well, tbh it just means I dashdance less lol.
I'm definitely NOT thinking too much during a match. My problem's that I don't think enough and just stick to following dumb patterns and w/e lol.
The thing is, I really really wish no-tripping were an option in Brawl. It's ******** that it's not an option. Absurd. Sakurai should seriously be fired, and all the rest. However, I think it's unfair to newcomers that won't have had the chance to have played no-tripping brawl before going to a no-tripping tourney, since it
is kinda a different game; enough that they might feel at a disadvantage facing someone who dashdances a lot, when that behaviour would normally be punished by the game itself.
Then again, I see very few "newcomers" at brawl tournaments anyway; I just see mostly smashboarders... anyone who plays casually but tries to go to a tournament, just gets wrecked so fast that they're turned off the game.... which is kinda sad. Not really a problem we can solve, but it's something to be aware of. We're all better off, the more we get new blood into tournaments. This is an irrelevant tangent tho
Edit: Chis, about WarioWare... I mean, this goes back to what I said about "randomness is bad" vs. "reacting to environmental situations is fine". IMO, the problem with WarioWare isn't that it has a random minigame pop up every now and then; that's a fine part of the level, you need to learn how to play the different games alongside fighting. The problem though are the random rewards for those games; ie. getting a mushroom when your opponent gets a star, is a catastrophic amount of randomness. But otherwise the situations created by WarioWare, even though they're luck based as for which minigame you get, would have been fine on their own. I think.
That's
also sort of an irrelevant tangent, though.
I guess my argument is that small amounts of luck are fine in competitive play; particularly where it's not obviously an advantage for one player vs. another. Tripping, for example, doesn't guarantee a strike on the person who tripped. But it's enough of a disadvantage to be really frustrating and I wish we could remove it without putting newcomers at a disadvantage that I think is unfair.