Wow Ryko, your posts are so amazing!
Maybe it's me and my logical ways, but Inui's tourny means everything theory has always bothered me something fierce. I'm a big sports fan, and in sports when someone loses, its not really who they loss to its why and how they loss. Some people/teams just have their days when they are playing amazingly and some good players have their days when they are playing poorly.
Unlike you Inui, I analyze almost every match I see, and I can tell who the better player is regardless of winning or losing. Better as in-better active thinker-more patient- more knowledgeable of the game-smarter approach to matchups. Therefore, when I hear about people losing, it doesn't do much for me unless they loss to someone who was completely trash. Plank beat Ninjalink when he admitted Ninjalink was the better player. Plank beats neo when i feel as tho neo is the better player. Why is this? Because I frequently watch the matches( or have) and I analyze the fights in my objectional way. The end result is important, but how it got there is extremely important.
Inui you have watched me play a few times and do you analyze what is actually happening? I loss to xzax at esticle. What did he do 2 me Inui? He did the same thing that you did to boss, bum, atomsk etc. Your first time dealing with heavy tornado spam is sure an experience that you need to learn from, but wow at getting on someones back for losing to something they have never faced before, and something as gay as the tornado.
Its not ok for me to say these things, but its ok for you to john about whatever losses you see fit. Offering up excuses about not understanding the character, not knowing what to do, not being able 2 get inside the fortress blah blah blah. In your mind this all makes sense, while in the same breath you bash people for having their own understandings of why they loss. Now quick lesson, why do people John or come up with a reason why they loss? Because the alternative is accepting that the other player is better...which alot of times, simply is not true. If you were someone who based your logic off of watching matches, then you would understand this. But you don't so I digress.
You should make a little memo to everyone as to how you actually judge who is better or not. Make it something that can stand the test of time, and not the difference of time between its creation and your next loss. I'm sure that would be helpful to everyone in understanding why for some odd reason, you make all of these rules up for yourself, and force everyone else to place top 5 in tourny for you to consider them good.
Perhaps my confusion comes from my melee upbringing. When i began playing melee I was told about alot of people who were good. Some not ranked, some didn't do so well in tourny, but they were seen as good players nonetheless. There was a respect back then that I don't see now. If you sat down n played someone at a smashacre, and they showed you they were good, in your mind you gave them respect. Maybe not you Inui, you're special, but on the grand scale, this is the type of respect I expect from you to EVERYONE else. I have a problem matchup in Metaknight, which i always admit, and yet your logic of me being bad is based off of me losing to metaknight. I guess Lordknight was horrible because he openly admitted to sucking vs sheik, and loss to someone like you. But no you don't think that way now do you??