R.I.P. Kjell Anders "Nappy" Peterson.

[Attila_]

He's very clever at cooking nades.

Lots of methods that no one else utilizes.

 

[etecoon]

I watched a bunch of the apex videos yesterday, just WATCHING E§Å|\/| vs razer was hurtful :/ I don't know as though I'm sold on Pikachu being "Snake's worst MU" but it just highlighted all the frustrating things about Snake

All the good MK vids also made me sad, Näirõ and A££y especially, it's so good to see people actually succeeding with a pressure based style in brawl. Maybe MK was too good but I can't see the game being better now with flowchart camping Olimars and Diddy Kongs being the biggest beneficiaries

 

[Elyssa Xey Hexen]

Are those attempts at self-searching censor dodges? lol

 

[Ralph Cecil]

What was I supposed to get from those. The only thing watching those did was make me depressed lol

^^^^This lol.

I'm going to try, and start doing the duelists like recovery thing that he does with the grenade though. =D

 

[Attila_]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0drgCENQkFQ&fmt=18

this was actually the set that i meant to post. whoops.

 

[etecoon]

I love the nade games that a lot of japanese Snakes have, only a little that I can practically imitate because I have the bad combination of being a klutz AND having a bad controller, but a lot of good creativity as well as being insanely technically proficient

I also love the fact that choking MK makes a squeaky toy sound in their game...

 

[F A N G]

So about that video Attila just posted

How do you do this (at about 4:22, when Snake like slides back and drops the nade):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0drgCENQkFQ&fmt=18

 

[Elyssa Xey Hexen]

He simply walked backwards while holding a grenade briefly, but used shield part the way through to drop it.

 

[F A N G]

lol Thank you

 

[False]

I'm in the most stupid stacked region ever.

Had to play dabuz r2.

 

[Elyssa Xey Hexen]

You don't need to rely on someone else kicking out the competition from the tourney or having to get a nice bracket ride to the top. Just go and kick them out of the bracket and assert domiance over the region.

That Dabuz is going to ride Da Bus out of that bracket after losing to you.

 

[etecoon]

Yeah I never understood bracket complaints. I never actually became anywhere near that good but to me the idea was to be able to beat every single person at the venue.

Free money is nice though, I won two tournaments that no one good showed up to, so there is always that bonus if you live in an easy region <_<

 

[Elyssa Xey Hexen]

Seriously? No comment on my da-bus comment?

 

[Ralph Cecil]

I feel real silly for not noticing that the first time I read it. T_T

 

[~ Gheb ~]

I'm in the most stupid stacked region ever.

Had to play dabuz r2.

That sucks ... why did you lose to Peach though? =/

 

[False]

I used to be 2-0 against Dark Peach but I guess he just outplayed me.

I wasn't really feeling this tournament.

 

[Jrugs]

False don't pick a secondary or you wont learn the pika MU, (razer almost has it mastered) you've gotten soo much better from before don't stop soloing him now. Btw I still want that mm lol

 

[False]

You don't need to rely on someone else kicking out the competition from the tourney or having to get a nice bracket ride to the top. Just go and kick them out of the bracket and assert domiance over the region.

That Dabuz is going to ride Da Bus out of that bracket after losing to you.

Well no especially the fact that Olimar is basically the only MU I cannot absolutely play, but I get him R2 was kinda annoying lol

Sure Jrugs. xDDD I can go whoever I want I presume? o:

 

[Jrugs]

Well no especially the fact that Olimar is basically the only MU I cannot absolutely play, but I get him R2 was kinda annoying lol

Sure Jrugs. xDDD I can go whoever I want I presume? o:

Last line didn't quite make sense? any way but you live in NYC I know soon you will have Pika and Oli mastered. You have the luxury of playing dabuz as many times as you want. Pika may be harder though Idk what pikas you have.

 

[Attila_]

Pikachu giving you trouble?

Love that pocket ics.

 

[UltimateRazer]

I'll learn the pika match up. Giving me some time though. I've already begun researching up on it .

 

[mikeray4]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZWYYBU9iGM

 

[DiskaSM]

Yeah I never understood bracket complaints. I never actually became anywhere near that good but to me the idea was to be able to beat every single person at the venue.

Free money is nice though, I won two tournaments that no one good showed up to, so there is always that bonus if you live in an easy region <_<

Well, the bracket thing is really important when you live in a good region like False does (or I do). Let's say you struggle a lot against a certain character. If you have to play a decent player of that character that you struggle against early in the bracket, then you go to losers. You have to play a lot more games in loser's to make it to loser's finals. But if you hadn't had to fight that troublesome matchup in winner's bracket, you could have gone a lot further with fewer games.

Or you could end up having to fight a top player like ADHD first match in winner's bracket. For some of us who aren't as good as he is, that's almost an auto-loss. So you go to loser's bracket right away. Going to loser's bracket is bad cause it's your last chance, and like I said you have to play a heck of a lot more games to get to the finals.

We could also use Razer as an example here. He beat ADHD at Apex (right? I'm not 100% sure on this xD), but lost to Esam. Now let's imagine that in a typical tournament, Esam would usually lose to ADHD. In that case, if Razer got stacked against Esam right off the bat, he would (theoretically) lose. But if Razer gets someone easier and ADHD has to fight Esam, then (again, theoretically) ADHD would beat Esam, removing the threat for the moment. Then Razer could beat ADHD and proceed in the bracket. It would be a lot easier for him that way.

Hopefully this makes sense.

 

[Ken Neth]

Most people understand the bracket concept. I think he was trying to say that your goal should be to get good enough so you can beat everyone and it doesn't matter who you play or when you play them, cause you're going to win.

 

[etecoon]

It's an attitude thing. Obviously an easier bracket helps but as a player you want to go into every set thinking that you won't lose, if you look at the bracket and start projecting yourself into losers at some point it's going to become a self fulfilling prophecy.

 

[Attila_]

Harder brackets are nice.

My most satisfying tourney win was when played the first, second and third seeds in bracket.

Beat everyone that's good and you can really call yourself a winner.

 

[Ken Neth]

Agreed.

When you walk away with a placing after beating better opponents to get there is definitely more rewarding.

 

[Elyssa Xey Hexen]

It's funny that in a ton of stories, you see this ideology of wanting to win. Wanting to beat everyone. You won't back down. None of that stuff helps you win in the end lol

The only thing it does is it keeps you coming back for more matches whether you win or lose over and over again.

I keep feeling like real improvement only comes in a few stages.

One, control. Practice, practice, practice. Practice until you and properly achieve what needs to be done in a given situation. You get caught in a CG spike against, Falco, you should have the ability to SDI that into the stage.

Second seems to be knowledge. Knowledge more so in Melee I feel rather than in Brawl. Knowing how you can extend a combo or place your opponent into bad positions to achieve more damage and ultimately land a KO. Also knowing other stuff.

And the last thing seems to be mentality. As I said, if you only thinking about "**** I can't lose, why am I losing" That 1 second span you took to think about that, you wasted time and were on autopilot the whole time. Who knows if you managed to DI thing your got hit by or realized what was inevitably going to happen next.

 

[etecoon]

Having the right attitude won't make you win but it will prevent you from beating yourself, that particular component is more about playing to your abilities more than actually increasing your abilities

 

[Elyssa Xey Hexen]

That makes more sense. There are a ton of moments in melee where I just get completely overwhelmed by the fast pace and what the heck is going on. So much so that my mentality does turn a bit destructive and I completely lose focus on whats going on. Burying myself a hole acts as a nice analogy lol

 

[Ken Neth]

What category does asking for a hard bracket fall under? X is number one here, and I'm so tired of him talking crap on everyone I asked the TO to put me against him first round.

Last tourney I was super sick and out of it, so I lost second round when I shouldn't have only to win the next seven rounds and take third.

 

[Jrugs]

Ill would rather X over Dabuz any day.

 

[False]

X? You mean this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nuqpW25oEQ

Nj unranked inactive players taking out top ranked in other states? My boy NAKAT. And stacked nj is stacked.

 

[Ken Neth]

He lost to the first fox he's ever fought lol. You can't try to say that someone who takes out tons of "top" players in tourney (he even took m2k to game five in sin2 GFs, iirc) isn't good. Props to nikat though for pulling through.

 

[Jrugs]

Point proven. NY/NJ da bess. id rather X any day

 

[Ken Neth]

Lol you guys are missing the point. I never tried to claim he was better or anything. I know NJ is a better state than Utah when it comes to quality/quantity of players. I just asked if it is crazy to want to go up against #1 first round.

Just forget it.

 

[Jrugs]

Thats not crazy to want to fight number, but it is BS to get number 1 like 2nd round. Especially dabuz. Now fighting number 1 (or in false's case Dabuz) like in finals that would be hype.

 

[Zajice]

Ken is cool because he has an AC avatar.

That is all.

 

[Attila_]

are your brackets seeded?

we normally have top four seeds at separate corners of the bracket, but not much else is altered with.

 

[Ken Neth]

Yes. The earliest I'd ever fight him is winners semis. Our TO refused to put us against each other

Edit: They try to seed the top 10 the best they can and the rest is kinda whatever.

Zajice, I love you. We need to attend the same tourney again, I wanna play you.