Bah! Why can't my fingers be faster!?
This past weekend was an awful one. I was sick as fuck, and it hurt to cough, sneeze, or laugh. My chest would feel like it was on fire if I did any of those three actions. On top of that, I felt regularly like I had been chokeslammed by the Big Show, and on the way down, Triple H hit me with a sledgehammer. Not a fun way to spend four days, lemme tell ya.
But it wasn't all bad. I got to have some fun while I was sick. On saturday, I went to Serramonte Mall where I got to participate in a Smash Bros. Melee tournament for a chance to win a free copy of Brawl once it was released. Since admission was free, I figured, why not?
I got there around 11, and they were setting things up in the center of the mall, where the resting area is. They had about 5 tvs, and were letting people do free play until sign-ups started, so I just did my thing. My Kirby was rocking the place. It wasn't even funny. It took 3 people teaming up against me to take out one of my stocks, and I still won. Crazy. From the info I got from those matches, I knew I had this thing in the bag. I could feel that Brawl copy in my hands as I got into the sign-up line.
And then HE came. LuninSpectra, possibly THE best Fox player in the country. I recognized him immediately, since I had met him several times before. I even went to his house to play Melee, and before you ask, he's a good host. But anyways, yeah, I saw him, and I said to myself, "fuck." If he was playing, I had little to no chance of winning.
So I sign up, wait for my first match (which I just dominate), and pray that I'm not in the same bracket as he is, which it turns out I wasn't. There were three brackets, each bracket containing about 12 people. I was in one, Lunin was in the other, and that's all I cared about. I was chatting it up with some friends I knew between rounds until I swept my bracket clean. Then came the semis. It was me versus the champion from the tournament last year. Lunin was watching, and yeah, it made me a bit nervous, but I stepped things up, and beat the shit out of the Samus-user I was playing against. It also helped that I was playing in Jungle Japes, which I was shocked to find out is a legal tournament stage.
So I win, I'm in a lock for 3rd place, and then it's time to face off against Lunin. The other guy got a fucking bye because of the odd number of brackets. LuninSpectra, what a performer. He beat the fuck out of me, which came as no shock to myself. But I did manage to kill him twice, which is a new personal best. After my crushing defeat, he cleaned house on the lucky SOB that got a bye. And speaking of him, I saw his matches earlier in the tournament, and I can say with full confidence, that if it wasn't for the bye, I could've easily gotten second place. But that's all I'm gonna say.
As of right now, I'm not sick anymore. And I am too happy about it.
Arr, this be dat HKS.
Live in your world.
Die in mine.
But it wasn't all bad. I got to have some fun while I was sick. On saturday, I went to Serramonte Mall where I got to participate in a Smash Bros. Melee tournament for a chance to win a free copy of Brawl once it was released. Since admission was free, I figured, why not?
I got there around 11, and they were setting things up in the center of the mall, where the resting area is. They had about 5 tvs, and were letting people do free play until sign-ups started, so I just did my thing. My Kirby was rocking the place. It wasn't even funny. It took 3 people teaming up against me to take out one of my stocks, and I still won. Crazy. From the info I got from those matches, I knew I had this thing in the bag. I could feel that Brawl copy in my hands as I got into the sign-up line.
And then HE came. LuninSpectra, possibly THE best Fox player in the country. I recognized him immediately, since I had met him several times before. I even went to his house to play Melee, and before you ask, he's a good host. But anyways, yeah, I saw him, and I said to myself, "fuck." If he was playing, I had little to no chance of winning.
So I sign up, wait for my first match (which I just dominate), and pray that I'm not in the same bracket as he is, which it turns out I wasn't. There were three brackets, each bracket containing about 12 people. I was in one, Lunin was in the other, and that's all I cared about. I was chatting it up with some friends I knew between rounds until I swept my bracket clean. Then came the semis. It was me versus the champion from the tournament last year. Lunin was watching, and yeah, it made me a bit nervous, but I stepped things up, and beat the shit out of the Samus-user I was playing against. It also helped that I was playing in Jungle Japes, which I was shocked to find out is a legal tournament stage.
So I win, I'm in a lock for 3rd place, and then it's time to face off against Lunin. The other guy got a fucking bye because of the odd number of brackets. LuninSpectra, what a performer. He beat the fuck out of me, which came as no shock to myself. But I did manage to kill him twice, which is a new personal best. After my crushing defeat, he cleaned house on the lucky SOB that got a bye. And speaking of him, I saw his matches earlier in the tournament, and I can say with full confidence, that if it wasn't for the bye, I could've easily gotten second place. But that's all I'm gonna say.
As of right now, I'm not sick anymore. And I am too happy about it.
Arr, this be dat HKS.
Live in your world.
Die in mine.