Twice a month, there will be in-game events. During these events, can earn special SR cards only obtainable during the event by earning event points and being at certain ranks on the event leaderboard. Currently, there are six types of events. There are token events, score matches, medley festivals, challenge festivals, adventure strolls (aka osanpo rallies), and companion matches (aka nakayoshi matches).
Score Match
In score matches, you are pitted against other players to see who has the strongest teams and the best School Idol Festival skills. First, you select the difficulty of song you want, you are then put against three other players and given a random song to play. Once everyone finishes playing the song, everyone's score is ranked together and the player with the highest score wins! The higher place you fall in, the more event points you earn! Along with the main event points leaderboard, a secondary leadboard for "score match points" is also in place. Score match points are gained by getting in the higher places (like 1st and 2nd), and are lost by getting in lower places (like 3rd and 4th). I've put a video that gives some decent points for reaching the higher positions on this secondary leaderboard for score match points.
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Token Event
In token events, you earn tokens by playing regular songs in the "Live" section of the game. During songs, you'll see notes with a little icon in the middle of it. These are tokens. Make sure to tap these tokens during songs and you'll earn them. Harder songs give more tokens. Once you earn enough tokens, you can play a special song that costs tokens instead of LP to play to be able to earn events points.
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Medley Festival
In a medley festival, your endurance is put to the test. On the main event screen, you are asked for which difficulty you would like to play at, and if you would like to play one, two, or three songs in this medley. Playing more songs in sequence on harder difficulties will give more event points. Once you do so, you're given the amount of songs you've selected. You'll have to play these songs back to back to earn your event points. Boosts will help make the medley easier, but these cost gold to use. Select the team you want to use and select which boosts you’d like to use. Once you finish the medley, you will be given your event points.
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Challenge Festival
In a challenge festival, your ability to complete complete challenges during songs is put to the test. Challenges such as being able to full combo songs, complete songs with your stamina bar full, and getting an S score on a song are given to you. When you start playing playing a challenge festival, you're asked which difficulty you would like to play. Once, you select that you're given your first song. Hit the play button and you'll have a selection of boosts to choose from very similarly to a medley festival. Once you finish your first song, you'll be greeted with a second song to play for round 2. You can either play that song as well or quit that challenge festival and you'll be given your rewards. You can complete up to round 5 in a single challenge festival. Going to higher rounds gives you more rewards, but if you fail any song in the challenge festival, you lose your rewards. This creates kinda a risk vs. reward decision over whether a player will go on to play more rounds and risk losing their rewards for more rewards or play it safe and back out with the rewards they have.
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Adventure Stroll/Osanpo Rally
Introduced in the 5.0 update, the Adventure Stroll (or known as Osanpo Rally in Japanese) is an event that has you reading stories and playing songs. Currently, this event type has only ever appeared on the Japanese version of the game, but the English version will be getting this event type very soon. In an adventure stroll, there are stories you can read. These stories all unlock after earning a certain amount of event points. Two different types of Adventure Strolls have been used in SIF. One type being used for the first Adventure Stroll and one being used for all Adventures Strolls after the first one.
Adventure Stroll Episode 1
In the first adventure stroll, there were different stories available for reading during the event. These stories were unlocked at different times during the event. Each story had a song attached to it that could be played for event points. Playing each stories' song multiple times gave you more rewards. There was also a challenge quest that was available. This gave players a random song for them to complete for event points. An LP multiplier similar to the seen on the live shows page of the game is also available. This lets you use double, triple, or quadruple LP on a song for double, triple, or quadruple the rewards and event points. Many compare this event type to token events saying that it’s essentially a token event without the tokens.
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Adventure Stroll Episode 2 and Onwards
After the first Adventure Stroll, many players criticized the Adventure Stroll event type for being boring. Because of this, the Adventure Stroll event type got completely reworked before the second Adventure Stroll event happened. There are many similarities and differences between the first and second Adventure Strolls. Many new features were added starting with the second Adventure Stroll event.
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Just like the first Adventure Stroll event type, there are stories to be read and each of these stories have a song attached to them. Unlike the previous Adventure Stroll, you will need to complete all three goals relating to a story's song before you unlock the next part of the story. These goals usually are for getting a certain score on the song, getting above a certain combo, and playing it so many times. After you complete the three goals, you unlock the next part of the story until you unlock every part of this event's story. In the second Adventure Stroll event, we also see the introduction of souvenirs. You earn souvenirs by playing songs, just like how you would with event points. With the souvenirs you earn, you can buy certain rewards such as exclusive home screen backgrounds, scouting tickets, more copies of the event SR card earned at 25,000 event points, and more. We also see the introduction of “secret spots”. Secret spots will randomly pop up on the event map and offer certain rewards and perks, such as reduced LP usage, and increased event points. You can play one song here, and then the secret spot disappears until another one pops up later. We also see the challenge quest modified from the first Adventure Stroll event. Now there’s a different challenge quest for each song attribute. Playing a song at one of the three challenge quests will give you a random song from that challenge quest's respective attribute. Completing the song gives you event points and souvenirs. The LP multiplier is still available in the Adventure Strolls after the first Adventure Stroll.
Companion Match
Introduced in the 5.1 update, the Companion Match (or Nakayoshi Match in Japanese) is the most recent event type to be added to the game. In a Companion Match, you are matched up with three other people and you're given a song to play. Before the song plays, you're also given a challenge that you all need to complete together. In the queue menu, you can tap the bottom two buttons on the menu to access stickers you can use to communicate with your fellow players playing with you. This challenge will either ask everyone to reach a certain combined score or to reach a certain combined combo on the song. Now you'll play through the song as you usually would. After you complete the song, everyone is graded on how well you guys did on the challenge. You can receive a C, B, A, S, SS, or SSS grading on how well you have done the challenge. The better you do on the challenge, the better rewards you get after the song, and the more event points you will earn.
There is also a daily challenge that everyone playing the game works on trying to get a high grading in order to get better rewards. |
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School Idol Diary Events
School Idol Diary events are a certain variant of events where different parts of a story are unlocked when you earn so many event points, somewhat similar to the Adventure Stroll event type. These events were a tie-in promotion for the Love Live School Idol Diary series of novels. Originally, these types of events were only part of token events, but after over two and a half years since the last School Idol Diary event, Medley Festival Round 18 (on the Japanese version of the game) became a School Idol Diary event. The stories unlocked in these events are fully voiced by the characters in the story similar to the main story and side stories. So far, only μ’s has been a part of School Idol Diary events.
A list of all the events that have ever happened in the game's history can be found on the Love Live SIF wiki as well. Click the button below to get on over there.
Prefer video guides?
Don't worry, there are video guides available online for all the event types. I have gathered a bunch of them here. Click the images below to be redirected to the respective video for each event type.