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Competitive Super Smash Bros Melee Community: 2001-present
- Thread starter Chaosblade
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Bananas is probably the only top ICs right now that can live in a post-wobbling world. It's gonna be tough sledding, but he's good
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Fly and even Wobbles didn't really wobble in their prime. Both did sick handoff combos instead.
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JUst checked back in on Shine. Kinda crazy to see that iBDW took out Leffen.
Yeah, this is true. Ultimately the same issue, people all want to play their own preferred way, often also the way that gives them a better shot at winning. More generally, people want others to agree with and validate their own opinions, and we often don't catch ourselves realizing it's selfish.
These tournaments where enough of the top players are missing that it ends up being a hard fought battle for 2nd place followed by Hbox just destroying them... are thankfully rare, but they are still painful
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I was hoping iBDW would beat S2J for another shot at Hbox. That would have been better than S2J just getting whipped again. Without the SD on stadium in winners semis iBDW could have potentially gone up 2-1 and the set probably would have played out entirely differently.
New SmashStick trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw_gaZ4IEjU
Glad they're still going on it. Can't wait to try it out, eventually.
Glad they're still going on it. Can't wait to try it out, eventually.
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Hopefully they learned from the last KS and will handle the second one better. I felt like they kind of left it to die toward the end because they lost confidence in hitting the goal, plus being busy because the guys have full time jobs on top of working on the Smash Stick. I know they say they want to do a better marketing push and get some bigger sites to cover it because that didn't work out at all for the first attempt. And they need to be more active during the KS and push content and updates, which is the main bit of feedback I've given them.
I'd post something in the thread I made about it during the last KS but I already double posted with KS updates back then to no interest.
I'd post something in the thread I made about it during the last KS but I already double posted with KS updates back then to no interest.
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m2k is watching the documentary for the first time right now and doing commentary. dude was around since close to the beginning so he has a ton of insight.
"m2k told ken to use counter against pc chris" is some of my favorite smash lore lmao
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Are the top players at Smash Camp even taking the event seriously? I heard Axe is just going with secondaries.
Last year's smash camp was p much AZ smash-partying in a campground. maybe axe is just looking to do that again, have a great vacation w friends in his home region. Heck, the vacation angle might be half the reason more top players came this year.
I wonder how many of these players are also going to mainstage next week. Mainstage has more money involved, i think. If people don't think they can go all-out two weekends in a row it makes sense to prioritize the more intense and lucrative one.
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Roast of Bobby Scar is about to start at Mainstage, top 8 after that. Missed top 16 unfortunately.
Fire set from Lucky and Ginger.
Yoshi legit looks like a hard counter for Ice Climbers. Or at least Amsa does.
Yo that Axe combo.
Fire set from Lucky and Ginger.
Yoshi legit looks like a hard counter for Ice Climbers. Or at least Amsa does.
Yo that Axe combo.
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I know reddit is distraught as usual because Hbox won again, but two of his worst MUs (Wizzy and Leff) didn't enter and he everybody else had a shot at him
It's fine. One of these guys will rise up!
(GFs was rough though, I want to hear Axe's take on that. He looked 1000% better in WSF, even though the results didn't show)
It's fine. One of these guys will rise up!
(GFs was rough though, I want to hear Axe's take on that. He looked 1000% better in WSF, even though the results didn't show)
He's sponsored (by Envy, no less), but has been absent for various reasons (I feel like they were good reasons but I don't remember what they were).
I believe he'll be at TBH in 2 weeks
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Iirc he missed the last majors for a wedding and a trip to Japan with his girlfriend. He also spent some time focusing on 64 around SSC.
That's what he had to say on Twitter:
And that's also what it felt like.
He's doing it alright. Jason was playing such a optimal Fox against Hbox.
Definitely the best set of year. Check it out when you have the time!
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Only turned it on just before top 8 started.
This has been a kind of sloppy top 8. IBDW, Mango, Lucky, M2K. None of them have looked very good. Well, IBDW looked good when he wasn't messing up I guess.
Yes Toph, the blue button on the GC controller. The shine button. Wtf lol
Mango needs to go fox the rest of the tournament, he looked super clean. His Falco looked like trash against Leffen.
This has been a kind of sloppy top 8. IBDW, Mango, Lucky, M2K. None of them have looked very good. Well, IBDW looked good when he wasn't messing up I guess.
Yes Toph, the blue button on the GC controller. The shine button. Wtf lol
Mango needs to go fox the rest of the tournament, he looked super clean. His Falco looked like trash against Leffen.
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Mango definitely should have stayed Fox.
Grand finals will be entirely free for Zain.
If I had a printer, paper, and ink to waste I'd take this post, print it out, set it on fire, and post a picture of it.
I don't know how Mango did that, but that was some great Melee.
Grand finals will be entirely free for Zain.
If I had a printer, paper, and ink to waste I'd take this post, print it out, set it on fire, and post a picture of it.
I don't know how Mango did that, but that was some great Melee.
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lol, perfect. I can't blame you though, I thought Zain had that for sure. Even while watching it, a couple games (I think game 5 of set 1 and game 4 of set 2) it felt like it was nearly a lock.
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In fairness, the context of the post was during the Fiction set and Mango was in his second straight set as Falco looking rough, while his Fox looked on point. Even Mango said he was playing pretty bad but improved from there all the way through grands. It sure looked that way.
And Zain in winners side of grands with just three spaces left? I figured he would feast, but Mango proved me wrong.