People misunderstood my post, but I'm not surprised, I'm not saying no1 can beat lain, but that it's been internalized by the majority of the MI community. There aren't 5 people in MI who can honestly say they think they will be able to beat Lain. And I'm not just taking the people who are doing well into consideration, I'm taking the people who don't use Smashboards as a way to find drinking buddies into consideration, because they are the ones that are putting in real effort, SK has to drive like 4 hours to get to anything, same with L. The constant Smashfests that we are having isn't a sign of improvement just activity, the people that are showing the most improvement are the ones putting in solo effort. L_Cancel plays wifi from sun up to sun down, flame SK and DL are almost always getting it in on the ladders (I shouldn't have excluded DL on my list of improving people). The point is they take the initiative to improve on their own, instead of passively waiting for Smashfests to happen.
Atomsk doesn't hard cp people, he avoids bad MUs but the characters he plays are mostly within 6-4 range.
I'm not being pessimisstic, I'm being honest, our state as it is is ****. Lain can win tourneys here using ICs in winners and grand finals only. Most of us aren't even a challenge for his secondaries.
It doesnt matter how much people play if they don't understand how to improve and I'll say it, most everyone in MI doesn't know how to improve, nor do most of you even want to. You want to keep winning, but you don't want to get better. That's the difference from the people that I listed and the ones I didn't, boxxy being an exception, idk but whenever I see you at a tourny you seem mad bored.
Who said MI smash was dead, it's fairly active, but activity isn't the sign of ability, that's what MI is desperatly lacking.
Lain wants Michigan to improve because we suck so bad that he can't get good practice for regionals and nationals from us.
@Trent which area? And we should team sometime I love teaming with sonics.
