Tournament Troubles

[HAGGS]

Hello Lucas Community,

Yesterday I went to another tourney and placed the worst I have placed since I started consistantly going to tourneys.

However, in the friendlies I played in the rest of the day, I was dominating and playing as well as, if not better, than usual.

I am wondering if you think it has something to do with being nervious without knowing it, or if there is some mental preparation I am missing.

I feel like my Lucas is good enough that I should be able to at least place where I placed at previous tourneys.

Any advice would be much appreciated

-HAGGS

 

[Tyr_03]

Sometimes tourneys just don't go as well as you think they should. Sometimes you get bad luck in pools or brackets with character or player matchups that don't work well for you. Sometimes you just don't play your best for no apparant reason. It doesn't really even have to be nervousness. The best players learn to develope consistency so that they have "bad" tournament days as rarely as possible and so that their "bad" tournament days don't affect their playing as much as it might affect others.

Something that I think helps me, especially in my first few games of the day, is forcing myself to play very defensive and patient, using mostly zoning moves at first. This helps me to think rather than just rushing in like instinct tends toward. Before long, natural playstyle kicks in and its simpler.

 

[HAGGS]

Thanks for the advice!

Ya it is definitely spirit breaking for me when I have an extremely bad showing since I am still working on alot of aspects of my game.

I guess I will just keep at it and hopefully won't have a bad day next weekend. There is a 100+ person tourney next weekend and last time I placed 33rd. Got to hopefully place at least as well and play it safe.

I will definitely play smart the first couple of games before I let my instinct set in.

Thanks again,

-HAGGS

 

[prOAPC]

tournament matches are totally different from friendlies, some people just don't take seriously friendly matches, so they try new things and stuff, while, in a real fight, the play normally, just the way they play to win

 

[heytallman]

When I first started attending tourneys, I got last for the first few times going. Just practice more, and with more experience you'll start to do better. Don't sweat a loss in winner's bracket, either. I know I'm going to loser's early, but that I just need to dominate there. Most of my tourney wins come after I've lost a set already lol.

Also, don't let players/tactics get in your head. Once I was down about 90% against a Zero Suit Samus going into her last stock, so I started doing nothing but PK fire and PSI magnet. Eventually, by playing keep away and whittling down bit by bit, I got in his head and I actually heard him say "ugh". I won the match, then he switched to Falco and immediately SD'd his first stock of the second match. If somebody changes their game mid-match, adapt to what they're doing!

But above all, just have a good time and see each tournament as a learning experience :D

 

[Attila_]

its very rare that i play friendlies seriously. ill chase anything off the edge, and try and predict smashes all over the place, simply because if i stuff up and die early, who cares?

tournys and friendlies are very, very different.

 

[YumClock]

The same applies to just about every tournament. When it matters, you're scared, and you can't do as well.
And why end your posts with your name? It's in rather large font up on the top of your post.

 

[Ocean]

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[orange/xd]

if you can, save the replays from the friendlies and the tourney matches, and then compare. see if there is anything you are doing differently. maybe in the friendlies you were being more reckless, and it was working for you?

QFT; try that if you bring your Wii.

 

[dawgbowl]

its also a "friendly" you may be trying as hard as you were in the tourney but not everyone may.

 

[Strawhat64]

Most people have their bad and good days. For me, it depend on how my will and faith is. The higher, the better the performance. If you are dominant on friendly is because...hmmm, I really don't know. I been told that they been sandbanging and the likes. but there is a major difference between friendlies and Tourney. When it comes to friendlies, they don't give a **** much. However, on tourneys, they get serious. Other players decide to lie to you about their mains. Like *Hey, i play luigi* When you beat him, you'll think that you'll beat him at the tourney, HOWEVER you'll learn later that he plays MK just to throw you off.

I was scared of playing peach because lucas can get chain grab but I fought it with no fear. I din't give a **** much about the match up because I wasn't scared. What happen? I beat the peach, thus peach experience.

Honestly, I think is the will power and the inner strength .

 

[Levitas]

Smart playing > will.

You don't have to post in every thread on the first page =/