Ok, so I went to my second London Brawl tournament and it was fantastic and fun, the venue was more organised (Thanks Jolteon for doing that man), more unfamilier faces showed up (which means the UK community is growing as a whole!) and I feel I placed well,I got Top 5 again for in person tournys. (I have entered four now including this one)
Well, my placed 5th this time, just a one place drop, but its all good, since I played some really tough players, all of which were using different characters. There was no pools this time around it was just brackets with double elimination oh, and I used all of my 4 characters at some point in the tournament. Olimar, Wario, Donkey Kong, and Lucas.
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1st round Winners Bracket: vs Captain Amazing: Forfight to Doplghost
My opponent did not show up, I did not even get his name,but if he did show up, I bet he would have destroyed me, I heard he main random, dear god, that is so PRO, MAINING RANDOM, never in a million years. YAY FREE ROUND!!!!!
2nd round Winners Bracket: VS V2: 2:1 to Doplghost
V2 was I thought was a pretty standard ROB, at least that was my first impressions untill he turned up the game a notch and I had to go to Olimar, I was using Donkey Kong throughout our gamesand it was going pretty well untill our second game where he caught onto my walling DK. GG's overall. Oh, and our Mario strikers football games we had together, you are a sweet teammate, keeping calm while I start having goalie johns lol!!!!!!! epic Hat, its better then mine.
3rd round Winners Bracket: vs Kasper: 2:0 to Kasper
Kasper's Falco is the best in the UK, its not even something to debate over, he was that good, I used only Olimar on Kasper, because from previous fests I already knew he was going to be tough, the first game he stomped me, or at least thats how it felt when your being beaten under lazer hopping pressure, as some people may know camping is not something I am good at although I am getting better at it, dispite being an Olimar main, I try to close in, and that did work for the most part on the second game on Delfino plaza, this is a much better representation of what my Olimar can do, and even though I lot that game too it could have gone either way, so my props to Kasper on that game, the guy sent me to the Loser bracket so there were more opponents to play against.
1st round Losers Bracket: vs Siri Glory Elemental: 2:0 to Doplghost
Siri Glory Elemental, man, I have been wanting to play that guy for some time, pro peach in the UK, yes please, I dont care if the matchup is in her favor, I went Olimar for the first round on him, and he used Peach, a very technical Peach might I add, I dont think I have seen tactics like thatin my life, I may be farly greenhorn to the smash bros scene, and he is the perfect example of old tride and true efforts, learning, creating and making your main character better. it was so much fun. But I genually thought he would be tougher, I got the impression he was having a bad day for brawling at some points, as he did much better in friendlys afterwards, two stocking my DK like it was nobodys buisness. The Second match tourny was more of an experiment, as with counterpicks, I had to be careful, so I decided to go Lucas, and this was very fun, I really enjoy Lucas, dispite his recovery issues, Siri was a blast to play with and I hope to play against him some time again. icon_razz good job Siri (critique me man!!!!!!)
2nd round Losers Bracket: vs KillerJawz: 2:1 to Doplghost
When a player forces you to change your entire play style, you are going to have trouble, while half & half of players can do this, KillerJawz makes this apparant and forces you to play safe and carefull, because if not, then you are going to fall for his camp traps, KillerJaws is good at what he does, an Incredible Samus and he knows every nook & cranny about his main, but for me he used Zelda for two games untill he swaped to Samus, his Zelda is very good, like with samus, he knows what he is doing, how long each move will take, a well as the hitboxes, all of his actions make sence when you watch him play, and I had to force him to come ot me insted, a very fun dude to play. keep up the pro skill KJ!!!! (oh, I also went Wario against his Samus, and Olimar against his Zelda!)
3rd round Losers Bracket vs J-Miller: 2:1 to J-Miller
And here is where I go 5th place, losing to who I concider my personal rival, and he definatly brought his A game to the tournament. I used two characters and Miller used one, I started with Lucas, and he stayed Luigi thoroughout our 3 games. Starting off with Lucas was probably a mistake since he trounced me, although I did take a stock, his priority in the air got the best of me dispite my PK fire spam. our second game was one I was proud of, I went to Olimar this time since things were getting srs, and I cped Lylat, and this was close, J Miller had plenty of Olimar experiance, so my offencive game was paying off in terms of unpredictability, grabs were helping to, I only just beat him on this stage, after that, the worst possible disaster happened to me, and it was my fault intirely.
I choked on game 3, it was battlefield and non of us change character. how bad waws my choking, Miller 3 stocked me, basicly not only was he basicly playing perfect except for one mistake which I missed the chance costing me a stock. I also tryed another stratagy for this game, the most well known olimar camp game, and it did not work on him, or for me, at all, he was so good with his character, that I must give him props. Congratulations, losing to J miller landed me in 5th Place of the London tournament.
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As for how I felt I did, I personally felt I improved a great deal, and so did everybody else, everyone was hard in thier own way and I could not fault people for screwing up as we are all human, heck I make slip ups and we all have bad games. but there is one person I must give a particular special shoutout to before I do the others, that one person who I feel I must compete with now and who I must offer my apologys to......
Friendlies vs P4FOS: 2:0 to P4FOS (Olimar Dittos)
Ok, I am going to be frank man, although I did not show it and I had no anger toward you, I was ****y, I was confidant, and I thought you were going ot be hard, but a bit of a pushover, I honislty thought my tactics could overtake you, man oh man was I wrong, you were much harder then I thought, in fact you were better then me, outsmarted me, and your Olimar game was completly different to mine.
But at the same time, I must thank you also, because of this, I feel I now have someone I cam compete with for best Olimar in the UK since i cannot call myself that anymore, I will train night and day untill I can master my main, you sir have raised the bar. heck, you even beat Kasper a round, something which I have yet to do!!!!
WELL DONE MAN!! WELL DONE!!
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SHOUTOUTS
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StarShadowX:Awesome Sonic, Lucas, and Shiek you have man, it's cool that you came to the fest, at first I thought you might have been intimidated or rather disapointed by the fact that you were late, but me and Siri played some matches with you, and you are pretty good at your age, with nunchuk, got to give you props, Smash scene need younger blood to fill the ranks!!!!
M T R:Sorry for failing as a double partner, I will try to play better and study your play style, your Lucario is Rake and your Epic Toon Link is beyond words, (One Hit KO, that is all I shall say on the matter....) Also many thanks for car pooling me to the tournament, it was a great help money wise.
Calzors:Congrats on winning the tournament man, we never had our money match, our randoms after the tourny were fun and so were our double matches before the tournament, even if you did kick my *** at teams, and thanks for helping me get footage for my PSP camera, aswell as wanting to film interviews. great idea to build the scene up.
Anaky:Quit stealing my mouthwash!!! lol I only kid, your Ike, awesome, your Marth, awesome, your Link, Awesome yet again, our 1 pound money matches were putting me out of pound coins. My DK was getting beat by your Ike pretty bad, you also secured 2nd place, and thats really good. congrats on getting moneys.
Copyed & Pasted from my blog on AIB.
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