ZFRR is the reference leaderboard for the First Room category on Call of Duty Zombies. It is free to use, and it asks nothing from the players it ranks: getting on a board costs you a run and a video, never a euro. What follows is what keeps it standing, and where a donation goes.
A leaderboard is not a video you upload once. It is a server answering every visit, a domain renewed every year, and storage for the images, the videos indexed and the database behind every board. Those bills arrive whether ten people visit or ten thousand, and they are paid out of pocket.
Turning scattered runs into a ranking is the hard part. Every record has to be watched from start to finish, checked against the rules of its category, dated on the day its proof was published, cross-read with Zombie World Record, then entered with its player, its platform, its mode and its source.
Behind the boards sits a model: each First Room carries its own difficulty coefficient and its own entry round, so that a round 40 on a brutal map is not worth the same as a round 40 on a forgiving one. That model spans Black Ops, Black Ops II and Black Ops III, in solo and in two players. Those coefficients were reconstructed, tested against every ranked player, and they are what makes a single score comparable across 34 different rooms. Keeping that model honest is continuous work, not a one-off.
A run that nobody archives disappears. A Twitch highlight expires, a clip gets buried, a performance becomes a story nobody can check. ZFRR exists so that it does not: every record gets a rank, a date, a page, and a video anyone can open and judge for themselves.
That is what the site gives back to the 660 ranked entries it holds. Newcomers see where to start, veterans see who to catch, and a category that lived in scattered clips now has a record that holds. Your gameplay, your clips and your best rounds are shown, credited and kept.
Three things, and nothing else.
The more the project stands on its own, the freer it stays: no ranking for sale, no sponsor deciding what appears on a board.
No pressure, ever. Submitting your runs, joining the Discord and telling us when something looks wrong helps just as much.
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