Finished my
****ing essay
Now to put twice as much effort into these shoutouts...
ENJOY SCROLLING DOWN THIS ONE ****ERS
edit: yep, just under 1000 more words than my actual essay.
Dekar: Congrats on the victory dude! Idk if it's just me but I sense a bit of change in attitude for you towards the game, after doing a fair bit of TOing last year and winning consistantly before SD's arrival, you seemed quite apathetic towards your skill level. Definitely feels like you are in it to win it now, and that's really good to see. I enjoy watching your Marth more than our space animals players because the things you do are quite foreign to me, which makes your follow-ups and punishes very exciting and intriguing.
SD: Much respect for not going Fox in PM, although it's the only MU I have any knowledge of in the whole game. Guess it still helped against Haikal. How much of the pot did you split with Randall?
Redact: Thanks heaps for supporting me in P:M singles and generally being loud. You are the hardest opponent for me in Melee (when you're using Falco), in the last year I've taken less friendly games off you than anyone else. Please teach me why I'm **** in extensive detail at some point.
Tak: You played so well in Melee doubles, it was ridiculous. I was hardly implementing the laser strat as much as we were previously but I think I ended up doing the perfect amount of lazers to give you room and fighting someone myself. But yes, unlike previous ventures in doubles together, there was no depression from either of us and we took sets back. To beat Dekar and Redact we just needed blind luck. We can both beat either of them in 1v1's, we'd just be the under dogs, so I was just hoping we happened to both have our lucky break at the same time and win two seperate 1v1's in doubles haha
Almost worked on FD tbh. Cheers for being 2m24 the guys from Canberra. I think we were 2m24ourselves and we just over loaded the m2 scale and ended up having a really **** doubles team combination.
RedX: Learn the sheik ditto. I realised Surprise plays sheik too and he took a game off you... Tak and Seb beat you with Sheik... what are you just abysmal at spacing? What's the deal yoooooo
Would love to see you at the HoC more wherever it's relocating to, hope you stay tuned for the next instalment of Wreaking Bad.
Bu$: **** you're unlucky d00d. I feel pretty unlucky too, and I don't know how you feel coz I can't read your mind (only your techs) but I reckon we could both perform and place way higher on a given day. Just need to not **** up for a whole day... yeah that's a daunting task.
Miles: I can't respect the headphones strat. Sounds like you got up to all kinds of weird ass **** antics too, you need to settle down.
Cody: Way too meta. Is this use of the word 'defiantly' also some kind of trap? Shame we had to vs. in singles, you could've won but you choked pretty hard. Kept just doing this walking forward thing but in a kind of vulnerable situation (dont remember 100%) which I've never seen you do before and kept getting free down airs from it. Stay healthy!
Jei: Gratz on first seed in pools. Really makes me want to play gay as all hell seeing you camp that edge with Pit, it really cheesed my nipples off and I'd like to do something like that again. But playing GnW properly is so far removed from Melee/P:M mindset it's not worth it
Dean: Solid placing, definitely earning a rep that you should've already had for several years. One of the most competent Brawl players over the years and always a mere step down from the powerhouses such as Ted and Tibs. Probably someone that should've been beating me in the last few years since I stopped enjoying Brawl but the amount that GnW ***** DDD (at least imo) has probably had a negative impact on your reputation.
Hughie: Oh god, I didn't realise you came last in P:M. I honestly believe that you were the strongest player that I vs'd in bracket except for Haikal. I guess being easily predictable goes a long way but in terms of spacing and trying to get in on your character when you had stage control it was just damn scary. You were only predictable because you let me slow the match down and you started challenging me at times when I could retreat easily and punish you if you messed up. I know I told you that at tournament but might as well type it i guess. idk.. w/e
Everyone who lost to Nido: Respect the UpB it works like pretty good now. Nice if you can grab the edge and punish it, preferably with some invulnerability frames from the edge if you're going down to hit him (just in case you are 2 slow). If Ness lands on the ground he has pretty much no lag, idk about you guys but for Mewtwo but I can space an Fsmash to hit him immediately as he lands, and if he didn't actually go straight into the ground an Fair will catch him during his freefall. Learn to SDI he shouldn't be able to get anything out of PK Fire. I only took grabs out of PK Fire because I was being overconfident in my SDI and thinking I could hit his attempted follow ups (which I actually could every time except if he went for grab). Fsmash setups are pretty scary and hard to watch out for though, and any character with a DJC is going to need you to operate at a higher level of spacing. I just have my own DJC so it's cruisy tho wahahaha
wp still tho Nido, defs deserved your time to shine. Was clutch of me to get that spike to win the first set, and second set I just kind of knew the deal with Ness a fair bit better.
Haikal: So glad I could wreck you in Losers, it was exactly what I needed. I don't care if it was 3-2 last stock get #rekt
I think our rivalry probably would not exist if it were not for Forte and Tommy being the devils on the shoulder for both of us lol. Kind of unfortunate I didn't play you in Melee though, would just be nice to see where we're at in friendlies. The meet at Phil's showed 0 skill from both of us so that does not count.
Forte: Cheers for the Fox vs Mewtwo friendlies, I learnt that I could DJC Nair when Fox goes for Uthrow Uair above 50% and so I saved myself like infinity times doing that against Haikal (although I still failed it a lot and took some Uairs). Hope you are satisfied with what I'm doing with Mewtwo and I think it's awesome we have a little Mewtwo scene in melb. I think we have more Mewtwos than anything. Mewtwo round robin exhibition next tournament, It must happen.
1&%: Falco wrecks Falcon and I know the matchup and you probably wouldn't know Falco too well. The bopping you received in pools really wasn't an accurate display of what you can do and I could tell. Was great to vs. you in teams, you worked quite well with Jei. Ganondorf is a trash character and with a Falcon as good as yours I'd leave Ganon for friendlies. He will only bring you tears and regret in tournament, especially on PAL Melee where he sucks tremendously.
Tinman: Ah, even though I don't play Brawl anymore I'm really sour I did not beat your IC's. There was a time 2 years ago when Attila was using a lot of IC's but I was able to force him out of playing IC's with the UpB windbox strat when he tries any shield pressure on me on a platform. Because I keep thinking you could waveland and I'm generally no longer sure of how safe I am in the air etc. I was not able to make the right decisions to emulate this play style and it's something I'm interested in since GnW players generally regard it as one of the 5 worst matchups, whereas I think it is positive on half the stage list. I wanted to be the guy, but instead I got grabbed so well played for that. Much better to hang out with you this time round, and looking forward to seeing you again. It was unlucky that we first met at Shadowloo last year where I was being a moody ****.
Shaya: Although you talk too much and if the way you spoke was typed out in paragraphs, there'd be this jumble of hesitant words between each paragraph so much so that I could not get a word in before you started the next one, but I enjoyed everything you said as I either agree with you on some relatively complicated idea that I'm glad someone else thought about, or you present a new perspective altogether which is still pleasant for me. Even your post in this thread about 1 stock echoed my support for it, whilst also bringing up stuff I didn't even think about making me have to second guess and then agree with the ruleset again but now for different reasons. Ah you're just great, and even though you did the most useless Bair of all time (and got away with it) I loved watching you play Brawl and the choices you make. I was truly hype, congratulations dude!
Chef: You were a pretty cool dude, glad you could appreciate our 2m2 4u2 team tags. You made a slightly more significant impact on my tournament experience than the other ACT dudes and I just appreciate your demeanour, not to be too weird or anything.
ACT dudes: Cheers for coming down despite issues with housing. Don't wanna put the blame on anyone but perhaps if you planned that out from the get go it would've been easier, but more importantly you probably have a few more legitimate contacts in the VIC community now which should make it less hassle next time! Regardless of that, hope you all had a great time and got a fulfilling experience out of your preferred smash game(s).
Phrase: w0w buddy don't diss P:M it's the only thing I can win games in ITS ALL IVE GOT MAN
Silhouette and V : Cheers for being chill people in my brawl pool. Thanks for the full bucket charge V, very kind <3
Sebby: If there is like, something that's the opposite of a learning disability, than that's like wat u have dude. Fast assimiliation of information into the brain, you must have a malleable brain, like aeroplane jelly.
Jamwa: Do it. Ditch Brawl, become the sole Project-M-as-main-game smasher in VIC and get all da pusi
Attila: These shoutouts aren't in order of anything, just when I think of people. And to be honest how could I not have thought to you first? You just did so much though that it is really daunting to write anything to do it justice... I hope that this honest expression of my thoughts does something for you though. Well done x10, so many things we can improve on though, from
everyone. I dream of a tight knit single organism level of teamwork from the smash scene, like an army of ants we can all assist with organisation/streams/transport/housing/making the events run.
Atticus: Donkey Kong is my hero. This was the least close set we've had in a long time in Melee though, kind of sucked I have to say.
Epic Citizen L Blaxxon: Despite everyone commenting to me how **** Peach is as well as her cheapness being the main feature I discussed in my essay, I don't really think that had anything to do with it. I haven't played heaps of Peach recently but I know what I can punish with OoS and I know the matchup enough not to lose just because you located the C-stick. You kept grabbing me in this same situation over and over again, and I failed to implement wave dash OoS. Additionally due to lack of buffer, when I was taking hits (as opposed to grabs) on shield, I'd press jump too early, then input shine, resulting in spot dodge. And that's how you got a couple of Dsmash's too. Things I did wrong aside though, the way you kept grabbing me I thought was really good from you and had nothing to do with Peach, you were just ontop of a pattern in my game and you rode it. Good work.
Shoutouts to the "placed even with Timic" crew.
Especially Timic. Seems like you're starting to care a little more about the game again dude. Don't be afraid to get passionate, it's worth the heartbreak that will occur sometimes when you lose to Luigi.
Joey: Best caster, sorry for not running with your jokes because I couldn't actually exclaim anything which made it impossible to funny. Honestly shouldn't have casted with my voice that ****ed but whatever. I love your P:M commentary. Laughed sitting at my computer more than I have in a while. Definitely, Any combo of DD/PCG and you cannot be refused a place on the casting, and hopefully if I got my **** together I could join you like old times.
DD: Cheers for coming wiv me on the dual wield food run exodus of Pizza and KFC. Sorry if you were really hanging out for the SSFIV set which you missed the first half of, you seemed real chill about it but I don't buy it. Good to discuss Melee/P:M with you though, you've really picked up on the majority of smash specific technicalities and whatnot. With a little more technical execution practice would be nice to see how well you can do. People currently consider Melbourne as Jigglypuff-Free but after seeing how well you were playing at HoC before your hand incident people are really gonna have to reconsider that.
PCG: Everything was good. You're a natural at casting, take the same informative approach as me except take about 1/4 of the time to actually say it. Always worth talking to.
SurPr15e: Everyone takes you seriously and really respects your contribution to the scene
Juci: You're a massive ****wit for taking the bed on Friday. Eternal grudge mode activated.
Mew2King: You guys have to ****ing understand that this is actually the reason I beat Haikal and even attempted to implement spin to win. This is an excerpt from a brief conversation I had with M2K in February
"up throw fair low % or uair to regrab or uair to upt ilt or uair to uair or uair to bair
you throw up, uair, then stuff
lol
and do tons of uairs"
In retrospect I certainly did not implement Uair enough.
I'm pretty sure this is inappropriate but I have no issue with it + I haven't slept since Sunday.
Had to transcribe an entire Indian song in freeform timing and commence and complete an essay that I need to get 80% on, was pretty surreal getting everything done actually have to say. The longest I've ever been awake for is just under (or just over?) 70 hours and it's kind of better than getting high but also a lot lot way worse. Instead of feigning responsibility I'm just going to purely blame the overly unstructured ramble that is about to follow on sleep deprivation.
anyway...
IT'S ABOUT TO GET A LITTLE BIT REAL
THIS ONE MIGHT BE A LITTLE TOO HONEST <-- if you read this with this song on repeat, it will sound less serious, which is good because I am not being too serious, I don't mind being open and just rambling.
I'm a little at odds with what I need to work on in Melee and smash at the moment. See when I joined Brawl, I was quite young and really it was the only thing that I thought about. And with this passion and lack of experience dealing with disapointment I pretty easily pushed myself to 3rd place at my 3rd tournament, and won a couple of tournaments in 2010. Then I started to worry about school as for the first time in my life I wasn't doing well at everything, including smash, and I started to talk myself into this mentality of being friends with the community, and I trained myself to be happy just by being happy, to cope with stress and other bull****. I've never really hit such intense lows since I taught myself that but I definitely lost a lot of competitive spirit and selfishness. I became content with being average in everything just because I came up average a couple of times and wasn't used to it.
In essence, up until this weekend I was still carrying this mindset of "don't put yourself through the effort if you're ok with how you're doing". Now if I was coming from winners maybe it'd be a different story, but vsing SD in losers, as soon as I took it to the 3rd match I pretty much told myself "I don't want to play a 2nd set, that's too hard". Yeah I was still trying, but I can't shake this deep seated self-resignation. And I'm still fine with 2nd even if I resigned myself to it. But I've got <10 hours hands on time with P:M. I realised that if I'd done that to myself in Melee (regardless of whether I'd have ended up winning the set anyway) I probably would've broke down, since I care about the game so much. It's interesting how these mindsets and placebo effects develop, even though I believe it's largely inflicted from home life during high school, I used to consider it my strongest asset during the Brawl days in 2009-early 2011 but I'd say it's my weakest point by far now. I have so many negative placebos I place on myself in smash that it might actually be a form of ***********, I'm not medically educated so it's hard to say. I honestly think I can take a Melee set off any player in Melbourne at this point, I have sufficient tools and you guys do make some mistakes, but I'm severely disadvantaged, not only by the fact that I am still slower/worse than you guys (I can win but I'd still be the underdog) but also the mental hills I'm trying to climb.
The last couple of tournaments, from Miles House onwards, I've been able to justify the results in my head, take something away from the loss (and try to learn during the match too) and be content. But I think this is a dulling of the senses and is a poor approach to life (despite clearly thinking otherwise for a while). I should be complacent about losses I know I didn't have to take and I should put more pressure on myself to actually perform. I've removed all the stress from playing smash, and that's not right. When I see SD's rage after losing in doubles or to Dave, I see someone who is not considering the need to justify a loss or thinking about these kinds of thing. He's going in for the win without being clouded thinking about other things revolving around this game. When he loses and physically throws his hat or something, it's because he's failed. Unlike me he was not thinking of losing as some alternative option that's totally chilled if it happens. And like what's the ****ing point when I still get salty like 10 seconds after the game anyway. I think I should learn to handle the stress, and feed off the stakes, not fear the effect they might have on my dear little heart. I think remaining clear of arrogance is still priority though, even though I fear mentioning that I can probably beat everyone earlier in this ****ty DnM may breach that
With SD going to EVO and also the prospect of Aussie Smash being a fair bit higher in skill than I thought it was on the world scale, I really look forward to improving and taking on a more disciplined attitude. I gotta stress that I really wasn't having any life problems before becoming involved in the smash community, and what happened during my VCE is unrelated. I didn't need smash to escape from anything else; it's just so much ****ing better than anything else. There isn't really anything in life I'd rather do than compete at Smash and be great it, and I'm fortunate enough to study in a field that I'm adept enough in (music) to be able to devote a lot of time to Smash. Although unfortunate that the employment ratio of music is probably lower than that of aspiring competitive gamers...
Some people will realise that reading this is a waste of time and I was just selfishly dumping my thoughts ons Smashboards, some of you might appreciate something to think about/read,
but regardless, Shoutouts to anyone doing what they love.
Dekar289
: Third time's the charm! I'd really love some more DK practice, by the time I versed Allens he was in the process of switching to MK and I ended up beating him out.
Luco
, you're far from alone RE school. I'm so sick of uni, but most of my friends are eagerly diving into postgrad.
