Cycling Seasons, Fresh Skies: Memories
I knew from a long time ago that if I’d ever go for a T10, this would be it. When the event was finally getting closer, early estimates told me I was 900 flames short; I’d have to buy stars for this event.
(WARNING: A rather image-heavy post)
Perhaps the moment I honestly considered T10 instead of settling for T100.
Definitely the moment I knew there was no turning back. :)))
Believe me, this was not the only purchase I made for this event.
I needed a better Challenge Live team, so I knew getting a 4* Happy Ran is required, to complete my Happy Afterglow team. I’ve never gotten any 4* Ran before, so thank god the 4* Exchange Ticket had the perfect timing.
“WAIT. YOU WERE USING A HAPPY TEAM ALL THIS TIME???”
Yep. ^^ Well, my Multi Live team was Powerful Afterglow-based, but had only 2 4-stars, sooo I knew it wouldn’t cut it.
There she is <3
I’ve always stopped at Skill Level 4, but I really had to pull out all the stops. Ran is my first Skill Level 5 member. ^^ (everyone in my CL team also received the level 5 upgrade)
Alright, let’s do this! Hey Hey Hoh~!
The event has finally begun! I initially found it amusing seeing all sorts of titles being shown off. This one in particular stood out to me. XD
(Looking back, that Sinz person would later turn out to be a serious T10 contender. I think they changed their name to Pyokun after some time)
Here’s a screenshot of a rare T5 GeLö-P. I really wanted to share this with you guys, but I figured I’d jinx myself by revealing publicly what I was trying to do. :>
(I will doubt the existence of God Almighty, but believe in being jinxed. Life is weird sometimes.)
Well, that’s the Grand Room for ya’. Meta songs all the way~
How do you even react to that?
With this. :)))
NEXT YOU’LL SAY FUEEEEE
Home Street...
Home Street.......
HEY HEY HOH~!
The moment I ran out of large energy drinks, and had to start spending stars. </3 Small energy drinks were still reserved for moments I can afford to wait out the 30-minute refill timer.
The 5 Horsemen of the Apocalypse
My first time doing the “recover waaaaay more than 10 flames” thing
Huhehe huhehe huhehe...
I too would like some of those Afterglow pins. T_T
Baby Shak my as-
Aaaand we have a dodger, ladies and gentlemen. XD
I think this guy needs to be banned.
Home Street? Pssh, that was so yesterday. Jumpin’ is the shit now.
Ganbatte, P5.
Himari~
My 2nd encounter with Ghostkillers (who later become T12..?). He chose Senbonzakura the first time, so when he did it again, I thought I’d save it for posterity. ^^
The “I too would like to live dangerously” gang 8-)
The first time I switched away from my dua T100 titles. I figured I’d stop trying to “scare” the competition.
First time tracking T10 scores. This would later prove to be very useful in seeing if my projection will hold (although I shifted to tracking T3 - T12).
Taking a break, so I watched ads for free flames. :)))))
Moca, Ran, GeLö-P, and a weird name. Huh. Okay.
Kyu~Mai * Flower was released! Played this one on Hard.
...this one I played on Expert...
...and thank fuck I got it first try, because oh boy I’m not playing that beat map again. >_<
“Ban me if you can” ?? Why??
Aaaaand this motherfucker right here was cheating and inflating his score. I personally reported him to the game admins over on twitter, and they’ve informed me that they were already aware of this idiot. Saw him just once more after this.
Yes. That’s 91 million, 798 thousand, 346.
I actually encountered them once before this, but didn’t notice anything off about their score (was already dazed at that time). And then a discussion started over at reddit, so when I met him again, I took screenshots.
Ganbatte :))
Had time for a quick hey hey hoh spam ^^
Which day was this..? Anyway I came up with my brilliant pun. Read the comment, see if you can figure it out. :3
MocaRan and YukiLisa. Sigh. I don’t think we can be friends, P5.
:)))
Told you, Ghostkillers only pick Senbonzakura XD
Tomoe’s Birthday! ^^
Even the game won’t let you have a GF, P5. XD
HEATHCLIFF STOP PICKING BABY SHARK
(almost sure they’re famous in the competitive scene... I don’t know them tho LOL)
I woke up one morning to find there was no internet.
FUCK ME
I knew mobile data was going to result to multiple disconnects, but thank fuck I had lots of challenge points to spare. I passed the time productively, and by the time I was done, internet was back. Whew.
Rank update: currently T8. ^^
More of Ghostkillers x Senbonzakura and JFC that name tho P2
Shitpost comment XD
First time seeing 2 other T10 contenders in the same room: Itsuki and Ghostkillers.
Probably the point where I started spamming Tokimeki Poporon instead of Home Street.
Also there’s a looot of interesting names in Bandori.
As a YukiRan / MocaLisa shipper (well more of SayoLisa nowadays), it is my job to destroy players 1, 3, and 5. >:(
Wallet: IT’S NOT POSSIBLE
Me: NO, IT’S NECESSARY
...aaaaaand I immediately threw away 10k stars hoping for Megane Ran, but got shit. (This would later force me to make 2 more purchases XD Seriously though, I could have saved a lot of money with a better star purchase plan)
I got Loli Rinko tho. <3
Which day was this...? I think this was the moment I knew Ghostkillers has given up. I was laughing my ass off reading the comments. I think everyone of us was half-dead at this point. XD
And so we’re down to the final 11.
I’ve started considering the possibility at this point that I might be the final one to bow out.
OMG I CAN’T SEE PLAYER 2
BUSHIDO~!
I was feeling the despair at this point, and thus started singing Komm Susser Tod
I do mini-sprints in the morning, so I’m T6 here. I usually fall back down to ~T9 in the afternoon.
I usually level up once per event. I started this event from Rank 193. :)))
(well it was technically 192, but I was like 2 games away from leveling up)
XD
There are no experts in this room :v
Jumpin = NO FEVER, but picks meta song anyway. Okay. :v
Hey! All Random!
Game: DID SOMEONE ASK FOR A META SONG
I have a lot of friend requests at this point (probably from people seeing me on the T10 list), but I don’t have enough space to accept them all :((
Bread-themed profile!
Poppin’ Party, Puff n’ Pastry... get it?
Itsuki started spamming BOF at this point.
Doki doki~
HIT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME~ ♪ ♫
P1 is an IRL friend :))) I’d later tease her about how slow she is picking songs LOL
Some Initial D reference for overtaking :P Of course I was badly falling behind at this point (T9 is hella dangerous), but I had no choice but to continue to believe in the math (and that early overtaking is a bad choice).
“Early moves lets your opponents recover from mental shock.” - Ryosuke Takahashi, Initial D 3rd Stage
No seriously, that’s exactly what I was thinking of. And also “Not yet, not yet, now” from Ford v Ferrari.
P1 & P5 get married already...
FINAL NIGHT.
I’m down to T11, and everybody else already did 2.3M-sprints some hours earlier, and have considerably slowed down.
I, on the other, was about to go to sleep. Yes, I, the current T11, was about to let the others pull away. All I could do was believe in the Math at that point, because let me tell you-
I had 105k challenge points left. That’s 3.4M event points I had yet to sprint.
This was during the final morning, 9 hours before event ended. When I woke up that morning, my heart was pounding like crazy. What if everybody has pulled ahead?
When I finally checked, most of the T10′s were still in the 17M-range. Itsuki was on T10, and he was only 500k away. I knew at that point that my chances were pretty good; however, I shut up about it, set my comment to “Now Playing: Running in the 90′s”, and got to work.
There was nothing else I could to but consume all the CP I had left. No more tracking. A literal 5-hour non-stop sprint to 19.2M points. If they can still catch up even after they’ve already expended their CP yesterday, then maybe I don’t deserve this T10 after all.
All I need to do was beat one of them. It was me or them.
Holy shi-
I wasn’t out of the woods yet, had to make sure at least one of them didn’t overtake me. Of course that was more up to them, since I didn’t have any strength left (my thumb stopped working at that point, no seriously, it’s still not working properly even today). I also didn’t have any significant stars left.
I managed to sneak in a few songs, but that was it. I was done. The others managed to close the gap, but I stayed in T6.
And then the event was over.
I fucking did it.
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I would later learn that this was the bloodiest (Challenge Live) event in the history of ENdori. In one redditor’s words, I “ ...sure picked a hell of a time to go for it.”
I had no choice. This is Megane Ran we’re talking about. <3
I had some idea tbh, because I managed to read a tweet in the middle of the event, that “this was one lit T10″. Apparently we were on track to beat the previous record-holder, which was Sayo’s Umbrella event.
I’m... really glad to have been part of this event. I feel so darn proud of myself. >:3
But I couldn’t have done it without the help of the Grand Room. Seriously, I only played in the Grand Room.
Remember this?
I don’t have (competitive) friends. :))) So thank you, all. *bow*
I’d like to thank IRL-friend otearaisu over at twitter for putting up with my excessive score projection updates. XD I have a really detailed excel sheet to check if I was on track or not, and whenever there were developments, I’d always tell him about it, even in the dead of the night. XD
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Would I ever do this again? Probably not. This was the only event that I knew I really wanted to go for, and I don’t see that changing any time soon. Maybe I’ll get a couple of T100′s in the future, but that’s it. ^^
See you in the lobby~
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At The Match
this is for @lfcbvb! (this is Tamar btw, I started a new fanfic blog!! but i’ll send it to you as well just in case) I hope you like it!!!! xxxx
You liked being a student, you did. Scotland was definitely much different than London, plus it was a whole new way of life. The only downside was you didn’t get to see Danny that often.
You’d met a year ago when you were home from uni for the summer and hit it off right away. At first you hadn’t thought about how difficult it would be to see him during term time, you were happy so that was that.
He didn’t seem that bothered either. He’d always reassure you with a gentle smile that things would work out. So far things were going ok, you’d go home during the holidays and reading week and if he had a few days off he’d come up to visit you. You’d always have so much fun with him but then you’d go your seperate ways. Of course you texted and called each other a lot, but that wasn’t the same.
He always said he didn’t mind you not being at the stadium for Arsenal matches but you minded, you wanted to support him. Today it was Arsenal v Brighton at the emirates and after making an effort to get your work handed in a week early you were in London. You hadn’t told him though, you wanted it to be a surprise.
You’d arrived yesterday after a long train journey. Even after nearly 3 years of university you still weren’t used to it, it was totally worth it though, in your opinion.
There’s part of you that wants to say ‘fuck it’ and arrive early at the stadium so you can see him before the game but no, that would ruin the surprise.
You arrive an hour before the game, just like you did when you were just a normal fan. Your seat isn’t too bad and it’s on the end of a row which you preferred. You’d bought yourself some coffee to try and warm yourself up. You knew once the game got going it would be fine with the heat from the crowd, and your thick jacket. But for now you were freezing.
You check instagram on your phone to see if the lineup had been posted. It had and Danny was starting. You smile to yourself. You take a screenshot and post it to your own story with encouragement. That’s not suspicious, you’d normally do that even if you weren’t at the match. It was tempting to post pictures of them all warming up though.
The stadium fills quickly and you can’t help but be envious of all the people sitting in the warm boxes. The teams come out and line up and there he is. You smile and take photos, you could post them later and anyway you wanted to remember this.
The match doesn’t start that well for Arsenal and you’re annoyed. It’s still 0-0 at half time. You quickly pop to the toilets and get some water before going back to your seat. You flick through the programme you had bought earlier to, as usual, see if there were any pictures of Danny.
Thankfully in the second half arsenal turn up the pressure. You watch excitedly hoping for a goal.And then it happens. Danny is passed the ball in the penalty area, logically you know he should pass to Auba who’s in the better position to shoot but no, he shoots himself and it sails past the keeper.
“Yes!” You shout “That’s my man!”
The people sitting near you look at you like you’ve gone mad but you just grin and sit back down.
Once the goals have started they don’t stop. It looks like the whole team are desperate for one. Aaron scores, Mesut scores, Granit does his thing from outside the penalty area and scores. The game was surely won now.
Brighton do manage to get one back, a slight miscalculation from the defence but it doesn’t matter as the final whistle goes 3 minutes later.
All the Arsenal fans are on their feet and cheering. Once the teams have gone back in you go and buy more coffee and then head down to where you normally met Danny. Thankfully it’s the usual security guard and he recognises you so has no problem with letting you into the player’s car park.
Danny of course is one of the last out so you just lean against his car and wait, saying hi to his teammates that pass by.
Finally you see him. He stops and looks at you with a huge grin on his face.
“What are you doing here?” He asks, before running at you and pulling you in for a huge hug.
“Hey! Watch the coffee! I finished my work so I wanted to surprise you”
“Wow, i am surprised! You saw the goal?”
“Of course I did! I’m so proud”
“Thank you! I can’t believe you’re here. When do you go back?”
“Monday” You say.
“Good, we can spend some time together tomorrow”
“We can” You smile and kiss him.
“Where’s your stuff?”
“In the hotel”
“Sure, we’ll go and get it now. How about we order pizza?”
“Sounds like a good idea, you deserve it after that”“
Thanks babe, let’s get going”
He hugs you one last time before you get into his car.
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