On Oct 15, 2014, at 12:03 AM, Hitoshi Doi <doi@usagi.org> wrote:

> Timothy Yeh <tenton@mac.com> wrote:
> | 
> | My guess (with 2 updates left) is 62.3k-62.5k.
> | Which makes me have to use one more stone. ;_;
> 
> With 2 minutes left I started a game, and was pretty safe at 62.7k.
> I don't like the scorematch events, but at least you can see your
> own ranking realtime.
> 
> | What day of the week did Honoka’s finish at?
> | Because that had a bigger push at the end. :P
> 
> That was a holiday.

Today I learned, from one of the top 10 rankers in the EN event…if you have
unlimited stones, you can cheat your way into scoring. Well, not really cheating,
but it’s a way to gain way more points/hour than actually playing. That is,

start the hardest match you can and then just die. You get points for failing (55
for hard, 91 for EX); if you fail right at the outset, you’ll gain points faster
than actually playing the song (even if you S rank/S combo) if you keep that up.
Of course, this will require you to burn stones at an incredible rate, but this might
explain how some of the top rankers can get that score and also be able to sleep more
than 10 min a day. Those guys are buying iTunes card/Google Play cards by the
boatload anyways. :P 

--Tim