Ended up with a 75/81 WR%. The Front/End/Debuffer team comp came through clutch. Now onto the Open League Server's CM14 Tourney!!! See all you there!

Overall Conditions:

• Hanshin, Turf, Right, 2200m
• Good, Summer, Cloudy

Stats:

• Stat Threshold: Speed
• Required Stamina for >= 95% spurt rate(assuming 1200/X/1000/500/600):
  • Front: 850 (struggle not included)
  • Pace: 900
  • Late: 830
  • End: 850

Featured Trainees:

• Effective Unique Skills:
  • Xoguri
  • Seiun Sky
  • Mejiro Dober
  • Mejiro Ryan
• Notable Skills:
  • Rice Shower/Fine Motion/Nishino Flower (Determined Descent)
  • Satono Diamond (Right Hand Demon)
  • Kawakami Princess/Mayano Top Gun/Cheerleader Nature (No Stopping Me!)
  • Sweep Tosho (Petrifying Gaze)
  • Agnes Tachyon/Symboli Rudolf/Grass Wonder (Dominator)
• Miscellaneous:
  • Vodka (Easy to build)
  • Daiwa Scarlet (Daiwa Rocket)
  • Meisho Doto (Turbo-gamba Rocket)
  • Summer Maruzensky/Valentine Bourbon (Front meta)
• Green Skills (cards that hold those skills, either hints or chains):
  • Right-Handed (Finemo, Brian, Bright, Fuku SR, Rob Roy SSR)
  • Summer Runner (Fuji Kiseki)
  • Non-standard distance (NTR, Doto, Top Gun, Cafe)
  • Hanshin Racecourse (Flower, Hayahide, Palmer, Festa, Gold Ship, Marvelous)
  • Wet Conditions (Special Week, Mcqueen, Ryan, Smart Falcon, Cafe, Sirius, Festa, Windy, Digital, Palmer, Hayahide, Halloween Tamamo Cross SSR)
  • Cloudy Days (Winning Ticket, Smart Falcon, Oguri Cap, Fuji Kiseki, Biwa Hayahide, King Halo)

Inherits for Frontliners (Front, Pace):

• Angling and Scheming (3.4L)
• Red Shift (1.3L),

Inherits for Backliners (Late, End):

• Red Shift (1.3L)
• Let's Pump Some Iron! (3L)
• Moving Past and Beyond (3L)
• I Never Goof Up! (gamba)

Generic Acceleration skills that work:

• Straight/Determined Descent (gambling, pace chasers)
• Head-On/Neck and Neck (gambling, pace chasers)
• Nimble Navigator/No Stopping Me! (Last corner is an infamous traffic jam)
• Corner Acceleration/Connoisseur (turbo gambling)
• Fearless/Hard Worker/Keep it real (Nakayama Festa-tier of gambling)
• Take the Chance/From the Brink (gambling, backliners)
• Slick Surge/On Your Left! (gambling, late surgers)

Always loved the concept of crossovers growing up like Toon Disney's Aladdin/Hercules and Mask:TAS/Ace Ventura:TAS episodes. 1st got into comics with big crossover events like CoIE/Infinity Gauntlet. As well as comic runs like Kirkman's MTU and Superman/Batamn (2003).

So over the years I started collecting an IP Crossover Collection and dubbed it "Six Degrees of". Where each book is connected to the one next to it either through a main character or universe. It's the most fun I've had collecting in this medium. Unfortunately I couldn't fit Robotech/Voltron & Big Trouble Little China/Escape from New York into the shelf though.

Does anyone else enjoy the idea of obscure crossovers?

GEMINI CUP 2:

Tokyo Turf 1600m (Mile)

Left-Handed

Spring Runner

Firm Conditions

Standard Distance

Tokyo Racecourse

Sunny Days

Threshold Bonus Stats:

Stamina & Guts

Skills That Work

-Angling & Scheming,

-Budding Blossom

-Let's Pump Some Iron (if you're lucky)

-Louder! Tracen Cheer!

-Victoria Por Plancha

-All Charged! It's Go Time!

-Give Mummy a Hug ♡

-Straightaway Spurt/Encroaching Shadow,

-Furious Feat

-Highlander

Skills That Don't Work

-Red Shift

-Shooting For Victory

-Moving Past and Beyond

-Any other acceleration skill that triggers on the final corner regardless of whether or not it's late race (unless you want to super-gamble on Unrestrained/Final Push)

-Festive Miracle unless you turbo-gamble on a lucky Hydrate proc or something,

-Every single speed skill that triggers at the start of the final straight (Flash, Vega, Come What May, etc.)

TAURUS CUP 2

-Left-Handed

-Spring Runner

-Firm Conditions

-Standard Distance

-Tokyo Racecourse

-Sunny Days

Threshold Bonus Stats:

None

Notable Umas:

-Christmas Oguri Cap

Honorable Mentions:

-Ines Fujin

-Seiun Sky

-Maruzensky (either)

-Valentine Bourbon

-Mejiro Dober

-Mejiro Ryan

Minor Stamina Ramble:

For Tokyo 2400m, each 1% of recovery is worth about 40 stamina (it's about 32 hp, and stamina has a roughly 80% conversion rate).

This means that a 5.5% gold recovery skill is worth about 220 stamina if you don't blow your wit check.

In order to get a ~95% spurt rate, at 400 Guts and 600 Wit, you roughly need (according to the Alpha123 simulator):

-Front Runner — 930 stamina (but probably more because Spot Struggle exists),

-Pace Chaser — 1030 stamina,

-Late Surger — 930 stamina,

-End Closer – 960 stamina,

-Runaway Suzuka For Some Reason – 1110 stamina

What are your favorite Beta Ray stories or moments? Bill is one of my favorite Marvel characters and in anticipation for the GotG Annihilators Epic later this year I finally bit the bullet and scooped up Godhunter for my Beta Ray Bill collection.