Oh..... my.... god.....
I must be such a ******. I'm literally crying over MookieRah's section.
It's because at the first tournament I went to, the EXACT same scenario happened to me: I was considered to be the number two person in singles at the tourney, behind a player named 112.
I wasn't expecting to be rated number one immediantly, hell, I didn't think I was gonna be anywhere close to the top. I thought I was gonna be stopped by players my friend had been beat by in previous tournaments, including Laijin and a couple of others.
I proceeded very swiftly through the main brackets, except for a couple of close matches, like with the famous DogySamich rampaging through our boards. We, in fact, had a very close match that ended taking place on Corneria, which neither of us desired. I ended up winning, though it went very much over 100% damage for both of us.
It was Nerve-wracking.
The next match was winners-finals against my best friend, DruggedFox, who ended up taking 2nd place. I knew it would be intresting match, and I knew my win streak would end there.
Maybe that's why I lost.
All I remember, is that the last match involved a Fox vs Falco match on PS, us switching mains(He was Falco). I was up by 90 damage, last stock, when I jumped off the stage, allowing him to edgeguard me till I died.
T.T
I was then sent to the losers bracket, where I had to wait a mind-numbing 30 minutes(during which, even during friendlies, I questioned my playing style, my technability, and my own concious) before my *sniff* final match, where I would hope to win and continue on.
Unfortunately, I stopped there.
112 chose Marth, which I had not played before(the only other time I had played him was in pool matches, where I believe he took me half seriously, picking Link, Sheik, and Falco), which may have increased on the foundations to why I have lost. I literally had played EVERYONE they, numerous times, so this exact same scenerio would not occur: I didn't know what to expect.
All I remember is tippers. Maybe he realized his easy win with this intimidation, I don't know. All I know is, I knew I was against a better player. A player in which had, in one match, intimidated me and, therefore, made me lose myself(by that, I mean my main style). From the whole tourney on, I changed.
The only concern I had was to avoid tippers, This concern only made me more predictable, and made me fall more into this hole that I was way too deep in already. I completely forgot about all DI in getting OUT of the chainthrows, I tried to avoid the tipper that was yet to come. This made it easy to kill me, and I began to curse myself for doing this.
I was utterly defeated, anyone who played me afterwards would say I had a "grim" attitude, and I felt hopeless.
But not anymore.
Thank you, MookieRah, Binx, and anyone else for writing any article that appeared in that guide.
And thank you, anyone who reads this post, for listening to my story.
These fights(the ones vs 112) are online. Go to google video, and type in "Articanus"
You'll see.