Rawr.
Play N Trade Weekly #53 (last one)
http://allisbrawl.com/ttournament.aspx?id=6313
June 8, 2009
Out of 27
13th - 3030+ A.K.A. Kinzer (Sonic)
@#$% Olimar is such a ******-*** character, I swear to God the next time I face Xero I'm gonna beat him to death!!
... I call stage johns on that match too, I gotta get Vic to ban Corneria... at least until the false SBR unbans it... too bad that most tourney hosts don't strictly follow the format... because I had banned Luigi's in fear of getting CPed there (again). I learned my lesson the last time by leaving that stage free to CP, but I was not much better off on Corneria... and I tried to fight Gay with Gay and just camp and make him approach me... that didn't go out too well... Gosh I'm stupid, next time I get Pikmin latched on to me while I'm camping I'm just gonna Nair them off, I could've saved myself so much %age if I wasn't trying to Bair them off me... and **** White pikmin hit hard as Hell! Stupid blastlines didn't help either, getting killed @ ~80% sucks balls. Grrrr If Corneria wasn't legal I could've had that set!
...If I somehow find out Corneria wasn't actually legal at the time of the set I'm going to be so @#$%ing mad!

well okay even more angry than I am right now anyway.
With that out of the way, let me all tell you how Malcolm felt when he would get bracket-@#$%ed, 'cause I know now what he has/had to deal with, and while it's great to play people who give you a challenge, it's d*** hard placing in that circumstance. Never before have I felt so accomplished to getting 13th before until now. I'm not particularly mad about this but @#$% Olimar, @#$% @#$% @#$% @#%$!!!!!!!
My first opponent was none other than the tourney host, Vicko. It went pretty well actually, I forget where most of the stages where (for neutrals anyway, I can distinctly remember CPs, common or otherwise), and I lost the first match... it was a good match though, don't know how it went exactly but oh well. I'm sporting Malcolm's 3030+ tag and I couldn't give up, I have/had something to prove. I take him to Japes the next set, and that went pretty well too. Sure the 2nd stock was rather a nuisance because he wouldn't die until he was somewhere at 240% but oh well what will you do? Won that match, and of course I ban Brinstar because I'm not going to do that... unfortunately he went to Lylat Cruise. I learned prior to this- the hard way, how good of a stage this was for Snake... what with the dark background and the grenades flying all over andt he practically invisible C4.
...My God was that such a tiresome match... it was so @#$%ing clsoe but I ended up Forward throwing him while he had a Grenade in his hand. I mistimed though, because he had enough time to air-dodge... Although that probably worked into my favor, because either he didn't drop the grenade or it was ready to blow up as soon as he got out of the airdodge invincibility frames... had that not happened he wouldn't have blown himself up for the kill!
Whew was I tired after that match, and they wanted me to fight Z right after. Though I guess I asked nicely/politely, they accepted my request to give me a break. ^_^ Z's always been able to beat me handily... still I wasn't all that disheartened to fight him... and the first match on Yoshi's Island was unusually close. I'll probably just have to avoid getting hit by those Thunders an I should be good... I took him down to last stock, but with a little bit of more practice I should be able to start taking off matches off of him, and hopefully sets too. Of course I lost but oh well. I CP to Brinstar... yeah, now I know that if I'm going to play Pikachu, I need a little bit more room than
THIS. It didn't break me too much though, I figure if I was going to lose I might as well have experimented... I wanna see how I handle the MU if I take him to Delfino from now on...
Z's a pretty cool guy and doesn't afraid of giving me advice, he told me I was a bit
too aggresive, frankly I know he's right. I'll have to start stopping in front on opponents and scaring them into something... this ought to help my baiting game tremendously. I'm so used to just bum-rushing my opponents in normal circumstances though... :3 Oh well.
I get called to my next match, and it was against some Random Boobies- Err, I mean Zero Suit Samus Guy. I had no idea who he was or how long he's been in the community, but surprisingly he was decent... and by decent I mean he picked up rather quickly on his CP to FD. I won the first set, but not without having to like turn his armor pieces against him... on the 2nd match those pieces probably were my downfall, I couldn't get control of them and he kept doing combos with them and @#$%... but meh regardless I CP to Frigate. I was kind of hoping he would stay Zero Suit because I know how bothersome that no-ledge part is to some people/characters, and good thing he decided not to change characters. ^_^ Again these came close... I couldn't abuse the stage as much as I wanted to but oh well, I pulled through to the end and won.
I don't want to talk about how the set went with Xero/Olimar... OMG that was just terrible, and I'm gonna petition Vic to get Corneria and/or Luigi's banned. At least when SiN comes around I know for a fact Corneria will be banned and if for whatever reason I see this guy again I'm going to ban Luigi's again (if it isn't banned anyway, I'm not certain of this) and he's going to have to find another way to be Gay other than the usual Olimar @#$%. God I wanted to win that set so bad because my next opponent was a guy that I've been meaning to fight again.. Oh well, at least the LOLimar guy didn't win that set, thank God. I know what I'll have to do next time so there's no way I'm going to lose again. I'll get vengeance for me and Tails, because Sonic should be able to take down that God-awful character (note, this is a lie, Olimar is a worthy opponent in the right hands but he is super Gay)!
Speaking of Tails, I think I should make him my apprentice... this feels extremely weird because he is older than me, but he is losing to opponents I know he could beat if he didn't have his bad habits, and he lost to the same Zelda player who I beat who a couple of weeks ago... pretty easily too until he went G&W and Rainbow Cruise on him too... that I'll let slip but not for Zelda. I know Tails has potential... but he just needs help. If I can't encourage him to make an account on Smashboards and read up on this kind of stuff, I'm going to start hanging around him more in tourneys and see if I can help him... I should even see if I can get him to partner up with me in doubles and see how he does... Well that, and/or start watching him in friendlies and guide him as he does his match... I don't think I can coach in-tourney matches, that would be a bit unfair to his opponent/s. I can at least tell him what he did wrong after regardless of whether he won or lost though.
Same would probably go to RCA who happened to be my doubles partner this time around. We did alright in doubles, I made a couple of mistakes I'm not satisfied though and we probably could've won one or sets had I not failed... but then again I'm not into doubles so blech. I did like a couple of friendlies and dittos, but when we were doing dittos he either plays like that against everybody, or he has some serious lack-of ditto knowledge... and his usage of HA made me sadface. I cannot recall one time where I did
NOT punish him for using it... it's such a bad move and he kept using it like ugh!

There was that, and he's probably very committed/predictable... I'll have to get him to
step mix it up!
... Malcolm, understand this:
I will live in your shadow and/or make up for you now that you have gone to the Wario side of smash... Until you return- if ever, I shall now sport the 3030+ tag (I guess if you're still using this I'll be the Malcolm of the West Coast, I honestly feel we have similar styles (of course mine would be a downgraded version... for now) and we can both use this tag alongside our smash careers) and no matter what I will carry on the legacy that was one of if not our best Sonic... and I hope to even surpass it one day in hopes of being looked up to, just as you were my inspiration to never give up, I will continue to try my best, knowing that I will probably soon (if not already) set an example for others when they think "Sonic in Brawl."
I'll report back when I get back from SiN, if I end up getting pool/bracket @#$%ed I'll still try my best... I'm sure you never stopped or lost velocity just because some things didn't go your way.