The two pages of who improved quicker is both ridiculous and uneeded in this thread, divert it to the old british thread which deals with melee unless like the original posts by VA it was linked to encouraging new players to travel.
Sonic : Hopefully when brawl is released in europe our lag may be released slightly. Though I do doubt this >_> . Regardless, I think you'll find alot of independent ladder leagues and other such activities that you can participate in and e somewhat compeititve. What online play does, regardless of lag, is allow you to play alot of people. This definetly helps mindgames.
However, please consider coming to tournaments. You will meet alot of players, make friends and if you want to really challenge yourself or improve at brawl you will have the best players in the UK there to do so against. If you dont, then youve got a weekend full of brawl with like minded people, not everyone there strives to be no.1. Plus, tournaments are always random as hell.
Lastly to new players. Travelling is essential if you want to be involved. Yes, you may find a local tourney ie a london one if your in that area. But what happens when there isnt another 'big' one for a year? the UK normally has 4 large tournaments yearly, so they wont always be near you. If you enjoy it and want to be involved you'll end up travelling. AND dont let the travelling side of things put you off. Somethimes the travelling can be a really cool experience. Ive had many an amusing roadtrip. On top of that you can find local players to either travel in a car with or coach it with. This is especially important for london players that can co-ordinate 20+ onto one coach trip. Travelling with others will severly dent your impression of how long places are away. Lastly you get to see NEW places. I don't know about others on these boards but ive been to places id NEVER have gone to before. I enjoy travelling and seeing new places esp. just within the UK. Tournaments allow you to do that
Oh and sonic, your only 3 hours away and I know a mate in rugby that could potentially give you a lift if you needed it. If not, coach or train wont be too bad
Aiko: We will defintely need to get a brawl ranking system in place but I dont think this will be necessary till the first 'big' brawl tourney after PAL release. Till then the community will still largely be melee players with a sprinkle of new. No need to put new players off with a ranking system or start one with a small community going to brawl tourneys.
What I will say is that the Big Man system is very good. Ive never really seen how it could be improved that much nor do I see why it wouldn't be used. The only flaw is for those that either don't travel regularly or for the player that goes to one tourney and performs well and thus stays in the list for a little to long. However, point depreciation sorts that out and for the moaners that say that 'so and so' should be no.3 above 'so and so' its just because they havent been to the last three tourneys. Then stuff them, thats their fault :/ . Players skill can only be judged on tournament performance, so those that aren't on the list can't complain.
Past that I don't think much of panel systems. Their opinion based and no one is unbiased. Sports dont use them, so why should we :/ . Furthermore we don't know who the best five in the UK are at brawl, wont know for along time and then therers the problem of who is on the ppanel. Leave it to stats, less arguments that way.
I really want to see as many new faces at TKI. Please talk to me on msn
ceddon@hotmail.com if your interested. Any queries welcome!
Ed
