Well, what a meet it was:
yes we did a tourney we did a prelim round robin of seven rounds e.g everyone versed everyone and the top 4 went into the finals based on their win loss record:
The top four were as follows:
Abhorsen: 6 win 1 loss
Jaz: 5 win 2 loss
Carlo & Matt Ella: 4 win 3 loss
We played the best of three in the finals and the results from 1st to 8th are as follows:
Jaz
Abhorsen
Carlos
Matt Ella
Max Füchs
Rane
Damien
Matt
I would like to thank Max and his friend Matt for bringing along a feast of munchies, Cameron for staying for what time he could and Rane for making it to the venue.
Matt, Carlos and Damien, the tournament couldn't have happened without your equipment, and I would of been bored out of my wits without Majora's mask at the end.
It was a great start to melee in Sydney, the atmosphere was positive and everyone enjoyed themselves.
Definitely a big improvement on Max Füchs and Abhorsen’s part, impressive turnip game from Max, it made many fear the stitch face and turnips in general, and Cameron with super WDing and great edgegaurding deserved to be top in the prelims
Damien was off his game so those who underestimate him will pay for it next time, sorry to beat you with DK >.<
Rane needed that meet, you could tell he missed the competition, I quoted him saying he hadn’t played the game in a year, Great to see him there.
A big learning experience for Matt, he’s yet to find a character that suits his style, one day Matt :D
And lastly Carlos and Matt Ella, who… somehow (XD) have kept their skill level as high as it was since Animania, WDing and Shffling skill were top notch, excellent effort guys.
Now…
Why only to 8th one might ask...
Well that’s because 8 people showed up,
- Keamoto couldn't get transport to the venue, neither could DemiKeaton.
- Narcu couldn't get a lift either, thus Gmip and Age couldn't front
I don't believe it would be right to criticise those that didn't show up and didn't bother to tell me, you probably have your reasons, but if there ever is a next time I would like to know in advance.
CBK I tried to contact you many times, and the only response I got was a post on here, that’s the same with Fonti i didn't hear a word from Forks.
Josh and Jesse just didn’t come, but I kinda knew that would happen so no big deal, they were friends of Matt's so this doesn't apply to them.
And I had to find out from Zeruel that Kulla couldn’t make it because of work.
Now between you guys that’s 9 people, and a cube that said they could make it 9 messages/emails/phonecalls i didn't recieve
So I don’t know guys, I mean we had too much food, space and people got bored because there was 12 hours of smash with only eight people. We started the tourny late waiting for people so we didn’t even have time for teams, Half of those that came were gone by 6 so that’s 5 hours with 4 of us.
Bit of a let down but it was half expected, I’d be an optimist if I said that I expected 22 people to show.
So yeah I’ll do this again, but I might be unreasonable by doing it on the basis so that if you are coming, you bring enough munchies, controls for yourselves + a game cube and TV, you can even bring your own chairs, I’ll just give you an empty room.
That way no one has to set up a whole room and early start time for nothing, and if you don’t come, you don’t come.
Anyway that’s what happened, it was good to see Sydney taking the first step, a bit wobbly but a step none the less. If there is a next time Fishtits, and Zeruel will definitely be included in the works,
If we want to consider Bi weeklies, then have a good argument cuz right now I don’t see that ever happening.
If there’s anything I’ve learned from this it’s not to be to optimistic, but I mean it when I say we are no where near close to even challenging the yanks when they come to Sydney.
That’s it from me, if you disagree or have a problem with anything I just said be free to post it up here, I’m happy to discuss it with you, smart ***’ will be ignored.
Regards
-Jaz