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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 661 =-

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
-Beginner:@EmbraceTheAbsurd(94)
-Intermediate:@jimmy655(96.95)
-Advanced:@Mikson(95.05)
-Advanced Bonus:@aNDESmASAMUNE(97.97)
-Masterclass:@TrevyMetal(88)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (93)
- Beginner Bonus: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @ALSRC (98)
- Advanced: @jimmy655 (98.72)
- Masterclass: @Mikson (86)

Bass:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Beginner Bonus: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @attaboy (99)
- Intermediate Bonus: @attaboy (100)
- Advanced: @Mikson (99.5)
- Masterclass: @pedropmf (99.04)

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now? (2.5) (E Standard)
Beginner Bonus: KSI - Thick Of It (3*) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: Scorpions - Wind Of Change (4.5) (E Standard)
Intermediate Bonus: Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance (3.5) (E Standard)
Advanced: The Haunted - Death to the Crown (7.5^) (D Standard) selected by Vodka
Masterclass: Dethklok - Face Fisted (8) (C Standard)

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now? (3*) (E Standard)
Beginner Bonus: Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance (2) (E Standard)
Intermediate: Scorpions - Wind Of Change (4) (E Standard)
Intermediate Bonus: KSI - Thick Of It (3.5) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Advanced: Dethklok - Face Fisted (6) (C Standard)
Advanced Bonus: Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight) (3.5) (E Standard)
Masterclass: The Haunted - Death to the Crown (8) (D Standard) selected by Vodka
Masterclass Bonus: KSI - Thick Of It (8) (E Standard) - Bonus Lead path!!!! selected by Daz40

Bass Path:
Beginner: Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now? (2) (E Standard)
Beginner Bonus: Oliver Tree - Essence (4^) (E Standard)
Intermediate: Scorpions - Wind Of Change (4.5) (E Standard)
Intermediate Bonus: Luis Miguel - Suave (4) (E Standard) selected by drand
Advanced: Dethklok - Face Fisted (6) (C Standard)
Advanced Bonus: Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight) (4.5) (E Standard)
Masterclass: Tim Maia - Acenda o farol (7.5) (E Standard)

(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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Lead scores

I played this song so long ago and then forgot. But I don't know if it was the same CDLC, maybe an older one.

Diff rating 2.5 is too low in my opinion. I think (and I think I've mentioned this before) that @cacahuate51, for you, easier arpeggios don't pose any problems, so you're giving it a low rating, but it's a somewhat difficult technique for beginners. Overall, most of the song is easy, but this in screenshoot is quite awkward. For me, this is a 3/3.5.

This is a 3, and for me, it's easier than Men At Work. But that's my personal opinion, because for me, charts where the notes are based on the vocal line always seem easier. I give 2.5.

Really classic song. Not very fast but technical chart, more than 4.5 for me. Slides, hammer ons/pull offs, bends, and a lot of jumping over frets, for me this is at least a 5, because it's very difficult to achieve 99%, so if someone from intermediate could do it, they definitely deserve the advanced class.

Besides, it's a really good CDLC. I remember back in the day (I checked, it was week 406) we were playing an older version of CDLC that was rated 6, perhaps a bit too high, and the chart was generally similar to this new version. We had a great fight for victory back then 😀

Really fun chart, I'd gladly play it again. I'd give this a 4.

Advanced and Masterclass are quite similar in terms of difficulty. The Haunted song is harder excluding the solo (but that's my opinion because it's faster and that's a bigger problem for me), Dethklok song is mostly easier but has a very difficult solo (8.5 solo, 6 for the rest of the chart). It's hard to rate this chart, I think 8 is ok. The Haunted could also be an 8, but 7.5 is ok too.

3 hours ago, Mikson said:

A nice hattrick of wins last week 😍 This happened to me before, but when I was competing in advanced in all paths, and now I'm in the rhythm masterclass, which raises the bar significantly.

However, I think that my selection of songs did not appeal to the competitors enough to make them take up a fierce fight in my classes 😐

@cacahuate51 Thanks for a week! Interesting song choices. I've been watching a lot of matches lately, though I've been playing Rocksmith less. It's not easy in my time zone because some matches take place at night 😴

You can rest assured that I will comment on the difficulty ratings for the songs from the selection 🤣

I support Cape Verde, they are amazing 😍, and among European teams I support Norway because I like this team.

Your not supporting Poland !!Oh Wait!! 😂

this is my first time trying the championship. i started with easy bass, and let's see how it goes!

@cacahuate51 said i could post a photo of my screen. for some reason, when i try to take a screenshot, it just gives a blank screen. i wonder if it's due to having 2 monitors and a projector all running? anyway, i hope this is ok.

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as for the world cup, i have watched almost every match so far. go france. go japan. go england. go australia. (all the places i have lived)

1 hour ago, figital said:

this is my first time trying the championship. i started with easy bass, and let's see how it goes!

@cacahuate51 said i could post a photo of my screen. for some reason, when i try to take a screenshot, it just gives a blank screen. i wonder if it's due to having 2 monitors and a projector all running? anyway, i hope this is ok.

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as for the world cup, i have watched almost every match so far. go france. go japan. go england. go australia. (all the places i have lived)

Ooooh i member you! Glad you gave it a go, its been a couple of months since last time we spoke. Seems like you nailed the safety dance! Make sure to give the other songs a go when you have the time 🤘.


Eii, I personally said before the world cup started that finals was gonna be england vs france. Not so sure after todays match against ghana that was pretty bad but ill stick to it being that.

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Also @ALSRC grats on the 5 0!!! 🥳🎉

anyone else got steam login issues since yesterday?

18 hours ago, figital said:

this is my first time trying the championship. i started with easy bass, and let's see how it goes!

@cacahuate51 said i could post a photo of my screen. for some reason, when i try to take a screenshot, it just gives a blank screen. i wonder if it's due to having 2 monitors and a projector all running? anyway, i hope this is ok.

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as for the world cup, i have watched almost every match so far. go france. go japan. go england. go australia. (all the places i have lived)

Nice job and welcome to the addiction that Is the championship.
try to make sure its a close up of just the screen so the auto bot can pick up the scores .
A lot here use Post Image and It Is pretty easy to add screenshots and post them we had a guide somewhere.

14 hours ago, shaggy_malagy said:

anyone else got steam login issues since yesterday

I personally haven't had issues, have you asked someone on discord?

On 6/24/2026 at 5:09 AM, figital said:

this is my first time trying the championship....

as for the world cup, i have watched almost every match so far. go france. go japan. go england. go australia. (all the places i have lived)

To sum that up ..... Go Austria ;)

that´s fun and not easy rhythmically (7-7.5)

damn cool, damn hard! (8)

thx @Vodka

and that was a damn good run

pity RS is very forgiving on the rhy especially here

lead +

it´s an (8), not less

oh... cool song... absolutely didn´t catch the groove and was thrown off my horse and run over by the stampede, horror

(8)

Some Rhythm. I don't have more time because I'm watching World Cup matches 😄

Too many bonuses... 😉

3/3.5 same as Lead.

2.5

4

4

Wow, haven't heard this in ages, fun to play though repetitive.

4 again

Celebrated the win of Mexico and I know @aNDESmASAMUNE , @drand and @Alan24 were there in spirit!!! 🥳
(Just now posting cause the lights went out in my neighborhood :V)

Have a nice musweek everyone! Skipped this week because I had a one week vacation.

Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now?

Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance

Scorpions - Wind Of Change

KSI - Thick Of It

Bonus Lead is impossibru.

Dethklok - Face Fisted

Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight)

The Haunted - Death to the Crown. Counter is higher because I played it when testing.

Oliver Tree - Essence

Luis Miguel - Suave

Tim Maia - Acenda o farol

Improvements (finally 90% 😅)

On 6/25/2026 at 3:12 PM, pedropmf said:

Sorry guys, I didn't see that the rithm master was bonus lead path, which is much more difficult to play, at least for me...

Bass

2/2.5

I didn't notice this wasn't used, well..

Chart with slap & pop used for beginners, ok.

4.5/5

5

6

Fun chart

5.5

Absolutely difficult to achieve a high score because you have to be very precise with your timing. An 8 for sure.

Way way way too fun to play

Always have an amazing time listening to this one