Four-Job Fiestas Compared

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.

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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, master, various rando toggles
Reward	Run noted on website	Event badge on website	Leaderboard entry on SRC; vanity Discord role(s) for successful participants and top finishers; 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

1. 2011 data is given, because FourJobFiesta.com stopped disclosing participant counts after 2011, showing only the total number of runs instead since. ↩︎

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