Just a space-filler...
((This is basically copy/pasted from my post at CAG. I'll post a real update sometime in the next 2 days, if I have time.))
Just gt back from the Nintendo-sponsored tournament at SF. The competition there was pretty good, at least for the last half of the tournament. It was clear that the people who didn't know how to play far outnumbered the people who did. Quite literally, my first opponent was someone who had never played any Smash Brothers games in his life, and was asking me the buttons while we were picking our characters.
The rules were what I expected. All items on, CC only, default characters only (they had to delete the data every 5 matches since Ness kept trying to get unlocked), Battlefield stage only, 4 minute matches with no stock (meaning that you had 4 minutes to get the most kills). My Dedede was half-penguin, half-beatdown, half-amazing the entire day. Throwing Waddle Dees/Doos gave me so much presence in my matches, most characters couldn't deal, especially Ike, who quickly became a favored match for me. It's amazing how all of Ike's best moves get stopped by one of my many minions.
Smash Balls were on, of course, and I took advantage of them every chance I could. Turns out that flying up towards the top of the level, then activating it makes D3's FS that much better, since all his minions spawn around his general area anyways. His forward smash attack is slow, but I kept faking people out with it's slow startup, and people dodged too early, and got hit by it anyways. Fantastic!
Apparently, some of the Bay Area's best Smash players showed up, but since they were too used to Melee's mechanics, they all lost in the first couple of rounds. LuninSpectra, considered the country's greatest Fox player in Melee, lost in the first round. He recognized me after his round, and wished me luck, which made me feel all important, since someone as widely recognized as him in the Smash community was hoping I would take it all. I also beat one of the best Kirby players in Melee to advance to the top 8, which was another good feeling, since I learned everything I know about Kirby from his posts at Smashboards.
In the end, I never advanced past the top 8, losing to a very aggro pair of Ice Climbers. Time ran out, and we were forced into sudden death, where a clutch roll past my projectile led him into victory. All in all, it was a great day. I learned a whole bunch about the game while I was there, including things about the CC. It's not hard to get used to if you're used to the GC controller. Grabbing is weird, since the Z button is in between the two shoulder buttons, but once you get used to that, it's all downhill from there.
Just gt back from the Nintendo-sponsored tournament at SF. The competition there was pretty good, at least for the last half of the tournament. It was clear that the people who didn't know how to play far outnumbered the people who did. Quite literally, my first opponent was someone who had never played any Smash Brothers games in his life, and was asking me the buttons while we were picking our characters.
The rules were what I expected. All items on, CC only, default characters only (they had to delete the data every 5 matches since Ness kept trying to get unlocked), Battlefield stage only, 4 minute matches with no stock (meaning that you had 4 minutes to get the most kills). My Dedede was half-penguin, half-beatdown, half-amazing the entire day. Throwing Waddle Dees/Doos gave me so much presence in my matches, most characters couldn't deal, especially Ike, who quickly became a favored match for me. It's amazing how all of Ike's best moves get stopped by one of my many minions.
Smash Balls were on, of course, and I took advantage of them every chance I could. Turns out that flying up towards the top of the level, then activating it makes D3's FS that much better, since all his minions spawn around his general area anyways. His forward smash attack is slow, but I kept faking people out with it's slow startup, and people dodged too early, and got hit by it anyways. Fantastic!
Apparently, some of the Bay Area's best Smash players showed up, but since they were too used to Melee's mechanics, they all lost in the first couple of rounds. LuninSpectra, considered the country's greatest Fox player in Melee, lost in the first round. He recognized me after his round, and wished me luck, which made me feel all important, since someone as widely recognized as him in the Smash community was hoping I would take it all. I also beat one of the best Kirby players in Melee to advance to the top 8, which was another good feeling, since I learned everything I know about Kirby from his posts at Smashboards.
In the end, I never advanced past the top 8, losing to a very aggro pair of Ice Climbers. Time ran out, and we were forced into sudden death, where a clutch roll past my projectile led him into victory. All in all, it was a great day. I learned a whole bunch about the game while I was there, including things about the CC. It's not hard to get used to if you're used to the GC controller. Grabbing is weird, since the Z button is in between the two shoulder buttons, but once you get used to that, it's all downhill from there.