7th Official FFR Tournament RT (Rounds 1~4)
Posted on: August 5, 2012, at 10:34:39pm

Format taken from Elite Ninja's profile, and slightly edited. Skype Room represent.

*green = AAA
*blue = above elimination line
*orange = below elimination line
*red = eliminated
*gray = for giggles

Goals
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[X] Make it to Round 3.
[X] Top 32. Can't be too hard, right? Right...? ;w;
[X] Make it to Round 4.
[nope] Top 16. Ayappa =w=
[nope] Remove Sakamoto's red scarf. Hakase da nyan.

Final placement
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D1 - ?/248
D2 - ?/141
D3 - ?/81
D4 - ?/100
D5 - ?/81
D6 - 19/59

Blurb
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Round 1 - Spoils (AAA) - So here we go... I've been placed in D6 again this year, and we get a rock song with a long, technical file to start off the tourney with! Yay!
My sightread on this worried me quite a bit; I thought I'd have trouble even FC'ing the 12th/24th jumpgluts. Seems like I got lucky and improved my score to a AAA before building any major mindblocks.

Round 2 - Since 1983 (AAA) - Sunday afternoon. I get back from somewhere, somewhat worn out and sleepy, but I manage to get on my FFR lappy and start playing.
It all started with a sightread 2-0-0-1; I got excited, thinking this would be easier than Spoils. Then my good cat friend Sakamoto (~Zeta~) tells me it took 2 hours for him to fix his sightread 2 clean. I take him up on snatching the AAA within 2 hours.
The very next try I end up with a 2 clean, then I manage a blackflag within the first 10 minutes.
Then I went through three more blackflag runs. Two of which were from splitting the last jump.
I was mad. I went back and forth mirror and non-mirror, but with no luck. I was getting desperate. But just as I was starting to lose hope, it happened.
(cake)
Sakamoto-san, have a business card.
P.S. It took me 1 hour and 32 minutes.
P.P.S. Pretty cool song and file; I look forward to seeing more of your charts, DarkZtar!

Round 3 - Shotgun Surgery (2-0-0-0) - Was intimidated by my 20+ good, non-FC sightread on this. Improved quite quickly to a 2-0-0-1. An hour later: 2 clean. Hopefully this is enough to outscore 7 people, although I might try improving it even more.
Update 7/24/12: Down to a tie for 14th already. Not so confident the 2 clean will hold up for the safe zone, although it's a different story for top 32. Next time I'll be able to play this is on Friday - hoping for some luck and getting an improvement.
Update 7/27/12, part 1: The 2 clean now puts me at a three-way tie for 20th, with the cutoff close at 3-0-0-2. I saw last night that Brandon (Elite Ninja) had the determination to play the song 606 times for his 1-0-0-1, so I'm hoping I won't be giving up easily either. T-minus 6 hours or so before I get home and give this another go.
Update 7/27/12, part 2: 286 tries so far. Cue Hakase's tantrums!
Update 7/28/12, part 1: So, while some of you who should've been placed in a D7 of sorts got the AAA easily and relaxed happily in the July sunshine, I've been slipping down and down the ranks - and now I'm the cutoff! Yay! ^.^
There's only about 17 hours to go, but it's anyone's game - I honestly believe that quite a few people are waiting to snipe at the last minute. And I'm mentally preparing myself for the shock when they do. rip kjw...? (to be continued)
Update 7/28/12, part 2: Just saw that Dossar dropped out, putting me back up to a tie for 21st. You guys are killing me with this suspense, hahaha
Also, heard the news regarding several players under the cutoff... perhaps 2 clean just might be enough. (to be continued)
Update 7/29/12: I made it. *tears of joy*

Round 4 - Sleepmix Strikes Back (3-1-0-1) - Well, things are going to get really interesting for D6 from here on out. I loaded up the preview as soon as I saw the songs were up - looks like it's going to be a pretty tight cutoff once again. But who knows, it might actually be harder than it looks!
Update 7/29/12: Upon seeing the raw score right before the last note, I thought I had a 5 clean run. Guess it was a little better! See you guys on Friday when I can play again.
P.S. No, I don't expect this to get me through. And no, I don't think this is the best I can do. =P
Update 7/30/12: lmao, already below the cutoff. I feel like offering Sakamoto some more gum.
Update 8/4/12: Mindblocks in random places. rip kjw until further notice.
Update 8/5/12: Got a second run of exactly 3-1-0-1. Guess I proved to myself that it wasn't really a fluke the first time =w=
Fairly satisfied with my result this year... but next time, I'm going for top 16. Until then~ ^.^=

Epilogue - With the last minute beasting of bballa48, I slipped one spot down, putting me at a final placement of 19th in D6. I have to say, it's a little disappointing to have gotten so close to top 16, but this is definitely an improvement from last year (27th out of 54 players). I'll still be ghosting every division and posting my thoughts on some of the files here, though! Happy reading~
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