[ACT] ZEAL: Canberra's Major ft Smash 4, SSBM & PM sponsored by GAMMA.CON - December 13-14, 2014

[Splice]

Judging by the OP I'd say you have to pick Palutena's Temple or normal FD, unless you can get a gentlemans agreement.

If anyone wants to play on FD vs. me you're more than welcome to turn DK Rap up to full and pick Omega Kongo

 

[Tin Man]

Sounds fair enough. My second question is can we counterpick to any Omega stage we choose provided the opponent doesn't ban FD?

Judging by the OP I'd say you have to pick Palutena's Temple or normal FD, unless you can get a gentlemans agreement.

If anyone wants to play on FD vs. me you're more than welcome to turn DK Rap up to full and pick Omega Kongo

Yeah, Omega Palutena's only. Some omega stages are not floating islands (with walls that reach the blastzone on the bottom) hence making them different enough to warrant them being their own set of stages imo. If it was FD or any omega, I feel as though it allows someone who ban's FD to ban at least 2 different types of stages compared to banning another stage that bans that stage alone. Seemed rather inconsistent to me and so I'm only interested in including an alternative to FD that is similar and doesn't have a background that may distract someone.

 

[Tin Man]

ZEAL PRE-REGISTRATION CLOSES TONIGHT

That's right! In under 10 hours, ZEAL's pre-reg will close at 11:59PM TODAY! Be sure to pre-register to avoid paying another $10 at the door. Not to mention that if you do register at the door, yo HAVE TO show up between 8am and 9am REGARDLESS OF THE EVENT YOU ENTER as we will need time after then to seed.

Save yourself some time and some sleep and pre-register here:

https://www.picatic.com/ZEAL

 

[Tin Man]

Credited the interstaters in the OP in the 3rd post. Thank you so much for your support ^_^.

 

[EverAlert]

Which omega stages have walkoffs?

 

[luke_atyeo]

tin have you even played this game?

 

[Hardpelicn]

Pleeeeaaasse, everyone that can, take recording setups. Even if it means uploading 10 hours of Raw footage it'd be amazing! :D
All footage is good footage!

 

[Tin Man]

Which omega stages have walkoffs?

A misinterpretation on my part, a few of us counted a few of the stages as having walkoffs but they weren't omega. That being said, the point above still stands. Gonna edit that out tho haha.

 

[Tin Man]

Introducing GAMMA.CON

Vitality and ZEAL owes a very special thanks to GAMMA.CON for all of their support. Without them, we would not be able to execute this event as smoothly as it has been so far. Please check out the following links so that you may find out more about them!

Website- www.gammacon.org.au
Facebook- www.facebook.com/Gammacon
Twitter- @GammaConACT
YouTube- GAMMA.TV

Email- info@gammacon.org.au​

 

[Penwick]

Is the bracket online for this?

 

[EverAlert]

http://challonge.com/ZEALMeleeSingles
http://challonge.com/ZEALProjectMSingles
http://challonge.com/ZEALSmash4Singles

Pools not online from what I can tell.

 

[S.D]

GJ on the tournament Tin Man, and props for hijacking Clash tournaments' stream.
Shoutouts to ZXV for winning melee and PM. Dekar v zxv finals takes me back...
I was pulling my hair out watching Spup's losses, small errors was the only thing between greatness and busta.

 

[Tin Man]

Thank you everyone that came out to ZEAL this weekend. From what I can hear, a majority of people thoroughly enjoyed themselves over the weekend ^_^. Very happy to have hosted my 1st Australian major, especially in a territory that was desolate for smash 16 months ago! Looking forward to seeing how 2015 pans out for ACT smash, but until then, happy holidays y'all!

More updates will be posted during the week after I've taken a few days off but here are the singles results for now

http://challonge.com/ZEALMeleeSingles
http://challonge.com/ZEALProjectMSingles
http://challonge.com/ZEALSmash4Singles

 

[Hobs_]

I wasn't there but watched the stream for a couple hours. It ran pretty smoothly for the most part and I enjoyed it.

 

[Kaiza]

In memory of SA Nick's 9th place finish in Melee

 

[Agonvaga]

Dw, you guys (I dunno if I can be bothered with SA events) will train him up for BAM and he'll beat Armada.

Anyway congrats Zexy, haven't seen you in ages, too long tbqh.....I'm having withdrawals.

 

[luke_atyeo]

New Canberra PR is up!

 

[cheese619]

Hahahaha that's too good!

 

[Russ The Love Muss]

So this was my first interstate tournament and I had a great time

Tin Man: Thanks for running an awesome event and I hope you didn't take anything I said too seriously because I had a great time. Hopefully I will be there for the next one.

Chef: Thanks for housing myself and all the QLD homies, I don't think it would have been as good of an event for us without you. Thanks for having a small meet on the last night as well; pseudo silent crew battle was fun.

Gords: It was so good meeting you after all the amazing stories I've heard from the QLD crew. Thanks so much for driving us around and taking us down to ACT. You're a national treasure

Splice: Thanks for some of the tips you gave me, even though we didn't get to play for long I still feel like you gave me a lot to work on. It was awesome to meet you finally and bop you in crews.

Dreadtech and Dom: It was cool to meet some of the skype netplay crew. I hope that you could see through my cold, hard exterior to see the sensitive, loving and caring person that I truly am. Thanks for playing me a lot as well Dom and for taking that stock after the unnecessary pause.

Rest of the Vic crew: Thanks for getting bodied by QLD and helping fund Mytus' future ventures. You were all pretty cool guys and I can't wait until MW2.

Thanks to everyone else that I talked to/played over the course of the event. I had a really great time meeting so many new people and I look forward to seeing all of you at future events.

 

[SummonerAU]

Got back from Canberra today. I had a fantastic time! It was great to see how many out of staters attended an event in the ACT. Kinda makes me disappointed at NSW attendance since we were so close. Time for some shoutouts!


First of all, a big thanks to @Tinman for hosting the event. The venue was great and the number of setups was fantastic. I was happy to help you out with the event and I'm glad I contributed to so a fun weekend for everyone.

NSW:

@Zxv : congrats on winning or something. Can you bring me a drink when you read this? tom yates

@Gords : Thanks for picking up my extra stuff on Monday. It was great that you drove all the QLD guys from Sydney and took care of them.

@Lux: bl in the jamwa mm

ACT:

@ cheese619 :

@ SurvivorSeb orSeb: Thanks a lot for housing me and everything all weekend. It was really great to hang out with you. Playing halo co-op and multiplayer was so much fun.

@Bogo: Was nice chatting to you dude. I hope we can do it again sometime!

QLD:

@Mytus : Thanks for being such a cool duder. I really like it when you're on commentary! I hope the cheering helped you during that one set you played

(I didn't really get to speak to any other QLDers, I hear you're all super cool from gords though!)

VIC:

@ Splice : Thanks for the help with seeding at the start of the day. It was nice to have a another set of eyes on it. Bracket game was real close, but I think we were both playing a little goofy after watching it again. Will be interesting to see how it is next time.

@ dreadtech : Thanks for seeding checks and commentating throughout the day.


@Everyone I missed: It was great to see you all at zeal. Thanks for taking the time to sign my TO suitcase, it looks amazing now!

 

[dreadtech]

WOO ZEAL!

thanks to Tinman for organizing a great event in canberra and thanks for finding my controller legit my weekend was made when you found it. Solid Rosa sorry for Sd'ing. My rosa matchup is actually pretty solid but I screwed it up by sd'ing and putting myself behind. GREAT losers run you did amazing.

Mytus: great seeing you again, I loved it when we started trolling PCG in front of the grills. So easy to shoot the **** with and always a laugh sesh when we talk.

Phrase: Think this is the first time we've talked, but it was great throwing insults at you at chef's and talkign to you during the event.

Smopup: Oh man! You owe me 5 DORRA! I believed in you! Again someone who I haven't talked to properly until now. You're really chill and awesome, it was hilarious watching you lose to gords again and again and then cry when splice lsot to gords meaning you didn't get to play him. Looking forward to hanging with you more in the future.

Zxv: I'm still really sorry for what happened in Winners in smash 4...I DIDN'T MEAN IT!!! Great to meet you, everyone says you are so easy going and it's true, mad showing during ZEAL I'm from VIC so I thought dekar was going to take it but shows what I know, it only makes me even more impressed to see how skilled you are.

Russell: I finally meet the great russell in the flesh bahahaha. Dude you're a riot and it's great to know that you can talk **** and take **** and never get salty. DAT DAIR ON SPLICE!

Lux: Great to meet you man! you showed me some really cool Zelda stuff and

Gords: GG's in smash 4 man! Like I said start playing to win! Little mac's should actually hate playing against villager if you play right. Hilarious watching you beat phrase in the crew battle. Stop using Toon Link THAT'S MY CHARACTER!

Chef: You gave me my first official bracket loss at BAM . Great to see you still as chill as ever.

Kevin: Never palyed against Toon Link in smash 4 and I wrote him off. Big mistake on my part you did some amazing stuff and had great reads! I'll be ready for next time.

Waveguider: Again..no good ganon's in VIC so I got a huge surprise with your solid play in pools. Your technical skill in smash 4 is what is making ganon so strong. I hope I can play you again soon.

Seb: Ivysaur bair's are real you can stop now.

THANKS ZEAL! WAS A BLAST!

 

[Sw0rds]

So this was my first international, and my second major and I learnt so much and made so many new friends that my head is on the verge of exploding.
Shoutouts to so many people and if I miss a few I'm sorry, I met so many people and I'm trying to remember everyone. And they'll sound pretty repetitious. I'm terrible at this stuff.

TinMan: First and foremost, thank you for running this so professionally, and just overly well done. There were some hiccups along the way, but I'm glad I could have been of help.
Secondly, thanks for housing me and giving me a place to stay, without that, I wouldn't have been able to come.
Lastly, just thanks for everything else over the weekend.

Patrick: For working with me to setup the stream despite my petty pickiness. you're a pretty awesome guy.

Vonmolotov: First I hope i spelt it right xD. Second. You're a really cool dude and you seem to be really into the community, keep practicing and I hope to see you again soon.

Mytus: Dude it was so great to finally meet you, you're such an awesome, chill, just all round great guy. You are so charismatic that I can't help but feel relaxed around you. Thanks for the janky doubles at Chef's house, they were quite fun. Can't wait to see you at MW2 man, it's gonna be hype.

Smoking Puppy: Man, we didn't really get to talk all that much, but what little time we did just proved how awesome you are, just like everyone has said before. Hope next time I see you we can talk a bit more.

Quetz: Dude, you're one of the coolest guy's I've ever met, you're funny, knowledgable and just an all round awesome guy. You seem really clued in and know whats going on. I hope to see you soon and hopefully I might stand a chance against your peach next time we meet.

SA Nick: Dude, your Marth made me salty as heck. But it's so respectable that you would bring your all to friendlies. It really helps people in the process of learning, though getting faced doesn't help the pride. But I really hope to see you again man, really cool guy.

Russel: You're an A-Hole man... haha nah cool guy pretty good falco, hope to see you improve even more and hopefully I can catch up.

Chef: I'm fairly sure he doesn't have internet, but if he does see this, Awesome dude, uber chill. Just an all round great guy.

BlessedMilk: Dude, you have the weirdest name, not going to lie. But just an awesome dude all round.

Gords: Dude, thanks so much for explaining DI and SDI to me man, that has given me a clear indication on how to do it, now it's time to grind it out. Had fun in the pools matches even though I didn't win any, but you are an awesome dude and I can't wait to meet you again and show you how much I've improved.

All the guys from ANU: Dominic, Jonathan and James, and anyone else who I never actually spoke much too, thanks for everything, just showing me around or playing friendlies, you guys are awesome.

Scabe: Man, thanks for taking me to Maccas that one time, I had no idea I was riding with a Smash 4 pro xD
Thanks to all the Victoria guys for everything.

Dreadtech: Thanks for driving me and just putting up with my awkwardness, I'm sorry I wasn't entertaining. You are the sole reason I was able to go, and theres no amount of thanking you that will make me feel the need to stop. Also thanks for all the advice with just general gameplay and sheik. Although at the time it was all theoretical, it was something for me to think and ponder and figure out on my own.

Dom: Thanks for making an 8 hour car ride interesting, you were definitely the centre of every topic. You seem to be able to find the smallest topic and stretch it out for over half an hour, which is an amazing ability. Thanks for all the advice and just the general knowledge on the game and even life and stuff.

Thanks to TinMan's family for housing me and probably putting up with my snoring.

Summoner: Thanks for helping to organize everything to do with my housing. That really helped me heaps man.

Had a crazy good time, and I can't wait to come back to next year with more experience and skill up my sleeve, and who knows, I might be able to make it out of pools next year. xD

Thanks to everyone and I'm sorry if I forgot anyone, there were just so many people.

 

[cheese619]

Shoutouts:
D!ckson Boys and the greater D!ckson area:
Seb: nicex3. Good to see you're still making the Ivy work. As always thanks for everything, I wouldn't be playing smash if it weren't for you

Tom: Hello Tom, you are one funny sack of **** : ] Thanks for coming down you money laundering ape. иди на хуй

quality Tom joke> [dekar nipple spikes zxv]
"ooh he got hit by the t!tty box, t!tty box sounds like if hungrybox were sponsored by YouPorn"

zxv: congrats on winning dude. it was great playing melee with you for hours, shame about the lack of zebra in canberra though.

jon: pls teach me

scabe and kevin: the OGs, kings of ACT, nice job in smash 4

luke: thanks for coming out to watch me lose to splice haha

harley: thanks for the support dude, always good hanging out

martin/lux: it's great to see how much you're improving and I enjoy playing against you, thanks for coming down.

gords: your sdi is retardedly good

gomez: didn't really get to hang out unfortunately

QLD (new favourite state outside of NSW/ACT) :
Phrase: nicest smasher I've met and by far the most improved from the last time I saw you. Very close games : ]

Spup: your fox is so smooth, pls bring jbirds back

Mytus: Nice to meet you and thanks for the games

VIC (the state that bopped me):
I lost entirely to VIC players so I'm offering money matches to any of you at BAM. Dekar, Splice, Jamwa, Forte, etc
Thanks for making the trip up, you guys made the tournament a lot more interesting.

-ACTJoe

 

[SurvivorSeb]

Really fun tournament. Had a good time getting destroyed by multiple people. Aim is to enter melee next time.
Thanks to everyone from OoS that came down, you guys really made it great.

ACT/D I C K S O N Boys/NSW:
@ cheese619 / Joe: Only person that keeps me playing the game and forcing me to get better. Unfortunate you couldnt keep it together in PM but you did great in melee. Good stuff.

@ SummonerAU / Tom: D I C K S O N B O Y S. Halo was legit, had lots of fun. Thanks for helping out and stuff. Why did they stop making halo games at 3? Such a good series.

@Zxv / Zxv: Thank me later for making you win singles. I know you couldn't have done it without the suburb behind you. Good to have you stay over, come down more often.

@Silfa / Jon: Me and Joe vs you and Lux for greatest ACT team of all time MM. Now that you're a millionaire pls giff moni. (I still have your fortune)

@Scabe : Thanks for making me quit Smash 4. Hitting you for 50% over two games exposed my fraudulent skills.

@ Tin Man : Really cool venue, aside from the housing issue everything went real smooth for the most part. Good stuff.

Harley: Great talking to you and having friendlies, sucks you couldn't make it for day 1.

@luxingo / Martin: Pls no more Zelda. It's 2gd. Maybe we MM at a later date when I think I can beat you. (Never)

@Gords : Bad luck on such a tough pool. Better luck next time. Willing to MM you with customs on / Tomodachi life.


VIC:
@ dreadtech : Sick Toon Link but the Ivy matchup seems lame as. Bombs bouncing off razor leaf is jank and bair saved me the set. Super close and can't wait to play again.

Forte: Should have stayed Marth or played Mewtwo man! You beat Joe with Mewtwo but didnt even play him against me!

@ Dekar289 : Always great to play someone 100x better than you. Enjoyed talking to you and watching you play. You taught me a lot and I'm really glad I have recorded games against you.

@ Jamwa : Smashed me in pools and again in bracket. After listening to your commentary and watching you play it seems like you're really knowldgeable about PM. Looking forward to playing again.

Other:
@ Quetzalcoatl : I didn't get to play you or talk to you much but I really enjoyed your commentary. Really great analysis.

SANick: I feel as though you would have beaten me in PM singles if you knew the Ivysaur matchup a little better. I really enjoyed our set though, thanks.

Everyone Else:
I probably didn't get to talk to you but thanks for making it down. Especially the dudes that came for dinner. Especially especially banquet boys.

 

[PrettyCoolGuy]

VIC (the state that bopped me):
I lost entirely to VIC players so I'm offering money matches to any of you at BAM. Dekar, Splice, Jamwa, Forte, etc
Thanks for making the trip up, you guys made the tournament a lot more interesting.

-ACTJoe

Don't delay your revenge! Come to MW2!

 

[Jamwa]

thanks to @ Tin Man for hosting, had a bunch of fun and thanks for letting me commentate

thanks to @luxingo for a really fun mm, hope to play you again :]

thanks to everyone else for making the trip fun

shoutouts to pizza

 

[Splice]

gonna be short shoutouts coz computers located in the middle of the bush are not renowned for high functionality. haha lol jks still gonna be huge just not gonna format them well

If I played you in a set than you probably got a mention twice

Shoutouts for sets that I played:
Melee;
Alien - good games early in bracket man, I didn't play many of the intermediate ACT players but if others are around your level than ACT is a bit stronger than I expected in Melee. Cheers for finishing off the opposing crew at Chef's place.

Quetz - I only won by one stock each game but I felt I was finally getting some aspects of the Peach MU (my worst) right, finally, so that was good. That bob-omb hit got me while i was in turn around because i messed up a dash dance, you picked an uncannily good time to throw it! Also super proud of my combo on Dreamland that took you from like 13% to the grave. Hopefully you plan to revitalise some of your Melee game; even though PM is what's cool in Perth I hope you'll come back stronger next time I play you in Melee!

ZXV - As you may have interpreted, I was pretty upset with how I played against you. Not that I expected to win, although I feel I could have won if my tech was perfect. But it wasn't so I shouldn't have won Not sure how much you were trying in friendlies, but I felt much better about those games anyway. It's nice that you're impressed with my improvement but I have to do better
Good to see you and finally play you in Melee. Congrats on beating Dekar, I hope we get to have another shot at you at a major next year though > and also hang out more too <3

Joe - I expected your tech to be a bit more on point but you dropped a few combos. I can't see much out of Falco dittos because it's so weird but if you just worked on tech and thought a lot more about how you recover it'd be closer. Edge-guarding better and mixing up recovery better is the main reason I went 2-0. See you at BAM

Spup - I'm not sure how much you've improved between Shadowloo and ZEAL but I don't think it applied much to the Falco MU. I've definitely playing more Fox than you've been playing Falco. It's always a pleasure to play you, probably my favorite sets (and you're the only non-VIC player I've played 3 times this year!), but this time wasn't particularly close. Please please hit the lab even harder, and wreck me next time we meet. We have to work hard, work together and push each other if we're going to usurp Dekar, SD and ZXV

Dekar - I definitely learnt more from that one Melee set against you in Losers Finals than I learnt in the rest of weekend. I do not think you were on point and that might be part of the reason I was able to see some things that I need to do against you to shake your dominance and apply my own. Definitely a lot to think about. Hopefully ZXV gave you some things to think about too. Don't you know you are the best? you have to get back up!

Project M
Lux - GG's man, I expected you to do better in bracket. I still don't understand what Zelda does and not sure how to beat you and your character so I expect you to handle me again if we play. Hope you keep playing.

Summoner - That set was stupidly close. I don't believe I deserved to win on the day, I just happened to get the right hits in the last stock of the last game, via luck (not skill). Your a champ for not being salty though and I hope you enjoyed the set despite the outcome, it was pretty tight! Again, thanks for your help regarding communication about housing, sorry we didn't party/meet together but that's just how it goes i guess.

Quetz - The only person I used Fox against! Was my fav PM set and I felt outplayed rather than out-charactered (that's probably because I was playing fox though hahaha), gg's and congrats on 3rd, especially for beating my man Jamwa. I'm sure that was an intense set for you and a victory worth travelling for I was heavily invested it anyway, you crushed me as well when you won, so well played.

Forte - Sorry I know what your character does man #ProjectM

Nick - Sorry I know what your character does man #ProjectM

ZXV - what the hell does your character even do, I got so rekt in game one I couldn't even hold the controller in game two #ProjectM

Shoutouts for people who I chilled with:
QLD

Phrase - cheers for the words of encourangement regarding my depression on Saturday. The main thing that made me get my spirits back up was playing Doubles. I kind of Isai'd a bit and got inspired to try I guess. But you definitely made me feel better at the time. Always great to have you around, and congrats on your victory on Nick. Nick didn't just choke, but you DIDN'T. You took the opportunity and that's actually a well done to you; I really don't want you to feel like you didn't deserve your placing. Watching your set against Joe I definitely think you could've gone further too. You are getting better, but decision making and confidence in areas such as edge-guarding are underdeveloped. Some people can get some of these things down fast (like Nick) but they come naturally from experience. Placing 7th at a major but playing for less than a year was unheard of to me before 2014. This already shows you have determination and have worked harder than other players, who are more veteran than you but didn't make it. I feel like time is on our side, for you and I, and Mytus and PCG, when it comes to catching up with the top players. Never give up!

Mytus - Always good to see you, and I hope I gave you some ideas about how to approach teams even though some were badly constructed (I haven't teamed with a Sheik before and the sandwich idea seems idiotic in retrospect). Congrats on beating Quetz, he was super hard for me so you definitely must have played your heart out to earn that one. It's a shame you had to play Spup but at least it was a set you could laugh about losing. You and Phrase's performance at this is showing signs of life for the future of QLD Melee, and the fact you are keeping up with PCG (losing in pools but winning the MM) is also a great rivalry; he is constantly improving too.

Spup - In addition to the earlier shoutout I'd like to invite you to hang your head in shame together with me, for both getting rekt by Gords' Zelda

Russell - eyyy Russy russ rus Russell, Russo, Ruzza
nice dair m8

Perth a.k.a. Quetz - Was great to hear you reminisce about the scene from your time and provide some substantial commentary on the poorly-documented history left behind by SmashWiki. The social chills after a big tourney are always worthwhile and I'm glad you could come along for them. Your GnW wasn't too shabby

NSW
Summoner & ZXV - unfortunately I don't have much else to add aside from the previous shoutouts, so I will use this space to recommend all parties spend more time together next time!

Gords - Cheers for the lift from Chef's. You teached Spup and I quite a few lessons in humility, something our Bowser and DK must learn from. But having played your sheik too I have to say I think you've managed to improve quite a bit from ACL. I know it's frustrating missing tech but a lot of people still do actually and yours was relatively good when I was playing you. At ACL you mentioned difficulties you were having trying to play the game better, but in our limited play time I think you've made some steps forward.

SA
Nick - Now I see how you reset Redact. You also handled your loss pretty well, you surely expected better and with how well you were doing vs. Me and Spup in friendlies, rightly so. There's no doubt to me though, that you'll only get scarier in the future. I expect to get demolished by Marth Ftilts on stream one day. Now I may be disrespecting Oli with this next comment, but he simply doesn't travel and I think you're better anyway despite not playing Oli for years. In you, SA certainly now has a respectable and fear-inducing Melee player.

ACT
Chef - You're a champ dude, wish I played you a bit more. Cheers for having us over and doing weird things to Melee while me and Spup lost to Gords... you touched it in places I have not seen it be touched before and it was crazy.

Scabe - I enjoy pronouncing your name wrong, Sah-tur-rah. Tinman did a decent job to sell ACT but you'll have to house me next time yeah? I promise good jams Congrats on winning smash 4, I'll be on FB in a few weeks to share music soon, we haven't had a chat for ages

Apollo - I completely forgot you live in ACT. While I won't be playing Smash4 competitively myself it'd be great to see you compete in Melbourne and catch up properly

VIC
Dean - Sorry it turns out I'm terribad at Smash 4. I hope you have a new appreciation for the importance of deep breathing now. I also hope you were happy with 5th, your set vs that Ganondorf (waveguider?) was super tight I really think you deserved the win

Dreadtech - Congrats on 7th, glad you're happy with it.

Dom - Cheers for all you must have done with streaming, and I hope coming down was worth for you.

VIC Car Crew -
Alex - Thanks for playing the role of responsible adult for the weekend, hope Forte helped with the drive back and that you didn't get too wrecked from the driving. Music chills with Jam were great

Jamwa - You played some good ProjectM and even though you lost to Quetz I think you played great in the set. There were good signs. I think if you focused on Melee though, you could achieve similar results. I also think you'd feel less salty when you lost, and I could help you more.

Forte - Early morning tournament crew represent! Sc2 plebs everywhere hey

Dekar - Hope you got home safe man (and on Monday). James Turrell Retrospective was good value, I definitely have some stuff to think about during my holiday, and a newfound appreciation for colored ovals. Cheers for sharing the experience. Also, good hustle rocking teams for PM and Melee.


Tournament Organiser:
TINMAN

Yooo dude, top effort. I'm not gonna lie; I originally wasn't planning on coming because I don't know many people from ACT, and wasn't confident in big numbers and a solid event, due to the rather short notice and ACT being a relatively small scene. Alas, the VIC monthly event on the same day was much bigger (for Melee anyway). But you went all out on making a name for ACT and providing a worthwhile experience for out of staters. Digging into the budget to lessen the blow on our wallets is something I am very thankful for and hopefully the ACT players are motivated from this event and more keen to help the scene grow.
For me, in the end, the opportunity to play Spup, ZXV, Quetz and Nick was very much worth the trip alone. Thanks for making it all come together, and hopefully you have some ideas to improve things in future.

The ClashTournaments hook-up was also sick but it would be great to handle the stream and commentating more professionally in the future. I appreciate you asking me for help with seeding and I hope I made it better overall. Not 100% happy with pools but I think the 16 man brackets came out great at least

Grats on 2nd in Smash 4 btw, that was a huge push through losers.

 

[PrettyCoolGuy]

Shout outs to everyone who writes sonic fan fiction. This is for you.

Shouts to @ Tin Man for the hard work!
SummonerAU: Most fun i've ever had not knowing where i was going to stay

QLD: ILY
Nick: MW2 hype. Gonna run this ***** now you know about choking. Love how right you play this game, excited for you.
Quetz: Pls perth help this man out. Get around that melee, he's worth it.

Zxv: I hate dave now. 2g
Dekar289: You suck.

Splice: Let's go. Keep on truckin' man you're on the right path. Purple shirt way hotter.
Forte: :'(
Jamie:

My car: didn't die yay!

smash 4: not fun for billy so we get him back

Everyone: Thanks for a fun weekend.

Extra special shout outs to cube

 

[Splice]

I know the boxxy vid was not for me but I got hype anyway
thanks Alex
I can submit that purple shirt (didnt you get names?) was hotter as long as you're alive enough to agree that boxxy is the hottest

 

[PrettyCoolGuy]

You didn't get names. Her name was claire. Boxxy is not the hottest. Not at all.

 

[Tin Man]

ZEAL's full results will be up over the weekend. Recently got food poisining and dealing with the recovery process. Sorry for the inconvenience guys :o

 

[Dekar289]

great tournament. after the monday night smashfest i really think ACT melee has very strong potential. was awesome to finally meet Quetz and of-course catchup with the other interstaters, including my old friend Bryte!

special shoutouts to Scabe (and the kien clan) for being so hospitable at the last minute.

also shoutouts to splice for remaining #1 on the aus shoutouts power rankings

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

The ZEAL weekend was awesome. I enjoyed every moment I was there.

In chronological order:

Tinman - Thanks for housing me and being so accommodating, not once did i feel uncomfortable. I enjoyed talking with your family too. My only regret is that we did not get to play any smash together, maybe next time!

Chef - Thanks for allowing a total stranger into your home, you really upped your game when we played in pools too.

Swords - Thanks for helping to bring the stream together, it means a lot to the Perth guys who weren't able to come.

Dom - I enjoyed the 1v1s we played, I hope you found my advice useful

SA Nick - I am genuinely impressed with how good you are at Melee. It was a pleasure to be your doubles partner and I'm sorry I killed you with a stitchface at least twice. I know you were disappointed with your placing but it is only a matter of time before you will be taking tournaments.

Zxv - Congratulations on your wins in both PM and Melee, you were playing on point that day. I wish we were able to get some more PM friendlies in, next time maybe.

Wibbles - Your Ice Climbers are well on the way to causing upsets in tournaments. Even though I had the matchup advantage, it was nowhere near as easy as I thought it would be to win games.

Dekar - Before I went to Canberra, many of the Perth guys tried to give me advice on each of the players I might encounter. When it came to you, they seemed to have trouble articulating exactly what I was meant to expect. It was certainly a unique experience playing against you.
It was great to reminisce about the early days of smash. Thanks for listening to this dinosaur.

Splice - You know that a match is intense when someone dies to a bob-omb and no one even flinches or comments. Congrats on your tournament placing.
Our chat at Maccas hit me right in the nostalgia. I think that talk had me sold for BAM 7 and making a comeback.

Forte - Winner of being on the receiving end of my luckiest turnip pulls in the tournament. You must organise Sam's appearance at BAM 7, then we might head down to n2c and play some Dota.

Dreadtech - You need to come to Perth, you'll be in PM heaven. Good games in PM, would have liked to have played more friendlies.

Jamwa - Props on being the only person brave enough to pick a lower tier character in Melee, I was chatting with a guy in Perth who plays Ness and telling him about some of your tech and he already knew who you were.
Our PM match was so intense I felt physically drained when it was over. We must rematch at BAM 7.

PCG - Don't feel so bad about the hover hands episode, if there was one good thing that came out of it it was the conversation I got to have with Splice

Mytus - I apologise for game 2 of our set, however I'm certain that even without the SDs you would have won that game anyway. You deserved the win, tournaments are about performing when it matters and that's what you did. Congrats on your placing.

QLD crew - So many goodbyes. Wish I coulda stayed at the Monday night smashfest for longer, I bet you guys are a blast to just hang out and play smash with.

Lux - Probably the most intense match in the tournament for me. When I played you in friendlies beforehand I knew right away that if I got you early in the bracket I was in trouble. Those games really could have gone either way, it's a shame it wasn't on stream.

Scabe - Thanks for driving me around to find lunch. Grats on Smash 4.

SummonerAU - Was great to meet up and play against your DK. I hope next time we get to talk more.

I almost certainly missed someone, sorry in advance whoever that may be.

I had a great time and would do it again for sure. See you all at BAM 7

 

[dean.]

huge thanks to tin man for organising and running everything, tournament was excellent.

big shoutout to splice for being everything that i ever wanted in a teammate.

props to wave for being clutch, i'm only a little salty.
also ggs to apollo pazx invisi in singles.

shoutouts to summoner and nick for giving me The Business in pm pools.
shoutout to smopup for pokéfloats and scabe for bopping me in melee as well. thanks for maccas run.
was great meeting lux finally.

also props to those guys that played target blast with me and showing why it is better than singles, shame we didn't get any smash tour in.

 

[Jamwa]

just a question @ Tin Man , where will the matches recorded be uploaded to? I'd like to review how bad i was

 

[Tin Man]

The full results for ZEAL are up! Placings, Brackets, Pools, and top 8 Photos can be found! You can check them all out by following this link:

http://smashboards.com/threads/act-...con-december-13-14-2014.374056/#post-17807766

Thanks again to everyone that made it and to all a Happy New Year

 

[Tin Man]

just a question @ Tin Man , where will the matches recorded be uploaded to? I'd like to review how bad i was

Talking to Chibo about this. Waiting to hear back from him. For the time being, check out the stream archives!

 

[Tin Man]

ZEAL PICTURES ARE UP

Check them out and see if you can find and tag yourselves

Day 1: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/…

Day 2: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/…

 

[Splice]

did the vids for this tournament ever get uploaded

:/

 

[Pazx]

did the vids for this tournament ever get uploaded

:/

Unless @ChiboSempai or someone from CT has them they're probably gone forever.