so POINT: We are all randomly born with different abilities naturaly, so you can never consider "yourself" "better" than someone else, because they can just say you were lucky, and you cannot really argue against that (at this time in history at least).
Umm...so, because everyone is born unequal but they deserve equality that means everyone really is equal in video games, even though Azen will beat everyone in this thread by multiple stocks? If Brawl weren't competitive and random elements were really that big a deal with how we run tournaments (no items) then why oh why has DSF won multiple tournaments in a row, Gimpyfish won multiple tournaments in a row, Azen, chillin, forte, and G-reg pretty much won in the exact same placings multiple tournaments in a row, and the list goes on. I'm sorry, but your argument can be applied to every single sport in history, I guess Lebron James isn't actually better than me, he was just born with better Genes.
Guitar Hero is a great game, but it isn't as competitive as Smash is. Games where you have to out think your opponent require more than games where all you have to do is practice with yourself repeatedly and memorize songs.
And I'm sorry, but you must not be very good at Halo if all you think you need to do is be the first to see someone. I just spent 40 hours last weekend watching Halo at MLG Meadowlands. Final Boss STOMPED on most of the competition, do you honestly believe its just because they see people first? Running strategies, anticipating the opponent, knowing how to stay alive when your down a shot (through straffing, or strongsiding away from the opponent) nade placement, weapon timers, spawn controls (forcing enemy to spawn where you want), etc.
Litterally, what your argument amounts to is: because everyone is born different but were all somehow equal than we must all be equal at video games!
The reality is: Azen will beat you in Smash. Lebron James will dunk over your head in Basketball. Tiger Woods will outdrive you. Final Boss will beat you in Halo 1, 2, or 3.
These people don't need to play every sole in the world to prove they are the best. Do I have to play Lebron 1v1 in basketball to know he is bettter than me? In video games, these great players submit themselves every week to any challenger that wants to come, and every week, they have proven over and over to be superior. Never has randomscrub309 showed up to a tournament and beaten Azen, because Azen is far and away superior to anyone who has never been to a tournament. Why? Because tournaments players exploit the game as far as they can, looking for advantages, strategies, counter strategies, whatever. They go to tournaments, and they encounter other people who do the same thing, and by going to a tournament and seeing this you gain experience and learn all these new strategies and styles of play, your knowledge expands, you adapt more, you evolve yourself. When your at a tournament, your against a pool or 50-100 people usually. Unless you submit yourself to experience all the variety of play, you will not know what to do when you encounter this, and this is often the problem when think your good but all you've done is play against the same pool of 3 or 4 people your whole life. Azen has far more experience than most people and also far more natural talent than most to supplement this. He is better than you, you can either take my word for it, or go to a tournament and lose to someone who has already lost to him or lose to him yourself.
Do you think its coincidence that the second place player from 2006 MLG circuit, KoreanDJ, also won the Nintendo sponsored Brawl tournament? Do you think its coincidence that pretty much every single player who made top 8 in the gamestop tournaments, or who even won just the first round, were Smashboards/tournament players?
