Pi
Smash Hero
Hey you!
I want to get inside you...
your head!!
I'm always interested in finding out peoples mental states when they are playing in tournament sets, so I figure why not ask everyone all at once ^^
I spent a lot of time thinking of these questions and while I think I got most of them I know I'll think of some more, I'll edit the post and make it pretty clear to any new questions I come up with, so please check back in regularly.
Also! I really would like the people below to answer my interview questions, either in this thread, OR WITH A PM!!(if you want only me to see) Hell you could put together a video if you want
I have selected these people because to me they stand out in some way or another, not to say YOU don't, I juss might not have been made aware of your uniqueness, so don't get put off or anything, juss make it apparent to me in your response to my interview!
WANTED:
EVERYONE TAKE MY INTERVIEW!!
Here it is!! Also remember that the questions are pretty open ended, respond however you feel appropriate, also don't neglect the misc. questions section at the bottom! And PLEASE put the name you are most known by, if you don't put it I'll juss use your forum name in the participants list. Also DON'T RUSH!! Answer however much you want whenever you want, edit your post days, weeks, months later idc, as long as you're mad honest!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Interview ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Your Smash Career
Pre-tournament
Pre-match
Pre-match 1
Match 1
Match 2
Match 3(if)
Post-set
Misc. Questions
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Also! If you have any questions you would like to ask to the smash community feel free to make it noticeable at the bottom of your post
[EDIT] MAKE REQUESTS
request someone you wanna see take this interview and I'll put em on blast up here on the OP!!
nickname not required, but highly recommended!
EVERYBODY
is encouraged to participate, I made this thread mainly for myself, so I personally could learn about every type of smasher out there, if you're a pro, if you're a noob, if you're some where in between, if you can answer some of these questions, DO IT!!
R.I.P. NES n00b - a great smasher, a great person, fondly remembered forever.
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Updates:
I want to get inside you...
your head!!
I'm always interested in finding out peoples mental states when they are playing in tournament sets, so I figure why not ask everyone all at once ^^
I spent a lot of time thinking of these questions and while I think I got most of them I know I'll think of some more, I'll edit the post and make it pretty clear to any new questions I come up with, so please check back in regularly.
Also! I really would like the people below to answer my interview questions, either in this thread, OR WITH A PM!!(if you want only me to see) Hell you could put together a video if you want
I have selected these people because to me they stand out in some way or another, not to say YOU don't, I juss might not have been made aware of your uniqueness, so don't get put off or anything, juss make it apparent to me in your response to my interview!
WANTED:
- Mew2king the robot who needs some oil!
- Mango the drunk (get wrecked by kage son)
- Lucky the fro fox
- Kage the WARRIOR!!
- Lampchops the all-knowing
- Col bol the child prodigy who needs to stop losing, you *****
- QDVS the wise
- JMAN the savior
- Zhu watch my feet falco
- DaShizWiz THE Falco.
- Uberice the lol@samus matchup
- Chu Dat the father of the twins
- Linguini the falco slayer
Dr. PeePee the southerner- Hungrybox the devourer of burrito's
HugS the patient- Phanna the flashy
- (all my samus brothers!!!!)
- DJ (tomahawk) NINTENDO
unknown522who are you!?- AXE ketchum
- Scar the mufasa slayer
- Darkrain, does he come here?
- Amsah the comeback king with kicking hair
- Armada the wtf is that peach doing?!
- Azen lol@mains
- ISAI the ISAI, I KNOW YOU LURK HERE FOOL! PLEEEASEE ^^
- Ken? Lol
- PC Chris, have an account here?
- KDJ
- chillin
- all the old school mlg, ken saga, pre youtube smashers, all of DBR, lots of people man
- RaynEX as per request; make someone happy RaynEX ^^
EVERYONE TAKE MY INTERVIEW!!
Here it is!! Also remember that the questions are pretty open ended, respond however you feel appropriate, also don't neglect the misc. questions section at the bottom! And PLEASE put the name you are most known by, if you don't put it I'll juss use your forum name in the participants list. Also DON'T RUSH!! Answer however much you want whenever you want, edit your post days, weeks, months later idc, as long as you're mad honest!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Interview ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Your Smash Career
- How long have you been with the series? (since ssb64, started with melee, dropped brawl for melee)
- How did you discover competitive melee? (local tournament, met some pro's, etc. etc.)
- How long have you been attending tournaments?
- What keeps you stuck on this game? (community, the depth, the ever evolving metagame, etc. etc.)
Pre-tournament
- What do you do to warm up for the tournament?(practice tech skill, train with your friends, practice your secondaries)
- Anything different from normal routine?
- If so, how early do you start training?(smashfest before, day before, week before)
- Do you view matches of opponents that will be at the tournament?(study them?)
- What's your mindset going to the tournament?(I'm going to win/I hope I place well/I hope I don't have to fight xxxxx)
Pre-match
- The TO announces you have a match on TV 3 with a smasher you have never heard of, what's your game plan? What do you assume about the player, if anything?(Are you thinking about what character you will use, sizing your opponent up, underestimating him, overestimating him?)
- What about a match with a smasher who you know/heard of, but are fairly confident of beating?(what are some specific thoughts to describe your mental state; "K I'm going to win this one, wonder who I have next" "I usually beat this guy in friendlies, I should win" etc. etc.)
- What about a match with a smasher who you know/heard of, but have classified him as better than you?("****, gonna lose this one." "I still have a chance, always have a chance" etc. etc.)
Pre-match 1
- You both plug into the cube, pick your characters, and move to the stage selection screen to pick your bans, how do you decide what to ban?("well if he's falco, I'll ban FD", "I really hate BF so I always ban it", etc. etc.)
- Is your mindset still the same? Are you nervous? Where is your head at when you press start and it selects a stage?
Match 1
- Game starts, announcer says GO, what position do you take?(offensive, defensive, if you have projectiles do you get them out there, be general if you want cause I know it might depend on the characters you're playing, are you trying to be fancy or playing conservititve?)
- What are you looking for, if anything, in your opponents playstyle?(is he rolling predictably, teching predictably, is he playing really offensive, shielding too much?)
- Are you looking for how your opponent is punishing you?(is he predicting your rolls, your spotdodges, your techs? Do you change up your playstyle to keep the lead, or do you get more aggressive, do you go for more fancy ****?)
- You are ahead, got a stock or two up, how are you feeling?(confident, staying humble, trying to keep focus)
- You fall behind, not too far, but you're behind, do you change your style?(start playing more defensive/offensive, stop going for fancy edgeguards or cut out some new techniques you have been trying?)
- Games over, based on what happen (win or lose), what are you thinking about?("yes! I won, I got this, he's not very good", "crap, I loss, I don't think I can beat him" and everything in between.)
Match 2
- Based on how the last match went, what are you thinking about going into match 2? ("I noticed he was rolling/reading my rolls so let me adjust for that", "I need to gimp/not get gimped this time", "Hope I get lucky/hope he gets unlucky", etc. etc, anything that's going through your head)
- Do you change characters?(specific situations, or do you always change characters? do you pick characters to counter playstyles?)
- If you are in the position to counterpick, what do you base it off of? ("I noticed he was playing like this, I thought this stage would counter that", "I'm really comfortable on this stage, so I chose it")
- Match 2 starts, depending on how the last match went how are you playing?("I won last time so I'm kinda ******* around this time", "I loss last time so I'm playing a lot more careful this time", "I already know I'm gonna win/lose so I'm not really focused")
- Depending on how the match is going, you're winning/losing, how's your mindset?("When I'm losing I kinda give up since I'm already a match behind.", "If I'm winning I get excited and lose focus")
Match 3(if)
- Last match, you've played your preferred characters, your preferred stage, how are you feeling?("I'm pretty confident I can win, I'll focus to be sure", "I got lucky 1 match, don't think I can win now", "I've figured out his playstyle and he doesn't seem to be switching it up, I got this", "Juss happy to have taken a game off him")
Post-set
- Depending on if you won or loss, what are you feeling?(did you surprise yourself? did your opponent surprise you? are you happy/mad? reviewing your mistakes?)
Misc. Questions
- What character(s) do you use in tournament matches, and when (fox when I'm serious, falcon when I'm not)?
- Are you constantly adapting new techniques, are juss trying to perfect the basics?
- Does your playstyle vary from friendlies to tournament? Do you play 'better' in one versus the other?
- What are some things you think a lot of people overlook, when it comes to winning?
- What would you say the main aspect of your playstyle is? Tech skill/mindgames/reading?
- Who was/is the most influential smasher to you?
- Whats up with your name, why did you choose it?
- What is your personal favorite technique to use in a match?(technical or psychological, either one )
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Also! If you have any questions you would like to ask to the smash community feel free to make it noticeable at the bottom of your post
[EDIT] MAKE REQUESTS
request someone you wanna see take this interview and I'll put em on blast up here on the OP!!
nickname not required, but highly recommended!
EVERYBODY
is encouraged to participate, I made this thread mainly for myself, so I personally could learn about every type of smasher out there, if you're a pro, if you're a noob, if you're some where in between, if you can answer some of these questions, DO IT!!
R.I.P. NES n00b - a great smasher, a great person, fondly remembered forever.
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