On Jun 15, 2014, at 6:02 AM, Hitoshi Doi <doi@usagi.org> wrote:

> Timothy Yeh <tenton@mac.com> wrote:
> | 
> | Don't be a Tim.
> | 
> | That is, last event, I missed Honoka by ~200 pts.
> 
> I saw that and was surprised.

I was trying to be a little too cute. Thought I had a bit of a margin, without calculating
that the event ended on a Saturday. ^_^; The last 30 min score was nearly the same
as the hour before! I was expecting it to be a few hundred less, because
that’s the way it always is. 

> Looking at the score distribution, there were
> around 1000 people just 200 points (one game)
> below the cutoff line.

There were some severe lag problems at least 15 min out. A friend of mine couldn’t
log in at all (stuck at the home screen), but luckily he had 62.2k. I managed to get
in, but lost a 10 LP song (lag at the end of the song and then errored back
to the home screen) and a 25 LP one (lagged before the match started, but took my
LP all the same). Then, because of the delays, couldn’t play another 2 songs
I was planning on. That’s over 1000 pts! I wonder how many of those people

were in the same boat I was. 

> | I'm going to play it very safe and aim for 61k,
> | but that's because I still regret the last event. :P
> 
> I took your advise and went over 61K.

I barely made it this time (60.6k). Phew! Purposely started a game at 14:59 just to
see where I was, ranking wise. Pretty much at the same place I was at when the final
scores came out.

--Tim