Awesome freaking tourney.
While I didn't make nearly as much of an effect on the final results as I would have liked, it was an awesome and amazing experience regardless.
I enjoyed it more than FC... though frankly, the main reason for that is that I wasn't playing the same midwest people over and over again here, while at FC I was playing rematches with former opponents almost exclusively.
I unfortunately had to leave at 6, so I didn't get to see that thrilling conclusion that everyone's raving about... so when's the DVD coming out?
For myself, I didn't do too well. In teams, I teamed with a falco player who I'd never met before. We did pretty well, considering... but I think that we would have gotten into the main teams bracket in at least half of the pools. Unfortunately, we happened to have captain jack's team, diesuperfly's team, and chu's team in our pool, and only the top 3 advance. We never did get beaten badly... but we just didn't have QUITE what it took to beat any of those three. I still don't know how chillin's solo climber managed to take us both out at the end of that second match.
In singles, I also didn't do nearly as well as I'd hoped. I won my first match, and got to play DA dave second. Dave, we gotta do that again sometime. First match didn't go so well, but then, falco on FD rarely loses to peach regardless. Second match dave goes for the fancy finisher spike, misses, and gets ledge hogged. I dunno if I deserved that one, but hey, a win's a win. Third match... best match I ever played. After the first lives, we REALLY had a war. You combo and beat me from 0 to death. I do the same right back. We repeat again... and then you combo me from 0 to death for my last life. I SO wish that match was taped... but oh well. Wes, no coaching next time.
In the losers bracket, I didn't do that well either. I beat my first opponent, won a way-too-close set against a samus, then ran into deezie. Everyone talks about this guy's tourney running skills... but geez, his fox plays exactly the same as kishsquared. Nice win man, I'm glad I didn't have to give anyone a bye... since even if I had beaten you, I would have had to leave before my next match.
Well, I figure I'll probably just do some shout outs now.
azen - wow, congrats man. First on your amazing team playing, since you spent more than half of most matches dealing with a 2-on-1 situation while wes recovered from the sides of the levels and still managed to pull the wins against all but ken and isai. Second, on winning the finals... I can't wait to actually see that. It was also nice having matches with you... though losing young link dittos is NOT something I plan to make a habit of. Next time maybe. I won't comment on that match where you used zelda, because there's nothing to say. I would have liked to get more friendlies in, but the line for that got a bit too long for me to wait in it. Oh, and thank you for reminding me why I stopped playing F-zero GX. *afterthought in edit* and, I guess, for winning the tourney. But everyone else already mentioned that one.
captain jack - nice job taking second place. I wish I'd been able to play you in a money match, but I couldn't find you sunday morning and there was no time once the singles got underway. I still don't know how my team got so close to yours in that match... and that we almost prevented your team from getting into the main bracket (yeah, I'm that crazy bearded guy who played peach). Then again, seeing your epic battle with the eastcoast team was more than worth not making it ourselves.
chu dat - well, maybe I don't feel quite as bad about those losses now. You took us out in the irrelevant teams match (had we beaten you, we would have lost to diesuperfly's team for third in heads up), and you just obliterated me in those friendlies we had. I've beaten pyro's ice climbers. I've beaten vocal's ice climbers. But geez, yours somehow just had my peach's number. I wanted to play them with my young link, but then you switched to GAME AND WATCH. *Sigh* I lost to a freaking game and watch. Well, I guess you're just that good man... though, as expected of any good game and watch, you relied almost exclusively on downtilt, forward air, and neutral air. I just couldn't get you out of my face, and even game and watch beats young link up close (I'm still looking for a character who doesn't... maybe in the next smash game). Congrats on taking third as well. Gotta love that nana revenge kill in your team set against eddie and the doug.
diesuperfly - I'm not giving you money ever again. First your doc takes out my young link in michigan, then I get the crazy idea that I can beat your sheik here for 5 bucks. Well, good set, both matches were close, but you won it. If there was just SOMETHING that peach could do when grabbed at 100% damage to survive...but there's not. No matter where I DI, its over. You were one of my relevant losses in teams, because if we'd beaten you we'd have managed to go on. I don't know who that peach player was that you teamed with... but he's friggin good. And if you really did take out ken... *insert golf clap here* Maybe JV won't feel so upset about losing to you in michigan now. Oh... and next time, we look at street signs so that we don't get lost. We took the long way from deezie's to the tournament on sunday.
DA dave - next time buddy, next time. I already wrote about our match previously, so there's not much else to say there. Also, we didn't do half bad in that teams exhibition set against you and mike G either, did we? I wish I'd gotten to play mike G more than just having his falcon spike-knee my peach to end a team game. If he plays peach half that fast, no wonder he's the best peach player in the US. *edit* of course, I had no idea who he was until someone else mentioned it afterward.
Mike from canada - I swear, someday I'll figure out how to beat that DK with young link. However, for now... I still live in fear of that monkey.
Jarrod - do you respect me now? lol, whatever. Good matches, you kept them all close. It's just a shame that TG rules hardly let me camp against you, but I did what I could. Maybe we'll play again... and I still don't know how you and mike took the first two "midwest and canada" seeds before eddie or I could say anything. I put the 5 bucks I won from you into the "help deezie pay for this thing" jar, so your money certainly didn't go to waste.
Deezie - great tourney man, and great matches. I'll figure out how to beat fox sometime... and, on the off chance you do host something else, the cover charge would definitely be a better idea. I put in 5 bucks, but I doubt that many people even put in a dollar. I'm certainly up for buying the DVD, which again should help you recoup some of your losses.
Elite 5 - was I really the only one during the entire weekend who actually attempted the ken challenge? I beat jiggly, I beat ganondorf (though that early zombie turnip did help things), and I beat sheik. Manacloud was still playing teams, so I had to wait... and three hours later, he played jiggly and beat me in a nailbiter finish. Good match, but I wish I'd played you when I was on a roll rather than after a huge wait. No johns though, I'll have to try to climb the ladder next time. Ken, just wait for it. You will face Camper Bob again. Also, it was fun playing friendlies with you guys... my young link was doing surprisingly well. Next time, I won't air dodge off the cliff at 0 damage after evening the score on my last life.
Soul Calibur 2 guys - Well, there were 7 or 8 guys who stayed up with me and were playing SC2 for a while... thanks to all of you for showing me how much my talim sucks. Oh, and for showing me how my seng mina REALLY sucks. It was fun to play anyway, but we really needed to get some sort of logical controller passing order, because that fell into confusion really often. Someone kill that freaking astaroth.
To other people there... well, it was a blast playing with all of you that I did. I really didn't get that many people's names... so I can't really do shout outs in that regard. If anyone remembers or recognizes me, I was the crazy bearded guy who used the name "..." and played almost exclusively as peach and young link.
Not that anyone who actually went there cares, since I probably won't see you for months, but my peach will be taking a while off while I practice with my young link and ganondorf for a while. I may come back to peach, but time will tell.
Great tourney everyone. I really enjoyed it, and look forward to the DVD.
*edited to remove a few typos and fix a few things*
.....And I got 1000 yen from Takuto!! good $hit!!!
But we all know you #1. And you diversity helped you out too. Good ****. 
