February 09, 2003
SF tourney...

Someone left a rug in my trunk, even though I requested that he remove everything from my car BEFORE I leave. =P

Yeah... woke up when Patty called me at around 12... showered and ran out the house to go to SF, arriving around 1:30... pretty fun, just about everyone was there ^^ It was a while yet before Single Heavy started, so I played a whole bunch of SC2 conquest. I actually drained a full film canister worth of tokens, and then some, on the machine, because we decided to conquer the map. ^^ Actually did, and saw what happens when you do so for the first time. Also, I now have a -4th- character at SF (another Talim 2p costume), "Yume". ^^

My performance at the tournament was pretty much as expected. Qualified on Sobakasu against Ken, naturally, I qualified 2nd to last, but it didn't matter since that round was only for placement anyways. I was matched up with the dead last person on qualifiers, who had apparently been playing for 2 years but I've seen people who've played for 3 weeks play better than him ^^; When I wanted to modify a song reverse, he begged me not to, and I took him up on the mercy call and instead modified it flat. Didn't affect the result...

Round after that, I'm matched up against... Gay Goblin -_- Consensus was - I'm screwed. This is even more of a mismatch than the match against Javy at 8otb - this is the guy that got some 99.1% or some crap on one of the oni high scores... the margin of difference between us was at least 80 greats, so no way in hell I could have won that. Oh well...

Hey, I still have that Hello Kitty scratch-and-sniff sticker on me ^^ Ki was putting them on people at the beginning, and I'm amazed it didn't fall off while I was playing ^^;

After Single Heavy finished (turned out to be a tie between Zeus and Kevin, where they split the first prize of $30, to get only $15 each. =P), we moved on to BPM Rush... a very interesting concept where all entrants must play a predefined course of songs, with the BPM increasing or decreasing with each song. It started at 190bpm and went all the way up to whatever BPM Maxx Unlimited is... see this thread for a full description of that and other tournament details... the interesting thing to note was that there was almost no break between songs - they captured the scores via digital camera, and then immediately chose the next song - one guy had collapsed on the pad and they still moved on to the next song immediately... good thing I didn't enter, it seemed far too intense for me ^^;

After BPM rush finished, there was not enough time to do either Doubles or Freestyle, so all pre-registrants got their money back, and we basically spent the next half hour doing stupid crap like Oni Michi 2 double, since the machine was still on freeplay =P I even tried to do Naoki feat. Paula Terry double just to hear Still In My Heart remix, but failed on something stupid... oh well. I even got a 7.1% on Oni Michi single... 2 steps short of the long stream in Drop Out heavy ^^;

After being ejected from the arcade a significant amount of time after closing, we all did a mass invasion of Fuddruckers, where we must have annoyed them for staying for like 40mins past their normal closing time (my order was placed AT the time they were supposed to close)... I got a 1lb burger, and ate it all, which apparently surprised people (it shouldn't, I eat a LOT, I just metabolize it very quickly)... after that, another mass invasion, this time to Chris's house ^^;

Did the typical thing that's done at Chris's house - played IIDX (I suck... bad...), maybe took a small nap... after that, took Shiene, Kevin, and Josh back home...

Very fun day - and -finally- got to meet Moofy ^^; Saw Patty for a little bit, too bad she didn't stay with us longer ;_; They wanted me to come back on Sunday, but I probably won't unless my bro wants the comp for the day...

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