The Tourney!
Today was the day that I had been awaiting for at least a month and a half. Today, I participated in two DDR/ITG tournaments. The first was a sightreading tournament, where people played charts written by MIDI and XYT that nobody else had seen before. That had 24 people participating and that ran from noon to 7pm or so. A small, normal ITG tournament came after that, and there were 10 people in that. This one ran until about 10:30.
In the first tournament, I had a really good round with the qualifying song, and I got a bye to start. I met CLC at the tournament, who is basically UPitt's best player, and we went up against each other at some point. I won, though more because of his mistakes, I believe, and I got to the quarterfinals. I was then soundly beat by Link, who's really still a lot better than I am, and then I lost a reasonably-well-fought battle with Xaen. (The tournament was double-elimination.) It was really nifty to take part in this, and I really liked the stepfiles that were used, for the most part.
In the second tournament, I went against XYT. I nearly trounced him in the first song, where I picked Boogie Down and had 1 Excellent, but I had a stupid Miss when I must have let a jump slip my mind, and that cost me the song. He beat me pretty soundly on his choice of song, and I was in the loser's bracket. There, I went against CLC again, and I won my pick quite well, he won his pick but not by as big a margin as I expected, and I won the random pick because it was easy but he was too tired. I lost an honorable fight with MIDI afterward, and that was it for me in the tourneys.
However, despite being mad at myself for Boogie Down and being a little frustrated with my last performances in the sightread tournament, I'm pretty happy. XYT was right; he said that I had a chance to win, though I would certainly give people a run for their money. Indeed, even when I knew I was going to lose a song, I gave it a good attempt and ended up getting new and better scores this way.
It was a long day, though, and rather little food and drink was involved. However, I wouldn't have missed it.
In the first tournament, I had a really good round with the qualifying song, and I got a bye to start. I met CLC at the tournament, who is basically UPitt's best player, and we went up against each other at some point. I won, though more because of his mistakes, I believe, and I got to the quarterfinals. I was then soundly beat by Link, who's really still a lot better than I am, and then I lost a reasonably-well-fought battle with Xaen. (The tournament was double-elimination.) It was really nifty to take part in this, and I really liked the stepfiles that were used, for the most part.
In the second tournament, I went against XYT. I nearly trounced him in the first song, where I picked Boogie Down and had 1 Excellent, but I had a stupid Miss when I must have let a jump slip my mind, and that cost me the song. He beat me pretty soundly on his choice of song, and I was in the loser's bracket. There, I went against CLC again, and I won my pick quite well, he won his pick but not by as big a margin as I expected, and I won the random pick because it was easy but he was too tired. I lost an honorable fight with MIDI afterward, and that was it for me in the tourneys.
However, despite being mad at myself for Boogie Down and being a little frustrated with my last performances in the sightread tournament, I'm pretty happy. XYT was right; he said that I had a chance to win, though I would certainly give people a run for their money. Indeed, even when I knew I was going to lose a song, I gave it a good attempt and ended up getting new and better scores this way.
It was a long day, though, and rather little food and drink was involved. However, I wouldn't have missed it.