Hello everyone! Yukigami here~
I haven't been able to post much of anything lately because of school ><
Right now I'm at a very busy spot, with two essays and two tests all jam packed into a short time period. I'm losing sleep!
For now I'll just post a little Go update.
Recently my Tygem suffered a lot. I was already not performing as well as usual for a bunch of games, but I lost some over and over due to disconnection, poor sportsmanship (forcing me to lose via spamming counting and draw requests in my face), and otherwise time out. There were a lot of legitimate losses, but the illegitimate ones were extremely frustrating!
Anyway, when April swings around I'll have to play some games and get it back to 7d :)
I started playing on WBaduk(formerly OroBaduk) again for the first time in years! My name there is Yukigami. The ratings there seem slightly softer even then Tygem ranks, or otherwise about the same. It was very easy for me to get to 7d there and I think 8d could be possible! I'm glad that it doesn't take quite as long to rank up there as it does on Tygem. The relative downside however is that when you rank up, you remain just at the threshold and a loss can put you back down to the previous point of almost being at that level. I got to 7d so far but I've only played against one 7d so far. He was pretty decent I guess, I made some silly strategic mistakes probably due to lingering complacence caused by the 4d-6d opponents leading up to that game.
KGS is more or less the usual, floating between upper 4d and lower 5d, though I haven't been playing much there lately. Compared to on Tygem or WBaduk, it's difficult to find an opponent on KGS sometimes.
Okay, adios!!
Good luck with essays/exams/important deadlines, presentations and pursuits!
~Yukigami