This week my luck on the Riichi City ladder finally broke and I kind of tilted a bit, losing my focus, making bad aggressive moves when I shouldn't have or didn't need to, and ultimately finishing last in four of my last seven games!
When you're tilting you have to go through kind of a stages-of-grief process to recognize, accept, and then fix the problem. The faster you get through it, the better; like shaking the stick in Street Fighter when your guy is dizzy.
Ultimately, memories of mistakes I didn't want to repeat helped me to stay strong through this match. Also insanely blessed tiles throughout the first match and a big win definitely helped. Second match was uneventful, which was why it was the real test; I had to have the patience to drop a lot of good hands in bad situations, and mostly rode it out. I climbed from third to second on the last hand's tenpai payments.
By the way, I am also playing in my club's N-League, which they are beginning to stream on <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCCpCmbKrA>Youtube! They stream on Friday nights; there are VODs.
I already played in the first session, but that was streamed privately as a test run. We fought to a draw. I threw away a good wait for a bigger hand and my regrets will never leave me.
It's been very fun being highly active in a local competitive scene. I always wanted get this serious in fighting game tournaments, but the hours never lined up; I could never do those 1AM tourney nights.
