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Nice, thanks for sharing. Most of it looks pretty good. I don't know much about you and Bird - who you beat and who beats you - so I wouldn't know where to put you guys. I think Foos has improved though, but you would have him moved below you two. Have you guys been playing a lot? And is Corvallis coming to the next best bout?
1) Don't know how Minh goes above Binx after both of them attending only 1 tournament. I guess Minh performed better than, but I dunno if that should warrant the move (see my third point as to how to fix this.)
Yeah, as far as i know Bird and i have only played you once each, but we have decent records against the rest of Oregon. Bird has beaten Keeper, Jonny, Foos in tournament and at the last BB I beat you and Foos to tie Ratking for 5th. We haven't played much because of the break, but we played on Tuesday and plan to play at least once a week.
My experience against Minh consists of friendlies/seriouslies a couple times, and watching him at tournament. From that little experience it was very clear he was a top level player.
In my defense, I never played before ever in any of the tournaments I've won. I haven't actually seriously played smash in like 6 months. I only lost 2 games in the two tournaments I won. Got 1st, 1st, and was the only Oregonian to get top 3 in doubles. Which means I was the only Oregon in top 3 for any event. I'm the best, etc, etc
I dunno, there are numerous times I could have seen Jesse beating you. Like the tournament you paid him 5 dollars to forfeit.
I think this is a really valid point. While I'd say (I think) I'm generally pretty consistent. I get really tense at the weekly things because I think they actively affect my ranking. This may be a sentiment only shared by myself and it may also help that I think I perform rather well whenever I get really nervous as it makes me focus. I also know that some people just have bad weeks or bad days. Such as the week that I beat Ratking at the BB weekly. I could tell he was playing decidedly worse than normal and the next time I attended he beat me in the last game by a stock [or two] in the last game (it was a good set, I think). On the counter side, it's hard to judge our overall PR or whatever when we only have monthlies that not every attends due to whatever reason, not to say I, myself, could easily attend bi-weeklies or whatever more frequent event.
-Paul is volatile in certain match-ups, but certainly a great player with sick combos and option covering. I'd say the same goes for you, Allen. You lose many games I expect to see you win.
This worries me in a small way in that I don't really go out of state. I used to, but I don't feel it should impact it a lot if the resulst are consistent with in-state ones [when Washington attends our events no less]. The recent Gameclucks results did make me happy and kind of made me regret not having attended as the last time I played Banana I beat him pretty easily. It was nice to see Oregon perform well, and yes I'm aware that the top 4 in Washington were not in attendance (Note: Top 4 in WA to me is Shane, Otto, Vish, and Teddy. I don't know much about C!Z's skill other than his placings usually surprise me).
I played him like two-three years ago, in his defense, hah. It was when we were both in the "former brawl player" cloud and I still mained Fox.Finally, some recognition.
I feel I'm about as good as Jonny right now. Haven't played him a lot recently except for yesterday (shout outs for showing up) and he took more matches but they're really close.
Also, when Banana was here apparently his controller was ****ed up. I beat him really easily too that tournament but have played him at 2 GCs since then and he was much better.
Your reports from high school must be hilarious.
My point was more so that I think they shouldn't be heavily factored, but I also feel that every match anyone plays with anyone on the PR, is somehow being factored, at least sub-consciously. For me there is a huge difference in play between friendlies, the weeklies and the real tournaments. Friendlies are constantly a time for experimentation. Most times I am playing someone in friendlies I feel isn't better than me, I am constantly trying new things, or working on something new. If I play people better than me, then I try to work more on fundamental game, and playing to win. This isn't to say I am a sand bagging jerk like Jesse. I definitely try to win, but I try to win doing things that I feel really uncomfortable with.
Yeah, I get this, but I don't think it is unreasonable for people to make a conscious effort to attend the one major tournament we have a month. Everyone knows when it is 1, 2 ,3... **** infinite months, or as far out as you can look at a calendar in advance. If you don't make it to that one thing, then that sucks. That is also though why I think the evaluation period or whatever should be every 3 months. If players can attend 2/3, that doesn't seem to unreasonable, and should give people a chance to hit as many different people in bracket then.
I have said it before, but I think these out of state ventures more so should help people that do go, but in some way not negatively impact those that don't. Myself for example, I legitimately beat Jesse in winners finals last weekend. I actually tried my absolute hardest and gave it my best effort to keep my cool, because I was hoping that situation might factor into my potential ranking for the PR. I even asked him "Did you let me win?" and he said "No, I can't figure out how that happened." We went to last match, of what is one of the 3 most important sets to get through in the tournament, and what definitely makes setting up to win a tournament a lot easier. Granted he came back and destroyed me in GF's, but I feel like that victory should count for something, even though it didn't happen in Oregon. I mean part of being truly good is consistency, but for me that small victory was a huge step for me, and really getting to that level has been my goal since I played him for the first time in 5 years, and decided to start playing again.
Why?10char
No johns son.
Lol, the Jesse thing is too true. I can't tell when he's sandbagging or having an off day though. I've taken games off of him in tourney, but I couldn't tell if I was playing better or if he was doing one of the two aforementioned things. Doesn't mean I shouldn't try to improve though.
Yeah. They're like seriouslies to me, which is a serious friendly (I think that was implied by the name though).
Makes sense.
You're pretty consistent as is.
I get you too.
Yeah.
Also yeah. What if they then go back to an in-state event and lose to someone from in state (that they don't normally). Does that mean the person in state just knows how they play/caught on to something they do or what? Obviously it's not the transitive logic of them now being able to beat y player because they beat x, but surely it must mean something (I think?).
I think I just get way too upset when I feel I'm not improving/getting worse/losing all the time.Sounds like some keeper/surreal ****....
Definitely not. A night like last night at Jesse's, and as many off days as I have, that is not consistency. I am far too often unable to perform way to many things, even simple **** like get on the ****ing ledge, because I just simply am not performing to the level I feel I am often times capable of.
Your right, ill quit all together then haha.Sounds like some keeper/surreal ****....
My perspective is bias. I've only played you once when I felt/noticed you were having an off day.
I guess I should have said you're consistent in my experiences. Even if you don't think you are right now, you can pretty much only go up, I suppose.Pikachu is hard to be good with. You have a very good Pikachu though.
Depending on how you mean this, this could be really good, or the worst advice ever. Flowing is the most important part of getting good imo. If you are forcing ****, you will be blowing it like 80% of the time.
