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The New and Twice Improved NC Brocator Thread
- Thread starter Malk
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Rawfuls
Smash Journeyman
i stopped watching at halftime for fear of throwing something at the tv
KillerSOS
Smash Champion
Meh... Whatever! XD
stingers
Smash Obsessed
Good thing I'm an Eagles fan lmao
I can't believe Eagles made the playoffs...so amazing.
I can't believe Eagles made the playoffs...so amazing.
mr.fizwidget
Smash Champion
im a broncos fan.......
l0zR=)
Smash Champion
Go dolphins and panthers
GofG
Smash Champion
i like the cubs
stingers
Smash Obsessed
dude...gtfo.
KillerSOS
Smash Champion
Go Panthers! U is nub
stingers
Smash Obsessed
LMAO
Eagles > Panthers in Semis
Calling it right the fuck now
Eagles > Panthers in Semis
Calling it right the fuck now
KillerSOS
Smash Champion
You live in NC??? Whats up with that??
OmniOstrich
Smash Lord
they're bad thats what
Sushi-Man
Smash Ace
I like the dolphins, but not the Miami dolphins!
stingers
Smash Obsessed
Zero_Gamer
Smash Master
I think I've gotten the hang of this avatar thing...
Lol this thread. I barely missed the nostalgia and wondering where I was.
PAC tell me sometime!
Corey I haven't seen anything...or did you make a new thread? I'm still catching up to everything here...
LoZR play me in Melee bro! Ima help make future NC too good.
PAC tell me sometime!
Corey I haven't seen anything...or did you make a new thread? I'm still catching up to everything here...
LoZR play me in Melee bro! Ima help make future NC too good.
I've been busy. I might have time to do it tomorrow.
Alright man, I know you have stuff goin on. Do what you gotta do bro.
I'll get back to you on your PM tomorrow...today sometime ok? =p
I'll get back to you on your PM tomorrow...today sometime ok? =p
Cool enough, thought I might not be going. I found out about Josh's thing in Rocky Mount, and since I have reason to go to Raleigh again I now have to decide where I want to go. So, decide what you want, but also don't wait up for me.
I see.
You don't get to go to Raleigh/Rocky Mount that often, so I don't have a problem with you going, if that matters.
I should have a backup anyway...hopefully.
You don't get to go to Raleigh/Rocky Mount that often, so I don't have a problem with you going, if that matters.
I should have a backup anyway...hopefully.
Habanero Pepper
Smash Apprentice
PP-At some point I need to convince Rawfuls to get me down to your place so we can play. We're both tired of seeing you get better and not having ever played you.
My place? In the middle of nowhere with no one? F that, come to Gboro when I go in January or early February. It'll be fun.
@PLUR: I've been meaning to do that lol. I found them before I left for PA, but never commented. My bad. I'll get on that fairly soon.
What I do remember seeing wasn't all that bad and especially not as bad as you make it out to be.
@PLUR: I've been meaning to do that lol. I found them before I left for PA, but never commented. My bad. I'll get on that fairly soon.
What I do remember seeing wasn't all that bad and especially not as bad as you make it out to be.
*P*L*U*R*
Smash Hero
Hey peepee, comment on my youtube vids and tell me how much I suck at smash.
KillerSOS
Smash Champion
Plur what is your youtube name? XD I'll watch um.
4000th POST!!!
To celebrate my 4000th post I'd like to show off my avatar, which will serve as a symbol of how much I've come to love NC smash.
Long live NC smash, and smash in general!
To celebrate my 4000th post I'd like to show off my avatar, which will serve as a symbol of how much I've come to love NC smash.
Long live NC smash, and smash in general!
stingers
Smash Obsessed
if your plan was to celebrate NC smash, how come your original idea was a fatass dressed up in a marth costume
I realized that that idea wasn't funny enough, and it didn't hold any meaning that would really be worth keeping on as my avatar for a long time.
Malk
Smash Champion
so what you're saying is you'd like to s my d
Malk knows my rhetoric too well.
Alright PP, I have good news and bad news. Bad news is, I've decided to go to Rocky Mount on Saturday. Good news is, here's the story of NC smash as I know it. I'll be typing it up presently, and if everyone wants it, I'll post it here or I'll just send it to you.
I'm fine with both of those.
I'm ready to read it.
I'm ready to read it.
mr.fizwidget
Smash Champion
i too would like to know the history of nc smash
Hang tight guys, I'm going fairly in depth, and I'm only to the winter of '03 right now. I'm going as fast as I can.
No no man, you make sure you get EVERYTHING covered fully and coherently. I can wait.
Malk
Smash Champion
talk about me a lot
they'll love that
they'll love that
Alright, back in the day, when the Smash world was young, things were very different from how they are now. The world of Smash was an open book of light-hearted amusement, for Smash brothers was a game of merriment to be partaken with one's good friends. That doesn't mean there wasn't some friendly rivalry going on. My high school friends and I were particularly fond of games where all 4 players could participate, thus lots of FFAs and 2v2s (this is where I learned how to deal with a lot of things going on at once). We had all played SSB on the n64 for about a year, and were so very excited for a sequel. Much revelry followed, as we all took to Melee very well, even my friend who was disappointed Pika's new shortcomings. He settled on Marth, because he had a sword and good reach and favored his strategic but rather simple playstyle (dude, wtf, that's 2 games in a row where the first person he picks up is top tier ;_
.
6 months pass, and one of my other friends discovers the realm of GameFAQs. Soon after that we become engrossed in Stadium competitions, and make names for ourselves in the early days of Cruel Melee. This was before the days of immobilization tactics and 1000 KOs was an impressive total. We did this for about another 6-8 months (we're at about February of '03 for those of you keeping score) when some people from a place called the Smash World Forums showed up to torment and flame the happy-go-lucky GameFAQs members, saying they were the ultimate Smash community because they held tournaments and so they were better players. Long story short there, GameFAQs remained the pinnacle of single player modes, while SWF became the VS mode proving grounds. I made an account here in probably March, but then soon came the massive server crash, which lasted for about 2 months. At the start of June SWF was reborn, and tons of people flocked to it's boards and pages to see what this tournament hubbub was about. I joined days apart from such noteworthy names as Cort, M3D, even Iggy and KishSquared. I was drawn here by a guy I met simultaneously here and at GameFAQs who was interested in moving to Charlotte and wanted to set up a Melee scene here like he had previously done in Detroit. He was Joe V. aka jv3x3, now known as MLG_JV, inventor of the JV #-stock. An era was born.
My casual friends hadn't much interest in competitive Smash, despite being leagues ahead of other 'uninitiates' Joe had seen. They just liked playing games amongst themselves, and apparently being quite good at them for it. I can't blame them, there's a kind of bliss there that comes from being apart from the pressure of making one's place in an online community. Anyway, Joe and I started trying to host tournaments in my apartment in Raleigh. They didn't turn out so well, not many people were seriously interested in Melee enough to want to go and play it for money. About a month after joining SWF Joe was kind enough to recommend me for the SBR. I got in with, oh, about 45 posts to my name and soon voted on the 4th tier list. I still cling to the notion that my personal list rarely deviated and still came pretty close to the final one they posted last year. It wasn't until Ken appeared that year did people begin to take Marth seriously. I lulled hard back then (remember my friend with his habit of picking up top tier characters a week after first playing the game).
Well, a few of these tourneys and we'd garnered a bit of regional attention for ourselves. We went to Atlanta in August and got ourselves soundly beaten by these guys from Gainesville FL. You see, before FL was good, FL sucked balls. But before that, one crew from the north part of the state was in fact, very very good. These guys actually went to TG4, TG5, and TG6, and while there they were just part of the crowd, back home they were unstoppable. We got a hotel room for the night with these guys, which proved to be one of my fondest evenings playing Smash ever. There were 6 of us on 2 tvs, in a room supposedly occupied by one, so 2 people ended up sleeping on opposite sides of the bed, the others slept on the floor of the room, and Goldwing (the marth player that was the champion of the southeast for a great long while) was camped out on the floor of the bathroom. The next day we went to GA Tech and met bunches of people and introduced a lot of them to SWF, including 3 young high school kids named Wes, Bobby, and Miles. The first 2 everyone should know by now, they are of course OSM and just1111. Miles is their friend, and I understand he would still hang out at their tournaments after he quit entering (I saw him at SA-X which was awesome).
Not long after our trip to GA tech, some guys on GameFAQS showed up wanting to know if there were people around who played and when they could beat them. We took this challenge with smiles. Joe and I, and my friend Steve, drove out to Gastonia to meet these guys. They were named Joel, Josh, Jade, and Dustin, better known as Twiggy. They weren't bad, I ended up going more or less even with Twiggy during the months we later spent Smashing, but Joe was still ahead of them. They were, and still are, good guys.
Pretty soon we started trying to get attention and support from students at NC State for a tournament, and a kid shows up on Smashboards saying he'll help us get a dorm lounge for it and provide tv's and quite a few entrants. This kid, Bobby, was supposedly the big man on campus. He was the guy no one else could beat. I tried, but was unsuccessful, at dethroning him entirely, but I did hold my own against most of his followers. We played a lot and got along pretty well. Soon it came time for the tournament. It was early December, and Bobby and Joe were meeting for the first time. A guy from Alabama who we met at GA Tech drove all the way up to attend and brought Twiggy and Jade (Jolly) and Joe with him. A great tourney, all things considered. Joe and I dominated teams, which was an experiment with items in teams matches and also constituted some support of Joe's reasonings behind his later arguments for banning particular stages (in 2003 there was a large list of stages to choose from, "neutrals" hadn't been invented yet, and most everything went at this point).
Singles was pretty good. I lucked out in the end and Bobby lost to his teammate, a fox player who never ventured online in search of Smash greatness. I beat him in 3 close matches, but they were all mine. Then came Joe and me in loser's semis. My Sheik wasn't doing so hot against Joe's Marth and Peach, though I did win the first match on Cruise. It was game 4 so I dragged out my Falcon, which I'd been working on for 2 months since I first saw some of Isai's matches, and marvelled at the things he had come up with for him. This was the start of all NC Falcons. Don't let anyone tell you different. The match begins, and before the intro music on Poke Stadium was finished, I'd tripled Kneed Joe's Marth full across the stage 0-death. I took him to 1 stock before he could finally kill me, and I ended up 3 stocking him. Game 5, do or die time, so Joe, using his counterpick to change to Fox (we then randomed Floats because we hadn't helped come up with advanced slobs yet), and despite a moderately close match, Joe was victorious. I got 3rd. Joe ended up winning when CahPhoenix, the Alabaman, accidentally airdodged into the back of the ship on Cruise because he hadn't actually grabbed it yet. He would have edgehogged Joe for the win, game 5 of the 2nd set. Good times.
The very next week, or maybe the week after (whatever) Joe Bobby and I piled into Bobby's Cougar for the trip back to Atlanta and the first Smash Aid, GAWes's idea of holding a smash tourney and giving half the pot to charity. Bobby and I teamed, and were despondent to lose to the triple threat of CahPhoenix, GABobby, and Joe, who decided to play as one team and swap out memebers so they all got to play. They actually slobbed a player one match, which was uber gay because the Peaches (yeah, they both played Peach) played nothing alike. I was unhappy about that, so now there are no 3 man teams.
Life began to beckon for me at this point. It was right around new year's of '04. I moved back to Charlotte just as Joe was deciding to head back to Michigan, but before he went we went to the tournament to end all tournaments (lol) Game Over, in Woodbridge VA, hosted by H2YL. Joe, CahPhoenix and I were to take Cah's car (the dude drove all the way to NC from AL and was going to continue on to DC? holy hell) but not an hour into our part of the trip when we threw a rod and the car was a total loss. We finally got back to Charlotte when Joe decides he's staying home, so Cah and I take my somewhat-reliable Camaro all the way up there. Joe gave us directions and a phone number, and we left at about 1 in the morning. We got to Chudat's house at about 8:30 tired as sh*t. After a nap and some sound beatings we went to the tourney, where we met Azen, Chillindude, DA Dave, Wes, Mike G (though I didn't really meet him until he moved to ATL) and of course, Ken and Isai. The tourney was fun. I didn't get to play teams, but that's alright because it was the only national tournament in history to be TA off. Guess why it was the only...
I got Isai first round of singles, lost, then lost to DA Dave's brother. . I did make friends for many years though with the best 2 players from California for a good long time, and Chudat, who still loves us to this day and we love him too (no homo). This tournament was supposed to be the ultimate showdown between EC and WC, since Ken and Isai showed up to challenge Azen and his crew. Little did everyone know it was only the beginning...
[continued...]
.6 months pass, and one of my other friends discovers the realm of GameFAQs. Soon after that we become engrossed in Stadium competitions, and make names for ourselves in the early days of Cruel Melee. This was before the days of immobilization tactics and 1000 KOs was an impressive total. We did this for about another 6-8 months (we're at about February of '03 for those of you keeping score) when some people from a place called the Smash World Forums showed up to torment and flame the happy-go-lucky GameFAQs members, saying they were the ultimate Smash community because they held tournaments and so they were better players. Long story short there, GameFAQs remained the pinnacle of single player modes, while SWF became the VS mode proving grounds. I made an account here in probably March, but then soon came the massive server crash, which lasted for about 2 months. At the start of June SWF was reborn, and tons of people flocked to it's boards and pages to see what this tournament hubbub was about. I joined days apart from such noteworthy names as Cort, M3D, even Iggy and KishSquared. I was drawn here by a guy I met simultaneously here and at GameFAQs who was interested in moving to Charlotte and wanted to set up a Melee scene here like he had previously done in Detroit. He was Joe V. aka jv3x3, now known as MLG_JV, inventor of the JV #-stock. An era was born.
My casual friends hadn't much interest in competitive Smash, despite being leagues ahead of other 'uninitiates' Joe had seen. They just liked playing games amongst themselves, and apparently being quite good at them for it. I can't blame them, there's a kind of bliss there that comes from being apart from the pressure of making one's place in an online community. Anyway, Joe and I started trying to host tournaments in my apartment in Raleigh. They didn't turn out so well, not many people were seriously interested in Melee enough to want to go and play it for money. About a month after joining SWF Joe was kind enough to recommend me for the SBR. I got in with, oh, about 45 posts to my name and soon voted on the 4th tier list. I still cling to the notion that my personal list rarely deviated and still came pretty close to the final one they posted last year. It wasn't until Ken appeared that year did people begin to take Marth seriously. I lulled hard back then (remember my friend with his habit of picking up top tier characters a week after first playing the game).
Well, a few of these tourneys and we'd garnered a bit of regional attention for ourselves. We went to Atlanta in August and got ourselves soundly beaten by these guys from Gainesville FL. You see, before FL was good, FL sucked balls. But before that, one crew from the north part of the state was in fact, very very good. These guys actually went to TG4, TG5, and TG6, and while there they were just part of the crowd, back home they were unstoppable. We got a hotel room for the night with these guys, which proved to be one of my fondest evenings playing Smash ever. There were 6 of us on 2 tvs, in a room supposedly occupied by one, so 2 people ended up sleeping on opposite sides of the bed, the others slept on the floor of the room, and Goldwing (the marth player that was the champion of the southeast for a great long while) was camped out on the floor of the bathroom. The next day we went to GA Tech and met bunches of people and introduced a lot of them to SWF, including 3 young high school kids named Wes, Bobby, and Miles. The first 2 everyone should know by now, they are of course OSM and just1111. Miles is their friend, and I understand he would still hang out at their tournaments after he quit entering (I saw him at SA-X which was awesome).
Not long after our trip to GA tech, some guys on GameFAQS showed up wanting to know if there were people around who played and when they could beat them. We took this challenge with smiles. Joe and I, and my friend Steve, drove out to Gastonia to meet these guys. They were named Joel, Josh, Jade, and Dustin, better known as Twiggy. They weren't bad, I ended up going more or less even with Twiggy during the months we later spent Smashing, but Joe was still ahead of them. They were, and still are, good guys.
Pretty soon we started trying to get attention and support from students at NC State for a tournament, and a kid shows up on Smashboards saying he'll help us get a dorm lounge for it and provide tv's and quite a few entrants. This kid, Bobby, was supposedly the big man on campus. He was the guy no one else could beat. I tried, but was unsuccessful, at dethroning him entirely, but I did hold my own against most of his followers. We played a lot and got along pretty well. Soon it came time for the tournament. It was early December, and Bobby and Joe were meeting for the first time. A guy from Alabama who we met at GA Tech drove all the way up to attend and brought Twiggy and Jade (Jolly) and Joe with him. A great tourney, all things considered. Joe and I dominated teams, which was an experiment with items in teams matches and also constituted some support of Joe's reasonings behind his later arguments for banning particular stages (in 2003 there was a large list of stages to choose from, "neutrals" hadn't been invented yet, and most everything went at this point).
Singles was pretty good. I lucked out in the end and Bobby lost to his teammate, a fox player who never ventured online in search of Smash greatness. I beat him in 3 close matches, but they were all mine. Then came Joe and me in loser's semis. My Sheik wasn't doing so hot against Joe's Marth and Peach, though I did win the first match on Cruise. It was game 4 so I dragged out my Falcon, which I'd been working on for 2 months since I first saw some of Isai's matches, and marvelled at the things he had come up with for him. This was the start of all NC Falcons. Don't let anyone tell you different. The match begins, and before the intro music on Poke Stadium was finished, I'd tripled Kneed Joe's Marth full across the stage 0-death. I took him to 1 stock before he could finally kill me, and I ended up 3 stocking him. Game 5, do or die time, so Joe, using his counterpick to change to Fox (we then randomed Floats because we hadn't helped come up with advanced slobs yet), and despite a moderately close match, Joe was victorious. I got 3rd. Joe ended up winning when CahPhoenix, the Alabaman, accidentally airdodged into the back of the ship on Cruise because he hadn't actually grabbed it yet. He would have edgehogged Joe for the win, game 5 of the 2nd set. Good times.
The very next week, or maybe the week after (whatever) Joe Bobby and I piled into Bobby's Cougar for the trip back to Atlanta and the first Smash Aid, GAWes's idea of holding a smash tourney and giving half the pot to charity. Bobby and I teamed, and were despondent to lose to the triple threat of CahPhoenix, GABobby, and Joe, who decided to play as one team and swap out memebers so they all got to play. They actually slobbed a player one match, which was uber gay because the Peaches (yeah, they both played Peach) played nothing alike. I was unhappy about that, so now there are no 3 man teams.
Life began to beckon for me at this point. It was right around new year's of '04. I moved back to Charlotte just as Joe was deciding to head back to Michigan, but before he went we went to the tournament to end all tournaments (lol) Game Over, in Woodbridge VA, hosted by H2YL. Joe, CahPhoenix and I were to take Cah's car (the dude drove all the way to NC from AL and was going to continue on to DC? holy hell) but not an hour into our part of the trip when we threw a rod and the car was a total loss. We finally got back to Charlotte when Joe decides he's staying home, so Cah and I take my somewhat-reliable Camaro all the way up there. Joe gave us directions and a phone number, and we left at about 1 in the morning. We got to Chudat's house at about 8:30 tired as sh*t. After a nap and some sound beatings we went to the tourney, where we met Azen, Chillindude, DA Dave, Wes, Mike G (though I didn't really meet him until he moved to ATL) and of course, Ken and Isai. The tourney was fun. I didn't get to play teams, but that's alright because it was the only national tournament in history to be TA off. Guess why it was the only...
I got Isai first round of singles, lost, then lost to DA Dave's brother.
. I did make friends for many years though with the best 2 players from California for a good long time, and Chudat, who still loves us to this day and we love him too (no homo). This tournament was supposed to be the ultimate showdown between EC and WC, since Ken and Isai showed up to challenge Azen and his crew. Little did everyone know it was only the beginning...[continued...]