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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 643 =-

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Previous’ week Winners are
:Lead:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (90)
- Intermediate: @Daz40 (90)
- Advanced: @Mikson (96.92)
- Masterclass: @veggs95 (95.9)
- God of Guitar: @veggs95 (97.56)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @rosefog (86)
- Advanced: @Daz40 0 (96)
- Masterclass: @veggs95 5 (97.79)

Bass:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @Vodka (97)
- Advanced: @Daz40 (100)
- Masterclass: @rosefog (98.46)



Congrats to all winners. Well done!
This week’s songs are:
Lead Path:
Beginner: YUNGBLUD - 11 Minutes (3*) (E Standard) selected by drand
Beginner Bonus: Spice Girls - Wannabe (2.5) (E Standard) selected by daz40
Intermediate: Hawthorne Heights - Ohio Is for Lovers (5*) (Drop D) selected by ca51
Intermediate Bonus: Slipknot - Snuff (4) (C# Standard) selected by Emmy/Dell
Advanced: Avenged Sevenfold - Unholy Confessions (6.5) (Drop D) selected by drand
Masterclass: Sonata Arctica - San Sebastian (Revisited) (8.5) (Eb Standard) selected by maltasoron

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: YUNGBLUD - 11 Minutes (2.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Beginner Bonus: Spice Girls - Wannabe (2) (E Standard) selected by daz40
Intermediate: Hawthorne Heights - Ohio Is for Lovers (5*) (Drop D) - Alt. Lead path!!!! selected by ca51
Intermediate Bonus: Slipknot - Snuff (4) (C# Standard) selected by Emmy/Dell
Advanced: Avenged Sevenfold - Unholy Confessions (6.5) (Drop D) selected by drand
Masterclass: Sonata Arctica - San Sebastian (Revisited) (7.5) (Eb Standard) selected by maltasoron

Bass Path:
Beginner: Hawthorne Heights - Ohio Is for Lovers (2.5) (E Standard) selected by ca51
Beginner Bonus: Spice Girls - Wannabe (2.5) (E Standard) selected by daz40
Intermediate: JENNIE - Handlebars (4.5) (E Standard) selected by ca51
Intermediate Bonus: Sonata Arctica - San Sebastian (Revisited) (4) (Eb Standard) selected by maltasoron
Advanced: Camel - Lady Fantasy (7.5^) (E Standard) selected by JobwanMojo
Advanced Bonus: Avenged Sevenfold - Unholy Confessions (6) (Drop D) selected by drand
Masterclass: Louis Cole - Park Your Car on My Face (8) (E Standard) selected by ca51
Masterclass Bonus: Caio Cenci - Wide Steps (7.5) (E Standard) selected by ca51

(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)

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First scores

wtf am I playing xd

I played an old CDLC of this song once. I don't remember it, but this new one is good. And a good song.

To many random misses

Faster, faster!

I had a really busy day, so I had to workout in the evening instead of the afternoon and then went straight into Rocksmith, tired muscles and all. Still, I really don't like using picks, so here's San Sebastian fingered 😬

I really love this song, by the way. It has some emotional memories attached to it, but it's also just really fast gogogo let's get your neck fucked up. Perfect Europower.

This was fun:

This was really fun:

Had a bit of a hard time with this one, and it's too late now to practice it properly:

By the way, while looking for Handlebars I found the song by the same name from Flobots that we played a year ago. That's also a great song :)

I found the rhythm version of Wannabe quite easy to play, I might as well go for 100%. Is the rhythm really a 2? But then again, I don’t have that much experience with how difficulty ratings work so I might be completely wrong.

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On 2/16/2026 at 7:00 PM, MaltaSoron said:

By the way, while looking for Handlebars I found the song by the same name from Flobots that we played a year ago. That's also a great song :)

Ah I'm glad you like the Flobots song aswell:)

Funny that you mentioned it cause originally, the posts on this week's forums with the descriptions of the songs, chatgpt also had mentioned it. However it was saying that it was a cover of the Flobots song and @Emmy-Dell rightfully messaged me saying yea that aint right so I edited it out with new info.

Now thinking bout it though, i think the reverse happened to me. I believe I found the jennie/dua Lupa song cause I was searching for Flobots to reinstall it on my pc and found Jennie dualupas song. Gave it a shot and it honestly became one of my top songs to play on bass since.

16 hours ago, EmbraceTheAbsurd said:

. Is the rhythm really a 2?

Please do leave a number of what you would give and I'll be happy to balance it out.

There's usually not many 1s or 1.5s in the championship but I do understand it is quite simple and repetitive. so maybe it does deserve a lower rating.

I wanna give special thanks to @drand for fixing the leaderboards old scores and teaching me how to do so. 🙏

I was playing a7x cause I still had time before work to see if I could improve score/post it and see if leader boards would update. But fate said "nah, not today bro" . Again, a transformer on my road exploded so no lights for now🤣 . But I'm pretty confident that drand fixed it :) (typing from phone)

5 minutes ago, cacahuate51 said:

I was playing a7x cause I still had time before work to see if I could improve score/post it and see if leader boards would update. But fate said "nah, not today bro" . Again, a transformer on my road exploded so no lights for now🤣 . But I'm pretty confident that drand fixed it :) (typing from phone)

I did improve my score a % on rhythm but it was in nonstop play so I didn't get a screenshot 😅 ofc now I can only score even lower 🤣😭

Sounding like the unholy cover out here

Hope you get power back soon 🙏

Is there a way to remove the sound effect when we miss a streak in Score Attack? It throws me off and gets on my nerves... 🤯

I lowered the sound effect volume to 10% (but applies to all sound effects) 🤷

14 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

Please do leave a number of what you would give and I'll be happy to balance it out.

There's usually not many 1s or 1.5s in the championship but I do understand it is quite simple and repetitive. so maybe it does deserve a lower rating.

If it had a lower rating, then maybe a 1.5. Although it might probably be better if someone else than me decides what difficulty rating it has since I don't have the same amount of exposure of these ratings as much as most people here in the championship have.

Edit: just realized I missed a song, whoops T_T





This was really fun, I'm a sucker for this style of basslines


One of my favorite songs to play ever, been a while since I have played it but still very happy with this score. Thanks for choosing this song for the week! Mirage by Camel is one of my favorite albums period.

Ah m8s ... what can i say here.... Going through the hardest time of my life. My lil niece, my brother´s daughter died at the finish line of her neuroblastoma relapse therapy - cancer was already successfully completely gone - on a very rare infection right before her 6th bd. She was borne the week before the covid lockdown, diagnosed at the age of 2, cured after 18 month horror-therapyscheme, relapse xmas last year, did it all again.... then that. This life was not meant for her.

We are all smashed to the ground. I am trying to find some strings of normality by doing things i always do to distract myself like work and playing guitar but probably will be only dropping some scores and wont be able to organize so much the coming weeks. If i´ll be harsh or smthg it´s cause life is a bitch.

Rod.

exactly.

i love those boys, my fav band

3 hours ago, Rodman said:

Ah m8s ... what can i say here.... Going through the hardest time of my life. My lil niece, my brother´s daughter died at the finish line of her neuroblastoma relapse therapy - cancer was already successfully completely gone - on a very rare infection right before her 6th bd. She was borne the week before the covid lockdown, diagnosed at the age of 2, cured after 18 month horror-therapyscheme, relapse xmas last year, did it all again.... then that. This life was not meant for her.

We are all smashed to the ground. I am trying to find some strings of normality by doing things i always do to distract myself like work and playing guitar but probably will be only dropping some scores and wont be able to organize so much the coming weeks. If i´ll be harsh or smthg it´s cause life is a bitch.

Rod.

I am really sorry to hear that Rodman, It is always extremley tough to lose someone close to your family especially younger ones. Family and mental health should always come first. So take all the time and space you need.

4 hours ago, Rodman said:

Ah m8s ... what can i say here.... Going through the hardest time of my life.

Sorry for your loss @Rodman

Nothing worse than losing someone while they're young with so much life left to live, and so much of their life spent in and out of hospitals 😔

At least she is done with the suffering, and I am sure surrounded with love while she was here 🤍

Big condolences for your brother and your family, they say you might never move on but you do find a way to live on for them 🙏

15 hours ago, EmbraceTheAbsurd said:

If it had a lower rating, then maybe a 1.5. Although it might probably be better if someone else than me decides what difficulty rating it has since I don't have the same amount of exposure of these ratings as much as most people here in the championship have.

Thanks for the number. Usually if only one person mentions a difficulty descripancy (numbers) ill stick to my original score. Unless they state a reason that makes me reconsider my score. 1s and 1.5s are just generally an anomally but that doesnt mean its not possible. heres 2 pictures of the ones weve had
Rhythm:

so the most recent 1.5 was stem, and i believe i made that week, i think it was just open e notes with an occasionaly chord. The only other one i have played is chaise longue but thats been almost 2 years so i dont remember it. (edit interesting fact: i did make that week and apparently it was your first week :P )
Lead;
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Lead most recent was lazarrus and drums, I think those both just had single notes and no chords thats why they are rated so low.

In any case ill play them to see if 2 is too high and ill also wait till the end of the week to see if anyone else thinks it should be lower (i try my best to do this the weeks i host).

@Rodman It's very difficult to read something like this, and it's impossible to imagine how you and your loved ones are feeling. At such moments, I want to believe that she is in a truly better world now . I'm so sorry for your loss.