Phase 9 - Dallas TX - Balanced Brawl & Brawl Minus

[UTDZac]

Attendance was low for this tournament. I was sad. Silly A-kon going on this weekend =(


Balanced Brawl Doubles (3)
1: UTDZac & Infinity ($24.00) - G&W/MK
2: McBad & Denti ($6.00) - Ness/Olimar
3: Tyson & Bwett - Ness/Diddy


Balanced Brawl Singles (12)
1: UTDZac ($72.00) - G&W
2: Infinity ($36.00) - MK
3: Denti ($12.00) - Olimar
4: Tyson - Ness
5: Bwett - Diddy
5: McBad - Ness
7: FHERO - MK
7: Chuky - G&W
9: Christopher
9: Dansal
9: The Winged
9: Chic - Luigi


Brawl Minus Singles (8)
1: Awestin - ($28.00) - Ness
2: UTDZac - ($7.00) - PT / G&W
3: Brett - Ike
4: Infinity - Random
5: Slaps - Ganondorf
5: The Winged -
7: Dansal -


Duelist Pro
1: UTDZac D ($3.00) - Snake
2: Brett D ($1.00) - Snake
3: Infinity D - Snake
4: Slaps D - Snake


Videos
My Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/shadowgripper (subscribe)

Bwett vs Chuky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdivzbKhB_0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMbpfOtB8NI

Infinity vs Denti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubR-CyZw38s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKTTQgZsFvQ

Infinity vs Bwett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6mW2g6O2wU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RItKwcQGwo0

Bwett vs Tyson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjeEx_bAFoU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Tlg_sjZtY

Denti vs Awestin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzna2n7aNyU

Denti vs Tyson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jga0f0Tv9I

UTDZac vs Infinity WF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vZUQRRXrFc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7rQklkHEyk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEo6X4-ad1U

Denti vs Infinity LF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkR4eZROkD8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FwGIYfeDK8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgtpUiUyj40

UTDZac vs Infinity GF Set 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5yo6Q2V0xY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw04SVEMl6k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDvKxr2w58M

UTDZac vs Infinity GF Set 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlHs3qfMdj8


[Brawl Minus] UTDZac vs Awestin - GF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Moss7dffwB4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wytst-ohUM (Friendy)


[Duelist] UTDZac vs Brett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwcXLReGP_o - WF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qVkxO0BP0w - GF

 

[Denti]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! can't wait for those videos

 

[chic]

**** you chuky

 

[OverLade]

Duelist Pro
1: UTDZac D ($3.00) - Snake
2: Brett D ($1.00) - Snake
3: Infinity D - Snake
4: Slaps D - Snake

I lol'd.

Good stuff Zac. I dont know anything about balanced brawl though. Is it actually balanced?

 

[Steeler]

Good stuff Zac. I dont know anything about balanced brawl though. Is it actually balanced?

it's a major improvement. the vast majority of matchups should be in the 4-6 to 6-4 range. i could see almost any character winning a major bbrawl tourney...but those don't exist yet, hah. it's not perfect, obviously, there is still more input needed from top level players such as yourself since there's some changes that could use a second look...but it's really quite good right now. a lot funner to play in a "serious" manner than normal brawl. for sure.

 

[dansal]

You can really only play duelist with snake? I don't know what other characters you'd use.

 

[Suspect]

Chic

Dallas is anti luigi

 

[hippiedude92]

lol wtf chic why u still playin brawl

 

[chic]

gf's time of the month. had to do something

 

[AeroLink_the_SoulMaster]

I wish I could have gone... I wanted to see how Link stacked up in Balanced Brawl. And wow, record low attendence for Phase . =(

 

[Problem2]

I wish I could have gone... I wanted to see how Link stacked up in Balanced Brawl. And wow, record low attendence for Phase . =(

This is what I was thinking. If you look at the general attendance of Phase, it has been declining each time. There were so many people at my first Phase (#5). You know what it is? You need more Melee! :D

 

[Infinitysmash]

It was because A-kon was that same weekend. I know like half a dozen people that probably would have come if they hadn't gone to A-kon, lol.

 

[Denti]

this next phase will be record breaking high turnout.

 

[UTDZac]

Videos being uploaded now.

Added a few to the OP already

 

[Denti]

yyyaaaayyyyyy

 

[Infinitysmash]

<3 Zac for the videos.

</3 Balanced Brawl for haxxing my down smash and shuttle loop.

 

[Denti]

I don't feel your nerf too much in anything besides your down smash. It must suck though with nerfed attacks against GaW's bucket brake lol

 

[UTDZac]

I've complained to the Balanced Brawl community about it. A lot of them just replied with stuff like "he needed the nerf" or "seems fine to me"

I'll talk to more peeps about it.

 

[Infinitysmash]

Honest to goodness I'm perfectly fine with the down smash nerf. There are other ways to kill, obviously, and it made me rethink my strategy and made me play harder so I enjoy it for doing that.

If there is a way to correct it so that the knockback from his grounded shuttle loop isn't changed from regular to balanced that would be ideal, IMO. It's easy to predict and punish that and it doesn't kill until roughly the same percents as the down smash does in the current Balanced Brawl.

Also - adjusting Metaknight's forward tilt to have more knockback at early percentages and be effected more by diminishing returns would be a good idea. I felt like almost half of my attacks against Zac were forward tilts because it's easy to combo with at early percents and the spacing on it is amazing. More knockback at low percents means fewer 0-40+ starts on your opponent, higher effect from diminishing returns means it will never kill. This turns the move in to a useful spacing tool at mid percents rather than a go-to move the whole time.

Adding knockback/damage to his down tilt overall may be a also good idea, allowing for fewer frames for Metaknight to run in and punish after a down tilt would free up options for his opponent.

As it stands I feel like Metaknight was more like the posterboy for nerf magazine than a balancing act and they could definitely do more work on him.

 

[Thinkaman]

This is good discussion. Thanks, these sort of thoughts are perfect.

Most specials are different attacks entirely aerial vs. on the ground, including shuttle loop. They can be altered independently. I'll look at the KO %s of grounded shuttle loop and d-smash more closely: a vertical move like grounded SL is going to vary more by stage and enemy floatiness though, so it intrinsically varies more across matchups and is more tricky to consider.

D-tilt was already considered for change slightly due to being one of those d-tilts that still psuedo-locks in corners. Some like G&W and DK are impossible to fix without redoing the whole move, but MK is reasonable to tweak.

Also, <3 videos. I'll probably post again after I finish watching them all.