Welp did my second tourney yesterday
My goal was to make it out of pools and I managed to do that. FIrst pools match I faced a ganon and realized that I have a really bad time against him as zss, like I've faced countless ganons on netplay and everytime I don't do well. I'm not sure what the problem is, I think it might be that I think my attacks will beat out his but then he throws out an attack that hits lower than mine. Then I went against a wolf player, I did pretty well the first match but he was complaining that his cstick wasnt working properly (no one does button checks for some reason), next match we fixed it by replugging the controller. He had a comeback near the end even though he SD twice, but he ended up SDing again so I ended up winning. He probably should've won but eh I take those. Next pool match I dominated this lucario, which was pretty good for my confidence but I think it might have been bad for his because he was looking pretty down after it.
Pools ended, and my first match in the top 32 bracket was against this drunk dude playing snake. Lost the first game but it was down to one stock, both of us over 100%, so it could've ended either way. Second game he picked ganon and based on my other games I decided to drop zss for that match and pick sonic. Ended up doing really well against his ganon, obviously he was drunk and probably not too great at ganon past some friendlies but overall my playstyle felt better against ganon when I was playing sonic. Stayed sonic again and he picked ike and I regretted staying sonic from the start, he was doing things that I could've easily punished as zss but I had a hard time punishing them as sonic due to not really practicing sonic much. So I ended up in losers and faced a charizard who actually had a pocket zss so he knew the matchup pretty well, and me never facing a charizard had matchup inexperience. Ended up losing that one