To the community:
Jumping the fence wasn't recent, Mooney was using it as an example of the hate he used to be able to stand. It's clear that's what he means in his first post.
Honestly I'll vouch for his getting better at Melee. He has gotten a lot better, it's just that as a community we tend to focus on his failures rather than his improvements. There is also, from what I have seen, no aspect of his game which is flat out laughable. At least a couple top players in Florida have things they do only slightly better than average noobs.
I hate this next sentence cause it sound worse for the other person than it sounds good for Mooney, but Mooney did better in Atlanta (TGMTSBCO) than at least one person on the Florida rankings. No hate on the other guy.
/section of post where I rip on Florida's top players x.x
Regardless of all of this Mooney was extremely helpful to me while going to the Atlanta tournament. He helped me stay awake on the ride back even though he's never driven himself (so he doesn't know how hard that can be) and even though he hadn't slept in a couple of days. He did something very difficult to help me, and I am very appreciative of it, Colin and Juan better be too.
Plus even though he hasn't had the largest amount of improvement he keeps coming back to tournaments. He's got an amazing amount of perseverance. And he's more than willing to keep working at melee (as well as brawl) even though I am all too familiar with other brawl players complaining there's no use trying to learn melee cause they'll never catch up. Mooney's never made that excuse.
Also to get a little history straight here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DFWTp_IPtdI&feature=related
00:26-00:36
Also y'all may not be aware of what was a long standing hatred between Husband and Florida. Florida did suck because we never went out of state. Only recently has the SFL (and even more recently CFL) community gotten large enough and good enough to maintain with the top smashers elsewhere.
Obviously the same thought process was used to say that FL Brawl sucks too. We're not going out of state and seemingly losing to nooby tactics. And whether you like it or not, an isolated community can progress at a slower rate than larger ones. However I think FL's brawl section is too big to get left very far behind.
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To Ian:
I do have to agree that this thread wasn't the greatest idea, but it's actually gotten decent responses. It should show you people's opinions are changing. Mark does it still cause he's up in PA and is losing touch and should obviously come back. Otherwise I didn't notice it too much myself, it's not nearly as blatant or frequent as it used to be. Just keep shrugging it off.
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Edit:
Dammit I'm so long winded. I wish I could post more like Afro sometimes.<3 Afro