Final Fantasy V Challenge Events
For more info on the Whirlwind (Four-Job) Fiesta event, see here.
For the Whirlwind family of mods, click here.
For current event standings, click here.
For clymax’s projects, click here.
Logo credit: FourJobFiesta.com.
All data as of June 2025.
| Original Four Job Fiesta (FJF) | Four Job Fiesta (FJF) | Whirlwind Four-Job Fiesta (WFJF) | |
| Host | Revenant Kioku | Sutarion | clymax |
| Platform | FourJobFiesta.com | Retro Achievements | FFV Central |
| Platform history | 12 years | 13 years | 1 year |
| Platform community size (Discord) | ~2,500 | ~20,400 | ~300 |
| Event edition | 15th | 3rd | 1st |
| Successful participants last edition | 122 (20111) | 126 | n/a |
| When | Summer | Summer | Summer |
| Compatible with original FJF | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Fundraising for charity | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Four jobs | Total | Total | Per character |
| Event nature | Challenge run | Challenge run | Speedrun competition (Division I); challenge run (Division II); custom challenge (Division III); bonus (Division IV) |
| Leaderboard | Speedrun.com | ||
| Team portion | ✓ | ||
| Supported version(s) | SFC, PSX, GBA, Pixel Remaster (various) | GBA | Whirlwind dev build (SFC) |
| Enrollment | Open to website users | Open to website users | Open to qualified Discord members; subject to enrollment limit |
| Requirements | Legally obtained game | Legally obtained game | Legally obtained game; qualified access to mod’s dev build |
| Seeding | Random | Random | Choice of community seed, player seed, or auto-rando seed |
| Job rolling | Web app | Event staff | Whirlwind mod |
| Job enforcement | Self-enforced by player | Achievement logic counts jobs with ABP but cannot check job rolls | Whirlwind mod |
| Submission | Screenshot | Screenshot | Livestream, video, and/or input recording |
| Verification | Screenshot verification | Video verification | |
| Farming boosts | 2x-4x | 62x | |
| Open world | ✓ | ||
| Average run length | 20 hours | 20 hours | 2 hours |
| Optional in-game modes or flags in event | Rando job per level or per minute, vanilla early jobs or crystal jobs, open or closed world, permadeath, solo, blood moon, master, various rando toggles | ||
| Badge reward | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Additional rewards | Leaderboard entry on SRC; vanity Discord role(s) for successful participants and top finishers; achievement badges for certain Discord roles; front-page banner for victorious community in team portion until next Fiesta; access to current Whirlwind dev build by certain qualified players; 3 hidden features unlocked in save file; access to bonus division | ||
| Sample VOD | Link | Link | Link |
- 2011 data is given, because FourJobFiesta.com stopped disclosing participant counts after 2011, showing only the total number of runs instead since. ↩︎
So, what do you think? Comment below, or check us out on Discord.
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