The North Carolina Melee Power Rankings! Updated 8/14/14!

[big sleep]

^ burn

 

[Lightsyde]

Kevin sure does love to blame people's inactivity on League instead of a relatively dormant Smash scene and steadily growing disinterest. :]


Also: It's going well, thanks for asking! My AD characters are coming along nicely and I'm feeling progressively more comfy in different roles. Being decent enough to have fun playing with all the League homies is pretty cool.

 

[Black Mantis]

Power Ranked cuz nepotism

Spoiler

naaah just making a joke because things

I actually didn't know what Nepotism was until now (I looked it up).

 

[Dr Peepee]

you're welcome!

 

[$mike]

Lmaoooo these PR's now that I go look again.

how's league goin man

 

[BEHR]

i dont think theres disintrest. o 3o


mike <3

johnny zguuuhhh

cam *** u



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[Todd Bonney]

WTF am I reading?

 

[big sleep]

LOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL


cle

 

[Dr Peepee]

I have no idea how many tourneys there have been this period LMAO

probly 2 NCSUs and that ECU, am I correct?

if so we updatin this weekend I have some time

 

[big sleep]

damn im off the rankings lol

 

[~Twitch~]

this ain't fair...i could **** up everyone on these rankings cept kevin and i'm not gona be on.

 

[BEHR]

ill **** you up

 

[[FBC] ESAM]

Do you even lift?

 

[Bl@ckChris]

man everybody bout to be off the rankings. this is gonna look funny.

edit: if we actually seed solely off of these rankings....well it probably won't change much. similar matchups will probably happen, but they'd just happen due to opposite seeding lmao.

 

[Sneak8288]

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Evolution-Championship-Series/156605564382 vote for melee at evo!

 

[Bl@ckChris]

holy **** we're losing to injustice? this is a problem. lets make it happen guys.

 

[Dr Peepee]

Lol might give it til the Charlotte tourney/last NCSU actually just so we can have a last hurrah before winter break sets in.

Yeah let's do that it's better that way.

Also vote for Melee GUYS

 

[Sneak8288]

spread the link to every melee player you know! get melee back on the big stage

 

[Todd Bonney]

Hmmm..... hmmmm........ ALMOST enough to make me use Facebook.

 

[stingers]

melees winning now. its beating umvc3. lol

 

[big sleep]

they said we were dead

 

[Dark Hart]

Melee has like 600 votes on the next closest game lol

 

[v4extreme]

So question about the PR's- why not do it as a ranking ladder where you can challenge up and move up spots on the ladder by beating the people higher ranked than you? Maybe I'm wrong but it seems to me like everyone in state would see each other often enough to play those fairly frequently.... idk the idea of ranking ladders to rank players is just interesting to me. Thoughts?

 

[Dr Peepee]

That's essentially what money matches do haha

 

[Dark Hart]

The main problem that I think always comes across during ladder discussions is weighing wins? Or I could be wrong it's been a few years since someone suggested it.

 

[Lightsyde]

The main problem is that the people in our state who are or probably should be ranked top 10 hardly ever go to any of the same tournaments or go to tournaments at all.

But yeah, what Lucas said too. You would think tournaments might weigh more to players because of what it takes to get into the situations where those matches happen (like having to go through a loser's bracket). But I also can see why people might value money matches higher in their minds because things like pride and direct response to incensitive (there is literally money on top of the tv).

But whatever, I can't even believe my page for this on SWF hasn't changed in weeks. EDIT: 10/19 wowwww

 

[Dr Peepee]

In the current system, tourney matches do weigh more, but money matches are still strongly considered when evaluating placement on the PR. It can totally make or break you in a few spots, given how tough some of these placements are to figure out.

 

[Sneak8288]

People don't care enough about being ranked in this state for it to work

 

[Lightsyde]

Yeah, basically, even from before I kinda stopped going to as much stuff the problem that has ALWAYS plagued our rankings was just insufficient data, especially once you get to the 6-10 spots. I used to spend a lot of time nagging people to come to stuff so that we'd not have that problem and it might raise attendance for 1 or 2 tournaments but then went back to the same way as before. Just became more effort than it was worth.

 

[Dr Peepee]

takes the effort of everyone to stay motivated. the more people give up the less motivation there is.

I think we could be a huge melee state at any time, we had like 50 or something entrants of NC-only people at an NCSU WTF

 

[Sneak8288]

People aren't hungry enough here. The mindset is respectable here to an extent. The whole brotherhood this and bro love just wanna have a good time thing is cool but no one really cares about being better than the other. Until that happens then its probably not gonna be able to be a huge melee state consistently.

 

[$mike]

People aren't hungry enough here. The mindset is respectable here to an extent. The whole brotherhood this and bro love just wanna have a good time thing is cool but no one really cares about being better than the other. Until that happens then its probably not gonna be able to be a huge melee state consistently.

Well, I hate everyone in the state. This is why I'm good.

 

[Juno McGrath]

LOL the BIGGEST issue isnt that we dont care its because the way we seed is so flawed and the talent gap between players is just TOO wide

Seeding in general is stupid but whatever.

 

[Dr Peepee]

how is seeding flawed? and what do you recommend we do about a talent gap? amateur bracket?

why is seeding in general stupid? isn't it designed to give everyone a reasonable shot at figuring out their skill level in a relatively efficient tournament format?

 

[$mike]

LOL the BIGGEST issue isnt that we dont care its because the way we seed is so flawed and the talent gap between players is just TOO wide

Seeding in general is stupid but whatever.

The biggest issue is people honestly believing the ideas presented in this post.

 

[Bl@ckChris]

i think we do have a couple of fairly wide skill gaps, but i don't see what's wrong with our seeding. i think the fact that we have those skill gaps is pretty irrelevant.

 

[[FBC] ESAM]

The reason people have a beef with seeding is because you are setting up the best players to win, FORCING a huge upset to have anything other than the "expected" happen. If you randomize the bracket, EVERYBODY has the same chance of playing the tough players, not just the scrubs of each round (1 and 2 will play the easiest people in the round, assuming no upsets, in a seeded bracket)

I know in FL locals people didn't want me to seed becuase it was setting up me vs seibrik GF every time, but then when I stopped the brackets would help the worse players get farther just like I would set me/Seibrik/MVD/Riddle to do.

 

[Dark Hart]

^^^

 

[Juno McGrath]

The reason people have a beef with seeding is because you are setting up the best players to win, FORCING a huge upset to have anything other than the "expected" happen. If you randomize the bracket, EVERYBODY has the same chance of playing the tough players, not just the scrubs of each round (1 and 2 will play the easiest people in the round, assuming no upsets, in a seeded bracket)

I know in FL locals people didn't want me to seed becuase it was setting up me vs seibrik GF every time, but then when I stopped the brackets would help the worse players get farther just like I would set me/Seibrik/MVD/Riddle to do.

oh my god eric this this this this this

@ Mike Scratch

 

[Bl@ckChris]

so you want the results to make it so that worse players get farther?

o....k.

i didn't know people liked the idea of having an easy side of the bracket and a hard side of the bracket potentially, but as long as things go in your favor, who cares right?

i just think it sucks when people lose first round and they get something like twitch first round losers because we randomed the bracket and he got l0zr first round or something dumb, but whatever.