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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 673 =-

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=> Rocksmith 2014 Championships rules

Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
-Beginner: @Decaquark (99.59)
-Intermediate: @FlatCap Jay (97)
-Intermediate Bonus: @jimmy655 94.56)
-Advanced: @Mikson 97.78)
-Masterclass: @shaggy_malagy (91)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @Decaquark (98)
- Intermediate: @ALSRC (91)
- Intermediate Bonus: @ALSRC (88)
- Advanced: @jimmy655 (95.64)
- Masterclass: @cacahuate51 (95.44)

Bass:
- Beginner: @Decaquark 99.38)
- Intermediate: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (95)
- Intermediate Bonus: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (96)
- Advanced: @Mikson (98)
- Masterclass: @Nomgoose (97.24)
- Masterclass Bonus: @pedropmf (99.59)

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

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

- @theMaelstro is promoted to Intermediate class in Lead path.

-@AstronaStrums is promoted to Masterclass class in Bass path.
- @PlanetFinesse will now be competing in masterclass class all paths

@Knippenburg Has joined the championship and will be participating in Advanced Bass class.

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:Less Than Jake - Hopeless Case(3*)(E Standard)selected byca51
Beginner Bonus:Bowling For Soup - Girl all the Bad Guys Want(4.5^)(Drop D)selected byca15
Intermediate:Taking Back Sunday - MakeDamnSure(4.5)(Eb Standard)selected byca51[just now noticed rodman had a version aswell, only have played pavs though]
Intermediate Bonus: Santana - Maria Maria(6^) (5^) ((E Standard)selected byca51
Advanced:Atreyu - Right Side of the Bed(6.5)(D Drop C)selected byca51
Advanced Bonus:Mayday Parade - I'd Hate to Be You When People Find Out What This Song Is About(6.5)(Drop D)selected byca51
Masterclass:Every Time I Die - Leatherneck(8)(Drop D)selected byDrand[R.I.P Andy Williams (Rhythm guitarist)]
Masterclass Bonus:Yellowcard - The Takedown(8)(Drop D)selected byca51
God of Guitar:The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal (Full Album)(10)(C Standard)selected byNomgoose[Week 1 of 3]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Santana - Maria Maria (3*) (E Standard) selected by ca51
Beginner Bonus: Less Than Jake - Hopeless Case(3.5) (3*) (E Standard) selected by ca51
Intermediate: Taking Back Sunday - MakeDamnSure (4.5) (Eb Standard) selected by ca51
Intermediate Bonus: Bowling For Soup - Girl all the Bad Guys Want (4) (Drop D) selected by ca51 [different cdlc from last week played 39]
Advanced: Atreyu - Right Side of the Bed (5) (D Drop C) selected by ca51
Advanced Bonus: Mayday Parade - I'd Hate to Be You When People Find Out What This Song Is About (6) (Drop D) selected by ca51
Masterclass: Every Time I Die - Leatherneck (8) (Drop D) selected by Drand [R.I.P Andy Williams (Rhythm guitarist)]
God of Rhythm: The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal (Full Album) (9) (C Standard) selected by Nomgoose [Week 1 of 3]

Bass Path:
Beginner: Bowling For Soup - Girl all the Bad Guys Want (3*) (Drop D) selected by ca51
Beginner Bonus: Santana - Maria Maria(3.5) (3*) (B Standard) selected by ca51
Intermediate: Taking Back Sunday - MakeDamnSure (4) (Eb Standard) selected by ca51
Intermediate Bonus: Less Than Jake - Hopeless Case (4) (E Standard) selected by ca51
Advanced: Save Ferris - Come On Eileen (5) (E Standard) selected by ca51
Advanced Bonus: Atreyu - Right Side of the Bed (4.5) (4) (D Drop C) selected by ca51
Masterclass: Masayoshi Takanaka - Oh! Tengo Suerte (8.5) (E Standard) selected by ca51
Masterclass Bonus: Christell - Dubidubidu (Chipi Chipi Chapa Chapa) (7.5) (E Standard) selected by ca51
God of Bass: The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal (Full Album) (8) (C Standard) selected by Nomgoose [Week 1 of 3]

(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)

If you have different difficulty ratings for the songs make sure to fill this form out, I will do an average of the results to balance it at the end of the week

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Ok using the results from the form here
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfkV0BlUXd_flTi13zLWCz3qkhBhxzDTl4pyv49mQPR5NIypA/viewform?usp=publish-editor
i did the average rounded to the nearest .5

the songs that changed rating are displayed in main post:
Lead
Intermediate Bonus: Santana - Maria Maria(5^) (6^)((E Standard)selected byca51

Rhythm
Beginner Bonus: Less Than Jake - Hopeless Case (3*) (3.5) (E Standard) selected by ca51

bass
Beginner Bonus: Santana - Maria Maria (3*) (3.5)(E Standard) selected by ca51
Advanced Bonus: Atreyu - Right Side of the Bed (4) (4.5) (D Drop C) selected by ca51

5 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

Ok using the results from the form here
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfkV0BlUXd_flTi13zLWCz3qkhBhxzDTl4pyv49mQPR5NIypA/viewform?usp=publish-editor
i did the average rounded to the nearest .5

the songs that changed rating are displayed in main post:
Lead
Intermediate Bonus: Santana - Maria Maria(5^) (6^)((E Standard)selected byca51

Rhythm
Beginner Bonus: Less Than Jake - Hopeless Case (3*) (3.5) (E Standard) selected by ca51

bass
Beginner Bonus: Santana - Maria Maria (3*) (3.5)(E Standard) selected by ca51
Advanced Bonus: Atreyu - Right Side of the Bed (4) (4.5) (D Drop C) selected by ca51

Great!

One thing is important!

IF the rating is updated (in the leaderboard) AFTER the next week has been already created - the rating in "Songs Played" is wrong and has to be updated manually - and that´s the important sheet.

Update:

Good thing - deleting the weeks rows from "songs Played" and executing the "Transfer Songs to Songs Played" DOES WORK! - just has to be done! (i just did for 673)

Rod.

On 9/19/2026 at 3:21 AM, cacahuate51 said:

My worry is in your comment of no solos in beginner. Mainly cause beginner can sometimes be just as hard as picking songs for masterclass since there's not that many songs sugested in that category or even made in general (and that is ignoring if they are decent tabs / decent cdlcs). Atm theres aprox 30 songs out of 909 suggested (ignoring the 3.5 category) thats 3.3% of songs. Usually the songs are then also underated, so more like half of that which would be 1.65 % . Granted, 15 songs is almost 4 months of just playing suggested songs, so its still alot. But it Just seems like wed be pushing everything to int (which is where most songs are at already) or advanced.

I believe the main thing seperating a rhythm path from lead ARE the solos. If you don't want to play a solo there's the rhythm path for a reason and why it should be rated independently to some kind of extent. All classes imo (beg to gog) should dip their feet in solos, starting from hummable, to more complex, to multiple techniques, and lastly all techniques+multiple solos or sweep picking (masterclass). Naturally, context, speed, and patterns matter more than just flagging a specific technique as instant Masterclass; if I can't play a technique yet, it just means I need to practice it, not that the song automatically belongs in a higher tier.

@cacahuate51 @Mikson
Hi guys! Thanks for your feedback and I totally agree with your points, and of course understand the situation of not having many beginner songs available.

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I never meant to say "exclude all solos in beginner as a rule". I should have been more explicit, but when I wrote "basically no solos", what I meant was "don't expect to play propper solos in this category, but rather only easy repetitive riffs or little melodies (that function as extremely simple solos)". (I think I wrote it this way because, most of the beginner songs I have played don't actually have much "solos", but maybe I was a bit too biased).

I will take time later to write my theories in the compendium, and will make this more explicit to avoid misunderstandings.