FFR Scores ~2013 Remix~

[Dynam0]

Warm balls!

Too intense for the ending oops

[DossarLX ODI]

Yay

[~Zeta~]

this file is really fun. all 3 were in easy-ish spots so w/e

[ItsOnlyDanO]

tough file

[Dynam0]

3g on All Your Base is really good Zeta, nice
Dem AAAs O_O

Sightread

[Netjet!]

Had to post this, it's been haunting my ranks for a long time:



still a few synth songs to go unfortunately

[omega_grunt666]

During warmups for D5

Jesus, stand alone plus favorite keyboard OP. I could maybe do better but nerves as fuck towards the end. Can't believe that happened.

[popsicle_3000]

Originally Posted by kjwkjw

Got this a few hours ago, but I might as well post it. Thought I was going to get my first 90 AAA... ):
(Didn't take a screenie after the run, so I got one from the replay)

balls

Originally Posted by Dynam0

Warm balls!

Too intense for the ending oops

warm balls

[~Zeta~]

why does j'ai feel AAA'able but it isn't

rip


y


5 in second 24th stream because the up arrow sucks

[Frederic54]

Haha first full TP (3/3), I was aiming for 1/3 (15 goods) but ended up with this:

[omega_grunt666]

Zeta that temp. rainbow flag on j'ai was both beautiful and painful at the same time. Looks totally doable for you, keep at it! And that Rave 7... SDG in no time.


Very nice Frederic!

[jgano]

70th Expert AAA!!!

Also, it's probably just me, but the part of the song in the last 100 notes reminds me of a song from the game Einhander.

[ItsOnlyDanO]

I was determined to get this aaa

[igotrhythm]

Originally Posted by _Fluttershy_

Thought I'd post this here, my new highest AAA and my first Level 70+ AAA! Really psyched heh! XD

Psh, don't let them throw you off, nailing that one part puts you up into D5, yeah, but you'd still lose out on vROFL vs. people like OmegaGrunt.

Speaking of Fighter X...improvement from 11-0-0-4, two of the goods were bullshit because I lagged on a jump. So proud that I nailed everything after the big stream.

[One Winged Angel]

wow Mikey nice J'ai replay, AAA looks doable for you

curious as to what other MA players can get on this (second try, prob improvable by a little bit)

[popsicle_3000]

wtf

[omega_grunt666]

Fahbalagado
2-0-2-0
3-0-0-0
2-0-0-1
So damn close... One day


*edit*
Getting better

Billions and Billions of fixable derps.

*edito two-o*
Give me a year and some Ritalin and I'll be d7 k?

[DarknessXoXLight]

i hate myself.

[SK8R43]

Originally Posted by omega_grunt666

Fahbalagado
2-0-2-0
3-0-0-0
2-0-0-1
So damn close... One day


*edit*
Getting better

Billions and Billions of fixable derps.

*edito two-o*
Give me a year and some Ritalin and I'll be d7 k?

....... How the actual fuck are you in D5... youre better than me rofl
Nice scores

[omega_grunt666]

Originally Posted by SK8R43

....... How the actual fuck are you in D5... youre better than me rofl
Nice scores

Ok, adding more to this as I write it out, TLDR my FFR Tournament experience/autobiography.

I was actually legitimately D5 starting this tournament, 66 highest AA, Most of my 70s+ are/were teens with a few SDGs. Low 80 around 20-40g depending on patterns. Everything else 40-100. Those were "try hard" scores for me, I didn't ever sit down and do 50+ restarts, but I would come back to ones that needed improving usually.

I've been playing on and off for almost 10 years, I don't focus AAA ANYTHING (easily read from my stats). The hardest I've ever worked for an AAA was probably Rocket Flight. On the other hand I've always enjoyed fast files, my warm-up for most of the pre-tournament leadup was something like Unicron Barbeque, Twister/DR1 on 1.3+, Crow's Ghost, etc. Nowhere near AAA on any of those

Rates warming up
Went to lol world finals in LA, did this at an internet cafe there. Was somewhat happy with score

Signed up for tournament, shaking off cobwebs. Speed training

First round of tournament starts, I realize I'm in for it now. I can't AAA jack shiet so I go into overtime. I normally only play from the internet cafe because my scores from home SUCK. (more on that later) but I start trying to play more from home as well.

Start of the Rivalry thread, I was late to the party ended up entering the first round in the last two hours or something. I snipe a kirby ANTI-RES score out from other people. But Cedo and Yosh still looking really strong. Now I have some goals to achieve.

Best try is 6 on R1

Decide to enter rivalry thread as a way to improve for the tournament
First post

Improved to 2, made it past the round

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Made it through to round 2, my goal at this point is to try for at least 4. That would be a somewhat decent first official I guess.

Summerghost was actually really easy to AAA, very pleasantly surprised.

Week 2 of rivalry has started, taking it very seriously now. Dump 1 Dump 2

Scores:
Dr1 rate improvements

Unicron rate improvements

Holy grail achieved, Club AAA (I missflagged it first and nearly flipped a table)

Crazy lucky run through My Fxxkin, This is by a large margin my greatest score of all time (at the time)

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The snap: At this point I've burned out q/w/a/s/z/x/`/1/2/3 and */-/8/9/5/6/2/3/0/. on my Black Widow ultimate from playing at home. The keyboard is still great for normal games, but those keys now have about a ~1/250 double activation (probably because it wore down the cherry mx blues)

Getting desperate to have more game time in, I break down and buy 2 k120s

Initially big problems with the flat keys, I decide its worth working on to get an extra 5 days out of the week.

Requiem nearly undoes me, Sightread 33-x-x-x

FFRMania is leaked, new hard files to work on my speed sans rates. Torture my hands as hard as I can ever day

First FFRmania Score Dump

Big improvement to reality (happy)

Week 3 Rivarly, Last before it falls apart.

~150 restarts into Requiem
Finally get it down to 3g, enough to pass

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I've reached my goal to Round 4, Its all gravy from here. But just over the hill I can see the top 16 and my chance at Fractured Sunshine, Being a token whore at heart I put extra effort into making sure I get that far.

Blocking super hard on HAELIQUIN. Again my heart is racing at the thought of elimination, I push on.

Continue the rates

Linebro starts what I initially thought was a silly a pointless rates challenge. Turns out to be fun and I get some vibrating done

Speedboost into better lolo

d7 score

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DR R5, AAA or DIE

Love this file, was so fun and flowed really nice. New highest AAA after Club (still is, as of posting. Shy a Lolo BF)

Finally FC zombie sunset

Accidentally try to improve My Fxxkin... on rates.... FC

Speed is really starting to pick up

Intense stamina training for Linebros vibrochallenge (But he nerfed it =()

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R6 starts off with a bang. Tiebreaker (no pressure) Bmah file (maybe some pressure) for top 8 (oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck)

Initial runs have me crapping my pants

These were posted from home, so I generally got at least 2x as many goods/misses.



I hit FFRmania like a ton of fucking bricks the second I got to the cafe. No post worthy scores but my hands were burning for hours.

Party on and off ALL NIGHT. An hour in and I'm still blocking. Shitty random misses, random good dumps.

Round song shows promise, alternating with blocking party

I started to get a couple FCs in a row, Auto-restarting on miss.
it looked a little something like
20-0-0-5
restart @500
restart @1500
19-0-0-2
21-0-0-0
restart @200
restart @200
*etc etc*
restart @500
restart @200
11-1-0-1

and then

At that point I was on autopilot, I almost restarted past it until I saw the numbers. Bricks were shat. To this day, I've probably never worked soo hard for a score, but there was soo much luck involved as well.

Had a hell of a time fixing round song though, used up everything on party. Got a 4-0-0-3 but tons of runs that weren't even SDG

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R7 the final frontier

Still in the thick of it as I type this. Klimt and Jose set a really damn high bar for me this round.

Now heres an interesting fact, this ENTIRE TIME I've been playing from Chrome. I always did from the cafe because I didn't have access to the desktop for standalone. And it honestly didn't seem like I needed it anyways, and since it was working from the cafe I assumed it was working at home too. I actually thought I was better off at home because the cafe would have minor framerate spikes occasionally. Well it turns out when I decided to try the standalone at home to see if it would improve those scores a little, it nearly fixed every problem I was having in the first place. A ton of what I had attributed to random derpiness/9.4 years worth of bad habits was actually trouble adjusting to the framerate/input latency issues that had gone unnoticed (as there was no bar for comparison).

So when I got to the Cafe I asked to be put into admin mode so I could try (The owners/staff are good friends and very friendly, so they had no issue) and its fairly obvious what came of that with fridays scores.

But today... I think I had an actual boost boost for the first time in a decade. I woke up early around 5am and couldn't get back to sleep (head racing). So I stayed up and did some avatar edits for the christmas thread and just messed around in ffr. But I wanted to get some sleep so I could post some scores today, so around 1pm I crawled into bed and my head was still going wild. had arrows on the brain, managed to fall asleep like that though.

When I got up I felt super ready for anything FFR had to throw at me, it was like I've been playing all day in my dreams. I got to the cafe at 5:30/6pm and absolutely destroyed (as you can see from todays posts)

So that has been my journey so far, from the least likely to win D5 who nobody really knew to a possible contender for next years D6 in a matter of weeks. A perfect storm of slow speed training over the years, good rivals to motivate me, and the right circumstances have led to this. Thanks for reading I guess? Hopefully it was somewhat interesting/insightful.