Yeah, olimar's a toughie if you're a close-combat kinda guy because it's hard to approach him. If he uses his side-special at you, though, it doesn't do any knockback which means it doesn't interrupt PK freeze, which is nice.
But otherwise I don't meet Olimar's much either, unfortunately for me almost everyone around me in the competitive scene uses marth, falco or snake. Some use Pit, ICs, Bowser (just met one this last tournament), DK and D3, but most are one of the former 3.
In any case, i'll let you guys know how I went at the tournament today!! *posts some stuff from the kirby boards so he doesn't have to type it all out* - My furthest was in one of the brawl singles brackets, it was a reasonably large bracket and I got pushed out of winners straight away. I progessed in losers for a little while before being knocked out just before the quarter-finals.
Doubles (surprisingly) went pretty horribly, my brother and I got knocked out of winners, then batted out again in losers, which is pretty sad considering we came 3rd last time, so we'll just have to practice more for next time.
I missed out on brawl low tier bracket, I suspect had I gone in there I would have progressed a tad further than I did, but in any case, the tournament was great and some of the matches were intense! I even got some matches recorded. Most of them are lucas but some are ness. I'll post all of them, so you can take a look if you like. BE AWARE HOWEVER that I have fallen back in to some old habits that i should not have, mainly rolling too much. It's mainly because after last tournament I stopped playing brawl for ages and then only picked it back up a couple days ago, picking the darn habit back up again before this tournament, so if you'll excuse that flaw i'm going to work on it again and try to get it under control.
Feel free to critique them when they come out, suggest what i can do better, what's working well, what I should discontinue, stuff like that, i'm sure you know the drill better than I do so i'll let you nut that out.
In any case, even though I didn't place that well, the tournament was fun and that's what's important, IMO. I'm really looking forward to seeing the results and vids when they do come out i'll post them here for you to look at.
Every tournament I go to is a big step-up in my learning curve and even though I didn't play much between last tournament and this one I still felt myself getting better, more used to playing against lots of different play-styles and so on. It's great to see the old friends and meet new ones and in general, every tournament fogs up in my mind until it eventually becomes a hazy, misty dream that I treasure going over.
Man, smash is great. ^>^
