Recent content by Ponder

Hi guys, As you know, Evo 2015 registration closes on June 30th. Shortly thereafter we will make the official brackets and open the public bracket review process. To make sure things go as smoothly as possible, I would greatly appreciate it if you guys could rank the top 16 players going to...

Hi Smash Guys, It's that time if year again! The brackets are getting close, but based on the volume of posts they're still not really there yet. Unfortunately, there's disagreement among you as to which pools are "stacked" vs "free" and who to move into what pool to fix the problem. I don't...

Since we didn't announce any formal mechanism, feel whatever metric you feel is best, including recent tournament results, points at ranking events, etc. The most important thing is that your rankings reflect who the most skilled players are.

Hi, It's that time of year again! Last year you guys really helped us a lot in balancing the Evo brackets before we locked them down. We're going to go through the review process this year. I'm also hoping you can help get us off on the right foot before we make them. If possible, could you...

It's with a very heavy heart that I must report some bad news. I'm sure you're all aware that Nintendo is tightening it's policies around uses of it's IP by 3rd parties. We have just been informed by their legal department that we do not have permission to stream SSBM. We will, of course...

Hi Smash people. Good news: Many of you are using the feedback tool to help us balance the bracket. Bad news: Many of you are giving conflicting recommendations. We have already made many, many changes to the brackets based on your recommendations which I think will dramatically improve the...

The biggest games had over 1000. MK was the smallest at about 160.

We won't know until we get an estimate of how many people are coming. Ask again in a few months.

I have returned! Let me start off by saying that I shouldn't have implied the bad blood behind the SWF and SRK communities isn't entirely Wizard's fault. If you are looking to be bitter, be bitter with then entire SRK and EVO staff. MrWizard doesn't make decisions in a vacuum and the...

I have all day meetings at work today, so I won't be able to post anything until tonight. Please don't mistake my silence for lack of interset. Get back to you later.

We'll never know the answer to that, and for sure CPU demonstrated some excellent clutch play, but if you add up all the damage done by Ken and CPU when items were not in play, I think you'll find Ken was way way ahead. If we could magically go back and re-run the finals with no-items, I would...

That would actually improve the game, too. Baseball... :tired:

I cannot speak for SRK, only for myself. Since you asked, I'll give you my opinion. Let me say up front that this is how I see the world, not necessarily how you should see it. Your viewpoints are of course valid for you. I think a game can have large elements of randomness and still be...

The one held at KishSquard's sister-in-law's house doesn't count? Your sort of proving my original point here, which is we have no idea what you have going on in '09 or what your big tournaments are or have been aside. This is your cue to clue us in... Maybe you should post nicer!