The Summer 2025 Live edition of the FFR Rando Marathon has been announced by FFR admin DarkmoonEX.
Says DarkmoonEX:
On June 13th, 14th, and 15th, the Final Fantasy Randomizer (FFR) community will be hosting our fourth annual Summer edition of the FFR Rando Marathon and this year we’re doing it LIVE! For a few days, we’re taking over Charleston, West Virginia to raise money for the LIAM Foundation, who we are very excited to once again partner with.
The LIAM Foundation is an organization dedicated to encouraging, assisting, healing, and empowering the LGBTQIA+ community. 100% of all donations will go directly to the charity.
Regarding the marathon format, DarkmoonEX continues:
The Marathon will be a hybrid of live and online runs. Scheduled slots from 10:00 AM EDT Friday June 13th to Midnight (11:59 PM EDT) Sunday June 15th. A fourth day may be added for an all online pre-show on June 12th, if we receive enough submissions.
All randomizers are welcome! Every marathon we are so unbelievably lucky to get an incredible amount of submissions from a huge variety of randomizers and we can’t wait to see what gets submitted for this marathon!
Submissions are open now through April 27th @ 11:59 PM EDT.
For more info, see the resources below. If you have any questions, you can find an FFR rep on the FFVC Discord or on the FFR Discord. You can also reach out to clymax.
Resources
Volunteer form for submitting runs for the event [link]
Rules, Guidelines, ticket & hotel information for the Marathon [link]
Headliner: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Integrated Randomizer (PSX) Runner: Crazy4Blades | YouTube | SRC Commentator: Mottzilla | YouTube | Twitch
Bionic Commando: Item Randomizer (NES)
Dragon Warrior: Ablaze (NES)
Willow: Item Randomizer (NES)
Ys III: Wanderlust (NES)
A follow-up season can be considered to cover roguelikes.
Runners and Commentators
If you’re a runner or commentator of one of the above games in vanilla or rando and would like to showcase a run of the game’s self-randomizing mod in this pilot series, see below.
The showcase series is currently being planned for a monthly schedule of one to two games per month. The start date is still being determined but will be announced when known. Update: series kicked off April 5.
For example showcase runs, see FFR’s YouTube channel here.
One or two show hosts may be present during your run, and there may be introductory and/or closing segments and/or some interaction during the run. This depends on host availability so is by no means guaranteed.
Both speedruns and challenge runs are acceptable. For other types of runs, speak with clymax for an exception to be granted.
Live audio commentary in English by you or by a guest is required. Update: an exception can be made to accept prerecorded audio commentary to improve commentary quality.
Live play is optional; gameplay can be prerecorded.
Face cam is optional.
Full runs are requested.
As a guideline, previous showcases have often had runs ranging from 1.5-2 hours. But other run lengths can be acceptable as long as audio commentary keeps pace with the run.
Runners and commentators who are interested, please reach out to us via the FFR or FFVC Discords. Contact clymax if you have any questions.
