Alright dudes. Just a quick story of the tournament/appreciation, and then shoutouts.
The sleeping in the train was plain horrible. Even now I feel like puking on my computer, so for one thing, one lesson : DO NOT TAKE NIGHT TRAINS.
What happened next : I just had to watch all the brawl tournament during Saturday because my mates were doing pretty freaking good. No shoutouts for them in this forum, but I keep them in my mind and heart. I played some Melee freeplay though, and sometimes I was not having a good feeling of my game. Hence why people seem to be complaining about me not playing seriously friendlies, when I was.
I played a little bit of Brawl. Was kinda fun although I really don't want to train Manly Ike that much. Best thing I saw : Zuluicide. Best artistic suicide in crews by far.
Then Sunday was getting serious so I got myself prepared. During pools I played safe so I feel sorry for people who thought they could've beat me, because I thought the same thing.
After that I played the bracket matches. Marcbri was impressed by my Ganon I suppose, I enjoyed the matches and thought that FINALLY, I was playing like normal.
What really puzzled me was my match versus Kyo. I am asked to play on the NTSC version so the tournament would finish earlier. I had seen Kyo taking Peach before so I was like "Well as long as he's not playing Sheik that should be ok, I won't get chaingrabbed to death". So I pick Ganon, the guy is seemingly hesitating (my guess is he wanted to make the surprise like "Oh yeah? Well DIE!", and then he picks Sheik. I was so ****ed up, during the whole match I was hearing every ten seconds his buddys saying CHAINGRAB. I was like "Hmmm let's see... what john should I pick at the end of the match?". So he grabs me and I guess he didn't want to get such an easy/unconventional kill, so he waits for the tech, but he just had to watch where I was teching because of how close I was to him after the downthrow. I was really depressed. GG anyways Kyo, you were really careful during this match, I had a really hard time punishing you.
So I lose that first match, and then I'm like I should pick Kongo Jungle, just for the sake of randomness. I realize the NTSC versions didn't have this stage. At first I was like pissed off, and then...
Wow... I WAS SO HAPPY! NO MORE NTSC VERSION MATCHES WOOHOO!!! I went for the PAL version the rest of the game, and I fled EVERY TV having that "NTSC" tag. **** you, NTSC!
My match against Urulok was thinking matter, too. At first I'm like "WowImrapin", and after two stocks out I play safer so no risk of losing, right? And I lost. No disrespect to Urulok, I really enjoyed his style in freeplay, it was really hard for me to read him (This is also why I wanted to play safer, so it's his win!), and he was more solid than I was in the tournament. The part when I wanted to throw myself out of a window was when I stopped doing that down-B after I edgehop (edgehope lol), and I see him hitting the air like "Oh wow you finally changed!". ****.
After that I'm playing peyudosmith. I don't clearly remember what happened because during the first stocks, I was really close to resetting the match and forfeit. I'm serious.
My match versus NeMo was weird, like many other ones. It's like everybody's speaking Spanish, and you get the feeling nobody's rooting for you. Besides during these matches I saw somebody next to me Falcon Punching the table during his matches, so I was like "yeah right".
Then I played Dahean, I was way more satisfied about my matches, but that's still a losing. Lol @ the barrel angrily gettin' off like "Hmmmmmm no, I'm not your friend", at that moment I was in such a shock I laughed, but with a ten seconds delay.
So I learned some technical things during the tournament, and I'm back to when I was in TSL4 : I need some technical practice, at least to get me more solid. I was not really appreciating the ambience during the tourney, people are not saying a single word during a match, communication is near to impossible, people seemed angry every time they lost etc...
The worst thing was the teams : No teams for me. At first I was supposed to team with Urulok, but then he had to leave. Before that Hikotsu was like "Hey you're teaming with me" so, that was ok so far. And then, after some freeplay I see Hikotsu apparently doing a teams match with NeMo. He explained something to me but I really didn't understand it. Then I'm told I'm not in teams. So the evening was empty for me. I freeplayed against many people, which was nice.
The day after this, we get that people who were supposed to house us had some problems so we went at NaT's place in order to have a shower. I couldn't be more thankful. All the French ate in an insanely good restaurant right after, so "I live... again!".
Overall : It was a very enjoyable tournament, but many things were disappointing. Amongst all the things I didn't talk about, I really want to talk about the brackets. Kaos, Leon and I were the only French players passing the pools. Kaos and Leon were supposed to face each other very early in the losers bracket (according to the seeds both were supposed to lose their matches). Thankfully Dahean managed to change it, and I'm really speechless about it. But the other people were like "No, we can't change it".
That, and one really frustrating thing, perhaps the reason I might not be attending Spanish tournaments in the future : We were not "in the tournament". People were announcing in Spanish only, nobody was speaking a single word of English (like "Tuna Sandwich" and "I ban FD"... WHAT THE HECK!), we had a lot of people smoking right next to us, whereas some of us were disturbed by the smoke a lot.
But most of the people I met were nice, hence the shoutouts :
to everybody who played me for some matches I don't remember a lot : You were all cool, and I had a lot of fun playing smash with you, as usual.
peyudosmith : Campo de Batalla! I'm wanting to train a little bit my Spanish because you made me realize how important it is to talk many languages.
M : You were such a nice guy to offer me something to sleep on. We didn't talk much, but I'm glad you were still going on Melee tourneys.
Hikotsu : Dude I think I read in your forum that you nearly beat me in singles. Wow, I don't even remember playing you in singles, but yeah... anyway you were funny about the bracket errors (like the WTF grand finals and stuff). Next time.
NaT : DUDE THANK YOU You will have our full support once you're in a French tournament, believe us.
NeMo : Why you Samus was nice to play against. I hope you were okay
K-12 : Really cool dude. Brawl match was sick. Too bad I didn't play you in the bracket, but I wouldn't have won either I guess. Your Fox is really nice.
Urulok : Respects dude, your moves are smooth. I hope to play you next time, freeplay or teams.
Over : We didn't play much, but you were really nice. Your English has improved! Thank you very much for that. Badass Sheik!
Dahean : Dude I'm so thankful to you for so many things (translating, bracket, matches). You're such a nice man. Thank you and see you soon.
Pepito : Nice dude. I felt bad for you in Losers finals. I hope to play you/ discuss with you more often if we attend the same tourney. Next time.
I have a lot of work to do so I have to go. I'm sorry if I'm forgetting someone.