Time for a writeup from the European side. First of all, I think all of us had a good time, mostly because of meeting and playing the many good players and hanging out at the venue and the hotels (Mike G, Vidjo, Omni, LadyLegion, HMW, Phil, Chu, Mango, Milktea, PC Chris, UmbreonMow, Chibo, Alex Strife and so many others <3). The venue, hotels and shuttles made for some sweet facilities. Pakman was kind enough to drive me and Utto to Philadelphia, we're at Cactuar's now (thanks, guys!). I do not regret coming here, though I'm not so sure that I'll attend another American tournament.
Things that left a bitter aftertaste:
-No pickup at the airport for me and Utto which lead to unexpected hotel costs. Despite good intentions in the Pound thread, we didn't get anything back.
-Plank promised to house the Dutchies on Sunday, but didn't. Even more unexpected hotel costs.
-Seeding was downright terrible. I had Raynex in my first and second Melee pool and Mikey Lenetia in both of my Brawl pools. Amsah and Utto were in the same pool (both from Europe) and a bunch of Puerto Ricans were put together. The top European teams both lost to the same team twice, they should have been swapped in the bracket. Apparently, everything the program can't do is impossible to fix manually for Americans (we correct stuff all the time in Europe). Also, my third round Melee pool had HungryBox, PC Chris, Shroomed, IHaveSpaceBalls, WarriorKnight and me. How hard is it to balance out pools? Faab also got a really tough pool btw. Even if some things make sense seedingwise, some top seeds are more equal than others. Apparently Plank thought so too, because most people I talked to think he fixed his pools and bracket, which is quite possible considering his placing.
-The disqualification of M2K and Jman was ridiculous, regardless of whether they're the top team or not. They should have gotten one loss at most. It's very clear that Plank simply does not like M2K, especially since he allowed other people to buy their way in by paying 20 dollars (what happened with that money?). It got really tiresome to hear disqualification threats with every announcement anyway.
-Jigglypuff finals. *vomits*
-Having to play/watch Melee and Brawl at the same time, while there were also periods were I had nothing to do. This made me rush through my second round of Brawl pools to hurry back to Melee. No johns though, I wouldn't have made it anyway with DEHF, Atomsk, Kadaj and MikeyLenetia in that pool. I feel Brawl was treated as a side event, which is ****ty for the Brawl only players.
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