Since Kotori is my favorite, I decided to go for the top 8000
to get the second Kotori card in the event that ended today.

I ended up using 27 stones and ended up with a score of 68611.
Final rank was 6479.

I had paced myself to stay in the top 5000 to 6000, using around
2 stones per day.  I was well ahead of the 8000th score.

Last night, I was at around 5000.  This morning I noticed that the
hourly pace was going up.  Before work (around 10:00), I used a
couple stones to keep myself around 5000.
But when I checked at 13:30, I had dropped to 7900!

I used 3 stones in the last hour (14:00 to 15:00) to move my score
from 65358 to 68611.  Looking back, I didn't need the last stone,
but I didn't want to cut it that close.

For my other game, I just played "normal" and got around 36000,
just missing the 15000th place present (only one extra stone).

I probably won't do this again until the next Kotori event..
But next time I'll try to stay much more ahead so I don't have to
panic in the last hour.  3 stones per day would probably do it.
--
Hitoshi Doi
                         " this space for rent "
http://www.usagi.org/doi/                                    doi@usagi.org