Help me, Obi-Wakka Kimahri. You're my only hope!

[dr4b]

Last night after work I went to the Seattle Center to play DDR 5th mix. The only other people there playing were these two guys, I'd say they were around 19-20 yrs old. One was a maniac player and he kept playing 9-footers. He had sort of in-between short and long hair and he kept it under a baseball cap and it kept flying all over the place when he'd get into some of the songs. His friend looked like a sort of CS major, in that he had short hair and glasses and wore a t-shirt from some random tech company. He played Basic songs and could barely pass a 4-footer. They were sort of weird to watch together. Anyway, I suck. I really really suck. But I did have a lot of fun playing Matsuri Japan Double Basic, which if you spin around on is almost worse than Think Ya Better D Double Basic, in terms of falling over. My ratios on CSFIL Speed and Insertion are still godawful (like 70% perfects). I'm pretty sure I'll get my ass kicked at the tourney this weekend. But I already paid the registration fee, so I might as well go. Maybe I can get to a 7th mix machine tonight to practice a little... though I have soooooo much house stuff to do, too.

I ended up with like 20 mins to spare before the next bus and I was starving, so I ate McDonald's food at the bus stop and then got the bus to M+J's house. On the bus I was trying to remember as many US Presidents as possible. I think I was able to get like 75% of them. here's a list of them on the white house's site. By next Tuesday's trivia game I should hopefully actually remember all of the presidents, rather than just the ones that have been shot. :) Damn you, Sondheim!

When I got home, Josh and his friend (HP?) were playing Go. They finished shortly after, and then were going to play videogames but I asked if they'd feel like a boardgame. We played Seafarers of Catan. I won, but it was sort of a long hard battle for it, and Josh came damned close. After that I did some laundry and played FFX. I had the WORST time of it... first it took me three tries to beat that gatling gun Al Bhed machina thingy, and then I spent three tries trying to beat Anima and Seymour, and the first time Anima killed me and the second two times Seymour killed me after I killed Anima. Gaaaah! I hate Seymour even more now. He sucks so much. I think I'll go consult gamefaqs on how the fuck to win this battle, since I don't feel like spending hours on it.

Megan painted her cabinets so they look like Legos now. Also, Megan and Josh have a nice big huge new laundry machine. And now I have clean socks, too, so I am happy.

Comments

[bk1e.livejournal.com]

I just looked at the rules for DDR Magic 4. Scroll speed modifiers are allowed, which means that perfect counts will be higher than normal for the slow songs (I <heart> 2X!). The fact that they're using the MAX2 scoring system is a little weird, but whatever, that basically makes comboing the songs more important, since bads and misses eat up a lot of perfect points. For standard tech, I don't recommend qualifying on Sweet Sweet <3 Magic either; it sounds like good old AM-3p is the way to go.

However, the most interesting thing is the Challenge Mode tournament (not Oni). That sounds like tons of fun. If the C4 tourney in Texas ever happens, it will have something similar.

[dr4b]

yeah. i think i'm going to go to Mt. Rainier, or try to, rather than going to watch the DDR tournament tomorrow, though. we'll see. i think challenge mode is tomorrow night, so, oh well.

i don't expect to get past the first round of this tournament, to be honest, but i already paid to enter so i might as well show up. i'm definitely hoping to be able to do AM-3P as a qualifier.

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[bk1e.livejournal.com]

So, one component of doing well at tournaments is not being nervous, and going to tournaments helps with that. :)

Good luck, if you actually go.