My First ITG 22: Passed! 11/19/21

I passed my first 22 on 11/19/21! The chart: Speed Disco Vol. 1-5 (Expert) — 1104 unbroken measures of 210 bpm stream for 21 minutes.

I got another 21 the day prior too: eat it up, boi! FP 218

Vids:

[In The Groove] JOKR - FIRST 22 PASS - Speed Disco Vol. 1-5 (Expert) [22] 83.20%
22: https://youtu.be/pRYOPR-X53c

[In The Groove] JOKR - eat it up, boi! FP 218 [21] 84.51%
https://youtu.be/olHTttGI-dw

20 First Song of the Day Now & 18-Year Dance Game Anniversary Tomorrow!

20 first song of the day now! Well, an easy marathon 20, anyway. The difficulty is probably like 20.0, it starts at 200 bpm, and it's 19 mins 50 secs long. Still, maintaining 200 like that with no prior warm up is good for me, and that ending was flippin rough. It almost did me in! The rest of the chart wasn't too bad, but 220+ is no joke like 600+ measures in. Ugh Anyway, I actually only wound up passing 3 songs today as this first one kinda burned me out. 😅 I can't complain about the new difficulty so soon after ticking off that last one the other day though, and I've gotta give it to these Stamina Nation daily quests; they sure as hell light a fire under my ass! 🤣

Also, shoutouts to my friend David Sjöstrand/Urza for knocking this song out earlier today and letting me know what to expect. Due to the bpm increase throughout it, I never would've even attempted it first song if not for him doing it twice already now with 87.xx% and 93.xx% scores and telling me it was an easy 20 I could definitely do. I just kept that in mind while fighting with that GD ending. Haha

My 18-year dance game anniversary is tomorrow. I'll be out of town and away from ITG for at least 4 days but will probably mess around on the Max 2 machine where I'm going. Either way, not a bad way to pay early tribute to 18 years here!

ITG 19 First Song of the Day

19 first song of the day yesterday! 🥳 Granted, it was 191 bpm and was ~14.5 minutes long, so it wasn't the worst 19 to warm up during. Not a huge milestone here or anything, but nice to know there are charts rated that high that I can jump straight into if I'm short on time. I wouldn't have even tried normally, but the SRPG daily quest was calling my name, and I was in a hurry. 😂

I wasn't actually planning on playing yesterday. I'd run 3.5 miles at the gym in the morning and gone to bed at 2:30pm. (Hardcore night owl here.) I got woken up at 9pm to deal with a quick family emergency though and figured, since I was up, I might as well see if there was a snowball's chance in hell of doing the daily quest. I had yet to do ANY daily quest, and today's was right up my alley: three songs with 500+ measures of 16th stream (Stamina Nation faction, obviously). I only had like 1.5 hours left til the midnight cut off by this point, however, and I didn't have many practical song choices that fit the criteria that I hadn't played yet, so this wound up being my 3-song set:

[19][191] HAUNT Sampler FP: 14 mins 24 secs, 94.45% stream (613/629 measures)

[19][190] Spacetime FP: 11 mins 22 secs, 100% stream (528/528 measures)

[17][165] Gargoyle Infinite (Meme) FB: 19 mins 45 secs, 100% stream (802/802 measures)

Annnnd that's how my first ever daily quest got done! Check my sweet Fantastic counts too. 😏 (Timing was ummm..challenging today.) Pics from this set + bonus stamina stuff bc 🤷‍♀️

East Coast Stamina 9 - Lower: 3rd Overall / 1st Female

Now that I'm getting back on my feet after East Coast Stamina 9, I guess it's about time I share the video of my set and post about how I did!

As for results, I placed:

-3rd out of 58 overall in Lower. (In reality, I'd say this means I was 21st place out of 76, as there were 18 people in Upper.)

-1st place female out of 14 in Lower. (Amy was the only female in Upper, so this should technically place me 2nd female out of 15.)

Video: JOKR - East Coast Stamina 9 - Raw Output (ITG ECS9) on YouTube https://youtu.be/5aKohk3jldY

My ECS9 set this past Saturday literally floored me. I gave it all I had, finishing my 7 song max/1 hour set with one 19 and six 18s. (I'm used to taking longer breaks between songs when I play, so this was as much as I could've demanded of myself.) Though the support I got from Sean Gee and friends in the Twitch chat and elsewhere was what really inspired me to push through the pain, my biggest achievement was unquestionably not quitting when times got tough, and ooohhhhhh did they ever! The FA (well, lack thereof) says it all. 😂 Anyway, MASSIVE thanks to Sean for playing coach and supporting me, Jean-Philippe Moal for the song recommendations when I needed them most, Ian Pyles and all the other contributers for making this all possible, and all the friends who messaged and joined in on Twitch to hang with us and cheer me on. Maybe if you guys cheer harder next year, I'll do a set of solid 20s or 21s. 😝❤