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The World Championship in both In The Groove and DDR were held in Oslo, Norway. This time the tournament was separate for men and women so I got my chances to win. But I didn’t come there to win and therefore I was chosing songs quite randomly and just by this losing even when I was better.

The tournament in DDR was played on completely offsync DDR Supernovas and that was the start of it.

I managed to get a good seeding place and I won the first two matches with “no problems”. I played Xepher against someone and I got like 96 greats. After this match (which I won by quite a lot) I went to the bar and I had quite a resigned look on my face. Someone asked me ‘How many greats?’ I replied with ‘96′. After a small pause he asked again ‘Did you win?’. I replied still resigned ‘yes’ and then we laughed together.

Who would ever say that he can almost manage to get triple digit greats on songs you can single digit great?

Next round was with Manda from Great Britain (I hope) who was pretty cold to me during our match. After she beat me she asked me about my machine location and the machine and I said ‘we have no machines in the Czech Republic’. After this she changed completely and stared at me like if I was a ghost. Unfortunately we had no more time to talk as I was supposed to play against Jessica.

I won against Jessica and then my worst nightmare that day came. I was pitted against Lauma the best female player (she plays dance games like for seven years and came to the place to win the tournament. and she did win). Well, I guess we played some Max song and Lauma won. You know it was like…I had to play against her several times (even when we weren’t supposed to play against the same person twice) and it was always me or her.

But you know my problem is my accuracy. Other girls problem is not being able to survive difficult songs no bar. But the problem was that if someone failed a song and he still got more perfects he won. The thing that he continued playing because of the other person clearing that song didn’t bother anyone at that time…That’s the story about me.

I felt pretty bad having this in my head “ok, I’m going to lose against someone who can’t EVEN clear Max300 SuperMaxMe and plays for half of her life”.

It was up to me to choose a song so I decided to pick the hardest one I could come up. As Fascination Maxx wasn’t in the list I chose Paranoia Survivor Max Oni. I know I could clear this song on DDR Extreme so why not clearing it on DDRSN and I was sure she would fail badly at this song as she already failed some songs with me which were easier.

I picked the song to everyones awe. They were like “hell, she’s not going to play this song no bar isn’t she?”. Anyway I managed to get a decent score on this song and I made Lauma failed badly on this song. It was evil but my anger I got at Ole, Kyle and Chris was too big.

The last song was chosen randomly and I didn’t manage to get a better score (as I expected). I lost by 10 greats (not that much, huh) and I let Lauma continue in the tournament.

I kicked the Supernova platform quite hard making other people look quite surprised at me and left the whole building.

After this we had quit a nice time in Megazone so I was glad for that. But because of this I missed the finals.
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Several months later I saw the videos of the finals and I saw that it was all fails. The girls didn’t manage to clear songs I can easily handle. I was beaten by someone who would fail if dance point rule was applied. I was said and angry about this. But I told myself that I came there to have fun as I actually did not to win. I got what I wanted and it was definitely WORTH IT.

Lauma came there to win and she won. She is a nice girl and I would like to meet her again. She’s good at DDR and ITG and she has her style. Let people know that it was Lauma from Latvia who won.
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written on 13th July 07

The Championship was held in Oslo, Norway. The tournaments were separate.

Ladies single

In The Groove was a new thing for me. Long time ago I got an ITG copy for PS2 from my boyfriend but I never shared his enthusiasm and interest in this game. I never tried it too so it is just me to blame. When I found out that there is a European and World Championships in this game I had to try the game for sure and see how my results would look like.

I killed myself that day on Queen of Light which was the first song I picked and I played it on Expert. After this I found out that ITG is not bad at all and I game myself a goal. To play at least all the songs once.

I have to say that I arrived at the tournament without completing this task. But there were songs I knew but they were two few for a tournament.

I chose Charlene as the seeding song and I got a star on it so it didn’t start that bad for me. I won the first match getting a double star for the first time in my life.

For the second match I had to choose a nine footer so I chose the first one I saw - Boogie Down. The girl playing with me gave up quite early so I just finished the song with quite a nice score for me (93.29%). (at that time I couldn’t even imagine results above 90%).

After this I was supposed to choose a tenfooter and as I didn’t know what to chose I chos the first good sounding music for my ears and that was Cryosleep (I hope no one mind that I couldn’t choose a song..-_- embarassed). I somehow almost full comboed the song (except one miss when the song slowed down for the first time, which was a real shock for me).

Next I had to play against Lauma, the winner of all the tournaments there. She picked Hand of Time (for me some unknown, changing BPM ten footer). I beat her on the song by 3 percents and then I chose Anubis. I don’t know why I did it because I knew there were hands. I wasn’t that familiar with them at the time (except Queen of Light).

I successfully managed to fail all the hands (as Ulala would say) but still I got a better score than Lauma and thus kicking her out of the tournament.

When I was supposed to fight for the third round I got a bad feeling about it. I knew I would lose. I played against Maral, another nice girl. Maral beat me on Robotix by 0.2 percent and then I got her on Go 60 Go Expert. She gave up the song and then she took a pretty LONG pause for the third round. I have to say that I greatly disagreed with Ole giving her so much time. Not to mention that she had friends there and people who took care about her. I was there like alone with almost no support except Rubbinnex (whom I beat in the seeding round so I felt quite guity).

The last song played for me was supposed to be Hardcore of the north but someone said no and the second chosen song by random was Cryosleep. A song I played once and Maral’s favorite song. What were my chances? I lost like with 0.02 percent and was done for…

But I was happy for the fourth place and I looked forward to the World Championship.
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written on 13th July 07