Roanz
Smash Rookie
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- Jul 24, 2014
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I'm not sure whether this is the right place to post this, but this is a general post on my feelings when it comes to pools in a tournament.
So I'm a relative newcomer to the smash scene, have only been playing since may so about 6 months now. I have been to two tournaments in these past 6 months and results were not up to expectation. For my first tournament I was very new, probably only been playing for one month and very nervous so I was beaten quite badly, my only win was a bye. My second tournament I had some expectations to at least make it out of pools. I trained very hard for the tournament and had recently got netplay which helped a bunch when improving my fundamentals. However I still struggled versus the experienced players and I went 2-2 in pools, only dropping games to the two people who went through. This made me very salty and very demotivated to keep on playing as I spent so much time training and working hard for that tournament.
Fast forward a couple of months and now I'm going into my third tournament. I've been playing literally any time I can on either netplay to work on my fundamentals or on my CRT if I needed to work on techskill. I feel like I am very capable of doing relatively well in the tournament however there's this one mental block I have right now. I feel like even with all the skill I have picked up in these recent months I feel really small and have begun to doubt myself. I know I am capable to take stocks and even some games off decent or good smashers but the thought of pools just haunts me. I've looked at the list of entrants and have been dreading to see some of these names appear in me pool. I'm not very good at adapting to new players and play very autopilot in tournaments which is terrible but I still do it.
I know this post is pretty stupid but I just want to express my thoughts going into this tournament. I hope to make it out of pools this time round, a smasher I know got out of pools only in his third tournament and got top 8. I'm not trying to compare or put expectations on myself again but I just want to have a comfortable time in the tournament and do the best I can. Hopefully writing this has helped calm down my nerves.
TL;DR I'm **** scared of a tournament I am going to because I have a mental block with pools
So I'm a relative newcomer to the smash scene, have only been playing since may so about 6 months now. I have been to two tournaments in these past 6 months and results were not up to expectation. For my first tournament I was very new, probably only been playing for one month and very nervous so I was beaten quite badly, my only win was a bye. My second tournament I had some expectations to at least make it out of pools. I trained very hard for the tournament and had recently got netplay which helped a bunch when improving my fundamentals. However I still struggled versus the experienced players and I went 2-2 in pools, only dropping games to the two people who went through. This made me very salty and very demotivated to keep on playing as I spent so much time training and working hard for that tournament.
Fast forward a couple of months and now I'm going into my third tournament. I've been playing literally any time I can on either netplay to work on my fundamentals or on my CRT if I needed to work on techskill. I feel like I am very capable of doing relatively well in the tournament however there's this one mental block I have right now. I feel like even with all the skill I have picked up in these recent months I feel really small and have begun to doubt myself. I know I am capable to take stocks and even some games off decent or good smashers but the thought of pools just haunts me. I've looked at the list of entrants and have been dreading to see some of these names appear in me pool. I'm not very good at adapting to new players and play very autopilot in tournaments which is terrible but I still do it.
I know this post is pretty stupid but I just want to express my thoughts going into this tournament. I hope to make it out of pools this time round, a smasher I know got out of pools only in his third tournament and got top 8. I'm not trying to compare or put expectations on myself again but I just want to have a comfortable time in the tournament and do the best I can. Hopefully writing this has helped calm down my nerves.
TL;DR I'm **** scared of a tournament I am going to because I have a mental block with pools
