E4K: Champion
http://allisbrawl.com/ttournament.aspx?id=11875
April 30th, 2011
Out of 49
13th - Kinzer(Sonic)
Welp, Mike has yet to get the bracket up.
I'll put a proper link whenever it comes up. I hope it does anyway.
My passion to get better at Brawl has been revived. For the longest time I had though I had ran my course and there was nowhere for me to improve; and was strongly considering an early retirement. I see now that I just need to consciously think through my actions more and study my opponent to the point where I can outplay them. There's no excuse for me to retire before I go out with a bang.
It was weird, I didn't think I'd be going either. I'm not going to say why, but at least I went and did something good... even though it probably cost around $150 minimum in traveling expenses.
And I got there late. I really wanted to play some friendlies with some of Cali, especially some Lucarios that were there. Oh well, the grudge matches will probably have to wait until Genesis II.
Speaking of late, the carpool was fun, despite ending up being late for our pool, having to play five straight matches without any sort of break, me getting third seed, me apparently being called out on fapping to phone straps and-
Eh, all that for one Mexican restaurant that probably had one of the better Roasted Beef burritos I've ever had. Or maybe it just tasted better because it was free. Xero paid for us since he caused us to be late.
Speaking of pools, I had my salty runback with Tyrant.
I guess I still do need to improve. I could take him to last stock both games, but I didn't make the right reads a lot of the times, and ran into one too many things I should not have.
But besides that, there was this D3 player who did nothing but pivot-grab, waddle, and space to keep me out. I am sad to say that he beat me 1-2. I have no idea how I'm suppose to handle that being that nobody plays D3, but oh well. Went 2-0 with everyone else. Not impressive but At least I get the third seed and advance to the pro-bracket.
In there, I had to wait a stupid long-time to get my match, because Mike had it so that the winner from the amateur bracket would get redeemed. That made the pro-bracket run incredibly late, and I think Mike knows better than to do something like this for future tourneys; as do I with whatever tourneys me and Jerry would happen to host here back home.
Was all pointless though if you ask me, since I just sent the guy to losers.
But urgh, Falco is so much trouble for me. More trouble than he's worth IMO.
Speaking of Falco's, I just HAD to play DEHF next round. One of these days I'm going to find a way. I managed to at least take a stock when I didn't approach like a ******* and not kill myself, so maybe that's progress.
BTW Donkey Bong is still free. Ain't nobody gonna tell me otherwise. 'Cause like I had to play on YI first match just because I said to myself "I'm not falling for his Up-B shenanigans." and I didn't. What really got me was that he wouldn't Effin' die before 260%, and random Afrikan Pawnches. Even then I still took him to last hit last stock that game. And of course because Donkey Bong is so free I managed to like JV-2 the poor guy the next game. I even had enough of a lead with a cocky attitude to just run to the other side of the stage and up-taunt him. I will admit though, game 3 had me worried the most, so i just started to play really campy, have the lead, and let him come to me. Poor guy couldn't do anything but approach with Bairs, and occasional Side-B in the hopes of cracking my shield or grounding me. It worked until I realized he has no other way of approaching me and I just sat in my shield waiting to punish OoS.
Then I had to play a Kirby. I'm like "How do I play against this guy? °_o" And go figure, first match I get 3-stocked because of gimmicks and plain inexperience. Next game I take him out with two stocks and a very comfortable position. When it came time to CP to game three I sarcastically asked him "what am I suppose to ban against a Kirby?" He goes on to say something about by default he'd go Rainbow Cruise but since he knew Sonic to a certain degree he rather go Brinstar against me." He admitted that before I even declared, so I thought since he was honest, I'll throw him a bone and play on that same stage. He may have been surprised, but I said I'd rather reward honesty than play for keeps 100%.
Surprisingly enough, when it got down to the wire I had a 30% lead on him. The time was wearing down too, and I realized that I could just play like Wario and run away because Kirby is not all that mobile. Too bad that when I just had to Dair back down to get away my Back Air suddenly registers very late and becomes FSmash; which he then proceeds to kill me. Makes me sad to know that despite the inexperience that I was so close to winning and placing 9th, and possibly could've done better. Nothing I can do about it now though, I suppose another one of my problems is that I don't know how to play these obscure characters. I feel that I had any idea back then I wouldn't have needed to lose the first match as bad as I did, and I knew what to do the third game I could've just played gay and let it go to time.
It's no matter though. I'm gonna do everything I said about getting better and then some, because now I actually want to get better again.
Also yeah, no collapse boxes and a detailed description, because I'm so happy about my performance and I want the feeling of nostalgia. Feel my wrath b****es.
Seriously though, Now that I got this out of the way, I'm gonna get frame-data, then go play WoW and disappear for another couple of weeks. I hope the bracket comes up soon.
How many times have I said some of this already?
Also someone tell me why~ I'm a bad team leader and why I suck in doubles. I feel bad for Ankoku, since he had to team with my *******.
Also someone tell me why~ Phoenix is gonna work on his approach and recovery habits and give Cali some more Sonic rep. ^_- I hope so anyway, I notice that so many people, including myself, just fall into a stupid pattern and we lose for it. When we get rid of our predictability we just dominate with a commanding presence.
Oh yes~.
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