The Tournament Thus Far
Posted on: July 20, 2012, at 12:17:57am

Well, it certainly has been an interesting 4 weeks or so from when I signed up to the tournament until now. I was scared of it at first, seeing all these players with good scores and such, but then... I guess something kind of clicked.

During the placements, I was wondering how good of a player I was. So I went out of my way and decided to play every song I have not played, just to see how well I could do.

I was doing alright, getting a good here, getting a AAA on the low difficulties. So then I thought I was D3 material. Alright, cool, I didn't think though I had what it takes to beat everyone. Plus I knew I wouldn't get any supporters since I basically knew next to no one on the site in the new FFR.

I kept playing through all the unplayed songs though, but I guess this is when everything just sort of changed. I was slowly getting better, I didn't think so, but other players were noticing whenever I spectated and played along with them on a different engine.

I got much better that players that knew they were going to be D3 didn't think I would be there, but in D4.

I didn't like that thought, I joked with them saying I probably be destroyed and such. They were dead serious though.

Well... the day the placements came in, people were already in a ruckus over placements and such. I was placed in D3, as I was also suspecting, but I was in joyous cheers as I was beating majority of the scores D3 players had. I was excited to be placed.

Then... I was bumped the next day.

This may be surprising, but I was in disbelieve that I was in D4. I seriously thought that was it, I had no chance to win. But somehow, through my doubts, I kept on playing knowing now I needed to do better than D4 scores.

I was very nervous, I had recently just seen how the finals were and that made me think I didn't have a chance to do this.

Then came round 1... oh boy... I was really nervous. So I played it, and got a black flag on the first go. A score I kept on getting over and over and over. I was very upset that for round one I could not get it. Then I realized everyone else in D4 was also having trouble.

...Maybe I was in the right division? I don't know, it seemed odd that less than nine or so players were having trouble.

I kept getting a BF on the round one song, so I gave it a break and played the other tourney's songs.

I guess this is when I raised some eye brows, but nothing out of the ordinary.

I got three goods on Euromodic and 3-0-0-1 on Spoils. I was surprised at those scores. I didn't think I could do stuff like that.

So I went and played other songs in the same difficulty ranges.

Lets just say that a lot of the 66-72 songs I was SDGing. I truly was surprised that I could do this.

Finally on the last day, I calmed my nerves and AAA'd Addict. I was so happy at this that I promptly told everyone that was around me.

Then came Round 2. Maybe it was a confidence boost, but I found the song choices really easy. And then on the very same day I got eight goods on Since 1983. Recently I've been getting more SDG's in the 66-72 range. Now I was getting some attention.

Well any who, I AAA'd round 2's song with no problem. So now I've had this extra time to improve even more.

Now, just today, I was getting really good PA on some 80-85 charts and this is what's really freaking me out. I really hope that this doesn't mean I'll get bumped or anything, but if this keeps up. I really do feel like I will be bumped up, just because I've been increasing in both speed and doing complex steps. Now people are saying to me I should be D5!

What the future rounds hold, I don't know. I just hope that someone doesn't up and go I was a sandbagger all this time. I don't think I was and I hope I wasn't.

1. 1: bmah
   Posted at 1:40am on July 20th, 2012

   Wow, progression in motion right here! I like it.
2. 2: MrPreggers
   Posted at 11:10am on July 20th, 2012

   You won't get bumped up.. nois doesn't wanna cause a shit storm by bumping up players. It's been pretty great seeing you develop as a player. You better keep playing after the official!
3. 3: Hakulyte
   Posted at 9:21pm on July 22nd, 2012

   Just wanted to say that you're in my top list for winning D4. You nailed the hardest part of The Replicator and you're just missing some consistency that you can get if you keep playing. I'm not really expecting you to have issues before 2-3 more rounds.