Tournaments - Social Advice and Insight

[YoshiYoshi]

Hello. I was wondering if anyone has any advice/insights for how to behave at a tournament and what to expect from other people when you go to one.

Competitive fighting games tend to bring out a lot of emotion from the participants. I have some experience in TCG tournaments were people more or less get along because the games are mostly luck, but I've never truly considered attending a fighting game tournament because of the prominence of skill based gameplay and thus the way people behave when they achieve a state of dominance over another person.

Everytime I lose to a good player online, they taunt and crouch and try their hardest to make me feel bad. Should I expect the same from that person at a tournament I attend?

Are mid-level smash game tournaments more or less welcoming and friendly among participants, or should I expect to be hazed and humiliated like they do at high level play?

I understand that Smash 4 is in it's infancy and barely has any infrastructure as a widely played competitive game, but does it have the kind of attitude that can encourage a physical offline tournament playerbase to grow and thrive?

 

[outfoxd]

Offline is an entirely different beast. You may have one or two jerks but generally people are welcoming. After all, everyone needs everyone to get better so they can get better.

Also, anonymity on the Internet makes people into demonic entities bereft of empathy.

 

[NotAnAdmin]

Most people wouldn't rub a loss in your face, there will be those few, but most of the community has so much love for the game and will help or point you to the right person to help you. Most of players on 4glory or anywhere online will try to play very stylish or odd on purpose and wouldn't come at you a way that a legitimate tourney player would. They thrive on that and they try to annoy you.
I will tell you now, don't take any online match too seriously. Especially 4glory if you go there.
Also, I wouldn't say Smash 4 is in it's infancy anymore. There are alot of things we understand about the game, and we have most of the Brawl and part of the other Smash community working on making this game the best it can be competitively.

 

[AlMoStLeGeNdArY]

Shower....seriously man please don't attend events wothout showering first. I don't see how some people go to tournaments and don't shower before hand.

 

[WavEfighting]

Be yourself.
Be nice.
Fight hard.

Always try to get a handshake or fistbump out of your opponent before a match. These are the people you may be fighting for a very long time.

Be gracious in victory, and hungry in defeat. When you win show your respect towards hoyour opooenent no matter their skill level. When you lose ask for tips or what went wrong, ask them how they got so good.

As long as you play and act honorably, you will get respect.

Oh and stand up for yourself, but don't pick fights. I have trouble with this one the most myself haha!

 

[CptPuff]

It's not anything to stress about at all. It's a million times better than online.

Just be respectful to your opponent, and if you get bodied, don't be afraid to ask them questions on how to improve in the MU, in general, or what have you. You'll get much better insight than online, and you could even ask them for friendlies or MMs once they're done with all of their sets and learn in even more detail that way. You can improve sooo much just by attending offline tournaments.

 

[PerryEllis]

Hello. I was wondering if anyone has any advice/insights for how to behave at a tournament and what to expect from other people when you go to one.

1)Don't show any form of disrespect after taking an opponent's stock.
i.e. Taunt, jump around without a purpose, ..etc.

2) Dont verbally disrespect your opponent.
I.e. Calling him a derogatory word.

3) Don't celebrate before shaking opponents hand.

Failure to comply to these three simple rules will be justification for a physical fight.

 

[Avokha]

I've got a strange feeling @ PerryEllis has a criminal record going