So, funny story. I entered the
dlcquickplay.com solo vocals tournament, which just got split into a championship division and a consolation division. Participation requires screen shots of your solo vocals scores with leaderboard information visible. Each contestant in your group (of three or four) selects one song, the totals are added up, and the higher-scoring people got moved up to the championship division, while everyone else competes for the pat-on-the-back prize.
I bet you know where this is going.
I have very little free time during the work week, so my intention was to grind the hell out of those four songs on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, with the deadline being 11:59 EST on Sunday night. Should've been plenty of time to get the best scores of which I was capable. But since I could not connect to the Rock Central servers nine times out of ten, and we still have those lovely XMB kicks and freezing issues for the
one time out of ten, I ended up submitting less-than-my-best scores because I simply ran out of A) time and B) willingness to keep my PS3 where it was instead of tossing it out the window.
So I wake up a little while ago (night owl that I am), go to dlcquickplay.com, and am not terribly surprised to see myself in the consolation division, having achieved a total 598,340 points for my group's setlist, coming in third. The second-place, championship-division-worthy score? 598,980, from an Xbox360 user. Not to take anything away from her, but could I have beaten that with functional servers and, consequently, more time to improve my scores? Perhaps. I'll never know, now. Out of 41 total participants, only one person got beaten by a smaller margin than I did...but they still came in second in their group, so it didn't actually cost them anything.
So! All that work for practically nothing, thanks, in all likelihood, to the server issues. I said it was a funny story. I didn't say I was laughing.