LOL!
It's all good man. If I used Klaw for Melee's Fox or something, I'd be wasting controllers like there's no tomorrow. LOL That's why I play Link and Ganon.
That being said, I'm down for melee friendlies whenever (if I'm not practicing Brawl because 3 rounds of pools as a Sonic player? jebus. I thought 10+ people in one pool where top 3 got out was hard).
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Hey guys! I've got an idea. For anyone who was at the first Genesis, let's build hype and pass the time by sharing stories of what took place there? Be it at the hotel or the venue itself, or whatever!
"You know who this guy is? Mutha fuggin' Taj man!"
That guy was one of my freaking hero in Melee. He, Kage, and Aniki were some of my favorite Melee players in that time. Awesome coincidence that I got to meet him and was randomly pulled in as some 'scrub' to chill with the cool people. So I played a match with him and his Mewtwo 4-stocked my Link. Awesome times. I wanna play him again this Genesis 2 if he's there.
That's a cool idea, I've got a couple good stories rom Genesis 1.
I totally agree about the taj/kage thing. I was hotel room browsing and came across Taj and Kage's. I didn't know who either of them were at the time because it was my first ever tournament. So Taj's mewtwo just wrecks me and I'm like. "You're mewtwo reminds me of Taj from youtube." He kinda looked at me funny and I was like..." :O oooh." But yea those two are some of the best/funniest people to smash with. Most pros just kind of **** you and it's like whatever *Cough*M2K*Cough* but they were a blast to hang with. (Taj is freakin taallll)
I also got to meet my luigi idol Eddy Mexico. I had never even heard of the guy before Genesis, I used to be a big Ka-master fan boy. So I'm just sitting there playing friendlies when this guy with a big smile and a heavy mexican accent sits down and says "I like your luigi" as he pulls out luigi at character select. He proceeded to tear my luigi up, I never thought luigi dittos could be so one-sided. We kept playing friendlies and he gave me tons of advice on stuff to do/not do. After that we were like "Your cool man, good luck in the tournament." I didn't think too much of him until later on during bracket, I saw that he was still in it and I was like "awesome" but I noticed that his next opponent was colbol. I was thinking "Welp, you had a good run man..." But I decided to go check it out and cheer him on, and holy **** dat luigi is too good. I'm definitely gonna meet up with you again at Genesis 2 Eddy :D
I don't think words could really describe the hype that was going on during some of the matches. You could watch youtube vids all day but unless you were there YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW how electric it was to have a ****ing mass of people watching a huge projector screen of pros gettin off. I gotta say though, even though the final singles matches were crazy hyped, and the crowd was going ape****, I think the biggest pops were during crews. (West vs. East.) There was just nothing but screaming yelling and cheering from both sides every step away the way. My personal fav was Hax vs. SS. Just that first stock, when they both clinked double Nairs, and they both just do crazy **** combos right off the bat. Everyone knew, this was for real, this is Genesis and these are 2 of the best falcons duking it out on final dest for Regional pride, and you could hear the crowd ****ting bricks whenever a knee was landed. (Also being west coast watching Jeff was priceless because everyone was all "Oh Jeff never goes out of state so he won't know how to play against east- ....oh...crap.)
Also Genesis is the ONLY place where playing Brawl is actually kinda tolerable. Haha no but for real Brawl players are really chill and cool and stuff.
A few other fun things to note. At one point at the hotels some of the guys were running from room to room yelling "KEN IS HERE KEN IS HERE!" and telling people to go to a made up room to see how many smashers they could troll into wandering around the hotel looking for said room
Also, beating someone in my pool with G&W.
Also, In and out burger.
Also, Twin magic tricks. :]
Also, seeing what some pros looked like in real life.
Also, Genesis 2. Hype.