Shoutouts
First off, thanks to LevelUp for letting us use their venue and having amazing high quality streaming. We'll see if we can keep up these biweeklies. Sorry for staying over the time limit by a lot and we're making sure to better ourselves for running the next event.
Special thanks to everyone who helped Crimson and I run the tournament (all the pool captains, sacasumoto, hyprid, all the commentators as well).
And thanks to the unsung heroes aka people who brought TVs and setups, NOTHING could be done without them and I was thoroughly shocked and insanely happy that we were able to bring the max amount of TVs. SoCal delivered. Thank yall so much.
-=POOLS=-
This may be a little less than what I usually write since I wasn't paying too much attention to who I was playing (was TOing) so I just came, played my matches, and left, sorry about that. Anyway pools were really fun and I love seeing people wanting to get better at melee.
Squid - I did so many wavedash oos f smashes on you. Your shield pressure was pretty much the same throughout and you didn't really use double shine/shine jc grab/shine instant rising aerial so everytime you shined me I just wd oos and f smash tippered you. Also your lhdl are pretty high ;P
Boss - Cool set, I'd be careful trying to grab the ledge cause Jiggs can't really sweet spot and I can just time my d tilt to hit you. Your edgeguarding was pretty good on me. Thanks for being the pool captain.
GB - It feels like you have so much confidence when you play. Even though your reads didn't work too often you did them without hesitation and that's always a good thing for your mentality. DI away from F throw haha.
Art - I got you with a lot of throw mixups (at low % I would f throw dash u throw then d throw then f/d smash cause you would always miss the tech) if you press L to tech from the u throw you won't be able to tech for another 40 frames. Also you seem to shoot very unsafe/predictable lasers. Once we enter a certain distance between us I just know you would want to laser so I just wavedash tipper your beak, or sometimes you would just shoot one within my tipper range and I'd just f smash you anyway. Falcos never realize how vulnerable they are when you shl and the way to mask when you shl is to dash dance and mix up when you shoot and when you approach.
Austin - DI out of f throws (down+away), I got too many f throw into sh fair -> sh uair -> sh nair and that should pretty much never happen. Usually you should use u throw and see how they react, you can just sh uair immediately if they don't dj and if they do then just track it and wait and then hit him. Other than that I'd be careful about throwing out aerials, if you're going to throw one out make sure you either hit them or you're at a place where you can't get punished by an f smash or something.
SFS_ToxicReflection - You definitely do some legit stuff and you did some nice delayed aerials into dashes on me props. Gotta learn your bread and butter combos though and what % you can do them on. U throw dash instant sh uairs and knowing your combo trees (there are a lot of informative combo posts on the falcon index thread) everything else is up to your execution.
To all the falcos: Illusion shorten is extremely good :] I would have been a LOT harder for me to edgeguard yall if yall did that
-=BRACKET=-
Philip - Even though you being in bracket was a mistake it was still fun playin ya. At low % the marth f throw to f throw doesn't work if you DI away and buffer (holding shield + a direction on the c-stick) a spotdodge or roll. It was pretty easy for me to get hits in and the best way to solve that is to be careful of missing an aerial (whether from a shffl or from dropping through a platform) and shooting vulnerable lasers. If you mixed up your approaches more (with laser and with dash dancing) then you can go in when your angle of attack is favorable to you or if you bait out a preemptive attack from them (like a sh fair) then you can just dash back and shffl hit them or something.
Wolf - Ya gotta DI away from combos :] Sorry about the misunderstanding with the bracket entry I have no clue how that happened (and I entered in all the names so I'm the one to blame). You seem like a nice guy, definitely hope to see you around in more tournaments. Also, turnips against marth is really effective or else he'll just run circles around you and it'll be really hard to approach him.
OXY_J666 - Baited out too many grabs from you. You track my air movement pretty well. Anyway gj breaking hyprid's shield (wish I coulda seen it). OMG you beat SFS_Nips AND Matticus!? Dang nice dude movin up in the world.
Fly Amanita - You're too good. I hope you've been wobbling >:] Ya read me pretty hard on my jumps and spotdodges again. Good stuff making it to grand finals thanks for coming and commentating I really like your commentary I'm glad you were finally loud enough for me to hear it haha.
Rickety - Wow you are so amazing. I don't remember which stage it was on but you were making the most amazing comeback and did the sickest zero to death on me, your precision with tipper u smash is godlike. Great reads on my tech rolls but it seems like you preemptively do things a lot instead of reacting (and I know you can react well) for instance u smashing in place from a d throw or running up and d smashing. Your neutral game on me is really scary you actually relied on getting a lot of powershields you must have confidence on confidence to do that. And your shield grabs were so fast no hesitation and you beat coolkid!? Good stuff.
OXY_Westballz - Dude I'm totally sorry about not waking you up I was so preoccupied with TO stuff. When you were tech chasing me I thought you were never going to screw up haha. Have fun in vegas!
-=Others=-
OXY_TheCrimsonBlur - Good work with everything ya already know :]
SacaSuMoto - Yo thanks for helpin out, you're so adorable.
CT MacD - Collusion.
Hyprid - Man everytime I watch you play I think you're such a genius. Thanks for being a tape helper.
Connor - Yea let's play for sure! Definitely hope to seeya around in more tournaments.
Tafokints - Thanks for the setups and commentating, never stop those puns oh and don't forget to take notes.
SFS_A. Rookie - You're an amazing guy, your presence always enhances my experience.
HugQ - Not bad in teams. Oh and I didn't mention it to you but you were cryin and your nose was dripping too it looked like you were so focused on the match or something for that to happen LOL. I always love me some HugQ.
Matticus - You're so good! We'll definitely do 1v1s sometime.
Cool Kid - The coolest. Thanks for comin out I should visit SB on my break hmm.
SFS_Nips - I shoulda known only you would pinch someones nipples before they see you. It was great that you came and man I forgot how smooth your falcon was.
DanteFox - I'll beat you with my samus next time.
MMX - Freaking incredible game.
NASHUN - I've heard some war stories in this tournament. Get 4th seed, have one of the top 3 seeders leave the tournament, proceed to beat two awesome guys in bracket haha.
Jackpot - J777 is cute.
Mind Assassin - Comin in with those huge TVs and that suit. Oozing with swag.
Manatee - Yay Manatee!
OXY_Wieners - Hard bracket daaang and why are you so good at the falcon match up what the. Your dashes are actually amazing and you have awesome baits with your missed aerials.
Peligro - Always steppin up with them setups everyone in the world should be thanking you every time.
SFS_Dayman - Love seein ya around and wtf I heard you were 17?! Thanks for the support on my matches haha.
SFS_A1 - I tried some wobbling today in practice and it's extremely hard. Ya had a really hard pool but you're definitely improving ICs are sooo hard I'd never be able to play them.
SFS_Captain Fabulous - I absolutely love how you look when you play. You look extremely focused and you don't seem to joke around whenever we play, I love it. Everyone is fraudulent, I just happen to be a little less fraudulent then yall
Barduil - So good, thanks for comin hope ya didn't regret it. Keep it up and you'll def be ranked if you want.
Lobo - How'd you make it out of pools with a low tier?!
OXY_JeezImsoBored - Good stuff ya already know dash dance OP.
OXY_DendyPretendy - Woulda destroyed everyone if ya didn't have to leave early.
F1SHY - Finally came to somethin other than festizzios nice. I was watching some of your friendlies you do some amazing combos wow.
Wha? - Wha with a car = incredible things to come.
BoscoMAN - I still don't know which character you use so close to making it out mm.
BizzarroFlame - I didn't see your set with J666 but apparently it was hype. The set was super entertaining I woulda lost my mind if you had gotten that down b spike.
Renzio - This is such a sick tag.
A3P - Sorry you had to be in the same pool as Kirbs I didn't check the pools beforehand. Yall had the hardest pool for sure.
Kirbs - Definitely hope to seeya around more.
So thanks for comin out everyone, especially the newer players. Never give up, this game is ridiculously hard but it's so good. If you love the game it'll definitely be worth it. Seeyall at the next Super Arcade tournament!