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Australian Smash Discussion

Browny

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Yo Shaya... what do you think of this

http://i40.tinypic.com/zj6jhl.jpg

The current rankings list has too many tiers imo. I tried to group characters into tiers such that thier individual value does not stray too far from the mean of all characters in a tier. It works well for high - low tier but gets messed up near bottom since the numbers are so small. I just dont think all the splitting in low tiers was neccesary when thier points are all so close together
 

Cronos_Rainbow

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I don't think I'm alone in saying these boards are f'ed up. Considering from what I can tell all the Backroom applicants from Australia were overlooked despite the need for some aussie representation in there, the many tourneys we've run and the flog-loads of years some of us have used these flippin' forums I think we deserve a little respect.
Mic128 this is where I ask you to please slap some sense into those buddy-loving yanks and get us some grimers!
 

Browny

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I dont see what youre quite getting at? You are definitely not alone, I cant be fked giving opinions anymore in matchup threads coz people ignore what i say when they see Location, Australia and just deem all my experience is vs scrubs. however what would you suggest Mic actually do?

I really dont think anything any moderators do will change the way everyone else here views Australian players
 

Cronos_Rainbow

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Mic's a winnah, he can do anything. I'd have prayed to Jesus but Mic has more swing in these kinds of things.
As for going overseas and performing well, it's been done - and it fails on the whole - generally written off as fluke, the opponent supposedly sandbagging or the opponents 'inability to cope with noobs'. There's no winning unless you live there some time or are a girl.
 

Atlasmist

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i wonder if shaz will make the brawl scene? man it was tough love without you guys. , lets see we had forte, dekar, shaz, cats,cobalt, em...... hahahah ok not em but yeah there was quite alot missing from the usual gang.
 

Shaya

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ALL RESULTS August 08 - February 09

High (100.00%)
Meta Knight 343.56 [18.76%] ~ - ~
Snake 186.12 [10.16%] ~ - ~
Marth 164.78 [9.00%] ~ - ~
Pit 117.70 [6.43%] ~ +2 ~
R.O.B. 112.24 [6.13%] ~ - ~
Wolf 112.21 [6.13%] ~ -2 ~
Sonic 66.98 [3.65%] ~ +1 ~

Middle (39.70%)
Mr. Game & Watch 62.41 [3.40%] ~ -1 ~
Kirby 55.41 [3.02%] ~ +2 ~
Falco 54.07 [2.95%] ~ +5 ~
Ness 53.78 [2.93%] ~ -1 ~
Lucario 50.28 [2.74%] ~ -3 ~
Fox 42.46 [2.32%] ~ -1 ~
Olimar 38.4 [2.09%] ~ -1 ~
Pikachu 38.23 [2.08%] ~ -1 ~
Diddy Kong 37.94 [2.07%] ~ +7 ~
Peach 36.88 [2.01%] ~ - ~
Pokemon Trainer 34.37 [1.87%] ~ -2 ~
Zelda/Sheik 32.71 [1.78%] ~ - ~

Low (10.37%)
King Dedede 32.29 [1.76%] ~ -2 ~
Wario 26.05 [1.42%] ~ -1 ~
Toon Link 21.52 [1.17%] ~ - ~
Ganondorf 21.03 [1.14%] ~ +4 ~
Donkey Kong 20.14 [1.10%] ~ -3 ~
Jigglypuff 15.75 [0.86%] ~ +12 ~
Lucas 12.41 [0.67%] ~ -2 ~
Ike 12.36 [0.67%] ~ -1 ~
Ice Climbers 12.12 [0.66%] ~ -3 ~
Link 4.22 [0.23%] ~ -1 ~
Captain Falcon 4.12 [0.22%] ~ -1 ~
Mario 3.82 [0.20%] ~ -1 ~
Yoshi 2.0 [0.10%] ~ -1 ~
Zero Suit Samus 1.98 [0.10%] ~ -1 ~

RECENT RESULTS December 08 - February 09

High (100.00%)
Meta Knight 140.25 [14.37%] ~ +1 ~
Marth 109.05 [11.17%] ~ +1 ~
Snake 95.84 [9.82%] ~ -2 ~
R.O.B. 82.49 [8.45%] ~ - ~
Wolf 72.95 [7.47%] ~ - ~
Pit 54.60 [5.59%] ~ +7 ~
Ness 47.32 [4.85%] ~ -1 ~

Middle (38.23%)
Sonic 40.43 [4.14%] ~ - ~
Pokemon Trainer 34.15 [3.50%] ~ -2 ~
Diddy Kong 30.69 [3.14%] ~ +9 ~
Lucario 28.53 [2.92%] ~ -2 ~
Fox 25.8 [2.64%] ~ -2 ~
Pikachu 25.14 [2.57%] ~ -2 ~
Falco 23.32 [2.39%] ~ +8 ~
Ganondorf 21.03 [2.15%] ~ +8 ~
Kirby 18.66 [1.91%] ~ +1 ~
Mr. Game & Watch 18.34 [1.88%] ~ -5 ~
Peach 17.04 [1.74%] ~ -4 ~

Low (9.20%)
Zelda/Sheik 15.78 [1.61%] ~ -4 ~
Jigglypuff 15.75 [1.61%] ~ +17 ~
Toon Link 13.36 [1.37%] ~ -3 ~
King Dedede 10.8 [1.10%] ~ -6 ~
Wario 9.62 [0.98%] ~ -2 ~
Donkey Kong 7.32 [0.75%] ~ -4 ~
Lucas 4.05 [0.41%] ~ -1 ~
Mario 3.6 [0.36%] ~ -1 ~
Ice Climbers 3.52 [0.36%] ~ -1 ~
Ike 3.19 [0.32%] ~ - ~
Yoshi 2.0 [0.20%] ~ -2 ~
Olimar 0.8 [0.08%] ~ +5 ~
 

luke_atyeo

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alright isaac, you know what this calls for
oh btw shaya, did you use the data from my first tourney in this?
 

Browny

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So idk much about melee...

but was any character in melee ever as dominant as MK in australia? I mean I know these rankings are skewed horribly by the fact that many of the best players bust him out in the finals so his CP-to-everyone nature means he steals a ton of points, but he still does have a lot of 1st placings. I know how marth dominated the US tournaments to the point it was questionable why he was never #1 in the tier list, I thought maybe australia would have had more diversity to begin with. it looks like MK is slowly but surely becoming as dominant here than in the US, and its only going to become more exaggerated in time
 

Sylvan

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I'd say a lot of MK users are simply using him because he is top tier. In melee, the tier list took over a year for the first list to be made. If brawl had the same thing done to it (i.e. there would be no list as of yet) then a lot less people would be playing MK. that's just IMO. I could be wrong. . . .(quite easily =P)
 

Viral-Enki

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^ While that may be true, you need to remember that Melee didn't recieve the same amount of publicity that Brawl did on release, especially in terms of competitive play. That's probably why the tier's took longer for Melee.

Unless I'm mistaken, Fox was technically the best character in Melee. That's what I recall from past discussions of the game.
 

Sylvan

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Yeah, that's what I mean. Since melee took longer to develop, lots of people decided on their mains before any of the competitive stuff was released. Which is the opposite for brawl. Lots of people were able to view the competitive data, before deciding on their mains. So naturally, this means a massive boost to the number of MK players.
 

Browny

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thats not what im getting at...

If you check the detailed results (which arent here, im bassing thiss off august-jan) you could see that MK has one of the highest point/placement ratios of any character (second only to sonic and Ness iirc) and on top of that, he also has the most placements. that combination leads to the fact that pretty much all the best players main/secondary metaknight. Its slowly getting to the point where his dominance is almost as bad as in the US. ive been following these numbers for a while and its a trend that seems to be getting worse before it gets better.
 

Shaya

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His dominance in Australia at one point was something close to 50% of all points. His ratio as a whole, has been going down since.

Lest we forget that STILL almost half the points of the main list comes from QBB, or atleast almost most of metaknights points did.

Sentiment in Sydney is pretty silly. People are against the character Metaknight being played, to the point of it being a taboo. Over all, metaknight usages on the east coast has been going down as many more people became more comfortable with their mains while fighting the metaknight mains (or other matchups), etc etc.
 
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