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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 672 =-

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (96)
- Intermediate: @Vodka (97)
- Advanced: @Mikson (97.73)
- Advanced Bonus: @Mikson (96.61)
- Masterclass: @shaggy_malagy (96.8)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (94)
- Intermediate: @ALSRC (89)
- Intermediate Bonus: @ALSRC (83)
- Advanced: @Vodka (93)
- Masterclass: @cacahuate51 (94)

Bass:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Beginner Bonus: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (98.81)
- Advanced: @Daz40 (99.12)
- Masterclass: @JobwanMojo (99.36)

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Arctic Monkeys - Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? (3*) (E Standard) selected by ca51
Intermediate: Green Day - Goodnight Adeline (4.5) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate Bonus: ZZ Top - Neighbor, Neighbor (4) (E Standard) selected by RoboLechuga [Tribute to Frank Beard - 8/17/2026]
Advanced: Tool - Lateralus (6) (Drop D) selected by TinMan
Masterclass: Andy Gillion (ft. Jeff Loomis) - Skyless (9*) (E Standard) selected by Drand

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Arctic Monkeys - Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? (2.5) (E Standard) selected by ca51
Intermediate: Green Day - Goodnight Adeline (4) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate Bonus: ZZ Top - Neighbor, Neighbor (4) (E Standard) selected by RoboLechuga
Advanced: Tool - Lateralus (6) (Drop D) selected by TinMan
Masterclass: Andy Gillion (ft. Jeff Loomis) - Skyless (8) (E Standard) selected by Drand

Bass Path:
Beginner: Arctic Monkeys - Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? (2) (E Standard) selected by ca51
Intermediate: Green Day - Goodnight Adeline (5*) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate Bonus: ZZ Top - Neighbor, Neighbor (4) (E Standard) selected by RoboLechuga
Advanced: Tool - Lateralus (6.5) (Drop D) selected by TinMan
Masterclass: Vulfpeck - It Gets Funkier (8.5) (E Standard) selected by RoboLechuga
Masterclass Bonus: Andy Gillion (ft. Jeff Loomis) - Skyless (8) (E Standard) selected by Drand

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

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The process is smooth and there is a tutorial as well. If you are interested, send a personal message to Rodman.

Thanks for hosting @robolechuga! Fantastic selection this week. Just a couple of songs to start with.

Tool is always a fun band to run through, easy (7):

Hell yes more funk! Can't wait to run through this one a few more times. (8) seems reasonable here with what some of sections ask of you:

Everything was played on my new PRS, including emulated bass charts since my 4-string is at the shop

I guess I'm leaving lots of room to shoot for most improvement...

Thanks for the week @robolechuga !

Have to practice those slides 😅

thnx for the varied week robo!



anyone else get often different % scores in rsmods?

I'd prefer it to be lwoer like a 6.5 its just a long song.

solid song, i think it can be 8

Neat rhy mc song, i think this one can be an 8. Theres only 2 trickyish sections the rest (95% of the song) is pretty intermediate/ beginner with it just being powerchords.

I must say i also love the stoneaged 2014, updated 2015 version there we played in week 24 :)

https://ignition4.customsforge.com/cdlc/890

extreme fun to play - you might wanna use CFSM to speed up the scrolling to default, else it´s a blast

Del´s seems to be a lot more based on what the members really play - so more accurate and also a blast. THX

Hell Yeah! So nice (4.5)

what a nice song (6)

just epic (8)

@robolechuga WHAT A WEEK!!!!!!

i must say i´m not unhappy with my performance there (9.5-10)

95

cool, very hard bass mc (9)

TOP GAINS OF LAST WEEK

@drand (A) gained 9% on "Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You" (A) on Lead!

@drand (A) gained 2% on "Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You" (A) on Rhythm!

@drand (A) gained 2.82% on "The Rocky Horror Picture Show - The Time Warp" (A) on Bass!

hmm...

Well done 👏 Keep shredding!!

RANKED SONGS MASTERED (99+%) LAST WEEK

@Daz40 mastered the Bass path for "The Rocky Horror Picture Show - The Time Warp" (A) with 99.12%!

@JobwanMojo mastered the Bass path for "Pokémon Anime - Kanto Gym Theme" (M) with 99.36%!

@pedropmf mastered the Bass path for "Pokémon Anime - Kanto Gym Theme" (M) with 99.14%!

 Well played!! 👏

LAST WEEK'S PLAY STREAK HIGHLIGHTS

@Mikson is on a 25-week active play streak (longest: 268 weeks). Their first week was Week 340 and they have played a total of 330 weeks!

@drand is on a 10-week active play streak (longest: 28 weeks). Their first week was Week 577 and they have played a total of 79 weeks!

@Nomgoose is on a 10-week active play streak (their longest streak yet). Their first week was Week 662 and they have played a total of 10 weeks!

@pedropmf is on a 5-week active play streak (longest: 26 weeks). Their first week was Week 268 and they have played a total of 92 weeks!

Keep it up!! 👏

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Thanks for the week @robolechuga! Can't wait to try these out 😎 Very happy Arctic Monkeys is finally getting a makeover and omg 10 minute TOOL 🫨!!

4 hours ago, Rodman said:

I must say i also love the stoneaged 2014, updated 2015 version there we played in week 24 :) extreme fun to play

That chart is so nostalgic 😄 one of my most played when I was playing beginner stuff on my own for many years before I found the championship, then I could play other things which is great because I was starting to get real sick of it (and so was everyone else in earshot) 😂

@cacahuate51 I looked at the leaderboard spreadsheet and saw what was on the screenshot. I thought it was amazing and probably the first time two players had the same accuracy score, streak, and point score. And then I looked in the last week topic for your score and it wasn't there, so I don't know what's going on 😂

Just two hard sections on this song, going to try the five string arrangement as well to see how different it is. (8) seems right with that in mind:


100% a (2):
What a fun song, (4) is really good here:

4 minutes ago, Mikson said:

@cacahuate51 I looked at the leaderboard spreadsheet and saw what was on the screenshot. I thought it was amazing and probably the first time two players had the same accuracy score, streak, and point score. And then I looked in the last week topic for your score and it wasn't there, so I don't know what's going on 😂

React app falsely registers the top score when someone puts a screen shot of the table as their own.
(I shouldve sent image by message not posted or removed some of the titles name so it wouldnt detect)
And it shouldnt have happened if I had nullified the scores or if robo or someone else didnt fetch for new scores after the week was created (wouldnt be needed since the deadline already was set and winners were already fixed hence why robo has you as the winner of the week atm).

I have manually reverted the lead scores on the excell sheet for that song ( since looks like robos score is mine and his is wrong in your screenshot) and have marked mine invalid on react app.
If for some reason someone runs fetch again, please mark the latter scores invalid else I believe it will be added to the table.
Edit:
I guess the fetch was done after the last post on the forums since looks like rodmans scores are on the table.
I dont think they should be since they (and any other score made after the new week was created) were late and to avoid confusion...but Idk how other hosts want it to be handled tbh/ dont know when the deadline is.

That brings back some memories. I must have been only person at the Tool show not wearing a black t-shirt, and another audience member gave me a lecture about my tangerine polo shirt killing the whole vibe. Good time nonetheless, although standing on a folding chair for an hour can get a bit scary...

Emulated bass

I just can't connect with Green Day for some reason, it doesn't seem hard....

NEW RELEASE

RL-Mods 1.3 is the first major update since 1.0, and it’s a big step forward for Rocksmith Championship players.

RL-Mods is designed to be powerful without getting in Rocksmith’s way — no heavy game hooks, no bloated framework, just a lightweight mod focused on the features modern Championship players actually use. It is optimized around the audio and UI paths to add useful capability while staying out of normal gameplay.

New in 1.3

• Automatic tuning adjustment for all supported single-player and multiplayer game modes

• Tuning mode selector with P1 Manual, P2 Manual, Sync, and Auto Detect

• Automatic score screenshots with in-game timing adjustment and on/off control

• Audio engine updates for smoother, more stable tuning behavior

• Updated OSD with configurable display time

• F4 help screen showing all keyboard shortcuts

• The detuning engine is built on Stephan M. Bernsee’s well-regarded smbPitchShift algorithm, giving RL-Mods a real jump in audio quality with low latency and processing that is almost imperceptible in normal play

The goal is simple: give Championship players the tuning, screenshot, and quality-of-life features they actually need.

https://github.com/RoboLechuga/RL-Mods/releases/tag/v1.3.0

Improvement

Thanks for the new week!

Awesome week @robolechuga!! Always love playing something new from some of my favorite charters and find new ones to follow 😊 great charts

Not so much my thing but great!

Love songs like this, very cool!

Vulfpeck is great!! Iconic

I also see different percentages in song vs. scorecard sometimes @cacahuate51 did you say that? not sure what causes it, didn't see any errors when I put charts it happens for in the DLC builder 🤔 forgot

20 hours ago, jimmy655 said:

I must have been only person at the Tool show not wearing a black t-shirt, and another audience member gave me a lecture about my tangerine polo shirt killing the whole vibe.

🤣 Conform!! 🤘 They probably felt righteous as hell, too 💀💀

17 hours ago, robolechuga said:

NEW RELEASE

Nice work, you are on a roll!! Can you set your physical tuning to not E Standard for the automatic tuning? The screenshot timing adjustments are a good idea!

Not at all happy about my playing of the emulated bass while the 4-string is at the shop. So I dug up the $75 fretless Squire from the back of the closet and was able to do a little better than on the emulated bass.

On 9/7/2026 at 8:58 AM, robolechuga said:

NEW RELEASE

RL-Mods 1.3 is the first major update since 1.0, and it’s a big step forward for Rocksmith Championship players.

RL-Mods is designed to be powerful without getting in Rocksmith’s way — no heavy game hooks, no bloated framework, just a lightweight mod focused on the features modern Championship players actually use. It is optimized around the audio and UI paths to add useful capability while staying out of normal gameplay.

New in 1.3

• Automatic tuning adjustment for all supported single-player and multiplayer game modes

• Tuning mode selector with P1 Manual, P2 Manual, Sync, and Auto Detect

• Automatic score screenshots with in-game timing adjustment and on/off control

• Audio engine updates for smoother, more stable tuning behavior

• Updated OSD with configurable display time

• F4 help screen showing all keyboard shortcuts

• The detuning engine is built on Stephan M. Bernsee’s well-regarded smbPitchShift algorithm, giving RL-Mods a real jump in audio quality with low latency and processing that is almost imperceptible in normal play

The goal is simple: give Championship players the tuning, screenshot, and quality-of-life features they actually need.

https://github.com/RoboLechuga/RL-Mods/releases/tag/v1.3.0

Just great!!! Keep that up!

Have a nice musweek everyone! Thanks for hosting @robolechuga !

Arctic Monkeys - Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?

Green Day - Goodnight Adeline

ZZ Top - Neighbor, Neighbor

Tool - Lateralus

Andy Gillion (ft. Jeff Loomis) - Skyless

Vulfpeck - It Gets Funkier