PLACED 1st in D4


round 1 - 51 (0-0-0-0)
well the round started earlier than i had hoped but that's alright

so i chose Teh Tricky Techno because it was 47 seconds long lol, filled with streams and rare jumpstreams in which there are simple patterns. i feel the tourney seems to incentivize short charts. this had 473 notes to hit, why go for a 51 with 800 if i could go for this one instead? fewer notes means less room for raw goods to slip in as well

overall the first round wasn't hard at all, but the first round means nothing. only gets harder from here

round 2 - 57 (0-0-0-0)
i chose Hungarian Dance #7 because i already had a blackflag on that chart before the tournament that i hadn't cared to improve until now. it's a chart that was accepted in 2006 lol the chart was so off sync with the midi file, played the thing without music to make it work at all

it wasn't that hard to get but then again i am now a d5 idiot who spends life typing arrows

round 3 - 63 (0-0-0-0)
i half forgot this round started lol

so i went with {Big Boss} because it was short and had easy patterns, under 600 arrows as well so that's a big plus for this tourney. i tried four different 63s to find one i could easily aaa but this one was the best one to easily get few raw goods on

predictable patterns, mainly jumps and jumpstream with some interesting 32nds

round 4 - 68 (0-0-0-0)
i chose Major League Can Can because it was the only one i was familiar with honestly, i already had an fc on it with like 15 goods

the first stream with the white notes is okay, it's around high 50s low 60s difficulty, could be a little hard to get accurate on. that jumpstream soon after is a real killer, found it really hard to get down accurately. the chordjacks are easy i feel, that may be the only easy part in terms of a aaa. the trills at the end are a real killer and really hard to accurately do

somehow i got a run where i went past the jumpstream aaa, then starting trills lol i have NO CLUE how i got my aaa on this. i'm sure this is the last aaa i can get in this tourney

round 5 - 70 (1-0-0-0)
for this one i chose Black Key Etude because i was familiar with it, mostly streams and a little bit of minijack, nothing i couldn't handle. at the end there's a bit of jumpstream and at the very end there's a bit of chordjack that can ruin the attempt you're on

my first submitted score was a 4-0-0-0, thought i could do better and got this thing. i definitely can aaa it if i want to grind for it and i can submit a aaa here even in round 6

round 6 - 71+ (1-0-0-0)
now here's the last round! i chose Grocery Escape Plan because i already had an SDG on it and i was quite familiar with it. focus on easy jacks that are around 130bpm i believe

i just wanted a better score than 5 raw goods, even with that many a win would've been basically guaranteed. i in the end got this blackflag, got the good where the chordjack thing almost resembles a running man with an anchor on right arrow

round 1 - Miniboss (3-0-0-0)
i felt happy with my 3-0-0-0, even though there were 2 aaas and a 2-0-0-0 above me. didn't really try for aaa because i felt i didn't need it really. i don't remember the patterns very well, mostly because i forgot to write about the file here when i played it lol i don't feel the urge to play it again currently.

round 2 - Mozart on Crack ()
fun chart i guess, the tempo changes aren't that bad. can get a sdg on this not too hard ig

mid-late D4, i don't want to get up to D5 as that would complicate everything lmao i'm only three skill levels off from it

round 1 - Cheat Codes (0 - 0 - 0 - 0)
had an fc on this beforehand but with 16 goods and was overall terrible. easy aaa especially with only 602 notes and being 1:17 long, took maybe 20 tries to get. lag killed an attempt that could've been, so could've been 10 if not for my pc being somewhat trash

patterns weren't that hard, some bursts but otherwise pretty much felt like ~40 rather than 59

round 2 - Maelstrom (0 - 0 - 0 - 0)
had to change my offset for this, no idea why. maybe my offset was full trash. bpm changes threw me a little off at first but i got used to them. took even less time than Cheat Codes somehow, it's a 62. rapidly improved my scores, would get over 10 goods by the slowdown at first. might be first omniflag of the tournament.

odd jacks for some reason. no idea why it's at half the bpm it feels. not much else really to say?

round 3 - Follow You (Virtual Riot Remix) ()
longer than the rest of them, has 1500 arrows. i'm sure this is the first one that i won't aaa this tourney. they get harder and harder every round. currently i suck at the end bit

not much really to say yet about scores, round isn't quite done or haven't gotten a score i'd be happy with