Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-35320902-20181113030938/@comment-31433854-20181119150315

Sulawesi wrote: Mugwumps wrote:

Sulawesi wrote: Turns out that being in the top 0.11% is somehow infinitely more frustrating than being in the top 0.5%.

I’m stuck at 1:37.0, with those extra 200 gold coins just taunting me.

Making matters more annoying, I’ve had plenty of runs where I’ve been up on my own ghost by .2-.5 seconds, so I know that I have a *hypothetical* 1:36.6 in me. I just don’t have the consistency to put it all together in one run, in practice. This has been my experience, as well. I have finally managed a 36.8, squeaking into A ever so slightly (308/316!). Now I’m really going to be nervous for the next 24 hours 😬 Nice! Great job.

At the end of the day, I feel like I failed on this one. Just outright choked. Three times, I entered the Parabolica up 0.4s or more on my 1:37.0 time, only to skid or run off track and throw it away.

I’m a fairly consistent top 0.2% driver... just not a top 0.1% driver. If I had accepted that fact, I would have saved myself hours of frustration this week. But I got a taste of Group A early in the week and got hooked... With 11 hours to go I was 330/330 in A, eventually dropping to first in B, 0.000s out of A :(  After way more time and muttered curses than I care to admit (including several laps where I had a good margin going into Parabolica as well), I finally managed a 1:36.715, #200 and safe.  I need a drink or two!