Shoutouts
Really enjoyed myself at this tournament, ggs to everyone I played, I look forward to every tournament and they never disappoint.
Pools
Fiction – I had fun in our match, I felt like I was a little less overwhelmed this time around and was a little more successful at controlling your movement. Your rush down is too legit though, keep it up =]
Dendy – I was anticipating our match literally since the first SSS like 3 months ago or whatever. Crazy that it went to last stock last hit to determine it. Looking forward to our rematch somewhere deep in the Arcadian bracket
Studdmuffin – Rough pool for ya, you’re definitely on the cusp of getting out of pools at every tournament. You have an awesome mindset when it comes to this game and you’re basically the chilliest guy around. I’ll be cheering for you at every event!
Heisenberg – When we gonna cook again?
Smish – I don’t know how you felt about our set but I definitely saw improvement in your play. Especially at the start, you weren’t getting completely overwhelmed like in the friendliest we played at the last SSS. I felt like got a bit discouraged half way through the set. Stay confident and keep doing what you’re doing, you’re improving fast man!
Tear Bear – Good **** at taking a set off Dendy at your first melee tournament ever dude. Falco is a rough matchup for ganon but you were still really impressive for your first tourney
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Falco player – I forget your name cause I suck at names =[ but ggs! My best piece of advise is to learn to love the game. Love to win, love to lose, love to practice, love to spam random techskill, love to watch the game. You definitely had the basics down and now you just need to refine refine refine and you’ll find yourself getting faster and faster. I’ll edit this post with your name and remember you for next tournament once pool results are posted!
Bracket
Westballz – You jerk for getting third seed and having to play me round 1. Haha I had fun in our set though. Hopefully I can force you to stick to falco in our future sets. When I played Hugs at this tournament I tried to implement some stuff you were talking about from Festizzios (like dairing in front of samus repeatedly) and it totally helped, haha. I love your style though, I’ll keep stealing your **** like westballz shines and stuff.
Hugs – Good **** taking a 5th set from me at SSSs now. I think I’m starting to understand the matchup more and how I have to play in order to get aggressive without getting punished hardcore, I just don’t quite have it down yet so I end up getting punished, getting scared and playing defensive. I’m adapting every time we play though, I’ll have my breakthrough soon haha.
Other
Bradl – Fun time hanging out with you the day before and the of the tourney. We totally choked it up round 1 of doubles but we kind of brought it back in losers. Good **** beating Kevin in pools and taking a match off larry! Too sick nasty.
Sacasumoto – Damn you had nice results at this tournament. Looking forward to our next set haha. Look at me, I can tilt into a bair
Rracizzle – Double falco teams is op! Good **** with da results man. We gotta keep that Falco collusion going strong man. Look forward to seeing you at every tournament, you’re hilarious man, haha.
Nips – 9th, aweeee sheet *squidlike arm movements*. You really are the Ash Ketchum of socal haha. Whenever I see you play you remind me that I need to continue practicing tech skill and not getting complacent. I watched your set with Joejoe and that honestly looked like destruction… Looking forward to getting a rematch with you at Arcadian, you seem to be improving at crazy rates.
Noel – Thanks again for the awesome smashfest on Saturday! Glad to see you made it out to SSS!
Boss – Good matches and good seeing you again man. Good **** on making out of pools, I know you had a death pool the last couple of SSSs haha.
Zhao (or something… falcon player who was in Bardl / Hugo / etc pool) – The saaaalt. Haha. You falcon is sick man, I hope I can play more than 1 friendly with you next time. Have confidence and stick to falcon next time in pools
Kiko - n00b. You’re like a hidden mini boss of socal. You better deliver at Arcadian man, lol. Also stop hating on the game.
Travis T – Travis TTTTT you totally had that game vs Arookie. I look over and see that you have a lead, walked away came back and found out you lost. Just like your set vs A1 man, you’ve got the potential for some big upsets in the near future!
Tafo - Squidward
Jago – Unchained! Good seeing you again, glad to have you in the car rides every tournaments!
Adonis – Sad to see that you didn’t make it out to this event, but I understand. I know you were getting frustrated with the game at the smashfest and I think it’s important to realize that and take a break before you burn yourself out. You’ve always been super dedicated to improving and I think when you get too focused on the goal you start to lose sight of why you loved the game and what brought you in in the first place.
I always thought that one of the most important lessons I learned form melee is the ability to enjoy losing. You play every match to improve and you don’t worry about the outcome. You have to give props to your opponent when you lose while still understanding that there are things you can do to improve. Don’t worry about how “fair” things are, don’t worry about “hard” things are etc. Play your game, analyze it a bit, and have fun with it. You still have that potential in you and if you can get the right mindset to motivate you without burning yourself out, you got nowhere to go but up! Hope to see you at the Arcadian next week!
Blur - Great tournament again! Thanks for hosting these, looking forward to your future events!