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Hey, I hit 1kyu tonight.  Some 4th place finishes this session, which is a bummer, but I did get 1st 5 times out of 11, which is good.  I'm mostly going to just go over the 3rd and 4th place games to see what went wrong.  I had some pretty unfortunate draws this time around, if I recall.

Game 1: 2位 辞世テンプレート(+12.0) つみれ店長(-42.0) ujima(-17.0) NoName(+47.0)
A haneman win wasn't enough to guarantee me 1st.  I missed a chance to triple ron someone in East-4 because I didn't declare riichi.  That wouldn't have helped me win, but it would have been funny.
Game 2: 4位 辞世テンプレート(-41.0) 偽トニー(+54.0) 4ten(+9.0) （屮￣∀￣）屮(-22.0)
I draw someone's winning tile immediately after they declare riichi in East-1.  With a potential oya-baiman waiting for me, I cut it a turn later.  Another unfortunate draw in East-2-1 leads me to deal in again.  And then, tsumos.
Game 3: 1位 辞世テンプレート(+45.0) Joker16(-34.0) 柚麻(-17.0) kazuo(+6.0)
Woo 2kyu!  Since there were only 3 new games I didn't bother making an update just for that.
Game 4: 1位 辞世テンプレート(+53.0) Ｕたれぞう(-52.0) TEKI(+14.0) NoName(-15.0)
I ate a 5200 hit in this one, but otherwise it went well for me.
Game 5: 1位 辞世テンプレート(+42.0) Cress(+5.0) ☆瓢虫(-29.0) mukyu(-18.0)
A kan gives me 3 dora and a mangan win in East-1, and then three cheap hands get thrown around, ending the game.  Sometimes one win is all it takes.
Game 6: 3位 辞世テンプレート(-15.0) chichi(-32.0) monocon(+40.0) ちゅん(+7.0)
One deal-in during East-4 was enough to drop me from 1st to 3rd, sadly.  Remember when I said "no more cutting live dora tiles to stay in tenpai" a few posts ago?  I wish I had!
Game 7: 2位 辞世テンプレート(+15.0) かめかめ001(-54.0) matida_k(+62.0) lili1222(-23.0)
I decided to bust かめかめ001 and take 2nd instead of risking lilil222 busting him and dropping me to 3rd.  Not sure if that was the best decision, but I think overtaking matida_k would have been tough anyways.
Game 8: 3位 辞世テンプレート(-19.0) NoName(-57.0) keimizu(+19.0) shapa-(+57.0)
Yet another unfortunate draw in East-3-2.  With 3 5s visible and the 4s and 5s discards in his pool I figured the 3s wasn't too dangerous, but there you go.
Game 9: 1位 辞世テンプレート(+56.0) とつ(+4.0) coooooo1(-41.0) myt97036(-19.0)
It's hard to fall from 1st if you have almost 50,000 points by the midway point.
Game 10: 4位 辞世テンプレート(-39.0) xjj(+8.0) カイジ２(-15.0) myt97036(+46.0)
Yes, it's another unfortunate draw in East-1.  I tried my best to get out of 4th but I wasn't able to win anything after a weak riichi-pinfu hand.  The game ends with me getting another death tile immediately after someone hits tenpai.
Game 11: 1位 辞世テンプレート(+48.0) NoName(-36.0) kumatara(+7.0) obakekke(-19.0)
A drawn-out game.  My decision to not riichi in South-1 leads to 4 more hands getting played before I can pull myself above 30,000 points to win.  Oh, and you can probably guess what my one deal-in was (hint: I draw the worst tiles, all the time, forever.)

I'm still looking way worse than I was a few sessions ago, but it's an improvement.  It looks like I'll hit 1dan before I can hit 1800 rate, but that's not so bad.  I'd really like to see that 4th rate drop, though.  Having 1st, 2nd, and 3rd all in the 25-30% range isn't too off-putting, but I miss my 10% 4th rate.  I suspect it'll never get back to that level, unfortunately.  Such is life.

Today's lesson is, if someone declares riichi and I don't draw a 100% safe tile on my next turn, I am dead.  I guess that's only really helpful for me, though.  Well, if you ever want to beat me, just declare riichi all the time.  I'll probably give you an ippatsu or two.

Next time, I'll be 1dan!  Probably!  Unless something really weird happens!  Look forward to it!