OT 18 log (B6/D7)
Posted on: June 27, 2025, at 12:46:31am

Preface
Been a while since the last OT, and I've made bounds and strides as a player in the last year, so I hope to prove myself this tournament, aiming for a top 3 finish.

Round 1: Eureka | Score: AAA! (256p, 2att)

Thoughts:
This file is a really fun one to start of the OT, with only some minor diff spikes throughout, but those were able to be cleaned up in 2 attempts and some iso practice to make for a pretty short and sweet grind. Akazu also looks really really fun, so I'm a little sad I wasn't able to make it to g7 this year, but I'll have to see how it plays in the morning when I'm able to push properly.

Have played Akazu since writing that, I was correct, Akazu is really fun! I think I actually would've lived g7 cutoff with the score I got on it (5.4rg iirc) so that's quite funny.


Round 2: Mezzotinto | Score: AAA! (373p, 15att)

Thoughts:
@jacob who hurt you?

Jokes aside, this file was indeed still pretty fun as OT files tend to be, but we're leaving the range of files I can AAA at 1am so that is a bit sad. Put in ~30m of work on file release to get 6.2rg, but after sleeping on it and another ~20m of practice I was able to clean it up to get my second day 1* AAA!

Now that g7 file do be lookin kinda equivable though......................

Round 3: silly-willy-nilly | Score: 1-0-0-1 (417p, ??att)

Thoughts:
Been a minute, time to catch up with this.
So far, silly-willy-nilly has been the most frustrating file to grind out (written as of round 5), as so many random patterns can instantly end your run when pushing for AAA. Still, not a bad file, and a decent showing for myself


Round 4: Clex3 | Score: 14-0-1-1 (701p, ??att)

Thoughts:
Ah yes, the funny one. The "103" we were given. Honestly wasn't that bad all considered, albeit some very very mean patterns throughout, creating large choke points. This is the round where I converted my own skin (whatsnapp) and Sound's skins, and it immediately showed as we were pretty much immediately hoisted to #2 and #1, respectively

Round 5: Yuushitessen | Score: 28-2-5-7 (809p, 11att)

Thoughts:
This file is genuinely a ton of fun, as the bursts are extremely fun and satisfying to hit, with some really interesting pattern to create an extremely stamina intensive file. Decently happy with my score atm but may come back to push to 20-30rg since I genuinely am enjoying this file for now.

Round 6: Diabolic Enemy | Score: 12-0-4-4 (691p, 14att)

Thoughts:
Easier than Yuushitessen kappa

Jokes aside, probably the file that played the most into my skillset during the tournament, being primarily semidense 260bpm JS and 130 CJ

Was able to get a really good score of 22 raw, there's no way anyone beats tha- why is the score color purple and not gray

Round 7: Isometry 1.2x | Score: 919-44-218-64 (1219p, 1att)

Thoughts:
chat i dont think they liked us tying
unfortunately i have a skill issue when it comes to vibro/mashing so this was unwinnable for me, BUT MY BOY SOUND WON HIS FIRST OT LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO