The actual numbers and list went to further decimal placings, the only characters that ended up dead even were Jiggs and Falcon, which seems about right to me. There were other small things, but we felt that the hundreths place was not significant enough to warrant it being a topic of debate.
I personally voted mainly by character ability, but I also based alot of it off of tournament placings, when I was either not sure or tournament placings simply outright disproved my initial opinions.
For instance I really think that Fox and Falco are basically the two best characters in the game, but the fact of the matter is that Marth has always done better in tournament, so I voted Fox Marth Falco.
I think Jigglypuffs jump is appropriate. It isnt just mango. Before Mango it was King, and right now Mango and Hungrybox have been doing well enough to warrant such a jump in the tier list. They certainly have outplaced every CF player at those tournaments. And aside from chudat, all other IC players. I think it also reflects her new developments in the metagame. Where there are better edgeguarding strategies and new interesting rest strategies.
Peach has always been in that Limbo of better than the rest but not quite top 4. She has always had middling top placings at tournaments, and I feel that nothing has changed in her metagame to warrant a drop or rise. I mean before it was sastopher and Mike G placing like 5th or so. Then Wife came in for a bit, and in 2005/2006 Vidjo and Xelic were doing hot. Then in 2007/2007 Vidjo and Xelic still did nicely, and I also jumped in there with some top 32 placings and 9th at TGMTSBCO. But there hasnt been any peach player coming in suddenly and doing far better than before unlike with jiggs and mango/hungrybox. It's always been new players maintaining her level of dominance.
The only things I personally disagree with largely is the big gap between Sheik and Falco (there are simply far more Good falcos than sheik), and the gap between Doc and Mario, and Ganon being a bit too low. For the most part, mid tier needs a revamp to something like:
Ganon
Doc
Luigi
Mario
DK
Maybe ganon right below samus or something, because chaddd, linguini, and before that Thomas Tipman (emphasis on tipman) have done well. You also have Kage, and he gets special mention for 3 stocking plairnkks sheik =)
But for the most part everyone in the backroom was fairly pleased. That is certainly a rarity nowadays, to say the least. Everyone had small qualms, but I think the tier list was the first topic of debate that didn't turn nasty <_<;
Well, there's always M2K, but he's delusional. He's sooner have Jigglypuff in her own broken tier with Sheik at the top after that.
I wish that was a joke.
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It's also good to see Ice Climberas and Jigglypuff so high.
