Hello,

3 months have passed since I got restricted so I'm writing my appeal for the first time to you guys.

First of all, I'm deeply sorry for any sin that I may have commited while playing this amazing game that goes by the name "osu!". I'll go straight to the point before making a huge text about my osu! career and admit that I did something wrong to the game and the community. The truth is that I cheated for a certain amount of time (Edited some of my replays into Full Combos), and I regret doing that, because in the end I love this game that have let me have a blast and got me to get so many new friends.

I'm not so sure how to make a decent appeal, because it is my first one, but I'll basically tell a resume of my journey in this game.

There we go,

My first nickname was "ketan1338", then I changed it to "_shinji" and finally to "shinji". I first installed this game in july 2013, mainly to play multiplayer with a bunch of friends that I knew IRL, I didn't really play alone so I had a really low playcount. I played for some days in 2013 and my friends stopped playing so I uninstalled the game, didn't really have fun playing solo.
Some years later, I started watching a lot of anime and always listened to my fav openings/endings. So I thought to myself "I should try playing these songs on osu!", So I installed the game once again and started playing solo, this happened in 2016, 3 years after I installed the game for the first time. I immediately got really addicted to the game, wanting to improve my skills every single day. I'm pretty sure I played 5+ hours a day for some months, trying to grind my rank really hard to surpass one of my best friends and rival at that time inside the game, funkzord (his osu! name).
So eventually I passed funkzord in rank and I kept climbing my rank even further because I was completly addicted to osu!. I even stopped playing League of Legends and Counter Strike and just went "full ham" on this game.

I've met a lot of new friends, mainly from Portugal, because I don't really interact with people outside my country. I got to know people like Mizuru, [Takaga], KingLizardYT, Legendz, imPriDex (now Milky Feline), DemiGod Yoxide, Koba and many more.

Time was passing really fast while playing this game, I eventually got my first 200, 300, 400 and even 500pp score but I reached a dead end after that. I was trying so hard to improve but I couldn't help myself but choke every map that could give me 600pp. I became really bored and frustrated because I couldn't improve anymore. Everytime I tried a new PP map that everyone could get 600pp out of it but I couldn't because I ramdomly missed at the end. I wondered what I was doing wrong and whatever I tried to do it seemed that I would get even worse at the game.

That's where I fucked up, I should have mentioned this in the beginning of this appeal, but I'm a really LAZY person. So... yeah... I bought a replay editor and I edited some of my scores (chokes) into full combos. Don't get me wrong tho, not every score was edited, I know I can FC most of the scores I edited, that's for sure. But I still edited some of the chokes I did. I was dumb, I'm dumb, but I regret doing this 100%, because once again, In the end of the day I really love this game, I was just stupid and selfish at that specific time, it might be a bad excuse, but my life wasn't going so well personally.

I can say for sure that more than 70% of my top 100 scores aren't cheated, but some scores are, I tried those scores so hard but always choked, so I turned those chokes into Full combos with that program, it wasn't anything that fishy (in my opinion) because I could replicate those scores by myself, still, I'm deeply sorry for what I did.

I still play this game everyday offline, never tried to create a multi account after getting restricted, and never played on private servers after getting restricted as well, Bancho is were everyone I know is and as I mentioned before I don't like to play "alone", I want to share my scores and beat my friends in multis, on Bancho server, because they don't play on other servers. If this appeal doesn't go through I will just keep playing offline until I eventually stop playing this game, or get unrestricted after the next appeals. In the next appeal I'll just copy paste the same thing I wrote in this appeal. What I'm writing here is the complete truth of my journey and the fuck up I did.

If you think I should wait more time until I get unbanned, if I do get unbanned someday, so be it. Because I probably deserve it. But on the other hand, I also think I deserve a 2nd chance, but if I don't get that chance now, I hope I can still get it someday.

I wonder what more I can say other than saying I'm sorry for what I did. I just want to be able to log in into my account and be able to play with my friends again, and climb ranks, the legit way this time. It may be hard to believe but I promise I won't ever again touch that dirty program.

There's a liveplay that I did some days after getting restricted if you want some sort of proof that I can play "good" while not cheating - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9stDBMRXsw

Playcount history if that matters - https://i.imgur.com/iEXO3AR.png

I will end my appeal here. I admitted the shit I did, and I regret doing that 100%, you can wipe all of my scores if this appeal goes through and gets accepted. I really just want to get my account back and play with my friends. I don't want to disturb anyone In a negative way.

Thanks for reading, and sorry if I wasn't clear enough, English is not my native language and this appeal for sure has a lot of typos.

I just hope if I could get a 2nd chance and be able to play online once again.

Sinceraly,
shinji