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NeoGAF Super Smash Bros. Brawl Singles Tournament #1
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Manabanana
Member
PMed DeceitDecide about round 3.
I don't know about that whole "believe and it will become reality" philosophy (said with some irony when I'm a Haruhi fanRelix said:
). I thought I was going to lose to OliveJuice for sure after he destroyed me in the first round of our second match--his Falco against my Mr. Game & Watch was practically a slaughter for the ages, especially since I consider Mr. Game & Watch way up there as one of my mains--but somehow I came back. I can understand the Luigi win; I'd rank my Luigi above my G&W. But how I managed a Pikachu win, or why I even dared to select Pikachu in the first place, is beyond me.Jiggy37 said:I don't know about that whole "believe and it will become reality" philosophy (said with some irony when I'm a Haruhi fan
Wait, you beat Olive? So that means I won't have to face him anytime soon right? We played some 1v1s and ended in a draw after like 8 matches :lol
PunjabiPlaya
Member
Yo Bloodwake, just wondering when you're planning on getting your round 2 match done?
I'm possibly gonna be playing you in round 3, so I just wanted to get an idea of when to plan on doing my next match.
I'm possibly gonna be playing you in round 3, so I just wanted to get an idea of when to plan on doing my next match.
PunjabiPlaya said:Yo Bloodwake, just wondering when you're planning on getting your round 2 match done?
I'm possibly gonna be playing you in round 3, so I just wanted to get an idea of when to plan on doing my next match.
Right now, we are aiming for Tuesday. Baiano has some schoolwork he needs to concentrate on Monday, so tomorrow we are good to go. We will be playing that day.
After that, the appropriate people will exchange PMs, friend codes, etc. I've been training to potentially face an Ike player, so we will see what will happen.
For the record, I'm being a bad person right now and haven't sent a PM yet. I'm trying to decide what characters I want to use, based on a set of hypotheticals involving how far I could make it, how possible it might be to avoid using any character more than twice (while surely avoiding repeating a character in the same matchup), and how, even if I were to avoid using characters more than twice, I could save some of the characters I consider my best for matches later in the tournament.
Anyway, the point is that I haven't decided on my characters yet, and I can't decide on my counterpick stage until I decide on my characters, and that prevents me from sending a PM. Actually, I still have to decide on my character for the Castle Siege match in the first place, based on who might perform better or more poorly in its three environments (plus the transition environment)--while also factoring in all that above stuff, of course. If (just as an example) I ultimately decided that Mr. Game & Watch was my greatest character for Castle Siege, I still might not pick him. After all, I don't want to repeat characters more than twice, but I already used him against OliveJuice. So I probably might not use him out of the worry that I might end up against a later opponent or on a later stage that Mr. Game & Watch would be even more well-suited for, but then due to the self-imposed restriction I wouldn't be using him and that could cost me.
Alternatively, I might use him in Castle Siege if I adopted the thought process that I was going to lose within another set of two matches. In such a case, repeating characters more than twice would never become a significant problem and I would have free reign to go ahead and pick him a second time even though it was only one matchup after the first time.
Life is so complicated when you're me. (Either that or I'm just inventing long-winded made-up excuses in order to develop character. Even I can't write off that possibility!)
I'll definitely be ready at least by tomorrow, though. >_> Even if I end up, like, throwing dice or something.
Anyway, the point is that I haven't decided on my characters yet, and I can't decide on my counterpick stage until I decide on my characters, and that prevents me from sending a PM. Actually, I still have to decide on my character for the Castle Siege match in the first place, based on who might perform better or more poorly in its three environments (plus the transition environment)--while also factoring in all that above stuff, of course. If (just as an example) I ultimately decided that Mr. Game & Watch was my greatest character for Castle Siege, I still might not pick him. After all, I don't want to repeat characters more than twice, but I already used him against OliveJuice. So I probably might not use him out of the worry that I might end up against a later opponent or on a later stage that Mr. Game & Watch would be even more well-suited for, but then due to the self-imposed restriction I wouldn't be using him and that could cost me.
Alternatively, I might use him in Castle Siege if I adopted the thought process that I was going to lose within another set of two matches. In such a case, repeating characters more than twice would never become a significant problem and I would have free reign to go ahead and pick him a second time even though it was only one matchup after the first time.
Life is so complicated when you're me. (Either that or I'm just inventing long-winded made-up excuses in order to develop character. Even I can't write off that possibility!)
I'll definitely be ready at least by tomorrow, though. >_> Even if I end up, like, throwing dice or something.
Manabanana
Member
DeceitDecide and I had our Round 3 match. Results as follows:
Manabanana (Lucas, Lucas) over DeceitDecide (Pikachu, Pikachu) 2-0; Frigate Orpheon
Manabanana (Lucas, Lucas) over DeceitDecide (Pikachu, Pikachu) 2-0; Frigate Orpheon
crowphoenix
Banned
Jiggy37 said:
I read this post as the panicked ramblings of a mad Jiggy. :lol You're thinking too much, man. You may have several characters you play as, but you've got to trust yourself. Luck is a part of skill, and as you can't read your opponent, you have to go with your best.
Phantom Flapjack
Member
PMed superbank RE: round 3 match
At length and with a great deal of thought I settled on Delfino Plaza, and sent a PM to Shanks about it. I had been really close to picking that stage in the first round, but fell just shy since my opponent could set the Delfino Plaza music to 100% and everything else to 0%, but it's a really excellent stage, and I'm not about to do Pokemon Stadium twice.
With that said, I don't know what I'll pick for my fourth round match, because I'm also not doing Delfino twice. D: I'll think about it in advance. Maybe Battlefield, Castle Siege, Halberd, Luigi's Mansion, Smashville, or Yoshi's Island. Not sure. Or I could pick Big Blue if I really wanted to cheap out.
Edit: Forgot to say, I also whipped up The Finalized and Complete and True Round 1 Results and Statistics and have them saved in Word, but I won't be posting them until this whole thing is over and done with. (So, even if you're already out of the tournament, stay tuned!) The only difference over my older post anyway, other than some slight layout changes, is that I added the character usage statistics and win percentages.
With that said, I don't know what I'll pick for my fourth round match, because I'm also not doing Delfino twice. D: I'll think about it in advance. Maybe Battlefield, Castle Siege, Halberd, Luigi's Mansion, Smashville, or Yoshi's Island. Not sure. Or I could pick Big Blue if I really wanted to cheap out.
Edit: Forgot to say, I also whipped up The Finalized and Complete and True Round 1 Results and Statistics and have them saved in Word, but I won't be posting them until this whole thing is over and done with. (So, even if you're already out of the tournament, stay tuned!) The only difference over my older post anyway, other than some slight layout changes, is that I added the character usage statistics and win percentages.
I've not been doing this lately, but I sometimes pick stages where I know everyone will suck on (Ice Climbers (Melee) was a good one in Melee, so is Rumble Falls, 75 mm, Mario Bros.), so that it distracts my opponent enough to where I can win.
It's actually a pretty good strategy.
It's actually a pretty good strategy.
I know. A great number of my posts are facetious (at least by my subjective definition of "great number"), but I'm dead serious when I say I just might pick Big Blue at some point in the future. Especially if my next match is in the losers' not-winners' bracket and I'm really feeling the burn.
Jiggy37 said:I know. A great number of my posts are facetious (at least by my subjective definition of "great number"), but I'm dead serious when I say I just might pick Big Blue at some point in the future. Especially if my next match is in thelosers'not-winners' bracket and I'm really feeling the burn.
Yeah, I always thought Big Blue was pretty damn fun myself.
Jiggy37 said:I know. A great number of my posts are facetious (at least by my subjective definition of "great number"), but I'm dead serious when I say I just might pick Big Blue at some point in the future. Especially if my next match is in thelosers'not-winners' bracket and I'm really feeling the burn.
Well, it's even worse because Big Blue is actually probably an amazing choice for jigglypuff, since it does nothing but float around in the air killing everyone. Meanwhile everyone else will be bouncing off the racetrack and dying. DO IT.
I'm surprised nobody has counter-picked Big Blue against me considering everyone knows my opinion of it.
Also Jiggy, too bad about you not wanting to play Delfino Plaza again because it'll be a neutral stage in one of the upcoming rounds =P I'll need to repeat 3 stages, but the neutrals I'm gonna use are Final Destination, Battlefield, Smashville, Yoshi's Island, Lylat Cruise, Pokemon Stadium 1, Castle Siege, Delfino Plaza, and Halberd.
Also Jiggy, too bad about you not wanting to play Delfino Plaza again because it'll be a neutral stage in one of the upcoming rounds =P I'll need to repeat 3 stages, but the neutrals I'm gonna use are Final Destination, Battlefield, Smashville, Yoshi's Island, Lylat Cruise, Pokemon Stadium 1, Castle Siege, Delfino Plaza, and Halberd.
Big Blue is the greatest stage ever made.
Oh, I'm totally aware of that. Unfortunately (and much to the dismay of a lot of people who keep wanting to play against me with Jigglypuff), I don't and frankly kind of can't figure out how to use Jigglypuff in lag. >_> She's hit way, way harder by input lag--or any kind, really, but especially input lag--than any other character I play. (Which is also why I'll pretty much always ask for lag test matches first: to see if the puff is even a theoretical option.)Blizzard said:
Well, if it's round 5 then I might not get to it anyway. Could lose to Shanks and then whoever I'd face in the losers' bracket, after all!Firestorm said:
Vlad said:You and me both. I just want to actually finally play a match in this damn thing
I waited on a winner from your first round bracket this whole time and never actually saw your name move up in the bracket to 2nd round. Now 2nd round deadline has passed, what do we do?
bran said:
Well, as I mentioned in my other PM, we try and figure out the schedule. Since things with my first round opponent fell through due to network issues, he was eventually given a forfeit for (I'm assuming) taking too long to reply to PMs. So, I figure we both try to get our match in ASAP so we can move on to our third round matches.
Ashhong forfeits to weepy!!!! Yes! Now.... Ashong versus SixStringPsycho. Get done with it I want a R3 opponent dammit.
We all want to have fun right? That's why I don't pick those weird levels :lol
I have this theory that Firestorm lost to me on purpose so he could do exactly this
By the way Jiggy, WE NEED NEW STATS!
Firestorm said:
We all want to have fun right? That's why I don't pick those weird levels :lol
Bloodwake said:
I have this theory that Firestorm lost to me on purpose so he could do exactly this
By the way Jiggy, WE NEED NEW STATS!
Baron Doggystyle von Woof
Member
Threi said:I should have entered
would be interesting to see where i would rank :lol
not far if you would face my IKE muhahahahaha
"Beat" might be an overstatement. Not just underselling myself this time, either. The two matches I won ended with both of us on the last stock sitting around, like, 135% (before the finishing blow). >_>Relix said:
Updated with the two new winners' bracket results.Relix said:
A Human Becoming
More than a Member
Jiggy37 said:
Who are you playing again?
Jiggy37 said:
I haven't heard anything about Baiano19 either. That's what sucks about your opponent not having a first round match: I have no expectations. He can go back and look at the stats and at least figure out one character I play as.
Hopefully this won't affect my chances. I really want to get to at least the third round before I lose.
OliveJuice
Member
Looks like Kinosen and I are having trouble connecting to each other. :/ We'll most likely battle tomorrow or at a later time. If we can get it working :/.