This thread needs a revival.
Gameworld weekly #10
http://allisbrawl.com/ttournament.aspx?id=7173
August 24th, 2009
Out of 11:
5th - Kinzer (Sonic)
Quite a low turn-out. Such a shame, school started back on that Monday, it couldn't have been helped. I wouldn't have went at all if I had more work to do. All I had to do that day was just go to the campus, go through their standard procedure every year where they say some blah blah blah, and get out. If you went to the same home-schooling program I did, you'd then you have the rest of the week to get accustomed to how the online school system worked (and it's pretty much an extension of your Summer vacation). I would not expect much from me anytime soon (besides Labor Day weekend), and Tails couldn't even make it that day because his schedule at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) has him working the most on Mondays.
...You know, after having another Sonic main around in-tourneys, it felt rather lonely... But I would not let that stop me from getting where I got. Admittingly, that might've only been because there weren't that many pros to take me out early but you know, a tourney placing's a tourney placing.
As for how it went, well know I have some videos of the tourney matches. I didn't record all of them, and I'm rather angry about some I would love to show up, but I've only recently got a modified Wii. Now that I have infinite replay and somebody to get them online on Youtube, I'll start making a habit. Allow me to show you how some of the tourney went.
First opponent - Drex.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylWOSm_gcx0 Round I, My Sonic Vs. his Lucario - Final Destination.
I'm not gonna offer commentary, you can clearly see what's going on, and what kind of a player he is (hint: very campy, not that I have any complaints; really!). Did anybody else notice the background music at the end? Nothing special about it, I think it's just funny.
The match he won on Frigate was not recorded. No, I'm not a little ol' @#$%^ who doesn't save matches he loses, I just didn't think about it, and neither did my opponent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQfyNNlAYTU&feature=related Round III, my Sonic Vs. his Lucario - Lylat Cruise.
Star Wolf is a rather fitting theme for this. As you could see, I was having trouble a majority of the video, and at some point when this was playing out, I questioned whether or not I could win it. I'm never going to CP Lylat against Lucario again, the stage attributes are just way too awkward to work with and I might as well have gone Battlefield. I need a better CP that's not FD. That's my problem, I (should) know where to CP characters, but in the heat of the moment, I don't think, I just go with my gut. While that's just dandy and all that, I really need to make it so that my CP gives me more to work with, that's the whole point of that mess!
Regardless, by just sheer luck I'd say (not even my skill, perhaps), I somehow pulled through in the end. Was it my mindgames? Maybe my opponent's lack of (still) playing the MU incorrectly? Did I actually capitalize on what Sonic could do? Somebody get back to me on this, I'd much appreciate it. I'm always looking forward to improving.
Gah, you should've been there, I was getting nervous through this whole set, and it did not help that Chill (you know him as Timbers on SWF) was there encouraging/coaching him when I had nobody to back me up. I'm rather used to being an outcast but I feel like people want me to lose if they don't say anything... :/ I dunno, is it better that people don't say anything than shouting ill-will of you (I'm going to go over this later)? This is why as much as I'd love to watch Tails' in-bracket sets and tell him what he's doing wrong on the spot, I don't (although I'm more than eager to see the match and tell him to stop doing this, because it's an intermission kind of thing).
I have much respect for Drex, for being able to play him once again. The last time we got to meet in-bracket was at SK92's Birthday smashfest at his house, and if y'all remember that I got my @#$ handed to me. I was looking forward to a rematch since we were evenly matched in-bracket and I wanted to settle it for now... I'm glad to see I've traversed a long road of improvement since then. Even if you can find as many disclaimers as you possibly could to discredit the set, I am still rather happy that I came through victorious. Malcolm I'm wearing (y)our tag high and proud against all odds and showing everybody else that Sonic can make it on his own. Never forget that I still respect you as a highly skilled player and that if you ever come back to maining Sonic there will always be a fanboy.
...Gotta save the speeches for later though, I'm not done yet. God @#$% though Drex was probably the hardest fight through-out that whole tourney, ignore the fact that I won/lost other games/sets, this is the one that wore me down really hard.
My next opponent is Kirrrby. She doesn't normally play MK, but you know, she decided to bust it out for whatever reason. Perhaps she thought it'd be easier to defeat me with MK than Birky... however as you'll see later, I have too much experience with playing against other well-known MK players and while the videos clearly show that her MK gave me more run for my money than her Birky; I have more trouble with it just because I might be a little inexperienced in that MU, the MU is actually more difficult to handle than MK, or Kirrrby... just plays a better Birky.
Yes, that's right, I call Kirby Birky, you can thank Dazwa for the inspiration.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABku2E_fXQM&feature=channel Round I, my (normal) Sonic Vs. her Meta Knight - Deadlands Battlefield.
Knight of the Wind fits rather well with the barren environment, and considering Knight of the Wind in Brawl < Knight of the gay. You know, since it had to be recorded on Tails' Wii, he has the fire suit enabled, but when I was playing the set, that wasn't there... meh, I just don't like tampering with the original costume of characters (with the exception of Ganondorf's who will now be known as King Leonidas from this day forward), but Tails has his reasons for doing it, and he put them up for me. It's not too much to baw about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDyseREnu3w&feature=channel Round II, my (Super) Sonic Vs. her Birky - Frigate Orpheon.
As you saw before, I didn't want to go Super yet because for whatever reason, people don't like to use their main character against me. With that said, I wanted to come off as just "Alright, if you want go full power against me, I don't need to kick it up a notch, let's see if you're worth the trouble on the recoil!" If you quote me word by word, you see how I did work this match. Again, I won't give specific commentary on how the match, but after this match I'm off to play my next opponent in winners.
Go figure, I've been meaning to get a rematch with LeoFTW and his Wario.
But again I get *********** and he has to use his
Mario.
Honestly, not that I mind (somewhat) easy wins, but why is it that I can't help but assume people are sandbagging when they see a Sonic... my Sonic?! Nah n***a you best bring yo A-game, I'm not having that @#$%, I'll wreck your toushe if you don't otherwise!
...Oh wait, that one match of the set that I did save with Leo isn't up yet... oh well, I showed him that I meant business when I won the first match (get ***** A2, special shout-out for you). I'm much more interested in playing his Wario again and seeing how I've come since the last time he was close to JV-3 stockin' me. Turns out, he still buttrapes me and I probably
STILL don't play the MU correctly, but you know, I'm tryin' to step up mah game, 'cause Malcolm told me what to do over AIM, and I failed him even with his assistance. I'm a loser and I should go become an hero.
...Or maybe not, since my definition of buttrape was just him going down to one stock mid percent... There might still be hope for me afterall, I can redeem myself as a Knight of the Wind and take the advice of my master more closer to heart... I'm not giving up yet, I've done too much, come too far, and although I didn't think I'd ever do so, I now serve as inspiration for what might be more than one other Sonic fanboy (speak up now or forever hold your peace Kinzer fanbase! *cricket sounds* ... meh).
Well, after I lost to Leo, I checked the bracket, and was rather bawsome about seeing how Drex was my next (potential? I can't remember) opponent... again. You know, I complained to Vic about how I had to do this again 'cause the set, as you saw earlier, was rough. However I did not mean to come off as me wanting to fight somebody else, I just wanted to QQ just because I could... but you know, Vic then switched the bracket so I would fight Fluxus instead... how/why? Even though I might've been discouraged further by the fact that I just got done losing to Leo, and having to see Drex for yet another showdown, I would've been able to go in head first with my head held high and all that stuff... did Vic do me a favor or did he just do what anybody else in the same situation would've been dealt with (standard procedure)...?
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I didn't want to ask", that's what Tails would've said if this was him. I'm like "oh, so I don't need to fight Drex again?
phew!" I wasn't going to ruin an opportunity by being a douche about taking something for granted.
Fluxus is a MK player, and at the time I didn't know that, or whatever was up. He just moved from Colorado not too long before the tourney, so I thought he was just some random... Boy did I get a wake-up call. Never again will I under-estimate a player this
LATE in the bracket. I could understand maybe sandbagging somebody at the start because mostly the pros are seeded to eliminate the randoms/scrubs/not-so-good players, but I should've known better than to be an idiot and a jerk with Fluxus. This same guy offered to be my doubles partner when the tourney was getting ready to start, and I didn't feel like teaming up with somebody I didn't know. Although I regret it now, I was probably right in my choice because I've had one too many experience with getting somebody who sucks that I've never seen before and I didn't feel like paying another $5 just to lose. Why must my luck with doubles be Sakurai'd, why oh why oh why oh why!?
Well, now this is only one more person I look forward to teaming up with again, and if I'm given the chance again, I'll be more than happy to partner up with him for doubles and wreck @#$%, knowing that I would not be making a mistake with him. His MK was unique in the playstyle, and how I wish we would've recorded the matches on my SD card, but other people were playing it at the time so we had to settle for something that was available as to not delay the tournament.
The wall of text does not end there. After the tourney was over, I challenged Leo to a $5 MM. I wasn't expecting to win, and I didn't. The point of the MM was to just get his attention and being able to record the set and get it up online for critique. If life were and RPG, irony just critically hit me for 9,001 points of damage, because I only remember to save the last match. I was going to ask him to play a couple of extra matches with me, but it was late, everybody else had left, and I think he wanted to do more than beat down on some lesser skilled, lesser tiered character player. If anything, I found out I was consistent in my loses. I always brought him down to last stock all matches, and I know with a little bit more of a drive/push to start beating him, I can. Captain Obama on my Wii agrees.
That's it for that tournament, I have yet to given commentary from the week before, but I'm getting lazy, and I think I'll just talk about how yesterday went.
Remember UNLV? Normally I wouldn't be able to go to the student lounge on Thursdays and meet up with the Vegassmashers who are students in the lounge to play some Brawl; considering schoolwork and mom not being off that day, but I got all of it done the day before and mom took the week off with pay, so it was the perfect opportunity to get some MOAR! practice in. So I did. Tails is a student there, so he helped me get to the lounge, since the campus is rather huge and easy to get lost in. A shame he could not stay the whole time I was there though, but he was there for a little bit. We did some dubs, I played with some scrubs, and lost my A1 Steaksauce bottle 'cause of some bub.
Yeah, I'm making it rhyme, let me go in order alright? I know some of you will be in shock but stick around and listen to my tale.
The lounge was a great place to be, it had big ol' T.V.s to play on, granted the screens where a bit fuzzy, dark, and one T.V. would just have color seizures (but it didn't have lag whereas the other one that was available and had Brawl on it did, or so others were saying, I didn't notice any), but one could manage. It was especially great seeing a lot of willing people, and some were pretty good even though I don't see them at the tourneys often... others I cannot say the same about. God there was this one guy who wanted to play FFAs because "doubles are too one-sided." I'm like "fine, no problem, it's a nice change of pace (although I wasn't too happy about it 'cause I wanted to get dubs going), but I'm not going Sonic in FFAs because it's just silly." That's all in my head of course, I didn't say anything outloud... or until I heard the same guy call out commands for people to go after one individual person (me, GD it!). I'm sitting there playing and going "WTF?!" at the epic amounts of hypocrisy. Good thing he didn't stay for too long after, I wasn't going to put up with it after a while, especially not on a T.V. that would be flickering with the wrong colors every other nano-second.
Anyway, it was good to see some familiar faces, and some I haven't seen in quite some time. It was so fun to see everybody just chillin' and havin' some good ol' fashion no pressure Brawlin' (well okay, we did kind of have to win if we wanted to stay on the T.V., so that was something at stake/Steak). Always good tp play in groups and for lulz, lik with this guy who plays a nasty Ganon for example.
I went on a walk with Z, that "Anther of the West Coast", and the leader of the panelist of the local power rankings. He explained to me that in a tl:dr version can be summed up in "as long as I go solo Sonic, miss out on tourneys, and not place top 5 in tourneys with lots of the good Vegassmash players, being on the power ranking will be almost impossible at this rate." However that won't stop me, I can feel it in me that I can make it in there, and I will be the third person in this country (I think 1st and 2nd being X and Camalange respectively, if there's anybody else let me know) to get solo Sonic on such a list.
Now for something completely unrelated to just getting better, I got to meet this girl who is semi-active in the Vegassmash community. Out of all our female fatalletes or however it's spelled, this rose is the one most thorny (don't cut out that 't' you pervert!). I say semi-active because I almost never see her at tourneys. In fact, other than S.I.N., I've only seem her in meet-ups/game nights, and I don't think she even entered S.I.N. Regardless, she has a Wolf that is one not to be sneezed at. She's also pretty hype and lulzy at times too, still somewhat like all the others who don't play this game (too) seriously, which is good 'cause I don't think I'd be able to coup with that as well if it were any different. How cool would it be to see her in a tourney setting though, just 'cause it would be like catching a Blue Moon.
Anyway I think I'm in love with her. Hehe, not because of being good at smash or because of her looks (even though she's easy on the eyes), but rather because she saved my A1 Steaksauce bottle from being lost and my spirit forever crushed. While I was on that walk with Z, somebody must've mistaken the bottle for being done with and just tossed it in the garbage... well either that, or somebody
REALLY hates the Sonic boards custom, but I don't think that is, since everybody knows the guy that did it and I assume he's a good guy. Things were looking hopeless 'cause that Steaksauce is my source of power/luck/lulz, and without it I was/am nothing... knowing that it has been shamed with such disgrace, I broke down.
I also happen to be too much of a clean neat freak and a wuss, shifting through all the scum and whatever else was in that garbage can, I feared that my smash career was over. Some people say/said how I should've just got another bottle, but I would never part with the first bottle of A1 and nothing would ever be able to replace it. I could not bare to go any deeper in that can, which sucked 'cause it somehow ended up being in the bottom, and I felt like crying... there are few things that can get me to that point, and just as I was about to collapse on a wall, she came around the corner and came to the rescue. It's silly I know, but somehow she found it rather fast, and handed it to me.
..."That's not Steaksauce that's on the bottle..." I thought, when looking at the pink/brown stuff that was now on my bottle. As soon as I got it back, you can bet that I asked where was the nearest washroom, and ran as fast as the wind could carry me to rinse off the gunk. After I got out of the restroom, I went back to the lounge to check up on her, but she was no where to be seen... for a couple of seconds. She was in another bathroom washing her hands... understandable. I wanted to give her proper thanks, but I couldn't come up with the right things to say or something to do to display my gratitude... now I feel broken because I couldn't say anything then. Even more depressing is that she asked me for my auto-graph before the ordeal. Why she wanted it, I don't know, I'm just Random Sonic Guy, but I guess it was for that, she requested. Even though it might've been for lulz/a small fanbase, I failed at that. Why is it that I can't do anything right?! Like trying to get Green Hill Zone in SA2B with all A-ranks, I just couldn't/cant get it done no matter how hard I try!
I doubt she wants it after that whole event and realization of my true self... in-person. :-/
...No that that's out of my chest, that's it. Did I already say how I had a tourney before this reported one that Tails' happened to report earlier? I believe I did, and I think I also said how I am too lazy to get to that right now... maybe sometime later I can go over it, but that tourney felt too "meh", and nothing too special to go out of my way to write down, but again I'll see if I can at least say something.
