FFR Official Tournament 7 - Division 4 final thoug
Posted on: August 19, 2012, at 12:25:15am

Song 1: Addict (Remix)
Fun, fun song. Definitely just tough enough to dump out the first few in the division who were either lazy or just not skilled enough to deal with polyrhythms. Fun file, neat song, definitely an amazingly suspenseful and dark track, perfect for starting off a stressful competition to the top.
1-0-0-0

Song 2: Yellow Leaves
Simple file, simple song. Fun and bouncy, but the speedchange killed some people, which was another small aspect to separate the boys from the men. Nothing too difficult, though, aside from the length of the song and a few tricky 24th sections.
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Song 3: The Replicator
A rough, very difficult file and certainly a jump up from the previous file, which seemed to match round 1's file difficulty. This was extremely tough to master, and I didn't do a fantastic job of that. Sick minijacks fused with strange 24th sections inbetween triplet jumpgluts...talk about nerve racking.
4-0-0-2

Song 4: Flamingo
Amazing song, because I love renard, but the file was a little odd. This tested the strength of handstreamers/jump splits. Had some strange gallops to simulate glitched snares. Not much to say here, fun and slightly easy to be consistent on.
2-0-0-0

Song 5: Nous
t+pazolite's files in this game have been notorious for screwing me over royally. This file's intro was horrid, for it repeated poor jumpstream patterns and mirrored them throughout the file. The 32nd note sections felt completely unnatural to play. The end was decent, although again very repetitive. By far the song I whored the most, and some how managed to pull myself up from my 2 goods to do what i knew i could do.
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Song 6: Spaceman
What can I say? The song is happy yet melancholy at the same time, extremely well put together along with the file, which contains some fun rolls at the beginning that are a bit daunting until you master turning them into 16th jumps. It felt more natural on mirror, though. Near the end is what got me...And I had very little time to play in the circumstances i am used to this week. when i finally was back to my regular circumstances which is nobody watching me play, i was too stressed and upset from today's happenings to pull off a good score. Still a fantastic file.
3-0-0-0

---ELIMINATED---

Final tournament thoughts (along with post elim song judgement)
I thought overall the tournament was pretty fun. Some of the song choices and ratings felt a bit strange, such as yellow leaves felt a little easy for round 2 and replicator felt like a huge jump not to mention worthy of a tiebreaker song for that round, not an actual round song. This tournament was wild, with people getting moved around, people sandbagging, and even botters getting caught. Some of the songs and the placements per division felt unfair, but setting up a tournament of this magnitude is tough especially when there are plenty of people who go out of their way to cheat or try to look bad when they actually aren't. What's weird is how many complaints there were about some people sandbagging. There were a few actual sandbaggers, but most of the complaints were out of the fact that some people could get high scores very early. All I have to say about it is that there has to be people that lose, that's all there is to it. Overall, my competitors were very, very friendly, and it was a wild ride competing with them. I hope to see them all in the next tournament, and I hope to continue progressing until I can jump up to the next division.


Song 7: Level Skip
Wow! Another song i really like, by an artist and step artist i respect. Good file, again, very fast and LOTS of fun jacks that make this file very tricky for D4, but its nothing they cant handle. This makes me a little upset to have gotten eliminated previously, though, since I am very good at long jacks like the ones in this file, and with work, the wicked streams in the file will be the only thing I'll have to worry about.