The Nintendo Experience Presents: Smash Bros Brawl Tournament, March 2-14 (Melbourne)

[Attila_]

so then, no gamecube controls?

 

[Freeo]

Doesn't look like it at the moment
I'm going to call up the head honchos and push for it a bit more!
I'll post up the final result before I leave tomorrow
And also tomorrow night I will post up the Final Ladder
so check the forum tomorrow before you go man!

 

[Jei Jei]

<3 Freeo lol
Push for those controllers! Yeah!

wtf I haven't received any calls at all

 

[Freeo]

well its 10am-2pm tomorrow man ^^

 

[uaq]

Why so early?!

Anyway, any news on the runner-ups?

 

[Freeo]

not as of yet man sorry!

 

[uaq]

Any spare consoles to just play around with?a few of my friends want to come along and watch and I'm sure they'll like to have a go just for fun.

 

[Freeo]

there will be mario kart set up,
But maybe i could bring my smash bros disc and have more then oen smash bros thing going at once
thats not a bad idea at all

 

[Attila_]

there will be mario kart set up,
But maybe i could bring my smash bros disc and have more then oen smash bros thing going at once thats not a bad idea at all

so that way we can at least play friendlys with gc controls

thats right cao, im looking at you!

 

[uaq]

That would be a good idea, I'll bring my cube controllers, and pass the word around?

 

[Freeo]

Yeah man,
but once again it is not for sure,
but i'm trying had a talk to marty the head honco today
but like can't hurt to bring them guys
=D

 

[earla]

hey freeo, sup, i was runner up tuesday nite. are we supposed to rock up to that final?

 

[CAOTIC]

Shmot - oooooh yeaaaaaa.

Only 10 finalists are invited tomorrow, but if you didnt make it in, turn up early and there's a good chance you'll get in anyway.

EB is pinning for a 24 man bracket

 

[C~Dog]

yeah we definitely will be doing that
there have been some amazing and hilarious moments during this tournament

:D Awesome. I can't wait to see them!

 

[earla]

Shmot - oooooh yeaaaaaa.

Only 10 finalists are invited tomorrow, but if you didnt make it in, turn up early and there's a good chance you'll get in anyway.

EB is pinning for a 24 man bracket

yo cao, is the 24 man bracket confirmed? and considering there's more then just the finalists involved shudn't runners up get priority over randoms just rocking up to be in the bracket. It's just i don't want to train into the city and back for no reason.

also is GC controller confirmed or still the wi-mote thing?

cheers mate

 

[Suntan Luigi]

Freeo "By allowing a range of controller options, the entrants are capable of playing Brawl at their potential thus allowing intense matches. It should allow us to expect many more people to spectate which will result in our reputation and sales increasing significantly." Say this to your manager and he'll surely let us bring GameCube controllers. Heck he might even raise your salary

 

[CAOTIC]

Runner-ups aren't guaranteed a finals placement but those who want to come should just go anyway - there are places to be filled. I don't know anything more than that.

As far as I know it's still wii-mote only.

 

[Freeo]

Hey guys,
None of that is confirmed
stop spreading propaganda david haha
But there is a chance it may happen depending on what i'm told I am allowed to do
If it is up to me it will all go through though

hey Sutan,
that is exactly what I have been saying and like they understand but now the biggest reason for not using game cube remotes is because we have done so much on wii mote it will be unfair to other contestants who had to enter with the wii motes
we will have it sorted by 10am tomorrow
so don't worry

 

[CAOTIC]

Hey guys,
None of that is confirmed
stop spreading propaganda david haha
But there is a chance it may happen depending on what i'm told I am allowed to do
If it is up to me it will all go through though

It ain't propoganda - it's what she said!!!

 

[earla]

freeo, is this worth turning up to if you were a runner up? when is there going to be confirmation of it all?

 

[Afropony]

Freeo "By allowing a range of controller options, the entrants are capable of playing Brawl at their potential thus allowing intense matches. It should allow us to expect many more people to spectate which will result in our reputation and sales increasing significantly." Say this to your manager and he'll surely let us bring GameCube controllers. Heck he might even raise your salary

To add to this maybe people will see people playing with GameCube controllers and think "hey I want to become that good too, maybe I should get a GameCube controller..."
Which means EB should start selling GameCube controllers
I really want to buy one of those white ones.

 

[bylim5]

the biggest reason for not using game cube remotes is because we have done so much on wii mote it will be unfair to other contestants who had to enter with the wii motes

Yes, this is a good point.

Who knows, maybe there were some good players but the wii-remote let them down, especially with the CRAP and MUSHY D-pad..
Not sure why EB/Nintendo decided wii-remotes only in the first place though

btw i was kicked out 1st round. Friday the 13th johns.

 

[T1MEKEEPER]

6 hours to go till finals, good luck everyone :D

 

[Attila_]

the main argument for the sole use of wiimotes that ive heard is that it makes it 'fair' (pun intended) to everyone, cept that ignores the fact that most good smashers us gc controls, making it unfair against people who actually play the game.

freeo, try that line out...

@t1me: awake at 4am? excited much?

 

[Toshi]

Most good smashers would still do better than other casual people with a wiimote. We also saw this event coming, so we had a chance to practise with a wiimote. It would be unfair if:

A) The person playing doesn't own a wii/wiimote (unlikely)
B) The person playing uses a wiimote naturally (unlikely)

Not that I'm saying that I perfer a wiimote, but I think its about as fair as it could get.

 

[Suntan Luigi]

"Hey guys let's ditch Colbet while he's not looking."

You artards left without saying bye to me. I shall not forget this!



GG

A) The person playing doesn't own a wii/wiimote (unlikely)
B) The person playing uses a wiimote naturally (unlikely)

Or
C) They don't even own a Wii Caooooooooo!

 

[CAOTIC]

Weird, I though you left before us - we hit up KFC. Thanks for the tournament Freeo+EB staff, look forward to bigger and better ones in the future, plus I get to take more photos! Check this out:

Original unedited photo set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27651720@N04/sets/72157615145897583/

Winner (Cobalt), Runner-up (Attila)

EB Staff

Tourney

Didn't get in (Tibz) <3

More winner stuff

 

[Attila_]

ahh second... meaning i was the last person to verse cobalt

gg man

 

[Dekar289]

tibs attila you guys have msn?

 

[tibs7]

yeah i do, dont know if attila does though

 

[uaq]

Man I need a haircut!

Definitely looking forward to more Smash events. Freeo, maybe you can talk to your people about running a ladder while the tournament isn't going? Or some other smaller events just to keep us all interested during the tournament downtime.

 

[Nixernator]

Looks like it was a good time, not happy I missed it tho but being sick sucks.
Did you guys get to use your GC controllers or were you stuck with Wiimotes?

And is there going to be more of these? If so AWESOME, if not AWESOME for giving the smash scene in melb some attention anyway. Hopefully this will increase the people playing competitively.

EDIT: Oops sounds like I'm being sarcastic, what I meant was its good that a shop ran a tourny and that with some of the smash board people there maybe more kids will play competitively after seeing their 1337 skills.

 

[CAOTIC]

uaq - there's a lot of regular monthly tournaments the Smash community runs here. Check the threads STIGMA-B for Brawl and STIGMA-M for Melee.

I had fun talking crap the entire time I was there.

 

[Jei Jei]

Cao = cheap camper. No skills lawl <3

I can't talk I didn't win a game today. No johns, I sucked today.

 

[Dekar289]

so i hear mario power tennis is next, and then another brawl tournament
srs

 

[MikulOnIce85]

Mario Power Tennis Friendlies next melee tourny k go?

 

[Freeo]

haha,
Hey guys!
Sorry I didn't post anything last night
had a bigbig night on the town,
Congratulations to the winners was an amazing match
a match I would post the replay up of if it hadn't been so good they went to sudden death haha,
I'm glad you have all enjoyed the tournament and there will definitely be more were that came from!
But don't forget you can come in and chill at the nintendo experience and play some brawl whenever you want!

 

[C~Dog]

But don't forget you can come in and chill at the nintendo experience and play some brawl whenever you want!

Set it up with some Gamecube controllers and i'll be in there every monday to thursday! I gotta do something with the downtime between my uni classes lol

 

[Nixernator]

Lol seriously? Anyday? Man I need to get there moar.

 

[Attila_]

thanks again freeo, it was a fun day

and id like to extend a personal invitation to the STIGMA-B meet on the 29th of March. They'll be plenty of awesome players there, and with our own choice of controllers, you can be sure the skill level will be top notch. It might be good for eb to get an idea of how we like tournys to be. oh, and you can play too