10th Official FFR Tournament RT
Posted on: November 13, 2014, at 06:00:49am

Goals
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[X] Not last
[X] Top 25
[nope] Top 16
[nope] Top 12
[nope] Remove Sakamoto's red scarf. Hakase da nyan.

Blurb
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Prologue: lol I am in D7 thank you for saving me the humiliation I would have gotten from not being able to place well in D6 and people making fun of me for it.

Round 1: Pandemonium (AAA) | 100 attempts
oh gosh I can't AAA the round 1 file what do
EDIT: Improved to a booflag after 77 plays.
10/4: Muted my flash player and instead had on a video of [E] by dj MAX STEROID and got the AAA first try of the day. deheheheheheheh

Round 2: Shippuujinrai (AAA) | 31 attempts
bmah
I let my guard down on my first playthrough and ended up with a non-FC that wasn't even an SDG. Took a few tries to improve to a blackflag, and then a few more to get the AAA (for which I had mirror on, surprisingly. The rougher sections of the file definitely felt more difficult with mirror, personally speaking). Not really a huge fan of the song or the file, but they weren't bad, either.

Round 3: Double Helix (booflag; eliminated) | 584 attempts
more bmah
Wish I could enjoy this file outside of a tournament setting. It's actually a fun kind of challenging file, despite being loaded with my weaknesses (gluts and jacks going into hands, in particular). File plays like an easier version of Storm Raid Battle + Go Beyond!!, although I enjoy Double Helix more as a song compared to those two. Had a blackflag run and a missflag run, both of which I got when FFR was down. Didn't bother to save them since the round is already AAA-or-die status and 1-0-0-4 looks cuter anyway. ^.^=
10/18:

10/22: Think I'm done. Really did try; shame mindblocks reared their ugly heads everywhere. Right from my sightread run I knew this round was going to be AAA or die, so that much wasn't a surprise. But I also thought I'd AAA this fairly easily (at least, more easily than the first two rounds). Eh, I can't be right about everything.

Will still be ghosting D6 to see if there are any sandbaggers this year see if I'd still be able to make it to the top there.

Epilogue: 23rd place, ending my 4-official streak of placing higher every time (although the 9th official was just D7 being lazy + AAA bait for the entire first half). At least me doing hilariously bad on Double Helix won't kick me out from D7 because you guys will think I'm better than I actually am as long as that La Camp booflag is in my levelranks -^^-

Round 4: MANIERA (AAA) | 35 attempts
This is pretty fun. I messed up on both the 24th streams and the 12th jacks on my sightread run, but I think I should be able to manage them with practice. I personally found the D6 song to be much more awkward
10/25: lol I AAA'd oops. It's okay, I wouldn't have gotten Double Helix even with a thousand more tries within the week.

Round 5: The Bird's Midair Heatstroke (3-0-0-2) | 55 attempts
Not much to say. It's a well-stepped file and pretty good practice for control.

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Final placement
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D1 - 1/69
D2 - 1/82
D3 - 1/68
D4 - 1/67
D5 - 4/86
D6 - 6/61 - hey look at me I'm D7 nyah nyah (sun)
D7 - 23/34

Round Scores
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Round 1
D1: Rainbow Road [nanobii] [15] (AAA) | Cutoff: (160-27-1-2-5)
D2: Polargeist [22] (AAA) | Cutoff: (29-2-0-2)
D3: Session (Ghost in the Machine Remix) [43] (AAA) | Cutoff: (33-2-1-2)
D4: Fill Me Up With Snacky Happiness [56] (AAA) | Cutoff: (8)
D5: Truth (xKore Remix) [61] (AAA) | Cutoff: (6-0-1-3)
D6: Lexus Cyanixs [74] (AAA) | Cutoff: (9)
D7: Pandemonium [79] (AAA) | Cutoff: (1-0-0-1)

Round 2
D1: warm sea [18] (AAA) | Cutoff: (58-2-7-9)
D2: Tomorrow Untrodden [30] (AAA) | Cutoff: (2)
D3: Rat Twist [50] (AAA) | Cutoff: (4)
D4: Flame Repellent [59] (AAA) | Cutoff: (4)
D5: A Yodeler in Texas [65] (AAA) | Cutoff: (3)
D6: Capoeira Sundance [76] (AAA) | Cutoff: (6-0-0-1)
D7: Shippuujinrai [82] (AAA) | Cutoff: (AAA or die)

Round 3
D1: Torvus Clockwork [20] (AAA) | Cutoff: (16)
D2: Strength [33] (AAA) | Cutoff: (3)
D3: Be-Music Polyphony [52] (AAA) | Cutoff: (18-0-0-1)
D4: Plousia [61] (AAA) | Cutoff: (6)
D5: Blue [71] (AAA) | Cutoff: (5)
D6: FUSE!! [7x] (AAA) | Cutoff: (3)
D7: Double Helix [84] (booflag, eliminated) | Cutoff: (AAA or die)

Round 4
D1: Everfree [25] (AAA) | Cutoff: (13-1-0-0)
D2: Senorita Bonita [43] (AAA) | Cutoff: (11)
D3: Autumn Breeze [59] (AAA) | Cutoff: (13-0-0-1)
D4: Poinsettia [64] (AAA) | Cutoff: (13-0-0-3)
D5: Exclusive Utopia [74] (AAA) | Cutoff: (AAA or die, tiebreak)
D5 Tiebreaker: Djentrap [82] (2) | Cutoff: (17-0-9-0)
D6: Poison of the Earth [82] (AAA) | Cutoff: (1-0-0-1)
D7: MANIERA [87] (AAA) | Cutoff: (AAA or die)

Round 5
D1: Alive (Pegboard Nerds Remix) [Standard] [31] (AAA) | Cutoff: (9, tiebreak)
D1 Tiebreaker: Late Summer [42] (AAA) | Cutoff: (23)
D2: tabi shirabe [46] (AAA) | Cutoff: (2)
D3: We Met Dat Night [61] (AAA) | Cutoff: (5-0-0-1, tiebreak)
D3 Tiebreaker: Men & Machines [Redemption] [68] (AAA) | Cutoff: (8)
D4: Electric Butterfly [73] (AAA) | Cutoff: (29-1-2-5)
D5: Accelerator [79] (2) | Cutoff: (5-2-0-1)
D6: Cold Heart [84] (AAA) | Cutoff: (blackflag, tiebreak)
D6 Tiebreaker: You Time [90] (29-3-0-4) | Cutoff: (10-0-1-1)
D7: The Bird's Midair Heatstroke [88] (3-0-0-2) | Cutoff: (AAA or die)

Round 6
D1: White book [Standard] [37] (AAA) | Cutoff: (7)
D2: Dolphin Talk [54] (AAA) | Cutoff: (9-1-0-1)
D3: Crimson Flood [66] (AAA) | Cutoff: (5, tiebreak)
D4: Arianrhod [73] (AAA) | Cutoff: (13-0-0-4)
D5: Schur's Theorem [80] (1-0-0-1) | Cutoff: (3-0-0-2)
D6: Doppelganger [87] (6-0-0-1, eliminated) | Cutoff: (1-1-1-2)
D7: Rengoku-Purgatorium [91] (5-0-0-4) | Cutoff: (AAA or die, tiebreak)

Round 7
D1: Arsonist [Standard] [43] (AAA) | Cutoff: (5)
D2: NKS2 (Ain't No Half-Steppin' Remix) [58] (AAA) | Cutoff: (8-0-1-1)
D3: Saffron City [71] (AAA) | Cutoff: (3)
D4: Run Run Run [78] (1-0-0-1) | Cutoff: (5-2-0-6)
D5: Goblin [84] (blackflag) | Cutoff: (6)
D6: The Limit Does Not Exist [89] (5) | Cutoff: (2)
D7: Staple on Smile [96] (51-1-7-10) | Cutoff: (booflag)