My Fall 2022 Smash Ultimate Season Recap

Wanted to write one of these up real quick, although I don't feel like it will be as flushed out as my other two.

Super good season! Tons of new competition came in for Fall semester, which was awesome. 

I managed to stay consistent and get 4th on the PR, which I'm super happy about. Getting Top 5 again was my goal. I managed to get 4th instead of 5th only because one of the players above me didn't have enough attendance to qualify.

Here's the PR Graphic, which I do not like, but it is what it is, so here it is:

(HB stands for Hidden Boss (a player who doesn't come very often but is really good kind of idea))

Failed to take a set off Jake, haha. One of these days I will.

Got to be on the PR panel, which was fun but at the same time was frustrating in a couple aspects.

I keep improving and having a ton of fun with the game and competition.

Here's the record of all the tournaments and such from the semester:

• 2nd Place (out of 26), 3rd Seed, WWaA, $21
• 3rd Place (out of 32), 3rd Seed, PP4
• 3rd Place (out of 22), 3rd Seed, FMaF, $32
• 4th Place (out of 23), 4th Seed, WWaA#2, 85¢
• 9th Place (out of 21), 3rd Seed, WWaA#3
• 4th Place (out of 22), 4th Seed, WWaA#4, $5
• 2nd Place (out of 30), 2nd Seed, PP#8
• 8th Place (out of 14), 3rd Seed, FMaF#7
• 4th Place (out of 22), 3rd Seed, Monster Mash
• 5th Place (out of 16), 5th Seed, WWaA#8
• 5th Place (out of 24), 4th Seed, WWaA#9
• 3rd Place (out of 35), 5th Seed, WWaA#10
• 33rd Place (out of 113 (not accounting for DQ's)), SnakeRiver
• 3rd Place (out of 18), 3rd Seed, WWaA #11 $5
• 4th Place (out of 26), 3rd Seed, PP#?
• 3rd Place (out of 24), 3rd Seed, PP#?

Post-Christmas Day Game Playing Report

• Most Played by a long shot, probably: Just One. This is just good fun and so so easy to play with literally everyone that it got played over and over again.

• Hand to Hand Wombat also got played quite a bit. We even got Uncle David and Aunt Jackie in on a game, which was fantastic.

• We actually have reviews (no edits, one-shot) coming out on youtube for both those games. Still can't find the youtube channel, though, haha. Once I find it, I may post them here.

• Eric and I played a lot of That Time You Killed Me, which I've been loving. Especially since for some reason I've gotten into Chess this Christmas, playing a different abstract strategy game was great.

• Decrypto was great although we are still kind of awful at it.

• Got the last expansion I didn't have for Spirit Island, so we played several games with that.

• Played Libertalia a handful of times; I'm excited to play it with Ryan and Angeles.

• Played QE (Quantative Easing), which Joseph got for Christmas. The game still blows my mind. Such fascinating metas we explored.

• Played quite a bit of Minecraft. We finally got a Multiplayer World working on our laptops, so Thomas, Ben, and I started a wonderful world together. It may be our last world with the plan to use it for years to come.

Happy New Year's :)

Pre-Christmas Day Game Playing Report

• Unexpectedly, Chess has been our #1 game played this weekend. Blitz Chess (5 min timer each) in particular being the version played the most. I now have the chess.com app downloaded and have been studying.
• Spirit Island and Terraforming Mars are great and have both been played a handful of times.
• As a group effort, we have obtained the Platinum Medal in all games in Wii Play, which has been an absolute blast.
• Yahtzee with Grandma Jervis is always a good time. Today she broke 500 points, which may be the highest scoring game of Yahtzee I have ever witnessed.
• Played many games of Two Rooms and a Boom, which has worked fantastically. We got the Aunts and Uncles in on a round, and they all said they enjoyed it which was awesome.
• Some Smash Bros, of course, has been played. Along with some Minecraft.
• Many other games not mentioned have also been played.

We'll see what the second half of Christmas break has to bring us.

Merry Christmas :)

Flow of Posting Posts and Typing Tests

 I think it's fascinating how I ebb and flow with posting posts. During October, I was feeling it and posted once a week with more ideas coming on topics I want to write about.

And then I kind of just stop? And I'm not sure why? And so my posts go down to once every other week or once every 3 weeks, even though I'm still sitting on many ideas that I want to become blog posts. And I don't really know why that happens.

Even this post, for example, is a completely separate idea from the several draft ideas that have been sitting there for weeks, or even months. I look at them, and I want to write them, but then I just don't want to. Idk, it's weird.

And so I think posts like this one and the previous post are helpful. They refresh me, I think. Allow me to kind of just write what I'm feeling in the moment about whatever topic I'm thinking about at the time. And it's great. I love writing out my thoughts; I love trying to use words to articulate these concepts that are floating around in my mind.

Wanted to do some more typing tests. I feel like I've been improving recently. And having blog posts sporadically about what my typing speed is has been a thing over the past decade, so I want to continue that.

I'll be using typingtest.com. I'm going to do a easy, medium, and a hard test all with a 2 minute timer. Results below:

Easy: 84wpm with 97% accuracy = 82 wpm

Medium: 79wpm with 100% accuracy = 79 wpm

Hard: 77wpm with 100% accuracy - 77 wpm

The accuracy is allowing backspaces, so I made many mistakes, but I'm allowed to backspace and correct it making the accuracy better.

One downside of using typingtest.com is I've done it quite a bit now, so all the tests are becoming more familiar. I'm going to do a 3 minute test from typing.com as well.

Results 78wpm with 98% accuracy (I'm not sure exactly how this accuracy works).

Neat.

Prayer Journal Concept

You know, I have quite a few blog post ideas fumbling around my head. Not sure what's exactly keeping me from seeing them to fruition. Regardless, I've decided to do more of a free flow post today, which I haven't done in a long while.

The goal is to kind of just write down whatever various things come to mind.

For example, the first thing that pops into mind is how I have this idea of how to merge saying a really solid prayer with keeping a good journal. This idea is, of course, probably already been done, but I haven't seen it anywhere, so that's worth something at least.

The thought process came from the idea of a general structure of a good prayer.

Basic outline (not that prayers have to follow this *add more nuance etc. here*):

Address Heavenly Father.

Tell Him about your day.

Express Gratitude.

Ask for blessings (both for yourself and others).

Close in the name of Christ.

So my thought is that these core things that you'd want in a prayer happen to be what you would want in a really good journal.

So what you do is you structure each page/day of your journal as a prayer. And you write out your prayer to Heavenly Father. And then you still have it and it acts as a fantastic journal.

Idk, I think it has potential. I haven't tried it yet, but I think it's cool in theory.

The Lost Metal was super good, btw :)