16th OT Thoughts
Posted on: June 4, 2023, at 06:22:08pm

I'm really excited for this upcoming tournament and to see what I can achieve with a play to win mentality. I've been playing a whole lot and think I've made enough skill improvements to become a more competitive D3 player, assuming that's my tournament division placement. I do hope that D3 is my placement.

My initial thoughts are that I will have to get very lucky to place top 8, since I seem to be experiencing a major mental block with AAAing any 50-59 charts. I think my biggest weakness as a player is that I'm overly reliant on playing patterns that I'm comfortable with. Which means that I play very inaccurately with 60+ hand and jump streams that force me out of my comfort zone where I eventually gas out on stamina. On the other hand, I should be able to eventually SDG anything up to mid 50's once I hit that certain mindset while playing. And so, my strategy will be to take breaks and have the patience to accumulate a lot of reps each round, especially on files that I think are possible for me to AAA.

The Derustathon event has been really fun and helpful in preparing, so thank you to the events staff team for making all of that possible. And good luck to everyone that I'll be playing with in my division/in the tournament itself!

Round 1: Awesome file, didn't feel the need to AAA. Props to the step artist

Round 2: Not going to lie, I found this file to be extremely annoying. The patterns both look and play like its made with the intent to just be aggravating. A pest of a file.

Round 3: Tough ending on this one. Other competitors made some improvements, so now I'm at risk! I will try to grind this one out to a low SDG.

I think this is as far as I'll get this OT! Was really hoping to see the next round. Can't see myself beating 10.0 raw goods on attempt 24; good luck to everyone in the next round!