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The Fourth Official BBR New Member Application Thread

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Zankoku

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The Fourth Official BBR New Member Application Thread

This shouldn't be anything new to most of you. For those that it is new to, every so often we hold applications for members interested in trying to get into the BBR. Anyone may apply.

You will apply here. Details on what to post are below. At the deadline, the thread will be closed, I'll review over EVERYONE'S applications, and give my thoughts on who's a good candidate or not to the governing body of the BBR. Currently, they are: Marc, AlphaZealot, and Shaya. They will ALSO review the list and run final admissions.

Do NOT PM me your application.

Applications will conclude on December 1.

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Membership Application/Questions

Qualifications:
The Brawl Back Room is a forum meant to encourage intelligent discussion in the topics of metagame, tournament rules, and national/international scale tournament organization. While this means there is an emphasized priority on accepting top players and/or prominent TO's, we are not necessarily exclusive to those people only. If you demonstrate strong discussion/debate skills, willingness to experiment for the creation and improvement of suggested tournament rules, deep insight into the workings of the game, or any combination of those, you could have a good chance of making it in. If you believe you are qualified to become a member and wish to become one, please post here with your name, any description of yourself and possibly links to some of your posts as good examples of what you might contribute to the BBR, and answers to the questions below.

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?
-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
-- 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)?
- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?

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.
- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
- 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.

Other Questions
- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.
- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?
- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?
- What do you see in this picture?

- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?
- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?
- What's your favorite kind of tea?
 

C.J.

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Put in collapse tags to not make pages overly long.

Tournament Questions
[COLLAPSE=" "]- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
I used to be a lot more active, however over the past year was unable to attend much due to school, playing in multiple orchestras, and work taking up a LOT of time. However, recently I've been making a much bigger attempt to become more active again.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
My tournament results are admittedly lacking. I get out of pools about half the time, but lose in bracket after only winning one, maybe two sets. Given my *hopefully* new level of activity though, I believe that should be changing soon.

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.
I don't host tournaments but I cite rules and solve problems from rules every so often. Within my local scene I have helped numerous players learn multiple MUs and critique videos/matches/playstyles for near anyone who asks very thoroughly and effectively.

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
I usually only go to local and regional (depending on your definition of regional) tournaments when I do manage to go. However, I plan on going to Apex come January.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
Unfortunately the scene appears to be dying out and I have heard of many players planning on quitting/retiring after Apex. With the new release of UMvC3 with many smash players playing that as well, it appears as though smash is about to lose a lot of hype and momentum as a result. However, given the close knit community, and with MK's recent banning (potentially resulting in new and upcoming "top level" players) I would not be surprised if we got a new surge of interest from newer people and worked on the new people to stay alive instead of relying on the old.[/COLLAPSE]

Specialty Questions
[COLLAPSE=" "]- 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.
While I am a Marth main and my knowledge of all things Marth is probably near unmatched, I have a very in depth understanding of the game and almost every character (sans Sonic, Yoshi, and Lucas)- so I definitely view character analysis as a strong point of mine. My knowledge of stages is above the norm in my opinion, including many of the borderline ones, however I acknowledge I have more to learn on them and welcome any new information that may come up about them. However, I view my strongest aspect to be my ability to take theorycraft that I, or other people come up with, and see how applicable it is to real life likelihood. I am able to see where "theorycraft meets the game" and am able to only base my ideas and theory around what is likely and possible.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
While the BBR has made a match-up chart, it doesn't explain any of the reasoning on it. I would like to see concise, agreed upon (by both sides) reasoning as to what the match-up itself is like. Having a number is great, but it's not overly helpful if it doesn't explain anything. While this is something normally left best to the character boards to talk about, they largely just argue. If, instead of posting the reasoning from the discussions, the BBR could organize leaders from the character boards to start knocking out MUs.
Additionally, I believe having something for newer players would be a huge benefit. While the Smash Lab has its list of terms it doesn't show what they do or how they're useful. Having a beginner's guide similar to what SRK has for Street Fighter would be immensely useful- and to be perfectly honest- probably should have been done a long time ago.

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
Knowledge. I love learning about this game and being able to help my local scene get better. I love watching new players adapt and pick up on what they're doing wrong and learning match-ups. I want to be able to answer questions about the legality of stages and how you play on certain ones more thoroughly when asked. While all of this can be gained outside of the BBR, by being in it, hopefully I can help get some of these projects to be picked up so that I, as well as other people, can learn these things as well.

- 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/showthread.php?t=309846
http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=13518269&postcount=16
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=311118
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=310907
There will be another guide for vs Snake up soon. I will edit it in then.

*Note* I can and will do this for any and every character/MU/stage if asked. But Marth is my main so I do it for that character mostly.[/COLLAPSE]

Other Questions
[COLLAPSE=" "]- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.
While the intentions you all have are good, you don't provide information on how to use things that you release. You released a stage analysis, but not how to use the stages. Adding things like: On Rainbow Cruise you want to control the right side of the stage while the stage is in it's last portion where it is moving right. By being on the right side and controlling it, your opponent is forced to approach through you in order to be able to go back down to the boat.
You have a very brief, very general little blurb about "gameplay" on it, but nothing that actually helps understand how to use the stage. There's a similar thing with the MU chart. It's great for a quick reference, but doesn't actually talk about the match-up at all. So, while your intentions are good, what you produce is underwhelming and not of great use.

- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?
More substance with your releases and being explanatory on how to use different aspects of the metagame. Actually, what would be really cool would be to have people do things similar to "Seibrik's metagame minute" and Pierce's old video critique thread. Have people be able to send in questions or videos to be critiqued (as well as the BBR taking initiative to go through top level play and showing why decisions were made, why options got punished, etc) for the community to use and learn from. One thread of a general update of Q&A on general metagame things (not like the Q&A thread in Gameplay and Tactical where it's questions about technical parts of the game) and then another thread to be updated with the video analysis.

- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?
I should really stop answering questions before they're asked...
Actually, what would be really cool would be to have people do things similar to "Seibrik's metagame minute" and Pierce's old video critique thread. Have people be able to send in questions or videos to be critiqued (as well as the BBR taking initiative to go through top level play and showing why decisions were made, why options got punished, etc) for the community to use and learn from. One thread of a general update of Q&A on general metagame things (not like the Q&A thread in Gameplay and Tactical where it's questions about technical parts of the game) and then another thread to be updated with the video analysis.
- What do you see in this picture?
I see a Rosalina dancing in the center with a Rhydon and a Butterfree on the left.

- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?
I believe that there should be a more universal ideal to be attempted. The game's programming isn't different across regions (as melee's was) and as such what works for one game, will work for all. The first thing to take note of while trying to cross regions with information is you should only use information from people who understand the game. Leon is a phenomenal player, and I mean him no disrespect, but from watching him play, it doesn't appear as though he truly understands the game. He is just so smart he pushes through everyone else and wins from that. Given that as the case, his style shouldn't be considered for the "optimal way to play Marth" as it is inimitable. However, Mike's style is very imitable and a discussion should take place between people on each side of the style; Mr. R, MikeHAZE, *insert two opposing styles of a different character here* and have them come to a consensus as to the best way to play a MU and use that as a reference point vs the optimal style from the other side to reach a conclusion. As far as tier lists go, this one is more difficult. The way that we style tier lists at the moment (theory, MUs, and tourny results) we should have different tier lists (assuming we define tier lists as "How viable a character is in tournament"). However, if we were to do a MU based tier list, it should be standard across regions.

- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?
A player is the best when he has demonstrated the ability to consistently win tournaments with multiple top level player in attendance. If he loses, it should be to a small pool of top level players where the "best" usually comes out ahead or at worst breaks even. If you run into a situation similar to M2K vs Mang0 at Pound 3 (iirc), I would view M2K as the better player there as Mang0 was better vs M2k than vice-versa. However, M2K would be very unlikely to lose to any other player in comparison to Mang0.
A top level player is a player who has demonstrated sufficient technical ability in order to control their character to do exactly what they want with a very high accuracy. In addition to the technical requirement, they must be able to preform well enough to place highly (top 8 or 16) in a bracket at a national level tournament and be able to win regionals at least once in awhile (thus allowing for more than one top level player per region). In the case of a player who mains a low tier, as it is unreasonable for one to expect them to win regionals against other top level players, their placing within the money should be sufficient for their qualification.

- What's your favorite kind of tea?
I don't drink tea. Water/Gatorade all day long.
/marathon+ distance runner.[/COLLAPSE]
 

Steam

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did the same thing CJ did

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

I've regularly attended tournaments as long as they've existed in colorado. There was a period of time when the local scene was dead but it's alive again now.

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

I place well in the tournaments I can attend... but Colorado isn't exactly a prestigious region... the first of a monthly series was last month and I placed 4th (will try to get a link to results if/when they get posted).
I also went OOS once to a MD/VA local and placed 9th www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=307686

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

Mostly Local, attended supercon which was techincally a national but had poor attendance. Not much regional experience because there aren't really southwest regionals.

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

For a game like brawl it's in decent shape, It is slowly dying but I believe that's more of a consequence of a slow, defensive game. the divide over stagelists and especially the MK ban could cause problems for the community, but this divide was inevitable because brawl wasn't designed to be competitive and thus comes with no competitive ruleset programmed in.


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.

By far my largest and best contributions would be concerning Lucario as that's where I have the greatest amount of knowledge. However I'm usually eager to contribute to most discussions. I'd like to discus stages but there are hundreds of potential matchups on any given stage... so my contributions would be limited

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

Since rulesets are handled by the URC and the tier list and matchup chart are mostly trivial, I believe the BBR should focus on spreading knowledge of the game. Things such as GIMR's Metagame minute would be a great project for the BBR to support or replicate themselves (if they don't already). I believe instead of focusing on determining ratios for a matchup chart, the BBR should use these discussions to create a "matchup guide" of sorts for all matchups in the game. Essentially, the matchup chart is nice, but it won't be especially helpful because it's just arbitraty numbers. what WOULD be especially helpful if for each of these matchups there was a short summary for how each character can optimally play the matchup and any interesting information or things to abuse in the matchup.

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

Nothing other than a chance to actually contribute in something that matters. I post a lot in Metagame and ruleset discussions but none of those threads have meaning.

- 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.

a link to a lucario guide I wrote that's being revised and edited.
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=310518

I also contributed to discussions for Lucario's matchups the first matchup chart

other than that there's nothing significant I can think of off the top of my head other than being a regular poster in metagame and ruleset discussion.



Other Questions
- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.

I don't have much of an opinion of them since they haven't done a lot lately. But I think that in itself is a bit of a problem...

- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?

I think they could focus more on informing people about the game (granted discoveries in general are rare as the metagame is somewhat stale). however organizing this information for easier access by the general public would be a good improvement. aside from that I'm unaware of the inner workings of the BBR so I can't say much

- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?

I think it would be absolutely perfect if in addition to the matchup chart, every matchup had a short summary or discussion involving it since the numbers themselves don't tell people much. maybe this could be done by having each image of a character on a character's individual matchup spreads below the main chart also be a link to a summary of that matchup from both character's perspectives. Aside from that there isn't a ton of specific things the BBR can do at this point. However a video series like metagame minute could be something very beneficial, for example one video was made about DIing falco's moves. This could be done for every character.

- What do you see in this picture?


A wide shovel with small, detached wings.

- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?

As far as theory is concerned, there is no problem with comparing different regions as the whole world is playing the same game. However the second results of real matches are used for anything, it becomes impossible to accurately compare separate scenes as they don't interact enough to have a reference point to their skill level. You could set an arbitrary value to these other scenes' results but it could and probably would be flawed and in my opinion it's better to have less data than bad data. So there could be a global matchup chart since results play a smaller factor in them. however in my opinion as nice as a global tier list would be, it's just not possible without it being extremely flawed.

- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?

The Best player is the player who wins the most prominent tourneys the most often. A "top level player" in my opinion... either A. is one of the best players in their region, consistently making it to brackets in nationals and sometimes going deeper in bracket. or B. is one of the best 2 or 3 users of their character.

- What's your favorite kind of tea?
I don't drink tea.
 

Zano

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Why not, I'll give it a shot.



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

I try to attend them as much as possible, and I recently started going this year, but with lack of transportation atm, it's hard to get around except every few months, but I will be attending more tournies a lot more in the near future.

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

I do ok at tournies, not amazing yet, but I've only really started, but I do better each time.

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

Pretty much every tourney I've been to has been a regional or national except like one, which is probably why I don't do as well. : (

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

I just love to play the game, so I have fun with it pretty much whenever.
[/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.

Probably character analysis. I love to mess around with a bunch of different characters and learn new things about them.

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

The stagelist. Always seems so wishy-washy, and it'd be nice to see a standard one that everyone finds legit, but I know how hard that is to do.

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

To get more involved in the community that I love. I want to help this game stay alive and grow.
[/COLLAPSE]


[COLLAPSE="Other Questions"]- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.

I don't really have any opinions one way or the other, but I appreciate everything they're trying to do for the game, they get a lot of hate they don't deserve.

- What do you see in this picture?


a floating fortress

- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?

I think the BBR should involve players from everywhere around the world and we should work together on a combined list. Regardless of whether or not we have different playstyles, we all play the same game and we do visit each other from time to time, so why play with different rules?

- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?

The best I would consider to be the one who can place the highest most consistently. A top level player would be someone who knows this game AND can apply what they know when they play.

- What's your favorite kind of tea?

sleepytime.
[/COLLAPSE]
 

Aposl

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

Have a pretty good amount of experience hosting tournaments. The Xanadu series, Brawl till you fall, Apex 2010 VGBC was partnered with etc...

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

I usually place very poorly, I am not as focused on my competitive level as just enjoying the game, but I do understand high level play enough to appreciate it when I see it. I attend tournaments very regularly traveling a lot to be in more events.

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

As co - founder of VGBC we have hosted a lot of tournaments, including VGBC Indianapolis, as well as contributed to the community through streaming nationals, like the Pound series, the Apex series, Genesis 2, SiiS 4 & 6, Ktar 4-6, COT 5, and one Whobo event as well as providing video recording of these events. Also we have contributed through using our YouTube as an outlet to promote other smasher's videos, our own tutorials, such as Meta - game Minute, and the BBR presents series with Bionic and the rest of the smash lab.

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

I have been to locals, regionals , and nationals, as well as having gone to one in almost every region in this country. I know a lot of the active smash community, as in I have met almost every pro player in the nation and played/ chilled with them.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
The scene will always be what we want to make it basically, I am applying to the BBR to help make it better, so Im not 100% pleased. I think the tournament scene needs more hype, we need to have Fun doing what we are doing, and we should try to make our scene one of entertainment, not just strict guidelines and rules (even though they are really important. Lastly I do not tolerate lofty opinions of what the community should be based souly on feeling. I like reasoning that makes sense when it comes how to construct our fighting game community, and sometimes the decisions, from an outsider's perspective, seems based less on logic.[/COLLAPSE]

Specialty Questions
[COLLAPSE=" "]- If you were to be accepted, in what area do you feel would be your best contributions to the BBR?

I have 3 major contributions I believe I could make to the BBR, 1 I am really patient and logical when it comes to discussions. I believe I would not be another opinion in any discussion but a researcher into the facts of important topics. I am not biased for my own personal game when it comes to policy making, I do this because I enjoy it so I don't have a lot of personal motivation to manipulate anything in my favor (basically no agenda). I thin this would make me a a good facilitator of discussions, but also I would hold my biases to facts and logical arguments. 2 I believe being a part of VG means we have a powerful online presence, I can sparingly use this power to get out why as the BBR we make certain decisions to help keep the community in the know of current events. 3, although I am not a known good player, I am a known personality in the community, I don't think I should come off as pretentious or elitist in any of my standings to the layman smasher. They would not feel like my decisions were biased against them because I am a pot filler like them.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
I would like the BBR to use they're power to help make the game more entertaining, and help re-energize the tournament scene. I understand that drastic changes cannot be made overnight because that would forfeit the BBR's authority and trustworthiness to make decisions for the community, but I feel like there are some decisions you can make to help the community more "hyped."

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
Well I personally would use this position to be seen as a more serious person in the community, that people know that VGBC cares about what goes on in this community is important to me.

- 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.

Unfortunately I do not have any examples of this to show you guys at this time, but I would be more than glad to have a discussion with some of you as a prerequisite to joining the BBR.[/COLLAPSE]


Other Questions
[COLLAPSE=" "]- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.
To be honest I don't know enough about you guys to make a decision like this, I like to know facts before I jump to conclusions, so I guess the only criticism that I have of you is that I don't feel like you are really that relevant because you have not made me care...

- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?
Just to reiterate previous answers, I think I will bring a logical calm to discussions, I am not afraid of rehashing points over and over, to people who don't or refuse to understand or address them. I will leave no room for emotions in policy making, only facts and logical arguments will be allowed to sway my opinion, however that is the opinion of the other members, not the public/ smash community in general. I feel like they're opinion matters greatly even if it guided by emotions, because ultimately we are here to serve them.

- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?

I believe these things to be of the utmost importance when creating hype in our community I want to equip low tier to mid tier mains with the ammunition to take out MK's, Diddy's Snake's and Falco's that will bring the hype our community needs. I believe when we have finished these things then we can think of new projects. However Match up charts IMO are irrelevant, Character match up strategies are more important IMO. I would say that directing all of these things toward strategy, and trying to equip players with new technology is a more important role for us than, MU charts and tier lists. Stage analysis is important I think, but to be honest I don't know if what I think of when I hear stage analysis's the same meaning you guys have for it.

- What do you see in this picture?
A double headed dragon falling downward. It has been decapitated and it is on fire.[/COLLAPSE]
 

Verde Coeden Scalesworth

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Tournament Questions
- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
* I have only helped host ones from Fire & Ice Gaming Convention. Unfortunately, the data is unavailable outside of asking. I ran regular and double Tournaments specifically of Melee. I almost ran Brawl ones, but the game was delayed, and they no longer allowed you to host Video Game tourneys(which is lame, but eh)
-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
* I have not, unfortunately. I only placed around 3rd, maybe.
-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.
* Unavailable.
- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
* Local in Sheboygan. Nothing special, played Ganondorf/Bowser in Melee. Did meh.
- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
* I like where it is headed due to the new banning, and the diversity that may follow.


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 myself do research specifically on stages, what they add to gameplay, how many silly things are there, like door count. I mostly don't analyze the gameplay aspect, however.
- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
* A way to define planking and limit it without using the LGL.
- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
* To perhaps learn more of the competitive scene that I lack, more combos, etc.
- 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.
* Various topics throughout the New Super Smash Bros. Wii U discussion, mostly some debates. However, none of these, I believe, would be relevant. I unfortunately am not good at debates, and slightly strawman(I think). Most of my views seem to be the onpopular one, but eh.


Other Questions
- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.
* I think they're an interesting group of people who truly care about the scene of Smash, and are full of very intelligent members overall.
- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?
* Looking at rules and how to improve them with a few arbitary limits as possible.
- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?
* A look into the various frames and perhaps having a secondary scene to see what exact points of the game were not programmed correctly.(no, I do not advocate hacks, but it's fun to understand what small problems there are)
- What do you see in this picture?
* Upside down Tabuu that's insane.
- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?
* I'd want the metagames to develop the same. By having universal rules, everybody could easily be together overall.
- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?
* By being able to win under any situation with any character not named Meta Knight.
- What's your favorite kind of tea?
* I don't drink Tea, sorry. But I do love Milk!
 

M@v

Subarashii!
Joined
Oct 13, 2007
Messages
10,678
Location
Pittsburgh, PA
Tournament Questions

- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
I have been involved with smash tournaments by both hosting and attending them since the release of brawl. I am a member of the Unity Ruleset Committee, and have been an actively contributing member of the group. I have attended a fair amount of tournaments a year, especially during the summer. My attendance drops a little during the Spring and Fall due to College, but I still make a couple. Lastly, I am currently running the /hope tournament series, which is a bi-annual series held in Pittsburgh PA. I have also ran tournaments in central PA, and assisted with tournaments in Ohio, New Jersey, and Florida.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
I am currently power ranked 5th in Pennsylvania. In addition, I am a panelist for the Pennsylvania Power Rankings. My performance has overall been average, doing noticeably worse in New Jersey. That being said, I logged 3 top 10s over the summer(4 if you count Cot5 amatuer bracket, but I don't really count it) and two 2nd place finishes. I have linked my tournament results since May:


(Note: Tournaments listed in Chronological Order)


KTAR 5(49th/116)
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=303978

Carroll Fest 2(2nd/16)
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=304441
(Rogue=Blue Rogue)

Cot5(7th amateur bracket)
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=305956

/Hope 3(7th/33)
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=306393

Viva Espana!(2nd/24)
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=307707

Clash 1(17/34)
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=310114

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.
Aforementioned, I run the /hope series. In addition, I participated in the urc's discussion of mk, and the URC vote on metaknight legality.

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
I've attending tournaments of all sizes, including several nationals. My most recent nationals are mlg orlando, mlg columbus, and APEX 2010. Most recent regionals I've attended are KTAR 5 and COT5.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
I feel the current tournament scene is in a transformation stage with the mk ban approaching. New stars are rising, and while all this is occurring, the smash nation is preparing for APEX 2012, which is looking to be the Largest national since last APEX, and quite possibly the largest smash tournament in history.



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 my strongest aspect would be my tournament perspective, due to my experience running tournaments and my membership in the URC. I feel my next largest aspect would be character analysis and character matchups. I have a good understanding of all characters and their matchups. The BBR matchup chart would be a project I'd love to help work on.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
I would love to see more co-operation between the URC and BBR. Both groups working together could do great things for our community.

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
The opportunity to help give back to the community by being an active BBR member by contribution to discussion of the ever-evolving metagame.

- 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 haven't made many long posts on smashboards recently besides tournament threads. So I really dont have any current major posts of mine :(. The only thing I wrote recently was a blog explaining my vote and reasonings in the URC mk ban.:
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=311816


Other Questions

- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.
I feel the BBR is one of the primary role models of the smash community, not just to those inside the community, but to those outside of it. It directly reflects on the entire smash nation based on its actions. I feel the BBR contributes useful information to the community and analyzes the flow of the metagame. The one thing I feel the BBR needs to improve on is public relations. I know there have been several attempts at this(example: Pierced's BBR chats every Wed.), but overall, I just feel community interaction is lacking.

- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?
As I mentioned, I feel the BBR needs more PR. To remedy this, I feel more resources should be dedicated to it than one thread. In the URC, we are starting to do a weekly live show to explain what we've been up to, and the state of the game. During the show, which is livestreamed, viewers are welcome to put input via chatbox, and a live Q&A happens at the end of the show. Although you dont need to do the same exact thing, I feel the BBR should come up with some interesting way to engage with players.

- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?
I would like to see the weekly character analysis return. Its been a long while since the last one, and it would be nice to see an updated discussion of each individual character in the current metagame, and their possible evolution when mk is gone.

- What do you see in this picture?

Venom's face from spiderman

- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?
I feel indivudal lists are important since the metagame in each region is slightly different. For example, Japan has a very conservative stage list. However, I would not mind to see the BBR reach out to representatives in other regions to talk about possible global matchups and tierlist. Just to get the ball rolling and see if its possible. But overall, I feel regional info is much more relevant and important.


- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?
I don't feel there is a set "best" player, but I feel a "top level" player has several requirements:
-Preferably needs to be extremely active in the tournament scene
-Needs to place very high at every tournament they place(mostly, we all have our bad days).
-Needs to be remarkably consistent as well.
-Needs to be able to perform consistently well in different regions and at nationals.
-I feel a perfect example of a rising top level player is Dabuz. He's always been really good, but recently he's taken out pretty much every top name in the book, and has placed remarkably well in every region he's played in. All he needs now is consistent nationals placings.


- What's your favorite kind of tea?[/QUOTE]
Iced Tea ^_^
 

[FBC] Papa Mink

Smash Legend
Joined
Feb 15, 2010
Messages
12,918
Location
Orlando, FL
NNID
PapaMink
Tournament Questions

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

I go to tournaments regularly, about 2 to 3x a month. I live in Florida, so we're a pretty active region. I wouldn't go so far as to say i cohost, but i do run smashfests every so often.

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

My tournament results vary, unfortunately, from Mid to low. My most recent placings would be:

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=313888 - 5th
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=312909 - dookie


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


I have been to MANY locals, and two regionals. One out of state and one instate.

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


To be honest, it's confusing. I see alot of people, such as Florida, where the scene seems to be dying.. but then down in FGCU (A university in SouthWest FL) My best friend runs a Smash Club with over 60 people that come to his local tournaments. I think the MK ban is going to make alot of new players happy and may bring more people to play, but i feel that alot of veterans in the game may be getting bored and switching to new games... but thats expected with any 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.

I feel my best contributions would come from Character Analysis and Gameplay. Playing a low tier character that is undoubtedly the most underrepresented character in this game, i feel like i could make many good contributions.

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


I personally dont know what really happens backstage so i'm not sure. I've been actively participating in the Brawl Panelists (which i'm sure you are aware of) and that alone makes me happy, since i've been able to speak up for my character. I'm not sure what is and is not being discussed behind the curtains but i'm sure that you're doing your best.

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

I would hope to become more knowledgable as a player and by extension become a better player. I feel that i am at a plateau with my character as so to speak, and i know that she has potential. By being in the back room i want to be able to give her proper representation. I want to make an impact in the community and be a respected contributor. Ever since i joined the boards i've wanted this. I applied last time as well and i feel that i have grown as a player and i want to grow even more.
- 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/showthread.php?t=309161 - Stage Discussion Thread
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=291923 - Results thread i try to keep up to date.
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=216930 - Q/A Thread
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=309058 - Grab Release Thread.
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=297806 - Older, probably now outdated work i did.
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=291767 - Jab Lock Out Of F/Nair Thread.


I have taken over the old Jigglypuff MU thread and we're redoing it from the beginning of the tier list, we're currently on Samus. If you click any of the links of the bottom tiers you'll be linked to the export and you can see the work that i've done in conjunction with the other players. The jigglypuff boards are next to dead and we dont have many knowledgable players... so getting these worked with is pretty difficult but i'm trying to get them running.
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=233873



Other Questions

- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.

I think the work you do is good, but probably underrated. Everyone seems to hate you guys for some reason, i don't get it. You're the top players whether it be knowledge or results... people should respect and understand that.

- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?


Like i said earlier, i play a highly underrepresented character. I can help in areas you haven't seen before. I plan on contributing full force for pretty much everything. I can't say i know what needs to be improved since i don't have any ideas with what you're doing wrong. :p

- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?

I mean, covering the tier list, MU charts and stage analysis is really the epitamy of what can be discussed within this game right? I think the only thing i had to say last time is about Puff, but being active in the panelists i've been able to speak about it. Maybe discussing different gameplay strategies?

- What do you see in this picture?


I see a creepy clown face. But i also see two Chomp Chomps where the "eyes" would be.

- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?

There will NEVER be a way to make all the masses happy. Doing what we did, creating a universal ruleset, i believe was a great choice and a step in the right direction. You may want to do what you did for the MU chart and have a panel of knowledgable, non BBR members speak up for what rules they do or don't agree with and have discussions about them, but there are already discussions.

You may want to see rules that other continents use and see how we can impliment them in our systems. We don't want to (obviously) change others' rules.. As long as we are pleasing OUR masses, then we are doing the job right. We don't need to be concerned about EU and Japan if they aren't using our ruleset. However, if EU and JA showed interest in using the Unity Rulset, then we should see how we can meet them halfway.

- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?


Consistent top placement and knowledge of your character and your characters match ups. I believe that if you are a top player of your character (ie, me with puff) then you can prove it by playing against higher caliber players and showing the community the capabilities with your character that have not been displayed before. As a mediocre player i may not be able to show my knowledge in my playstyle, but in my posts and contributions i can show my skills and knowledge. I may not be a Top Level Player in terms of placement, but for what i do... i feel that i can be considered a top level player.

I hope that makes sense.


- What's your favorite kind of tea

Anything with mint.
And i DOUSE my tea in honey.
 

-LzR-

Smash Hero
Joined
Jan 1, 2009
Messages
7,649
Location
Finland
Tournament Questions
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- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?

I attend almost all Finnish tournaments for both Melee and Brawl. I also host many of them. I have hosted almost 10 tournaments now and I have helped others who have been hosting whenever they needed help. I attend whenever I just can.

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

http://allisbrawl.com/history.aspx?id=41964

I used to place pretty well when MK was still legal. Now it has kinda dropped with my new main, but I think I'll eventually catch up again.

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

I have tried to change some general opinions about certain things about the game I have learned from here in SWF. For example I have made ps2 and acceptable stage and people don't really have a problem with it here. I organized the making of the PR and the MKban that happened here before it was official.

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

Mostly local, Finland isn't very big. We have had some regionals too, but those are rare.
I have never went out of country, but some foreign players have been here.

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

I think we are still a bit confused about the MKban. It has caused a lot of intense discussion that has easily ended up with flamewars. Overall I think the tournament scene is evolving well.

[/COLLAPSE]

Specialty Questions
[COLLAPSE=" "]
- 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 think I know a lot about the different stages of Smash and I have discussed them to death. I would think about how certain characters perform in certain stages and how it affects them. I know about characters like Jigglypuff, MK, Rob and G&W well enough to contribute the scene.

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

The effects of powerful techniques no one really uses yet and how it could affect the metagame (SNL, Dededes pivot infinites and so on).

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

Increase my knowledge of the game and help the Finnish scene become awesome like it should be. :awesome:

- 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/showthread.php?t=297249

It's kinda dead now, but it shows I have contributed to Jigglypuffs almost nonexistent metagame.

[/COLLAPSE]

Other Questions
[COLLAPSE=" "]
- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.

I'm kinda neutral on it. Sometimes it feels like we average people here are hidden from the most important discussions, but I understand why you do so. I'm neither against or for the bbr in that sense.

- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?

We should be a lot more responsive and informative towards those who are not a part of the BBR. Everyone should be allowed to know what we are doing even if they cannot see it.

- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?

To be honest I cannot see anything to improve here.

- What do you see in this picture?

Cryogonal

- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?

Europe has already started to make it's own tierlist. I think the 3 different metagames are truly different and should have their own tierlists and rulesets if they want to, but not to be ignored because they are different. Diversity in rules is one of the best things about Smash. Wherever you go, the game might be slightly different every time.

- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?

Winning makes you the best. Placing has constantly makes you a top level player. I don't see anything else to say here.

- What's your favorite kind of tea?

MangoPeach all day.
[/COLLAPSE]
 

z00ted

The Assault of Laughter ﷼
Joined
Apr 18, 2010
Messages
10,800
Tournament Questions
[COLLAPSE=" "]What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?

I am extremely active in my community. I've ran a few here and there, but I mostly leave the tournament hosting to four of my close friends Xyro, Zigsta, Denti, and Sync. I understand basically what needs to be done when trying to run an efficient tournament, and I have volunteered to help in plenty of them... including WHOBO 3.

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

My tournament performance is strong, especially when considering my character and the region I live in.

Here are my results for the major tournaments I've attended in the past year:


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

I rarely host tournaments anymore, but I do hold fests at my place to encourage the growth of smash. I'm always helping whenever I can at official tournaments though, I'm good friends with all the tournament organizers.

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

All three!

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

Although many top players are revealing that they plan on "quitting" (we'll see if they truly pull through with their claim), I feel as though the current state of competitive Brawl is better then ever. Due to the recent announcement of the banning of Metaknight, I predict that players everywhere are looking forward of what is soon to come in the metagame. Many players will come back and try the game again due to the character being abolished. The Concentrate series has proved this, as well as prior HOBOs in which Metaknight was banned (they each reached over one hundred attendants compared to the sixty when Metaknight was not banned). After Apex, when people are finished getting hyped for all the amazing things that are bound to happen there... I believe people will be even more excited for the removal of the best character in the game.

To sum things up, I honestly can't see the competitive Brawl tournament scene going even farther downhill from where it's currently at right now![/COLLAPSE]

Specialty Questions
[COLLAPSE=" "]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 main Peach, so whatever is related to her.. I can thoroughly cover. I understand that there is already a pretty large number of Peach mains in the BBR.. but I feel as though I'm willing to offer different insight on various subjects. For example, I have extensive matchup knowledge on every matchup in the game because there is an insane amount of variety in character choice from which the region I live in. Stage analysis is something I feel as though the BBR lacks in and I have an abundance of knowledge on the subject. Smash is a counterpicking type game, and I feel as though it is necessary for the average player to have at least a complete understanding of the stages that benefit him or her. Throughout my Brawl career I have extensively researched Rainbow Cruise and Brinstar (especially Brinstar), and it has benefited me. Gameplay is definitely something I could help in, because I'm an extremely competitive player and I am always looking to improve my own game. Tournament perspective is the only field that I would not be too strong in, but I still believe I understand the gist of how tournaments are ran, tricks/tips, etc etc.

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

The BBR could really work on releasing more info to the public when dealing with matchups or tiers...and sticking to their word. For example, the tier list thread has stated for over a three month period that they will release why certain characters rose or dropped, but nothing has even been mentioned since the thread's creation. In addition to this, the BBR should probably give a summary to why each matchup is defined the way it is. Although it may seem lengthy, a brief summary on a BBR matchup chart would seem very professional and can always help the average player understand the game more thoroughly. Further investigation on the stage analysis project is also something that I deeply advocate, because I believe it will benefit the general player. For example, basic properties of stages, which characters greatly benefit from certain stages/which characters don't, when to use the stage to your advantage in a matchup, why platforms help your character / why they hurt it, sharking, etc etc.

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

Honestly, I just feel left out of important discussions and I have a constant thirst for knowledge to my main, other characters, and ideas relating to Brawl in general. The Brawl Panel has helped me realize this and I love having intellectual conversations on how a matchup generally runs and coming to a consensus on the subject. If I were in the BBR, I feel as though I would easily relate to all the players back there and I could give my opinion, as well as receive opinions from others, which would ultimately allow me to become a better player in general.

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 am currently in the Brawl Panel group. I'm one of the few Peach mains who have been active in every matchup discussion.

I always give critique / tips to my fellow Peach mains in the Video thread within the Peach boards over aim, or via private messaging.

I am in the Peach Back Room.

I created the Advancing Peach's Metagame thread. I've received a lot of praise from players who are trying to pick up the character or who feel as though they are constantly running into a brick wall when it comes to getting better. The thread specializes in a detailed analysis of every one of Peach's moves and how or when to use them in a creative way allowing for progression in players.[/collapse]

Other Questions
[COLLAPSE=" "]What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.

After the last batch of players were admitted in, I was upset I did not qualify. However, I definitely approve of the direction it's heading towards. The BBR is finally starting to admit intelligent/high level players into their group which (in my opinion) at the end of the day will lead to a more accurate depiction of our current metagame. The BBR is also doing a great job in admitting players who may not place the best, but have the time to do thorough research on the actual properties of Brawl itself. Without a doubt though, the best thing about the BBR currently... is the fact that the players in it actually represent our community. For example, after the last batch was admitted in, the players accepted were people I actually knew and personally approved of. Whereas before the admission, I didn't know half of the people back there and I was still a pretty active member of the community. The current BBR is a really respectable / revered group of players, and I know their goal is to improve the metagame. Another cool thing I'm seeing in the BBR are the tons of new personalities to represent the group. It's really assuring to know the people outside of just smash boards on a more personal level and to be able to collaborate with them at tournaments regardless of whether or not I myself am in the BBR or not. I feel as though the BBR is becoming more laid back, while still keeping it's professional charm - which is a great thing.

How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?

I've basically already stated ways the BBR can improve when it comes to discussing in-game topics. Out of game, I feel as though the BBR needs to admit people who are really in touch with their community. Players who EVERYONE can enjoy talking to, high level players who are willing to help train players in their area to get better, people who are entertaining to watch, who are generally sociable or easy to be around, players that are willing to go out of the way to bring hype to smash, and players who are willing to inform the community on their viewpoints about Brawl most people don't know about. To sum things up, the BBR needs to be more approachable to not only top level players, but mid level players or even newcomers. If this happens, the members of the BBR will most likely receive feedback which helps determine what direction the public wants Brawl to head in. The game is three years old and is about to undergo a HUGE change in it's metagame. The BBR needs to be ready to handle this accordingly.

The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?

I've already answered this in the previous paragraphs.


What do you see in this picture?

A Rorschach Card

As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?

The current path the BBR is heading on is the best, in my opinion. Try to unify North America through the Unity Ruleset, while allowing Japan and Europe to do whatever they please. I think divided metagames should be represented with a single list and a single chart with all countries' opinions on the game noted.

What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?

There is no best player.

A top level player is a player who has changed or altered their character's metagame for the better. Top level players usually are doing something different (throwing their opponent off guard) which allows them to secure their place in the competitive community, although some may just adopt the gameplay of one who is already declared the best of a certain character through watching videos or asking for advice. The players don't necessarily have to always place well, but they do so from time to time all within reason of which character they main and what is expected of them. A top level players fully understand their game, the options they are given in whatever situation they are in, and they pick up on opponent's habits with ease. Most importantly, they have complete control over their character and are always seeking ways to push a character's limits... when you play them, you recognize this immediately.

What's your favorite kind of tea?

How I feel about tea...[/COLLAPSE]
 

theeboredone

Smash Legend
Joined
Mar 18, 2008
Messages
12,399
Location
Houston, TX
Tournament Questions
What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?

I got into the competitive scene a little while after Brawl came out. I spent the first half of the year playing on wifi through Game Battles and All Is Brawl. After the first half of the year, I started attending tournaments in the Dallas area, went to my first regional events in Hobo, and my first national event in WHOBO. When I started attending school in Austin, I continued to attend tournaments. However, dating back to earlier this year, I have eased down on my tournament attendance. Primarily, I only attend if the nearby city San Antonio is having one, because it's a one day trip, and I don't have to worry about falling behind in my school work.

As far as hosting goes...very limited co-hosting experience. 2 in my total time playing competitive. Nothing significant, but both times, I have learned on the fly how to seed appropriately so same city folk don't play each other, while maintaining a competitive balance. Both times I've also put in a hard nose mentality, where people will get DQ'ed if they do not play their match ASAP.

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

From recent data, I will say I place in the top 45%. Of course, sometimes it depends on turnout and who attends. If the tournament is top heavy in terms of competition, then my former percentage rings true. If tournaments have about 30+, then I easily crack top 33%. My last tourny, I placed 9/27.

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

I have yet to go out of state and do not plan too. While I do consider playing Brawl competitively fun, I am not THAT dedicated to spend enormous amounts of money to travel. I have other things I must commit to and as I stated earlier, traveling long distances can be a chore for me. With that being said, I have attended tournaments in Texas hosted by all the big cities. Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio.

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

I will admit I am/was pro MK ban. While I am happy to see this taking effect, I was not someone who openly pushed for it through debate and rhetoric. Currently speaking, I think the variety of character usage I see at tournament is rather enjoyable to go through. Obviously, the top tier characters will place well, but I have seen other characters get their shot at the top.


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 think the top two things...as an Ike main I would contribute to the BBR are match up analysis from a PERSONAL experience basis. I am not one to dive too deep into frame data. Never have, never will. I have also always taken stage choice into consideration as well in how it affects match ups from both sides.

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

These kinda suggestions come and go in my head. Right now, what I can think of is establishing a simplified rule sheet when discussing tier rankings / match up numbers. From what limited experience I have in the Brawl Character Panel discussion, talk seems to circle around, around, and around. I feel like including a simplified bullet points of what to cover, and then also having a "judge" so to speak who is neutral on both characters can help determine who is right, wrong, etc.

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

There really is nothing to gain. It's a privilege to serve and help represent my character more accurately. I don't see any perks to joining the BBR whether it's forum related or reputation.

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.

As I have stated before, I feel most comfortable talking about match ups through experience and videos. I'm not big on theorizing or frame data. Here are a few example posts from the Brawl Character Panel.

http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=13525862&postcount=3

http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=13528950&postcount=4

http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=13475804&postcount=13


Other Questions


What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.

I have no opinion on them. If you ask my good friend, and BBR member "Zigsta", he will tell you how clueless I am about what talk circulates in regards to the BBR. It seems like the main stream attitude would be to bash on the BBR, but i have never fallen in line with that. Unless there is some solid evidence out there I have not seen, I have no qualms. At the same time, I'm not gonna go out of my way to praise the BBR for what they do. Yes it's a privilege, but that's it. I don't think they should be held higher than any other member on SWF.

How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?

I do feel it's a bit disrespectful to keep those outside the BBR completely in the dark. I know (think?) the BBR have been making strides to open up to the public by revealing limited information to let those on the outside know what is going on. I think that should be taken a step further by letting people post their opinions. While this does open up to a can of worms, I think having all of the BBR members glance through to find the "good ones" can prove beneficial to the smash community.

Another part that the BBR can improve on...I alluded to much earlier was to implement a "system" to determine tier lists, character match ups, analysis, etc. It would make things much more organized.

The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?

Nothing related to the metagame itself, but making it easier to talk about the metagame by establishing a effective system. As I said earlier.

What do you see in this picture?


Honestly, I'm having trouble much of anything, and this is coming from a Psych major. The bottom triangles look like the feet of a duck. The top going down looks like a flower...though I have no idea what the center is.

The objects on the top left and right...looks like a Renaissance composer with an Elvis hairdo and a bow tie.

As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?

From what I know, it's too hard to implement a universal list of anything given how far away the rulesets, metagame, and approach to the game are. The US prides itself in having so many different cultures assimilate into one big culture. At the asme time, this takes a long time + interaction from the other sides. Until we can consistently get that going, I don't see a reason to have anything universal.

What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?

That depends. Someone can easily pick up a crappy character, practice hard with them, and proclaim themselves "the best x." With that being said, there's a solid distinction between "the best x" and a "top level player." While a top level player maining a crappy character won't necessarily get as far vs someone who does main a solid or better character, you can definitely note the attributes of a top level character. Reaction time, the ability to read the opponent, knowing their own character in and out, all the while putting them into play and not just being able to talk about it. If these attributes are good enough, they can easily out play someone who uses a better character, while not representing the attributes of a top level player.

It's sort of like the genius vs hard work debate. A hard worker will always beat a genius, but a genius who works hard will generally beat a hard worker.

What's your favorite kind of tea?

I'm not much of a tea person. Not even a coffee person. Though I do enjoy my share of green tea with mint leaves and some honey.[/QUOTE]


Other Notes
I should note that, I do have a tendency to get "burned out." I do not know how much work goes on in the BBR, but I will provide one example of me getting burned out. In the project I'm involved with the BBR (character discussion panel), the first two rounds showed a lot of effort on my end. Part of it had to do with the lack of other members stepping up or being inactive, while a part of it had to do with the responsibility of being a panel member. Of course, going into "Round 3" a mix of heavy school work, and simply working too hard in the first two rounds led me to not being as active. Granted I still post, but not long rants or details that I provided earlier on. So if you guys are looking for someone who can give you a strong effort for long durations, I'm not your guy. There will be times when I'll need some R&R.
 

Monk/Honkey/Banana

Smash Champion
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Tournament Questions
[COLLAPSE="Hide"]- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?: I have participated in melee tournaments since 2006 and have been playing brawl since day one. For Brawl from 2008-2010 I regularly attended tournaments as of recent my tournament attendance has dropped but I've been trying to get back into the scene as much as possible and will be going to a tournament this week

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.: My overall performance is pretty average. I've placed in the top 32-16 of tournaments of 90-100 and have lost to mostly reputable players (Afro Thunda, Red Halberd, MVD, Tommy G)

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?: I have yet to participate in a national scale tournament but I have participated in more than a few regional tournaments with attendance over 90

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?: I feel the tournament scene is quite divided and needs to be a little more organized. Right now it's a system that works, but I feel like it's not working as well as it should be


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Specialty Questions
[COLLAPSE="Hide"]- 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.: If accepted I believe I would be able to contribute to gameplay and tournament perspective. even though I haven't been to a national scale tournament I've been to quite a few large regional tournaments and I know what it's like to have the pressure of playing many different characters and play styles while having a large audience watching your every move

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?: I would like to see the BBR look more into finding the most optimal rules list. Like I said before I feel like the scene is getting quite divided, for the past three weeks I've been looking at a couple different tournaments in my own state and have came across multiple different stage lists. I've been participating in tournaments for a large time both melee and brawl and in the time that I have played brawl I have had to go through multiple different counterpicks/stage selections/bannings; I know melee has gone through multiple changes as well, but not so many in such a few time.

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?: What I would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR is knowledge. I know I'm supposed to be talking about how knowledgeable I am and what I can contribute but I don't know every little thing about the game yet and by working with people from different regions and players that think differently from myself I'll be expanding my knowledge while sharing 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.: For the Mario Boards I had a tournament hotline in which I would help Mario players(or anyone that asked really)by giving them just standard tournament advice. Things they need to work on, stages they need to watch out for, how to avoid jitters and so on. unfortunately not many people wanted to take me up on that offer so I had my threads closed down =/[/COLLAPSE]

Other Questions
[COLLAPSE="Hide"]- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.: What do I think of the BBR? Well, I know you have quite a few knowledgeable people in there. I personally know Ed(ScaryLB59) and taught him quite a few things about the game. I've always believed the BBR is an essential part to progressing the game further and further but ever since Brawl has been released I don't feel like the BBR is as organized as it should be

- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?: I don't know how everything is run in the BBR but I feel like for certain things you should have certain people discussing it. For example, in character match-ups onlying having people that main those specific characters talking about it I'm personally a little tired of seeing people that second or even third a character trying to talk about character match-ups that they don't know as much as the guy that mains the character will

- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?: I feel one project that the BBR should undertake is something like what the competitive Magic community does which is writing articles. people in the BBR could take time to write up a huge page of whatever they want to talk about: character game play, match-ups, stages, tournament mentality and just other things so that other players can see how high level competitive players think and can possibly learn a few things

- What do you see in this picture?

I see a lobster

- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?: from the very beginning of my post I talked about how the community is divided. I firmly believe in lincoln's house divided speech "A house divided against itself cannot stand" as long as we're all on different pages our community wont be as strong as it can be

- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?: what I believe makes a top level player is someone that has knowledge about the game and tournament experience itself, and is willing to share that knowledge with his/her region

- What's your favorite kind of tea?: I enjoy a good Chai Cinnamon Tea[/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've attended too many tourneys to count, and I attend tournaments at least monthly. When school isn't an issue, I'll try to make it out a couple times a month. I help out when assistance is needed from the TO's, but I've yet to host a tournament of my own.

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

My tournament performance isn't quite the best. While I've been able to take games off/beat some notable players in pool matches, I'm unlikely to make it to the top 10 in a tournament. Not sure why, but I just never do well under pressure. :/

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

N/A

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

As expected, I've attended plenty of locals, but I've also been making it a point to make it out to a lot more regionals lately. Unfortunately, the only national that I've been to is MLG Columbus. Due to travel costs, I won't be able to attend APEX 2012.

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

The current Brawl tournament scene is under a lot of pressure due to the recent ban of Meta Knight so late after the game's release. While the ban doesn't officially fall in to place until the beginning of January, I feel we just need to show as much support for tournaments as a whole, rather than shedding all of this negative light that the ban seems to have caused. More suggestions for improvement of the ruleset and less posts that are nothing but degrading to the scene.[/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.

Stage Analysis is a big interest of mine currently due to the ban of MK. I feel like it was that character alone that raised some eyebrows concerning the legality of stages(Brinstar, Rainbow Cruise). With him gone, I believe stages like Norfair, Jungle Japes, and even Onett need further reviewed for their possible usage in tournament.

Character Analysis would also be an area of interest for me. I'd be able to give a lot of input regarding Wolf, Lucas, and Lucario, seeing as that I've played those characters the most.


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

As I've stated above, stages need to be further reviewed in the absence of a character that was the biggest tournament threat. In addition to this, MK's absence will surely result in a big difference of character usage/results in tournament across the cast, so in time, I'll be looking forward to the discussion of the Official BBR Tier List v7.

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

Nothing more than taking a part in a discussion with the Brawl community's best and brightest! :)
That Purple username color is darn pretty, 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 currently am the leader of the Lucas Boards Matchup Center and all the matchup discussions and exports, which can be found here: http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=302147

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[COLLAPSE="Other Questions"]
- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.

As of late, I feel like the BBR has fell back in importance in comparison to the Unity Ruleset Committee, seeing as that their members discussions directly affect the tournament scene. The BBR still is important, but just has less weight now.

- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?

The BBR can improve with more intelligent members who will contribute to discussions, and not just remain inactives. If accepted, I wouldn't mind helping in reviewing applications to make sure this is the case.

- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?

Nodding to John #’s success and popularity charts, perhaps the BBR can keep an updated Character Ranking’s Thread, which ranks the Brawl cast in order of cash won in tournament.

- What do you see in this picture?


My first thought was of Thardus, one of the bosses from Metroid Prime.

- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?

This is really hard to determine given how different the players are in all of those regions, as well as rulesets. North America will soon be the only region that has MK banned, so when the Tier List v7 goes into production, it would be better off being referred to as the North American Tier List v7, and then the BBR will have to decide from there if they should make separate tier lists. Naturally, BBR members from the other regions would hold more weight in discussing their respective lists.

- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?

I don’t believe that there is a player that is simply “the best”, unless he/she truly was an invincible player. A top level player is someone who can take down other well known amazing players, win regional level tournaments, and attend Nationals to see how they stack up to other regions. They also should compete in regions outside of their own if they truly want to make a name for themselves, because you can’t really be a top level player if the only players you’re beating are mid-level.

- What's your favorite kind of tea?

Honeydew Melon Bubble Tea.
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Supreme Dirt

King of the Railway
Joined
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Messages
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Tournament Questions

- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
Regularly attend.
-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
All my results except my most recent can be found in the links in this thread, except for my most recent, at No Bull****! 2, at which I placed 13th, and CoT5m which I can't seem to find the results thread for.
- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
Locals and regionals, with 1 National (CoT5), and I am planning to attend Apex.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
Completely unstable, in large part due to the recent MK ban in the Unity Ruleset,


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 analysis, and some aspect of character analysis.
- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
Low tier MUs.
- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
An even better understanding of the game as a whole through discussion.
- 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.
Metaknight Ban Discussion


Other Questions

- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.
A complete joke. Especially when it comes to character knowledge beyond high-tier. I'd very much like to be proven wrong.
- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?
More open discussions. The MU charts, as I have been outspoken about repeatedly, are COMPLETELY WORTHLESS without some kind of write-up.
- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?
As I stated above, write-ups of MUs. Surely enough discussion has gone on for the charts to make legitimate write-ups of each MU, though I'm sure the time required to do so is quite large.
- What do you see in this picture?

Steelix wearing a fruit hat, riding atop his mighty steed Metagross, flanked by Pidgeots, running down helpless Metapod in the process of evolving into Butterfree.
- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?
I firmly believe that Japan is somewhat irrelevant to discussion due to drastic differences in tournaments, in organization, prizes, and rules (especially stagelist). For Europe I believe we should come to a compromise if possible, and if not present the European perspective seperately.
- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?
Nothing makes a player the best. In order to theoretically be "the best", a player would have to have no bad habits, which is simply impossible. All players have bad habits that can be exploited.
A Top level player is someone who has not only gained a certain degree of control over their characters and has a good working knowledge of most MUs, but also is able to quickly and effectively learn to exploit their opponent's habits, while simultaneously knowing their own and working their best to prevent their opponent from exploiting them. Somewhat oversimplified, but it works.
- What's your favorite kind of tea?
Maple.
 

Vermanubis

King of Evil
BRoomer
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Tournament Questions
- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly? I haven't attended them regularly for a while now, but only due to moving to a vapid region. I plan on becoming active again soon. My tourney experience goes from early '10 to now, with placings anywhere from 3rd at a small local to 9th in others. I've never actually entered a national, but I've attended two.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available. See above
- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)? All levels
- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene? Pretty bad. The philosophical disparities on MK creates serious competitive imbalance and deformalizes the standard to which competitors are held.


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 I could generally contribute in all areas, but my strengths would be Ganondorf and character analysis in general. As a Ganon main, spatial management and zone control is paramount, so I'm very good at examining character attributes from a pragmatic standpoint.
- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
An undue emphasis has been placed on the extraction of arbitrariness from the ruleset. Without some kind of axiom to build a ruleset on, we're going around our ***** to get to our elbows by trying to sterilize the ruleset and fabricate absolutes within the framework of the game's system rather than reasonable and agreeable (albeit, yes, sometimes arbitrary) rules. I think more attention should be paid to what's reasonable rather than ignoring surgical ideas. At this point in the game, Brawl hasn't afforded us the opportunity to provide a ruleset within its natural framework. I know the BBR-RC exists for this reason, but I think the BBR should have some say as well, so it's not limited to a secluded council.
- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
General goals? To help reverse a, what I perceive to be, very lacking sense of balance between objectivity/formalism and sense, with what I feel are fair reasoning skills.
- 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 think that my strongest contributions would be in, as previously stated, a balance between formalism, which is begged for in a successful metagame, and common sense, which is needed when a game like Brawl precludes strict adherence to a formal, dare I say "natural" infrastructure. Not too sure how useful extensive Ganon knowledge would be, but seeing as how no one in the BBR represents him, it might be a good addition to have some first-hand feedback on the 'Dorf


Other Questions
- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.
No opinion. It's just kinda there lol.
- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted? See above regarding a lack of pragmatism in the BBR's considerations. I feel I could help bring some balance with said attribute
- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?
Things that are very unnecessary and just a little silly? Tons. Things that would actually help that someone else hasn't already covered? Nope.
- What do you see in this picture?
The tormented ectoplasm that aimlessly meanders the ether in the eternal, winding, labyrinthine corridors of my soul, whose agonized wails of vacuous nothingness harmonize in warbling dissonance with the crunch of bone and writhing of flesh as I draw the breath from my victims as tribute before they enter my kingdom... the kingdom of GANONDORF :ganondorf:
- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?
It's a tough call, since, as much as traditional fighter buffs will wanna skewer my *** for saying this, Smash allows much greater freedom of expression through its dynamics. Different players play different ways, invoking different ideas. Generally though, I think their say should be considered, but not to a point where no one still retains their own "dialect" so to speak. I think all regions should speak the same language, but maintain their dialectical independence, if you get my meaning. As it stands, I think that's been achieved. To speak the same language, I think, simply means that anyone from any country can mix and match in other countries, and not feel like they're playing a different game.
- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?
Simply put, the most malleable players. The players who can bend and twist to the situation and can naturally improvise solutions, typically ones too calculated and circumstantial to formulate or emulate. A player can master fighting the character you use, but they can't master fighting your creative avenues. Creativity is also a very large part of it, as I'm sure that implied.
- What's your favorite kind of tea?
The essence of those who offer their lifeless silhouettes to grovel 'neath my thunderous gait. Better known as Peppermint Green (Matcha!) tea.
 

John12346

Smash Master
Joined
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Messages
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Location
New York, NY
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Alright, let's get this party started!

Tournament Questions
- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
I regularly attend tournaments. Any weekend is usually good for me, and my schedule is usually so hopelessly empty, so I'll usually just go for it most of the time. I've definitely gone to enough tournies around my area to know what the status quo is around here.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
Not too shabby, I'd say. I attended quite a few tournies filled with randoms recently, so I'm not gonna bother including those lmao

Concentrate II - 10/22/11 - 25th out of 57(I was having a REALLY off day that day)
Uprise of Long Island #6 - 10/15/11 - 3rd out of 15
Fatality! - 9/17/11 - 9th out of 22
Concentrate I - 9/10/11 - 13th out of 42
L.I.R.R. - 7/30/11 - 17th out of 52


- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
Somewhat Regional. I'll usually attend Local tournies around my area, but the NY/NJ areas tend to hold a lot of Regionals anyway, and they're usually not too out of the way, so...

I've attended enough tournies to the extent that I could probably give a good synopsis of what the metagame around the NY/NJ region is like.


- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
Not bad. I can tell that it's definitely declined over the years, but it's still going very strong, for sure.

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.
Ah, well, I know a lot of random trivia about this game, ranging from stages to characters alike. Outside of Meta Knight and Lucario, my general knowledge of characters outside of glitches and exploits is about on par with everyone else's. I can definitely make a pretty mean report on any stage, because I've definitely put enough time into those to know how they work, back and front.

I also know a LOT about item mechanics, although I sincerely doubt that's going to come into play any time soon... w/e.


- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
It might actually be worth it for the BBR to look into stage-specific matchups; for example, the examination of how certain characters excel on specific stages, or why some characters favor certain stages over others.

I'd also actually like it if the BBR took an interest in glitches on legal stages to see if any of them could be applied/abused properly in tournament gameplay.


- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
Well, I'd definitely like to see the resources you guys have been packing back there, but aside from that, not much. I'm more in this to contribute, rather than receive.

- 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 suppose my Character Success Charts would qualify, signifying the important I place on statistics and data collection. If you were to look through the thread, you'd see a lot of data requests from various members, as well as how I've satisfied them. I'm always ready to analyze data when the need arises, that's for sure.

I don't mean to make any of you go wildly searching through this thread; sorry if I do, but I'm sure a lot of you are aware of AlphaZealot's announcement about the ban of Meta Knight. I don't exactly have any one concrete example, but watching the thread for maybe 1 or 2 days at any time would show how I'm always ready and able to bring in data and information(not just my charts) from out of nowhere to help corroborate my own and other people's points.

You can also see my legendary stalemate tactics at work XD

Edit: Oh, also, I worked on the Lucario Panel for the v2.0 revision of the BBR Matchup Chart. Indeed. Check it out; it shows a bit about my knowledge of the game, as well as my ability to attempt to organize conversation.

Edit: Almost forgot about this all the while back, when the legitimacy of my charts was attacked. I think it showcases my ability to pull out some logical points pretty well, given the proper data, of course.

Other Questions
- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.
It's doing what it should be doing for a *fighting game* community. Putting out good information for the community to be informed of and the like. You nailed that aspect on the head, for sure.

Unrelated, but I also feel that it lost a lot of its importance and power when the URC was created.


- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?
I feel you guys are a bit too secretive with information. I know there's some sort of no-leak policy or something, but keeping the community a bit more informed would definitely do a world of good, for sure.

It's not too big of a concern in my eyes, I may put out a few ideas here and there to assist to that end if the topic arises.


- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?
No offense, but that stage analysis project needs a lot more information put into it. I'd defo. be willing to assist with that one, for sure.

Aside from that, no, I don't think there's much else that could be required. We have what we need: a Tier List, a Matchup Chart, and a Stage Analysis Project; which is all that's important in my eyes.


- What do you see in this picture?
Well, staring at it for 30 seconds and looking at a white wall gave me this:



- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?
I would say that we should keep things separated. It's pretty obvious that the metagames of NA, Europe, and Japan are all completely different, and I feel any statistical or analytical approaches to them as a whole would just be a flawed one. Unless each nation chooses to use the SAME ruleset, we can't approach this situation that way because inconsistency in results will cause some problems.

I'm not a big fan having such a huge split like this, but that's just the way it's gonna be, I guess.


- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?
When a player plays in a way that boggles yours and everyone's mind, or shows skills that others could only dream of... I think that makes them a top level player.

It's really something you can just "feel" from a player when you're watching them play.

There's no such thing as a "best player," though. There are far too many variables for that one.


- What's your favorite kind of tea?
Green tea! It's the best!
 

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Oh hey, Another Application thread. Let's have 3x the fun!

Tournament Questions
- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
I attend tournaments quite regularly, there's been a few points in my time playing Competitive brawl that i've rented cars just to go to small tournaments. I think i've spent close too $1k on brawl and won nothing at all...
Now it's time to blow off $300 to not even get out of pools at APEX!
-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
It's both decent and bad. I guess i'll get results as far back as... 5 months.

Texas Comic Con
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=305988
(06/26/11)
5th out of 21

Lone Star Circuit #3: Nexus
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=306839
(07/09/11)
9th out of 41

San Japan 4TW
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=308553
(08/06/11)
7th out of 64

Brawl Lone Star Circuit Event #4: Nikefest 4
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=308904
(08/13/11)
9th out of 33

Lone Star Circuit #5: HOBO 33 Road To Apex
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=310616
(09/10/11)
17th out of 48

Lone Star Circuit Championships!
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=314162
(11/12/11)
49th out of 78
- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
Mostly Regional, But for National i've been to MLG Dallas and WHOBO 3, APEX next on the list.
While The recent HOBO isn't much of a national, we did have Quite a few OoC people come to the LSC Championships, Like M2K mikehaze Dabuz etc.

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
I see it like a puzzle in my insane mind, We're scrambled everywhere and the pieces won't fit when trying to put it together.


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.
With the tons of time i've had on my hands the past year or so, I know some more random tidbits and stuff than I did from the last Application thread.
But my answer is still Character Analysis for Yoshi and maybe charts/lists of some sort.
- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
Low/Mid-tier Matchups since the numbers seem to be going around everywhere in both the tierlist and MU threads.
And possibly Matchups involving stages.
For example with Yoshi Vs Wario, A stage like YI or Smashville would fair much better for Wario, while the safety of no platforms on FD Guarantees possibly an instant lose depending on both players skill. (And if the TO allows Standing infinite for Yoshi)
- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
I'd like to know what you purple monsters are hiding back there... While if I was accepted and finally got to see what I've been longing to see, I think the reward is mostly being able to atleast discuss Our main/other characters seriously rather then the usual troll posts or long essay like posts in most threads that don't warrant anything to the topic.
- 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.
For threads the only Two worth glancing at once in awhile is the Tournament Results thread, A Thread locating thread... and around 8 Matchup Re-discussion threads that had Some good discussions about the MU while some just died with little to no replies.
Yoshi Tournament Results
Yoshi Thread Locator
Yoshi's Stage Discussion
Top 5 Yoshis
BBR MU Chart

It's not much contributing and most of it is incorrect, but might as well provide posts relevant to discussing Stuff.
Match Up Re-Discussion: Ice Climbers
Match-Up Re-Discussion: Kirby
Match-Up Re-Discussion: King Dedede
Match-Up Re-Discussion: Snake
Yoshi Testing/Research/Discovery Part 1
Yoshi Testing/Research/Discovery Part 2



Other Questions
- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.
I find it funny how some people still confuse BBR with the URC. And how the BBR was basically cast aside/lost most of the power it once had when the URC was made.
- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?
I think the BBR is fine as it is, what with all the secrets and stuff.
If anything, atleast show us write ups on MU's people are constantly arguing about in threads such as the Tierlist or Chart threads. Aaaaand... Maybe more members that're active tournament wise.
While the Inactive but Smart debaters/people who discuss are still kept in. They still need to experience matches first-hand, sometimes their arguements can be invalid in some aspects, like say... having someone in the BBR who hasn't attended a tournament in Almost 2 years arguing over 08 Sonic vs Todays Metagame Fox.
- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?
Not sure what needs improvements... Isn't it normal to find that out as time goes?
- What do you see in this picture?
Tons of things. 7 to be exact, so gonna put this in collapse as well.

1. The Dog's disembodied head from Duck Hunt.

2. Banjo's Head from Banjo-Kazooie
3. An indian Totem Pole
4.India

5.0/5.5. Seahorses
6. Looks like an upside down Planet from Super Mario Galaxy


- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?
I think allowing Japan And Europe to use/have their own things is Very much better then having to oblige to One Ruleset Matchup chart and Tierlist. Mostly cause of the different playstyles and character usage. That and (not sure about Japan) But EU really does not approve of the URC's ruleset and Stagelist.

Basically everything seperated is much better.
- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?
No Such thing as a Best player, everyone makes errors.
For top player though.
Someone who puts time into their character, What move has priority over what, Unique playstyle, Reading the opponent and punishing them for their bad habits, basic knowledge of most Matchups, and being as fancy as possible is The MOST Important Thing!
- What's your favorite kind of tea?
Lemon Iced Tea.
 

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TECH_CHASE'S BBR APPLICATION


TOURNAMENT QUESTIONS
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- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
I do it all. I regularly host, co-host and attend tournaments. I am the embodiment of an active Smash player, regularly attending events several times a month. I usually host at least one event a month and I have also co-hosted several events to help newer TOs get a feel for efficient tournament structure.

My singles placements are average as a whole. Some good ones here and there and some bad ones. These days, I show consistency and only lose to ranked players. I haven't suffered any "bad" losses in a long time. Its generally my bad MUs, and the players who are just clearly better than I am. Oh, did I mention I am also now Power Ranked in Michigan as well? I am currently ranked 8th and I aspire to climb up the ranks further.

In doubles I place in the money just about every single time. I will provide links for tournaments I have attended in the past 3 months for relevancy. I could go back further but I feel like I have so much activity within the past 3 months, its enough in itself.



[COLLAPSE="Results for the Past 3 Months"]Skynet Gaming - November 20th, 2011 - 4th out of 29

Revenge November 19th, 2011 - 43rd out of 69

Rizkin' 2 - October 29th, 2011 - 7th out of 18

School Is In Session 6 - September 24th & 25th, 2011 - 33rd out of 70

Get Schooled! #3 - September 17th, 2011 - 7th out of 17

Get Schooled! #2 - August 27th, 2011 - 9th out of 22 [/COLLAPSE]



-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.
I have hosted several tournaments in the past year and some odd months. I am pretty much regarded as the Heart of the Michigan Brawl Scene. When the scene's activity heavily declined, I started hosting tournaments regularly (back in July 2010) and it just took off from there. I revived our Power Rankings and formed the panel for it myself. I've housed many out of state Smashers and done everything I can to get us back on the map. Now, Michigan is experiencing heightened activity and I am very proud to be the main driving force behind this. Below will be a link to the Michigan Power Rankings as well as every tournament I have ever hosted.

The Official Michigan Brawl Power Rankings

[COLLAPSE="Tournaments I Have Hosted"]The Phoenix Saga - December 10th, 2011 *My Next Event*

Get Schooled! #3 - September 17th, 2011

Get Schooled! #2 - August 27th, 2011

Get Schooled #1 - July 23rd, 2011

TC's Smash Cafe #4 - May 21st, 2011

TC's Smash Cafe #3 - April 16th, 2011

TC's Smash Cafe #2 - March 5th, 2011

TC's Smash Cafe #1 - January 29th, 2011

Gameyard Showdown 3 - November 27th, 2010

Gameyard Showdown: The Sequel - October 2nd, 2010

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Skynet Gaming - November 20th, 2011

School Is In Session 6 - September 24th & 25th

B.A.M.F. #4 - August 14th, 2011

B.A.M.F #3 - July 30th, 2011

B.A.M.F. #2 - June 18th, 2011

School Is In Session 5 - June 11th, 2011

B.A.M.F. #1 - May 14th, 2011

Good **** Stratford - March 19th, 2011




- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
I have a LOT of local experience, a good amount of regional experience and no national experience. APEX 2012 will be very first national event.


- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
I believe that it has suffered a bit in the past year or so. Games tend to suffer natural atrophy when they've been around for an extended period of time. However, I am pretty hopeful about an upcoming increase of activity thanks to the Metaknight Ban. I have already started to see the effects in my own state and we haven't even hit Apex yet. I'm very eager to see how things will turn out and I remain very optimistic.
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SPECIALTY QUESTIONS

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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.
My area of expertise lays in my extensive knowledge of King Dedede. I took over the King Dedede forums and did everything I can in hopes that one day our forum would see some activity again. When I came to those boards back in summer of 2010, it was DEAD. There was barely any content and people were quitting left and right. I put an incredible amount of time into adding content and making those boards a place where you could get some updated and extensive information about King Dedede. As a result, the boards have seen an increase in activity and I've received a lot of gratitude from my peers. I have even taught Coney himself new things. (Shoutouts to our set at SIIS6!) I have MANY threads I will be linking here. Due to my extensive knowledge on Dedede, I have also become a member of the Brawl Panel.

I also can provide a detail and informed perspective on the ruleset and stage analysis. In April of 2011, I was recognized as a respected Tournament Organizer and became inducted into the
Unity Ruleset Committee.I also have several posts in the Brawl Panel group that shows my knowledge about D3 MUs. And if I were allowed to link content from the URC, I would but we have a no leaking policy.




- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
I want to see more in depth metagame information and I would really like to see the BBR tackle the community aspect of the game as well. Without the community, its just a video game.

And I too would like to see stages affect matchups. I've started to look more in depth about stages and how even simple things like slopes can greatly affect things.


Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
I simply strive to attain as much information about this game as I can. With this knowledge, I hope to become a better player and help better those who rely on me.

- 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.
[COLLAPSE="A Bunch of D3 Metagame Projects by Yours Truly"]
The D3 Stage Reference Thread

The Big D3 Universal Tech List

The D3 Information Dump Thread

How to Use D3's Moveset to the Fullest

Why Everyone Needs to Start CPing PS2

Auto Canceled Dairs

The Official "I Need A Secondary Guide"

The *NEW* DDD Directory Thread

*There are other small projects that I have done that can be found in this thread*

How to Get Better With D3


*The blue ones are threads I recommend looking at first*
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Tech_Chase said:
Anyway this is what I think of the MU:

This matchup is just bad. There is no way to get around it. In order to win this, you have to play safe and patiently the entire match. You can't rush in blindly and you pretty much have to outplay the Metaknight pretty severely the entire time. We're not helpless but this MU is bad.


This MU has to stay on the ground at all costs. We go about even with Metaknight in grounded combat we just have to make sure we get around a few things. MK's best grounded tools are Down-Smash, F-Tilt, D-Tilt, Grab and Forward Smash/Dash attack in moderation. Be very careful about punishing his ground moves because one mistake can give MK the edge he needs to put you in the air and putting a serious hurting on you. Seriously there are a lot of times where you should just back off and reset the spacing instead of getting greedy. You have to play INCREDIBLY safe here. And you can't stay in your shield for too long or spotdodge too much either. I'm going to tell you now:

MASTER POWERSHIELDING

It is essential for this MU. A lot of MKs moves perfectly spaced still are too hard to punish if they hit our shield. Powershielding gives you sooo many more opportunities for punishment. You want to grab MK whenever you can. Grab will be your best friend in this MU. If a MK badly spaces a move on your shield: Grab his *** unless you can kill with Up-Tilt or land a good Bair. B-Throw will be very valuable in this MU because of the raw damage it does. When it gets to the 13%-14%, use Forward Throw or Down Throw here. Tech chasing is honestly overrated here. I'm good at it but I don't get greedy about it. If I have a fresh B-Throw I will usually use that but an F-Tilt out of Down Throw or just a solid tech chase does help. If you're playing this MU correctly, this will go on for a while so you have time to figure out any habits they use when you Down Throw them. Remember just don't get greedy. Treat every grab like its precious.

If MK is perfectly his moves on your shield then F-Tilt for a quick punish or get out of there period. If MK is far away then start chucking Waddles at him. MK has to approach (unless he has the lead).

Hmm what else for this section..

Oh make sure you space everything well yourself or you will get hard punished. Throwing out reckless F-Tilts can get you Down-Smashed, Faired, Shuttle Looped or Tornadoed. I generally hate using Dash Grabs here because if I miss they can punish you with whatever they want. Pivot Grabs are better here. There is no reason to just jump into ****.

As far as the Air Game:

Avoid this scenario at all costs. Both of you in the air means MK will win. His moves are just way too fast and they have good range to boot. Being above MK is the worst situation you can be in because you open yourself up to all sorts of **** in the form of Up-Air, Tornado and Shuttle Loop. If you must use your moves make sure you space them. Fair and Bair use at maximum distance can help a bit. If MK is really close to you, you can Swallow him if you read him properly. I have Swallowed people out of Tornado AND Shuttle Loop. Swallow is a lifesaver in this MU but I'll get to that later. But in short, just avoid this scenario. If you get caught above MK trying to land on the stage, time your fast fall air dodges very well or use Down Air when you get the chance. If you can get enough horizontal distance from them Swallow helps if you know they're going to charge in.


Moves to Watch Out For:

Tornado - If MK is approaching you from mid distance be REALLY careful. If you recklessly use Up-Tilt or Down-Smash, they can retreat...and punish you with the same Tornado. Its gay. Dont let yourself get baited. If MK does this in really close quarters, put your shield up and tilt it in reaction to where he is trying to shield poke you. Sometimes they'll act like they're going to retreat just for you to drop your shield and then get you. When this happens, Up-Tilt or gtfo. Seriously rolling backwards and getting out of there is a good options. Don't get greedy. If you're trying to run away and MK chases you, you can Pivot Grab him out of the Nado. Its fun Swallow also helps if you catch them as they're starting it. Smart MKs will often throw out the move when you're trying to land. Just hover outside the range of it and wait for it to end. Also if MK uses Nado in the air and you're on the ground and hes a considerable distance above the ground when hes about to end it...DO NOT RUN IN. Its the lagless Tornado and he can react immediately upon landing. MKs love to bait people like this. Just throw a waddle and gtfo.

Shuttle Loop - In the air, you can Down Air MK out of the Loop if you see it coming. SL when you're both in the air is often times pretty telegraphed so this often times easy to spot. If you're REALLY good at this, Swallow is also an option. I would rather you all just avoid being in the scenario than trying to punish it. Sometimes you can't though and you just have to wait and throw out a move. If you're recovering though you're in a really bad spot. This move wrecks us off the stage if you put yourself in a bad spot. Avoid using Up B at all costs to recover and if you do, you have to mix it up. If MK knows what you're doing, you either going to lose your stock or take an absurd amount of damage.

Down-Smash - Don't get greedy here. If MK badly spaces the move punish it. If its perfectly spaced, retreat to mid distance. Seriously, the landing lag is so small..it'll look like you can profit and then here comes another Down Smash. Don't fall for that ****.

Forward-Smash - Same concept as Down Smash actually. Also this is what MKs use against people who spotdodge too much. So yes avoid that.

Down-air - A lot of MKs will try to Down Air camp us. Back air however can trade/beat this move if you use it correctly. Once again I would rather retreat than challenge MK directly.

Our Best Moves:

Grab - I pretty much stated the reasons already.

Forward Tilt - Its weak but it gives us damage for a quick punish. Some damage is better than no damage.

Up-Tilt - Our best kill move in this MU however don't get greedy and don't fish for it either. You can't force anything in this MU without getting punished hard.

Waddle Dee Toss - Hi, are you and MK far away from each other? Yeah, use this. He has no projectile. Just make sure the distance between you two is great. His dash grab is REALLY fast.

Swallow - This move will save your life in close quarters. The grab armor of this move has saved me countless times! Only use this move if you feel comfortable reading your opponent though. This is something you can't just bust out for the hell of it.

Back Air - Still a great move regardless. Avoid using this in direct air to air conflict. The move is great out of shield however and can beat Tornado if you position it towards the top (its hard though). If you can't land an Up-Tilt for the kill then start preparing for this move.


As far as my own personal strategy it is really simple. Pick your battles wisely, stay in mid distance and wait for MK to do something laggy or wait for him badly space moves. Play super safe and slow down the pace of the match. Ive said this at least 4 times but DONT GET GREEDY XD

Stages:

Ban: Brinstar or Rainbow Cruise depending on your playstyle. Most of us will get rid of Brinstar though. Both honestly they're both bad. I would actually rather fight on Brinstar tbh. Rainbow Cruise keeps us in the air and constantly on the move which is really bad. Brinstar is bad also but at least we can use the acid to aid our recovery and we can land our kill moves easier.

Counterpick: This is really a matter of personal playstyle. I would suggest Halberd, Lylat Cruise. Halberd gives us an much easier way of landing kill moves and they will kill earlier. Lylat is really good if you know how to use Platform Canceling effectively in my opinion. Plus keeping MK above you on platforms is also a perk. MK will try to stay in the air and bait you into doing something stupid here but honestly you have a lot of good options for using these. Auto Canceled Dairs rock here. And if MK tries to take you on the ground, its even pretty much.

Neutrals: Go for Lylat first. Ban Yoshi's first. The rest of the stages are all "meh" BF and Smashville are decent for us. I like Final Destination because I feel like we can live really long here and retreat better when things get hairy. Personal playstyle leans me towards Castle Siege. I guess if I had to list the stages in order from best to worst(IMO) it goes:

Lylat > FD >Siege >BF/SV> PS1>YI

I'll post more later even though I just wrote an essay...lol
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OTHER QUESTIONS

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- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.
I have always respected the BBR. I do believe that the BBR should be a little be more open with the general public, but I have always been for what they do as a whole and the great content they produce.

- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?
As previously stated, I believe that the BBR should be interacting with the general public more and build their public relations as a whole. A lot of people tend to view them as this shadowy figure and it doesn't have to be like that. I don't believe that everything needs to be a total secret simply. And anything that I have ever disagreed with or felt like it needed help with I always get involved in. I liked the concept of the Unity Ruleset Committee but didn't like some of the things they did so I aspired to join it and I did.

Michigan's Brawl Scene was dead and I was tired of it. So I became a TO to revive the scene.

I'm a man of action and I have the proof to back it up.


- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?
I know this has probably been said before, but I would REALLY want to see the BBR get behind a Metagame Minute project. I know that people like GIMR and Seibrik have produced some great content over the years but I think it would be amazing to see the Backroom as a whole getting behind this project. I think I would help boost public image as well.

- What do you see in this picture?
I see a Metagross...who has fused with a Medicham. <3 Pokemon.

- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?
As you may have guessed by my being a member of the URC, I would LOVE to see an international ruleset that could be considered the standard. It would take a long time to complete this project however. But I still remain hopeful that this could happen someday. I think at some point perhaps the URC could extend to regions outside of North America or we could form a new group with the purpose of facilitating this. I think more public voice should be given in this project. Like I said, it would take a long time to complete this but I believe its entirely possible.

- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?
A top level player in my mind knows what the best option is in any given situation. He or she knows what's safe and what will get punished. A top level player also knows what their habits are and knows how to mix it up to avoid getting hit. And I believe a top level player has proven themselves time and time again by placing very well and winning large events; beating top level players and only losing to that elite group of players. I also believe that a top level player has a near perfect mastery of their technical ability relating to their character(s). As Anther said "You should practice everything you need to until you can execute it 98% of the time. The 2% is because everyone messes up time to time."

- What's your favorite kind of tea?
Green.[/COLLAPSE]


This took over 4 hours....but its finally done. :) Good luck to everyone else who applied this season as well! Thank you in advance for considering me!

- TC

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Location
Omaha, NE
My overall tournament experience has been excellent. I have gotten much better from playing, asking questions, gaining respect and becoming friends with the other players in my region, the MW:W. I am able to do this because I am very active, and despite my lack of local competition, I am considered one of the best active Wolf mains in the country.

I live in Omaha, Nebraska. Yes, we have electricity here, but sadly, we haven't had a lot of tournaments in 2011. I have been trying to rebuild the scene and have done a decent job, but college has taken away the two youngest and brightest from my State. Both of the former Nebraska T.O.'s, ShermantheTank and Aurasturm can't host anymore, the latter held 3 tournaments this year.

4/14 (lost to Joker and Lux) Aura's Monthly
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=293313&highlight=megarobman

At the other two, I lost to Joker only
2/9 and 2/10
Results for Febember to Remember Aurasturm's monthlies Omaha, NE
February 19th 2011 (Round Robin)-Singles.

1. Joker-7-1 ($25) Iowa
2. PharaohRobMan-7-1 ($15) Nebraska
3. Trent-6-2 ($5) NE
4. Bpow-6-2 IA
5. DarkYosh 4-4 NE
6. GameGenie 3-5 NE
7. Aura NE
8. Wang IA
9. Nom IA

Results for 4/30 Aurasturm's monthlies, Omaha, NE
Brawl Singles - Round Robin

1. Joker - 9-0, 18-1 ($30)
2. Rob - 8-1, 17-2 ($15)
3. DarkYosh - 7-2, 14-6 ($5)
4. Smeesh - 5-4, 11-10
5. Gamegenie222 - 5-4, 11-11
6. Wang - 4-5, 9-11
7. Hot Carl - 3-6, 8-14
8. NoM - 3-6, 8-13
9. Echo - 1-8, 3-17
10. Aura - 0-9, 4-18
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Trent held 2 this year (one of them he intentially held while I was out of town so I couldn't enter :@) but has since quit due to lack of the scene/losing to Thugz.

3/9 (lost to Lux and Fino) Trents Monthly
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=305963&highlight=megarobman

Over the last 9 months I have tried to pick up the slack, and have held 4 tournaments since, and they were the most successful in both local attendance and OOS attendance.

1/11 NerdTron
#1-Rob
#2-Kuares
#3-NGAMER
#4-Devi
#5-Thugz
#6-Aura
#7-Soran
#8-Ben
#9-Bill
#10-Tom
#11-Tyser
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2/13 (lost to D3, I mean Tyser) Shermans Fleshwound
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=304602&highlight=megarobman

2/16 (lost to Cook, though he would say I lost to D3 :() Maverick Smash *This one used a more universal stage list, was supposed to have n00b rules but we didn't end up using them.
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=313405&highlight=megarobman

3/9 (lost to Joker and D3, I mean Tyser) Aggressive Smash
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=314462&highlight=megarobman

You will notice that I run unity rules, but with a few major changes. First off, I run 3 neutrals (BF/YI/SV) and in Nebraska we have decided we want pictochat to remain legal along with a smaller stage list. Second, I do not agree with infinite being legal, especially now that MK has been banned (this isn't the place to discuss why, but if you want to hear my reasoning I am eager
basically I feel if you ban an entire character to expand character usage and over centralization, remove STANDING infinite's [i.e. not IC's CG] to allow characters like Ness/Lucas/Bowser/DK/Luigi/Mario more viable
). Thirdly, my most recent tournament I ran a very modified version of the rules, I would recommned looking at them, here!!!!

My reasoning for this? In Nebraska we have a dominant melee scene, and brawl is barely even an after thought. And honestly, a few of the Melee players do their best to kill the scene by being IRL jerks and then unnecessarily 0-deathing them, but they won't do that to people in melee. For the rest of our scene who will play brawl, it works like this. They don't want long drawn out games. They don't want boring stages. They don't want to get grabbed infinitely. I want to bring fun to the game I love and make it so people will want to play it.

On an even bigger level, I believe that running a rules set similar to that would speed up large tournaments and keep people interested with unusual stages to counter pick. It didn't really have any change at my own because I had 9 people enter.

I have a lot of contributions to my scene. Hell, you may even just call me Nebraska Brawl because that's what the people in Iowa/Kansas/Missouri do. I take the time to pick people up at their homes, play games for hours and try and give advice, and just generally talking to them and being their friend. I am 25 years old and a lot of players in my area are 16-19. People those ages need positive influences and I try to be one.

I have attended ~90% of the tournaments (and some bi-weeklys) in Iowa, Kansas and Missiouri this year, (Even made a special appearance in MD/VA and North Carolina this summer to play some of their PRed players, more on this later). Honestly, I was the ONLY person not named "Fino" who entered every single circuit event in the first KS-IA-MO circuit, and I'm not from either of those states. I have also been to both of the circuit events for the 2nd season that is currently going on.

KS-IA-MO season 1 link.

KS-IA-MO season 2 link.

Iowa tournaments

Brainshock Alpha
25/71 (lost to clel and kalel)

Brainshock Beta
17/69 (lost to Nicole and Bpow)

I have been to all of Jokers monthlies this year (approx 5 this year, he doesn't make results threads really. I have placed 2nd, 4th and 9th at some of them, and I even won the Low Tier tournament at one (:link: out of 12 people). However, he doesn't post results threads, so I can only get a hold of the most recent one, and the one I did the worst at :/

Jokers Monthly
13/23 (lost to YoshQ and JJRockets)

Kansas Tournaments

Ultimate No Koast 3
17/27 (lost to Chuck Nasty and Typ Ex)
Low Tiers 4/25 (lost to Holmes and ALSM)

Battle to end Hunger
13/32 (lost to Mr. Doom and JoWii)

Battle To End Hunger 2
7/19 (lost to MJG and Legan)

Missiouri Tournaments

NetWarz
9/22 (lost to Lux and Fino)

Kahoka 2
13/30 (lost to Nicole and JoWii)

Kahoka 3
13/20 (lost to Hylian and MetalMM)

Basically, what I am trying to say is that I am one of the most active players in the MW:W. And due to this, I am Ranked #1 in my state and have been for a long time.

Nebraska
Source: http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=312433

#1-MegaRobMan :wolf: :link2: :marth: :luigi2:
#2-Thugz :metaknight: :pikachu2: (MI)
#3-MK Mike
:samus2: :falcon:
#4-GameGenie222 :falco: :marth:
#5-DarkYosh :yoshi2: (TX)
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I've been out of my region only once when I went to MD/VA and NC over the summer. At a MD/VA smashfest I lost to Seagull Man and went 2-2 with JuneBug in sets, but beat the rest of the players who were there, some of them notable PRed players. The same thing happened when I went to NC, I beat 2 of their PRed players in sets (both 2-1) but lost to Foxy, the former NC #2 player in a Best of 1 single elimination anime tournament.

I doubt many of you have heard of me as opposed to other wolves. I don't claim to be as good as Holmes, but this year I have made the 3rd MOST MONEY for a Wolf MAIN (i.e. not Ally), and have easily made more than 300% more money than the next closest person in my state. Also, I don't know the number, but I'm pretty high on the :link: money making list as well, non-low tier tournaments even.

What all of this should show you is that I only lose to other states best players. At the most recent OOS tournaments I've attended, I beat Future and almost beat Hylian, Nicole and Fino, as in last hit last stock game 3, these people would verify this. I am improving and not losing interest in the game, which is something that should be valued.

Another thing that should be valued is the fact that I am an ambassador of the game. Sure, online I am a troll at times (on social boards or pre-tournament hype or sarcastic johns on shout outs) but never in actual discussion of things online. AND NEVER IN PERSON. Typically the people I talk to at tournaments and I become pretty good friends. I was friends with Fino before anyone liked him back when he was an evil troll. Even people I only meet for a day seem to like me.

Example: As I said, I went to North Carolina and played them for less than 8 hours at an anime tourney there. Go to the North Carolina thread and ask them about me. You'll run into something like this:

Rob is the ****ing man.
Rob is the man. Move to NC my friend! It'd be good to see you again.
That may seem normal, but the crazy thing is this...Lightsyde...is a melee player...and he likes me...and that came from me posting there for the first time since I visited in May. Pretty nice welcome for someone who spent about 8 hours with them.

I'm very easy to get along with and I have a very different view on life than most people so I come from an interesting prospective on many things. And I don't take things personally. Earlier this year on the Joker's monthly thread, I was attacked as a human being by a few people (for no reason :(). Instead of attacking them back, I went through their arguments and asked them questions or pointed out their inaccuracy's to get things straight. Taking the low road is never the answer if you are trying to live an altruistic life and trying to show the path of positive enlightenment to others. I can do that while reading someones argument in smash about something I disagree with and I have the vernacular to get my message out clear enough.

I am a graduate of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln's English department with a minor in psychology. I specialized in Creative Writing and Critical Theory. The Critical theory thing is the important part. When I read stuff, I read it differently due to my training from school.

As such, I feel that if I were accepted into the BBR, I would be best for character analysis and tournament rules (stages, specifically). I already don't agree with the Wolf Match Up Chart. I already try and help people discuss tough matchups on the Wolf boards, I think I could be a help in the back room discussing other character matchups as well now that I feel I have enough experience.

Also, I would love to work on the low-mid tier project. Even though I main Wolf, my favorite 2 characters to play in Brawl are Link and Ness.

Honestly if you don't let me in, I will still continue to help the wolves and not let it get me down. It would benefit the community more than it would myself I believe because I am a mentor. I always have been and always will be. I would bring that to the table.

The majority of my discussion that would apply here have been IRL. If you ask Lux, Metal Music Man or various other MW:W BBR members if we have had good convos about the game in regard to characters, playing styles and ideas, rules and the community in general. I posted my opinions on MK being banned in the MK thread and my argument about infinite's on an appropriate thread (the MK banned thread) but as I have said, the majority of my contributions have been on matchups for Wolf.

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=312614&highlight=megarobman

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=286811&highlight=megarobman&page=25

lol@ what do I think about the BBR. It's hard to have a proper opinion about a group of people as it is better to judge people based on their individual character. I'm sure I would like some of you, maybe not others. However I am 100% sure that you are all a bunch of trolls. Fridayboards and infinite's being legal are two perfectly cromulant explanations for this opinion. Also you guys don't seem to explain things as well as you should to the general public, but I understand the need for secrecy on somethings like the MK ban, that's serious $ and consequence on the line.

I think we could improve the site. Make sure that every character has a guide that is up to date and has an explanation on how to perform everything, from super basic things like using your smashes, to b-reverseing, to low end AT's like Dacus or glide tossing, to high end AT's like b-dacus or side-b cancelling. Make sure that the matchup chart reflects the opinion of the characters that are using the character AND the actual data. (fyi, Pika-wolf is +2 pika and D3 is +3, not the other way around). As an English Major, I could probably clean up a few of these threads to read a little better.

I honestly see Predator, you know...from the movies, in that ink blot.

I believe that North America should have their own Tier list and matchup chart. We play differently than other areas and as such, different rules should be applied if that makes that particular scene more viable, aka banning MK. They have a Queen over there, we have a democracy. If they want to collaborate I am all for that, but if there is any reason why we should disagree, they should have the right to do whatever they want, it won't have any serious impact on us outside of the few players who go international. You have to play by the rules in front of you, not complain about them after they have been established for that event. (arguing about theoretical rules is fine, imo).

A player is the best when they win time and time over and over again. Character specifically, when the meta game is designed around one player, they are the "best". Top level players are the people who beat me in tournament :p

My favorite kind of tea is one with an M in it, because I'm all about the team.

I suppose I enjoy the Arnold Palmer the most, I love lemons! [collapse/]
 

Lord Chair

Smash Master
Joined
Apr 17, 2009
Messages
3,229
Location
Cheeseland, Europe
Tournament Questions
- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
Nigh all Dutch and Nordrhein-Westfalen tournaments. Traveled to the States and France.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
Poor on average, decent lately. I stand my own against noted players but have failed to get much higher than 13th in international, big events. Top 5 candidate in my own country.

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.
I try to help around at every tournament I go to. I always express my opinion on whatever aspect of whatever tournament I'm attending. I'm a known player in Europe mostly because of my contributions in developing a less region-focused community and focusing on Europe as a whole. I've made progress in building up a certain bond between western Germany and the Netherlands. I'm one of the most involved people in the European (and Dutch) scene, expressing interest in every player regardless of skill on both a 'professional' as well as a personal level.

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

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
Not sure what to answer here. The current state is what it has always been: a game that's kept alive because of the playerbase' own commitment rather than a professional company stimulating it. The competitive scene has nothing that can pull its strings if things go out of control and some things do go out of control. Regrettable, but it's still a vivid and strong scene.

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 crank up the soberness level by 20%. My analytical insight in the game is of a high level and I'm not afraid to express my doubts about something that bothers me.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
Taking back the privilege of recommending a ruleset.

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
Spending those few hours per week being slightly less bored.

- 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/showthread.php?t=309929 << that is the sort of post I can come up and do come up with.

Other Questions
- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.
A poor construct that has always been led and will probably continue to be led by favoritism. There are certain people who don't belong in there. Sadly, the times of the BR being a truly influential structure are over and the influence those certain individuals have had cannot be undone. The BBR appears to not be much more than a tier list factory, having lost its job of making a recommended ruleset. Important people with opinions are missing and the players who are supposed to make the BR are not willing to participate.

- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?
Remake it from scratch. This was supposedly done before but the same individuals who formed the rotten core have simply come back.

- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?
The BBR should be more involved with the progress the Smash Lab is currently not making.

- What do you see in this picture?

Double buff Skarner.

- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?
More respect has to be brought up by the States. Yes, just the States. Europe as a community harbors no hard feelings towards the States but there is little reason for a lot of people not to start trolling with the amount of disrespect that is received. Japan doesn't say a whole lot and is still mostly a big mystery. The amount of cooperation between Japan on one side and EU/NA on the other side is regrettable.

Universal lists or charts aren't realistic and shouldn't be attempted. SWF and the BBR have always been and will always be North American, Europeans have traditionally messed around here for improving their gameplay and have started participating in discussions simply because we have never had our own forum.


- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?
Professionalism. I don't see the difference between the two questions. The best player contemplates his losses, practices his tech skill, doesn't make up excuses and takes care of himself during a tournament. He keeps his cool and manages to separate the game from what happens to him on a personal level.

- What's your favorite kind of tea?
Moroccan tea (i.e. sugar with mint (note: not mint with sugar)).
 

Player-1

Smash Legend
Joined
Apr 27, 2008
Messages
12,186
Location
Rainbow Cruise
Tournament Questions
[COLLAPSE="Tournament organizer"]
- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
I host and co-host tournaments regularly (I'm a member of the URC) and I also enter tournaments
-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
I almost always get top 5 in my region, I'm currently ranked 5th in GA:
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=285577
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=314141
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=313489
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=313070
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=311386
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=311005

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.
Tournaments I've hosted:
SALT
SALT2
Salt Mines
Salt Mines 2
GX Tournament
Co hosted BBC (largest even I've hosted/co hosted)

I was a large contributor to GA's brawl scene even before I hosted tournaments just by doing miscellaneous things that added up to be a big part of GA's scene i.e hyping up events, posting tournaments in results thread, etc. When our primary TO quit TOing, I was the one who stepped it up in GA and started hosting tournament
s so our scene wouldn't die.
- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
I've been a local player for quite a while, but starting this year I've been going to other events regionally and I'm going to Apex.
- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
I think it's dropped a bit this past year, but I don't think it's dieing per se. Hopefully Apex and the MK ban will be a great way to kickstart our scene for 2012.
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Specialty Questions
[COLLAPSE="Specialty"]- 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'm a pretty well rounded individual. I am a member of the URC so I can contribute tournament perspective on things, but I pride myself in my knowledge with my main character (Diddy) and also Rainbow Cruise. I'm the kind of person that has every little tidbit of my character memorized, even the seemilingly useless things I'll try to find some situation in which it can help, for example:
http://www.youtube.com/user/3Player1?feature=mhee#p/u/27/w4Q3al_f-to
http://www.youtube.com/user/3Player1?feature=mhee#p/u/14/yaJyPr8am94

I'm also the kind of person that will a lot of times just go and put Rainbow Cruise as my only stage on my random list and will play that in friendlies for hours and hours so I know the stage mechanics and most of the tricks that character's can perform on it. This doesn't go for just RC either, as said before, I pride myself in knowing and using efficiently little seemingly useless tricks and a lot of these tricks can be transferred to other stages that aren't just RC, but RC is just the one I know best.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
I know the BBR has the stage analysis up now, but I'd love to see more depth put into it starting first with the legal stages.
- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
more 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've made contributions to the URC, since that forum may be locked to some of you, you can ask other members of the URC + BBR of them.

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=12410321
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=12464970
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=12507640
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=301588&page=3
More MU discussions in this thread:
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=300226
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=307860 (80% of the quoted material is mine).

I try to help the Diddy boards as best as I can

as said before, I help GA/AL's scene by hosting a lot of tournaments, especially stepping it up when our primary TO quit.



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Other Questions
[COLLAPSE="Other"]- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.
I'm not really sure, I've heard/seen some good and bad things from it. For one, I've heard that it is too large and a lot of discussions can be "cluttered" if you want to call it that, but I haven't seen it myself so I can't really make any proper judgements. I've seen a lot of good things from it too like the MU chart, tier list, etc.

- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?

I think something like having branches of the BBR would be pretty cool, like URC being part of the BBR, but just being their own branch applications, rules, etc. and then having the smash lab, and the BBR MU panel, etc. My plans for it...well I kind of just thought of it while typing this out so it wouldn't be really well developed at this point, but I guess it would start with kicking a lot of inactive people out and then sorting out who belongs where.
- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?

As said earlier, I think a more in-depth stage analysis project could be done (primarily with legal stages) and maybe something like a compendium of things to know for your character (kind of like character boards ones, but it'd be more in depth and organized and up to date and stuff)

- What do you see in this picture?


I see the outline of Bowser's face when you step on a Bowser space in Mario Party, pause at :17
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeGsMoXljKA#t=0m17s

- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?

I definitely think that we should have it be for the most part divided. MU charts and tier list are supposed to reflect the current metagame, but with each region's metagame being so diverse I think it would be problematic to try to unite under one tier list or MU chart, especially when things like stage list which affect MUs and tier list are so different from country to country, even among regions it's kind of problematic. It'd be great for it all to be united, but I don't think it's possible at this point.

- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?
A player is the best when it's Player-1 obv.

I think what makes the best player...the best is when he just has the best results out of anyone (keep in mind that region/who you're playing against also affects results so something like 9th at an NY/NJ tournament is better results wise than 1st at a North Dakota tournament). A top player I'd define as like...someone who can get top 20 or so in a national tournament like Apex or Genesis. Someone in the top 50 of the SWF character ranking list or so.

- What's your favorite kind of tea?
Orange Fanta.
[/COLLAPSE]


don't know why it split it into two collapse thingies =/
 

DeLux

Player that used to be Lux
Joined
Jun 3, 2010
Messages
9,302
Membership Application/Questions

Qualifications:
The Brawl Back Room is a forum meant to encourage intelligent discussion in the topics of metagame, tournament rules, and national/international scale tournament organization. While this means there is an emphasized priority on accepting top players and/or prominent TO's, we are not necessarily exclusive to those people only. If you demonstrate strong discussion/debate skills, willingness to experiment for the creation and improvement of suggested tournament rules, deep insight into the workings of the game, or any combination of those, you could have a good chance of making it in. If you believe you are qualified to become a member and wish to become one, please post here with your name, any description of yourself and possibly links to some of your posts as good examples of what you might contribute to the BBR, and answers to the questions below.

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?
-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
-- 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)?
- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?

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.
- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
- 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.

Other Questions
- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.
- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?
- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?
- What do you see in this picture?

- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?
- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?
- What's your favorite kind of tea?


DeLux, there is no need to be modest. What makes you awesome enough to be in the BBR?
I can infinite dimesional cape, legally, using only the wiimote with no need for a classic controller or nunchuck. I regularly pull three to four bananas on a mere whim with Diddy Kong. My Snake has been known to Wargasm without the need for shield daze. My Falco will reverse BDACUS. I always space my moves to tipper with Marth. My Wario’s waft kills 10 seconds into the game. I’ve won tournaments with Sopo. I only pluck purples with Olimar, and I can at times have 11 Pikmin following me. Spacies die to my Pikachu 0-death without any chain grabs necessary. I receive full aura with Lucario at approximately 34%. I can do the buffered reverse pivot grab infinites with King DDD. My Jab 3 strings without being shielded using Zero Suit on every character. I only judgment 9’s with Game and Watch. I can survive whiffing a Dair off stage as Toon Link. My fox REALLY wins the MK matchup. I can recover with Wolf with ease regardless of the opponent. I am a man of honor and will pull a beam sword for myself and my opponent when playing Peach. My Donkey Kong always has invincibility on Spinning Kong startup. I can copy powers without inhaling as Kirby. My ROB never runs out of fuel and always has a fully charged gyro and laser. I’ve been known to loop dozens of arrows with Pit. I’ve timed out players in 6 minutes with Sonic in an 8 minute game. My Aether with Ike can plank repeatedly and indefinitely. I misfire Luigi Missile on command and never miss an up-special opportunity. I never miss a DACUS with Sheik. My Yoshi can jump out of shield. My pokemon have infinite stamina. I can actually extra inch DI out of grab releases with Ness and Lucas. I am credited with discovering Mario’s one hit knock out in October 2010. I Bowsercide regardless of stock count. I can reverse all of the specials that Samus possesses. I true combo into Falcon Punch without mercy. My Link can Jump. I only kill with Rest as Jigglypuff. I win low tier tournaments using down special with Zelda since it is her best move. The game always gives me the win when I Ganoncide, negating the need for a suicide rule.

I don’t need to ban a stage during a set. My Pause is always off. I have a +4 matchup with winning. My tournaments run the Unity Ruleset 3.0. My game is frame perfect. I know everything in the Smash Lab but can recall none of it; I know half of what I think, but think of only half of what I know about the game. My character selection and success defies the tier list, but I will always choose the top tier. I can read my opponent without conditioning. My option selection is always unpredictable. My planking never exceeds the ledge grab limit. I am a man whose reputation is known worldwide and can diplomatically overcome differences over the internet. My tourney streams and sets are instant classics for both play and commentary. My hit list of top ranked players I've beaten is obscene. Despite being a moderator, I do nothing in moderation and go either all in or all out. My region loves me despite forcing them to play against Ice Climbers on a regular basis. I can see the restricted rooms on SWF without access. I've been known to namesearch words that are three letters or less with great success.

In short, I feel that I can do what needs to be done despite the impossibilities of the situation and that should get me into the Backroom.

Thank you for your time,
DeLux
 

Laem

Smash Champion
Joined
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Messages
2,292
Location
Nightrain
Worth a shot :cool: (lol @ above post)
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- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
Nickname I go by is T, I'm Dutch and attend every Dutch tourney and occasionaly an international one such as one in Germany.
I don't host tourneys, but I've occasionaly lend a hand with co-hosting. Nothing too serious.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
I'm (considered) a top player here in Holland, have been since my first tourney in '08.
My latest 2 tournaments: http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=13596682&postcount=687
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=309738&highlight=archer

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

- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
As a European player, the term 'international' isn't as big a deal. I've been to France and Germany to play brawl :p

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
The tournament scene in Holland hasn't really changed since '09 (Pretty sure this goes for alot of European countries). Could be better, could be worse. In America, with MK banned and all that, I don't really expect a big change either. Some will complain and quit, others will rejoice and return.
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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'm not particularly fond of picking a 'specialty', if you will, but I'd say gameplay in general. My understanding of the game is ever increasing, and I got results and raw skill to back up what I say. I'm quite knowledgeable in most matchups worth knowing, and sufficiently knowledgeable in many others. Not a stranger to any particular topic.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
The BBR should make a PR which lists how skilled its players are at d3 downB sliding.
But for srs...Nothing comes to mind.

- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
Nothing in particular. ++ Smarts points 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.
I'd link you to my take on an alternative ruleset, which solves the problems the current ruleset has with counterpicking and the importance of game 1 and was met with general praise, but I 1) wrote it in dutch and 2) posted it in the dutch backroom. On smashboards I'm often either telling people how they're wrong or presenting fresh/odd perspectives. Can't really point anything out in particular.
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[COLLAPSE="Other Questions"]
- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.

Could be better, some of the things some of you say are highly questionable to say the least, but overall not bad.

- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?
Although i don't deem it necessary, I can definitely see the benefits of (even) more transparancy in the BBR. This question tho. Newcomers entering the room and demanding change is not the way to go xD.

- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?
Come to think of it; the concept of just what a tierlist is is apparently still controversial. I'm quite sure people could appreciate a 'pure matchup tierlist', which would be easily compiled using the BBR MU chart. Besides that perhaps some more BBR - non-BBR interaction?

- What do you see in this picture?
Shocked to say I'm the first to say I see Bowser's face. I saw it, now it cannot be unseen.

- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?
Divided metagames definitely calls for divided tierlists: For example, to me it's quite astounding that Marth is that high in the US list while he's such an unpopular character there. EU's conservatism regarding stages also definitely changes things (not to mention Japan's o_O). Matchup ratios are probably also (slightly) different in different regions, but that's a stone that should probably be left unturned.

- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?
The best player is the candidate for best player who with sufficient consistency beats all the other candidates for best player in a 1v1.
A top level player is a player who with sufficient consistency places top 10 in tourneys in regions that matter.

- What's your favorite kind of tea?
That'd be Turkish Apple......i think. Tea <3
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PS. I'm not sure how people view me round these parts but I can be serious when i want to / should be. I'm hoping my (past?) trolling wont be too much of a problem xD
 

Infern Angelis

Smash Master
Joined
Feb 8, 2008
Messages
3,741
Location
Dallas, TX
Tournament Questions

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- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
I been going to them ever since Brawl came out. I'm still active and go to tournaments AT LEAST once a month. I have hosted 2 tournaments in the past, with included our of region players and had an attendace of 60+.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
My last 2 tournaments I got 9th and before that I got 3rd. Both were regional tournametns with a few well know players from EC. I tend to place high at the tournaments I go and I am considered one of, if not the, best Snake in the Midwest.
9th Place http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=314538
3rd Place http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=311446

-- 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)?
I been to countless locals, regional, and 2 nationals tournaments. And the 2 tournaments I hosted were both regionals.
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Specialty Questions
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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.
I would say all of them. I have been playing Snake for a long while and usually know what stages are good/bad for them, how to play certain matchups, while still understanding the differences between personal likes and actually character likes.
- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
Ruleset. Recently there have been numerous complaints to certain rules been bended and looked into to be explained in greater detailed for being to vague.
- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
Knowing how the rulesets are decided and character matchups are looked into with a wide variaty of people giving opinions with a good amount of healthy debate.
- 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 had a thread where I collected Snake tournament vids with difference matchups and players, however it was recently deleted due to unkown reasons :'(


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Other Questions
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- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.
I think most of the people have no idea what they are talking about, aside from a select few. However most of the results produce from the BBR are very well said and I agree on most of them.
- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?
If there is one thing I can hope for with me being added, is another unbiased voice which is something I think the both the BBR and the smash community needs.
- What do you see in this picture?

Look me in the eyes and tell me thats not Bowser right there
-As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?
The best solution would be to have representatives from each nationality to voice their opinions and conclude on a worlwide ruleset. However we are not a perfect world and we all know we won't come to terms with that due to our variations of how we play the game. So in reality, having seperate lists and charts would be both best and efficient.
- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?
All of the top players can beat each other, so its hard to determine who is the best. Top level player would be someone who is in league with the other well know top players in the nation. Both in going even or even beating them in bracket. There is no "Best" player, there is just someone who wins against most.
- What's your favorite kind of tea?
Sweet Dollar Tea from McDonalds
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Strong Badam

Super Elite
Administrator
Premium
BRoomer
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Messages
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Questions:
You may answer any or all questions below.
You're damn right I may answer any or all of the questions below. Man, psh, yeah.
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Tournament Questions
I'm so ready for this
- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
I host Brawl & Melee monthlies here in Rolla, Missouri, attracting such Brawl names as MJG, the greatest Toon Link player of all time, as well as of course myself, a rising Pikachu player who will no doubt be a top 5 contender after APEX. I attended Pound 5 and Genesis 2, and am planning to attend APEX 2012.
-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
I don't have relevant Brawl placings yet, but I have 3 top 3 placings within the past 3 months in Melee. Additionally, I am top 3 at my college in Brawl. Very impressive, I'm sure.
-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.
I made a better ruleset than the Unity Ruleset.
- What is the scope of your tournament experience (local, regional, national)?
I attend most nationals, some regionals, and most locals. I went to Pound 5 and Genesis 2 and I'm going to APEX.
- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
It doesn't seem to be expanding much atm. It's hard when the quality of the game is kind of low compared to most other competitive games of today. Probably doesn't help that URC keeps pushing out terrible rulesets.[/collapse]
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Specialty Questions
ok
- 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.
Gamplay & Tournament Perspective probably. I host tourneys every month & I'm a smart player that's good at analyzing.
- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
Meh. It's too late in the game's lifetime to do a lot of things that would have helped. Item Standard Play should have been tested extensively before the banning of items, for example, but as I said it's just too late now.
BBR should stop being URC's ***** and make rulesets again, because they're incapable. <3
- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
I already have a purple name, so nothing in particular. I guess I could probably learn a bit and become a better player 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.
I think my discussions in the Unity Ruleset Discussion thread will suffice. The main one begins here and carries on for a page or two on 40 posts per page.
There's also a discussion on Item play in the same thread but it was with bad posters, much like the previous one, so it isn't the best example. Additionally, here is where I effectively murder arguments trying to ban Infinites, which isn't a problem anyway thankfully because that thread is mostly so people don't spam that **** elsewhere.[/collapse]

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Other Questions
More? Really?
- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.
Kind of a joke ATM after URC bull****ted its way into authority. Got respect points for the match-up chart, but even that it is kind of old by now.
- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?
I sometimes can't even tell what the purpose of the BBR is. Your efforts seem spread out, and you lack the transparency such a professional organization should have. Organized projects that all work toward a specific goal would make it more obvious
- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?
Nothing comes to mind immediately. After I am accepted into the BBR I'll for sure have more ideas.
- What do you see in this picture?
Meta Knight
- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?
The metagames are divided, but the characters aren't inherently different in those regions like in Melee. An effort should be made for uniformity among rulesets and stagelists. If you try to separate tier lists and charts by region you'll end up with 800 tier lists and match-up charts with only 1 or 2 of each that are actually relevant and consider the game at its highest level, and even then some characters won't be considered at their highest potential because certain chars are unpopular in certain areas.
- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?
I don't really see how this question is relevant, but those are both terms that don't really have agreeable definitions. Best player would obviously win almost every tournament and be well experienced against a variety of playstyles and characters. Top level is usually top 32 or so at a national/international tournament. It's difficult to define though, but most good players know it when they see it.
- What's your favorite kind of tea?
Whatever Marc likes most.[/collapse]
In closing, I'd like to point out that I am already in 800 back rooms. Project M Back Room and Smash Lab contribute to my game mechanic and frame data knowledge (which is vast and grows daily), and my Melee Back Room status further shows my argumentative and discussion skills. I will no doubt be an asset to the BBR after I am accepted.
 

Zankoku

Never Knows Best
Administrator
BRoomer
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SSBM_PLAYER
By the way, today's the last day for submitting applications, so if you were planning on doing so, soon would be a good time.
 

_Kain_

Smash Champion
Joined
Apr 30, 2009
Messages
2,154
Tournament Questions

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

I've been part of the IL scene since the beginning of 2009, and have attended regularly since that time.

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

In our own state of IL, I regularly place 1st consistently at our locals
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=313421
OoS, I do fairly well when on top of my game. I've won some regionals in the MW at times. This is my last performance at a regional getting 4th.
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=314538

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

I've been to almost every local that is hosted here in IL, some locals in states such as WI and IN, most MW regionals that had attendants hailing from KS, MI, OH, MO, and even EC at times. I've only been to one national which was MLG Columbus
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Specialty Questions
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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.

I feel I can contribute to most of those since I have a broad knowledge from playing/practicing many parts of the game from stages to different characters/MU's. I think specifically I would be able to help most in character analysis due to me being a competent Wolf, so anything concerning that character I could help out with, and gameplay. I have general knowledge of most character's options/tactics also so I could help with others at times too.

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

Probably more discussion about certain rules that are put into play, seeing as how the past year has seen a controversial change to our current ruleset. Other than that just general things that pertain to the game and further developing the metagame.

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

If anything, just to see how the many different members have different perspectives on the game compared to mine. Also to take part in things that could possibly affect the community. Rather have a voice of opinion than nothing at all.

- 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 recently took part in the Brawl Panel (for Wolf) and made contributions to the MU chart that is going to be released soon for the community [/COLLAPSE]



Other Questions
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- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.

Well for one I think it's improved alot lol. At times I wouldn't think much of it, cause of what I heard at times about the people who were once members, but recently I think it's members have started to do more then they once did. So it can only get better, especially with new people who apply who want to help.

- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?

For now I think the BBR can improve by showing as a whole what they think about the current issue of MK being banned, and it's opinion on rulesets, since it seems to be a big thing with the URC, different rules being implemented, and all that stuff. I can help by just being another opinion or person who takes part in discussion :awesome:

- What do you see in this picture?


Totally looks like a Digimon, I just don't remember it's name

-As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?

It will always be hard to determine which list is more correct without more interaction with other nations, which I think will always seldom happen. From that I think divided metagames are good, we are still capable of learning from what we see of them playing, and therefore I think we can still account for their gameplay and how it can impact ours. We can see how our stage list is capable of making a character like MK much more vital in tournament play, while in other nations he isn't. As long as we are capable of accounting for the gameplay going on in other nations, I think it is ok to have divided metagames, because it allows our game to grow differently then theirs, and makes things interesting when they finally interact, like at tournaments such as APEX.

- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?

The best player is one who wins everything, and is pretty much 1st at every big tournament that occurs. For now I think we've only had 2, arguably 3 "best" players in North America, since they are the only ones who have won more than 1 national level tournament. Top level players are ones that can contend with the best. They place well everywhere they go, and they are capable of beating big name players. Basically they are really good players, who you would expect to do well in any tournament you see them in

- What's your favorite kind of tea?

I don't like Tea :awesome:
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DeLux

Player that used to be Lux
Joined
Jun 3, 2010
Messages
9,302
Tournament Questions
- What is your overall tournament experience? Do you host/co-host them, or attend them regularly?
I have a little under a year of solid tourney experience under my belt.

-- If you regularly attend tournaments, how is your overall tournament performance? Please link results, if available.
Recently I started Top 5ing at every sub regional tournament in the Midwest West I've been to. Haven't really done too much at that super regional or national level though due to "My father got diagnosed with cancer the day of the only national I went to" and "I had a 104 degree fever at a super regional" johns

http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=13646463&postcount=14482
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=283700

-- If you regularly host tournaments, please name any notable events or note any contributions you have made to the scene.
I host most of the tournies for the KC scene. This includes a couple locals and a couple sub/regionals. It was enough to get me to be a member of the URC.

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

- What is your opinion of the current state of the competitive Brawl tournament scene?
I feel that the community is at a critical period. Based on the returns for the game being older, I'm starting to become more and more convinced that attempting to grab new people into the competitive scene is going to become much more difficult. As such, it would be a good idea to focus on retaining current/former players. In doing that, we need to present a united front that has a strong core of followers that isn't attempting to tear itself apart at the seams. Once we can present a united front and solidify the turmoil of our community, then we can expand.

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 like to separate myself from DeLux the Smash Lab Director and DeLux the high level player. As such, I'd like to leave my resources of the Smash Lab as a separate entity. To make it clear, by admitting me I don't want to subordinate the goals and agenda of the Smash Lab in anyway. I'd push for collaboration of course, but I'd like to stand on my own merit in terms of knowledge and discovery rather than the wealth of talent and earnest hard work my organization that I lead has given me the reputation of having.

That being said, I play at a mid-high level. I TO at a local to regional level. I theorycraft somewhere between reasonably realistic and delusional based on character potential.

But I lead and operate based on values and agenda setting. I don't like ends based systems of evaluation unlike most people, and the alternative approach I bring in terms of scrutiny and thought process might be of some value to the BBR if the goals pursued are correct.

- What aspect of the game would you like to see the BBR look into/work on?
I have a few things on a personal agenda level that I would like to bring up at a later time regarding involvement between the three primary SWF member driven organizations (BBR, LAB, URC). However, doing so would constitute leaking, so I'd be willing to discuss it with the powers that be over PM. However, I would rather the BBR Leadership set their own agenda and values clearly and concisely and I'd see where my agenda can fit into that. If it does fit, I'd use every source of my personal skills, knowledge, and input to help get the job done.


- Is there anything you would hope to gain by being a part of the BBR?
I would like to gain access to the Back Room and be able to post there.

- 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.
- URC Member (most posts in the PR/Discussion thread interacting with public)
- Smash Lab Director
- ICs MU Panel v 2.0 Leader (kind of)
- ICs Moderator and Technical Support
- KC Brawl TO
- PR'd 5th KS Power Rankings
http://www.youtube.com/legendoflux

Other Questions

- What do you think of the BBR? Be honest, we can take it.
It's hard to make that determination without being in it. Never judge an iceberg by it's above sea level volume.

- How do you feel the current BBR can improve, and do you have any plans of helping in this aspect if accepted?
I feel like they could have a clearer direction as an organization. For example, the URC makes rulesets. The Smash Lab pushes the metagame. It's fairly unclear EXACTLY what the mission of the BBR is and I'd do everything in my power to establish and pursue that mission should I be selected.

- The BBR is most known for competitive metagame-related projects such as the character match-up chart, the tier list, and the in-depth stage analysis project. Are there any other projects or ideas you believe the BBR should undertake?
Yes there are but as mentioned I'm inhibited by generally ill defined leaking policies from doing so.

- What do you see in this picture?


[collapse="I see this"]
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- As you may have noticed, the physical distance between North America, Europe, and Japan, as well as differing philosophies on rules and stage lists, has also introduced a significant divide in opinions on things such as tier lists and character match-ups. How do you believe this should best be approached? Should more voice be given in a universal list or chart, or should the divided metagames also be represented with separate lists and charts? Or do you believe there is a better solution?
United we stand as mentioned above. Brawl don't lie as they say on the streets. I'll value debate anyone of the countries on their policies in hopes of gaining a diplomatic solution if that's what it takes

- What makes a player "the best"? What about a "top level player"?
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well, you are a very large boon to the KC scene. you have developed a rapidly growing and strengthening scene in lawrence, and have run a small but successful string of tournies in lawrence. you are always willing to help out, and show up at smashfests whenever you can. KC scene would be dead without you around probably lol
As a Melee Back Room member and personal friend of DeLux who has traveled to a tourney with him and attended a tourney he hosted, I without a doubt can vouch for him for BBR. I believe he would make an excellent addition to the team, especially considering his Unity Ruleset Committee + Smash Lab membership combination.
You are a gentleman, and a scholar.

:phone:
I can vouch DeLux is a really pro guy and he has good discussions in the URC and stuff
I think Lux's overall frame and game mechanic knowledge would be beneficial the BBR. He's also well known in his region for supporting it as much as he has.
Lux is troll. Avoid BBR membership at all costs.
Hylian with the Haterade.

But in all seriousness, DeLux is would be a pretty amazing addition to the BBR. He has a ridiculous understanding of the mechanics of the Ice Climbers, as well as frame data. Having discovered new desynching techniques for them and innovating (as well as advocating the use of) the tripless chaingrab. He's always testing and developing breakthroughs for the Ice Climbers' metagame. He's a very talented player, having practice from 2 of Kansas' best players, (MJG and Fino) he's definitely made more progress than most players that have played this game in the 3-4 years that it's been out. You'd be an idiot to not add him to the BBR.
BBR isn't wooorth iiiiiit

Unless it changed.
If given enough support, I will change it so it's worth of you :)
DeLux for President 2012
Lux took a dying character board and sparked life back into it. The questions he asks and pursues are not about the current metagame, rather they are about where this character's metagame could possibly be, encouraging ongoing development of the Ice Climbers as a character (e.g. More effective tripless CG, LD1 and LD2). Lux's research and knowledge into ICs is thorough and accurate and he willingly shares this information with the rest of the IC community; the knowledge he has provided the IC community shows distinctly in recent tournament results, not just his own, but other tournament attending players.

tl;dr- Bro knows his stuff. Bro deserves his props.
Lux = The woman

BBR = The Abusive Man that the woman won't give up on.

HE'LL CHANGE, AND I'LL BE THE ONE TO DO IT.
Hell, I'd vote for him.



Can I just say that in all honesty, the only person I'd believe when they said this is DeLux.



Justsaiyan.jpg, not only does he do this, but through his knowledge of frame data and the mechanics of Brawl, he strives to make the game more objectively competitive and to advance the metagame of Brawl itself.

#myhero
DeLux is amusing and is helping me with my ENG1020 paper on Game Balancing/bans (with some MK mentions). He knows his stuff.
delux is one of the only URC members that will actually listen to people and he knows what he's talking about
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I would have to say that I've dedicated my smash career to helping the community. Their reception would vindicate me and even if I don't win every game, I feel like I'm the top of something.

- What's your favorite kind of tea?
Bubble


On top of all the Brawl stuff mentioned, I use my Public Administration studies at KU on the community to help make better decisions on things. Despite my original post, I'm about as level headed as they come.

In closing, I think with the proper direction, the BBR has what it takes to be great. I also feel that with the proper direction, I could do great things for the BBR.
 
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