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My First Tournament

It's All Fiction

Smash Rookie
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Sep 28, 2014
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It was a small Local at the J1 Con Anime Convention. It was double elimination and I placed 7th out of 24th.
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TAG: AllFiction

So I had a great time. A bunch of friendly guys in a stuffy and humid and small room. It was brutally awesome. I loved it and he experience. I definitely want to go to more tournaments in the future. But on to the tourney.

My Main is ROB and I only won one game with ROB (not a set, one game against the most fraudulent luigi I think I've ever seen). I was absolute trash. It wasn't that my ROB is bad. In friendlies I was crushing people so bad it wasn't even funny. But in tourney I just started making bad choices. Letting go of Sheild after 1 link up-smash strike, rolling into moves I knew I would get hit by, and just bad and unsafe neutral options in general. I even was winning against a megaman...then I SD'ed two times in a row (missed an input and side-b instead of up-b)

But for some reason my Pikachu was the best I had ever seen it. The only time it lost was when I got cheesed by a Ness and died at 41%. Even my sheik, who isn't my best, but I have some confidence in was looking crispy AF for no apparent reason.

After the tourney during friendlies, my pikachu was still as good as it was in tourney and my sheik was performing normally pre-tourney. But my ROB was instantly my best character again. Why?

I was doing great with Pikachu and Sheik but not with my real main ROB :(
Tournament jitters? Or something else? I WANT TO KNOW

PS: I'm not sure if my placement was good or bad. Some guys there were definitely not good/ For Glory scrubs. But some people were really legit too.
 
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