Waltz For Life Will Born

All right, that's over with, thank God.  It only took 7 games after that last mopey post to hit 1dan, so I guess the moral of the story is that I will go to any length to make myself look like a dumb baby, even if that means winning a bunch of games.  I'm not gonna bother commenting on any of my matches 'cause there are just too dang many, but I will at least post the logs and overviews here. 

Game 1: 2位 辞世テンプレート(+5.0) kazu@さそり(-18.0) bl(+45.0) pokke(-32.0)
Game 2: 1位 辞世テンプレート(+74.0) サスピ(-50.0) 03850246(+4.0) エメリウム光線(-28.0)
Game 3: 2位 辞世テンプレート(+11.0) SCRIPT(+57.0) ク＿ソ＿ゲー乙(-51.0) yakamasy(-17.0)
Game 4: 4位 辞世テンプレート(-36.0) はまてぃ(+12.0) isa(-24.0) ３２０３X(+48.0)
Game 5: 3位 辞世テンプレート(-13.0) teaapple(-37.0) FRESTA(+10.0) Temp1e(+40.0)
Game 6: 1位 辞世テンプレート(+57.0) ＧＡＨＡＫＵ(-34.0) NoName(-24.0) 広島迷人(+1.0)
Game 7: 3位 辞世テンプレート(-15.0) てんほうnow(+40.0) gyaba(+6.0) Conanwww(-31.0)
Game 8: 4位 辞世テンプレート(-38.0) ウーロンあああ(+7.0) NoName(-20.0) you-my(+51.0)
Game 9: 2位 辞世テンプレート(+14.0) 聖k,(-41.0) taka1999(-21.0) アパートとむ(+48.0)
Game 10: 3位 辞世テンプレート(-18.0) (^^(-34.0) BULLBONE(+45.0) NoName(+7.0)
Game 11: 2位 辞世テンプレート(+11.0) はちみつ放浪記２(+54.0) あきすけ！！！。(-26.0) Remilia.(-39.0)
Game 12: 4位 辞世テンプレート(-32.0) uchey(+4.0) jalNoNam(-21.0) っし(+49.0)
Game 13: 4位 辞世テンプレート(-33.0) cryst(-22.0) だるま68(+47.0) NoName(+8.0)
Game 14: 3位 辞世テンプレート(-38.0) oinari7(+68.0) 武蔵☆小次郎(-52.0) ホロ♀(+22.0)
Game 15: 1位 辞世テンプレート(+45.0) torara88(-15.0) yotuba(-44.0) putimosu(+14.0)
Game 16: 2位 辞世テンプレート(+15.0) みつみな(-46.0) NoName(-22.0) 和可(+53.0)
Game 17: 1位 辞世テンプレート(+51.0) 式波さんは俺の嫁(-23.0) genzku(+9.0) HI-LIGHT(-37.0)
Game 18: 3位 辞世テンプレート(-12.0) 出席番号31(+45.0) NoName(-46.0) yoyodayo(+13.0)
Game 19: 1位 辞世テンプレート(+45.0) シダ♪(+8.0) 江頭2時50分(-13.0) NoName(-40.0)
Game 20: 2位 辞世テンプレート(+18.0) NoName(-27.0) 醍(-40.0) hair-1(+49.0)
Game 21: 1位 辞世テンプレート(+41.0) qp(-32.0) kaya27(-19.0) 緋路(+10.0)

21 games!  Phew!  I started off okay but then I just fell into a streak of bad luck or bad playing, or something.  I switched over to red fast tonpuusens for the last 5 games, which is where I got 3 of my wins.  Maybe that was the key all along!  I guess it doesn't matter now, though, because in the lowerdan lobby everybody either plays fast tonpuusen or slow hanchans ლ(╹◡╹ლ)

So yeah, I'm not playing in the free lobby anymore.  Forget that!  I'm also going to play hanchans for a while, to see if my rates improve at all.  I feel like a lot of my 4th place finishes result from either a single deal-in or from not winning any hands, and I think extending the length of the games will decrease the chances of that happening.  We'll see, though!  I'd say I'm excited to be in the dan lobby but honestly a lot of my matches in the free lobby were with all dan-ranked players (occasionally dan-ranked players with R1800+, those jerks) so I'm not actually sure it'll be that much different, haha.

In other news, the BakaBT Mahjong Tournament is almost finished with its first phase!  The pre-elimination period ends at the end of the month.  It'll be interesting to see what happens; there are still a lot of matches that need to be played and I really doubt that's gonna happen before December 1st.  As it is, about 2/3rd of the matches that have been played have had at least one substitute player involved.  I guess that's not really surprising, though, given the size of the player roster.  Once the no-shows and new players get weeded out things might get interesting!