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It’s been always like this. When someone wants to get a star he gets 95.86, when he wants to get a double star he gets like 97.98 and when I want to get a triple star I got this 98.97. I have to add that my last arrow was an excellent because I thought that it would end with a freeze but I was mistaken…*sniff*

I wouldn’t mind if this would be for the first time, but I got this already several times…I tried playing Charlene three times today. I got one excellent more the second time and on my final stage I got 3 excellents more so I didn’t get those nice three stars.

After a long time of not really playing (that means that I haven’t played for more than 30 minutes at home, and I didn’t even play on hard or expert) I had the chance to play again…
And this time I decided to give it my best - trying to play all the songs I haven’t played in ages.
And some nice results came from it. I got a triple star on Mellow hard and lands of the rising sun hard. I think I can do triple stars on some other songs as well but I haven’t played them that day. Next I got double star on Why Me Expert and one star on D-Code Expert. Quite nice, huh?

Mellow Hard
Why Me Expert

Yesterday I played quite a lot of In The Groove and I got many triple stars. I also played Dawn yesterday. I got two excellents on it so I tried my luck today and you know what I got?
A quadstar!

A friend of mine was working on ITG3 theme and asked me if I could try to draw Gwen for his theme. I already draw the animated Gwen on select game mode screen. But drawing something high-res that would really look good that is out of question for me. But anyway the picture is here and you can judge it by yourself.

This day I spent in my family’s house where they forbid me to play downstairs (so I wouldn’t damage the floor). I took my Cobalt Flux and connect it to my PS2 upstairs. There I have a really old TV which can’t handle NTSC or NTSC-J input. But anyway it didn’t stop me from playing In The Groove and BeatMania IIDX.

After I obtained many double stars on easy songs I tried Why Me Hard (just a six footer)..and you know what? I got my first triple star in my life. It was so nice^_^.

I also played Happy Sky that day and I started getting As. Also an improvement. ^_^

We were invited to Rubbinnex’s house so we came there for a weekend.

We played In The Groove on his own hardpads which I really like even though we had several problems with them.

At Rubbinnex there was me, my boyfriend, NX-306, Deirh, Suikun and Vikibunny. The first one who came there to play ITG was me so I played and I got some nice scores even though there was something wrong with the gameplay but I couldn’t figure out what. Then Suikun and VikiBunny came and tried to play a song. Both of them started to yell that it is offsync. After this song Suikun chose Disconnected Hyper on hard and got a nice 80% greats. Rubbinnex couldn’t believe it himself so he tried it too and got pretty much the same score.

After some time we found the right offset. It was around 80 miliseconds. After this I realized that the offset is right and I started to get even higher scores than before.

We played both In The Groove and Dance Dance Revolution (and other songs for StepMania). VikiBunnt played mostly songs from BeatMania found in DDR SuperNova and I got 94% in average on them. I also managed to get some Full Excellent Combo and Suikun made a compliment^_^.

Some time later Suikun wanted to try one Monolith edit called Monolith Micro (tenfooter). He wanted everyone to try it and played it no bar and without the tip toe - heel technique. I have to say that the stepchart is technically quite difficult but I still got an A. Poor Suikun almost killed him on the song and he failed the song. Next was Rubbinnex’s round who got 74% on that song. I guess he didn’t believe his eyes as he usually gets triple stars on anything.

Later it was Rubbinnex’s time to play what he wants so I played with him being the only person who can actually clear twelve footers there. We started with AA or AAA eleven footer. This song was quite easy and I managed it no bar. VikiBunny watched me with her big eyes not understanding how I could clear a song like this. Suikun stayed silent.

Another eleven footers and twelve footers followed but the difficulty really varied. Sometimes it was difficult as hell and sometimes I cleared it without much problems (like Healing Vision “something” mix - 11)

After a while Suikun wanted to try some difficult songs too so we played Vertex Expert together. Suikun played with bar (a heating unit actually) but died before the last speed up. I cleared the song somehow no bar and VikiBunny once again looked at awe.

Rubbinnex finished the day by showing us how to clear Insomnia (really nice course^_^) on a pad and that was our time to look at him without any understanding what’s going on.

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