Lol, I have the same psychological thing w/ character attacks. If it doesn't properly cancel, then I choose not to use it...like Pit's delayed dair, and nair.
I don't think I'm meatriding Masashi, but if you say so that so be it. Masashi is amazing, and I will defend his skill like you said.
I never said that he can't be read, because he can. What I meant is that even if he does come over here to the USA and plays with our top players, he will most likely have the skill to "adapt," solely judging based on his decision making from videos. You are right about not knowing what he can do because he has never came here.
The second two tournaments, I did alright. There was some "Midwest's Best" tourney with Lain and Arty. Lain is soo good, I couldn't believe how fast they were moving, because videos never really show the entire "irl" speed of the players. I was late to the tournament, so I got to enter half price into the loser's bracket. I beat this Wolf using Pit, and barely lost the next game w/ Pit 1st round vs this G&W on BF. Then I used Peach on SV and 2-stocked him. Then, the tournament had Pirate Ship as a CP, and I didn't know since I was so late, so it didn't even come to mind to ban that(not that I would). The dude switched to TL while I was Peach, and it went to time, but in the last 30 sec. I was up like 40%, but I got over confident and waay too cocky, so I approached thinking I could KO him since he was over 100%. That didn't work out to well, so I ate bombs and...you already know the rest.
The 3rd tournament was like a month and a half ago @ an Anime Convention-but it had good players like Reflex, and Kismet. I talked w/ them, but I didn't do good at all since it was single elimination. It was Pit vs Lucario. The Lucario LOVED to roll, and it was very hard to react to considering that he was very reactive and I didn't have a good mindset so I would blindly rush and play aggressive. There was only a 5 min timer so I could have easily timed him out. Instead with 2 seconds left, I taunted(idk why-cocky I guess) and somehow he winded up right next to me w/ an f-tilt shoved up in my face...cockiness once again took me out of the tournamnet >_<
Also the comment about "can't" doesn't cut it. You "can," but you just don't know how. Didn't your momma teach you to not say "can't" lol.