cool stuff toph, what's the japanese melee community like over there? is it big? do most of the players play brawl also? are the tournaments for free?
and why the *** do they still play FD only lol
lovage! :D the scene here is really tight. it's kind of on the level of a "larger USA regional community," like on the level of Norcal smash for example. japan's melee scene however is mostly concentrated in Kansai (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe etc area) - the melee tournament scene is dead if you go east to Kanto (greater Tokyo area) as there are players, but no tournaments.
I would say only a small portion of people play brawl also, but for some reason the melee and brawl communities are, unlike most places I've been to in the US, really close with each other. like everyone hangs out with everyone. for the first time in my life I've been totally cool hanging out with brawl players haha. at least on the west coast of the USA, I find most brawl communities kinda wack, so it was pretty refreshing.
masashi is a brawl main now. :< but he's still beast at melee. playing him was kind of disappointing though - he's actually pretty technical now, like he uhh actually SHFFLs and waveshines and does things most foxes do. I was like, You are not the Masashi I know from Youtube T.T I wanted to lose to a Fox who could only fulljump nair LOL.
oh yeah, tournaments don't have a payout here. it's 500 yen ($5) to enter, and that's an entry fee only. At first I assumed it was a cultural thing, but I learned that most people would actually prefer to have cash prizes; it's just that for some reason or another cash prizes are ILLEGAL in Japan. I don't get it, and from what all the smashers said, nobody else seems to get it either, lolz.
oh yeah, and the venue is super nice - the only problem is, it's a City Hall building, so it doesn't seem like people would risk paying out monetary prizes under the table in that sort of setting.
FD only, man, I dunno. I actually don't have a problem with it anymore, and this is AFTER doing friendlies with Tani's marth for 2 and a half hours.
Tani, by the way, quit smash for literally half a year (to focus on school and mahjong lol. apparently he wants to become like really good at mahjong) - the last time he played melee was 2 weekends ago, and the time before that was 6 months ago. so he was rusty, but at the same time he still managed to kill off all grabs about as effectively as m2k. that dude's chaingrab/combo/edgeguard precision is REALLY ****ing high - the one thing I'd say m2k does better is that m2k plays a little more risky in certain situations where it would pay off, like, m2k will do an unconventional edgeguard that will work because you weren't expecting it, whereas tani edgeguards a little more by-the-book.
how big was the tourney?
also get recording equipment to get us vidz.
*****, GET ME SOME TIGHT MEWTWO ****. I want the tight looking mewtwo action figure thats soft. (not the ******** looking ones)****!
how technical are you lol, cuz I gotta be more technical than you.
LOL its all about zoroark now my *****, nobody give a **** about the tw0 anymore
...nah jk if i find some tight m2 **** i'll buy it for you lol. i already have a bunch of my weeaboo friends asking me to buy them like anime figures and **** so i might as well do the same for my mewtwoaboo friend
in terms of flash I'm not really that technical but I stepped my **** up on being consistent where it counts. I don't miss backwards waveshines out of shield at all anymore, so I can use running shine as an approach at will. REALLY ****ing good especially on the FD-only ruleset. practiced the **** out of my shines out of shield, and I can waveshine out of shield now (about 50% hit rate on shine OOS on the ground - gettin there, joe!). oh yeah, and I did my first backwards thunders combo this weekend. idk how otto, lovage and eggm hit that **** so consistently, that **** is HARD. lol what the ****. gonna practice it on CPUs more
