Shadowloo Showdown V - August 29-31! Congrats to all winners! Comments and Shoutouts please!

[Basty]

Tassie needs a scene first.

shhh
we will pick up the slack promise

 

[Star ☆]

Northern Territory should get a scene

 

[Meredy]

Northern Territory should get a scene

We had more players from Sweden attend SSV than from Northern Territory.

 

[Basty]

About bringing players to SS6, I would like to see Kage come just for the fact that PAL Ganon sucks
But seriously a canadian player coming would be cool

 

[Splice]

About bringing players to SS6, I would like to see Kage come just for the fact that PAL Ganon sucks
But seriously a canadian player coming would be cool

Good idea, lets get Tinman!

 

[Basty]

Good idea, lets get Tinman!

wait tin man's canadian?
wtf how did I not notice

 

[GeeMon]

I had a stupid amount of fun at SS and can't wait until the new year for the next one.

Since SS I decided to really commit to this game. I've competed in a lot of eSports in the past but the vibe and hype of SS I've never experienced before. Can't wait!

 

[Dekar289]

Group Photos!
Courtesy of Duong SL|ZG Nguyen via Bosslogic
http://imgur.com/a/MJm1A#0
also posted to all smash facebook groups, so go tag everyone!

 

[Pete278]

No one else in the photo seems to be showing their moves so I figure me and Vlade are the coolest guys in Aus

 

[Splice]

No one else in the photo seems to be showing their moves so I figure me and Vlade are the coolest guys in Aus

Corpsecreate is doing the chudat pose in like 3 pics, please
He is clearly ice cold

 

[Hardpelicn]

Finished up the SSV highlight video last night, here's the link for those of you that haven't seen it yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dza6xPlUHGM&list=UUb1s2Nj0UpZ1MoKdC8VEZ-w

 

[Richard7]

No one else in the photo seems to be showing their moves so I figure me and Vlade are the coolest guys in Aus

You clearly missed me in the photo..

 

[Dekar289]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rutsNUqX-Do

 

[PrettyCoolGuy]

Armada is keen to come back for SS6.
HYPE

 

[Basty]

Maybe if Armada comes next year we should let him stay for like a month, and make him attend both SS6 and Buttonsmash

 

[Meredy]

Maybe if Armada comes next year we should let him stay for like a month, and make him attend both SS6 and Buttonsmash

Make him attend? It's up to him m8. Besides, one month here might be pushing it in terms of his schedule, and housing would be an issue.

 

[S.D]

But I wanna win a big tournament one day :/ nah having armada back would be sick, I didn't get a big enough piece of him last time.

 

[Aussierob123]

Am I the only aus smasher that just wants to see aus vs aus grand finals at a national?

**** would be so hype.

 

[Shaya]

If we were able to sit down and figure out a way to quench the thirst for a huge australian grand final with a hyped bracket, while also appeasing various internationals to still enjoy themselves/get something out of attending, that would be amazing.

Been racking my brain over that for years now since M2K, but still haven't ever really gotten to a conclusion beyond not having economic incentives for them (i.e. not entered into bracket, happy with their flights being paid for/holiday) but when we're looking at tippity top, where this is their livelihoods, we can't really expect them to still be keen under those circumstances.

 

[PrettyCoolGuy]

Hopefully we'll get good interstate attendance at more than one major so then we can have both?

 

[Basty]

I feel like that if people want a Aus vs Aus grand final we should have 2 brackets
The Aus Bracket (aus/nz players only) and the Championship bracket (Players may enter with there own choice)
I have no idea how no one came up with this
probably cause it is a crappy idea lmao

 

[Aussierob123]

There would never be enough time to run two brackets like that though, at a tournament like SSV for example, everyone would enter both brackets to play more games and get the hype factor from both. You'd need an extra 2 days lol.

 

[S.D]

Both are good, I feel like a big Aus major would be amazing, but having pros over has benefit too, just takes away from the hype and interstate rivalries etc. No real way to fix it apart from not have internationals. Or have them pay their own way if they want to compete like everyone else.

 

[Splice]

I feel the only thing we missed from Aussie Shadowloo was a few more recording setups, maybe we should put more stream focus on interstate matches than internationals (ie. me vs Syke streamed instead of Lucky vs ???, is there anything you'd rather watch than a match that was decided by a Miles quality dunk?)

I got to see all the matches I wanted to see; Phil vs Spup, SD vs Dekar, SD vs Cao, Cao vs Syke rematch, Spup vs Karu, Splice vs Spup rematch and Splice vs Syke. I think all these matchups made for a good Aussie tournament and I mean watching Dekar and SD duke it out in losers semi finals meant more then and there than watching the Grand finals of shadowloo last year. Plus heaps of interesting matches were played in pools, I really didn't feel the internationals drew away from Aussie hype at all, it's a shame you guys feel that way.

TedXV and RJ's absence hurt more

 

[Darkwing SykeDuk]

Maybe we should have an international guest at just 1 of the majors next year, e.g shadowloo or buttonsmash and have the other one purely Aus. Having just 1 international player destroys a bracket and changes everything. Random example at SS - If I had beaten splice I would have then lost to lucky and had to play spup in losers, which at a 125 man tourney is a bit derp... They just throw out seeding and it really takes out a lot of drive for people to compete hard, I know it did for me anyway.

So 1 guest tourney where everyone just goes ham and then an Aus only hype tourney with no... obstructions.

 

[S.D]

At the same time though I feel like it's the wrong attitude to go into a match against Lucky with the mindset of "I'm about to lose". I know I didn't and I had two sets go to game 5 while he was here. Wasn't so close at SS but I never felt like I couldn't win. (Armada tho another story no diss to my boy Joey).

Agree with Billy about the recordings though, there were matches I missed that I would have loved to see.

 

[Darkwing SykeDuk]

invisi went 2-1 in pools v lucky so he must be pretty gewd as well rite?

No that it really counts cause lucky plays pretty casual but 3-0 record on fd son so I already won a set waddup

 

[S.D]

invisi went 2-1 in pools v lucky so he must be pretty gewd as well rite?

No that it really counts cause lucky plays pretty casual but 3-0 record on fd son so I already won a set waddup

Because Lucky went Link against me in WSF and tried to bomb wall jump kill me every stock? Just coz he tries to style doesn't mean he doesn't try... He's clearly a stronger player than me but I'm not incapable of winning games or a set.

 

[Redact]

i 4 stocked him once he mad ez lucky no good

 

[S.D]

Rough introduction to #CCnation

 

[Basty]

I think Redact just got "Lucky" with his 4 stock
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

 

[Mytus]

International players are a huge incentive for players to come from out of state, and it is also a huge morale booster for the community which inspires people to improve even more.

Assuming we have a couple of players come out and they take 1st and 2nd, couldn't we just make a big show out of 3rd and 4th place having a Bo5?

 

[Grim Tuesday]

It's not the same as getting an Aussie grand final

Better than just having internationals garner the finals hype, absolutely

but not the same as aussie's taking 1st and 2nd

 

[Splice]

International players are a huge incentive for players to come from out of state, and it is also a huge morale booster for the community which inspires people to improve even more.

Assuming we have a couple of players come out and they take 1st and 2nd, couldn't we just make a big show out of 3rd and 4th place having a Bo5?

That's what we had at SSV at it was the hyper than any GF I've attended

 

[PrettyCoolGuy]

Maybe if anyone could challenge Sam and Dave it'd be more compelling to let the locals duke it out

 

[Grim Tuesday]

Maybe if people got the chance to face them in multiple sets without the auto-loss to Armada they could be challenged XD

Didn't Tom beat Dave 3-0 just the other day?

 

[Dekar289]

nah no video evidence --> didn't happen

 

[PrettyCoolGuy]

Everyone should just come to victorian monthlies, we get to see the best in Aus duke it out all the time

 

[Redact]

The real challenge is beating dave at a major or beating S.D at a local

vice versa is just a freebie

 

[Richard7]

Just bringing back the memories from the last one before the new one starts