¶ Duck Bootcamp
The Duck Bootcamp is a series of streams, flagsets, and asynchronous weekly challenges to on-board new runners (Duckings) into the FFR community in the 6 weeks prior to the seasonal Duck Derby.
The Duck Bootcamp is hosted by the Duck Don who will often enlist the help of prominent community members to assist with flag design, restreaming, and VOD review.
Weekly flagsets are broken into two groups: easier, basic training 100 Level classes, and more advanced, interesting flag option 200 Level classes. These are revealed on-stream, Sunday (100 Level) and Wednesday (200) evenings, usually with one community member running a seed alongside one or two commentators for the purpose of describing major features of the flagset, traps, tricks, and things to look out for. After the reveal stream, flags are made public for the Duckling Weekly asynchronous race on the FFR Discord, along with weekly, streamed races on Mondays (100 Level) and Thursdays (200 Level). VOD reviews are run on Fridays, based on submitted runs from the ducklings.
¶ Spring Bootcamp 2024
The Spring 2024 Bootcamp began in late March, 2024, and ran for six weeks. It was hosted by LuffyDV and Serisan, with additional assistance from the community. It featured the Platy Party event during weeks 4, 5, and 6 of the Bootcamp. Flags were archived here as they debuted in the bootcamp.
| Spring Bootcamp 2024: Flags and Videos | ||
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| 000 Level Flagset | VOD | |
| Week 0: Introduction to FFR | ||
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090: Vanilla-ish-ish A basic introduction to the game. The flags follow vanilla progression, but we have included the standard “quick play” improvements from the randomizer. Flags also introduce a few minor randomization optimizations to keep the game moving quickly and smoothly.
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Class 090 (YouTube) | |
| 100 Level Flagsets and Seeds | 200 Level Flagsets and Seeds | VODs and Race Rooms |
| Week 1: Melee Week | ||
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101: Fighter Class The fighter is a generalist melee with a broad ability to use equipment, great survivability, and good damage.
Seeds: Note: Duck flags for the first few classes were done on v4.7.9 before the site (and randomizer) updated to v4.7.10. Flags remain on v4.7.9 so that posted seeds continue to function. |
201: Ninja Class The Ninja has been greatly improved by the randomizer, making them a solid melee option.
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Class 101 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and LuffyDV Class 101 Race (YouTube), featuring shoombabi and robdraven Class 201 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and LuffyDV Class 201 Race (YouTube), featuring shoombabi and Matty VOD Review (YouTube), hosted by shoombabi, featuring DMStewart |
| Week 2: Learning Strategy | ||
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102: BB Class It's all about the Black Belt as a melee carry. Get ready to charge up and throw hands.
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202: 2-Loose Shard Hunt It's time to learn chest locations, and when key items can be lurking, in a flagset with so many items we don't know where to put all of them.
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Class 102 (YouTube), hosted by Darkmoon and fryteeth Class 102 Race (YouTube), featuring picklesandbeer and siberianbull9 Class 202 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and Luffy, featuring Darkmoon Class 202 Race (YouTube), featuring shoombabi and WindFox470 VOD Review (YouTube), hosted by robdraven, featuring RazorOne |
| Week 3: New Ways to Play | ||
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103: Floaterless We sailin’, fam. Where we're going we don't need airships.
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203: Free Enterprise A fast, quick flagset where you start with the airship right outside Coneria and have to plan your route through the Four Fiends and on to Chaos.
Seeds: Note: Due to the update on the site to v4.7.10, duck flags updated to that version as well going forward. |
Class 103 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and LuffyDV Class 103 Race (YouTube), featuring shoombabi and DMStewart1981 Class 203 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and LuffyDV, featuring Swaneyrath11 Class 203 Race (YouTube), featuring Chanigan and RogerMcBain VOD Review (YouTube), hosted by shoombabi and Chanigan, featuring herbie_b and Felissan |
| Week 4: A Mixed Up World | ||
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104: Entrance Shuffle The world as you know it is all changed up. The map is the same, but all those entrances will lead to different areas. You'll have to find a new path through a seemingly changed world.
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204: Entrance and Floor (E/F) Shards And now the floors are mixed up as well. Different entrances, new towers, and shards everywhere to collect.
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Class 104 & Platy Party Race 1 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and Matty, featuring Kumo and Darkmoon Class 104 Race (YouTube), featuring Wewbear and Sorbius Class 204 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and Luffy, featuring rubes000 Class 204 Race (YouTube), featuring JShydell and shoombabi VOD Review (YouTube), hosted by LuffyDV and JShydell, featuring Billick |
| Week 5: True Tests of Will | ||
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105: Spring Tournament 2021 Redux We revisit a flagset of the past, with some minor updates, to give you a feel for a true, competitive flagset.
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205: Spellcrafter What's better than mixed magic? Completely new (and sometimes very powerful) magic. Be the best mage you can be.
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Class 105 & Platy Party Race 2 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and Matty, featuring Phoenix and JShydell Class 105 Race (YouTube), featuring goatspirate and WindFox470 Class 205 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and Oslodo Class 205 Race (YouTube), featuring shoombabi and herbie_b VOD Review (YouTube), hosted by LuffyDV and Darkmoon, featuring Jacobbbbbbbbb |
| Week 6: The Road to Graduation | ||
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Our traditional challenge for our new players, letting them experience the most recent competitive event in a practice setting.
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206: NOverworld Who needs an overworld? Not these heroes as they explore a labyrinthine maze within the world of familiar locations.
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Class 106 & Platy Party Race 3 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and Matty, featuring budgemano and Oslodo Class 106 Race (YouTube), featuring Ael and DMStewart Class 206 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and Shoombabi Class 206 Showcase (YouTube), hosted by Sawneyrath and Oslodo, featuring Shoombabi VOD Review (YouTube), hosted by fryteeth, featuring Jacobbbbbbbbb |
¶ Spring Bootcamp 2023
The Spring 2023 Bootcamp began March 26th and ran for six weeks. It was hosted by LuffyDV and Serisan, with additional assistance from Deadpulse, budgemano, and Wewbear. It featured the return of the Platy Party event during weeks 4, 5, and 6 of the bootcamp. Flags were archived here as they debuted in the bootcamp.
| Spring Bootcamp 2023: Flags and Videos | ||
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| 000 Level Flagset | VODs | |
| Week 0: Introduction to FFR | ||
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090: Vanilla-ish-ish A basic introduction to the game. The flags follow vanilla progression, but we have included the standard “quick play” improvements from the randomizer. Flags also introduce a few minor randomization optimizations to keep the game moving quickly and smoothly.
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Class 090 (YouTube), hosted by DarkmoonEX and Serisan
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| 100 Level Flagset | 200 Level Flagset | VODs |
| Week 1: Melee Week | ||
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101: Fighter's Class The fighter is a generalist melee with a broad ability to use equipment, great survivability, and good damage.
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201: Go Ninja! The Ninja has been greatly improved by the randomizer, making them a solid melee choice.
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Class 101 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and LuffyDV Class 101 Race (No Restream) Class 201 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and LuffyDV Class 201 Race (YouTube), featuring Chanigan, Rich Borque, herbie_b, and Windfox470 VOD Review (YouTube), hosted by Deadpulse, featured runner herbie_b |
| Week 2: Learning Strategy | ||
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102: It's Punching Time! It's all about the Black Belt as a melee carry. Get ready to charge up and throw hands.
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202: Two Loose It's time to learn chest locations, and when key items can be lurking, in a flagset with so many items we don't know where to put all of them.
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Class 102 (YouTube), Hosted by Serisan and Phoenix29 Class 102 Race (YouTube), featuring Jumo, Odraun, herbie_b, and DMStewart1981 Class 202 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and LuffyDV Class 202 Race (YouTube), featuring herbie_b, thavionhawk, Chanigan, DarkmoonEX VOD Review (YouTube), hosted by Deadpulse, featured runners DMStewart1981 and Chanigan |
| Week 3: New Ways to Play | ||
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103: Floaterless We sailin’, fam.
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203: Chaos Rampage A fast, quick flagset where you start with the airship right outside Coneria and have to plan your route through the Four Fiends and on to Chaos.
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Class 103 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and LuffyDV Class 103 Race (YouTube), featuring herbie_b, Sawneyrath11, Thavionhawk, Shoombabi Class 203 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and LuffyDV Class 203 Race (YouTube), featuring DMStewart1981, herbie_b, ThavionHawk, maple VOD Review (YouTube), hosted by Deadpulse, featured runner Deadpulse |
| Week 4: Exploring the World | ||
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104: Entrance and Town Shuffle The world as you know it is all changed up. The map is the same, but all those entrances will lead to different areas. You'll have to find a new path through a seemingly changed world.
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204: Oops All Loose! All of the key items in the game are out, loose in the world, and can be found anywhere. You've gotta go find them!
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Class 104 & Platy Party Game 1 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and LuffyDV, featuring DarkmoonEX and BurtReynoldz Class 104 Race (YouTube), featuring MapleKZ and ThavionHawk Class 204 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and Luffy Class 204 Race (YouTube), featuring herbie_b, ravioli500, Deadpulse, fryteeth VOD Review (YouTube), hosted by Deadpulse, featured runner robdraven |
| Week 5: Collect-a-Thon | ||
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105: Shard Hunt You do not need to light all 4 orbs to complete this seed. Open chests to find shards. Lighting the earth or fire orbs will give you 2 shards while water and air will give 4.
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205: E/F Shards It's time to explore the world to find those shards, but this time the world is all mixed up as well. Entrances don't lead where you expect, and the stairs are all confused as well. Get out those tracking sheets and start plotting out the world.
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Class 105 & Platy Party Game 2 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and LuffyDV, featuring jesusthefrog, robdraven, Aelmarkin_, DarkmoonEX Class 105 Race (YouTube), featuring ThavionHawk, herbie_b, fryteeth, ravioli500 Class 205 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and LuffyDV Class 205 Race (YouTube), featuring ravioli500, herbie_b, ThavionHawk, Deadpulse VOD Review (YouTube), hosted by Deadpulse, featured runner maple |
| Week 6: The Road to Graduation | ||
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106: 3 Orb Any A modified version of the Winter Tournament flagset to get you ready for what tournaments may throw at you.
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206: ProcGen Overworld And now the world really is brand new as we let the randomizer generate an entirely new Overworld to explore.
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Class 106 & Platy Party Game 3 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan and Sawneyrath11, featuring jesusthefrog, Aelmarkin_, fryteeth, guardianmarcus Class 106 Race (YouTube), featuring ThavionHawk, herbie_b, shoombabi, Serisan Class 206 (YouTube), hosted by Serisan, LuffyDV, and HaateXIII Class 206 Race (YouTube), featuring maple, herbie_b, jesusthefrog, budgemano No VOD Review This Week |
¶ Summer Bootcamp 2022
The Summer Ducking Bootcamp was run by Deadpulse, GregglyPuff, and LuffyDV, with additional assistance from DarkmoonEX and budgemano. The first reveal stream was held on Sunday, May 15, with additional streams following for six weeks, Sundays for the bootcamp and Wednesdays for the extra credit classes.
| Week | Main Flagset | Extra Credit | VODs |
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| Week 1 | Beginner Flagset | Ninja Party | Week 1 (YouTube), hosted by budgemano and LuffyDV, featuring Greggly_puff Week 1 Extra Credit (YouTube), hosted by LuffyDV |
| Week 2 | Black Belt Party | Black Belt Expanded | Week 2 (YouTube), hosted by budgemano and Greggly_puff Week 2 Extra Credit (YouTube), hosted by budgemano and LuffyDV, featuring Greggly_puff |
| Week 3 | Thief Party | More Black Belt Fun | Week 3 (YouTube), hosted by budgemano and LuffyDV, featuring Greggly_puff Week 3 Extra Credit (YouTube), hosted by LuffyDV and Serisan |
| Week 4 | 2 Loose | Random Treasures | Week 4 (YouTube), hosted by Greggly_puff and DarkmoonEX, featuring SirLinkalot and Phoenix29 Week 4 Extra Credit (YouTube), hosted by LuffyDV and Serisan |
| Week 5 | Entrance and Floor Shuffle | Shard Hunt | Week 5 (YouTube), hosted by Greggly_puff and DarkmoonEX, featuring duskplume and guardianmarcus Week 5 Extra Credit (YouTube), hosted by LuffyDV and Serisan |
| Week 6 | Strategic Thinking | Party Limits | Week 6 (YouTube), hosted by Greggly_puff and DarkmoonEX, featuring SirLinkalot and guardianmarcus Week 6 Extra Credit (YouTube), hosted by LuffyDV and Serisan |
¶ Winter Bootcamp 2021 II
The Winter 2021 Duckling Bootcamp marked the first bootcamp hosted by Deadpulse and was designed with support from community members GregglyPuff, Poppadux, and DarkmoonEX. It featured, during weeks 4, 5, and 6 the start of the Platy Party mini-event. This occasion also marked GregglyPuff's stepping down from hosting duties around the Duckling Derby and Bootcamp after five such events, and DarkmoonEX stepping down as the Extra Credit lead after two events.
The first Reveal Stream was hosted on Sunday, November 21, 2021 with the last reveal stream for January 2, 2022 for the Duck Derby beginning on January 18, 2022.
| Week | Theme | Extra Credit | VODs |
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| Week 1 | Beginner's Intro | The Benefits of Being a Ninja | Week 1 (YouTube), hosted by LuffyDV and Greggly_puff, featuring Deadpulse Week 1 Extra Credit (YouTube), hosted by DarkmoonEX and LuffyDV |
| Week 2 | Black Belt Bonanza | Shard Hunt | Week 2 (YouTube), hosted by Deadpulse and LuffyDV, featuring Greggly_puff Week 2 Extra Credit (YouTube), hosted by DarkmoonEX and LuffyDV |
| Week 3 | Thieves Ahoy! | Mage Masher | Week 3 (YouTube), hosted by Deadpulse and Greggly_puff, featuring LuffyDV Week 3 Extra Credit (YouTube), hosted by DarkmoonEX and LuffyDV |
| Week 4 | Sail the High Seas | Trapped Chest Challenge | Week 4 (YouTube), hosted by Deadpulse and Greggly_puff, featuring shoombabi and Chanigan Week 4 Extra Credit (YouTube), hosted by DarkmoonEX and LuffyDV |
| Week 5 | Monster Madness! | Let's Hit Something | Week 5 (YouTube), hosted by Deadpulse and fryteeth, featuring Serisan and adr Week 5 Extra Credit (YouTube), hosted by DarkmoonEX and LuffyDV |
| Week 6 | Shard Times | SpeedGaming Live 2021 Flags | Week 6 (YouTube), hosted by Deadpulse and Greggly_puff, featuring shoombabi and LuffyDV Week 6 Extra Credit (YouTube), hosted by DarkmoonEX and LuffyDV |
¶ Summer Bootcamp 2021
The Summer 2021 Duckling Bootcamp ran in the 8 weeks leading up to the 2021 Summer Duck Derby which began on July 11, 2021.
| Week | Theme | Extra Credit | VODs |
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| Week 1 | Beginner Preset | The Benefits of Being a Ninja | Week 1 (YouTube), hosted by jat2980 and Deadpulse, featuring GregglyPuff Extra Credit (YouTube), hosted by WillBloodWorth and DarkmoonEX |
| Week 2 | A Touch Spicier | Historical Walking Tour | Week 2 (YouTube), hosted by GregglyPuff and jat2980, featuring Deadpulse Extra Credit (YouTube), hosted by LuffyDV and DarkmoonEX |
| Week 3 | All About Dem Black Belts | Chaos Rampage (with Training Wheels) | Week 3 (YouTube), hosted by Deadpulse and jat2980, featuring GregglyPuff Extra Credit (YouTube), hosted by Aelmarkin_ and DarkmoonEX |
| Week 4 | 3's a Party | Mage Masher | Week 4 (YouTube), hosted by GregglyPuff and Deadpulse, featuring LordFizzleBeef Extra Credit (YouTube), hosted by Sawneyrath11 and DarkmoonEX |
| Week 5 | Nones and Bonuses | Dangers on the Open Sea | Week 5 (YouTube), hosted by GregglyPuff and jat2980, featuring caleb Extra Credit (YouTube), hosted by lifereboot and DarkmoonEX) |
| Week 6 | Closer to ST | Revenge of the Lich | Week 6 (YouTube), hosted by jat2980 and Deadpulse Extra Credit (YouTube), hosted by LuffyDV and DarkmoonEX |
| Week 7 | Entrance/Floor Shuffle | Work with What You Got | Week 7 (YouTube), hosted by GregglyPuff and Deadpulse, featuring jat2980 Extra Credit (YouTube), hosted by DarkmoonEX and AdmiralTryHard |
| Week 8 | ST Pods+ | ST Brackets | Week 8 (YouTube), hosted by DeviousRNG and Deadpulse, featuring SirLinkalot Extra Credit Part 1 (YoutTube), Part 2 (YouTube), hosted by DarkmoonEX and AdmiralTryhard |
¶ Winter Bootcamp 2021
The Summer 2021 Duckling Bootcamp ran in the 8 weeks leading up to the 2021 Winter Duck Derby and began in January of 2021.
| Week | Theme | VOD |
| Week 1 | Beginner Flagset | Week 1 (YouTube), hosted by Ael and Jat2980, featuring SirLinkalot |
| Week 2 | Shopsanity | Week 2 (YouTube), hosted by Greggly_puff and Jat2980, featuring SirLinkalot |
| Week 3 | Black Belt Week | Week 3 (YouTube), hosted by Ael and SirLinkalot, featuring Greggly_puff |
| Week 4 | Ninja Week | Week 4 (YouTube), hosted by Greggly_puff and SirLinkalot, featuring Ael |
| Week 5 | Land Navigation | Week 5 (YouTube), hosted by Ael and SirLinkalot, featuring caleb |
| Week 6 | Obstacle Course | Week 6 (YouTube), hosted by Jat2980 and ShadowWalker272, featuring SirLinkalot |
| Week 7 | Entrance Shuffle | Week 7 (YouTube), hosted by caleb and Greggly_puff, featuring Ael |
| Week 8 | Hardcore Week | Week 8 (YouTube), hosted by Greggly_puff and Jat2980, featuring DarkmoonEX |
¶ Summer Bootcamp 2020
The very first Duckling Bootcamp was an early experiment if training our new players in how to run FFR. This was the earliest iteration of a tight, focused set of classes, and they were run once a week in May of 2020.
Unfortunately the flags for the first Bootcamp are no longer compatible with the current randomizer website. VODs have been archives if you want to watch our earliest training sessions but, at this time, there is no way to run alongside the lessons if you so wanted to.
| Week | Theme | VOD |
| Week 0 | Introduction to the Randomizer | Week 0 (YouTube), hosted by Ael and Greggly_puff |
| Week 1 | Beginner Flagset | Week 1 (YouTube), hosted by Ael and Greggly_puff |
| Week 2 | Shard Hunt | Week 2 (YouTube), hosted by Ael and Greggly_puff |
| Week 3 | Tournament Flags | Week 3 (YouTube), hosted by Ael and Greggly_puff, featuring DarkmoonEX |
| Week 4 | Chaos Rampage | Week 4 (YouTube), hosted by SaintVonJester and Greggly_puff, featuring Ael |
| Week 5 | Black Belts | Week 5 (YouTube), hosted by Ael and DarkmoonEX, featuring Greggly_puff |
| Week 6 | Randomized Treasures | Week 6 (YouTube), hosted by Ael and Greggly_puff, featuring DarkmoonEX |
| Week 7 | Entrance and Floor Shuffle | Week 7 (YouTube), hosted by DarkmoonEX and Greggly_puff, featuring Cheezinator |
| Week 8 | Derby Flags | Week 8 (YouTube), hosted by Ael and DarkmoonEX, featuring Greggly_puff |