Purple
Hi guys!
This first post is constantly updated, please give it a nice read
Every update has *NEW* in front
Life Comes First
Get your Life together before you decide to do anything competitively. Most well known smash players tend to have either a decent paying job, good grades, is in college, has already gotten out of college and has money saved up, etc. Pretty much saying, Smash brothers isn't their entire concern. Only thinking about Smash Brothers sets you up for failure.
Since Georgia is full of high schooled smashers, if your grades are high, and you have your room clean, etc. Why wouldn't your parents let you go to a tournament? If they won't let you go to tournaments, why wouldn't they let you do gamebattles or something on wifi? Either way you'll still be competitive and will get better.
No Johns
Don't make excuses to your loses, look in yourself and change your mistakes.
Play to Learn
While camping with Metaknight almost always assures a win, you won't learn anything from doing so. There will come situations where you'll approach a bad match up in brackets, or just be playing friendlies / money matches with someone who counters your character. Unless you're a Wolf player playing against a D3 main. Work on your flaws. Those disadvantages make you improve faster in my opinion.
*NEW* Do know however, that if camping is the way to win, then do it. In a competitive notion, you are playing to win at all times, regardless if it's against a Ga Smash player or an OoS player. We are not in our own little world where no one camps, and no one counterpicks characters, it DOES happen!
Try New Things
Playing the Game cut and dry won't help, testing out new things will. Keep your gameplay fresh by playing new people and trying new things. It improved your unpredictability and you'll begin to develop a style of playing your main.
*NEW*Words From Marty (GA_Peach)
but to improve the community, skill-wise, everyone has to play each other a little more. studying matchups is key in any game, and smash is no exception to this. i see most players in this state don't even attend smashfests or any kind of gatherings. being in high school/parents don't like your hobby is the most general excuse i hear. find a friend that drives or ask people to give you a ride. i know quite a few in the Melee community have been there to drive me a long distance when i didn't have my car(ex. Tim and Sleepy). just playing isn't enough. when you play, you HAVE to learn from your mistakes. i see too many people in this state fall for the same traps over and over again. when i beat people, i always try to tell them the major points that i took advantage of in order to beat them, so then they can improve. if they get better, then i get better people to play against. it's really that simple.
People SHOULD do it simply because it is such a giant part of the metagame(which further confuses me as to why you people continue to support the game as a competitive game, but that's another argument.) bottom line, we have to use every thing available in the metagame to make each other better. that is another reason GA does not get better. people don't practice to their full potential(i.e. won't camp during casuals, won't be "cheap", etc.) if you don't practice against it during casuals, how will you be prepared for competition?
*NEW*
Willing Rides
You have to ask these guys for rides, and of course the usual gas money. But they're usually down for helping people out.
Tim(Desu)
Lounis(Biglou)
Alex(XIF)
Luffyfan eventually >_>
Community
Be Generous
If spotting someone money, or passing out rides to tourneys improves our community (and is safe on your pocket, hence why you should keep your life straight). Give it out. Make plans with your fellow smash bros to carpool ideals and how much gas money should be needed etc. If you're really feeling nice don't ask for gas money. It's all to help the community.
Note mistakes
When you beat people in brackets, you win due to outsmarting them, exploiting their mistakes. You don't have to do this if you don't want to. But tell them what they were doing wrong. It shows respect and brings strong ties among smash players.
Respect Each other
You aren't going to like everyone in the smash community, but respect them. Don't start **** outside of the forum.
*NEW*Words From s0ft
One major thing I have noticed and Chaddd said this a whiiiile ago but I didn't really see what he was talking about untill recently. SUPPORT!!
We need to support our fellow Georgia smashers. That includes helping them to improve there game, but mainly cheering them on during tournaments. Especially when they are playing oosers. There is not a greater feeling imo then playing an ooser knowing that all of Georgia is behind you fully supporting you! Chaddd and Biglou are GREAT examples of what that means.
Recently Chaddd has seen me having a hard time in a trny match or getting frustrated, come over and given me a little advice and reminded me to stay calm, and then I will usally go on to win that match. Support makes a big difference!
And BigLou practically watched all my melee matches in florida, even though he was only there for brawl!
To me that is another major thing that rarely ever gets touched on....
We are here to help GEORGIA players, not our favorite player from florida or south carolina or midwest or something....
If we all band together and help each other we are going to improve a lot faster, then with the every man for himself thing that georgia has going right now....
This is teams not a free-for-all.
*NEW*Dip into each other's games
For the most part, a great deal of melee players although not liking brawl in the sense of competition, still play Brawl against scrubs taking on occasional money matches. A great example of this is Fullmetal / Fullmetal - Dogysamich. Who are set as our barline for singles and teams. They know the basics and serve to people who are trying to get better as the first step to becoming known in Georgia Smash, and Brawlers, dip a bit into Melee, it does help more than you imagine. First off it's a fun game just like brawl, on top of that it requires skill and a slight bit of dedication. If you're not willing to at least learn a bit of tech for one character, and learn how to not get punished in melee, you will probably continue to get punished in brawl.
No more melee v brawl comments. We're smash gaming as a whole. Respect that.
