@ San: My favorite matches? Team friendlies with Kirk. Hands ****ing DOWN. Paraphrased quote from me to Kirk--- "This is getting ridiculous. All Bored and I ever did was PRACTICAL ****."
Hooolllyyyy ****. Those were so much fun. It was just ridiculous Ike **** all around. "Dude, Brett, you need to spam Aether more. This **** is getting serious!!" One of my favorite moments from those matches was when I did DACIT --> Fsmash on a Diddy...TWICE in the same game. I'll try and get those uploaded sometime haha.
But man, NO KOAST was very fun. It was really cool to meet Brett. We hung out a lot, almost as much as I did with the people I came with. xD I met with Mr. Doom also. He's a cool guy, but we didn't get to really play each other outside of random(character) matches.
Pools were...interesting. Out of 10 people, 8 of them were VERY legit players...it was a very tough pool. I was afraid there would be a chance I'd not make it out at one point. But in the end, everything worked out. I made it out tied for 2nd seed.
But the best part was Brett coming over and randomly arguing with the people working there...as the manager was walking by. Our table was near a door where this lady had to get in somewhat frequently. She got PISSED at everyone...moreso than you'd think. She gave us a lot of attitude, yelling at people to get the hell out of the way when we weren't really in the way to begin with. So, attitude was given right back. But, yeah, we had to move our entire table across the venue to avoid future conflicts. You kind of had to be there...but I thought it was funny as hell. Way to go Brett, you the man!
Doubles was meh. I teamed with a fellow Illinoisian, Ripple(DK main). Highlight was on more than one occassion, these MK and G&W teams would counterpick Norfair against us and we proceeded to DESTROY them on it, like 3-4 stocking them. That, and I played in the lava with Ike, leaving Ripple to deal with the other two people lol. Fun times, but we got 9th. Not too bad, nothing special, though.
Singles was very fun. So many high tiers and Ike counters, though. xD
--1st set was against some Snake. Nothing special, 2-0'd him.
--2nd set was against Holms. He played Falco first game, beat him somewhat easily(seriously, I love that matchup now). He switches to Kirby, beats me second game, then I beat his Kirby 3rd game. I forgot I had Utilt until the last stock of the 3rd game. I was like, oh...jab1, jab1, Utilt. GG. Man it would have been easier to get some kills if I had remembered lol.
--3rd set was against Lee Martin. **** was going to be tough, I knew it going in. First game was against his Lucario on FD. I ALMOST FREAKING BEAT HIM!! Went down to the last stock, 100+ percents. I got sloppy and got hit by too many aura spheres throughout the game, but he ends up winning. Second game, I could tell he was going to switch characters. I'm sure he knew that if he stayed, I had at least a chance of beating him. So, he counterpicks MK, 2-stocks me. He apologized afterward for being gay lol. He complimented my Ike though, so that was nice to hear. Not to mention he ended up basically winning the tournament...so at least I got knocked out of winners by the best. And we happened to play on my wii...so I have those replays saved. Happy daaaaayyy.
--Next I played Legan, who from what I hear took out Brett. Man that guy's Link is so sexy. It's scary sexy, I tell you. It's always fun watching him play, not to mention playing against him. But the fact of the matter was...it's Link. Bthrow --> Dash attack at the ledge, GG. The matches were somewhat close, but I managed a 2-0 with little trouble.
--And THEN...I played ASC. Olimar!!! Great, olimar this far into the bracket. This would be very tough. Sure enough, it was. All games were VERY close. I won the first on smashville, he won the second on Halberd. I didn't know what to counterpick...so I took some advice from Brett and my IL peeps...ended up deciding on Jungle Japes. I ended up camping my second stock, holding my life at 200% while he was down to his last. "You're being camped by an IKE!!" I heard someone shout from the background. Was too funny. The game ended up being very close, but I came out with a fresh Usmash kill from the bottom middle platform, slightly charged, killing him at about 90%. Phew...
--Affinity would be my last set. MK. To be honest, I knew what to expect. I had a feeling Ike wouldn't cut it. It didn't. I got him down to his last stock both games, but he had control the entire match. I ALMOST switched to Bowser, but decided against it...I still don't know why. In retrospect, I should have switched. I would have had at least a better shot at it. I played a friendly with him after, Bowser vs. MK, and won. So I was at least happy to see that much. And Brett said I was better than Vex...and I was all like...whaaaa!?! Still a nice compliment, nonetheless lol.
So yeah, 9th out of 100+ people. I'm happy with it, as much as I wish I would have changed it up against Affinity, potentially increasing my placing.
I learned something, though. I'm putting Metaknight as Ike's new WORST matchup(or at the very least tied for worst). I don't care what anyone else says. At almost ALL of my recent tournaments, all of my lost sets have been to a Metaknight. That has to be saying something. This tournament included, Lee Martin switched to MK to take me out, and Affinity knocked me from loser's. I think it was touched on before earlier in the thread, but the fact is, if you are beating Metaknights with Ike, they are NOT GOOD MKs! He completely shuts down Ike, if they know what they are doing.
But yeah, anyway that about wraps things up. I was glad I made the 12 hour drive down there, it was WELL worth it. I'll try and upload the replays I have saved, aaaaaaand other stuff like that.
Nyah~
