80%
2006-08-03 05:06:54
My goal for a while, at least since passing 1000 push wins, is to have an 80% win ratio. I'm currently at a very high 1803 wins, but about 78-79% wins. So I have a new goal, to make it to 2000 wins before I get more than 15 losses. Now, that's 197 wins against 15 losses, that's gunna be really hard. I think I can do it though. If only it didn't take so long for me to connect to games and I didn't have fears of getting DC'd on my end cause of bad connection....Post Comment0 Comments
Holes in the wall
2006-07-08 10:58:14
The tetris playfield is very much like a wall, just with a lot of oddly shaped bricks. Well...lately I've been having a few too many holes in my wall. First it started when I was beaten several times by someone who was pretty good at Push. Then I played the FIR player. Damn, he's good. I could last for a few seconds, but then I was gone. I have to work on dealing w/ the garbage stragety more, it's becoming more and more common.Well, after loosing about 200 points combined between the two opponents, I thought, "What the hell?" and wandered into 4P mode. Very BAD mistake. Very Bad. After only a few rounds, I found myself lurking at the low ranking (for me) of 6295. Time to go back to Push to bring that back up. I spent the rest of the night working to get it back up, and while I got it to 7300 for the update, several losses afterwards yields me at the 7K level. I just got too tired to keep up. Really began to notice when I no longer had 3-5 blocks out first. Course...there aren't many people who play Push between 8 and 10 AM EST, cause I played one person 7 times in a row. I'm pretty sure that's a record.
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A good match
2006-07-02 12:29:38
I played a decent amount of Push against an equally ranked player. We both came into the game pretty much at the same rank. Me at 7366, him at 7311. After I won the first game, he proved to me that he deserved his rating as much as I did. He proceeded to win several of the next few games before I started to figure out a way to win. In total we played 20 games, the final score: 12-8 him. He had well over 2000 wins in Push mode, so we both knew what we were doing and how to counter each other's moves, even the usual stalemate strageties.My rating did take a hit, going to 7320, while he left somewhere round 7359. Several of my losses were do to a misdrop on my part that I couldn't return from. Our shortest match was one that I won and he must have misdropped, but in the first 5-10 seconds, we had no holes and a decent number of blocks in the field. We also had several long games that kept going back and forth, until one of us made our major mistake.
I was delightfully suprised that I didn't have any network errors during play, as that would have really hurt my rating. I am very glad that the other guy felt like playing so many rounds against me, it's not often that I find people who are willing to play 20 rounds. Then again, most people are a lot lower rating than I am...
After our 20 rounds, he left, but I wasn't upset about it. In fact I was a little relieved because I was starting to feel the effects of "no sleep yet" and that was starting to have it's own effect on my gameplay. I played a few games against other people, all ranked much below me. So my rating is back up to 7339. Not that great yes, but it's fewer points I have to win back later.
While today didn't help my win ratio much, it did show me a good time. I'd probably take 20 fun matches over 80% win any time.
I wonder if it's sad that I'm trying to get, and then keep, 80% win ratio in Push mode...
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Lonely
2006-06-25 07:15:42
I watch the GameFAQs forums a lot, more when it was more active right after the game came out. Back then, everyone wasn't in a clan and acutally came to GameFAQs to create games. Since the decline of the Tetris board, I haven't been playing a lot actually...not many people who want to create a game and most of them are hard to get ahold of via GF. The IRC here might change things, but idk right now. One thing that also sets me apart from most of the Tetris players is that I'm only average (65xx maybe) in standard, and rather good in Push (my rating is more based on Push mode). Heh, I'm one of those players who scares people away sometimes because of my rating and my wins, which has reached over 1300. Every once in a while I'll go against someone who is willing to face me for a while, in fact I once had two different players who I played must have been 15-20 games a piece against. It was fun, while it lasted. I kinda wish more people would play Push mode. I've had to wait close to 5 minutes for a game to start multiple times, and some times I've waited for bout 10-15 minutes w/o a game starting for me. I'm pretty sure that it isn't my internet's fault, seeing as I don't even get people's ??? thing to pop up.Oh well, hopefully more people will start playing Push and hopefully more people will play more matches against me, cause waiting 3-4 minutes to play one match isn't fun, specially when you play someone ranked 1-3k below you and they run after one match. Though, I have had a few times where I've played the same player 3 or 4 times after they left the game each time. Was kinda funny.
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Challenges
2006-06-12 05:30:04
Well, I guess that I might as well extend a challenge to anyone who wants one. I play a lot of Push though, so I'm just gunna ask that people be ready for Push.FC is 384845-112331
If you want to get ahold of me, I visit the GameFaqs Tetris DS forum daily, and have become one of the locals to the board. Just make a topic with ATTN: Dimon as the title, and I'll get to it. Course, if there is already a topic of that, just post in it, I'll check it every time it gets a new post.
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2006-06-05 13:55:39
Well, I guess that I might as well start something.I've been playing since the release and I've probably got one of the highest number of wins in Push mode. Mainly cause I play it a lot, but anyway, I'm at something over 1300 matches and have 1103 wins. I'm more concerned about a win ratio at this point, which is something round 78-79%.
While I haven't even won 100 games in either standard mode, I've gotten a rather high rating w/ Push. I wonder how many other players out there like Push and have played Push as much as I have. Probably not, but it gets annoying to see so many people with so few games played in Push. By now I should be running into more people who have won more than a hundred matches, right? Well, I've seen only 1 person who had more wins than me in Push, and very few people with over 200 wins in Push. Most of the people I play against, sadly, have a rating of the mid 5ks to the high 4ks. I kinda wish that more people played Push. Oh well.
