Tournament of Darkness stuff
Posted on: December 21, 2020, at 11:05:03am

PLACED 1st in D4


round 1 - 51 (0-0-0-0)
well the round started earlier than i had hoped but that's alright

so i chose Teh Tricky Techno because it was 47 seconds long lol, filled with streams and rare jumpstreams in which there are simple patterns. i feel the tourney seems to incentivize short charts. this had 473 notes to hit, why go for a 51 with 800 if i could go for this one instead? fewer notes means less room for raw goods to slip in as well

overall the first round wasn't hard at all, but the first round means nothing. only gets harder from here

round 2 - 57 (0-0-0-0)
i chose Hungarian Dance #7 because i already had a blackflag on that chart before the tournament that i hadn't cared to improve until now. it's a chart that was accepted in 2006 lol the chart was so off sync with the midi file, played the thing without music to make it work at all

it wasn't that hard to get but then again i am now a d5 idiot who spends life typing arrows

round 3 - 63 (0-0-0-0)
i half forgot this round started lol

so i went with {Big Boss} because it was short and had easy patterns, under 600 arrows as well so that's a big plus for this tourney. i tried four different 63s to find one i could easily aaa but this one was the best one to easily get few raw goods on

predictable patterns, mainly jumps and jumpstream with some interesting 32nds

round 4 - 68 (0-0-0-0)
i chose Major League Can Can because it was the only one i was familiar with honestly, i already had an fc on it with like 15 goods

the first stream with the white notes is okay, it's around high 50s low 60s difficulty, could be a little hard to get accurate on. that jumpstream soon after is a real killer, found it really hard to get down accurately. the chordjacks are easy i feel, that may be the only easy part in terms of a aaa. the trills at the end are a real killer and really hard to accurately do

somehow i got a run where i went past the jumpstream aaa, then starting trills lol i have NO CLUE how i got my aaa on this. i'm sure this is the last aaa i can get in this tourney

round 5 - 70 (1-0-0-0)
for this one i chose Black Key Etude because i was familiar with it, mostly streams and a little bit of minijack, nothing i couldn't handle. at the end there's a bit of jumpstream and at the very end there's a bit of chordjack that can ruin the attempt you're on

my first submitted score was a 4-0-0-0, thought i could do better and got this thing. i definitely can aaa it if i want to grind for it and i can submit a aaa here even in round 6

round 6 - 71+ (1-0-0-0)
now here's the last round! i chose Grocery Escape Plan because i already had an SDG on it and i was quite familiar with it. focus on easy jacks that are around 130bpm i believe

i just wanted a better score than 5 raw goods, even with that many a win would've been basically guaranteed. i in the end got this blackflag, got the good where the chordjack thing almost resembles a running man with an anchor on right arrow