Which is the Best Region/State?

[Tee ay eye]

Mods didn't even say why they locked the original thread.

Originally posted by Hbox:

I got tired of hearing people throw stats around with this argument, but I really am interested in hearing some educated claims and some backup as to which region in the USA is the best overall.

Since this is sort of ambiguous, there's three categories we can divide this into:

Best Overall Tournament Placings

Best Five Man Crew

Any Argument Referring to Skill (eg. Region X has the most top players, or region Y ELO is proven better, etc)

Discuss!

 

[FrootLoop]

didn't want MW's true strength revealed
#FC

 

[Bones0]

Cali, obv.

 

[KirbyKaze]

California is really, really strong.

 

[S l o X]

West Coast / California.

 

[kyaputenfarukon07]

All of the Above

 

[PGH Carroll]

PA for best luigi state.

 

[Morin0]

CALIFORNIA/WEST COAST

No, Carroll, the west coast takes that belt, as we have Eddy Mexico

 

[PGH Carroll]

lol our top ten has 3 luigis
vudujin, abate & pakman
cant compete

 

[Beat!]

Cal i

 

[Youngling]

People sleepin on Florida. 2 of the top 4 players in the world are from there.

Just throwin that out there

 

[Bones0]

CALIFORNIA

Mango - 2012
Zhu - 1897
Shroomed - 1878
S2J - 1867
Lucky - 1855
Westballz - 1820
Lovage - 1817
Lucien - 1812
Ken - 1799
Fly Amanita - 1780
SFAT - 1761
SilentSpectre - 1754
MacD - 1750
HugS - 1709
Scar - 1672
PewPewU - 1669
DEHF - 1667
ConnorTheKid - 1634



FLORIDA

Hungrybox - 2079
DaShizWiz - 1735
Lambchops - 1664
Colbol - 1633
Linguini - 1602
RockCrock - 1556
KeepSpeedn - 1499
Plup - 1473

 

[Youngling]

.....isn't PP from Florida?

 

[Strong Badam]

Is that a joke? PP is and always has been from North Carolina.

 

[RaphaelRobo]

Yeah, PP's from NC. He's the reason we're the best State. All of our opponents will be so busy laughing at his weird name that they won't be paying attention to the game, and we can take them out.

 

[S1 The God]

California, there's no argument.

 

[The Star King]

Yeah it's Cali. Not that it's very surprising, considering how HUGE of a population advantage it has over everyone else.

But if you split them into NorCal and SoCal they become much more like other states in size. SoCal is probably still the best though lol

 

[Silent Wolf]

socal alone is a lot better than every where else lol

 

[big sleep]

cali too good

 

[ZaXXoR]

Seriously why is there such a big following in Cali, wish this game was as hyped in Canada

 

[odinNJ]

east coast is not bad, second best to cali

 

[Battlecow]

what's east coast? where's the line between EC and ATL south? Or are florida, north carolina, etc. part of EC?

 

[unknown522]

Cali

 

[Biglard]

Depends on the scale you're considering.

If we're talking about a country, I'd say the USA.

If you want me to be more specific, I'd say California.

If you want me to be more specific, I'd say SoCal.

If you want me to be more specific, I'd say the Lindgren family house.

 

[Xyzz]

Depends on the scale you're considering.

If we're talking about a country, I'd say the USA.

If you want me to be more specific, I'd say California.

If you want me to be more specific, I'd say SoCal.

If you want me to be more specific, I'd say the Lindgren family house.

If we were living in the USA I could probably sue you for making me spill my coffee... well, as it is, I can only thank you for the good laugh =)

 

[Tee ay eye]

People sleepin on Florida. 2 of the top 4 players in the world are from there.

Just throwin that out there

wait, what? who is there other than hbox?

CALIFORNIA

Mango - 2012
Zhu - 1897
Shroomed - 1878
S2J - 1867
Lucky - 1855
Westballz - 1820
Lovage - 1817
Lucien - 1812
Ken - 1799
Fly Amanita - 1780
SFAT - 1761
SilentSpectre - 1754
MacD - 1750
HugS - 1709
Scar - 1672
PewPewU - 1669
DEHF - 1667
ConnorTheKid - 1634



FLORIDA

Hungrybox - 2079
DaShizWiz - 1735
Lambchops - 1664
Colbol - 1633
Linguini - 1602
RockCrock - 1556
KeepSpeedn - 1499
Plup - 1473

although california is easily the best state, i think elo is a terrible way of proving it. all the different regions have different levels of elo inflation... for example, midwest and europe have grossly overrated elo ratings.

 

[Beat!]

wait, what? who is there other than hbox?

He thought PP was from Florida.

 

[joeplicate]

socal socal socal

even the up-and-comers like sung, baka4moe, stab are really freakin good now
there's so much depth and activity there
there are like 5 mini-regions within socal: santa barbara, 805 (ventura county)/818, LA, Orange County/Irvine, San Diego/mexico (lol). every one of these regions has hella smash hedz

s2j, lovage, westballz (don't sleep on this guy), mango, fly amanita/zhu for 5-man crew is more stacked than any other state imo

norcal blowz by comparison

 

[Tee ay eye]

anyway, my opinions:

-WC #1 region (if you count EC and South as separate regions)

and i guess for states (based on like, top 5) or small countries

God Tier: California

Top Tier: New York, Florida, Arizona

High Tier: Washington, New Jersey, North Carolina, Sweden, Holland

Yeah, I don't know an awful lot about Smash states (or geography), so this is the best I can come up with :/

edited for reasons

 

[Armada]

Depends on the scale you're considering.

If we're talking about a country, I'd say the USA.

If you want me to be more specific, I'd say California.

If you want me to be more specific, I'd say SoCal.

If you want me to be more specific, I'd say the Lindgren family house.

Haha to good =)

 

[Beat!]

anyway, my opinions:

-WC #1 region (if you count EC and South as separate regions)

and i guess for states (based on like, top 5) or small countries

God Tier: California

Top Tier: New York, Florida, North Carolina, Arizona, Sweden, Holland

High Tier: Washington, New Jersey

Yeah, I don't know an awful lot about Smash states (or geography), so this is the best I can come up with :/

Ontario's pretty good, I think.

And BC.


Good list tho'




Oh, and I guess Mexico should be up there somewhere.

 

[big sleep]

If we were living in the USA I could probably sue you for making me spill my coffee... well, as it is, I can only thank you for the good laugh =)

shots have been fired





[Edit= and -______________-;; @ NC being a top tier region at this game

i mean, i love my state and its melee brothers but

-______________-;;

]

 

[t3h Icy]

CALIFORNIA

Mango - 2012
Zhu - 1897
Shroomed - 1878
S2J - 1867
Lucky - 1855
Westballz - 1820
Lovage - 1817
Lucien - 1812
Ken - 1799
Fly Amanita - 1780
SFAT - 1761
SilentSpectre - 1754
MacD - 1750
HugS - 1709
Scar - 1672
PewPewU - 1669
DEHF - 1667
ConnorTheKid - 1634



FLORIDA

Hungrybox - 2079
DaShizWiz - 1735
Lambchops - 1664
Colbol - 1633
Linguini - 1602
RockCrock - 1556
KeepSpeedn - 1499
Plup - 1473

According to SSBPD, Little England is 27th, just below Zgetto, and just above Unknown522.

 

[Lovage]

don't listen to anything you hear about cali or socal. baka4moe ****ing blows.

 

[The Star King]

^Well, for one, that alias makes me want to kill babies

 

[Dr Peepee]

afaik socal is easily the best region

I haven't played much tri-state lately or Florida in even longer so I might not be in the most informed position outside of what I hear.


NC will be getting better when I move closer to everyone next semester though.

 

[RaphaelRobo]

shots have been fired





[Edit= and -______________-;; @ NC being a top tier region at this game

i mean, i love my state and its melee brothers but

-______________-;;

]

As much as I hate to admit it is, aside from PP, we might as well not exist. If PP makes the rest of us top tier, then I'm cool with that, but I don't think it makes much sense.

PP, I expect you to come hang out with us at NCSU next semester. I'll use my dining hall pass to give you free food.

 

[Dr Peepee]

LoZR and Yay are both good dawg. They're also far away though =(

$Mike is also really legit(beating LoZR a lot recently) so there's lots of potential for us we just need to get together and be serious more.

For now though a few people won't define our state, especially since they don't go OOS much(and when they do it isn't usually phenomenal).

 

[RaphaelRobo]

Yeah, we do have those three. But like you said, they don't go OoS, and their results aren't phenomenal. If they had better results, and/or went OoS more often, I wouldn't have said that.

But even so, that's only 4 people total.

 

[ShroudedOne]

Nah, Baka's legit.