Very good question. I usually play 1 OTB tournament each month, I am from Pakistan, we don't have much high rated players, chess is not famous here but fide rated tournaments do happen about 2 times a month atleast and I try to attend atleast one as it happens in city I am in. I played a 30 | 30 classical tournament this weekend which went pretty good, I won 3 games and drew 1 out of 6 total games. I was proud because opponents were no noobs. They were all 1600+ on chess.com and some even 1600 in fide. I also wrote notations from which I would like to show a game below, I played as black, opponent offered draw after queen and 1 rook trade but I refused and won. https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/pgn/3qFuFiTwYJ/analysis?move=2