Need help with a Melee article

[nealdt]

I'm putting together an article series about Genesis for AiB's front page to hype up the tournament and want to give a big spotlight to the Melee side of the event. I'll probably focus much of the article on Mango's dominance, but I also want to highlight the doubles event, out-of-region participation, and what the local (CA) crowd expects in terms of upsets or trends.

Can anyone help me out with some input? I'd like help remembering/learning:

- the big (and OOS) tournaments Mango has won post-Pound 3. (RoM, MJ, WCSL, ...?)
- who the best teams are expected to be
- home-town favorites
- big names coming from OOS
- what YOU think the biggest Melee story from the tournament will be (upsets, regional dominance, melee resurgence)

Thoughts/suggestions?

 

[DanteFox]

Can anyone help me out with some input? I'd like help remembering/learning:

- the big (and OOS) tournaments Mango has won post-Pound 3. (RoM, MJ, WCSL, ...?)

Just say that mango has won every tournament he's been to since Pound 3, including major regional tournaments on the east coast, in the midwest, and in the south.

- big names coming from OOS

I heard that Amsah and Armada from Europe are coming.

 

[Kouryuu]

I still don't think Armada's arrival gets as much hype as it deserves. There has always been the debate on how well he'd fair against the top players in the States. Genesis will be his first tournament out of Europe so it's really interesting.

As far as hometown favorites go, I think a bit of spotlight should be put on Pink Shinobi who's been making a name for himself these past 6 months and has attracted the attention of OoS as well.

 

[MaNg0]

i approve

10rapes

 

[DanteFox]

oh yeah and darkrain's coming to this too, so we can finally see silentspectre vs darkrain and see who's better.

 

[The Greater Leon]

mango and lucky for teams.

hometown favorite would be silent spectre, even though hes norcal. with scar, darkrain, and hax lol coming im eagerly awaiting to see how they all place/who wins the ss v darkrain ditto, but ss isnt good in dittos

crews is also gonna be a big deal

 

[choknater]

macd and zhu are gonna be a pretty good team

no one is gonna want to lose to them

too bad they're gonna lose to cocknater and rapelickate

 

[ResidentWaffle]

A. Big (and OOS) tournaments Mango has won post-Pound 3.

1.Gigabits Freedom To Melee(Flordia)
Links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pChCJitczdU
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=239303

2. Mass Maddness
Links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5HuFpBcF18
Links: http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=237703

B. Best teams expected.
Not really sure on this one.

C. Home-town favorites ( That I know of)
Socal Mango/Lucky/Zhu/ HugS/ DEHF

D. Big names coming from OOS( That I know of)

Norcal SS/Pink Shinobi/ Tang/Lunin/Falcomist/King/ HMW/Shroomed/ KFC
Washington Silent Wolf/ Eggz/ Bladewise
South: DaShizWiz/ Colbol / Lamchops/ Xif/ DoH/ Linguni/ Caveman/ Xelic
Canada Kage/ Vwins/ PKMVodka
Midwest Darkrain / Drephen/ Kels
East Coast: M2K/ JMan /Cactuar/Darc/Hax/Scar/Tope/Cyrain/Pakman/DJ Nintendo
International: Armada

E. The biggest Melee story from the tournament will be (upsets, regional dominance, melee resurgence)

Probally melee resurgence.

 

[Naota21t]

hometown favorites is pretty much all the good players from norcal :

pink shinobi, ss, lunin, fmf, and zhu

noticeable teams are probably:
mango/lucky , ss/tang, fmf/phil, zhu/macD

 

[nealdt]

For hometown favorites I was thinking more along the lines of this:

Which local (or WC in general) players do you expect to *really* wow people at Genesis? We all know SS, Lunin, Zhu, et. al. are amazing, but who is a favorite to really make a difference in the tournament?

Thanks for all the other input!

 

[The Greater Leon]

LOVAGE _ 805

SeCRET WEAPON

 

[pockyD]

well, pink shinobi is pretty clearly the "hidden" talent of norcal

i expect kfc and shroom to impress too!

 

[CT Chia]

the philly group is a pretty big name for OOS - cactuar, scar, pakman, mogwai
cactuars amazing and scar + pakman team created this rival to wombo combo -
(was gonna link to blue lazer ultimate combo but forgot it was on my utube which got deleted. its in a bunch of ppl's sigs, its amazing. il have to reupload the vid soon)

 

[joeplicate]

macd and zhu are gonna be a pretty good team

no one is gonna want to lose to them

too bad they're gonna lose to cocknater and rapelickate

dude
cocknater and rapeliclit is way too good of a team name



and you better not say EVERY tournament
remember when he lost to JMAN?!

Spoiler

well I guess that was split so w/e but STILL

secret weapons:
kfc
larry
pink paul
shroomed
oscar
kira?
me hopefully

in about that order

idk there are a lot of people who could potentially fill up this list
but if you want to talk about up-and-coming talent from CA it would probably be shroomed, hmw, oscar

 

[Kouryuu]

lol pink paul.

 

[The Greater Leon]

larry is gonna ****

and i want to see how well kira does

hes good now

 

[Eggz]

me and silent wolf are going to **** the **** out of everyone.

learned lots of **** recently and have a few big tricks up my sleeve.

 

[Pakman]

Notable teams from the East Coast:
M2K and jman are teaming.
Cactuar and Darkrain(I know he isn't EC) are teaming.
Scar and Wife are teaming.
DJNintendo and Warriornight will mess some people up with double Bowser.
Me and Sensei should do alright.

Tournament is going to be AMAZING

 

[nealdt]

Thanks for the help, everyone. Link: http://allisbrawl.com/news/newspost.aspx?id=475

 

[DanteFox]

Thanks for the help, everyone. Link: http://allisbrawl.com/news/newspost.aspx?id=475

Killa For Cash (KFC): another unknown-outside-the-region NorCal player, KFC came out of nowhere with an impressive showing at West Coast Smash League, where he took out NorCal favorite TANG and came a shine away from beating Zhu. As a subscriber to the Azen/Drephen School of Thought, KFC's Marth is a frighteningly-patient flurry of tippers and edge-guards. East coast players may be accustomed to Cactuar's faster style of Marth play, so KFC has a shot at ruining a few OOS players' runs through the bracket.

Awwwwwwww yeeeeeaaaah.