properly get bends to register, and in Sweet Child O Mine there are a bazillion

and more bends... (fuck those bends on the 22th fret on high eb, all misses...)

Right now i cant reach my own score of 90,58 again, but i didnt really had much time to practice, yet

 

those bendings are not such a big problem, most of them I got right. Always important in bending is always the correct strenght, not too soft or hard, that's the difficulty in bendings. The problem here are those short sections, just one or a few "wrong" notes (or not proper bendings, maybe also bad recognition) will give X, then XX and then you're out

 

 

all those bends in the solo really fuck up your run in my opinion.

I, at least, have a really hard time in rocksmith to properly get bends to register, and in Sweet Child O Mine there are a bazillion

and more bends... (fuck those bends on the 22th fret on high eb, all misses...)

Right now i cant reach my own score of 90,58 again, but i didnt really had much time to practice, yet

 

those bendings are not such a big problem, most of them I got right. Always important in bending is always the correct strenght, not too soft or hard, that's the difficulty in bendings. The problem here are those short sections, just one or a few "wrong" notes (or not proper bendings, maybe also bad recognition) will give X, then XX and then you're out

 

 yeah totally know what you mean.

i think its funny, as this song generally isnt that hard, but its the details that will break your score/X you out.

A comfortable run without an X would probably be in the 95-96% range