Nov. 11 Meetup and DDR A3, IIDX 31, GFDM Score Report
Round 1 Exton Meetup
I was fortunate today to attend the single largest gathering of rhythm gamers the Round 1 in Exton, PA (1 hour northwest of Philadelphia by car) has ever seen since its opening in 2016. An estimated 50 or so people came out today, some of whom are visiting the arcade for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic.
With that in mind, today’s score report was more about hanging out with friends and getting high scores here and there versus full sending it to get high scores every single time.
DDR - I’m Catching Up!
DDR A3 Single Level 14 Red Lamp!
After weeks of catching up on the abundance of A3 content and refining my form to improve comboing ability on Shock Arrow charts, I was able to close out the red lamps on Ace Out CSP and Death by Glamour ESP to complete the 14 red lamp! This completes a Pearl III requirement for A3; to finish up on 14’s for the rankup, I need to raise my score floor to 985k (6 remain before 2 exceptions). As for the blue lamp, 10 charts remain.
Level-14 PFC #82: The History of the Future
2.75x, DT+0.2. One try today. I was really happy to not get a Great on these patterns in measures 33 to 36 after doing so repeatedly in prior runs, including at MotL 5:
.Once I came out of that keeping Perfect combo, I got nervous and started to regulate my breathing a little to keep it together. I stayed methodical with my footwork to make sure I exited each stop and slowdown on-time as previous runs have been lost to exiting the gimmicks too fast or too slow.
IIDX 31 - Battle Mode!
Nothing major here. Some 2’s, 3’s, and 4’s on SP and DP with friends playing the game! Everyone else on the cab was playing SP style 9’s and up on P1 really well. It was kinda awesome to watch.
Apparently, one of the attendees at the IIDX machine was an SP Kaiden player; when I told a friend they were indifferent to my compliment about them AAA’ing a 10, my friend responded “That’s just Kaiden things.” It sounds obvious out loud, but I’m reminded that people set higher standards for themselves as they improve.
Gitadora Drums - Orange Grad!
Today I earned 1500 Skill Rating on Drums earned my next color, Orange Gradation (“Orange Grad”)! I’ve highlighted S-rank clears on:
ミックスナッツ (Mixed Nuts) ADVANCED 3.60
泥の分際で私だけの大切を奪おうだなんて (Doro no bunzai de watashi dake no taisetsu wo ubaouda nante) ADVANCED 3.50
グッバイ宣言 (Goodbye sengen) ADVANCED 3.50
A friend reminded me that Skill Rating comes from both songs on the HOT list and the OTHER list, so today I decided to farm Skill Rating from the HOT list for the first time. I found myself playing multiple ADVANCED charts today-a sign of improvement from playing exclusively BASIC charts in prior sessions-in the Difficulty 3.50 to 4.20 band.
As a bonus highlight, I even passed by first 4.50-difficulty chart on Spanish Snowy Dance (daybreak ver.) BASIC! I felt confident about tackling my first 5.00 after that, but it wasn’t meant to be today. I should get comfortable playing level-4 content before trying a 5 next time.
DDR - 3icecream Export
Here’s the end of post for the DDR 3icecream export! That’s it for today!
