Well, now that that's over and done with...

9th place. I must say I was really hoping to get top 8 - vrofl and all that would have been nice. But still, when compared to the actual top 8, I can't compete with them right now. Some of their scores are scarily good - a couple have insane fgos, some have like 2g on multiple FMOs, and so on. I can't fight that. So, all things considered, 9th place is pretty good. I'm proud of that :D

When mindblocks on Round 4's Iced Innocence set in within 10 plays, I thought I was gone that round. Surprisingly I stayed on, but wasn't so lucky at the end of Round 5. That was some real drama right there at the end, but I sort of knew it would happen. Once I saw 25thhour was playing, I was all "welp..."

There were some things this tourney that could have been better of course - placements, to a certain degree, and front page posts, stuff like that. But overall it was still a really fun tournament, and I must say I enjoyed each and every single one of the files my division got. So, to the stepfile artists if you're reading this, thanks for the great run of

Infinity
CS Custom Gun Sounds
Baby Still Too Fat
Iced Innocence
ecstatic ghost party as Nightmare

I had much fun playing all of these.

And that's about it, really. See yall next time round. Meanwhile, I'll go pick out the support tokens I get for 9TH FUCCEN PLACE! <:

Under construction~

Personal bests/favourite scores
In rough order of preference

VC AAAs: in order of get - Lives Without Meaning, Sexplosion, Dot Matrix Hero

Novo Mundo (4-0-0-1)
Counter Strike Gun Sounds (2-1-0-3)
CORETOON (7-1-0-3)
Champion Freeverse AAA
Fast Asleep (8-0-2-6), lol, (14-0-0-5)
Minute Waltz v2 (14-0-0-1)
Romance in the Club (10-4-0-6)
Jeanie and Caroline (12-2-0-6), (13-0-1-3)
Document 13b (27-1-0-4)
World Tour (29-0-0-5)
Camel (9-0-0-2)

more to come

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Round 5: ecstatic ghost party as Nightmare 5g eliminated

Sightread score: 7-0-0-1

Round favourite: ecstatic ghost party as Nightmare (D3) because bursts <3

Just the kind of file I was hoping for, sort of. Bursty in nature, requiring less jumpstream-type consistency and focus but more accuracy and speed for short periods of time. Hopeful I can make top 8; I foresee the cutoff to be 2-3g.

Unsurprisingly my biggest problem is not with the bursts of the 12th/16th transitions with the 24th js at the end.

Day 2: Stuck at 4-1-0-0. Not sure if that's enough to go through, but all the people I expected to be beaten by are already above me, so there's that. I had a 3-0-1-0 run...ilu too combo scoring <3

Day 5: F***ing finally. After like a hundred tries and 5 (4-1-0-0)s, I finally improved it by just a little...to 5g. Hoping this keeps me safe.

Day 7: lol what

Supped by 25thhour at the, well, 25th hour. That is eerily accurate. Anyway, I kinda guessed that would happen when I saw I was back in 8th place on the day of the new round. Oh well, these things happen and it was really fun, and a good run :D Maybe next time, and all that. Good luck to the rest of D3!

...this must be what it's like to get silver (or, well, 4th place) ._.

Round 4: Iced Innocence 4g

Sightread score: 9g

Round favourite: Politically Correct Holiday Song (D1)...2 AAA runs were ended because I was laughing too hard.

10 runs in and I'm already mindblocked on the beginning gg. Should get the AAA or at least a BF by the end of the week; gonna lay off the song for now though, to dispel the mindblock. Time to sit back and see how the rest of the division does. I'm guessing the cutoff will be 3 or 4g.

That's right, ladies and gentlemen. As of this round, the heat is truly on.

..Also just making a quick note here. Flamingo is awful, I have to say. megamon's stuff is usually damn fun (see: Fish Hell) but this song just didn't call for such ridiculous density. :(

Day 1: had a 2-0-1-0. Miss at the stupid 3rd quarter 32nd burst. Then mindblocks immediately returned again.

(BTW: Velo lag appears to have been fixed yay)

...

Well, it's end of the week and it looks like mindblocks haven't gone away. Thankfully the 4g score I got within the first hour of the round has stood the test of time, as they say. Unless 6 people beat me overnight, I'm moving on.

Next round's the big one, since it determines vrofl and gift baggies and all that jazz. I'm really hoping for something that plays to my strengths. Mainly bursts, short jacks, a long song with short difficulty spikes.

Shoutouts to popsicle, Sax, pika, other d3 homies...was hoping you guys could go further, in fact was even expecting you guys to, haha. Oh well, who knew a mid-VC jumpstream file could be this ridiculously mindblockable?


Round 3: Baby Still Too Fat AAA

Sightread score: 5g

Round favourite: Baby Still Too Fat (D3) although The Replicator is close. The runningmen are damn fun.

holy difficulty jump batman! more to come.

...OK the file is pretty great. Except for the random 12ths and 32nds out of nowhere towards the end, it's fun and cool. Not sure if I can AAA it in a hurry, but I'm guessing the cutoff will be around 5 or 6 goods. Maybe less. Shouldn't be a problem~

Day 2: OK, AAAed. Took about (I'm estimating) 35-45 proper tries in all. Surprisingly I had less nerves on this than Gun Sounds; that's probably due to the faster, more energetic nature of this song. Anyways, onward. Got to work on my streaming speed; anything over 200 and my PA goes to crap.

Also also, that was apparently my first AAA over 1000 notes . \o/


Round 2: CS Custom Gun Sounds AAA

Sightread score: 8-0-1-1 (lol)

Round favourite: A FLOWER GARDEN (D5) is...omg. I know many people hate the song for whatever reason, but I found it hilariously great. It tells a story! You just have to listen :P

Hmm obligatory BF before AAA. I'm definitely going to try until I AAA this; I'd not be doing my score on the other cs gun sounds "song" justice if I didn't hehu. (I still can't get that anymore.)

super edit: AAA'ed. Yay! Minus all the times when I loaded up the chart and just stared at the arrows or booderped at the start, I'd say it took me around 15-18 tries, with 4 BFs in there. That's ok, I guess, considerin how nervous I got after the midsection break with the 24th left handed trill. Like my heart would seriously just jump like twenty bpm once the second half started. It could even be faster than the song itself lmao

This game can't be good for my health.

Round 1: Infinity AAA

Sightread score: BF

Round favourite: Addict (Dr. Ozwdasdas remix) (D4) - the speedup trill is beautiful and the polyrhythms are fun and and and etc. Really fun file~

A pretty good start to the tournament, nice and easy enough. Took me a couple of tries to warm up before I could nab the AAA, but even so it's definitely a song I'd play/listen to again. Here's hoping that this is a sign of things to come - this was indeed a pretty awesome chart/song combination.

How far do I think I'll get in this? I don't know. I have major weaknesses to certain patterns that will get me out of the game in a hurry if they turn up repeatedly. Going from last year's D3 field and what I remember of their cutoffs, it's going to be tough if this year is anything like that.

Can't wait to see, though~

Songs to play on mirror:
Beadumaegen
Church Bells

Songs to play on non-mirror:
Novo Mundo
Papyrus' Adventure
Bus Rides With People
M.A.M.A (lol)
CORETOON
Kanon Kanon

/All pre-difficulty change stuff. probably gonna need a new post once the new difficulty system is fully implemented :v/

Here I keep a list of stuff :3



---FMO FCs (20)---

1. Romance in the Club
2. Dead and Direct
3. Novo Mundo
4. Choprite* (2nd best: 18-1-0-4)
5. Jeanie and Caroline
6. Going on Spring Wind
7. Clockwork
8. Papyrus's Adventure
9. 300** (best FMO: 13-3-0-5)
10. Summer Time Perfume
11. Fast Asleep
12. Rottel-da-station
13. Caprice for Violin etc
14. The earth blew up
15. Face in the Gutter
16. Midnight Dragon
17. World Tour 2004
18. Colorful Course
19. Document 13b
20. SOLROS

---VC SDGs (12 + 1 AAA)---

1. Mute City Remix
2. Lives Without Meaning*** (AAA)
3. Sexplosion
4. dot death (stealth remix)
5. ABCDEath
6. what the f is this* (1-1-0-0)
7. Prism
8. Cutting Circles** (2-0-0-0)
9. Tambourin Chinois
10. XP Sounds Attempt
11. pain night grand tin
12. Super Signal Force
13. Otaku Speedvibe [Heavy]

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6/5/12: Speedvibe [Heavy] unlock on Famouz. After 142 replays \o/
30/5: First VC AAA. on Lives Without Meaning \o/\o/
4/6: New difficulty system implemented