Question of the Day: [4/3/09]

[EdreesesPieces]

I'd give Fox Mewtwo's soul stunner

 

[festizzio]

fox with the ability to transform into sheik

 

[Tee ay eye]

Festizzio, have I ever told you I love your location?

Falco with Fox's up+B.
Falcon with Sheik's b-air
Anyone with Zelda's down+B

 

[DJMirror]

Marth upsmash with fox upsmash
Falco with fox upb
Sheik side b is teleport attack like fox side b
Shiek Down b is metaknight down b =/

 

[DanteFox]

Fox with sheik's fair, falco's forward smash, falco's dsmash, and falco's side b.

 

[Kouryuu]

Sheik with a shine.

 

[RelaxImAProfessional]

fox with falco's laser

 

[embracethe12]

fox with marth's colors.

 

[Kira-]

I have a question. How can we get more people to come to tournaments? Build awareness, excitement, motivation to get better (it's hard to be good nowadays) etc.

I think awareness is the key word here.

 

[EdreesesPieces]

Montage videos and pictures like the ones Atlus makes are great for that (awareness). People see it and go "WHOA that looks like sooo much fun, I wish I was there" and will go to more, I think.

Also, bring a massload of setups. If people know they can spend all the time playing friendlies when they don't have matches, more people would have fun going to tournies. A lot of people just don't like waiting around. It's half the reason I quit brawl. People don't bring setups, and plus the game takes forever, so Brawl tournies have little to no friendlies, it made me bored. One of the reasons I have so much fun at melee tournies is because you can play so many matches and so many people because people bring setups. So I think setups is a huge key.

 

[DanteFox]

^ this and maybe just play friendlies against people you've never played before. You get to meet new people and are exposed to more playstyles.

 

[WhatIsFear]

i'd give ganon marth's forward smash cause he has a friggin sword.

i'd also replace his n-air with one that either comboed like falcons, or a mewtwo like n-air that hits you with dark energy.

 

[pockyD]

^ this and maybe just play friendlies against people you've never played before. You get to meet new people and are exposed to more playstyles.

haven't you been to, on average, less than one tournament a year?

 

[ConnorTheKid]

LOL

10char

 

[LunInSpectra]

Fsmash: Marth
Usmash: Fox
Dsmash: Peach

Utilt: Marth
Ftilt: Shiek
Dtilt: Marth

Jab: Shiek

Grab: DK

Nair: Fox
Bair: GDorf
Uair: Fox
Fair: Shiek

DownB: Fox's Shine
UpB: Samus
ForwardB: JigglyPuff

Wavedashing Capabilities: Samus
Character Speed: Falcon
Jumping Height: Falco
Weight: Falcon
Floatiness: JigglyPuff

I'll call him...Lunin.

 

[Rosedemon]

Whats Lunin's dair and sideB?

Also, his shield and spotdodge?

Oh, and taunt?

 

[DanteFox]

haven't you been to, on average, less than one tournament a year?

wtf does that have to do with anything? pppffft. I could probably **** you anyway, even with my limited tournament experience.

 

[Rosedemon]

Dayuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum.

 

[DanteFox]

Fsmash: Marth
Usmash: Fox
Dsmash: Peach

Utilt: Marth
Ftilt: Shiek
Dtilt: Marth

Jab: Shiek

Grab: DK

Nair: Fox
Bair: GDorf
Uair: Fox
Fair: Shiek

DownB: Fox's Shine
UpB: Samus
ForwardB: JigglyPuff

Wavedashing Capabilities: Samus
Character Speed: Falcon
Jumping Height: Falco
Weight: Falcon
Floatiness: JigglyPuff

I'll call him...Lunin.

This is a good way to do it.

Add in Mario's or Doc's Backthrow and we've got a winner.

 

[pockyD]

pppffft. I could probably **** you anyway, even with my limited tournament experience.

Probably, since I'm awful at smash. "My dad can beat up your dad" would be just as relevant to the discussion

...but going to less than one tournament a year means you probably don't know anything about the tournament scene, which is why I find you giving advice/info about it rather humorous

 

[DanteFox]

Actually, I think I offer another perspective on it: that of the outsider. I'm just commenting on what I felt might attract people to more tournaments: a more inviting atmosphere. My comment kind of added to what edreese was saying about set ups and friendlies. Both socal tournaments I went to had people on tvs playing friendlies between matches. There were times when it was just groups of people doing their thing and playing friendlies against each other without inviting other people in for rotation. The tvs that had a rotation of people playing were much more inviting. Eh, just my thoughts on creating a more inviting atmoshpere.

 

[pockyD]

...but, like edrees said, that atmosphere already exists

 

[DanteFox]

well the question was asking how to get more people to come to tournaments, so my suggestion was more of that atmosphere.

 

[pockyD]

but how would someone who doesn't already go to tournaments know whether they'll enjoy the atmosphere?

edit: let me break it down to save some time

maybe just play friendlies against people you've never played before. You get to meet new people and are exposed to more playstyles.

a newcomer can't do that unless they're already at the tournament, in which case mission already accomplished

 

[Kira-]

I think people need to make more flyers and stuff

can't expect your average to be checking smashboards every day

 

[EdreesesPieces]

Well, I think the idea is that whenever new people do decide to come to tourneys, they will decide to stay. A lot of people go, get *****, and don't want to come back. If there were lots of friendlies, chances are even if they get ***** they still had fun and might still come back.

 

[JDM]

I think people need to make more flyers and stuff

can't expect your average to be checking smashboards every day

We should make flyers and have them sent to the nearest game store closest to the venue and have them hand them out.

 

[The Greater Leon]

anyone who's serious about smash already knows about swf
all you have to do is google smash bros melee (im sure)

so my freshman year of college
there were flyers for a melee club at my college on my gf's dorm
so i looked into it
they all sucked
i joined 2 facebook groups
i never went to anything

but here's a true story
i got invited to a tournament:
tournament mode
5 stocks
FD only

they were all like little brother status in terms of skill
i could have won with my bowser
not exaggerating


dantefox stop posting
nightmare mode: dont read the spoiler tag

Spoiler

why because you said so?

 

[Kouryuu]

DanteFox you were at Nexus right?

 

[DanteFox]

no

.................

 

[DanteFox]

dantefox stop posting

ok

_________

 

[SuperRad]

dantefox did you go to mj

 

[LooksLikePit]

I would be more excited to go to tournaments if more people brought setups. Most of the tournies I have been to could use more setups. Also, I ****ing hate when people play sets during friendlies. Friendlies and availability to play them are my main reasons to go to tournaments.

 

[SuperRad]

I would play more friendlies if it was standard to do sets

I think it's more conducive to my improvement to play consecutive games. Playing one game and then waiting two isn't very helpful.

 

[The Greater Leon]

mj had a pretty good amount of setups
especially the SF4 tv

speaking of, some ****** who hits the buttons too hard broke my f.p button again
and i cant fix it
i guess ill just swap it with the L1 button -________-

 

[SuperRad]

****s whack, homie

 

[joeplicate]

honestly, it would be fox with a knee

and maybe falco's blaster

 

[PsychoMidget]

Yeah but,

There are people who know about smashboards but don't even know when tournaments are. How would some random scrub be able to find the right tournaments to go to and everything?

More ads n stuff.

HERE'S MY MAIN SUGGESTION

Have something like SCSA but for Melee, so that there's rankings and point distribution and stuff like that (kinda like MLG but i've never gone to one so i'm not 100% sure)

get sponsors, put ads up everywhere, have people hand out invites to school campuses and other popular areas (malls maybe)

and make it not too expensive
then have champ and neal run it.
and have pools and everything. obviously this would take a lot of work but i think we could get a lot more people to attend. melee might even make a comeback (more than it has already)

-kira

 

[pockyD]

mango juice had plenty of setups

 

[embracethe12]

so many that tvs were left un attended.

remember last time we went to connors?

like 4 tvs just hanging out of the ground with no use. lol
(mostly because no melee set up, but not everyone has 2 copies of melee)