My returning to FFR / Tournament blog
Posted on: September 16, 2014, at 10:20:55pm

Figured this might be fun. My goal is to be able to AAA Gacha Gacha Cute again before the tournament, guess we'll see if that happens.

Right now my first day back in eight months or so I'm warming up with some easy stuff. Started at 25 then went to 30 and 35. I played Coactive and beat my old 11g, moving it all the way up to 2-0-0-1 (and that was because I couldn't trill the weird-rhythm stuff fast enough). Time heals all mindblocks, I suppose.

Not doing so well on higher difficulties, I've lost a lot of speed. I'm pleasantly surprised I retain a lot of ability to read the arrows though. After some warmup I got 32-13-0-22 (some mashing ech) on Gacha Gacha Cute, so that'll be the benchmark.

Day 2: sightread AAA on Sleep, Part 2. That was fun, really like that song. Surprised I didn't get any boos in there.

Day 3: playing some of the songs I've missed to get my levelranks neat again, got a bunch of new blackflags :P. I was pleasantly surprised that I've played The Brain of the Moon enough times to recognize the tune from Eirin's Clinic, despite not knowing much about Touhou. GGC score at the end of the day (tired and accuracy is suffering): 31-3-0-8. Definitely making some progress.

Day 4: 5bil GTS and 4k games played, yay~ GGC: 12-1-1-3. Getting there, still need to work on dense parts.

Day 6: improved some scores on high difficulty songs today (Turn Soonest and Wolf by Night, Human in Dreams). Good stuff! Definitely making good progress.


Welp tournament started. Guess I'll just keep a tournament journal in here. D4 again, of course.

R1 (Fill Me Up With Snacky Happiness): 2g first try. Wasn't expecting to do so well in my first round (especially considering I booflagged D1's song and did worse than this on D2's and D3's just now), but I'll take it! I could probably improve this if I warm up properly, but hopefully I'm safe anyway. Also D5's song is really fun. EDIT: improved to a blackflag on 10/8 (my second play :P). So many blackflags today. Either I got lucky or this is low for a 56.

R2 (Flame Repellent): despite being a 59 this feels pretty easy to me. If I AAA it I could get Scarhand [Standard], so that will definitely be motivation to do well this round. 5g first try, most of those were pretty silly and there was only one place that I really had any trouble with, so I'll keep practicing. Maybe playing it a bunch of times will work this time, who knows. Was right above the elimination line on Monday, so improved to a 3g. I got a good early and was doing well for a while, then I think I let my guard down and got two more. Didn't really have skill trouble with any of it this time.

R3 (Plousia): 5 clean first play, wow! The adrenaline was really pumping, I didn't expect to do that well but my fingers seemed to know what to do. Things are going to start getting really competitive this round so I can't get complacent if I want to advance.

1. 1: popsicle_3000
   Posted at 8:24pm on September 25th, 2014

   welcome back