Man oh MAN . I think everyone should show respect for THE MAN . He was the most dominant force at TG6 after all. Pretty much everyone who stayed at Deezie's can confirm this. DA Dave liked it. Wes and THE MAN really should team up for the next tournie. Maybe call themselves the "Sleep Assassins" or something.
Thanks, once again to the Host with the Most, Mattdeezie. People need to realize that this guy took a week off of work to make 4 or so runs to the airport a day just to have his house absolutely trashed and crowded while organizing a huge tournament while also getting next to no sleep and still ending up about $800 in debt, (don't worry, I donated). Now that's dedication, or insanity, either one. Plus we got the neighbors mad on top of that so yeah, I really don't blame him if this is the last TG.
This was the most fun tournie I've ever been to, and I've been to some fun tournies. I was telling Matt that this seemed like the absolute fastest 5 days of my life. It was so much fun and the atmosphere at Deezie's place and the club was just so cool. And it is official, Wes and Robfalco are the funniest smashers, ever. Everything they said cracked me up. It's time for mindgames Rob. I liked it.
All of the regulars I've had the good fortune to meet before were cool as usual. Sam, Scamp, Jeremy, Adam, Vien, Eddie, the Doug, Silver, Crystal City, Mike G, Goldwing and Delani (even though they refused to talk to THE MAN) and of, course Reginald.
The new people I met were awesome as well. First off, no one tells better stories than DA Dave. Him and Wes playing Smash together is pure comedy. Teflon Climbers is the most insane person I've ever met, I'm sure he'll take it as a compliment. Mike and Jarrod from Canada were very nice and pretty cool guys, I wanted to talk and Smash with them more but they, (wisely) stayed at Isai's along with the SoCal crew. It was nice to see them all again too.
Now to the actual tournament:
First off TO EVERYONE: no johns.
I've had a good amount of respect for Azen ever since he started making his presence known. I had a feeling as the tournie went on, especially after all of these amazing upsets, (this was THE tournie of amazing upsets, in case you couldn't tell) that Azen was going to walk away with the whole thing. He did and it was well deserved. What people who weren't there don't really have the chance to understand is that there really didn't seem to be an "Us vs. Them" mentality that TG seemed to have in the last couple tournies. TG4 with NorCal vs. SoCal. TG5 was EC vs. WC. But I really didn't get the feeling that this was USA vs. Japan. CJ was extremely friendly and very funny and seemed to get along great with anyone that tried to communicate with him. People that are saying that people who were "cheering" for CJ were "traitors" are really kind of missing the vibe that I got from the tournie. Maybe it was just me. Plus, most of that clapping for CJ was due to the fact that he was holding his own against one of USA's best who was using one of the game's best characters while he used Doc Mario with style. Similar to how you have to give respect to Azen for the win, you have to give Jack the credit for his Japanese trickz.
Speaking of giving respect...who in their right minds would honestly think that ICE CLIMBERS would get 3rd place in what will probably be one of the biggest and toughest tournies in the world? Chu Dat was very cool and seemed like a nice guy. Plus he used the IC's in a way I've never seen before AND he looks quite a bit like our very own Silly Fox, so props for that too.
And of course, one of my fellow WA Peaches, Sastopher. To anyone that wasn't at the tournie, the set with second largest audience (CJ/Azen finals being first, of course) of the entire thing was Sas vs. Ken. I really like Ken and his family but I think he'd understand that myself and the rest of SKYPAL was jumping up and down when Chris won. The place erupted.
A couple more shout outs. I gotta say, I was pretty happy that Robfalco tied for 5th with Isai, I believe. He likes it. And my 2v2 partner DSF. Man, everyone has been hyping you for the last couple months and you certainly proved your worth, eliminating Ken and tieing Wes for 7th place was huge and you also deserved it. Good job to both of you.
Then we have Ken, Sam, WA's very own J-dawg, and myself all tied for ninth. I reached even beyond my own goal of getting top twenty so I was pretty happy about that.
So on the whole, this was my favorite tournie so far. Washington made a great showing with 3 in the top ten and the rest literally right behind. Got to see old friends from past tournies and got to meet a whole new bunch of really cool Smashers. I hope to see most of them again at the V-Games finals.