Typing shout-outs while I upload videos cuz efficiency.
· - First and foremost, shout-outs to Crimson for running things well, especially given that turnout exceeded expectations
· - Shout-outs to Darrell and Violence for being our friendly, entertaining, informative, and eccentric roommates
· - to Tai for actually being willing to go buy pants for Darrell…#AZFriendship
· - to the #AZHypeTrain particularly ForteFreak and Peachfuzz for once again bringing the noise and scaring the crap out of Cali (despite the milder form of the STD chant…wow, now that’s an acronym)
· - to Axe not just for being awesome or placing high, but for having fun in his matches. Pikachu has never looked cuter than when he’s doing his slow walk or taunt-cancelling with shield drops. Or ambushing an unsuspecting M2K with the craziest up-b ledge-cancel approach I’ve ever seen ZOMGWTFTOPHBBQ.
· - To Toph for actually having that license plate
· - To the Washington Smash group at our hotel for being da homies
· - To Silent Wolf for his incredible run through losers that I’m so glad I recorded. It was worth saving
· - To Bladewise for his equally valiant effort in singles, for his teams play, and for caring so much about how SW was doing that he almost seemed to be watching the stream more often than he was watching his own match
· - To Susa and Tafokints for being awesome, friendly people, and for introducing me to boba…er…it’s really just a chewing exercise, but the drink itself was delicious xD
· - Almost relevant shout-out to Tafokints for putting up with so much nerd rage over his top 100 list
· - To Eddy Mexico for BODYING me in pools <.<’ seriously I got wrecked
· - To Combofest for solidly beating me. GGs
· - To Kie: iirc you’re an ICs main but you tried other characters because of the Marth match-up. Maybe it’s just because I play Marth, but in my experience it’s been better to stick to a character and learn disadvantageous match-ups than to try learning ICs, Marth, and Sheik all at once. Food for thought. GGs
· - I need to preface the next two shout-outs from my pool with this: shout-outs to Jackie Tran for his top-tier advice on several match-ups. Thinking about it while I played gave me a ton of insight on playing patiently and safely, and neither of these next two matches would have gone as well without it. Also, shoutouts to him for quietly making it pretty far in tourney.
· - HUGE shout-outs to Hyuga for our set in pools. It was tight all the way to last stock, you were on point with your punishes, and I learned an unbelievable amount about the match-up from it.
· - Another big shout-out to Jose Ole. Technical Falco with some solid pressure. I was scared for the first few stocks. I got you because I was thinking about playing patiently, and I found I was safe if I just waited out your laser camping on the side platforms. Try either playing a little more aggressively in neutral or covering the side platforms with lasers.
· - To “KoreanBJ” and Oats for being moved out of the pool and not showing up respectively, making my pool smaller than everyone else’s -.-
· - To “KoreanBJ” for making me giggle a little despite what it did to my pool
· - To Eastballz for being in the same pool as Westballz (and to the other cardinal directions similarly appended to genitalia)
· - To Mew2King for being an obvious fraud; I took a stock during the ~5 matches we played. Smh
· - To Sung for teaching me new technology. Imma learn that shield pressure and come hit you with it next year
· - To Gravy for making Marth Falcon look 15-85
· - To fellow semi-MidWesterner Little England for dunking on me in friendlies
· - To Ken for his insight on just how bad Marth is as a character (lol but seriously it was cool to meet you; it’s your fault I play this children’s party game after all)
· - To Alan for having the best troll tag of the tournament
· - To Oksas for reprising our team from last time and winning one more game with me than we did before. At this rate we’ll be winning the tourney by Kings of Cali 10. Always a fun time teaming with you.
· - To M3DZ for being technically American but nevertheless very brown
· - To MexRay for taking a game off Lovage. MexRay for Prez
· - To ExposedFrauds_AppleApple for, ironically, not getting exposed as hard this time around.
· - To Venom for no longer forcing us to utter his former tag in reference to his person. A wise decision, my friend
· - To whoever decided to label my TV number 7.5 on day 2. I found it to be amusing