Hey all. Short and sweet post (I always say that but it’s probably true this time) today. As you may know, lloD and I had to drop out of Smash’n’Splash at the very last minute due to a family emergency. In fact, we were in the middle of the pre-SNS bracket they were running… and […]
Read moreCompeting in Melee and Ultimate Simultaneously
Ultimate has been out for a few months now and has taken up the majority of the time I can dedicate to smash. The game is a lot of fun and I’m pretty optimistic about its merit as a competitive game. But trying to improve at the game with everything else on my plate is […]
Read moreSmash Ultimate, and 2019
Part three of my turn-of-year recap. Smash Ultimate Since DPOTG, I have played Melee once. For 20-30 minutes. The rest of the time, I’ve been playing Smash Ultimate. The full month I went without playing Melee is maybe the longest I have gone without playing in years. I quite literally cannot remember the last time […]
Read moreDon’t Park on the Grass
Part two of my “end-of-2018, beginning of 2019” review. Part one was my Summit write-up. Don’t Park on the Grass 2018 I decided at the last minute to attend DPOTG. I was free that weekend and wanted to be at the first big Ultimate tourney. Another big draw for me was that SFAT agreed to […]
Read moreSmash Summit 7
Hello readers old and new. Been a while since I’ve made an update here and I have a lot to say, as usual. Since my last post, I freaking competed at Summit, Ultimate came out, I went to Hawaii with my family, and now it’s 2019. This was initially supposed to be a recap of all those […]
Read moreFall 2018 (Shine, Big House, Summit Campaign)
The last couple of months have been a whirlwind. In August, I would stare at my calendar and count the number of weeks and days until Smash Ultimate’s release, wondering how I would pass each week… all that time went by like a blur. For one thing, I feel like I didn’t have a September […]
Read moreSummit Voting Incentives
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Read moreSSC 2018
Like I mentioned in my last post, there was too much to say to combine both EVO and SSC into one write-up, so here is part two of the August chronicles. I was feeling pretty good off my EVO performance. I’d taken the Monday after off from work in order to have a low-key travel day […]
Read moreEVO 2018
I skimmed through my post on EVO 2017 before writing this and boy are there a lot of parallels. Just goes to show that our habits as players and people tend to repeat themselves, and we can always learn from our past experiences. I’m going to try and make a better habit of reading through my […]
Read moreA Note on “Baseline”
Over the last year and a half I’ve found myself taken with the idea of “improving my baseline.” The goal would be to have a “baseline” strong enough to avoid ever being upset in bracket. For the most part, I actually got really close to this goal – if you look at wins and losses […]
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