Kal
Smash Champion
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- Dec 21, 2004
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grass-cattle (who I assume is Jose), it's not enough to beat someone more often than they beat you in friendlies to declare yourself the better player. Even having a 100% win rate against a particular player in tournament won't make you better than them. If Clay beats Jamal in the next 10 smash tournaments, I would still point out that Jamal is the superior player, and likely to place higher in tournaments.
Ranking Jamal as the worst of those 4 players makes no sense. I know for a fact that Jamal is better than Matt and Clay. Jose, I don't have enough experience playing you to make the same judgment, but considering your lack of tournament experience, we have no choice but to rank Jamal above you. Of course, if you enter a few tournaments and place higher than him each time, we'll change this. But it's not as simple as "I beat him in friendlies, so I'm better than he is."
For the record, you really should not even be ranked until you at least enter a tournament. It's unfair to the players who actually enter the events and compete.
And just a remark: it's bull **** when players don't enter tournaments because they know they'll lose. Those of us who win had to go through years of non-stop losses to get where we are. It's an insult to expect good players to show up but not expect to enter the tournament yourself when it's their only incentive to appear. With that in mind, I'd like to thank all the players who do consistently enter, even when they don't expect to do well. And I'd like to point out that those are the players who improve fastest, as evidenced by Jamal, Clay and Edgar, who have gotten quite a bit better in the past few months. Even Sharif, who's been playing with us for only a few weeks, has gotten a lot better by entering the tournaments.
Ranking Jamal as the worst of those 4 players makes no sense. I know for a fact that Jamal is better than Matt and Clay. Jose, I don't have enough experience playing you to make the same judgment, but considering your lack of tournament experience, we have no choice but to rank Jamal above you. Of course, if you enter a few tournaments and place higher than him each time, we'll change this. But it's not as simple as "I beat him in friendlies, so I'm better than he is."
For the record, you really should not even be ranked until you at least enter a tournament. It's unfair to the players who actually enter the events and compete.
And just a remark: it's bull **** when players don't enter tournaments because they know they'll lose. Those of us who win had to go through years of non-stop losses to get where we are. It's an insult to expect good players to show up but not expect to enter the tournament yourself when it's their only incentive to appear. With that in mind, I'd like to thank all the players who do consistently enter, even when they don't expect to do well. And I'd like to point out that those are the players who improve fastest, as evidenced by Jamal, Clay and Edgar, who have gotten quite a bit better in the past few months. Even Sharif, who's been playing with us for only a few weeks, has gotten a lot better by entering the tournaments.