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Originally Posted by ItsOnlyDanO

Two things here:
Diamante or Kanon would have been fine for the round 1 song, but not round 2+ At the moment its been fairly consistent for all three rounds, which shouldn't be happening. We should be seeing a 82/83 last round, and a 84/85 now (or possibly harder than this), but that hasn't happened. If anything, it's a result organisers of picking the wrong files for d6. However they may not have had a choice. maybe they had no other option and had to pick those files for the first three rounds, I don't know the answer to that.

Wanted to quickly address this and basically give a bit of an explanation: we had ideas of what we thought the file difficulties were for Carnaval/Diamante. Those were very much intended to be round 1 and round 2 files. Keep in mind that previous official tournaments opened out at much lower difficulties, even if the files were underrated. D6's highest opener since the 6 (or 7) division tournament setup was Lexus Cyanixs, which was merely a 74. Carnaval was something that we personally considered (and still personally consider) to be worth giving out Scarhand, making it at least a 5 point jump from previous officials. Given Diamante's structure and presence with 300 BPM streams that are spread out throughout the chart with rather technical midsections outside of those areas -- it seemed reasonable to rate that at least two points higher.

Objectively, Diamante Spectrasplosion is quite a bit more demanding in speed, whereas the densest/most objectively difficult parts of Carnaval cumulatively last for a substantially shorter amount of time. The extraneous parts outside of the main difficulty for both files differ quite a bit as well; you're mostly doing 8th notes or very basic 16th streams in Carnaval, whereas Diamante's patterns are laced with mini-jacks, mini-trill bursts, and some heavier layering.

The reason that Kanon ended up as round 3 is because the jump from Diamante (given that you guys somehow found it easier) and what round 3 was (which is now a round later) was absolutely enormous. For those of you waiting for the file difficulties to step up in D6: you won't have to wait too much longer.

It was a logical shift. You guys might not like it, but keep this in mind too: even at a difficulty of 79 for round 3 (and I think it's fair to give this Scarhand personally), this structure is still at least comparable to previous tournaments. Yeah, the goal was to make things harder - well, as I've said: you'll feel it next round, for sure.