Ahenobarbus
Smash Cadet
Results not up yet. It was only a ~30 man event and without most of the top Chicago players (Aki, Faceroll, and ORLY were top 3 iirc). I'll post the thread once it's up.
Lost to Aki (Ness) in winner's semis. That cg is rough (especially when you learn of its existence in tournament) and the second game was much closer (last stock red %), but he obviously just outplayed me. My best win was against Mars' Fox/Falco (2-1. beat Fox, lost to Falco, beat Falco) in winners, but lost to his Samus (2-1. beat his Falco but his Samus beat me twice after) in losers. It was my first time playing Samus and I was still stuck in the spacies "throw offstage and edgeguard" mode for a while until I realized that "uair to oblivion" was actually the way to go, too late in game 3. Poptart (old Melee player from South Bend) was supposed to win my pool, but I beat his M2 then Falco 2-0. I think no one in my pool was notable. The tags I remember are Pitu (Mario/Marth), Sneaky Panda (Sheik), something beginning with Kai (Link), and a Pikachu whose name I don't recall, but was the 3rd to make it out. The Pika and I had close games that prob would have gone to game 3 if he hadn't messed up an up b recovery.
Tbh almost all of my individual games were close, I just kept clutching out the last stock. My MK is definitely nothing special yet but I thought I did a really good job of learning matchups on the fly. I will say that, relative to my level as a player, my MK is pretty good against spacies. I'd never played a Mario, Pika, or Link main before so I was happy with my adaptation in those games. Next tournament I will probably go back to getting bodied though, I just had one of those days. Looking forward to it either way.
Lost to Aki (Ness) in winner's semis. That cg is rough (especially when you learn of its existence in tournament) and the second game was much closer (last stock red %), but he obviously just outplayed me. My best win was against Mars' Fox/Falco (2-1. beat Fox, lost to Falco, beat Falco) in winners, but lost to his Samus (2-1. beat his Falco but his Samus beat me twice after) in losers. It was my first time playing Samus and I was still stuck in the spacies "throw offstage and edgeguard" mode for a while until I realized that "uair to oblivion" was actually the way to go, too late in game 3. Poptart (old Melee player from South Bend) was supposed to win my pool, but I beat his M2 then Falco 2-0. I think no one in my pool was notable. The tags I remember are Pitu (Mario/Marth), Sneaky Panda (Sheik), something beginning with Kai (Link), and a Pikachu whose name I don't recall, but was the 3rd to make it out. The Pika and I had close games that prob would have gone to game 3 if he hadn't messed up an up b recovery.
Tbh almost all of my individual games were close, I just kept clutching out the last stock. My MK is definitely nothing special yet but I thought I did a really good job of learning matchups on the fly. I will say that, relative to my level as a player, my MK is pretty good against spacies. I'd never played a Mario, Pika, or Link main before so I was happy with my adaptation in those games. Next tournament I will probably go back to getting bodied though, I just had one of those days. Looking forward to it either way.