8th Official FFR Tournament - Final Round!

[Anon1337]

Originally Posted by Elite Ninja

Round 1
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D1 - Lunar Landing - Cutoff = (23-1-0-0)
D2 - Death March - Cutoff = (20-0-1-2)
D3 - Infinity - Cutoff = (10-0-0-0)
D4 - Addict - Cutoff = (5-0-0-1)
D5 - Euro Morroc - Cutoff = (32-5-0-17)
D6 - Spoils - Cutoff = (3-1-0-1)

O.o

[psychoangel691]

He also started D5 higher than normal last tourney.

So was D4 61 in comparison to 55 lol.

Edit: well about 75 plays later I got 3/0/0/1 on Retro City. Been trying not to hit restart because I want to actually keep track of how many times I play stuff in this tourney but I did hit it a few times out of habit. Probably actually in the 80s for plays lol.

[Cloud_Strife15]

So I got a boo flag in the song fire I had all perfects and one boo at the very end cause me being stupid and I accidentally pressed the keys I use ASKL after the the two last arrows of the song and the song fire is a little tricky and annoying to play but it's a good chart I'm going to fix my boo flag today hopefully

[NeoMasterPie]

can't seem to best 1 great on retro city, even if i hit the trills i just choke later on, or if i get a good on the trills i nail the rest of the file.

welp

[8 Hour Whore]

Originally Posted by shenjoku

*sighs* man I feel like I keep getting worse and worse, not better at this stupid song XD Anyone have any tips to help improve? Just grinding Touch Me over and over isn't helping and it's getting really frustrating.

Helpful suggestion given to me by a special person:
Before playing it... Play 4 Chord (Doesn't matter how well you do) then play Pure Ruby (same doesn't matter how well you do. Then go play Touch Me. If you don't get the AAA after about 5 tries Repeat this process. Keeps you from getting blocked and helps make the song easier to read because each time you play 4 chord and Pure Ruby you will adjust to those.

[i will pwn u]

hmmm i may get to round 2 this tourney hope 1 0 0 1 gets there

[Bluearrowll]

Finished Retro City in 2 tries, fun chart Didn't really notice any sort of trill slowdown that other people were complaining about, I was just playing to the song.

[RB_Spirit]

Originally Posted by Bluearrowll

Booflagged, for whatever reason I cannot AAA round 1 songs...

Lmaoooo that's how i felt at first.

[remedy1502]

I better make it through with this goddammit


I might try to AAA, just for consistency's sake. And to kill some more rust.

[Wayward Vagabond]

played my file because i might as well give it a go. the file didnt play very well and those accent notes were bad

30.x.x.x probably wont get me through this round lmao but i cant improve past that so pce

[shenjoku]

Originally Posted by bmah

What patterns/sections mess you up most frequently? (in general though, I would advise against grinding for extended periods of time)

The last wall of 32nds is kinda random and I tend to get the most greats there. I also mess up the first wall of 32nds fairly often because it comes after a bunch of jumps in the middle of 16ths which kinda throws me off and I have to keep restarting.

Originally Posted by 8 Hour Whore

Helpful suggestion given to me by a special person:
Before playing it... Play 4 Chord (Doesn't matter how well you do) then play Pure Ruby (same doesn't matter how well you do. Then go play Touch Me. If you don't get the AAA after about 5 tries Repeat this process. Keeps you from getting blocked and helps make the song easier to read because each time you play 4 chord and Pure Ruby you will adjust to those.

Thanks. I'll give that a shot

[dAnceguy117]

nice blackflag, remedy!

hope I didn't just mindblock myself, because I will probably need to improve in order to advance. oops. Pussy Pump is a dope file though.

edit: nevermind, guess I'm good to go. mirror is a godsend.
edit2: uh oh, score didn't record

[remedy1502]

Originally Posted by dAnceguy117

nice blackflag, remedy!

hope I didn't just mindblock myself, because I will probably need to improve in order to advance. oops. Pussy Pump is a dope file though.

edit: nevermind, guess I'm good to go. mirror is a godsend.
edit2: uh oh, score didn't record

Yea thanks. I can't even sdg or fc this without mirror. So much easier imo.

EDIT YES *****
Round 2 incoming

[dAnceguy117]

^ sick. the powers of mirror


question: might there be something wrong with the dashboard? I got a score that shows up in my levelranks, but my score in the dashboard wasn't updated. I don't see remedy's AAA either.

[Charu]

Oh my, you're right! Uh ohs...

[remedy1502]

Oh god please no D=

[bmah]

Originally Posted by shenjoku

The last wall of 32nds is kinda random and I tend to get the most greats there. I also mess up the first wall of 32nds fairly often because it comes after a bunch of jumps in the middle of 16ths which kinda throws me off and I have to keep restarting.

It sounds like you're too focused on identifying particular patterns when you play. You can try a few things: a) don't pick out patterns and instead hit according to what you see (i.e. hitting arrows according to relative density); b) simplify a complicated pattern by analysis.

Try out the first suggestion and don't worry about what exactly the 32nd pattern is.

Now if you want to figure out the last 32nd by analysis:

(where: 1=left 2=down 3=up 4=right [12]=left-down jump, etc.)

pattern [non-mirror]: 4321342143213243[12]

You have sixteen 32nd arrows with a [12] jump at the end. It's easier to understand if you break them down into four 32nd arrows each:
4321
3421
4321
3243

You may have noticed that you have a right-to-left descending roll (4321) occurring twice. You also will notice that three of these four segments cover all four arrows in each of their segment (4321 3421 4321). On a song with a much faster BPM, you could theoretically jumptrill this entire section with [34][12][34][12][34][12] jumps. At this speed though, you'll have to hit them all, but at least it appears more manageable now, right?
Then all you have to do is worry about hitting the last four 32nd arrows of a 3243 pattern after the second descending roll. End it with a [12] jump.

One more thing. You may have noticed that the four segments begin with either a right or up arrow (they alternate). So if you want to keep your timing, you might want to keep in mind which arrow each segment begins.


Regarding the earlier 32nd group, all you need to know is that two 16th arrows (a left then up arrow) precedes it. And the 32nds themselves: 4312431243214321.

Again, divide into four segments. You'll notice that each segment begins with a right arrow. So you can help time your playing by keeping that in mind.


All in all, a bunch of mental tricks can help you get through the song better. Read this alongside a replay and it might help.

[catzeye21138]

I was just wondering if anyone was noticing problems with the dashboard updating? The score it says I have is 23,720, but my latest score is 23,750. I have a screenshot... Not like my positioning would change anyway, I just want to know if it's something with my computer.

[psychoangel691]

I don't know what was going on with the dash before but it seems like it's collecting scores again from what I can see. I can fix people's scores manually if needed.

[catzeye21138]

Mine still hasn't updated... I'm going to work on it a bit more tomorrow, because I'm having no luck with that AAA tonight. If I don't get a better score then I'll post my screenshot here.