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🎶🎸🌏🌎🌍 WELCOME TO THE WORLD WIDE ROCKSMITH CHAMPIONSHIP WEEK 636 🌏🌎🌍🎸🎶
🍾🥂🤩🍾🥂🤩2025 SELECTION / NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATION!!!!🍾🥂🤩🍾🥂🤩

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=> Rocksmith 2014 Championships rules

Previous’ week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @Vodka (97.19)
- Advanced: @cacahuate51 (95.32)
- Masterclass: LOST TROPHY

Rhythm:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @Vodka (98.22)
- Advanced: @robolechuga (97)
- Masterclass: @Mikson (71)

Bass:
- Beginner: @Markus12 (100)
- Beginner Bonus: @Markus12 (100)
- Intermediate: @emu (98)
- Advanced: @ALSRC (100)
- Masterclass: @cacahuate51 (100)

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

More great news. There are players to be promoted to higher rank this week.

- @Markus12 is promoted to Advanced class in Bass path.
- @Vodka is promoted to Intermediate class in Bass path.

Congratulations and good luck with new challenges!
In case the above players do not accept promotion, please advise accordingly in the post so we can revert back to previous Class.

This week’s songs are:
Lead Path:
Beginner: Evanescence - Fight Like A Girl (3.5^) (E Standard) selected by aNDESmASAMUNE
Intermediate: Chevelle - Karma Goddess (4.5) (D Drop C) selected by aNDESmASAMUNE [Drop D version available here]
Advanced: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - When in Rome (6.5) (E Standard) selected by aNDESmASAMUNE
Masterclass: Dream Theater - Midnight Messiah (9.5^) (C Standard) selected by aNDESmASAMUNE [E standard version available here]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Evanescence - Fight Like A Girl (3.5^) (E Standard) selected by aNDESmASAMUNE
Intermediate: Chevelle - Karma Goddess (4.5) (D Drop C) selected by aNDESmASAMUNE [Drop D version available here]
Advanced: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - When in Rome (7*) (E Standard) selected by aNDESmASAMUNE
Masterclass: Flea - A Plea (8) (E Standard) - Lead path!!!! selected by shotfirer

Bass Path:
Beginner: Evanescence - Fight Like A Girl (2.5) (E Standard) selected by aNDESmASAMUNE
Intermediate: Chevelle - Karma Goddess (5.5^) (D Drop C) selected by aNDESmASAMUNE[Drop D version available here]
Intermediate Bonus: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - When in Rome (5*) (E Standard) selected by aNDESmASAMUNE
Advanced: Steven Wilson - Objects Outlive Us: Cosmic Sons of Toil (7.5^) (E Standard) selected by aNDESmASAMUNE
Masterclass: Flea - A Plea (9*) (E Standard) selected by shotfirer

(N) - difficulty rating
(N*) - highest difficulty rating for the class (promotion to higher class possible)
(N^) - difficulty rating higher than the highest for the class (promotion possible)

Check current week Rocksmith Championship Leaderboard


You can submit your song suggestions for the championship here
NEW! - easly add songs even on your mobile!:
Add Song Suggestion

Song Suggestions List available to view here: Google Sheets Spreadsheet

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

Do you want to host a week? Join the Championship organizing team!!!
The process is smooth and there is a tutorial as well. If you are interested, send a personal message to Rodman."

also - new guitar day - the SweetWater pics are better than the ones I could take so

Happy 2026 everyone!

🍾🥂🤩🍾🥂🤩HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026!!!!🍾🥂🤩🍾🥂🤩

Playing music is the best way to start the year!!! ✌

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I need to practice really hard if I want to improve my score more than this!!!

On 12/28/2025 at 5:49 AM, Numbox said:

Hey, thanks for including my chart! PPC is awesome, and nice finding out about this event.

@Numbox Thanks to you we are all enjoying playing PPC!!! Really glad to have you here!!!

Note> regarding the screenshot, please submit one that shows the streak, in order to make it a valid score and because the streak is taken in to account in the Championship. Follow the examples of the other screenshots please.

12 hours ago, robolechuga said:

also - new guitar day - the SweetWater pics are better than the ones I could take so

Oh boy! What a shape!!!! Not seen that so far - slim at the section of the horns, almost delicate horns and that domianting leading section with the controls that works sooo well cause of that great supporting carve up there serving as an armrest - the carves are done so intelligently - when you have the first look the guitar give the impression to be an arrow. A basic fretboarddesign and the quites spectacular head that follows the idea of the body iversely. Art. Absolutely love that instrument! May it serve you well.

PS:
Imagine having the arrow alone as guitar body with the wings stripped - also so cool (same color - the one above as 6er and the arrow alone as 7stringer). Inspiring. That is why i would never just copy a standard LP strat, V, Sg or any shape we are used to when building a guitar cause there is so much potential in those designs.

12 hours ago, robolechuga said:

also - new guitar day - the SweetWater pics are better than the ones I could take so

WOW, cool guitar!! I like thin and light comfortable guitars, so that looks great!!!

On 12/30/2025 at 12:29 AM, drand said:

2025 was absolute hell on earth.. Quarter life crisis is hitting me hard as hell but the Championship has been keeping me sane.. music gets the best of me ☺️ Always grateful for everyone's contributions to this incredible community.

Big hopes for 🎆2026🎆and beyond! Hoping to get back to doing covers and would love to get charting without making excuses 😂

Happy new year!!

I really hope that music, and specially playing music, gives you the energy you need to cope with life and do what you strive for!!!!

On 12/28/2025 at 6:35 PM, Rodman said:

Starting with @Rodman he says....

What a year. Work has tried to really get me, it did! My main job - i am deputy chief of a nuclear medicine department - there are big projects to be fought through against declining budgets, everything is hanging by a thread and everyone is a bit nervous, for me a ton of emailing and discussions in meetings while the regular work amount remains at 100% ;)

My "just for fun" job - private practice is running waaaaaaay too good i could probably meet my needs easily doing only that..... my 3rd job - teaching medical stuff needs a bit restructuring to not take away my oct, nov and dec afternoons.

The good thing that this year brought up is that i realised again how important playing guitar, the championship with you girls and guys, and music overall is to me. Every evening - even after a 13hour workday there has been and is .... irrepressible motivation to take the guitar and go for a few runs.
So i cut my passive leisure time to zero - practically no movies, no books, no tv-shows but work on the CS, the scores or learning to play or record music. It´s a great feeling to know that this cannot be stopped.

The second half of the year a big part of my energy was needed in the family cause there is a child fighting with cancer - fingers crossed everything is looking good so far, therapy shall be ending in feb.

So - 2026 - i´ll absoultely be trying to give esp. Miks, Caca and Robo a good fight - man did it get tough here - i just love it.
And i absolutely wanna start doing some covers again ;) be warned.

Cheers to the Championship - a place to truely celebrate playing music.

Rod.

HAPPY NEW YEAR @Rodman !!!

First of all, I sincerely wish to your family a year of health and happiness. Sending so much strength to your family and hoping for the best news in Feb...
Besides that, I already told you that this place was an inspiration for me to keep doing my personal project until it succeeded, and more so now that I hear you are doing THREE JOBS and still manage to run the Championship!!!! WOW!!!
I don't want to be irresponsible because I have ZERO idea about the field, but just judging by your post, maybe you could think about having your "just for fun" job as your primary job! (again, I don't want to be irresponsible but that is the impression I got from your post).

"So i cut my passive leisure time to zero - practically no movies, no books, no tv-shows but work on the CS, the scores or learning to play or record music. It´s a great feeling to know that this cannot be stopped."

Great way to live! Cutting the "passive leisure" and striving for the "active leisure". I got it!!! Sounds like a goal for this year! (I may not be able to do it to such an extent, but will try!!!)

Again, happy new year!!

Improvements (I can't play these at this speed 😅 ):

I also added some missing scores

Happy new year everyone!

Bass scores

Happy New Year And hear is to many happy weeks of Championship for 2026/

Who needs ironman when we got R.O.D.M.A.N. ?!

Not sure how you find time for everything but you are very inspirational and wish i could be as active/ productive (unfortunatley i love sleep more than anything). Always amazed you kept this championship going for the past 10 years. Especially having the 3 jobs (didnt know before) AAND be able to do crafty jobs such as the game machine, guitars and song covers/ while most importantly, being a Dad! Much respect, and wish you and your family the best this year /m/ (i know alot has already been said by others but it is quite an achievement/anomaly)

On 12/31/2025 at 8:54 PM, robolechuga said:

also - new guitar day - the SweetWater pics are better than the ones I could take so

Love the color!! some other participant also had a purple guitar dont remember who though🤔, but i do envy you guys! If i ever get another one i do feel like itd be purple :)

After owning a spikey /horny bass i do think ill never get another one (cause not ideal when sitting down) however, as others have stated, it does look slimmer on the bottom so not as painful/more enjoyable. Good picking the guitar and congrats on adopting another one to the family 🥳

(abit late cause i was away from pc on new years) 2025 was a solid year, lots of new people joined the championship, more hosts, and we had a couple of old participants join back :)

crazy to think just last year you guys were making covers of songs! I dont think ill join that journey as a participant only as a listener. But it was nice to hear all your guyses renditions and would be interesting to see if it continues ( if it does, i do think a seperate post would be better just to find them easier in the future)

i am more than Gratefull for everyone participating here and hope we all continue to dedicate some time this year to get better at guitar/bass and more importantly to have fun. I also look forward to see more people join us on the journey (new and old) ! 🥳


week scores:
fun week @aNDESmASAMUNE thnx!


The part with kflay actually made me enjoy the song, wish the whole song had that vibe, if it did i would probably play it more. Glad evanescence is still making music though. And speaking of kflay, its good to see her name, i remember doing a remix of one of her songs years ago for a competition and that song still has a soft spot in my memories. Havent heard of her name in a long time will definatley check out what shes up to and glad she got to collab with evanescence.



like i mentioned before, always happy with some chevelle :) I think theres alot more songs that i prefer to play than this song but the tab was good and fun to play.



porn crumps is also a band id like to check out more as they seem to have some fun riffs (atleast from the few songs that ive played from them)

i thought the 9 was fine just cause its so long and stamina. was sure rosefog or jobs would get 99 quick so was amazed to see @shotfirer being the first one to 99 it but ig he is the creator so...doesnt count (jk, grats tho crazy score!)


the last chord made me wander alot on guitar and before i knew it the screen for my score was no longer there. i know it doesnt count but owell

man those guitar stretches in the intro are unreal. I like the red note riff cause it was easy.

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and a good run

brr

Happy new year!

Happy New Year Everyone! 🥳

I haven't played much this week, but here are the scores.

Lead

And Rhythm

Happy new year! Had a busy and hectic Christmas and New years so I'm pretty rusty right now. Glad to be able to participate again

SCORES ADDED !!

On 1/2/2026 at 11:00 AM, cacahuate51 said:

was amazed to see @shotfirer being the first one to 99

Ha-ha-ha, I wish!
I guess you've mistaken my SW score for Flea track. I'm nowhere near those numbers. Around the 5-minute mark, my carpal tunnel kicks in, so I can't keep that speed anymore...