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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
-Beginner:@EmbraceTheAbsurd (91)
-Intermediate:@Vodka (96)
-Intermediate Bonus:@jimmy655 (94.57)
-Advanced:@robolechuga (96.57)
-Advanced Bonus:@jimbobmccecil (96.09)
-Masterclass:@LuZifeR (94)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (92)
- Intermediate: @ALSRC (91)
- Intermediate Bonus: @ALSRC (92)
- Advanced: @jimmy655 (92.17)
- Masterclass: @LuZifeR (98)

Bass:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (99.88)
- Beginner Bonus: @MotivatedCF (100)
- Intermediate: @figital (99)
- Intermediate Bonus: @figital (93)
- Advanced: @Mikson (98.35)
- Advanced Bonus: @ALSRC (99.68)
- Masterclass: @Nomgoose (99.6)

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

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

- @EmbraceTheAbsurd 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:Rammstein - Bestrafe mich(2.5)(Drop D)selected bydrand
Beginner Bonus:The Rasmus - In The Shadows(3*)(E Standard)selected byc
Intermediate:Def Leppard - Foolin'(4.5)(E Standard)selected byc
Intermediate Bonus:Phil Collins - Another Day in Paradise(4)(E Standard)selected by alsrc
Advanced:All That Remains - The Last Time(7*)(C# Standard)selected byc
Masterclass:ToxicxEternity - Dragon Roost Island(9*)(D Drop C)selected byc
God of Guitar:Blotted Science - E.E.G. Tracings(10)(E Standard)selected bynomgoose[Week 1 of 2]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Rammstein - Bestrafe mich (2.5) (Drop D) selected by drand
Beginner Bonus: The Rasmus - In The Shadows (2.5*) (E Standard) selected by c
Intermediate: Phil Collins - Another Day in Paradise (4.5) (E Standard) selected by alsrc
Intermediate Bonus: Def Leppard - Foolin' (4.5) (E Standard) selected by c
Advanced: All That Remains - The Last Time (6.5) (C# Standard) selected by c
Masterclass: Blotted Science - E.E.G. Tracings (8) (E Standard) Bonus path! selected by nomgoose

Bass Path:
Beginner: Rammstein - Bestrafe mich (2.5) (Drop D) selected by drand
Beginner Bonus: Def Leppard - Foolin' (3.5^) (E Standard) selected by c
Intermediate: Phil Collins - Another Day in Paradise (5*) (E Standard) selected by alsrc
Intermediate Bonus: The Rasmus - In The Shadows (4.5) (E Standard) selected by c
Advanced: Steely Dan - The Second Arrangement (JM's Final Mix) (7*) (E Standard) selected by jimmy655
Masterclass: Blotted Science - E.E.G. Tracings (8) (E Standard) selected by nomgoose
God of Bass: Louis Cole - Thinking (Live Sesh) (8.5) (E Standard) selected by c [Week 1 of 2]

(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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Imrovement

I tell you lol 😅:

I didn't know the song but I like it. Easy and medium went through, hard not so much (I tried a couple of times).

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That's hard (fast)

Rhythm

Poor recognition of easy power chords in the chorus, once again I don't know why ☹️

Ohh the arpeggios destroyed me as you can see, strong 5 or 5.5.

The main rhythm path is not in E Standard as indicated, but A Standard, which is too low for me. The bonus rhythm is in E Standard, I don't know which one counts.

Welcome back, @pedropmf!

shout out @ALSRC, merged your old stats from before the name change, you're on a perfect 127 week streak since joining on Week 541! 🤯

Keep it up!! 👏

For Low Tuning Songs

🪫Can't tune that low? Pitch-shifted version here, make sure you delete the original file from your game to avoid duplicate ID messing with game: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18ZTxoqCVJJoMyn-SQ8bpXfKKaIXJrDIt?usp=drive_link

43 minutes ago, Mikson said:

The main rhythm path is not in E Standard as indicated, but A Standard, which is too low for me. The bonus rhythm is in E Standard, I don't know which one counts.

@cacahuate51 submitted the alternate rhythm screenshot I think not sure how they're different tho

On 8/3/2026 at 2:09 PM, lowender said:

hey guys!, I'm still here! he's slowly getting better

Glad to hear it!! Y'all are in my thoughts 🙏

37 minutes ago, drand said:

@cacahuate51 submitted the alternate rhythm screenshot I think not sure how they're different tho

Glad to hear it!! Y'all are in my thoughts 🙏

well i just went along with it being the same (estandard+pitchshift/ astandard) as stated in his cdlc bio. So i was gonna count both. On a quick glance does look like some notes are on differentstrings so its not a 1 to 1 copy as i thought. but i say its pretty similar dificulty wise and probably should count but if theres any objections then speak.

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EDIT
drand posted this in discord so perhaps this will make it fair for everyone?
https://old.reddit.com/r/rocksmith/comments/1va5qow/rsmodsplus_v200_digital_drop_pedal_for_rocksmith/

have yet to try it though

Such a great song, (7) feels good as a score here

Pleasant song to play through, another good rating:

Got an improvement for Thinking as well:

hard one for me (7)

Proggy nice (7.5)

better

(8) bass - nice to play that one

21 hours ago, drand said:

shout out @ALSRC, merged your old stats from before the name change, you're on a perfect 127 week streak since joining on Week 541! 🤯

Keep it up!! 👏

Thanks! Let's see if I can keep it up during holidays (should be home on weekend) 😅

Happy Friday everyone! 😊 Only one day left to join this week's Championship ⏰

Tagging everyone that's put in scores within past 2 weeks:

@RoR

@Daz40

@jimbobmccecil

@robolechuga

@MaltaSoron

@theMaelstro

@figital

@EmbraceTheAbsurd

@attaboy

Have a great weekend if we don't see ya! 😁