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Carolina Brawl Power Rankings [1/27] Breaking Bad PRs!! YAY!

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I SEE YOU

I SEE YOU

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June monthly got 39 entrants, july monthly got 34 entrants (with about 5 usuals not being able to make it). We should easily break 40 entrants if you guys could keep coming/get more ppl interested in coming. I won't be at the August Monthly because i'll be going to MLG, but if you guys could keep coming to the monthly then that'd be sweet.
 
TheLastCacely

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i will go to the month that is after august. forgot what month that is.


edit: why are we the only state that does not do pr's based off point system?
 
stingers

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It all comes down to who you beat. If you lose to M2K round 1 then have to fight a sandbagging ally in losers, nobody would think any lesser =p
 
_Kadaj_

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Throw that P***y at me? B***h I think Im Babe Ruth
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From what I've seen people are more of the casual game here more so than any other place I've been to so far. Some want to be good but don't really put a serious effort to their thoughts while others train but don't really have an idea of HOW to improve.

Yeah playing constantly will get you slightly better, but not having the knowledge of what you should be doing to properly improve like reading and understanding match-ups, eliminating bad habits and learning the proper and most efficient way to block and punish things instead of blindly rolling or spot dodging, and knowing frame data on your character and actually KNOWING what that correlates to. For example knowing Snakes up tilt comes out 7 frames means nothing if you can't put two and two together with your characters frame data after dropping sheild to see what you can actually punish with at certain ranges.

Something as simple as knowing and understanding frame is one of the first steps other fighting game communities start to learn while improving their games, it's sad that it's pretty laughable that most of the top players don't even know the data on the top tier characters let alone their own sometimes, same with the melee.

But yeah off that subject there are other things people can learn like how to read your opponents reactions in various situations as well as how to better anticipation skills before someone even attacks. Going back to the frame data you can get even deeper into the game and learn how to force/bait whiffs and punish them

It gets as deep as you want to take it, but the question is who's willing to put the time in to make that steep jump?

That's the difference between Pro/Competitive and Casual/Decent players
 
stingers

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kadaj you view things from technical standpoints and I like that...but there is another side, another spectrum to it as well that really doesn't require you to even play the game as much as it requires you to exercise your mind...i think tricking people is more fun then learning all of my options after shielding snakes ftilt so I just try to do that...though your way is probably a lot safer in the long run (and less stressful at top level).

though of course you need to master both sides to be pro pro...it really is a matter of how much you're willing to work at it.
 
Dr Peepee

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It's all about how you view smash and improvement and really the game itself. Getting better tends to make you better at both things, but the way you view higher level smash tends to come from one school of thought or another.
 
*CT*

*CT*

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Yeah and stingers your a ***** I so tried to play you on AiB ladders :p
A lot of people like my Marth on there? lol which is funny since I suck, another guy said I should be ranked like 1300 best (Another guy said my skill rank didn't match up with my "true skill") :p I be like really bad.

EDIT: If I had to pick a side, I'd have to be in the middle/neutral. :o I'll probably start looking up frame data soon, all I know is that Marth's up b= frame 1 lol (I think everyone knows that)
 
stingers

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marths up b isnt frame 1, but its invincible from frame 1 until the hitbox comes out on...4, i think? kadaj would know
 
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kackamee said:
Your marth almost beat my IC's right? Lol.

I'm not going to Raleigh :|
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:p Yeah but that was before I started playing him more lol, at Karnfest I finally made it 100% for him to be my third.

That sucks, I'm still on the fence if I want to go or not, money johns.

@Stingers- Trooooool much, ah that's what I meant, its all the same to me until I memorize it like flash cards :p
 
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