How well is your melee scene going?

[slartibartfast42]

I've been really up recently because I feel like melee is hitting a new high in my area. I go to weekly friendlies with 6+ people at them usually, whereas over my last 4 years of playing I'd maybe gone to someone's house to play once or twice a month. We also just had a tournament which was 10th in a series of melee/brawl tournaments, where melee out-attended brawl for the first time (25-17, so it was partially due to low brawl attendance, but this tournament was mostly hyped for brawl) and we had two people show up for melee for the first time (and they didn't even come together). Previously in this same tournament series, we had had no melee at all due to only a few players showing up.

Anyone else seeing melee getting more of a scene than before in their area, or is this some freak exception?

 

[Rubyiris]

We get 10+ melee players at my home every week. Our organized monthlies average around 25 players. The worst we've done is 16. The best we've done is a little over 30.

Brawl pretty much doesn't exist in my city.

 

[Zodiac]

In my city there are a ton of people who play both games but none of them seem to care about the competitive scene.

 

[-ShadowPhoenix-]

the scene in my city is dead...
we have 3 smashers who love melee...
sadly...

 

[Vyse]

Perth, Western Australia's scene wilted away when Brawl arrived. Bringer of Death rmusgrave the legendary Yoshi is not completely disappeared, but I think he still attends Brawl tournaments ocassionally or something.

South Australia's scene wilted away when Brawl arrived as well.

Queensland and Victoria have fairly strong tournament scenes still. Each have a lot of strong players, though each suffers a bit because the dedicated players are older, meaning they can't hold/attend practice meets all the time. Though when I say strong, I of course mean very below average. Not too unlike the numbers being quoted in the first post as far as meets and tournament attendance goes.

Sydney, New South Wales' scene recently disbanded. They decided that Robocop (The one Mew2king attended), was to be their last one. It's a shame because they were all strong players as well.

 

[Shoopman]

Brawl pretty much doesn't exist in my city.

I am moving to Tucson at my earliest convenience.

On topic: The tristate smash scene is still strong. Average tournies get about 20 people I would say, and No Johns can get really big if there is enough hype. Specifically in my town, in my school there are a lot of brawl players, but luckily most of them also know how melee works and they know some of the ATs. None of them are really hardcore or anything, but its better than playing against somebody who plays the same way as they did when they were 10.

 

[Rubyiris]

We have a few brawl players, only only a few of them are even good, and even then, they still play significantly more melee than anything.

 

[Mizar]

I'm the only one lol. Closest is 1 hour travel

 

[Metal Reeper]

I used to never post, started posting right before Apex, met Vorosh and other PA smashers, went to Apex as my first tourney, and I was out in pools but I got alot better since then. PA is making a comeback we're getting our **** together <3

 

[Vigilante]

The Montreal scene seems to have died out. I haven't had a tournament in ages. x_x.

 

[Prawn]

new england and everyone inside of it sucks

 

[Metal Reeper]

We need to train more people, get em into smash I got like...4 under my belt :D

 

[Vigilante]

new england and everyone inside of it sucks

I take no offense, I consider myself Québécois, not Canadian .

Although Montreal Smashers, I must admit in general are fairly high caliber. They could give poeple here a run for their money. It,s just we are so few.

 

[Prawn]

I take no offense, I consider myself Québécois, not Canadian .

is this spictom o_O

 

[EPsilon933]

My college is still pretty dead. There's only 3 active Melee players including myself. Then we've got only 3 that still play but only casually, and then there's one who quit to focus on StarCraft II cause he's sponsored (Duhrdy). Last semester Radford and Virginia Tech Smashers were more organized and active, but now neither college scene talks to the other. Also, I organized a quick little tournament and got 14 players together, 10 of which were complete n00bs who don't even know Smashboards and Smash tournaments even exist. Beginning of next semester, I'll get another one going and hope to bring in those same players + new ones

There are a few potential Brawl players in my dorm, but they're ******** druggies. And they're so afraid of losing, they hate playing Melee


We need more players! If you live in a college dorm, try this one idea that almost worked for me:
Make a little poster that says something like "DO NOT bet $ against this guy in Smash Brothers" or "If you can beat me in Smash Brothers I will give anyone $10." It brings out casual n00bs who think they're invincible to play you. The ones I've found are bad people but hopefully you will get lucky enough to find nice people to introduce the Smash tournament scene to

 

[otg]

I'm going to have to disagree with shoopman. The Tristate scene is beat as hell right now.

A lot of our top players are retiring all over the place, and no one gives a ****. Pennsylvania doesn't exist in Tristate anymore, there are only like 10 people total in all of NJ and while NY has a gigantic player pool (in Westchester County alone where I am from, I can list 10+ active smashers), all of our tournaments are bad. Poorly run, overpriced, cramped and they never run on time. They wonder why attendance has all but plummeted in the last few months. Over the summer we were having No Johns where 50+ people would show up (we have the numbers to do this consistently mind you), but now we are lucky if we get more then 15+.

It's gay, time to start travelling

 

[Kanelol]

I live out in bum****t egypt

the closest "scene" for me is in goddamn columbus

but apparently it's doing ok

still more barwl centric though :|

 

[Melomaniacal]

We need to train more people, get em into smash I got like...4 under my belt :D

This.

It's not that hard to get people into Melee. I've gotten four or five people interested in competitive Smash, and a few more up here at Kutztown. Everyone likes Smash, and once they see that it has more depth than they imagined, they usually want in.

I'm going to have to disagree with shoopman. The Tristate scene is beat as hell right now.

A lot of our top players are retiring all over the place, and no one gives a ****. Pennsylvania doesn't exist in Tristate anymore, there are only like 10 people total in all of NJ and while NY has a gigantic player pool (in Westchester County alone where I am from, I can list 10+ active smashers), all of our tournaments are bad. Poorly run, overpriced, cramped and they never run on time. They wonder why attendance has all but plummeted in the last few months. Over the summer we were having No Johns where 50+ people would show up (we have the numbers to do this consistently mind you), but now we are lucky if we get more then 15+.

It's gay, time to start travelling

If I weren't in college, I would be hosting Melee tournaments pretty often. We have a venue and a decently-sized group of Smashers here in the greater-Philadelphia area.

 

[Metal Reeper]

This.

It's not that hard to get people into Melee. I've gotten four or five people interested in competitive Smash, and a few more up here at Kutztown. Everyone likes Smash, and once they see that it has more depth than they imagined, they usually want in.



If I weren't in college, I would be hosting Melee tournaments pretty often. We have a venue and a decently-sized group of Smashers here in the greater-Philadelphia area.

I was actually wondering if we could actually get a tourney worked out (Probably MAD) that everyone can get to (people with cars should really help <3) and maybe start a PR, just to have something, an idea of who is the best/who is active. Nobody knows anyone in PA besides Cactus and Pakman.

 

[Shadow Huan]

Springfield has 3 (soon to be 4 again) active players. we have different work hours makes it tricky to chill and play. W.MA is pretty much dead for melee though

 

[Vigilante]

is this spictom o_O

Do I sound like this gentleman?


But no. I'm just a local tourney player who's too lazy / busy / university-student-level broke to travel for bigger ones. Well, I hold the controller upside down, so if anyone met someone who played like that well with Falco (or maybe Captain Falcon or Marth), that was probably me. (I at least consider myself good enough to not be a pushover but I have been guilty of winning matches on the basis of poeple losing their concentration watching my weird playstyle, ).

In the N64 version, I hold it backwards, and I hold the stick like an arcade stick... XD

 

[_Rocky_]

I'm the only one lol. Closest is 1 hour travel

Lonely high five!

 

[JPOBS]

i like this thread

in my city i host biweeklies but this school semester i've only been hosted 1 due to a variety of johns. Im planning/hoping to make next semester much more productive and tournament filled with less johns. these biweeklies usually average around 16-20 people.

 

[SSBMLahti]

2 players altogether in my area. Get at us.

 

[SSBMLahti]

i like this thread

in my city i host biweeklies but this school semester i've only been hosted 1 due to a variety of johns. Im planning/hoping to make next semester much more productive and tournament filled with less johns. these biweeklies usually average around 16-20 people.

Yo, where do you live?

 

[None Shall Pass]

JPOBS lives in Toronto.

The Greater Toronto Area scene is still doing fairly average, hopefully I'm able to revive Melee in Mississauga as well.

Throughout my region there are clusters of players, but we usually all congregate in Toronto at Idea's or KirbyKaze's house. Tournaments are rare, but casuals almost always happen.

 

[Fly_Amanita]

The Melee scene in my area is fine and dandy.

 

[Dr Peepee]

In terms of distance from me, horribly lol since I just have Twitch at my house and otherwise people are over an hour away.

Otherwise, I'm feeling good about NC's scene. We have some motivated, talented players improving, and we get new ones every so often because they move here for whatever reason lol. We're not as serious about improving as we could be, but I think our luck may be changing on that front.

We typically get about 15-20 people per tournament, but we've pulled in around 40 in our hyped locals before. =)

 

[TheZhuKeeper]

In terms of distance from me, horribly lol since I just have Twitch at my house and otherwise people are over an hour away.

Otherwise, I'm feeling good about NC's scene. We have some motivated, talented players improving, and we get new ones every so often because they move here for whatever reason lol. We're not as serious about improving as we could be, but I think our luck may be changing on that front.

We typically get about 15-20 people per tournament, but we've pulled in around 40 in our hyped locals before. =)

My roommate vs your brother!

=D

But yeah, I'm very lucky to live in a very populated place / a place that happens to have Mango / Lucky / Hugs etc LOL. Unfortunately, after having Mango for so long, I think that might've decreased our motivation somewhat (but upped our standards). hmmm

 

[Dr Peepee]

Yoooo Twitch would tap. =p

Oh yeah, we also have tournaments fairly often(every weekend at some points).

 

[-RedShadow]

doh/darkrain/wobbles











...that's about it

 

[Geist]

BC smash is pretty active. There's a good amount of regulars and a bunch of people who still play periodically.
I heard someone say that BS melee is much more popular than BC Brawl

 

[Shoopman]

I'm going to have to disagree with shoopman. The Tristate scene is beat as hell right now.

A lot of our top players are retiring all over the place, and no one gives a ****. Pennsylvania doesn't exist in Tristate anymore, there are only like 10 people total in all of NJ and while NY has a gigantic player pool (in Westchester County alone where I am from, I can list 10+ active smashers), all of our tournaments are bad. Poorly run, overpriced, cramped and they never run on time. They wonder why attendance has all but plummeted in the last few months. Over the summer we were having No Johns where 50+ people would show up (we have the numbers to do this consistently mind you), but now we are lucky if we get more then 15+.

It's gay, time to start travelling

I acknowledge that this is accurate, but at my skill level I don't care who I play because everyone is better than me. Basically as long as SOMEBODY shows up, I can learn from my games. In terms of high level players, yeah it kinda sucks.

 

[ILM]

Sussex County, New Jersey. Population: 2.

 

[Pogogo]

Yeah zhu lets switch meele scenes...and weather and meele skillz and its all good. Have fun with your minus 5-10 and your inability to perform basic combos.

 

[JPOBS]

Yo, where do you live?

JPOBS lives in Toronto.

nah to be precse i live in London, ON. i visit t.dot when i can tho

 

[None Shall Pass]

My bad.

Right, you were temporarily living at Idea's house over the summer? I didn't bother to check if this was still relevant.

 

[BEES]

It's fine in NC, although it feels like Brawl is bigger in these parts.

 

[Anth0ny]

Melee community is arguably stronger than Brawl community in Toronto

Unfortunately, not too many actual tournaments. Lots of casuals though!

 

[Sim]

Well, I hold the controller upside down, so if anyone met someone who played like that well with Falco (or maybe Captain Falcon or Marth), that was probably me. (I at least consider myself good enough to not be a pushover but I have been guilty of winning matches on the basis of poeple losing their concentration watching my weird playstyle, ).

In the N64 version, I hold it backwards, and I hold the stick like an arcade stick... XD

0.o

You hold your controller UPSIDE DOWN? Wow!

BTW we have a smashfest going on friday near montreal, we wanted to have a tournament or something saturday but it didn't work finally. Know of any tournament saturday the 18th? We might be able to host one in a house but there would be a limit to the number of people allowed in.

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There's next to no one in Quebec City. We are 3.