[Concluded] 11th Official Tournament - Round 8

[supermoe1985]

Originally Posted by DossarLX ODI

supermoe1985 booflag Stress Free Style. I'm seeing many other players get surprising scores!

Senpai noticed me!

[TC_Halogen]

Originally Posted by ItsOnlyDanO

Two things here:
Diamante or Kanon would have been fine for the round 1 song, but not round 2+ At the moment its been fairly consistent for all three rounds, which shouldn't be happening. We should be seeing a 82/83 last round, and a 84/85 now (or possibly harder than this), but that hasn't happened. If anything, it's a result organisers of picking the wrong files for d6. However they may not have had a choice. maybe they had no other option and had to pick those files for the first three rounds, I don't know the answer to that.

Wanted to quickly address this and basically give a bit of an explanation: we had ideas of what we thought the file difficulties were for Carnaval/Diamante. Those were very much intended to be round 1 and round 2 files. Keep in mind that previous official tournaments opened out at much lower difficulties, even if the files were underrated. D6's highest opener since the 6 (or 7) division tournament setup was Lexus Cyanixs, which was merely a 74. Carnaval was something that we personally considered (and still personally consider) to be worth giving out Scarhand, making it at least a 5 point jump from previous officials. Given Diamante's structure and presence with 300 BPM streams that are spread out throughout the chart with rather technical midsections outside of those areas -- it seemed reasonable to rate that at least two points higher.

Objectively, Diamante Spectrasplosion is quite a bit more demanding in speed, whereas the densest/most objectively difficult parts of Carnaval cumulatively last for a substantially shorter amount of time. The extraneous parts outside of the main difficulty for both files differ quite a bit as well; you're mostly doing 8th notes or very basic 16th streams in Carnaval, whereas Diamante's patterns are laced with mini-jacks, mini-trill bursts, and some heavier layering.

The reason that Kanon ended up as round 3 is because the jump from Diamante (given that you guys somehow found it easier) and what round 3 was (which is now a round later) was absolutely enormous. For those of you waiting for the file difficulties to step up in D6: you won't have to wait too much longer.

It was a logical shift. You guys might not like it, but keep this in mind too: even at a difficulty of 79 for round 3 (and I think it's fair to give this Scarhand personally), this structure is still at least comparable to previous tournaments. Yeah, the goal was to make things harder - well, as I've said: you'll feel it next round, for sure.

[ItsOnlyDanO]

hype for d6 hard file

although ill still try and AAA it

[MikeShinoda12345]

I think that's fair, and I don't think anyone would suggest carnaval/diamante is easier than the previous openers have been, but I think it's also worth noting that the parameters of D6 have shifted. D6 is a more skilled division than it used to be, and while it's difficult to predict every division's collective performance on eight different songs (especially when many players are coming back from retirement) it's kind of a given that the difficulty would be shifted up too.

Sorry this is probably really wordy I'm on mobile
Edit: okay hopefully I make more sense now

[inDheart]

Originally Posted by TC_Halogen

The reason that Kanon ended up as round 3 is because the jump from Diamante (given that you guys somehow found it easier) and what round 3 was (which is now a round later) was absolutely enormous. For those of you waiting for the file difficulties to step up in D6: you won't have to wait too much longer.

It was a logical shift. You guys might not like it, but keep this in mind too: even at a difficulty of 79 for round 3 (and I think it's fair to give this Scarhand personally), this structure is still at least comparable to previous tournaments. Yeah, the goal was to make things harder - well, as I've said: you'll feel it next round, for sure.

see this seems oddly counter to the goal of having a harder tournament though. sticking kanon in round 3 and shifting other things down implies that the D6 scale used to be harder, except D6 have also been the ones absolutely wrecking everything they play so far.

6 isn't an odd number though so

[nolimits112]

Originally Posted by HardstyleLover

I haven't even been able to fc Funny Funky Freaky yet... pls no more funk. The funk hates me. How about some hardstyle instead? lol.

Can't stop the funk

[Mourningfall]

Originally Posted by MikeShinoda12345

wait i think i disagree with absolutely everything in this post ??

',:^)

edit:sorry dano, didn't expect someone to take my post seriously
google: Poe's Law

hyped for hard stuff though :V

[yo man im awesome]

Originally Posted by Mourningfall

',:^)

edit:sorry dano, didn't expect someone to take my post seriously
google: Poe's Law

hyped for hard stuff though :V

YES SOMEBODY NOTICED MY EMOTICON

',:^j

[psychoangel691]

I had a way harder file for D6 for this round, I was told not to do it to swap it out. So here we are. Just going to trust my own instincts from now on I guess.

[One Winged Angel]

Originally Posted by psychoangel691

I had a way harder file for D6 for this round, I was told not to do it to swap it out. So here we are. Just going to trust my own instincts from now on I guess.

to be completely fair (if this is a reference to our conversation), I said I was fine with either option, just that the file in question was definitely a point higher in difficulty imo than what was initially projected/required for round 3

[psychoangel691]

I'm not getting into specifics, as you saw I didn't even mention names because I don't want it to turn into some argument. So far this tournament though every time I've not listened to myself it's bitten me in the butt and it's getting to be frustrating now. It all ends up falling on my shoulders because I'm the one hosting.

[xXOpkillerXx]

Great to see AJ and Evil Smoke having a bit of trouble this round hehe~
I MIGHT SURVIVE >:3

[Deidara837]

Once I improve, it might stir up a flurry of activity in D6
Because it'd throw Gradiant in the yellow, then he'll improve and repeat the cycle
Might do it later if I can even do it at all

[Mourningfall]

Originally Posted by Deidara837

Once I improve

this is a can-do attitude, I like it

you've done well so far, stay determined man, you got this

[ItsOnlyDanO]

Originally Posted by Mourningfall

',:^)

edit:sorry dano, didn't expect someone to take my post seriously
google: Poe's Law

hyped for hard stuff though :V

I was unsure so I thought I would anyway, whoops.

[TC_Halogen]

Originally Posted by xXOpkillerXx

Great to see AJ and Evil Smoke having a bit of trouble this round hehe~
I MIGHT SURVIVE >:3

It's actually a really exciting experience for me this round! Up to 71 plays and I still cannot improve from 7-1-2-0. The last time that I had this kind of trouble earlier on was back in the 4th official tournament, back when I had to play Sonata Quasi - thankfully, a whole bunch of other people had the same score that I did, so I wasn't in any real danger of being eliminated.

But yeah, this is kinda neat. I'll have to keep trying and eventually getting there. Had I not butchered the ending on that run, I'd probably be in much better shape (I think it would have been 3-1-2-0?). It's still surprising seeing that I've not had anything better than that yet, though.

[Gradiant]

Originally Posted by Deidara837

then he'll improve and repeat the cycle

Nope

[SmexxxyBeast]

welp looks like 4th is where ill be this time around. i hope...

[_DJ Vinyl_]

7th or 8th for me ᕕ( º ل͜ º )ᕗ

I ship FFR and Geometry Dash (kiss*)

[25thhour]

I hate D5s song... I can't do the stupid jump stream bullshit. I should survive though.

Also, I became D6 yesterday with a stupid good score... Lol.