The Fifth Official BBR New Member Application Thread

Questions:
You may answer any or all questions below. The more you provide, the better of an idea we'll get of who you are and whether or not to accept you to the BBR. Some of them might be more important than others.

Tournament Questions
- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?

i attend regularly and help co-host some if the TO needs help

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.

top 5/7

4th out of around 20 - http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=322085
collecting more

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene
- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?

All 3, regularly local/regional and i went to APEX 2012

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?

it sucks because there's no rainbow cruise on half the rulesets

Specialty Questions
- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.

character analysis for luigi

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?

stagelists involving rainbow cruise

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?

a purple name

- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room.

i once led a 4 page long discussion on the subject of human phallic organs in the captain falcon brawl boards

Other Questions
- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?

flaunting their purple names and referring to the non-purples as "scrubs, noobs and generally unfavorable company"

- How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments?

none, let the theory crafters that place 27th at locals create the ruleset because they know the most about the game

- Are you allergic to water?

i'm allergic to my own body

- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year?

it's come far but has farther to go

- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?

Not much if you aren't a little ***** who gets nervous when they play a video game

- How do you feel about the current state of the community and where do you think it should go?

The community right now is about 98% trolls, a quarter of which are not actually trolls but just generally ******** and make statements they have no business stating mostly because they are untrue, and then all the tournament goers that place well just come to the boards to troll, and the 2% left over is a myth

- There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?

Split the blocks into 3 groups of 3, and weigh two of the groups of three against each other. If one of those groups is heavier, it has the heavy block, if not, the third group you aren't weighing has it. Take the group that contains the heavy block and weigh two of those blocks against eachother. if one of those two is heavier, it's the heavier block, if they are the same, the third un-weighed block is the heavier block.

Tournament Questions[COLLAPSE="Tournament Questions"]
- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
I don't usually enter tournaments, although I've played tournament mode against level 9 CPUs before
-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
I typically get 2nd or 3rd in the tourney mode, it depends on which side of the bracket the lvl 9 CPU luigi is on
- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
I'd say regional, I play with 63 other computers and that's bigger than some other regional tournaments, although I play on basic brawl so that'd be international even though not tournament
- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
When I play on basic brawl I play with a bunch of noobs that just taunt so kinda bad right now, but hopefully we can change that
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Specialty Questions
[COLLAPSE="Specialty Questions"]- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.
I've beaten boss battle on intense mode with charizard so I can probably give some insight there
- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
Well I've seen lots of youtube videos of Vs mode and break the targets and world record times in the campaign so we should probably work on something less known about like Endless brawl
- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
Money would be nice for my contributions to it, I accept both checks and cash
- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room.
http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=13507749&postcount=124 (this post to the end)
http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=14372727&postcount=16153 (this post to the next page)
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Other Questions[COLLAPSE="Other Questions"]
- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?
Banning Luigi, he is too overpowered for tournament play
- Are you allergic to water?
Yes, I typically can't breathe when I'm exposed to being underwater for long periods of time.
- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year?
In the past year I've seen a lot of Kirbys taunting in basic brawl, but I'm seeing a lot more Pits now. I think it'll either recess back to Kirby in the next year or possibly switch over to Toon Link
- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?
Well you don't have to have extensive experience in tourney mode to be able to compete on basic brawl at all, there are prodigies out there (such as myself) who can just go out and win basic brawl matches back to back to back, but it can certainly help someone.
- There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?

Player-3 said:

Split the blocks into 3 groups of 3, and weigh two of the groups of three against each other. If one of those groups is heavier, it has the heavy block, if not, the third group you aren't weighing has it. Take the group that contains the heavy block and weigh two of those blocks against eachother. if one of those two is heavier, it's the heavier block, if they are the same, the third un-weighed block is the heavier block.

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[COLLAPSE="Tournament Questions"]- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly? I try to attend at least one tourney a month if not more. I have my own tournament series that I run now and it's been going well!

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available. I usually place fairly decently, on average 5th or so at most tournaments I attend down here, and I only really lose to top players in our state.

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene. I've started the first tournament series in the coastal bend area of texas, Captain InZano's Brawl Tourney. It's only just started pretty much, but it's helping create a scene that otherwise didn't exist much here in south texas since RGV stopped playing pretty much. I also make tournament articles in AiB to inform everyone of any tournaments occuring all around texas

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)? I've attended quite a few locals, some regionals, and one national

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene? I think right now, certain areas are dying because they aren't really advertising or trying to attract newer players, mainly catering to the already high level players, which is demotivating, but at the same time, areas like socal and midwest are seeing amazing tournament attendance, so hopefully that starts spreading soon, and that's what I'm trying to do for texas. All in all tho, I think we're doing pretty good for a game that has to compete with the likes of marvel and street fighter.
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[COLLAPSE="Specialty Questions"]- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective. I'd say tournament perspective, since I like to try attending what I can and keep up with any tournaments in my state that occur.



- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
I hope to learn things about this game that I didn't even think were possible to know, and I want to be known as a credible member of this community since I'm trying to expand our scene down here in the coastal bend.

- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room. I've made these articles and do them monthly to help spread the word about tournaments and hopefully increase attendance.
http://allisbrawl.com/news/newspost.aspx?id=1396
http://allisbrawl.com/news/newspost.aspx?id=1410[/COLLAPSE]


[COLLAPSE="Other Questions"]- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?
Perhaps they could find ways to influence more people to attend tournaments often? I don't know if it'd be possible for the bbr or if it's even something they'd deal with, but it'd be a cool idea.

- How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments?
As long as they aren't making ridiculous rules, I'd say they have every right to influence the rules used.

- Are you allergic to water?
Yes, Aquagenic Urticaria is a terrible thing

- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year? I think it's progressed insanely for the most part, considering how crazily different our tier lists seem to change each time means we definitely have room for growth, and I think that will continue to show throughout the year.

- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?
I think it has a huge impact. Myself for example, when I started out, I only played on wifi and got slightly better over a course of a year, but since I've been going to tournaments, I've been able to get realy experiences and feel real competition, as well as learn from some of our best players and gained invaluable knowledge on aspects of this game that have helped me grow.

- How do you feel about the current state of the community and where do you think it should go? I think some players tend to care too much about how good they are and just forget to have fun and take it as a learning experience. You won't have fun with this game if you try to force it or if you don't try to enjoy the journey to getting better, cause once you're on top, you won't be able to get the same joy you used to when you were constantly struggling to better yourself and learn so many things. I think we need to stop being elitists over this game and try to help any new player we can, it's the only way we'll continue to grow. If you don't have any competition, create some.

- There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?

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[collapse=tournament questions]- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
I host tournaments regularly, currently I am running a league, and there are plans for a big one on december.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
I sadly have have not many links to tournament results. The few I have are pretty outdated.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/smashsanluis/permalink/329075933822669/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/smashsanluis/permalink/292856224111307/
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=13443241#post13443241
Basically, I regularly place high in local events, specially if MK is legal.

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.
I wouldn't call any of my events "notable". However, I always make an extra effort to make tweaks to certain rules or even completly experiment with them, always providing feedback and trying to improve rulings for the next event. Worth noting, I never think of myself when doing them, but the entire scene.

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
There's rarely any big event in my country.
I try my best to attend them, but somehow school has made me unable to lately (fortunately, I just finished it!)
Las time I traveled was on january 2011, but I always try to keep track of every high-level player in my country.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
Most high level (not top) players are close-minded to new knowledge, and are stuck in their "gamestyle". IMHO, all of us are able to keep learning and improving (as shown by the japanese players when they went APEX'12).[/collapse]

[collapse=Specialty Questions]- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.
Most definetly, stages.
I consider most people don't know how to optimally play on certain stages with special features, and instead of sharing knowledge, are thinking on plain removing them. What I mean is that everybody could learn more in order to play correctly and not to get "screwed" by those features.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
Stages. There is a worrying lack of knowledge in that area.

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
Gain? Not really.
I just want to share knowlege and learn more form people that knows things I do not, in order to help everyone to improve.

- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room.
There are many threads in this board I've participated in (almost every thread): http://www.smashboards.com/forumdisplay.php?f=135
Feel free to formulate an opinion from those posts.[/collapse]

[collapse=Other Questions]- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?
Sharing knowledge among themselves and public in general.
Everything they know can helps others improve, so organizing and publishing all gathered info would be bliss for everyone's game.

- How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments?
about 85% maybe?
I mean, a first-hand experience is surely a great feedback source. Problem is that, it is all subjective. Some people may just be salty, or get impressed by something that could have avoided (like a lock out of an unteched attack, or an stage gimmick). Also, someone who does not attend tournaments at all might have a sound, logic point.
I'm not close-minded to different points of view.
- Are you allergic to water?
Last time I checked, I wasn't

- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year?
By last year, everyone thought they were at the top of their games.
Then, everyone at APEX was amazed when a not-so-top japanese player won convincingly the tournament. And their top-top players didn't even show.
We all, from the newest player to the most experienced one, still have a lot to learn, knowledge to share, and game to improve. There is not limit for that.

- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?
Just as much as one wants to lol
Some people can learn fast from not even playing, while some veteran players can't learn certain things that's been obvious for everyone else.
Tournament play is important, sure, but not quite as important as analyzing.

- How do you feel about the current state of the community and where do you think it should go?
A lot of people is somehow keeps spilling salt and trashtalking everywhere they can.
We all, as a community, should just be worying about keep improving (because we all still have a lot to learn).

Spoiler

Also, I don't get why this community is so harsh with some people like M2K or Pierce. I like Pierce's commentary...

- There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?
I'm bad at this kind of questions lol.[/collapse]

Might as well give it a shot...

My application:

Tournament Questions
- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
I attend tournaments regularly, and I do have experience hosting them. I use to host tournaments at smashfests I had and wifi tournaments.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
I usually place withing top 4 to top 8.

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
I have been to locals, regionals, nationals, and international tournaments.
- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
I believe that the current brawl scene is not what it used to be. Here in New Jersey our locals use to be filled with about 60 people and were extremely stacked in terms of skill. Now we have dwindled down to about 20-30 entrants, and while that is still ok I feel we can do better. That goes for almost every region as well.

Specialty Questions
- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.
I thinkthere are about 0-1 Fox players in the bbr so I can give insight on my main. I am a top Fox, and I heard that's what the bbr lacked. I can give insight on character analysis, Stage analysis, gameplay, and tournament persepective.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
Better stage list and moving toward the Japanese Ruleset.

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
I don't want to gain anything. I want to just help, and that is just about it.


- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room. I don't know where, but I made a really long matchup chart for Fox.

Other Questions
- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?
Finding out what they want from the community and making the appropriate changes for them. Also allowing newer players to become attracted to the scene.

- How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments
I believe they should have a lot. They pay their hard earned money to compete in their favorite game. They should be able to play in a ruleset that is fair to almost the entire tournament audience.

- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year?
I feel that it has progressed so much and still has a longer way to go. By the end of this year I can see the rise of a lot of characters that were slept on.
- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?
A lot of it!

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- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?

Don't host them, but I do attend the ones here in Queensland (and have been for the last since August last year) whenever one is hosted.​

- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.

Here are the last three 'big' tournaments:

SummerSmash 2012
QLD, Australia (2/18/2012)
25th of 40
http://www.smashboards.com/showpost....&postcount=832

Santasmash
QLD, Australia (12/10/11)
9th of 17
http://www.smashboards.com/showpost....&postcount=161

Australian Cyber League Finals
QLD, Australia (9/24/11)
13th of 25
http://www.smashboards.com/showpost....&postcount=398

My results are generally decent, although it might be important to note that SummerSmash 2012 was extremely stacked and that I should have at least placed 13th at worst had the bracked not been atrociously seeded (this is the problem when tournament organisers don't bother with pools). It's also probably important to note that Australian Cyber League was my first tournament.
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- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?

I think of the last 3 majors (or nationals) in Australia, I've been to two of them. ​

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?

I feel the current state of the smash scene is reaching a plateau. I believe that this hurdle can be overcome by positive progress through the efforts of the energetic, likeminded members in the BBR.

If accepted, I believe that I can to contribute to this cause.​

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[collapse=Specialty Questions]
- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.

I feel character analysis would be my forté, closely followed by gameplay (being a member of the Smash Lab helps me in this area in my honest opinion) and tournament perspective. I have a terrible taste in stages and generally dislike playing on non-neutral stages; but this doesn't mean I'm not knowledgeable on stage mechanics and I would likely have something to contribute there too.​

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?

The matchup chart is a big one. I don't feel that most of the lower tiers are particularly well represented and I feel my Zelda experience would be a great asset for the matchup chart and the BBR in general.​

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?

I'd like to be able to learn more about Brawl. The main thing I want to do is help everyone the best I can though.​

- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room.

Here's a couple of topics:

Raw data (Data is the very essence of Brawl. I feel creating these threads have given me an immense amount of knowledge and I think data is one of the great things I can bring to the table for the BBR):

King Dedede's frame data - This was my attempt to help the King Dedede boards advance their metagame. While nothing groundbreaking was discovered (you can't expect that really when the game has been out for 4 years), I feel this thread was very important for the Dedede boards because it was the first time someone had attempted to make accurate frame data with advantages on block. I'm also very proud of this thread as it was the first real time I'd decided to help the community grow (outside of a few posts here and there in the Zelda boards).

Wolf's frame data - This topic was the second time that I'd attempted frame data. At first I kept it in the same format as the Dedede boards' frame data, but then massively overhauled it. Apart from a couple of things here and there, I'm also very proud of this thread as it's essentially the first completed project I've done here on Smashboards (and it took hours on hours of work!)

Match up specific:

Match up exports - I've been helping the Dedede boards do their matchup exports. It's generated a nice amount of activity to our boards and it's been extremely helpful. (Those are all different links by the way.)

I'm also currently in the process in creating a thread that properly defines 'priority' in Brawl. Although I haven't released it yet, it looks damn fantastic, if I do say so myself.

There are also many, many posts on the Zelda boards. I have made large contributions on her board and stirred up much intelligent discussion, which is another thing I hope to bring to the BBR.​

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[collapse=Other Questions]
- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?

Creating an accurate tier list for the community is the number 1 priority in my opinion. The next priority (not including BBR recommended rulesets and the matchup chart) should be helping the community here at Smashboards get better and stronger.​

- How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments?

A lot. I don't feel people who don't attend tournaments should have very much influence unless they have proved themselves to be intelligent in how tournaments are run. There are of course exceptions to this, such as people who used to attend many tournaments, however don't anymore due to circumstances. I feel people like these have enough experience to have an opinion that holds weight in determining rules used in tournaments.​

- Are you allergic to water?

Nope.​

- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year?

I believe it's advanced a lot in the last year, especially with Olimar's rise to #2 position on the tier list. I don't think we'll see as much of a shake up as we had this year seeing as the longer we play Brawl, the stabler the metagame becomes. But I think it will definitely be interesting to watch!​

- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?

Tournament experience affects player skill and competitiveness a lot. As for knowledge, in my experience I have learnt more about Brawl from studying hitboxes and gameplay mechanics than from actual tournaments to be honest.​

- How do you feel about the current state of the community and where do you think it should go?
- There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?

There is a variant of this puzzle here.

Basically Player-3 has the correct response, but just to make sure, I researched it to make sure he was right.
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[collapse='Tournament Questions']
- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
I attend tournaments regularly. I sometimes help with bracket or pools on the rare occasions when needed. I've only hosted one tournament named BBC which pulled in about 50-60 entrants.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
I place top 5 in my state and usually place decently out of state. Here are some semi-recent tournament results i could find
Salty Spittoon IV
Salty Spittoon III
Apex 2012
Vengence

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
I have attended 2 national tournaments and about 4-5 regional tournaments. Besides that i have attended local tournaments since November 2008.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
I believe our community is once again coming together. People are accepting metaknight in singles and have fixed the double metaknight problem in doubles. I think its going in a good direction with what stages are becoming standard in certain regions such as ATL North. I'm a fan of the 6 stage list japanese ruleset but still like our current ruleset too with the exception of one or two stages.
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[collapse='Specialty Questions']
- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.
I would like to work in character analysis and tournament perspective. I really would like to discuss zero suit at a higher level along with the other characters i play as and against frequently.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
I'd like for them to look into working on what stages are actually good for competitive play. I feel like our current ruleset has a few stages that don't belong.

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
I dont really have much to gain. I guess if i had to say something though it would be a "louder voice."

- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room.
My biggest contributions would be some discussions of zss' match ups. The main ones i helped with are diddy and falco though. I am also apart of the mentorship program smashboards has and try to help any zss players that ask me.
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[collapse='Other Questions']
- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?
I feel they should try to bring the community together again the best that they can after the small "split" that occurred. They should also listen to the community and make any changes they agree with too.

- How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments?
The tournament-attending community should have a majority of the influence on rules used. The rules will be mostly effecting them after all.

- Are you allergic to water?
Only in florida

- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year?
I believe it has advanced quite a lot. The new tier list shows it too. Olimar and Ice Climbers are slowly finding their true spots and people are realizing their potential. I believe it'll continue to advance especially with metaknight around in some regions.

- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?
Tournament experience will completely change a player. Knowledge and skill both come when you gain tournament experience. Its hard to have a true opinion over how good a character is until you play them in tournament. If you aren't entering tournaments its hard to be very competitive considering you don't have much competition.

- How do you feel about the current state of the community and where do you think it should go?
I've already stated this in a question above but i believe that the community is coming together again. I feel that in time we will make the changes that will help our community come together completely. I really like the ruleset NY/NJ is currently using considering it fixes some of the problems people had in the past with the exception of metaknight being there.

- There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?

Player-3 said:

Split the blocks into 3 groups of 3, and weigh two of the groups of three against each other. If one of those groups is heavier, it has the heavy block, if not, the third group you aren't weighing has it. Take the group that contains the heavy block and weigh two of those blocks against eachother. if one of those two is heavier, it's the heavier block, if they are the same, the third un-weighed block is the heavier block.

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This is correct and i dont think it'd be good to write the same thing if he was the first person to say it. It would have taken me longer to get it though
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Hello everyone!

My name is Gonzalo Barrios, and I'm a 17 years old teenager from Chile, South America who is very interested in joining the BBR. My reason of wanting to join the BBR is because I want to gain more knowledge about the game, since I am learning new things every day, and I consider that the best way to do this is by joining the place where some of the most knowledgable players in the world discuss several things.

I am a very experienced player. I started to play Smash competitively since early 2006, and I have never stopped attending tournaments since then. I usually attend 1-2 tournamens per month, and if possible, even more. I have been my region's champion for years in both Melee and Brawl, took a 2nd place finish at the biggest and hardest Chilean Melee event up to date, and now I am on tournament win streak since the beggining of 2011 in Brawl, including locals, regionals, nationals and even an official Apex qualifier. I have travelled around my country several times for Smash tournaments across the years, and even travelled internationally to the United States of America, New Jersey for Apex 2012 earlier this year, where I went undefeated both round of pools and took a 17h place finish in Singles and a 9th place finish in Doubles with Kadaj.

Without much add, here's my application:

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- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?

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I am always an attendant. I don't host tourmaments. I usually help out with things such as rules (most of the time), bracket seeding (rarely) and overall, lend a hand wherever is needed (always). I helped host a local tournament in my own city earlier this year, and had about 16 entrants for both Melee and Brawl, and one out of region player (5 hours) came out to compete. It ran smoothly and it had a cool crew battles event for the south and north players.

Experience: Very high. I attend atleast one tournament per month (usually 2) since 2006 when I started to play Melee competetitively. I have traveled all around my country dozens of times per year, and have even traveled internationally to compete (Apex 2012).

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.

I am currently undefeated in all Brawl tournaments in Chile since the beggining of 2011. I have won over 30 tournaments in a row, including both singles and doubles.

Here's the link of the official Smashbroschile ranking led by Rajam (Who is a BBR member) :

http://www.smashbroschile.com/index.php/topic/150-ranking-brawl-agregado-por-eso-la-gente-se-va/

Just for the record, I have most of my (excluding the ones that happened after this application) tournament results with full details in this vVv Gaming application:

http://www.vvv-gaming.com/forum/topic/50210-vvv-zeros-ssbb-sponsorship-application/

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.

Like I said, I do not host tournaments.

However, my biggest contribution to my countrie's community is by helping out every player who wants to improve. Either by dedicated lessons, detailed posts, or guides. I'm always there when a member needs help related to the competitive scene.

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?

Local, regional, national and international.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?

In my opinion, the only thing we need is the help of more companies and professional gaming leagues. We need to get Smash in the minds of everyone, and that's something that only a company can do effectively. In short, we need more media.

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[COLLAPSE="Specialty Questions"]

- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.

I could help in anything that is not related to how a tournament is ran, because like I said, I do not host tournaments.

My specialty are character, stage, player and gameplay analysis. I can analyze something and give you a full detailed mini-guide of it in no-time. I'm good at this because I give dedicated lessons to many players, both offline and online, and I constantly do guides about everything in Smashbroschile. I could be very helpful in anything that requires an analysis explaining its properties/qualities. Such as, a mini guide or a very detailed post. And also, researches to find more information about something gameplay-related.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?

Deep aspects in the game. There are many things that we haven't discovered or fully tested. Everyday there are new things and tricks being discovered. And I think that dedicating resources to this area would greatly benefit the competitive area.

And also the tier list. I don't agree with a couple of things, and I would love to debate about it. While I know that my opinion isn't a fact, I could atleast give a different way of seeing the tier list that may change a couple of things.

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?

Knowledge. I'm always learning about the game, so I see the possibility of joining the BBR a new way of expanding my knowledge of the game by discussing it with other experienced players around the world.

[- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room.

This would be my Smash guides (that are in Spanish) in the Smashbroschile forum. I have made several kind of contributions, such as:

Translations of popular Smashboards posts/guides (Alphazealot's Melee dicctionary, Swordgard's DI guide, etc).

AZ's dicttionary: http://www.smashbroschile.com/index.php/forum/17-discusion-general/

Sadly, I can't post Swordgard's guide. This is due to the fact, that in SBC we're constantly changing the server, so my guide is constantly in danger of being erased. Add this to the fact that the guide is written in a very hard-to-post format, so it takes hours to be posted. I am waiting for the forum to settle down before posting it again. But it was posted for 2 years on the old forum.

Current Smash guides:

http://www.smashbroschile.com/index.php/forum/17-discusion-general/

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[COLLAPSE="Other Questions"]

I'm Big D, I'm from WC Canada.

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- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?

I've been going to tourneys for almost a year now. The only experience I had before that was playing with friends, no wifi at all.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.

I used to believe that I had been "cursed" with always getting third. Whether I had choked to get that position, had to leave early, or had to step it up to get that position. As of late I had actually broken that curse, and placed first as well as being the highest placing person from my region at a regional (Impulse qualifier) losing to 1st (Felix) and 2nd (Killock)

Last 2 tournaments attended were

Phoenix 7 (Impulse qualifier)
BCBM10
-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.

I don't The only thing I'm contributing is help making the PR I suppose.
But it's ok, as I am the hero BC deserves but not the one it needs right now.

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?

Local and regional, I do however intend to attend Impulse this summer, a national.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?

This question could mean a lot of things; I'm going to assume this is asking about the current meta game as it stands now. I feel back in 2010 things were much more simple, now I feel as if characters have been figured out and at top levels of play reads are so much more important now then they’ve ever been.[/COLLAPSE]


[COLLAPSE="Specialty Questions"]Specialty Questions
- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.

I personally feel my best contributions would be in terms of character analysis, and tournament perspective. We have a very diverse character spread here in BC, and a lot of uncommon characters such as pikachus thrive. Personally I gone through the roster and understand game play mechanics very well. I have found frame data for numerous techniques, fully understand how to perform techniques such as free pull, SNL, and have discovered and found frame data for tire lock.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?

As I said before I believe this game is quickly becoming a game of reads. Baiting and punishing is becoming very important, but I feel there is a large untapped area that hasn’t been taken advantage of. That area is just tech skill options that with practice can make punishes even harder, and that much more unexpected. While the BBR can come to conclusions on the existing meta game I’d like to see this area explored, as well as made the standard throughout the smash community.

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?

I would like to contribute what I know as well as gain a better understanding of each match up and character. I wish I had the answers but I don’t. Like I lost a set once because I did not know Sonic had invincibility frames on Yoshi’s. We went there game 1 >.>

- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room.

Random tire frame data
Tire Lock Data
Me giving critique which was asked of me
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[COLLAPSE="Other Questions"]Other Questions
- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?

I feel the BBR should be a role model for the rest of the community, as well as providing useful information to the community. The BBR should be able to advance the meta game through discussion between top players and come to a consensus on how to improve at top levels of play, as well as provide insight to the smash community.

- How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments?

I believe in creating recommended rule sets. For a scene, it is often better to use an existing rule set rather than try and create one yourself, since it can be almost impossible to form with everyone having their own personal reasons. With many debatable topics such as the polarization of Rainbow Cruise and Brinstar, or MK legality, creating rule sets to chose from can be extremely helpful for a TO and their own scene. This is currently the case in BC.

- Are you allergic to water?

No I am not, nor am I allergic to anything in water.

- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year?

Ever since Apex 2012, I personally feel there has been a huge advancement in that area of tech skill I keep mentioning. It’s been four years now and the community has been blown away by Japan’s performance. Their meta game has heavily influenced us as we are now in the position of playing catch up. As the year goes on, tighter control will be needed to be able to compete at top levels.

- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?

It has a huge effect. It provides motive to get better. Everybody is different however, key is not getting frustrated, because once you get frustrated, you won’t get reads, you will autopilot, and just get more frustrated. It can hugely benefit some, but hurt others.

- How do you feel about the current state of the community and where do you think it should go?

After the disbanding of the URC, I feel the community has become more conservative as a whole, especially after Japan’s performance at Apex 2012. I think there is a lot to be learned from Japan. They possess a lot of creativity, such as grab release to shuttle loop on Olimar, or even Kuroobi’s nade wall. It’s that unexplored area of tech skill I believe the rest of the world needs to catch up.

- There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?

All right, you weigh 6 of the 9 blocks.
By doing this you can find which group of 3 blocks contains the heavy block.
Then weigh 2 of the 3 blocks with the heavy block in it.
If the they are equal, then pick the block that is left out, if not, pick the one that ways more.
Or a more efficient way is just to throw them at a wall and see which one makes a bigger dent. I figured out the first way on my own but some one suggested the 2nd one.[/COLLAPSE]

Here we go.


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- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?

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I've been attending tournaments since 2007, with two Melee tournaments and maybe thirty Brawl tournaments thus far? In any case I attend semi-regularly, with twice a month being my maximum and once every two or three months as my minimum.

More importantly I've hosted quite a few tournaments. I would consider myself one of two or three major TOs in the Midwest. Here's the record:
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2008
http://www.smashboards.com/showthrea...ts#post6161510 - Clowsui/Dr. X's Christmas Smash Bash. ~36 entrants. The beginning of SW OH/KY Smash scene.
http://allisbrawl.com/ttournament.aspx?id=4271 - Clowsui/Dr. X's New Year's Smash Bash. 37 entrants. Historically the tournament that solidified a relationship between KY and OH.

2009
Mostly a lull in tournament running here. Focused on being an attendee.
http://allisbrawl.com/ttournament.aspx?id=8311 - C3-OH. Pound 4 Training tournament. 21 entrants.

2010
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=279002. Renegade presents: BBrawl + vBrawl. Ran five events with six or seven usable setups in ~13 hours. 23 entrants.
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=282633 - School is in Session 2. Co-TOed by making Pools and managing them. 54 entrants.
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=286292 - School is in Session 3. Acted as Pools Manager. 113 entrants.

2011

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=295362 - School is in Session 4. Co-TOed along with Hilt and Today. 115 entrants.

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=296235 - LAB 1. Featured "experimental" ruleset involving PS2 as a starter and BO5 LSF. 32 entrants. Also finished tournament 3+ hours ahead of schedule.

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=314538 - REVENGE. My main project. Co-TO with Hilt. 63(?) entrants. Extremely stacked tournament - elimination pools were absolutely brutal.

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=14309044 - VENGEANCE. MK banned. Part 2 of my main project. Pretty stacked, ran fairly well.

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-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance?

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I would be considered a low-mid level player. I have never placed in the money outside of amateur bracket. I am often able to take games off of higher level players and give them a tough time but struggle against lower level players/players around my level.

[COLLAPSE="Results since 2010"]
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=14451688&highlight=clowsui+results#post14451688 - S2D Monthly May. 13/30
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=14309044&highlight=clowsui+results#post14309044 - VENGEANCE. 33/78
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=14215822&highlight=clowsui+results#post14215822 - S2D Monthly Feb. 9/28
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=13699398&highlight=clowsui+results#post13699398 - REVENGE. 57/63 (5th seed in pools)
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=12673189&highlight=clowsui+results#post12673189 - ShiKakutoGeemu. 9/40
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=12350470&highlight=clowsui+results#post12350470 - EoL3. 13/24
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=12059880&highlight=clowsui+results#post12059880 - LAB1. 17/32
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=295362&highlight=clowsui+results - SiiS4. 81/115 (6th seed in pools)
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=292048&highlight=clowsui+results - Nope's Shugalicious Sexy Saturday. 17/57
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=11560801&highlight=clowsui+results#post11560801 - Pool Pools 4. 17/24
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=11515512&highlight=clowsui+results#post11515512 - Delta Upsilon V. 17/32 (3rd place in pools). 2/16 AM Bracket.
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=11168223&highlight=clowsui+results#post11168223 - SiiS3. 33/117
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=10869923&highlight=clowsui+results#post10869923 - SiiS2. 25/54
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=10437476&highlight=clowsui+results#post10437476 - MLG Columbus. 129/250
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=10338215&highlight=clowsui+results#post10338215 - SiiS1. 17/31
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=9812162&highlight=clowsui+results#post9812162 - Smashing thru the Stones. 17/38
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=9751837&highlight=clowsui+results#post9751837 - Nope's March Monthly. 33/45
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=9626160&highlight=clowsui+results#post9626160 - DU III. 13/22[/COLLAPSE]

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.

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- First TO in the SWOH area to draw over 32 entrants
- First TO in the SWOH area to unite all SWOH/KY elements
- Major contributor to School is in Session series
- Member of the URC when it existed
- Host of the REVENGE series, one of the two or three major tournament series in the Midwest East

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?

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Unfortunately I have never been out of the Midwest for a tournament. I have had experiences at local and regional level tournaments and the only national level tournament I have had an experience at is MLG Columbus, maybe SiiS3/4 if they count.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?

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While I don't think the game is dying per se, I certainly don't think the community is growing. I also don't think that the overall composition of top level players is changing. This may be due to overall stagnation but to me there aren't very many people "stepping up" and surpassing retired talent. However, what's good about the scene right now is that the best TOs everywhere are pushing aggressively to try to expand their local scene while promoting large + unified events.

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[COLLAPSE="Specialty Questions"]

- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.

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Currently the BBR is lacking intelligent perspective on Falco outside of DEHF. As indicated by my membership in the Falco BR, I possess a substantial amount of knowledge about Falco. Additionally, while the BBR has a large amount of Marth mains already, I can also contribute to character analysis in that area. Outside of character analysis, I think that my extensive experience hosting and going to tournaments would be a valuable resource for the BBR.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?

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As mentioned by LzR I think more in-depth insight regarding doubles is necessary. In addition I think the BBR should do more stage-related work, as they have been severely lacking on that front.

Something that the BBR hasn't really done anything about (possibly because it's outside the scope of the BBR and its mission) is material related to the psychological aspect of the game - defining the terms, explaining how they play out, etc. It would be cool to see something like this discussed among the most intelligent of this community.

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?

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I've always wanted the opportunity to discuss with other Smash-intelligent individuals in order to expand my own knowledge. Being a member would also allow me to more easily present myself as someone knowledgeable for new(er) members of the community, whether it be my own community or otherwise. I also want to better represent my region (the Midwest East).

- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room.

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The only solid contribution I have made at the time of this application is a matchup guide to Olimar vs Marth, found here: http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=14314854&postcount=934

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[COLLAPSE="Other Questions"]

- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?

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- A revival of character discussion threads. This not only helps the community at large understand the thinkers within the BBR but also gives them motivation to join.
- Guides on unique issues such as the ledge grab limit or maybe even guides to specific moves/maneuvers (e.g. Falco phantasm, Diddy banana, etc.) that are not understood very well among the public
- TO'ing/community expansion related stuff. Since the URC is gone, the BBR should take over in this aspect perhaps?

- How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments?

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In the end the TO always has the last say. However, insofar as non-TO influence goes, tournament attendees should always have a greater effect on rules than non-attendees EXCEPT in the following cases:
1. Non-attendees are new to the scene and specific, reasonable rules (e.g. MK ban) would increase the likelihood of their attendance
2. The tournament attendees do not possess sound reasoning processes and cannot defend the legitimacy of rules they want to have
Sadly #2 is very common in this community and may even be common in the BBR (haven't seen yet, not sure), so non-tournament attendees' considerations should possess a fair degree of influence (though certainly less than tournament attendees).

This is another reason why we need to find ways to expand the community - so that way the non-tournament attendees that "know what they're talking about" (in quotations because I don't feel like explaining what it means exactly, which means it's kind of subjective LOL) have greater influence.

- Are you allergic to water?

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"You tell me how you want it tonight baby; and if I'm allergic to water then I'm allergic to water. All for you baby."

- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year?

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The game's evolving in an interesting way. Overall gameplay has become more pressure-based, with players understanding that a slower, more defensively oriented game means safely complex movement and measures to exploit defensive positions/playstyles are psychologically effective.

Characterwise I think Metaknight, Olimar, and Ice Climbers have seen large amounts of metagame adjustments. This is due to the more conservative nature of rulesets. Certain characters are moving forward steadily still (e.g. King Dedede, Zero Suit Samus) while other characters have stagnated due to their low amount of options (low tiers) or relatively straightforward gameplay (Marth).

- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?

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I'll address this in parts.

Skill: no player can improve in a vacuum, and no player will understand how they can perform and how they square up against his/her self or others until they have SOME kind of tournament experience. I mean SOME in one sense referring to SOME in the sense of "at least", and in the other sense as "any" - provided that the person in question has had other competitive tournament experiences, adapting their understanding of how a tournament environment affects their game is essential to their skill.

Competitiveness: drive to compete and to win (continuously or non-continuously) can exist without tournament experience but it's typically bolstered by having tournament experience, unless the local community for a given player has not developed in a way that sustains its own growth.

Knowledge: tournament experience has no direct bearing on knowledge per se. You can possess knowledge without going to tournaments but to be able to distinguish between effective vs. ineffective options and what leads a player to choose more effective (or ineffective) options is made much easier to understand by experience. Tournament experience can also cultivate knowledge by pointing players towards exploring more "shaded", "unknown" areas that create tactics to defeat things that consistently give that player and his/her associates trouble.

- How do you feel about the current state of the community and where do you think it should go?

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It's not dying but it's not growing. We need to find ways to make it grow. We also need to find ways to bring back those who "left". First we need to stabilize the ruleset to establish a culture of unity (all puns intended). Then we need to continue to hold tournaments and continue to entice players into improving and doing better. The community needs to work better together so that way we maximize consistent attendance.

- There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?

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Just because I'm an Asian doesn't mean I can solve this problem.

Pretty soon you'll be telling me that just because I want rice means I need soy sauce with it.

Racists.



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Tournament Questions

- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?

EVERY weekend I'm at a Brawl tournament. I enter Singles and Doubles and the side events. I also host my own tournament series for DFW Texas (Northern Texas). I have the most popular tournament series in North Texas right now. I'm currently on my 12th tournament. My series is called Revolution. Here was the thread for my 11th one, http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=318393&highlight=Revolution .

Not only do I have my own series but I also Co host another series, Batou's Monthlies. They currently just finished #8 two weeks ago, http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=320325 .

Also, I have held other tournaments outside my Revolution series. I have held two tournaments at anime conventions. My most recent one being Ikkicon in Austin TX. Ikkicon's convention gets roughly 10,000 attendants, so you can imagine the tournament had a ton of attendants and I ran it smoothly. I sadly don't have a link for you but if you need confirmation of this ask either Jerm or Red Shadow from my region because they attended. Jerm's http://www.smashboards.com/member.php?u=60189 & Red Shadow's http://www.smashboards.com/member.php?u=63467 .

Besides this I always help every TO any way possible.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.

I currently am arguably either #4 or #5 in Texas. I win many tournaments. Actually I've won too many to remember them all, never the less find their links.

But here are some of my most recent results.

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=318928&highlight=Batou
1st. Beat Dojo and others

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=318602&highlight=Batou
1st Beat Illmatic, Dojo, UTD Zac, and others

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=318564&highlight=Batou
1st Beat Dojo and Dphat

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=318292&highlight=Batou
1st Beat Fliphop and Roy R + others

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=314797&highlight=Batou
1st Beat Fino and ALSM

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=313432&highlight=Batou
2nd Beat Trela (twice), K prime and others. Lost to Gnes game 5.

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=313039&highlight=Batou
1st Beat Infinity, D4BA, and others

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=312803&highlight=Batou
1st Beat ALSM and Disqo Bunny

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=310971&highlight=Batou
1st Beat Neon, and others

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=308617&highlight=Batou
2nd Beat UTD zac, Illmatic, Shadow1 PJ. Lost to Vinnie.

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=308467&highlight=Batou
2nd Beat Shadow1 PJ, Dphat and others. Lost to Vinnie.

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=305441&highlight=Batou
3rd Beat Bassem, Trela, Infinity, and others. Lost to Razer and Trela.

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=304792&highlight=Batou
1st Beat Espy, K prime and others.

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=304567&highlight=Batou
1st Beat Dakpo and ALSM.

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=316319&highlight=Denti
1st Beat Jerm and Red Shadow

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=313803&highlight=Denti
1st Beat Dakpo and ALSM

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=309453&highlight=Denti
1st Beat Bassem, Clel, Domo, Zeton, and others.

I have a ton of other tournaments I found. But I feel like this is enough for you to have an idea.

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.

My tournament series held a circuit event. The Texas LSC http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=312357&highlight=Denti .

I also am the main carpool organizer of my region. I carpool to any and every tournament possible and I take anyone who can come with me. I also house nearly everyone possible for the North Texas tournaments.

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?

I have been in scene for over 3 years now. I play All is Brawl wifi a ton. I attend tournaments weekly. I fly to nationals, Genesis 2, Apex 2012, and soon to be Sktar.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?

I think we have a lot more life in our scene than people think. We just have to figure out how to get people to attend tournaments more.

Specialty Questions

- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.

Hands down my Olimar. I have one of the best Olimar's in the world. I feel like since Olimar is now second on the tier list, we really need more top representatives of him in the BBR. I can help anyway I can with my extensive knowledge of Olimar.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?

The ruleset is always an important issue. But right now I think our match up chart could be more accurate.

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?

I find pleasure helping the competitive Brawl scene anyway I can, and it seems the BBR is all about that.

- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room.

When the Unity ruleset ended I created a thread in my region that aimed to discuss our view points on the ruleset.

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=321141

Other Questions

- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?

Discussing Brawl intellectually and interpreting the data so that the community can see results about the current metagame and rulesets.

- How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments?

I believe rules should be left to the TO's discretion.

- Are you allergic to water?

Yea.. I only drink Windex cuz mama says it's good 4 meee

- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year?

REALLY FAR! Olimar being 2nd best???? I never would have dreamed it possible. And to think towards the future gives me chills of what characters have not been fully taped into.

- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?

This kind of stuff always depends on the player. For example, some players get inspire to do better when they get bodied, others want to go home and quit Brawl forever.

- How do you feel about the current state of the community and where do you think it should go?

We are near the end because of Smash 4, but we still have the ability to be super strong. Especially when Apex 2012 was the largest Smash tournament in history.

- There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?

What in the world....lol

I just throw pikmin and pivot grab.. I can't math.

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What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?

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I'm a high level player and attend tournaments quite frequently. The Smash Community is something I admire being a part of.

I've helped host WHOBOs, HOBOs, various smashfests, and have even hosted plenty of my own tournaments (small scale ones).

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If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.

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Yes, I regularly attend tournaments whenever I have the motivation and/or time to do so.
I'm considered a 'high level player' and usually place within the top 10% of anything I enter.

33rd out of 400 at Apex 2012 1/9/12

1st out of 27 at Revolution 9 1/14/12

5th out of 34 at HOBO 35 2/9/12

2nd out of 29 at Batou's Monthly 6 2/19/12

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If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.

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I help run HOBOs, Battle Networks, and/or whatever needs to be done in the area.
I know how to operate TO programs and am good friends with any one of the prominent Texas tournament organizers.

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What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?

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National

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What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?

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It was withering extremely quickly and now seems quite stagnant.
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aisight said:

If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.

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All of the above.

I know this game extremely well in all of those fields. I'm a very competitive player, and have achieved knowledge pertaining to each of those subjects throughout my career. Well rounded and capable of tackling any debate regarding Brawl's metagame.

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What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?

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Not really much more that needs to be done.
Adding in the few other prominent members that want to contribute would be beneficial to a more accurate tier list/MU chart, though.

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Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?

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A purple name, a BBR logo, and the approval from some of the few members of this community who haven't admitted me into the BBR previously. I also want to help out and contribute my thoughts to the tier list, MU charts, etc. I feel as though the BBR theory crafts a bit too much when creating some of their work, and doesn't contain enough people who actually pose a threat in tournament or have experienced a higher level play of something first hand. Personally, I'll base my opinion more on experience compared to framedata or results, so I feel as though I could offer a different outlook on certain situations to be discussed. Any top level player who is willing to contribute to the BBR who can handle themselves in an intelligent and well mannered fashion should be admitted, so there is more data, opinions, and experience in creating the most thorough representation of our current metagame as possible.

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Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room.

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I'm frequently roaming the tier list, MU chart, best videos of each character, success/popularity, and various other threads to add my input into each one. I was a panelist for the MU chart project and helped immensely towards various Peach matchups.

I'm a staple representation of Peach's metagame, although I'm experimenting with other characters at the moment due to her lack of tools in competing at the highest levels of play.

Every now and then I'll think of a good idea to start up in an effort to further something Brawl related.

Advancing Peach's Metagame Thread[/COLLAPSE]

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aisight said:

What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?

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Stabilizing it.

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How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments?

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At this point in Brawl's lifespan, 100%.

If it turns out that the community's decision wasn't the best at first, trial and error isn't something that should be given a cold shoulder (i.e. MK ban, ruleset alterations, etc.)

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Are you allergic to water?

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No.

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How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year?

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Quite a lot, actually. I've seen some insane progression in characters' metagames that I don't really think a lot of people predicted a year ago. This year, I feel as though we're going to see a lot of closer matchup spreads. There will always be something new to learn in Brawl for the next five odd years, I can't accurately predict how much farther it will proceed - but I can say that I would like to be apart of it.

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How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?

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It's entirely dependent on the person and their willingness to learn, adapt, and maintain a healthy 'competitive self'. Wi-Fi professionals (Salem) can enter tournaments and take top 3. Randoms can continue to place dead last tournament after tournament. This is pretty straightforward.

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How do you feel about the current state of the community and where do you think it should go?

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This community is pretty close in regards to how well we know each other on a face to face basis. It's almost as if we're all family. Despite players dropping like flies into retirement, we still have plenty of players here and dedicated enough to compete or take part in online discussion in an attempt to bring Brawl's full potential to light. Brawl is still alive and the nationals/regionals ahead of us are a good resource in any attempt to revive the scene or bring in unknown players.

aisight said:

There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?

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I'm at the hospital right now and honestly don't care enough to do something so random when I doubt it will benefit my admittance into the BBR. I'm not going to lie and say I completed it by myself. I'm also not going to google search the answer. Based off of everyone else's answer, I'll say Player 3's is correct - so that's mine since there isn't a rule against it.

'Split the blocks into 3 groups of 3, and weigh two of the groups of three against each other. If one of those groups is heavier, it has the heavy block, if not, the third group you aren't weighing has it. Take the group that contains the heavy block and weigh two of those blocks against eachother. if one of those two is heavier, it's the heavier block, if they are the same, the third un-weighed block is the heavier block.'[/COLLAPSE]

The BBR, Joining this elite group of players has been a goal of mine since i first started playing this game competitively in 2009. I am a strict Falco Main from Florida. I reside in the South West part of FL in Ft Myers while attending school at FGCU. During the summer months i am in central fl in a small town called Lake Alfred. I have built up a smash scene in both areas. I have a passion for this game i love to teach it and grow my scenes. I run 2 Facebook smash pages. One is the FGCU smash page, while the other is the Polk County Smash page. I understand that my post count is not stellar but i contribute when i can. If i get into the BBR i will set aside time each and every day to read, breakdown and respond to my peers.

Over the last few years I have put much time and effort into this community developing myself as a player and the smash scenes around me.



Tournament Questions
- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?

Here is a list of the tournaments that i have Run.

* Niglet Runble 1-4 Held in Lake Alfred Florida
this series of tourneys i used to build a scene in Lake Alfred Fl over the 2010 summer while i was home over summer break. I was able to gather locals around 10-14 and teach that basics of this game. I would also keep better players in the area from entering the bracket this made it so the locals were not over whelmed at first. The Niglet Rumble Tourney series is an amateur bracket tournament.
At the end of the summer i held The Niglet Rumble 4 and allowed more skilled players to enter.

Niglet Rumble 1 - 10 players 7/13/10

Niglet Rumble 2 - 12 players 7/21/10

Niglet Rumble 3 - 11 players 7/28/10

Niglet Rumble 4 - 15 players 8/10/10

* The Nub Academy 1-11 Held at FGCU (Ft Myers) Florida
This Tournament series is held at my college. I have been building a scene here during the school year.

Nub Academy 1 - 15 players 9/2/10

Nub Academy 2 - 11 players 10/21/10

Nub Academy 3 - 11 players 11/10/10

Nub Academy 4 - 16 players 11/20/10

Nub Academy 5 - 13 players 1/28/11

Nub Academy 6 - 19 players 2/19/11

Nub Academy 7 - 18 players 3/26/11

Nub Academy 8 - 27 players 4/23/11

Nub Academy 9 - 24 players 9/17/11

Nub Academy 10 -16 players 11/11/11

Nub Academy 11 - 20 players 12/11/11

Nub Academy 12 - 17 players 2/4/12

Nub Academy 13 - 16 players 4/14/12

*I hosted these events as part of FGCU Video Game Club. I was in charge of Smash as Vice President.

FGCU Spring Smash 2011 - 66 players 2/27/11

FGCU Fall Brawl 2011 - 61 players 11/5/11

* FGCU Smash is a Tournament series i co-hosted with Mink my crew mate at FGCU. This tournament attracted players from Tampa,Naples, Miami, and Lake Alfred as well as the local FGCU smash scene that i have been building up over this past smester.

FGCU Smash Alpha - 19 players 10/2/10

FGCU Smash Omega - 16 players 12/4/10

*I hosted this as a Fund raiser. I made a deal with The Owner of the Venue Game Zion. He would pay use $40 to go towards Video game Club if he got a $6 door fee from all the players who entered His store. He then split the door fee with FGCU Video Game Club %50 on top of the $40 flat.

We Be Smashin 2 - 19 players 12/3/11

* Holy Smash is my baby. This is a tournament series that I started running in June 2010. There have been three Holy Smash tourneys each growing in attendance. I run this tournament in Lake Alfred out of a reception hall in a church. The venue is not rivaled in florida with a spacious and air conditioned room with a kitchen and bath rooms. Holy Smash has also proven to be one of the bigger tournament series in Florida. I am very proud of this tournament.

Holy Smash: Genesis - 34 players 6/19/10

Holy Smash: Exodus - 38 players 8/7/10

Holy Smash: Leviticus - 47 players 12/18/10

Holy Smash: Numbers - 24 players 8/6/11

Holy Smash: Deuteronomy 23 players 12/17/11

I am a TO that is not afraid to try new things. I would like to join the efforts of other top Smash Players from around the nation to work towards this goal. This is my body of work that i have put a vast amount of work towards.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
I have kept track of every single singles event i have ever played. Here are my results.

1st/20?@Spring Smash 09' FGCU 3/20/09

20/62@Fall Brawl 10' FGCU 10/9/09

17/27@Come and get spiked' Gainesville 2/20/10

1st/32@Spring Smash 10' FGCU 3/27/10

9/32@We be smashin' Port Charlotte 5/1/10

1st/12@The ****in catlina wine mixer Tampa 5/8/10

1st/25@Minks B-Day invitational Brawl FGCU 5/22/10

17/40@Brawlin by the Beach West Palm Beach 6/12/10

17/34@Holy Smash Lake Alfred 6/19/10

4th/11@WATO 11.5 Orlando 7/24/10

13/22@Willvolution 2010 West Palm Beach 7/31/2010

17/38@HolySmash: Exodus Lake Alfred 8/7/2010

1st/15@Niglet Rumble The 4th: Stacked Lake Alfred 8/10/2010

3rd/16@The ****in catlina wine mixer 2 Tampa 8/14/2010

1st/15@The Nub Academy: Schools back in session FGCU 9/2/10

5th/15@Labor Day Brawl Merritt Island 9/6/10

9th/62@FGCU Fall Brawl 2010 FGCU 9/18/10

13/20@FGCU Smash Alpha FGCU 10/2/10

1st/11@Nub Acedemy 2: Make Up Exam FGCU 10/21/10

1st/11@Nub Acedemy 3: Grade Forgiveness FGCU 11/10/10

17/26@GallaxFest Orlando 11/13/2010

1st/16@Nub Academy 4: Bright Futures FGCU 11/20/10

5th/15@FGCU Smash Omega FGCU 12/4/10

13/47@Holy Smash: Leviticus Lake Alfred 12/18/10

1st/13@Nub Academy 5: Drop Date FGCU 1/28/11

5th/66@FGCU Spring Smash 2011 FGCU 2/27/11

7th/21@Play and Trade Oviedo 3/12/11

1st/18@Nub Academy 7: All Nighter FGCU 3/26/11

7th/19@WATO 14 Orlando 4/9/11

1st/27@Nub Academy 8: Open House FGCU 4/23/11

7th/34@GallaxFest 6 Orlando 7/24/11

17/41@WATO 15 Orlando 7/31/11

5th/24@Holy Smash: Numbers Lake Alfred 8/6/11

1st/24@Nub Academy 9: Freshman Fifteen FGCU 9/17/11

19/47@Birdday Banana Bonaza Stuart 10/15/11

2/61@FGCU Fall Brawl 2011 FGCU 11/5/11

13/19@We Be Smashin 2 Port Charlotte 12/3/11

1/20@Nub Academy 11: Jr Year FGCU 12/11/11

5/23@Holy Smash: Deuteronomy Lake Alfred 12/17/11

2/7@Happy Brawlidays Tampa 12/20/11

2/5 In pools @APEX 2012 400 Entrants New Jersey 1/6-8/12

2/28@Come to Papa Orlando 2/11/12

5/23@NLL 5 Dolla Footdives 3/17/12

3/39@FGCU Spring Smash 2012 3/24/12

1st/16@Nub Academy 13 Finals Week 4/14/12

7th/31@Next Level Lan Five dolla foot dives 5/19/12

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.
All of the tourneys i have hosted are listed above. Some of the more notable things i have done to contribute the the smash scene are.

I was the VP of Florida Gulf Coast University Video Game Club here is a link to our Web Page I also helped Create a ranking system (elo) in which over 40 players From FGCU are currently ranked. Here is a link We have weekly club meetings where players can come and play for rank in our tourneys. If you scroll down the page you will see records of every Ranked match played over the semester.

I have a sponsorship with PnT Cape Coral We have a deal with them that as long as we spend our budget funds from student government through them they will supply us with gift cards to the winners of our events and they al will let us use there store as a venue.

Game Zion in Port Charlotte The owner of the venue expressed to us that he would like more traffic in his store we suggested that we hold smash tourneys there and made a deal that would work our for FGCU VGC and Game Zion.

Progress with Game Stop in Estero FL this is a work in progress game stop expressed interest in letting us use there store as a venue and supply us with gift cards but they never followed up. When School starts back up i will get more into it with them.

I also am Sponsored by my university FGCU as they have gave me $3117.00 to take 8 people to APEX2012.

Here is an article published about me in the school news paper. http://www.eaglenews.org/video-game-...ally-1.2680783


- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?

I have been to tourneys of all sizes. From 11 man locals to APEX 2012. I love to compete in this game it drives me.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
I feel that the Competitive scene has come a long way since 08. I feel that the URC and the problems it helped solve made this game better. There is no longer a huge splitting/ forfiting problem like there was in 09-10. The creation of the Unity rule set was an amazing feat in my opinion. I still use the rule set at my events. The one great thing about where we are tourney wise is it is no longer taboo to ban MK. I feel that with MK gone in the standard meta game we will get to experience match ups that might have never had the chance to be explored on a high level of play. We also have a healthy dose of national level events that are spaced out very well. This is a huge improvement from a few years ago when so many TOs were trying to host nationals at the same time. The biggest thing about to days tourney scene is the International Tourneys were are playing in. Apex 2009, Apex2012, Sunrise in japan, genesis 2, sktar, and whobo 3 have all had or are set to have international competition. This brings the level of our Meta Game way up along with energize each nation to improve and continue to grow.


Specialty Questions
- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.

I would thrive in anything that has to do with Tournaments or Falco.
I am a very experienced tournament player and a devoted Falco main. I am well versed in many common and odd Falco MUs.

I am well versed in the Following Falco Match Ups














I have extensive practice in a tournament setting verse these chars. I also have an understanding of how i would play the MUs that i did not list.

I also have a capture card that i use to record replays. I operate a youtube channel to host the videos from my tourneys and other fl players. I could use this as a tool to help the BBR if need be. I have over 400 vids uploaded to my YT channel. here is a link to a vid that i host from here you can get to my channel LINK


- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
I would like to see the ranking Rajam is working on become more active. I feel that the BBR should continue to keep stats like John#s has been doing. The Match Up chart and Tier list are the back bone of this group from what i have seen. I feel that we should continue to work on these four things. To help improve the community.


- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
I want to gain knowledge, insight, and respect from my peers. I hope to gain more connections and forge relationships with other passionate players.


- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room.

Here is one of my more recent Match up wright ups.
Falco Vs Pikachu
I hope to contribute my knowledge on every match up to the bbr and help represent and develop the Falco MU spread.


Other Questions
- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?

I feel that the BBR should give direction to the Brawl community. Player will be looking to us for guidance. They will be looking up to us as players as well. We should be the ones to step up and host fests and tourneys. We will be the ones to attract new players to the scene. That is what i feel the BBT should be doing.

- How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments?

As a prominent FL TO i feel that there should be a standard. Whether other TOs follow it or not is completely up to there discretion for whats best for there community or region.

- Are you allergic to water?
no


- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year?

I think that brawl has come a long way. I feel that international attendance and competition is where this game is headed. I talked about my thoughts on this in a previous answer. With the banning of MK other character MUs are now becoming relevant to the meta game. For example Ryo an FL ike just played Shaky an FL ness in Losers semi finals. This is a very uncommon MU Ike Vs Ness and to see it happen so deep into a tourney would be unheard of in the MK era.

- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?

Its a huge part it. The players get a chance to meet and learn from there peers. Teach and make bonds, forge rivalry's and see how they stack up.


- How do you feel about the current state of the community and where do you think it should go?

I have also discussed this in some of my previous answers. I feel that the community should continue to host well timed out national and international level tourneys. This game is headed into the International era.


- There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?

idk

EDIT:
Here are my most notable wins.

Vs Kyon x3 (He is current PR and a top 5 peach)
Vs GDX x2 (Former FL PR player)
Vs HRNUT (This was an MM, HRNUT is currently PR)
HungryBox (Former FL PR)
Mink x~12 (Top 5 Jigglypuff BBR member)
Renki (Former top 5 shiek)
Poltergust (Current TX PR,Top 5 yoshi, BBR member)
Crifer / x2 (Ranked German player)
Trump (Former Top 5 fox)
PikaPika (Current PR Up state NY, Former top 5 pikachu)
Ryo (This was an MM Ryo is currently PR)
C.J. x3 (BBR member)

As a starter, I might as well give it a try.

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- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?

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For the moment, I haven't started to host/co-host yet, but I am starting to attend regularly as of this year.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.

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7/11, Come to Papa, 11/02/12
13/23, 5 Dollar Footdives, 3/18/12
13/21, 5 Dollar Footdives, 4/21/12
25/25, 5 Dollar Footdives, 5/19/12

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.

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None yet.

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?

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I have only been to local tournaments, but it is pretty good nonetheless to join in.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?

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I think it is pretty great. It's had a few issues, like the URC and such, but most of it doesn't really seem to matter as it is still great to be a part of the scenery.

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- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.

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Gameplay, character analysis, and maybe tournament perspectives. It sounds hard for me to do stage analysis, but I may check it out as often. As a competitive Kirby player, I would definitely love to talk about his MUs and plays. I have been looking into them a lot, as well as other character MUs.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?

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I'd say the MU and the Tier list. These are the two most important to discuss about, coming from my perspective.

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?

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I hope to gain more knowledge for not only Kirby, but the whole game in general. And not to mention communicating with others, as it is the fun part.

- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room.

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There is none yet, but I do hope to bring in some. Kirby/Olimar MU seems to spark my interest the most, so I might be looking forward into doing one.

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- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?

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More analyzing! More science!

- How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments?

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It would depend on what rules there are. The unity ruleset seems okay for almost everyone. The same goes for other rulesets, but not all of it.

- Are you allergic to water?

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I'm not allergic to any solid, liquid, gas, nor substance, so no.

- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year?

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As far as melee is, but still, it is unknown. We'll just have to wait until SSB4 comes out.

- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?

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It is completely effective. People tell you what you should do, give you tips, and play a lot of friendlies. That's a major advantage of improving your skill and knowledge, thus, strives to become more competitive. And not to mention that you can also tell yourself what you did wrong and you should do next time in a situation. Saving replays and watching your (and other's) matches can definitely help too.

- How do you feel about the current state of the community and where do you think it should go?

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It should keep moving forward, as it will be international at some point.

- There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?

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I have a difficulty in math, so I can't solve this one. Sorry if I failed you.

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Disclaimer: I haven't been on SWF long, but I've been attending tournaments for a long time. I had an account but forgot it, so made this.

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- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?

Starting, hopefully next month, I will be co-hosting to first tournaments in my city(Tyler, TX) and hopefully be starting a scene there. The city is about two hours from Dallas(the nearest scene) and three from Houston(the second closest.) I also attend as many as I can, trying to go every month, but living so far away, it's difficult to attend as regularly as other players.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.

I'm terrible at the game. I'm bad at applying knowledge to gameplay. I usually get double eliminated.
Guess I shouldn't main mid and low tiers.

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.

I'm starting the scene here with five other smashers.

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?

For now...local? I'll travel 3 hours, but likely won't be leaving Texas anytime soon. I have family in Florida, so I may attend there sometime.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?

I believe it is at a slow point for now. With things like Project M, and the announce of Smash 4, I feel like people are losing some interest in the game.

Specialty Questions
- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.

Stage or Character analysis. Maybe tournament perspective once I start hosting and attending in our baby scene.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?

Rule-set. I like the idea of at least having a recommended rule-set, and I don't feel as though having one harms the scene, but I don't see it from as large of a perspective as you do.

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?

Not really. Purple is cool, I guess.

- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room.

This didn't spark much discussion, because I think reflex hit it on the nose. But I think it's a good question. Could be wrong.

This didn't spark much discussion, but I had a great time digging to the roots of Puff and bringing back what I found.

Ahhhh, discussion. I'm very interested in the mental aspect of competitive gaming.

Stage discussion thread for yoshi. Not much here.

ignore that other dude I'm linking to, that's actually me. But uh. Well, I can explain later if necessary I guess.

Other Questions
- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?

Asking it questions. Since the community is mainly non BBR members, Shouldn't the majority of the community have some say into what goes down?

- How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments?

I believe everyone should have an opportunity to influence the game. The TO is one person, and while he IS running the tournament, he's running it for the other people. He should be a good host and strive to make them happy, but still know when to say no. Like to items being turned on in the main event. Instant veto.

- Are you allergic to water?

I am allergic to nothing, anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar and a cheat. My body does as I say.

- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year?

I've been in the scene for about a year and a half. I feel it has progressed a good bit. The tier list updates, the MK ban, the URC disband, and many other changes will tell you that. Every character I've played has improved their meta-game, at least a little. Lots have changed for the better.

- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?

I don't attend many tournaments. But every time I leave a tournament, I leave a better player. Playing for money makes you play hard, and is the best practice. On top of that, MM's with people who can critique you ALWAYS have good effects.

- How do you feel about the current state of the community and where do you think it should go?

It's all right for now. Everyone is open to each other, and the fact that I could fly across the country right now and stay with a complete stranger just to attend a tournament is remarkable.
I would like to see us get more players into the scene, however. I hope we can accomplish that here in Tyler. I mean, alone I've gotten 1 person playing competitively, another one wanting to, and with my brother, about 15 others wanting to play in tournament.

- There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?

I made a 20 in pre-algerbra a couple years ago.

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[COLLAPSE="REJECTED"]Tournament Questions
- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
Almost every big international in Europe sinds halfway 2008. Every Dutch tournament bar one or so since halfway 2008. Briefly been in the States once to attend Apex 2. I've been the main host of one Dutch/German tournament and have made contributions to a fair amount of other tournaments (Dutch as well as German).

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
Top 5 Netherlands for half a year now. Top 3 for teams.

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.
Other contributions to the scene involve housing, hosting smashfests, sharing knowledge and being a main link between the Dutch and German Smash scenes. Maintaining relations with European smashers.
- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
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- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
European scene still going fairly strong, just not at a high level. The new top is slowly developing itself but is not as strong as the retired veteran group and it will take time for the newcomers to get there.

Specialty Questions
- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.

I give relevant criticism that actually makes sense. I don't sugarcoat anything but I remain formal.

I applied like 5 times already and every time I was rejected because of whatever reasons. I'm a bright mind, well-written, I know what I'm talking about and I have enough people vouching for all of the aforementioned. I've even been a good boy not getting infracted.

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[COLLAPSE="Tournament Questions"]Tournament Questions
- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?

I host my own series in Texas called Battle Network. I also host Xyro's series, HOBO every month in Texas. I attend almost every tournament in Texas as well to support TO's and support Texas's dwindling tournament scene.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.

As I said, I attend tournaments fairly often and I tend to get top 5 at most Texas tournaments unless I'm having an off day(who doesn't have one of those?). Anyway, here as some links of pretty recent tournaments I did about what is expected of me:
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=322251&highlight=sync
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=321772&highlight=sync
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=321111&highlight=sync

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.

Well, I cohosted the southern National WHOBO 3 to start my TOing career and I'll be running WHOBO 4 for Xyro this coming up August. I also was part of two circuits (Impulse and APEX 2012) and created a Texas circuit alongside with other Texas TOs iin May 2011.
Lone Star Circuit thread: http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=301421
Road to Apex Circuit Event: http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=307741
Impulse Circuit Event: http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=321111
WHOBO 4: http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=317496

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?

I am recognized as a regional player in the south, but I have traveled to a few national tournaments such as APEX 2012, Pound V, MLG Dallas and locally hosted WHOBO 1,2 and 3. I go to almost all locals and regionals.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?

I believe that the tournament scene is definitely dying a bit. I do believe however, that there is untapped players (such as wifi players on AiB) that can possibly rebuild the offline tournament scene and it is up to TO's to attain this untapped source.[/COLLAPSE]

[COLLAPSE="Speciality Questions"]Specialty Questions
- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.

I would definitely be able to contribute best in the tournament perspective. I have over a year's worth TOing under my belt and know a lot about tournaments that most people do not. I also know a lot about characters and feel that I would do well in character analysis.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?

I would like to see the BBR reach out to more player to attend tournaments and to also work on a very solid suggested ruleset.

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?

I would hope to gain more knowledge of the game through the exposure of others' ideas. I believe the discussion in the BBR will help me understand the metagame better as well to help me grow as a player. A little recognition in the smash community is nice too

- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room.

I've made a new social group for this year's Texas Circuit and I participate in discussions on how to expand Texas' tournament scene. Links to social group with contributions:
Lone Star Circuit 2012: http://www.smashboards.com/group.php?groupid=2695[/COLLAPSE]

[COLLAPSE="Other Questions"]Other Questions
- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?

Providing the smash community with information on the current metagame and making the tournament scene a more enjoyable and appealing experience.

- How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments?

Some but not too much. I believe that if the tournament attendees all agree on something by a landslide chances are that need should be catered to. Other than that, the TO should have almost all the influence.

- Are you allergic to water?

Nah water is delicious

- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year?

I think it's gameplay has progressed greatly this year, but in only a couple of characters. I think that it can go pretty far as well this year in reaction to the certain characters who have progressed. (ex: Olimar's metagame advanced so in response metagame advancements with counters will happen: Falco, Marth, etc.)

- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?

Experience is the best way to learn this game. I think every player needs ample experience to develop in skill and knowledge. You can learn as much as you want about the characters and metagame in videos and SWF but for you to apply these things you need to learn in a tournament setting with actual pressure and people to ply against. Competitiveness in my opinion, is inherent in individuals and tournaments are only catalysts to unlock the competitive spirit each individual may have.

- How do you feel about the current state of the community and where do you think it should go?

I think the community is a little dead but can recover if it's nudged in the right direction. It should focus more on finding ways to make players more active/adding players to the competitive scene.

- There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?

Pick each up and see which one feels heavier. Then put that one on the scale and see if you're right. If you aren't... WELP.[/COLLAPSE]
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[COLLAPSE="Tournament Questions"]- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
I attend tournaments regularily. I started back when brawl came out, and I've been to a great deal of national and a handful of international tournaments since. I do not host/co-host tournaments, but I am planning to start a monthly.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
I do not have results at hand, but I can give you a quick story.
When I entered the scene I rapidly improved and soon found myself among the semi-top, that's when I took a break because of real life stuff. After I came back, I got some solid top10 placings. I once again had to take a break, and now I'm shaping up again.

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.
-

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
Like I mentioned before, I've attended national and international tournaments. I'm also planning on attending SKTAR and WHOBO this summer.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
Speaking for the Netherlands here, because that's the only scene I am personally accustomed with. The Dutch scene is quite lazy, actually. A lot of former top players have been on breaks and don't perform as well anymore. Overall it's quite stale among the top.
For what I know about the American scene, I know that there's a lot more life. There's still chance for newcomers to surprise and overwhelm. It sounds like the scene is still plenty healthy to me, even with former pros quitting/semi-quitting.[/COLLAPSE]


[COLLAPSE="Specialty Questions"]- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.
I have a lot of knowledge about the game. From matchups to frame data to move properties. That's where I think I'd shine most, especially with regards to Falco and Zero Suit Samus.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
The BBR is supposed to be some form of elite. They should be knowledgable and dependable. I think people in the BBR should take more time to actually help players, instead of arguing their own opinion.

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
Besides the sexy color? Knowledge. Besides that, I hope to gain appreciation from people who agree with the influence I'll gain.

- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room.
Most of the contributions and discussions I've made were in the Falco or ZSS backroom. I cannot link to them. [/COLLAPSE]



[COLLAPSE="Other Questions"]- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?
Like I mentioned before, I think the BBR should be more guiding of players. Help them more instead of proving them wrong.

- How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments?
Enough for their voice to be heard.

- Are you allergic to water?
That would be hilarious if I were a fish.

- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year?
The arrival of the Japanese and overall gameplay by Dabuz has changed a lot with regards to Olimar. Other players like Vinnie and Mr R have proved themselves and are also changing perceptions. How much more it will change nobody knows, but I think these new things will need some attention for the moment.

- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?
A LOT. A tournament experience is TOTALLY different from any other form of brawling. For skill, it helps you be practical in a "do-or-die" enviroment. For competitiveness, it introduces multiple aspects, like regional bias and trash talking. As for knowledge, you learn a lot of things when your matches are tournament play, not to mention you can talk face to face with people and people can show you things. Tournaments are truly wonderful.

- How do you feel about the current state of the community and where do you think it should go?
I think the community needs some time to just develop. Chill out with the global ruleset and MK banning. The community is fine as it is i m o.

- There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?
The old marble riddle in disguise, eh?
You make three groups of three blocks. Blocks 1-9 are divided in Group A/B/C. GroupA = 1, 2 ,3. GroupB = 4, 5, 6. GroupC = 7, 8, 9.
Then you compare GroupA to GroupB.
A weighs more than B? The heavier block is in A.
B weighs more than A? The heavier block is in B.
A weighs equal to B? The heavier block is in C.

Once you know in which group the heavier block is, you take that group. For the sake of example we'll take group A.
Now, you take block 1 and 2 and weigh them, leaving 3 out.
1 weighs more than 2? The heavier block is 1.
2 weighs more than 1? The heavier block is 2.
1 weighs equal to 2? The heavier block is 3.


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Yay applications!

Ryker

Description: I've been playing Smash since Melee and I want to be able to discuss rulesets and other relevant metagame subjects where it will do the most good. I was an active member in the MK banned group and I am a central member and TO of the Alabama Smash League. I also contribute to my character board. I am a knowledgeable player looking for a chance to help more. I enjoy testing and learning new things about stages and characters. I play Falco and my favorite stage is Norfair.

Questions:

- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?

I have yet to miss an ASL tournament and have attended regularly prior to it's inception. We work as a collective, but I have a fair hand in hosting every tournament in my state, not simply my own tournament series (Resist).

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.

Middle of the pack. I'm PRed in my state, but have not placed above 4th in a tournament of any notable size.

http://alabamasmashleague.com/Ryker bio.html

That link is missing recent results, but has results dating back a fair way.

As an aside, I place well in Doubles and enjoy the format.

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.

I run the Resist the New World Order series in the southern corner of AL. Our turnout is low because of our location, but I host it so our group has a tournament that we don't need to travel for. However, I was a founding member of the previously linked Alabama Smash League and have had a hand in planning and hosting every tournament in my state for the past year or so.

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?

I have gone to many, MANY local tournaments and a few regionals (recently Vengeance). I have not been able to make it to a National as of yet, but this summer will rectify that and following results and matches is an interest of mine.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?

Vague question, but...

Split. Right down the middle. There are a lot of polarizing opinions out there that make things such as tier lists and match-up charts hard to define and recommended rulesets hard to agree on. However, that's something that's hard to rectify, steps can and should be made to inform the player base in order to fix the problem.

Specialty Questions

- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.

Honestly, I'd do be a good contributor at any of them. I'm intelligent and good at getting my information across. Personal interests would lead me toward stage and character analysis, especially the former.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?

The biggest, BIGGEST thing I want to move toward is defining what a tier list is so that it calms a lot of the argument. Establishing a ruleset that the tier list (not necessarily something TOs should be held to) operates by. That is not to say that results not following that format shouldn't be taken into account, but that they are judged based on what they entail to the defined tier list. Ditto for a match-up chart. Stagelist especially should be defined for a MU chart because some MUs are heavily dependent on stages.

That's a pet peeve of mine that I would seek rectified or be informed why not. The next thing would be informational content to be pumped out by the BBR in the form of articles or videos that inform the player base of how things operate in Smash and help players improve.

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?

A chance to be able to see what's going on and affect the game on a higher level than I can achieve by solo hosting tournaments. I'm also seeking to host a larger scale tournament for similar reasons.

- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room.

The majority of discussion I have is either in a private Facebook group or done on Skype as people already in the BBR who know me will attest, but I'll see what I can dig up.

Discussing Marth-Falco in AL Social

I am having a problem finding good examples that aren't thoroughly buried in the AL thread or Falco boards or applied to other games such as mafia or the light house thread. I will depend on other people to vouch for me or edit this post if I find the time.

Other Questions

- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?

Releasing information and resources that help the community figure out what is the best way to run smash events in their region and how to improve at the game.

- How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments?

As much as the TO is willing to give. If you're hosting a tournament on a college campus and it's important to you to have the most people, then you may host with items on playing Free-For-All, but TOs can and will draw the line with the game they want to play. Sometimes they want to play something that isn't their ideal ruleset because they want to play more people.

That is why I think the BBR's role should be to inform so as to affect that TOs opinion through information.

- Are you allergic to water?

Only if it's laced with poison. WIFOM: Water In Front Of Me.

- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year?

Farther than I expected. We've seen a rise in popularity of a diverse cast due to the time where MK banned was encouraged regardless of your opinion on the matter. This has led to an increase in discovery for different characters.

There has also been an increase in awareness of certain elements of the game. People are becoming exposed to Olimar and Pit due to the national spotlight they've been put in. People are beginning to SDI reliably. People are beginning to have to deal with dual threat secondary MUs.

As to how the game will develop, I think, will depend heavily on the ruleset that becomes popular after the smoke settles. I think much of the game's advancement depends on how campy people are willing to be with a 50 LGL (Melee still hasn't realized it's full camp heavy potential) and how many stages are left legal for things to be discovered on.

- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?

You could be the best player ever and have only played Wi-Fi, but that's not realistic seeing as the absolute best place to learn is at tournaments. It's where you receive the most exposure to the game and are likely to pick up things you don't know. In theory, it's completely unnecessary, but in practice, it's vital.

- How do you feel about the current state of the community and where do you think it should go?

Split. I feel it should move toward the liberal end of that split, but that's my personal opinion. I am a strong advocate of the TO's rule and that it should be the most well informed decision possible.

- There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?

I want to say I know this one, but I can't figure out an answer. I'll say that you pick the up with your hand and figure out which feels heavier having never used the scale.

Tournament Questions
- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
I’ve attended almost every Louisiana tourney since 2009, and I have hosted New Orleans Monthlies for over a year.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
I am ranked 2nd on the Louisiana PR, and have consistently gotten 2nd at most Louisiana tournies, only losing to Lee Martin, winning any tourney he has not attended. I’ve taken a set off of him a handful of times. I’ve also gone to a few HOBO’s, and my lowest placing has been 9th.
Baton Rouge Monthly #4 2nd/13 http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=322075
Baton Rouge Monthly #3 3rd/12 and 2nd/11 http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=319904
HOBO 35 5th/32 http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=318154
February Fight Fest 2nd/10 and 2nd/10 http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=318920
Baton Rouge Monthly #2 2nd/18 http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=317893
New Orleans Monthly #16 2nd/14 http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=317641

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.
As I said before, I’ve hosted New Orleans Monthlies for the most of 2011. Every tourney I attend, I usually assist with TO duties, if not take over, calling out matches, explaining rulesets, and providing setups, etc. I have been keeping the New Orleans Brawl scene alive since Ran had left for Colorado, but now that he's back, we'll be hosting more tournies in New Orleans in the near future.

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
I have attended dozens of local tournies, a few HOBO’s, and two WHOBO’s and APEX 2012. So basically, I’ve a broad scope of experience.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
As far as locally, we aren’t getting nearly enough new people at all to stick around and drive out to tournies outside of their city, and seeing results threads, it seems to be the case most other places as well. Brawl is not a novelty anymore, and most people that aren’t interested in getting competitive most likely won’t so deep into the metagame. However, the ones that have stick around are still keeping the scene alive. New aspects, techniques, and data are still being discovered, previous knowledge is being improved upon (or proven wrong), and characters are still being developed (Olimar, Pit, IC's to name a few), so it's still going strong.

Specialty Questions
- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.
I would be one of the very few Wario mains in the BBR, so I would share my knowledge of the character and his matchups. Also, I’d bring my wealth of tourney experience to the table, giving ideas to help improve upon aspects of tournaments and public accessibility, even if I don't have the means to use them.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
I’d like to see the BBR to have open, public discussions about common and often debated matchups so that the anyone in the scene can see how the top players look at them, and hopefully the general public can gain insight on them. As many people liked to mention after APEX 2012, the BBR should be open about anything it does, so that the community as a whole can get better. I believe GIMR had a video series a while back that explained relatively unknown or questioned aspects of the game (Falco's laser frame traps, Peach's "wasping", MK's d-tilt infinite, DDD's too good spotdodge, etc.), if the BBR could emulate what he did, that would be awesome.

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
Well, the status of being named among elite players is always nice, as well as being acknowledged for my efforts for the community. But for the most part, gaining insight from top players and members of the community is what I hope to gain, whether it be just general mindsets of the best there is or some commonly unknown facts or techniques of different characters.

Other Questions
- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?
As its members are supposed to be the “best and brightest” of the community, they should show it. The knowledge and insight of its members should be shared for the entire community to see so the metagame as a whole can continuously improve, and therefore thrive. Instead of having most of the community being kept in the dark about the BBR, it should be much more open with the information being dealt in it. I have seen some progress recently towards that idea, and I hope it can continue to improve.

- How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments?
Since they are the ones directly affected by the rules being used, they should have a substantial amount of influence in the rules being made. The ruleset shouldn’t be made by just a handful of members when thousands of players must use it. When I make my rulesets, I ask for input from the players in my community so that I can get the most people to agree on it.

- Are you allergic to water?
Heavens, no.

- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year?
The metagame has made strides over the past year, as evident in the changes in the tier lists and matchup charts. I think that it won’t make as much progress this year, but it will still make a significant amount that the progress would be widely acknowledged. At any time, any character can be further developed, and new tactics can be discovered to change aspects of the metagame, and help/hinder the use of certain characters.

- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?
Having tournament experience is just as important as the knowledge of your character. All the practice that players put in, it is useless without it being put into use in tournaments. Going to tournaments can be the most gratifying, humbling, and/or significant learning experience for any player. Being in high pressure situations often enough will better prepare you to handle them, as any top player would agree. Consistent attendance nurtures constant improvement, a competitive spirit, and knowledge of not only the playstyle of your character, but how others use their characters.

- How do you feel about the current state of the community and where do you think it should go?
I believe as a whole, the community is heading in the right direction in most aspects, except for one: Bringing in more new players. There aren’t as many local communities that don’t have their own Brawl scene as there once was, so efforts should be made to tap into those communities. For some, just knowing that a scene exists can encourage participation. While Brawl has slowly but surely gained acceptance over the years, it still isn’t as big of a name as most other fighting games. Of course, Nintendo’s stance on the competitive community doesn’t help (imagine the scale of big tournaments if we had their sponsorship!), but the more big name tournaments, streams, and sponsors that we can get, the more professional and popular our game can become, thus making the community more accessible.

- There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?
What Player-1 said, though I’ve seen a similar question before.

hmm mmmmm

Tournament Questions
- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
A have hosted 18 tournaments. I run a series of tournaments Called DMT (Dakpo's Monthly Tournament) We recently finished our 17th tournament. I a tournament at least once a month, and that increases during the summer when I can travel.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=305242&highlight=dakpo
1st out of 30-
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=314162&highlight=dakpo
5th out of 97-
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=313803&highlight=dakpo
2nd out of 27
I have won 1st at DMT # 1,2,3,6,8,10,11,12,14,15, and 17.
I have never lost anyone from my region and out of all DMTs i have only lost to Infinity,Denti,Type Ex, chuck nasty and bassem.
I have taken traded sets with Infinity, denti, chuck nasty, and type Ex

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.
This is kinda where I shine. In 2008 I was a wifi player. I was the only person within a 5 hour radius who played the game competitively. I attended WHOBO 2 on april 14th of 2009 and played my first offline tournament. At that point I became determined to have a scene. I met 4 guys who like the game and started to train them. Then I got into contact with a city 2 hours away with players interested in brawl as well. A tournament was held and the two cities became brothers. From here I feel as though I have trained nearly every person in my area for the 3 years that I created the smash community in my area, including a DMT with of 50 entrants!!!!

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
I have attended multiple nationals WHOBO 2/3 and Genesis, I host a long series of locals, and have hosted regionals as well as gone to them.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?

The Brawl scene continues to surprise me with the game continuing to live on. I could easily see the community lasting much like the melee scene has. I love seeing how new players are still coming into the scene and the top players are increasing to such a large array that more that just m2k can come and win a nation tournament now. The community is slightly torn with the mk ban. I have found if TOs have a problem they have been simply ignoring the ban and everyone goes on fine. The metagame is my favorite part of the scene. I watch an immense amount of brawl videos (its probably how I can stay in the top of my character without playing other high level players normally)
Specialty Questions
- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.
My contributions would span to everything to be honest. I have vast knowledge on all the match ups pertaining to my character since I was not limited to the match ups secluded in my area (thanks to wifi). I'm very aware of other players and I'm constantly watching the game play. My views on characters tend to be very diverse since my opinions come from a conglomeration of watching top level players and personal experience

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on? New player recruiting, working for an internation compromise on ruling. ( I am aware on the recent decision to abandon the pursuit on a unity rule set, but the recommended rule set and the japanese rule set is incredibly popular)
- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR? I really want to know the insight of a lot of the other higher level players. Basically a thirst for knowledge

- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room.
I have made some contributions to certain match ups that have changed zero suits metagame.
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=13792794&highlight=nado#post#2724
Also, the first US Zss to perform the Infinite consistently/viably
http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=13631993&postcount=11579
Different Out of shield options
http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=13953392&postcount=3435
These are just some post to show how i feel as though I bring different aspects to the character
Other Questions
- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?
Innovating the competitive scene to grow and become overall better at the game

- How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments?
What is a country without its people? Although the same could be said in the sense that you wouldnt want an average joe running the country. The peoples opinion is a must if you wish craft the correct set of rules
- Are you allergic to water? idk Never tried the stuff
- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year? I think the gameplay has progressed INCREDIBLY! I love it Look at where olimar has gone from the first tier list to the most current tier list. The game has more and more development that I can't wait to see!
- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?
This is an interesting question, of course the more tournaments a player attends the more experience he/she will have, but that doesn't necessarily make them more skilled competitive or knowledgeable. I have seen many tournament results with the same few people straggling in the bottom half of results. These are people who attend LOTS and LOTS of tournaments in their area. The best place to obtain the before said traits are in practice and at smashfests. Think of it like musician practicing in the practice rooms for hours and then performing a concert. If the musician simply tries to perform a piece, then he will learn very little and most likely get discouraged, but if practiced and rehearsed, the musician gets the most out of it.
- How do you feel about the current state of the community and where do you think it should go?
The community is not growing as much as I would want, but the state of the community is coming closer together i.e. larger international tournament attendances.

- There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?
I'm 12 years old and what is this?

Here we go!

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- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
I don't really host tournaments, I attend them though. We don't have that many around my area and it's expensive to go outside my country so I don't go to that many, but here we have smashfests really often, and every now and then I go to big tourneys in other countries...
-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
My performance is pretty good.
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9/140 @ Bushido Brawl Impact - Link
2/69 @ Brawl in Berlin - Link
1/82 @ Dögüsch Smash - Link
9/87 @ M2N - Link
4/77 @ Brawl in Berlin 2 - Link
3/40 @ A.S.S. - Link

(I'm from europe btw if you haven't noticed yet)

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.
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- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
We have local smashfests every other weekend, so pretty often. Regional/national (what's the difference? ~.~) I go every now and then, not too often, all of the tourneys linked for my tourney results were nationals though, except the last one was a bit smaller.
- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
Umm it's pretty ok as it is, but there can still be a few things done to better it.


Specialty Questions
- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.
Hmm I don't know for sure, probably like character analysis stuff and gameplay.
- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
MU stuff, articles that help players get better, ruleset stuff (if it is even still done by the BBR? I'm not sure if there even is a "standard ruleset / recommended ruleset" atm... o_o)
- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
um sure. Learning new stuff about smash, helping others, fixing MU stuff, having fun discussing/talking about smash / having something to do lol
- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room.
I actually don't have too much there sadly... I'll try to find the few times I did contribute something "worthwhile", but it's hard to find lol so I'll just try to list some things I remember/can find.
There's an "How to avoid King D3s infinite as DK" thread I made. - Link
I also made a list of what DK can do if he get's grab released (on the ground). - Link

Other than that I tried around with Diddys momentum cancel to find the best way to do it, and I guess a few more small things...


Other Questions
- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?
having an accurate MU list and stuff, articles that help players get better, having a recommended ruleset...
- How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments?
more influence than ones that don't?, because they should (usually) know better than those
- Are you allergic to water?
no, but I have to sneeze sometimes when I look into bright light when going outside
- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year?
I think it did progress quite a bit. I still wish some players would go to more stuff / tried out more characters so some people stop underrating them too much. There's still a lot to see.
- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?
Depends, it should usually strenghten those, but not necessarily.
- How do you feel about the current state of the community and where do you think it should go?
It's okay, but there is still a lot of knowledge about the game that needs to be spread/brought to the attention of everyone. The community is pretty nice overall though and I enjoy being part of it.
- There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?
Look at what others say to this so I can do it like that. Xonar has a nice answer. Other than that I'd just use it more often, or get lucky.
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I figured out the last question ! You weigh 3 blocks on both sides. If one side weighs less than the other, you eliminate 6 blocks. If they are even then you still eliminate 6 blocks. You take 2 of the remaining three and weigh them on each side, if it's balanced then the one not weighed is the lightest block. If one side weighs more then that is you'd lightest block.

Or you could go for broke! Weigh 4 blocks on each side and if they are balanced then the unweighed block is the lightest

Hello, My name is Cassio. In tournaments I go by Truth and have also previously gone by Tag. On SWF I also have older accounts with the names "The Truth" and "Tagxy".

Im a player from Socal thats been around the boards for quite awhile, contributed in many discussions, and done what I can to help development Brawls metagame, particularly for Pikachu. I enjoy learning about brawl and discussing it with other people.

Tournament Questions
- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
I'm a regular tournament attendee, having attended most events in SoCal for the past 6 months. *Prior to that I attended tournaments inconsistently since Brawls release. *I do not host or co-host; although I do promote, assist, and provide reliable rides.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
My performance is a bit inconsistent, but I generally do above average in my region. *My region is also very skilled, and when matched against players out of state I've been able to take sets from mid-Power Ranked players in Norcal, Vegas, and Arizona.

http://allisbrawl.com/event.aspx?id=11593
Shauntal

http://allisbrawl.com/event.aspx?id=11550
E4U: Remix

http://allisbrawl.com/event.aspx?id=11680
E4U: N’s Revenge

http://allisbrawl.com/event.aspx?id=11743
The Gauntel

http://allisbrawl.com/event.aspx?id=11802
Caitlin

note: Most tournaments in socal have pools and players who bypass them so an accurate count on attendance is difficult.

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.
Nothing in terms of being at TO, although a year and a half ago I did make this:
http://allisbrawl.com/group.aspx?id=13223
http://allisbrawl.com/forum/topic.aspx?id=163978
It’s fallen into disuse since Mike’s been the major TO, but back then it helped (among other things) jump start the SoCal community after a bit of a dryspell for tournaments.

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
Ive attended tournaments on the scale of nationals or international level depending on how Genesis 2 is ranked. *Genesis 2 has been my only national scale tournament, and Ive attended several regionals and many locals in SoCal. I also recently attended a small regional in Arizona.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
With the release of multiple new fighting games starting with MvC3 and the aggregation of notable retirements from the games early days, the community is beginning to feel its age. *However I believe it is a mistake to conclude the brawl scene is dying and instead are seeing a slow transition from its early years towards maturity. *In the past simply holding an event and posting it on smashboards drew large numbers with little effort. *As the game ages the community needs to become smarter and start putting legitimate effort into planning, advertisement, and community growth. *Its a transition I've seen take socal from life support to an increasingly more successful region. In regards to universally standardized rulesets and the MK ban, I find that both tend to be less important to competitive Brawl at this moment than confronting the real issues that plague the community, and would love to see our community refocus our effort on promoting the tournament scene in more traditional ways. I could write significantly more on the subject, but Ill stop for now.

Specialty Questions
- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR? For example, stage analysis, character analysis, gameplay, or tournament perspective.
I could contribute in all areas, some of my best (and occasionally worst) attributes are my critical thinking skills and Ive been studying and exposed to the game long enough to use this quality fairly proficiently. However I would really like to make my best contribution in community development. It may not consider be an area the BBR spends much time with, but in my opinion they have the ability to fudge its trajectory. Id also be able to give a perspective from Southern California since I speak with most all of their top level and high level players (as well as their endorsements to join the BBR and help represent SoCal) about smash and our community.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
Somewhat answered in the last question, but as the perceived leaders of the community, Id like to see some work in community growth.

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
I really enjoy reading and hearing other opinions, moreso when theyre well thought out and informed. *Even though people may consider me to be strongly opinionated, I spend a lot of time understanding what others have to say and trying to take in different points of views. *Im hoping to gain the insights and different perspectives the BBR can offer as well as people who can judge and give feedback on the quality of my own.

- Please link to posts of any contributions or interesting discussions you have made in the past; be sure to show examples what you feel you would best bring to the Brawl Back Room.
I have quite a bit, but am running out of time to find everything. Here are some threads though.

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=151405#
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=218683#
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=139568#

A quick post I found
http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=14342452&postcount=41

Other Questions
- What do you believe the BBR should be doing for the community?
As a group of top level players, tournament organizers, and intelligent members of the community; the BBR is well suited to give direction to and present a face for the community. Though not without criticisms, the BBR’s Tier List and Match UP Chart are viewed as a community opionion. Though I know realistic expectations on time and effort exist, I think with creative thought theres the potential to branch out using the qualities of the BBR previosly mentioned to help the community in other ways.

- How much influence should the tournament-attending community have on the rules used in tournaments?
As much as theyve always head (which is a rather significant amount). To be honest community opinion exists sort of as a veto power. Tournament Organizers and ruleset recommendations generally have great flexibility on rulesets in regards to how the community will accept, but have to react to uproars on stronger disagreements.

- Are you allergic to water?
Welp, I do not. *But I looked up Aquagenic Urticaria and it sounds rather dreadful.

- How far do you think Brawl's gameplay has progressed over the past year, and how much farther do you think it will go in this year?
This is a difficult judgement to make since Im not sure how much gameplay in Japan has changed and they are likely to be Brawl's strongest region, however as a result of their influence in the last year its not difficult to say gameplay outside Japan has seen some changes. *One thing I have noticed both from video footage and discussions with top level players is the increasing importance of stringing attacks together, as I remember when I first entered the Brawl scene I saw a post by gimpyfish stating that nothing would be able to save brawl from its virtually non-existant hitstun. *While patience and camping certainly always play a strong roll in brawl (particularly from a neutral position), as top level players players become increasingly proficient at option limitations and reads I feel that the maximization of momentum has played and will continue to play an increasingly important roll in Brawl.

- How much do you feel tournament experience can have an effect on a player's skill, competitiveness, and knowledge?
I dont think a clear answer exists. *At the very least tournament experience can be said to be the most common and easiest way to improve upon the stated traits. *However we've also seen cases where tournament newcomers have had great success from nontraditional backgrounds such as wifi, the latest case being Maguro from Japan (granted their wifi is better). *However I think it would be false to say nothing is gained or affected from tournament experience regardless of where ones primary source of experience comes from.

- How do you feel about the current state of the community and where do you think it should go?
Its an interesting time. Ill first refer everyone to my answer on the state of the competitive Brawl scene. In addition, for the first time in quite awhile there exists a larger amount of uncertainty than usual on questions people find interesting like who are the best players in the US and tier list placements. To summurize everything the community’s in a very big and perhaps critically important transition phase. How its handles may have long-term reprucussions.

- There are nine blocks identical in appearance, but one is just slightly heavier. You also have a scale that can compare the weights of two things. How do you find the heavier block using the scale only twice at most?
Have to give credit where its due, Player-3 answered it first. Would have been fun to try if I wasnt so curious to see what hed said.