The Novice/Intermediate/Advanced Rivalry [2015]

[AragakiAyase]

Finger slipped off the key and I missed...

[helphelp11]

[Kawaii025]

Improvements cause I wanna be like Aragaki when I grow up.

Decent.

There's always one miss wrecking my game. >.>

11 clean is my best...can't even get below 20 at the moment.
http://i.imgur.com/0AwjEdV.png
Much better.

Love this file~

Not as bad as I thought it would be.

Finally got the AAA on this one!

Meh...

[AragakiAyase]

Originally Posted by Kawaii025

Improvements cause I wanna be like Aragaki when I grow up.

But you're better than me. I'm here trying to catch up to you.

Whenever I hit jumpstream I always feel like I have no idea what I'm doing...


I can't deal with one section towards the end, I always drop a bunch of crap there.

[Kawaii025]

Originally Posted by AragakiAyase

But you're better than me. I'm here trying to catch up to you.

You don't have far to travel my friend~ Keep it up!

[Walrusizer]

I'm a flabby walrus and would like to join.

[ThunderFlip]

Originally Posted by Walrusizer

I'm a flabby walrus and would like to join.

I guess we can put you in for D3, even if it's only for a little while. You are really really close to the D4 line, lol. I would recommend taking the plunge into the EM Rivalry, I think it would be a lot more beneficial for you there (we're cool over there, don't worry). Also the skype chat is waaaaaaay more active. XD

[Walrusizer]

Haha i just checked the ffr leaderboards and apparently im d4 even though my highest aaa is only 51, i guess ill go ahead and do that then XD.

[BitterTaste]

I would really love to join your rivalry please!

[ThunderFlip]

Originally Posted by BitterTaste

I would really love to join your rivalry please!

Welcome! You've been added to D1 for the spreadsheet and you can start posting scores for this week's songs right away! The songs for this week can be found back a page or on the spreadsheet.

[BitterTaste]

Originally Posted by ThunderFlip

Welcome! You've been added to D1 for the spreadsheet and you can start posting scores for this week's songs right away!

I'm really happy to be the part of this wonderful Rivalry! Thank you for getting me in so quickly! Because of that, I managed to make some first tries. This is what happened:

My first week in the NIA Rivalry turns out to be good! It all began with a AAA on the first song, while I'm really happy to get blackflag on Little Star (still room for improvement, though). The most difficult song is a disaster. The ending part just blows my mind. Oddly enough, I'm confused about my raw score. For instance, uni385 has a FC, but less points than my try... Is that normal?

[ThunderFlip]

Originally Posted by BitterTaste

The most difficult song is a disaster. The ending part just blows my mind. Oddly enough, I'm confused about my raw score. For instance, uni385 has a FC, but less points than my try... Is that normal?

Yes, completely. Raw score basically rewards you for having more perfects and penalizes you more for non-perfects. Combo scoring (or the Total score), which was finally done away with (thank the Lord), had made mashing out a FC desirable, but now hitting more notes accurately is a lot more important. There were plenty of times where I would get one silly miss and it would completely wreck my combo score, but the raw score was still really good (back then it didn't matter, but now thankfully better raw scores are what are actually recorded).

In this case, you had almost half the goods that uni did, and it turns out that your misses and boos just about brought you guys to the same score (100 raw score is only the difference of 4 perfects being changed into 4 goods).

Anyway, glad to hear that the NIA is treating you well and I can already see that if you gain a little consistency with how often you play you will shoot up the ranks in no time.

[BitterTaste]

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I'm still a newbie (this is why I'm here :P), so this is really helpful.
Yeah, I am always told about consistency, which I lacked during the beginning of getting to grips with FFR. I hope that this comeback will bring something bigger.

[BitterTaste]

A little update.

Really happy to get this one. Not SDG yet, but I will have a little time tomorrow.
Still have to do something with a disastrous fourth file.

[benny58624]

My accuracy is a bit better today

[BitterTaste]

OK, I'm officially tired today. Two improvements during this day is more than enough. This is gonna be it for this week.

Wow, my heart was pounding crazily during this. Could have been better without a strange average.


No way I'm FCing this in the near future. However, the result is acceptable.

[Kawaii025]

This song is torture in one little spot. The pattern isn't that hard...(after isolation and slower rate, I could actually read it) my fingers just refuse to move that quickly. :[

I cut my goods down, so yay for progress~

[ThunderFlip]

Excellent improvements to all of you. New round hype!

[FFR Rivalries]

WEEK 20 HAS CONCLUDED!

The Novice / Intermediate / Advanced Rivalry calls everyone in D1, D2 and D3 to join in our competitive...
yet friendly gathering of FFR Players for the 21st week of challenges!

This week, our staff members have chosen 4 songs for each division.


D1

[11] - My When Clones I Am Out Many
[17] - Alice's Garden
[22] - Death March
[26] - The Gateway



D2

[31] - Daybreak [Ryan Iyengar]
[37] - X
[46] - MASCARADA

[51] - Amefuri Koneko



D3

[49] - Dokodemo Kawaii
[52] - Ready to go
[55] - Cheat Codes
[58] - NKS2 (Ain't No Half-Steppin' Remix)


All Scores shall be submitted to this thread, OR private messaged to the staff of the NIA Rivalry.

Week 20 ends on May 26th, 2015 at 11:45 PM Server Time
Weeks start at midnight. (Tuesday night/Wednesday morning) Weeks end at 11:45pm server time on Tuesdays (15 minutes before the next week is released)

If you are D1-D3 and not currently a member, feel free to say 'Hi, I'd like to join the rivalry.' in this chat or through a pm of the link above!
Remember to read and follow the rules

Good Luck and Have Fun!

~ The NIA Rivalry Staff 2015~

CarrotCake94
LeftyRighty
Mahou
portalbob340
RARAWR
ShadowDueler97
ThunderFlip

[uni385]

My When Clones I Am Out Many
http://i.imgur.com/JVAF4hj.png

Alice's Garden
http://i.imgur.com/eT7yeX7.png

Death March
http://i.imgur.com/lRAdVZt.png

The Gateway
http://i.imgur.com/9CxXvcB.png