Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 669 =-

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (94)
- Intermediate: @jimmy655 (96.38)
- Advanced: @cacahuate51 (93.53)
- Masterclass: @Mikson (85)
- Masterclass Bonus: @shaggy_malagy (95)
- God of Guitar: @shaggy_malagy (85)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (94)
- Intermediate: @ALSRC (98.45)
- Advanced: @jimmy655 (92.3)
- Masterclass: @pedropmf (96.97)

Bass:
- Beginner: @MotivatedCF (100)
- Intermediate: @MaltaSoron (97)
- Advanced: @lowender (99.33)
- Masterclass: @JobwanMojo (99.89)
- God of Bass: @pedropmf (98.83)

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

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

- @MotivatedCF 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: Kavinsky - Nightcall (3.5^) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Beginner Bonus: Snot - My Balls (3*) (Eb Drop Db) selected by drand
Intermediate: Bullet For My Valentine - Fever (5.5^) (D Drop C) selected by drand
Intermediate Bonus: Electric Callboy - The Way You Are (4.5) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Advanced: Nothing More - Jenny (6.5) (C# Drop B) selected by loudly
Advanced Bonus: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Marmalade March (7.5*) (E Standard) selected by aNDESmASAMUNE
Masterclass: Between the Buried and Me - Autodidact (8.5) (C# Standard) selected by drand
Masterclass Bonus: Dark Tranquillity - Edenspring (8) (Eb Standard) selected by Vodka

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Kavinsky - Nightcall (4^) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate: Electric Callboy - The Way You Are (4.5) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Advanced: Bullet For My Valentine - Fever (6) (D Drop C) selected by drand
Masterclass: Between the Buried and Me - Autodidact (8.5) (C# Standard) selected by drand
Masterclass Bonus: Dark Tranquillity - Edenspring (8) (Eb Standard) selected by Vodka

Bass Path:
Beginner: Thievery Corporation - All That We Perceive (2.5) (E Standard) selected by JobwanMojo
Beginner Bonus: Kavinsky - Nightcall (1) (Drop D) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate: Bullet For My Valentine - Fever (4.5) (D Drop C) selected by drand
Intermediate Bonus: Electric Callboy - The Way You Are (4) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Advanced: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Marmalade March (6.5) (E Standard) selected by aNDESmASAMUNE
Advanced Bonus: Dark Tranquillity - Edenspring (6) (Eb Standard) selected by Vodka
Masterclass: Dirty Loops - Old Armando Had A Farm (10^) (E Standard) selected by Emmy-Dell
Masterclass Bonus: Between the Buried and Me - Autodidact (8) (G#/ Ab Standard) - Bonus Rhythm path!!!! selected by drand
God of Bass: Dirty Loops - Old Armando Had A Farm (10) (E Standard) selected by Emmy-Dell [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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Apologies to anyone having issues with the PPC song. That's an old chart of mine and doesn't reflect the standard of my work.

I had planned to fix it along with some other old charts, but I've been dealing with a condition that's affected my motor control, so I've been inactive in charting for the last year. I miss playing/charting so much... but right now even typing takes an eternity. I hope someday I can make a return :)

BACK THIS WEEK

Welcome back, @Emmy-Dell! It's been 10 weeks since your last (Week 658).

Welcome back, @luckyoldme! It's been 156 weeks since your last (Week 512).

16 hours ago, MotivatedCF said:

I'm motivated but I don't believe in miracles...

Hold up have you tried Nightcall by Kavinsky yet? 🤔 Should be a nice little warmup to feed the soul before diving into the more fretboard jumping tracks!! 💪

5 hours ago, Rodman said:

i am strictly against banning or ignoring songs that are just OLD or suffer from repairable issues.
Only because a charter is inactive his old work is not not worth playing it!

Not to worry Rodman, those songs are only banned in my cold dead new-wave heart!!! 😉 I prefer sharing the work of charters still active in the community and selfishly I love the standardization and odlc vibes of newer charts but wanted to hear what the gang thinks, looks like an even split so far!

Thanks for stopping by @Hypercat! Love your work, hope you feel better soon!! 🙏 Any favorite difficult tracks you've charted that we should check out??

5 hours ago, Mikson said:

This CDLC is unfortunately completely unsuitable for use in championship. I remembered that I started testing it a while ago and quickly turned it off...

Okay I switched it to bonus and adjust ratings!

19 hours ago, MotivatedCF said:

I've ran the Valentine Fever song as well. Oh boy, I'm over my head right there. Also, I tend to play this in Score Attack mode, so I can start with Easy and move up, but the song in this mode crashes RS; is this happening to others or is it just me?

I've played Fever a number of times in Score Attack Hard on Bass, Lead, and Rhythm, and have had no crash problems with it. (I should note I play on a Mac).

To answer @drand from last week regarding the latency I was having with RS Mods - I am using a Sterling H.224 interface and no matter what I did with RS Mods, massive latency as soon as I add it to Rocksmith. Might be my setup, could be the audio driver. Not sure, but we live in a golden age of AI, so over the past few nights I forked the RS Mods / RS Mods Plus repository and worked with ChatGPT to make a purpose built mod dll file that does a very specific job for the two mods I wanted.

1. Force song enumeration, so you can go download something, refresh list and play it without a restart - cool RSmod feature.

2. Detune with hot keys up to -12 semitones, this is global for both players if using multiplayer

3. I also had it add a tuning reference offset, so you can go from A420 to A461 - the range that was in my song list.

Came out to a 27 kb xinput1_3.dll, drop it in your RS Folder and it works. Just finished and tested with one run, will test more this week and make it available on GitHub for anyone who is interested.

7 hours ago, drand said:

Hold up have you tried Nightcall by Kavinsky yet? 🤔 Should be a nice little warmup to feed the soul before diving into the more fretboard jumping tracks!! 💪

Whaat? No, I hadn't. But now I have, and it's definitively up my alley 😅 (I got this score after 6-8 attempts though). I'll try to submit Thievery corp, Kavinsky (100% 🤞) and Valentine before the end of the week.

Not anticipating to win anything this week (I accepted to be promoted to Intermediate) and it's ok, this is fun :)

like this better

🎶🎸🌘 CHAMPIONSHIP NIGHT!!!!

YEEAAHHH!!! ✌😎✌🤩✌😎✌🤩
Thank you @drand for hosting an exciting week!!!

And great to be back after a while!!! I hope I can get a better streak this time in @drand stats!!
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Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Marmalade March - Lead
Did I really rate this 4????????? 😮🫣

I DONT KNOW WHAT THE HELL I WAS THINKING!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I must have been extremely drunk or something!!!! 🍺🤪
The truth is that it was very difficult for me to rate songs, specially at the beggining...
I was gonna say that I was lucky @drand tested the song, since @Mikson would have send a sniper drone all the way from Poland to Tokyo!!! 🤣 But then I realized @Mikson did actually test the song!! So I am lucky to still be alive!! 🤣
Still I would encourage everyone to add songs, since we all need a lot of practice and dedication to learn how to rate correctly according to the standars in this Championship!!!

OK, so as you can see... I can't play this song I rated 4.... 🤣

15 hours ago, Hypercat said:

Apologies to anyone having issues with the PPC song. That's an old chart of mine and doesn't reflect the standard of my work.

I had planned to fix it along with some other old charts, but I've been dealing with a condition that's affected my motor control, so I've been inactive in charting for the last year. I miss playing/charting so much... but right now even typing takes an eternity. I hope someday I can make a return :)

Hi @Hypercat !!! I am rather very grateful for the chart, since I discovered PPC here in CustomForge thanks to YOU, and it is one of my favorite bands I found here! I would not have discover them any other way!!!
I sincerely hope you get better soon. Sending you warm thoughts and strength from Tokyo.

brutal song wow)

brutal song wow 😅)

brutal sounding but manageable

also brutal sounding but slight improvement so extra brutal for me

18 hours ago, robolechuga said:

over the past few nights I forked the RS Mods / RS Mods Plus repository and worked with ChatGPT to make a purpose built mod dll file that does a very specific job for the two mods I wanted.

1. Force song enumeration, so you can go download something, refresh list and play it without a restart - cool RSmod feature.

2. Detune with hot keys up to -12 semitones, this is global for both players if using multiplayer

3. I also had it add a tuning reference offset, so you can go from A420 to A461 - the range that was in my song list.

Came out to a 27 kb xinput1_3.dll, drop it in your RS Folder and it works. Just finished and tested with one run, will test more this week and make it available on GitHub for anyone who is interested.

Amazing work @robolechuga!! Another home run 😵

On 8/17/2026 at 4:34 AM, MotivatedCF said:

Valentine Fever song in Score Attack mode, the song in this mode crashes RS; is this happening to others or is it just me? I'll post my score before the deadline for this one too; I'm motivated but I don't believe in miracles...

I am seeing a discrepancy between the accuracy % reading from the mod during play and the accuracy at the score card so I think something might be funky with this chart... CFSM hasn't been opening for me lately so can't check on there but the CDLC builder says everything looks fine, not sure what's up 🤔

8 hours ago, shaggy_malagy said:

brutal sounding but manageable

you went from looking like this in my head :

to this:

Agreed Rocksmith Voice, Agreed.

Wait, What - that is the top score so far this week for the tier level players. UHHHHH, now I have to think about trying to hold on to it.

On 8/18/2026 at 7:51 AM, robolechuga said:

Just finished and tested with one run, will test more this week and make it available on GitHub for anyone who is interested.

🙋‍♂️

Here you go

Hard, hard, hard... Can anyone play this so it sounds even slightly good? The middle section is a nightmare.

Other scores

Score Attack Hard

And Master. A great song to quickly learn to play by heart! Someone's taking on the master challenge? (yes, I know that no one) 😅

Very challenging week, loved playing it though.











Not the best chart but still fun nonetheless (except the lack of charted intro and that... interesting chord section in the middle)


Yeaaaa no way in hell I was doing this on score attack (tried a few times but failed each time, it very much BESTED me)


Should've spent a little more time on this one getting used to reading 5 string with the guitar layout, but god I love this band.

BACK THIS WEEK

Welcome back, @aNDESmASAMUNE! It's been 4 weeks since your last (Week 664).

Welcome back, @FlatCap Jay! It's been 1 weeks since your last (Week 667).

Welcome back, @robolechuga! It's been 1 weeks since your last (Week 667).

Great job on master mode @Mikson what a flex!!