hello, I have some things I've thought about along the day. I was disappointed by not having been able to get a better score on week 1's Gokujyou Parodius, even after trying so many times, was relieved by Drake's awesome support, but still, the lack of a high-enough third highscore for our team has put us below quite a lot of teams (not on an unrecoverable amount of points, though). Don't worry, guys, I'm much more focused on how to try to perform well on the next weeks than other affairs.
What I wanted to express in this post, however, was about how I thought, after a while, that those new people doing their best for our team, in their first STGT, aren't much different from what I was like, when I first participated in 2009. Varth, it's first week's game, was and still is an awesome game that I learned to enjoy, but I was (and felt like) the weakest link of my team's Top 3's chain. I felt sad that the best I could do yielded so "not enough". So I want to say that I'm sorry if I sounded like I was greatly demotivated after this years' first week, and can't really say that I would feel demotivated, after having experienced nearly the same thing (in case you guys feel bad about the first week's scores).
But, fortunately, I got so lucky on the next weeks in 2009, in terms of game selection and on how I could grind some good lucky runs (plus having, like, punched harder and harder through walls to try to compensate for the first week's disadvantage.. and having more available time than in the following years :p), that I felt that I both have done the best I could, and that I've really surprised myself, with the rewards of having pushed myself to my limits. I don't know if you, teammates, think like this when playing on this tournament, but to me, it's a rare (once per year) chance to dedicate all my efforts into something and test my current abilities, while I get the chance to see many (over 100, at times over 200) other people also doing their best too. It's a rare moment, which (like in the previous years) I want to enjoy fully while it lasts, and which gives me a chance to see the efforts of many other people, and respectable opponents. (anyone who does their best have my respect, because that's how I would like to be, as a person.)
Finally,
this is an awesome music, made by awesome people, and fits awesomely as well with what I wanted to express.
This day will last forever
Deep in the hearts of men
Courage and victory
Remember, remember
One Shot At Glory
In the crossfire overhead
Fate stands before me
Words have all been said
One Shot At Glory
Driving hard and seeing red
Destiny calls me
One night of fire
One Shot At Glory
