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Da Rules

(Credit to the Ubi Forums for some Ideas!):Items in bold are updates to the rules.

1. Anyone may join the contest as long as he's a forum member.

2. You can play "Score Attack" On Hard or "Learn a Song" with all sections mastered (all purple): You may also play a song which does not have DD on Score Attack easy if you cannot get through it on hard as all the notes will still show up on easy but it won't X you out as easily.

3. There are four classes: Beginner(BEG), Intermediate(INT), Advanced(ADV) and Masterclass(MC). If you enter to the contest the first time, you can choose your class for every path separate or become FreeBird Member.
Classes difficulties standards are BEG: 1-3 INT: 4,5 ADV: 6,7 MC: 8,9
 

3.1 FreeBird member is a participant who does not belong to any class, thus can't win at the end of the week, but can be rewarded with FBA (FreeBird Award) after playing 2 weeks in a row (one pass allowed).

3.2 UP/DOWNLEVELING (Update by Rodman)

 

Everyone can choose his class he wants to participate when he starts to play.

Lead/Rhy and Bass are independent so a player can choose different classes in the different paths.

 

You level up

-----   if you achieve 99%+ (bass 99.5%+) on a classes top difficulty song (3 for beg / 5 for int / 7 for adv) - unless you vote against! (your classmates and the orgas will have to let you stay (to avoid players of higher classes to rule a lower league)

-----   whenever you feel ready - just make a post (and pm any orga so you make sure its not overlooked) and you level up.

 

You level down

----- whenever you feel you are in a class too high (your new classmates and the orgas will have to let you stay (to avoid players of higher classes to rule a lower league)

 

GoG is an extra competition for everyone - MC stays masterclass and does never level up.

 

You are then leveled automatically as follows:

• Guitar (lead or rhythm) - If you score same or more than 99% on song of upper difficulty,
• Bass - If you score same or more than 99.5% on song of upper difficulty.

If you score <=79% on a level two weeks in a row you are leveled down one class. If you do not participate for 3 weeks in a row your name is removed from the lists but you may return and choose what class you want to be in when you return (you can drop by maximum one class).

"Pour Some Sugar On Me rule" is rule made after ratings were done, it based on situation where easy songs are in higher class, Pour Some Sugar On Me bass is perfect example of beginner bass song, still it leveled up some bass players to MasterClass. With that rule particpant is not going to be leveled up on songs easier then his class, unless he wants to level up.

 

3.3 Organizers may decide not to level up a participant if it seems fair for competition.

 

4. Both instruments are leveled separately.

5. You may only enter in one class per arrangement. (Bass, Rhythm, Lead) but you may participate in all available arrangements. Your highest level difficulty entry will be chosen as your entrant if you participate in all arrangements. For example if you play all 3 classes on BASS your MC BASS Score will be your entry for that week. Same goes for Lead and Rhythm classes. This will make it fair for the people who can't play the higher level songs and hopefully stop discouraging them from posting their scores because the other advanced players are posting theirs. 

6. One Song is chosen for all Instruments and classes

 

6.1. For each instrument songs are sorted by theirs difficulty (from easiest to thoughest).

7. Every Saturday new songs are chosen. From all participants of a class, one is chosen at random by Motive, Mortalo.

8. Every member should add his/her name and song he/she would like chosen to the Song Selection List which has been made editable by all for this purpose

9. Only 1 song per class will be selected and only custom DLC's with at least 1 arrangement for guitar and 1 arrangement for bass are allowed (ideally they should have Lead/Rhythm/Bass arrangements and have a custom tone with Riff Repeater but Rhythm arrangements and custom tones are optional).

Also Originally included Rocksmith 2014 songs may be selected as well. NO OFFICIALLY RELEASED DLC is supported at this time and ALL customs must be available on Customsforge.com to qualify. 

 

9a. All songs must have riff repeater in order to qualify for the championship. Songs without riff repeater may be replaced if they are chosen accidentally unless everyone states they want to keep it. 

10. You only need to change the song in the list if your song is selected. If not, you can keep the same choice, or choose another, it's up to each one of you.

11. On Saturday, if your name is chosen and you didn't enter any song in the Song Selection List, another member will be chosen.

12. Starting with the publication of the songs, you may enter your score.

13. The scores are entered in the corresponding google doc: Leaderboard Motive, frippchen, Rodman and Mortalo  take care of entering the scores if there is any discrepancy please let one of these people know.

14. You must post a screenshot with your score showing the Accuracy % and streak and all songs must be played @ 100% (ALL PURPLE BARS) or the score will not count. You may use whatever image hosting site you would like to post your screenshots. 

15. Ranking is done by percentage first, then by Longest Streak and in the case of a tie the tiebreaker will be the actual score in Score Attack (so if you played LAS and got 100% but then someone plays Score Attack and gets 100% the winner will be the one who played Score Attack).

16. If you play LAS (Learn a Song), you percentage will be always, xx.00%(example %99.00), if you prefer SA (Score Attack), your percentage will always be xx.xx%(example 99.02%). 

17. Every song is up for discussion until Sunday around 08:00PM EST(Eastern Standard Time). If you think a song is too hard for Intermediate or Beginner or if a Custom is not made well (Horrible Tone or not synced or just a bad tab), please let us know in the thread, so we may discuss it.

18. After Sunday 08:00pm EST the songs are set and will only be changed if the organizers have not been able to respond earlier and there is a problem with the custom.

19. The contest closes the next Saturday around 07:00pm CEST. Rules update (02/22): Entered scores are valid until 7pm CET of the running week or until new week start, whatever happens later.

20. The winners are announced in the OP of the corresponding week's thread.

21. Rules may change without notice. So watch out.

 

Last but not least:

 

Members who play in the competition are free to play any song selected for the competition and we encourage newer members to always try all class songs, but if you are a normal MC/INT player or have been put in the MC/INT brackets because of your previous scores, any scores posted for a lower level than what your current class is will not be counted or added to the Leaderboard. This is to encourage the newer members to play these songs without feeling like they are in the bottom every week. I will be trying to keep track of the scores that are posted each week and will automatically move players to their correct difficulty levels. Starting this week I will be paying more attention to the previous weeks scores and will be adding a page to the spreadsheet that shows where each player is supposed to be for the current week. Thank you all for your participation and remember we are all here to learn and have fun. Please feel free to add suggestions to this thread or any comments as I will be following this thread and appreciate all suggestions. 

 

FreeBird Member Special Rules:

 

0. FreeBird can`t to get any victories, crown trophies (Rodman' Ranking) and DHM (Die Hard Member)

1. Newcomer get's FBA (FreeBird Award) after participating 2 weeks in a row, if he/she did not choosed the class.
2. FBA is taken away if participant fails to post score two weeks in a row.

3. Regular participants are allowed to leave class and become FreeBird at any time.
3a. All awards are taken away.
3b. Name is moved to list "Free bird" under own class (same column, CCL)
4. Participant is allowed to return to his class (or higher) at any time.
5. Every Freebirds score is placed in class list as "0" (in separated rows), and if he/she return to their class, then marks are moved as well with name and "->>" symbol, to give auto DHM (score is 4 weeks in row, one miss allowed)
6. In leaderboard FreeBirds names are marked grey and ~

 

 

 

-= 10weeks leaderboard (Rodman´s Ranking) ruling =-

 

running 10 weeks score. In other words: last 10 completed weeks are scored as follows:

 

1st place: 10 pts

2nd place 5 pts

3rd place 3 pts

4th place 1 pt

 

100%score: + 1pt

MM score (score not worse than players highscore -2%): +1pt

 

players score in their classes and above.

that is all.

The weekly leaderboard update is made by me, Rodman on weekstarts and the needed change of leader award is done right then.

 

 

latest update Aug,31 2015 R.

latest update Feb,17 2019 R.

latest update Jun,2 2021 R.

latest update Feb,6 2022 R.

I've been cleaning up the SSL tab a bit and wanted to highlight one point: If you are adding a bass-only or guitar-only file, you need to add it to the appropriate tab, not the main "Song Selection List" but the "Only Bass Songs" or "Only Guitar Songs" tab. This way it's easier for the person selecting a song...for example, if they need a bass-only chart, they can just hop over to the "Only Bass Songs" tab and pick one from there.

If you're like me and adding songs with multiple parts but you only play one or the other, I suggest using "?" for a part that is included but not tested, and "N/A" for a part that is not included in the file. But that's just a preference, not a requirement 🙂

 

Hi. I do have a question:

 

May we still suggest Songs for championship? If yes, to whom? (that song list thing is a ''lost place''🙃)

 

It is my first time participating here and I concider my self a beginner.

So...I noticed that the song selection (for Rythm/Lead) is just to hard for a beginner to play. There is no way some one who just startet playing guitar could play those chords in Beatles - Help (for example).

What is your definition of beginner? Someone who has played guitar for a few years and knows all the chords (and knows how to implement those chords with their Hand)?

 

I would suggest easier songs for guitar beginners to play.

 

Just sayin'

 

😉🌸

Hey@ LacrimaLuna !
I'm just a particapant in the competition and its always good to see new people joining! the more the merrier 🙂
I havent seen you post in the more recent competitions so im not sure if your question has been answered or not.

Yes! you can submit your suggestions over here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HzgY90kLwyGqzJ-R64v8lmpeQMMhhxwGwUlenepIgms/edit#gid=6 just scroll down to the next empty cells and fill out the information. The team is always looking for good easy begginner choices.

I think begginer songs are usually a combination of some of these elements ; repetetitve, few different sections, mostly single notes, few to none string changes, not that many chords, probably more power chords focused rather than c, a, g, e, d/ variation chords, rarely a solo but if there is one its usually repeatable
good examples imo from older competitions would be
uncool as me-bloodhound gang
whats up 4 blondes (i think theres like 4 chords),
bad reputation joan jett  flyaway lenny kravits etc

there is definatley a spreadsheat with all of the begginer songs but im unsure of where it is... i personally added begginner lead songs from previous competitions here in this spotify list maybe itll interest you

I started out in begginer aswell cause the week i joined begginer seemed pretty hard to me and slowly ive gone up. Its been fun imo!  Its a neat way to challenge yourself to play different songs and actually try to play them decently.  Just go at your pace, Practice with the riff repeater if areas are troubling you...and most importantly have fun!

Hope this answered your questions, and look forward to seeing you in future competitions 🙂

edit: My bad I thought it said august 2022 not 2021 XD

2 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

Hey@ LacrimaLuna !
I'm just a particapant in the competition and its always good to see new people joining! the more the merrier 🙂
I havent seen you post in the more recent competitions so im not sure if your question has been answered or not.

Yes! you can submit your suggestions over here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HzgY90kLwyGqzJ-R64v8lmpeQMMhhxwGwUlenepIgms/edit#gid=6 just scroll down to the next empty cells and fill out the information. The team is always looking for good easy begginner choices.

I think begginer songs are usually a combination of some of these elements ; repetetitve, few different sections, mostly single notes, few to none string changes, not that many chords, probably more power chords focused rather than c, a, g, e, d/ variation chords, rarely a solo but if there is one its usually repeatable
good examples imo from older competitions would be
uncool as me-bloodhound gang
whats up 4 blondes (i think theres like 4 chords),
bad reputation joan jett  flyaway lenny kravits etc

there is definatley a spreadsheat with all of the begginer songs but im unsure of where it is... i personally added begginner lead songs from previous competitions here in this spotify list maybe itll interest you

I started out in begginer aswell cause the week i joined begginer seemed pretty hard to me and slowly ive gone up. Its been fun imo!  Its a neat way to challenge yourself to play different songs and actually try to play them decently.  Just go at your pace, Practice with the riff repeater if areas are troubling you...and most importantly have fun!

Hope this answered your questions, and look forward to seeing you in future competitions 🙂

edit: My bad I thought it said august 2022 not 2021 XD

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