Yup, it's that time of the year again! And this time, the goat is SUPER rusty. So my initial thoughts are not that optimistic :D But I'm moreso here for the fun at least for now, who knows if I end up reaching another skill peak (That seems to be a commond trend for me during OTs lol) and getting deep into the fierce competition at the top!

As always, I'll update this log with my score and thoughts of each round. Looking forward to yet another banger OT and all the spicy files I have to face!

ROUND 1
SONG: Eureka | SCORE: AAA

It shouldn't be so special that I AAA'd the first round. But after not playing anything 4k for a solid 6 months, getting that score felt pretty nice. It definitely required a few attempts though, we're still not fully back! :D jh tourney files never miss, the song is a bop and the chart was super fun, I love poly patterns. We shall see how long I can keep the AAA streak up, since the difficulty ramp up is going to be steeper due to fewer rounds. So I can't really tell how hard I'm going to get my butt kicked next week!

ROUND 2
SONG: Mezzotinto | SCORE: 4-0-0-0 (4.0 RG)

Butts were kicked, very softly. Turns out our bracket was so good at the game that we skipped a round this week! This was definitely a bigger leap than I anticipated, the file looked really scary in the previews. But it wasn't that bad, bursty and rolly patterns are really satisfying to hit. Some of the jacks were a bit yucky though! I feel like I could've AAA'd this if I just put more effort into it, but nope! 4g clean is what we roll with and it surprisingly was enough to keep me out of the lemonade! (for now)

ROUND 3
SONG: silly-willy-nilly | SCORE: 2-0-0-0 (2.0 RG)

It's Thursday evening. The round ends in less than 12 hours. I'm sitting at 10.8 raw goods while the cutoff is at... 3. Deep in the lemonade, with little to no hope for swimming back to safety. I sat down and said to myself, it's now or never! At one point, I was sitting one boo below the cutoff, that definitely felt hopeful and defeating at the same time. After struggling with the intro for a good while, I PULLED IT OFF! Holy heck was this a scary round to be part of! Yall in B6 are way too cracked at this game :D The file was alright, almost mindblocked the intro and mirror was the only way to score for me, cuz my left hand is still very bad at "anything-longer-than-2-jacks". But yeah, I think we're finally back!!! (Until next round of course, with these crazy cutoffs I'm definitely not able to keep up with 100+ files)

ROUND 4
SONG: Clex3 | SCORE: 111-7-39-11 (219.4 RG)

Now that's what I call a clean score... hahah... yeah, nope. B6 is too cracked. And while a 73RG cutoff doesn't sound that impossible, getting my score even close to 100 raw is, however. I don't have enough speed to handle the bursts and that's what ultimately kills it for me. Probably could have tried for a better score, but it's hard to find the motivation when you know you don't have a chance to reach the cutoff :D And that leaves me officially ELIMINATED.

All things considered, I played really well. I knew I wasn't gonna get far, but making it to the Top 8 round was way better than I originally anticipated! I'll eagerly wait how far B6 can push themselves in the final two rounds, and cheer yall on among the lemonade swimmers! Brb, gotta put my speedos on.

FINAL PLACEMENT: 13th

My second JLZilla studio album, Noises of '23 is finally out and available on all major streaming platforms!

Go take a listen if you wanna enjoy some good house music, click my homepage link to visit my Spotify page!

A big thank you to all my supporters <3

So, 2022 is now over. I can't believe how fast time goes by. Anyways, it's been a great year for me in FFR! I hit D7 twice, somehow got 3rd in OT15, met many new awesome people during that time, and had a blast playing the game overall! Awesome stuff.

Unfortunately all that has to come to a pause for this year, since I'll be beginning my military service tomorrow (as of writing this note) and that's gonna keep me occupied for at least half a year. I'll definitely miss a lot of fun stuff, but I won't be going radio silent. So if ya wanna message me, I'll be able to respond! :D If I get lucky, I'll be home for OT16 and be rusty as heck trying to compete with the rest of D7!

I also wanna give special thanks to Charissa, Lights, Hateandhatred, SK8R43 and all the folks in the Discord server. You are all amazing people and make a great community!

So, with all that, I wanna wish everyone a good 2023! I hope you all achieve your fiffer goals, life goals, whatever goals! :D