BaM2K11 SHOUTOUTS:
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VICTORIA:
Redact: Thankyou for letting me follow you around the whole time Thurs-Monday. I had a great time and it pretty much wouldn't have been anywhere near as good without your hospitality. Glad I could help with the elevator lol.
Jared Haikal and Daniel: Nice to get to know you guys better. I enjoyed hanging out on thursday Haikal and our set of 5. Daniel you are a super funny guy and Jared... whenever Jared says something it makes me feel nice inside. I enjoyed our conversations and time we spent together Thurs-Sat morning. You guys brought up the most interesting topics and stories (stories that were second only to Forte's) such as the man who ate the family of four and the super powers (I think that the combination of abilities to create a blackhole, then secondly being immune to the effects of a blackhole, and thirdly having super fun doing nothing, is an amazing combination). From Thursday until Saturday night where I kind of got seperated from you, you guys made my day. Thankyou so much.
Robsta: Should have lost to my techies... but that was probably the best Fair in Australian Smash history.
Forte: In a way I kind of spent my whole weekend with you, I'm pretty sure I spent a fair bit of time with you every day. You really did pull out all the stops and truly explore your role of the story teller, and I was thoroughly entertained. Some of the things you say are amazing, Mango probably wants a Forte of his own now. Thanks for getting breakfast with me on Monday too, that was quite nice.
Toshiba: Thankyou for playing on Norfair with me. That's something I don't get to do very often.
Good work in both games, I'm pretty sure you did well in both singles. Thanks for teaming with matt in brawl.
Matt-G: Hope you had a good time in both games, even if the caliber of skill at this tournament was some of the highest in the country that you had to play against. I hope I will continue to see you playing and improving over the next few coming months.
Joey: I lost my voice from commentating and yelling. I only got it back today. I doubt the audio quality was even very good because we used a laptop mic but whatever. I had a great time commentating and talking to you throughout the tourney, especially on Sunday. I enjoyed Sunday a lot, thankyou. ALso thankyou for coming to get food with me like multiple times.
Tibor: O tibor you so salty. Thanks for being a very nice guy and encouraging me vs. Ted, outside of when you rage and make a chair hit my foot when you lose a stock in doubles... ... :s
Attila: You win too much. Please go to America and let someone else have a go.
Earl: Thankyou for teaming with me in doubles, and congrats on beating ZXV. Both of us need to work on edgehogging and edge guarding vs Marth though. It's very frustrating... I'm sorry that we did so poorly in Melee doubles. Your attitude toward guitar playing is very impressive and makes me want to continue learning about music as I am, but with renewed energy. BTW, if it stays legal, please learn how to play on Rainbow Ride ...
Tom: Enjoyed our friendlies and your presence in the hotel room. Cool guy.
Dekar: You must be too used to losing from all the sandbagging you do at the monthlies. ZXV is ACE, but you need to get back on your feet and start winning again bro! You and Mango get along like real bros.
Jei: ty for co-running brawl tournament with nova, and nice work in crews. Like, that **** was just hilarious!
Timic: ty for the offered lift and the encouragement after I failed in melee. I appreciate it a lot.
Mezer: Nice cosplay and I'm glad you were able to come at all. Happy to help you with being allowed into the bracket, sorry that the only positions available in the bracket were against good players and you probably had a hard time there lol. Hope you enjoyed yourself.
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QLD
Arrow: This tournament was the first time I met you. It's been a long time coming. My judgement is that you are quite a nice and friendly person, and it was nice meeting you!
Cal: Good to see you again too! I've played you in pools twice now, beating your Samus was really the only good thing I did in Melee the whole tournament. Oli and Jared made our pool quite a tough one.
Jaice: Y U NO COME?
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South AweStralia
Chris: Awesome guy, and good games. Thanks for coming to get breakfast with me on Sunday too, even though it took me ages to work out where I wanted to go. Your ZSS has managed to improve even with the lack of competition you find in SA, and it is very impressive.
Mace: I'm glad you were entirely un-salty with your Brawl placing. I hope it is likewise in Melee. Enjoyable friendlies in the hotel room and at the venue.
Allens: What a total bawss. Your attitude is outstanding and I really enjoyed playing you at the hotel, even if my eyes burnt with scotch and sleep deprivation, you still made them good games. Congratulations on 5th. You really do deserve the recognition for such fast improvement, I hope I will see you again.
Nova: Thankyou for sponsering the tournament which really helped me attempt to cover my costs. (i still lost out $10 because I ate heaps of food. But will I ever win doubles?) I enjoyed playing you whilst you were under the affect of drugs... it was quite funny. Hope you still enjoyed yourself despite the hotel managements ****ery. Nice work at the casino
Oli: Your Falco is my kryptonite. Knocked me out of two tournaments now... I wish I used jiggs. You seem like a very nice guy and if I get to see you at another major I'll definitely make it a priority to spend more time with you.
Eric and Marc: Eric is monkeybear. Marc is blackshadow... right?... hope I got this right. I feel quite confident that is right.... I'm sure of it.... but I've screwed this up so many times I don't trust myself...
so...
Monkeybear: So this will likely probably quite surely be the last time I will see you... :C It's great to have met you and spent some time with you at ACL, Reloaded and now BaM. You are an incredibly nice guy and you also like Starcraft which I think is quite a cool thing to be able to relate on. You are also super reasonable and I get the feeling you actually think about every word you say, because you never say anything that comes off as unreasonable or absent-minded. This is an amazing trait. I hope that you appreciate the sentiment of me getting out of bed and coming back to Novas room on Sunday and wait for you (by wait I mean lose to Marcs Zelda) so I could farewell you... even though I was so tired and in pain that all I really did was screw up your name and just say bye :E
Blackshadow: The fact that you didn't make it out of pools makes me feel ok about not making it out of pools lol :X A lot of the things I said about Eric I could also say about you. You were super chill on Saturday and Sunday night when I spent some time with you, a super friendly guy. I hope I will see you again. Btw your Zelda is really good and having played both MUs I'd say that with GaW I'd probably rather vs a Ganon lol. Zelda is hard!
Misfire (Michael iirc) : What an awesome guy. Hope you really enjoyed your first tournament, you added a lot of humour to the experience for me. Thanks a bunch for shouting me maccas when I couldn't leave the hotel, that was ace. (thanks to Marc and Eric too on that note) Nice work taking a few hours out of your time with Redact to try to chat up some chicks. Nice accents lol
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New South Wales
Tedeth: I finally beat you zomg! I've been getting closer every time but fianlly beating you turned my mood around on Sunday (everything I did before playing you I lost hard, i was pretty frustrated). After losing doubles on saturday and not even making it out of melee pools (for the first time in a while) I didn't think I'd actually acheive anything at this tournament. But I did. Hopefully from now on our sets will continue be close and exciting for both of us now. I also enjoyed our OUTSTANDINGLY HIGH QUALITY crew battle match. Your commentary is absolutely ****ing hilarious and as I've said before your charisma is exceptional, you get very into it when you play. Good times hanging out with you on Wednesday and Sunday.
ZXV...T...R...P : I really want to blame you beating me on the Marth matchup, or the fact that I can't edgeguard for **** anymore, but then you beat me with D3 and I realise you are just more intelligent than I. Your attitude towards learning is great, obviously that is something that is quite common among the better players and fast learners, but your attitude is exceptionally exceptional. Congratulations on beating Dekar again. I hope that this money that you make encourages you to continue to travel to Victoria so I can see you again. If NSW ever actually gets a real scene and real big tourney again, I would consider travelling, and it's because of people like you. I found our conversation about music and other things on Sunday mildly heart warming, and the kind interest you take in the little things like how people got their gamertags is very sweet. Talking with you on Sunday was a nice end to the night. Thankyou.
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Fruit People
Mango: Your re-enactment of the skill of Australian Melee was hilarious... and so true. I am grateful to have spent a large portion of Thurs-Monday with you, and I'll probably come over to phils some time to see you again and actually try to learn something in Melee lol. I think by the end of the weekend everyone who was in a hotel room with you at anytime fell in love with you and your soft hair. You and Forte also really hit it off. Thankyou for coming, you really did help in myself and I'm sure others having an enjoyable experience and I hope you had a great time as well.