Well, I guess I may as well talk a bit about myself seeing as I've been here so long. Only took seven and a half years to even remotely get involved in the community, yeah.

My name is Mike and I'm a developer. I am a little sporadic when it comes to playing FFR - I first played about a year, left for one, came back, etc... I like to think I'm not bad, certainly not top tier, but it's mainly for enjoyment. Eventually I'll probably set some goals for improvement - it feels pretty good to finally get a wicked score on a crazy song.

So how better to get back into playing than signing up for the tournament? D3 seems about right. The last and only other one I was in was the 4th official, in D2. Lost out to a Difficulty 49 song in the 4th or 5th round that I couldn't get better than x-4-1-0-0 on.

Maybe I'll randomly post stuff here. I don't know, we'll see how it goes. Just something I felt I'd try out

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2013-04-11
Now that the tournament is over, I'm back to playing casually. I think I've got a stronger feel for what I'm like as a player though. I'll try to slowly improve, and by the time the next official tournament comes around, hopefully I'll be high D3 or even low D4

So now I'm going to start setting some goals in a bit here. First off I'm going to try to play all the unplayed songs to lower my average rank, but I think I'll focus more on getting notable replays.

Current highest FC: Frictional Nevada - 78
Next promising songs
- Tageri (81) - 1 miss
- Crow's Ghost (81) - 7 misses
- Integraation (82) - 3 misses
- Holy Orders (82) - 4 misses
With random mashing sections
- Red Wings Over Baron (87) - 3 misses
- Eclipse (Solar) (89) - 2 misses

Current Highest AAA: Szamar Madar - 58
Next Promising Songs
- {Big Boss} - 59 (0-1-0-0)
- Scars Left By Time - 62 (1-0-0-1)
- Klung Kung 2004 - 62 (6-0-0-0)
- None Would Excape - 63 (12-0-0-0)
- Counter Strike Gun Sounds - 64 (7-0-2-0)
- Overdrive [aaronmusslewhite] - 65 (10-0-0-0)

What I feel are my:
Strengths
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Rolls - Ex: AAA on Entry (56)
Jacks and Minijacks - Ex: 25-2-0-2 on Document 13b (72)
Trills and Running Men - Ex: 6-0-0-0 on Klung Kung 2004 (62)

Weaknesses
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Just the wrong pattern of jumpstream I can't get right
Constant Streams - my eyes tend to glaze over after a while unless something new happens in the stream
Jacks on the right arrow - I tend to get tripped up on the middle finger of my right hand more often than the others
Sightreading - I need to match the chart up with the music and get used to the song.
Until I can hear the notes and know what's coming, my scores aren't the greatest