11th Official FFR Tournament!
Posted on: June 27, 2016, at 02:54:54pm

yoyoyo, this is the one that matters. Pretty happy with my performance last year so I'm definitely looking forward to this one as well. Competition's probably going to be rougher than last year so I'll be on the lookout for that, haha.


Round 1: oppIrish (GYPSYCOREremix) (AAA) - Took two tries. One on stream, and then when I stopped streaming, I got it lol.

Round 2: You're gonna love my nuts (AAA) - Sightread lol, this blog isn't looking so hot.

Round 3: Stress Free Style (AAA) - Tried waking up and then AAA'ing it cold. Flagged it then got it first try on stream later on. Fucking sick file though.

Round 4: Ongaku -kaiongaku mix- (AAA) - Same scenario as Stress Free Style except I had to play it a few more times until I got it. File's eh. Onto Round 5.

Round 5: OWA Raged at Kurorak for Making OWA Raged at Skeletor (AAA) - Did a playthrough of it when I woke up, got 1-0-1-0. Played it a few more times and got it. Didn't even notice I had mirror on either, was wondering why it felt so awkward. I tried it on non-mirror and choked the last 20 notes because I looked at the PA counter to see if I had it LOL. See you bois in top 8~

Round 6: Powerflux (AAA) - This file seemed daunting at first but once I played it a few times, it can be broken down relatively easily. The file has 4k notes in around three and a half minutes but most of the patterns are just either jummptrills, or jumptrill-like tranistions (With some handstream at the end). The transitions before the 24ths were tripping me up so my first full run ended up being 0-0-2-0. Then I played it again and got 0-0-1-1. I initially thought I wasn't going to improve this but after a few times and being warmed up a bit more, this file didn't feel like much of a problem surprisingly. I was consistent throughout the entire file but I guess it was just that one part that I thought was gonna be the death of me. Pretty satisfied I knocked this one out of the way and looking forward to Round 7!

Round 7: You Universe (1-0-0-0) - This file isn't too bad. Just one spot in particular that's bothering me, which would be those weird trills followed by split rolls. I'm relatively consistent everywhere else so hopefully I can nab the AAA soon. In comparison to Powerflux, I wouldn't say the difficulty difference isn't that huge. They just take two different skillsets, that's all. Hopefully, round 8 will bring some good shit to the table. See you guys in the finals >:D

Round 8: Undici (7-2-1-3) - Let me just start out by saying what in the actual shit in this file lmao. I can't say I hate it but I can't say I enjoy it either. It's just hard. Very mindblockable patterns, awkward transitions, outright fast bursts, and just an overall clusterfuck of a chart. I warmed up with some SM and my first playthroughs of this file were okay I guess. I was usually around the teens/high SDG range (excluding the CB's of course), but that's about how most of my runs went. FC'ing this file is extremely hard because of some of the patterns outright relying on one hand which I can't say is one of my strong points, so I have to strain that hand the pattern is on in hopes to FC it lol. If I try to manipulate the pattern, I end up dropping averages/boos on other parts. I really want to improve this score as I don't feel quite safe with it. But, we'll see later on this week how my score holds up...





Conclusion: Well, it feels nice to win a tournament back-to-back but this tournament didn't really have that much of a competitive feel to it this year compared to last year. Not sure how to explain it but oh well. I can definitely say that the songs were certainly harder this year. You Universe being the first notable one as some sort of difficulty spike, then Undici coming out of nowhere and giving me a bit of a shock my first playthrough. It was also cool seeing some lesser-known players come out of nowhere and getting top 8, most notably Supermoe getting 6th, LegendXYZ getting 7th, and Josemba getting 8th.

Shoutouts to the people that put this tournament together, simfile artists, D7 crew, people that were cheering me on, and just about everyone that helped out with this tournament in general. This tournament is always nice to come back to once a year as it's probably one of my favorite rhythm game tournaments to be a part of.

1. 1: Xx{Fallen}xX
   Posted at 4:57pm on June 29th, 2016

   Wowie, only two tries. PJSalt
2. 2: Skullbac
   Posted at 11:55am on July 1st, 2016

   wow good job :o
   I tought this was unAAAble because of the jacks
3. 3: Dinglesberry
   Posted at 4:19pm on July 9th, 2016

   Damn i swear this etienne bro hax, always gettin the monster runs off stream.
   I wish I could have seen the oppirish AAA lol, I wanted to see it on youtube but you didn't record :(
4. 4: Dinglesberry
   Posted at 1:51pm on July 16th, 2016

   h0ly shit he already AAA'd the round 4 file, b1g 3t13nn3 2str0nk
5. 5: Dinglesberry
   Posted at 1:27pm on July 30th, 2016

   HOLY FUCK tourneys over boys etienne already AAA'd powerball..
   Are you just waiting for the last round, where theres gonna be 3000 notes in a minute song? like god damn etienne give others a chance :p
6. 6: Skullbac
   Posted at 3:12am on July 31st, 2016

   If powerflux is at least 96, then what is gonna be the final song? Something as hard as death piano??? O_o
7. 7: Skullbac
   Posted at 1:46am on August 14th, 2016

   Ok im quite positive to say that undici is harder than death piano / RATO
   Looking at the almost unreadable patterns and numerous jacks
8. 8: MarcusHawkins
   Posted at 1:01pm on August 14th, 2016

   Play on Undici mirror boi!
9. 9: Skullbac
   Posted at 12:53am on August 20th, 2016

   GG for getting first place on tournament etienne!!! :P
10. 10: IwasAsquidOnce
    Posted at 7:15pm on August 20th, 2016

    Wasn't as competitive cuz you dont have competition