FFR stuff

And I've seen people do this for tournaments too, and I liked the idea.

[b]Round 1: Hyper Pressure (48) | 1111-0-0-0-0 (5 points)[/b]
The round opened with a 17 good run that I dropped to 10-0-0-0 after a couple of tries. I left it there for the day, figuring it was about as well as I could do, and to see what the competition would get. Preg Jr. pulled a 2G and grizz a blackflag, so I knew that there'd be some competition- but there was nothing I couldn't hit in the song, right? Tried for another half hour or so with no improvements, eventually gave up.
Then I boosted my scroll speed, and got a 2-0-0-0 (4 points) first try. Next day (~48 hours remaining in the round) I blackflagged it out of nowhere, with the only good being early on. Shortly after, I got another blackflag late in the song. I knew the AAA was possible, but it was a question of how badly did I want it.
Well, that day I got a dozen 4 or less good FCs, but no AAA. Then today I went a little overboard on accuracy plays/speed plays and ended with this song, which after 2 early restarts was the AAA.

[b]Round 2: Internet Heroes (52) | 1628-1-0-0-0 (5 points)[/b]
Unlike with Hyper Pressure, this...isn't a terribly fun chart or a song I particularly like listening to. Hoping to drop this to 2-0-0-0 or 3-0-0-0 but I think 5-0-0-0 (after 2 attempts) will be pretty competitive in this field.
Gave it a bunch more attempts, had two promising starts ruined by random lag spikes, a bunch of restarts on the first 100 arrows... and finally, something decent: a blackflag of the first half. Then I let the nerves get to me and didn't even improve. This chart sucks.
What a difference a break and some time away from the game makes. (and by that I mean a few hours before I decided to play some other stuff and end with this) Random blackflag because I let the nerves get to me, again, but this time I got them under control with only 1 good. Really happy with this- won't be going for the AAA this round.

[b]Round 3: Tougenkyou -H.E.Remix- (58) | 1031-2-0-0-0 (5 points)[/b]
7 good run on a sightread. Those grace notes/bursts are pretty tough to get right and I had a couple dumb goods, but I AAA'd the first half which I can't expect to get again.
I played the song a few more times, managed to get the awkward 12th->8th->12th transitions again and added an outro AAA as well. 5 drops to the red/cyan/green section that I just can't get: I'll probably be leaving the score here, but if someone matches or surpasses it I'll be going for 3 goods, I think.
Aaaaand forget everything I just said because I played the song once again and AAA'd the grace notes and then forgot how to read the broken streams. Twice in a row. A couple hours away later, and I got a very nice 2-0-0-0 run after a couple starts. That's where I'm leaving this round.

[b]Round 4: Revolutionary Etude v2 (60) | 1480-15-0-0-0 (5 points)[/b]
I like the song, but I don't like the constant tempo changes here. I'll probably go for an SDG before the round is up and leave it at that.
I ended up giving it a couple tries that had better starts, but I couldn't FC again. Oh well.

[b]Round 5: Sonata Pathetique - Mov 1- (63) | 1178-4-0-0-3 (5 points)[/b]
Played it once, lost my FC due to higher accuracy, played it again, pulled this very strong run for me. One of my biggest weakness is jumpstreams where there's a jump every other note and this song has that in spades- surprised I got a run this clean. Like Revolutionary Etude v2, I could SDG this but I think that'll be enough to win. (11-0-0-1)
And then on the last day of the tournament I gave the song a couple more plays and pulled a 0-0-0-2 until the hands, where I hit one late and then dropped a good shortly after. This run felt so much better than my current skill level!

I was just aiming to have fun and do as well as I could, but now I'm aiming to win D3- the only thing the was holding me back before was my inconsistency, and I'm finally through that.