Afterthoughts
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Can't keep up with the heavy accuracy-focused tournament meta, it'll always bite me in the end. Hard to nail every piece of jank in the easier files. Overall difficulties were a lot lower than I anticipated them to be; even to reach top 16 was only an 89 which is a AAA candidate for mid-D6 players. Never got to showcase my speed/stamina, pretty unlucky.


Round 5
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[94] Antigravity
7-0-0-2

Seemingly straightforward on the surface but it's full of tons of places to drop dumb goods, and grinding the file is a massive headache due to everything being condensed into a few spikes. Still waiting for the files that are physically demanding but consistent and jankless. Should be good enough of a score, but I know I can get ~2g on something like this. Edit: Ha, guess not

Round 4
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[89] Sayonara Cosmonaut
7-1-0-0

The 24ths streams give me fits to PA consistently. Needed mirror for the streams for whatever reason, but I don't like grinding this file, the SDG is fine. The lenient cutoff makes this more than enough to move on regardless.

Round 3
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[88] Eternal Peace Is Nothing But An Illusion
3-0-0-0

Relatively straightforward but hard to keep consistent on the awkwardly slow 32nd bursts. Lots of people had problems with the ending intensity but I had no issues with the trill anchors and mini rolls. Something else I could AAA but would be hard to nail in the end so not gonna bother.

Round 2
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[86] Lamuscore
1-0-0-1

Excellent chart, felt pretty straightforward. Got 3g and then 1-0-0-1 both within the first 10 min or so. Can fish for the AAA but the amount of effort doesn't seem worth as it's just r2.

Round 1
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[82] Ambient Ooparts
3-1-1-1

Long song over 3.5 min, great chart but huge spikes and chokebait throughout the whole thing. Keeping my sanity for now instead of fixing.

Round 5
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[92] Maybe All This Time I Was Wrong
10-2-1-4
12th out of 16 (cutoff at 8)

Bowed out amongst a killer group that keeps posting low SDGs, and after scraping by so many times finally couldn't keep up. Mostly taken out by jumpjack transitions in the first half and consistency issues later on. Happy to have exceeded my original expectations for the tournament, as well as claiming bragging rights over fellow rivalry members.

Round 4
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[91] The Scales of Strangeness
6-0-0-0
T-13th out of 24 (cutoff at 16)

Really pulled this one out of my ass. I'd always been comfortable with pad patterns, especially 24th streams (s/o Tachyon), so this translated well. During my PB run, I managed to hold 2g up to the last 10% before nerves got the better of me. Was shocking to outplace this many high-level players.

Round 3
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[86] Kanon
2-0-0-1
T-19th out of 32 (cutoff at 24)

Pretty new to D6 at that point, so I didn't expect to make it that far in such a stacked division. A file riddled with offset problems and packed with color puke spells out "consistency disaster". The file itself wasn't that hard, just had to grind for that one run.

Round 2
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[86] Diamante Spectrasplosion
2-1-0-0
T-23rd out of 41 (cutoff at 32)

A lot of minis and chords, which played to my strengths, and the 32nd streams were kept short which let me get past them without much trouble. Ended up with a pretty solid score I was satisfied with.

Round 1
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[83] Le carnaval des animaux, Movement no. 14 "Finale"
4-0-1-1
27th out of 54 (cutoff at 41)

A bunch of somewhat troll trills to start off, but as it was the first round, I didn't expend a lot of effort getting above the cutoff and settled for the SDG.

Round 5
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D4 [73] Electric Butterfly: 21-1-0-8
D5 [79] Accelerator: 46-1-9-4
D6 [82] Cold Heart: 39-2-5-8

D4 hits a stark density threshold with EB's relentless jumpstream. Accelerator is crazy, but as per usual, anyone reaching this point has worked their way into the next division. Don't think I'll have time to clean up these scores, unfortunately. Also, Cold Heart now has the honor for my worst mindblocks to date.

Round 4
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D4 [67] Poinsettia: 6-0-0-6
D5 [72] Exclusive Utopia: 6-0-0-1
D6 [82] Poison of the Earth:

The rust is starting to settle in after being knocked out, but I'll still attempt to ghost the next round or two. My inconsistency with dense jumpstream is pretty evident, so I'm happy with the Poinsettia SDG. My Utopia score was pretty solid but again, the AAA cutoff speaks miles as to the capabilities of the rest of D5. For what it's worth, I did much better on Utopia than on Blue.

Round 3
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D4 [61] Plousia: AAA
D5 [71] Blue: 11-1-0-3
D6 [78] FUSE!!: 18-0-1-0

Tourney run comes to an unfortunate end here. I got nailed by inconsistencies on the rolls. The next round ended up being the legendary 17-way AAA tiebreak, which would have finished me off for sure. Hopefully I can improve for next year, considering I don't think I put in too much effort this time around. Aiming for high D5 but I don't think reaching D6 is out of the question.

Round 2
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D4 [59] Flame Repellant: AAA
D5 [65] A Yodeler in Texas: 1-0-0-0
D6 [76] Capoeira Sundance: 37-1-0-1

Interesting chart for Yodeler, on the denser side. The song itself was worth a giggle (m8). I'll take the BF for sure, but the AAA would've been nice. Not gonna lose sleep over it though. Capoeira is quite the file, hope everyone has fun with those killer trills.

Round 1
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D4 [56] Fill Me Up With Snacky Happiness: AAA
D5 [61] Truth (xKore Remix): AAA
D6 [74] Lexus Cyanixs: 2-0-0-0

Truth was pretty decent all around, managed to nab the sightread AAA. Lexus Cyanixs was really fun, clean artcore and sick breakbeats made for an enjoyable song. Managed to get a pretty sick score with those bursts.