I COULDN’T MAKE IT IN THIS SEASON🙂

One hour left till the end of this steemhop season and my heart just sank 🥲. I was sitting there at 23:41 staring at the timer and the leaderboard, refreshing every few seconds hoping something would change. I gave it everything this season. All those runs, all those times I died on lane 3 to a car I didn’t see, all the nights I told myself "one more run". But I couldn’t make top 20. I’m stuck outside the Steem rewards and the clock is literally about to hit zero. The game shows "TOP 52" and I know that’s not enough. 20 was the cutoff and I just didn’t get there. It hurts because I was so close some days, I could see top 20 in my reach, but then I’d have a bad run and drop 10 spots. Now with one hour left there’s nothing I can do. No more grinding, no more pushing, this is just it.
I kept playing anyway in that last hour because what else was I supposed to do. I loaded up the game, saw the little chicken hopping over cars and trains, trying to get as far as I could. Score 77, score 20, die, restart. My thumb was already sore from the whole season but I couldn’t stop. Every time I died I’d think "this is the last time" but then I’d tap play again. The desert map, the purple cars, the red cars, the water lanes, it’s all burned into my head now. I was hoping for some miracle run where I’d get 200+ and shoot up the board but it never came. The people in top 20 were just too far ahead and I ran out of time. That’s the worst part. Not that I wasn’t good enough, but that time just ran out before I could prove it.
This was the journey for this season though and I’m not going to pretend it didn’t mean anything to me. From day one I was grinding http://steemhop.org every free minute I had. I watched my rank go up and down, I celebrated when I hit a new high score, I raged when I died stupidly. I met people in the community talking about scores and strategies. Even though I’m not in top 20 and I’m not getting the Steem this time, I learned the game. I learned how to be patient, how to time the hops, how to not panic. Those 24, 20, 23 scores in the last minutes don’t look like much but they were me fighting till the very end. So yeah it’s the end of the journey for this season and it stings, but I went down swinging.
We go again next season. That’s all I can say. One hour and it’s over, the season resets, and everyone starts from zero. I’m going to take this L, learn from it, and come back harder. I know what I did wrong. I know I need to practice those water levels more, I need to stop rushing, I need to get those 100+ runs consistently if I want top 20. Next season I’m not stopping at 52. I’m aiming straight for top 20 from week 1. This season is done, I couldn’t make it, but the next one is mine. See you on the leaderboard next time ❤️

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