GG
Posted on: December 14, 2011, at 12:00:38am


Haha, no but really, the tournament was great fun while it lasted! At the very least, I'll be able to play new songs each week without having to whore them intensely and develop mindblocks.

Well, now that I'm out, here are some thoughts I feel like putting out.
This tournament definitely helped me improve my skill. Before the tournament, I could barely SDG 9s and 10s. Then I found the standalone, along with time to practice. Went ahead and AAA'd the things I could, to get them out of the way (which I haven't been doing as of late :S ) and I've got 1-6 non-legacy AAA'd, plus part of the 7s. But then I noticed that I could AAA 9s in one or two plays, hehe, so D3 was a breeze for me while I was in it. Although, seeing that my skill was only held back because of my lack of standalone, and not because I actually got some kind of epic skillboost (hi19 comes to mind), I decided to test myself with the D4 songs. Turns out I managed to AAA 2 of their songs, Velocity and Finder, the latter being one not many of them managed to AAA. And I pushed myself up to D4. Joy.
Well I thought it was a good idea at the time, but as it turns out, round 4's SAMBISTA is deadly for me. On the first night playing it, I got 4-0-0-1, but I also developed mindblocks, and honestly, the closest I came to that score since was probably something like 5-1-0-1, along with a bunch of other unclean scores with misses. I usually average 15 goods on it if I play it all the way through, which really sucks. It's a VC, how could it do that to me?!
But really, I did it to myself, in a way. I don't really regret it; it just didn't feel right for me to AAA D3's songs so quickly and so easily, while so many others struggled. I suppose that's what it's like to be the top of one's division, but as I say, it doesn't feel right for me to be in D3 when I could obviously compete in D4, and I stand by my decision.

To sum up, if either (1) I didn't bump myself up or (2) SAMBISTA wasn't round 4's D4 song, I could probably have ended up in top 8, or even top 5/3. Alas, both did happen, and so I say, until next year. o7

1. 1: UserNameGoesHere
   Posted at 12:01am on December 14th, 2011

   I also lost. But perhaps the fun can be doubled. *throws spider*
2. 2: sanzath
   Posted at 12:09am on December 14th, 2011

   Oh yeah, on that note. To add a tiny something, position 17/18 isn't so bad, and at least I went down tied with my pony friend Findarian (and almost tied with Megamon88)!
3. 3: TheThong
   Posted at 1:31am on December 14th, 2011

   Great effort Sanzath! You have really good 'sports'manship. :)