FFFFF it's the only way to get better!!!! I guess...
Don't be ashamed to ask for tips! We SC guys need to stick together... err... I hope. Regardless - I always have fun playin' Melee. Some people don't have fun depending on skill gap but I always do, even when I played Taj @ Pound4 and got 3 stocked I was learning tons :D or... I think so.
I'm losing my central point - which is - playing with me will help you. if you and CFMR (sp?) play against me more regularly you get... I don't want to say this and sound like a conceited *******, but when you play someone who "hands your *** to you in a to go box" then you get more used to it - and then you learn to deal with it. You learn to escape combos and DI and tech in certain places that you need experience to go through. Thus, if we ever ventured to a tournament in NC or GA together, you would be much more adept to what other players will try to do to you.
Remember : you can only go higher from here. BTW I'd like to see you practice Link more, though you seem pretty well-acquainted with Marth, too.
Maybe smashboards user "Spank that Dill" would like to post in here. When I first played him in Melee he seemed somewhat down on himself about the result, but I just played that man a few weeks ago and he got hella better than he was at first :D
ALSO
Eric TWISTER is it cool if I come up there sometime this week? I got a load of college BS but maybe on a Tuesday or something if you're available? My Melee hunger has grown out of control xD