GIGA-TOPIC REVIVAL! FULL LIFE!!!!!
Sorry, but I think I needed to say that. Really, now, it's been 4 months since anyone posted here? Weird.
Of course, on the other hand, it's been a full year (again!) since my last posting.
Derek and friends in the Anchorage area -- are you guys still playing? I know my "crew" (if you could call us that) and I stopped playing for quite some time. However, we have recently started up playing seriously again. Luigi's still my main, Matt's still using Peach (and the occassional DK and Zelda), and Dean's got a pretty rad Link at this point (his Ganon ain't too shabby, either).
I'm taking a wild guess that Derek's in college now, and most likely not in Anchorage at the moment. Whatever the case, I'd definitely like to know; I feel like I'm totally in the dark regarding the Smash scene in Alaska, even though the scene is admittedly small.
So, here's a story:
When Matt was in line waiting for the XBox 360, he met a couple people that basically said they would "own him at Smash". So, for the next week or two, we upped our training considerably, and got as competitive as we possibly could without having been to any major tournament in the lower 48.
Matt calls one of the guys earlier in the week before we play, and he's reluctant to bring his other friends. The reason? He is apparently "way better" than the rest of his friends. This makes us a little worried (but mostly anxious to have a possible challenge), and we practice as much as possible in the days leading up to the match.
Finally, Saturday arrives (this past Saturday, 12/3/05), and we're expecting (no, hoping, really) to get a good challenge. We were even more hopeful since his crew was 4 guys, not including himself.
Unfortunately, we had no such luck. The rest of the guys' "crew" were terrible, and we had no problems dispatching them. I'm not trying to sound arrogant; this is merely fact (I'll say it right now -- my crew would get annihiliated at any lower 48 event at this point in time). There were no advanced techniques displayed by them; no WDs, no shorthopping, no fastfalling, and so on. We had a little "tournament" of sorts, but it was more of a joke than anything, since we knew that either Matt, Dean, or myself would wind up winning.
The final match was my Luigi against the main guy's Link (which pales in comparison to Dean's Link) on Final Destination. We were playing 3 Stock, and I had 2 left with under 100% damage when I beat him.
So, all in all, that little Smashfest was a disappointing one. We only played for about an hour and a half, much of which was spent with some fun Special Melee matches. When I asked them about the more technical stuff, and told them about Smashboards, they said something along the lines of "we're not willing to go that far; it's just a game, after all".
What did I learn that day? Not too much, except that Juneau, Alaska seems to have no competitive Smash scene, and I need to move somewhere else that does.
That, or the Smash Bros. Revolution game needs great online play. I've blabbed on long enough; I just wanted to let the fellow Alaskan smashers have a heads up on what I've been doing.
Later, and I'm really hoping the Anchorage crew is still around! *crosses fingers*