STsung’s Blog

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