Very good to see you guys get third in Melee together. Congrats.
...uh? Except we didn't. Melee Singles was, as Cam would say, "4 teh lulz," and we didn't even enter melee doubles. That was Brawl.
I'm Fishy, by the way, representing ROB all through the brackets.
Story time and shoutouts:
This was my first "real" irl tourney. I get there with Cam pretty early. There are 3-4 guys playing brawl teams friendlies, and another few people setting up more TVs. There's this Olimar who's playing really well, but I figure he must be joking around, because he's playing with a fake tag that says "AndyG." He's teaming with this gay MK, who is tornado-ing the life out of a poor DK. Cam and I start quoting from the "Metaknight In-depth Tutorial" video on Youtube, saying how if the MK did a little more Shuttle Loop, he could rival mew2king. The guy playing the MK, pale, glasses, brown sweatshirt, looks kind of familiar...
We start playing friendlies with these two... and get wrecked. Eventually, we head over to melee, which we're both much worse at from lack of consistent practice, and get even more wrecked. I head back to Brawl, and Cam stays at Melee. All of a sudden, one of the people destroying at Melee says something to the effect of "Hey Mew2king"
..."yea Scar?"
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..........WOW
My first tourney, in a random, almost-finished room in Scranton, PA, and I find myself playing friendlies with Mew2king, AndyG, and Scar. No wonder we got SEVEN-stocked once in Melee doubles. Props to me for getting owned but pulling off a dair spike for a double KO against M2k and Scar =)
Shoutouts:
Guy who really wanted ROB dittos and then finally got some with me on the Japanese version ("Wrek," or something, I think): Great dittos. I don't know why so many people don't like ROB dittos. They really teach you what you need to work on more than any other matchup. I look forward to playing you again.
Nasty: Unfortunate SD on the third stock of Final D, but other than that, you have a really nice Lucas.
Cam: So it wasn't the result you had hoped for, especially that match on halberd against the GnW. You did go on a "winning steak" with Sonic, even if it was just friendlies. Wow did we wreck in teams. Lol at "where does a ROB and Sonic team ban/cp??" We should have gotten 2nd- I don't know how I ended up charging a gyro while slowly floating off-screen for a kill. Speaking of teams...
Chaotic Smurf and BryanS: Nice job sending us to losers and then beating us 3-2 in loser's finals. To whichever one of you was the Pit, those arrows were so annoying, and ROB's fsmash beats out pit's side-b, even if it takes me a couple percent to do it (lol)
Pav: Oh pav... A lot to say on this one. Your one on two was amazing, taking off 2-3 stocks on us each time and living to ridiculous percents while doing it. Gah, I want a rematch in singles =). We were dead even at high percents, you would get the kill, and then I'd even it up. You just got the one that really mattered, the last kill, twice. I should have gone Luigi's mansion instead. Oh well, I'll get you next time. I made too many mistakes, especially getting hit with the slow ledge-getting-up-attack about 2-3 times every match instead of just shielding it and punishing. It's just that seeing you get manhandled for two games straight against the luigi that I SENT into losers like 3 rounds ago was maddening. It was even worse because it turned out that he won more money than you did, and you got reimbursed for the entry fee by beating me, even though I beat him in the first place.
Luigi guy, who would be Prodigy according to the results list: Sick Luigi- really beat me down on Brinstar, and even almost made a comeback on Japes. Very nice job on DI-ing out of the dsmash; not a lot of people can do it consistently. I wanted to have beaten Pav, played you, and then gone on to play...
...AndyG: You play a really smart Olimar, especially with the whistle. I'm pretty confident against Olimar, especially now, since I went even with you (1-2 or 2-2, I think, with both of us at high percents and one stock when I lost). I'm going to get even better, play you again one day, and win more of them. Olimar gimps for the win.
Mew2King: Thanks for being mew2king.
For my first tourney, I can't get much better practice than against m2k's MK. Mushroomy Kingdom matches are too good. I was surprised at how I almost went even for the first stock or so in most of the singles, and for a tourney newbie, it feels really good to take a stock off you in every match we played. That being said, you pretty much screwed me out of making a profit from Brawl singles and doubles. If you hadn't been there to knock me into loser's, I would have gotten at least the entry fee back, and possibly more. You and andy made my hands freeze up and become numb because I was thinking "Wow, this is the part where I realize that I'm not better than 90% of the smash tourney community," but after I learned who you all were, it made the other singles matches a lot less stressful, and confidence replaced the hand-tingling. You're a pretty chill guy, though.
Guy who was working at Sunoco's: I couldn't understand a word you were saying, but thanks for selling us lunch anyway.
All in all, I had fun at this tourney and I look forward to more in the future