Just Melee stuff

I've been ITCHING to get back into writing. What a great sign, huh?

I guess I'll start with this weekend. I don't remember Friday, so I don't know if that is a good sign or not. I think I just hung out and watched over the house during our social event. Nothing crazy.

Saturday was pretty eventful. I had to go to a retreat for SAAC that wasn't nearly as bad as I thought. What was originally planned to go from 11-6 ended at around 2, so I used that extra time to play a whooooollleee lot of smash bros. I think I played for about 4 hours with Dan and Justin, the two kids at SUCO right below my skill level. It was a great session, where both of them were taking games off me the whole time. Another great sign, I cannot sleep on these kids at all. Improvement all around, I love it.

Saturday night was a small social event where I introduced a game to everyone and it ended up being a lot of fun. Black out board ended up being a perfect game for that crowd, and I think it brought a bunch of people together. The night ended at a decent time, and forcing Ashley to go out ended up working out. I just can't call her a "big ol bitch" anymore without triggering her. It's an inside joke, I'm not abusive.

Sunday was a tournament day, and for the first time in forever I had to travel 2+ hours by myself for a tourney. I wanted my boy Suarez to come (who would have easily swept 64 and Smash 4, making about 100 bucks. If John's reading this then I'm proud of you for studying) but he stayed home. I went to the tournament with no anticipation, no anxiety, no judgements. I just wanted to go and play my damned best, and I took some good games. I took down Barry Blaze and sans before losing to 2Saint, a player from my hometown that just started to go to school up here. It was recorded AFAIK, and it was a hell of a set. He recognized my tilting and seized momentum really well and adapted like a true professional. Expect great things from that kid.

After I lost, I had to play my good friend Pig, who took game 1 in typical fashion. I almost 4 stocked him on FD, also in typical fashion. Game 3 he took me to yoshi's, which seems silly but I like the spirit of it. It's just too good for fox, though, and I could still play my neutral with confidence so I ended up taking that game as well. I love Pig though he's the man. Me and him is the best team ever.

After pig was goodles, who has improved considerably. He didn't show any bad habits until his last stock, and his movement/neutral was way more refined from last time. If I were to lose to goodles now I would not be upset at all.

Goodles was a 2-0, then on to Jmook. Just to give some background information, Jmook has been winning these tournaments for while now. He dominates bing, he dominates Jteg (#1 player in upstate for years) and is just overall an amazing player. Last time I played him was at Jalepeno, and I double eliminated him. This time, we had a Losers Finals set that was Bo3.

The first game he won, the next game was mine. Game three I was down 3 stocks to 1 and made a sick comeback. I didn't pop off, though. I was just focused on Grands.

But grands wasn't even noteworthy! 2Saint decides to get drunk before we play our set, and I just toss him around. He gives up game 2 of set 1, and set 1 of game 2. Ok, I'll take the extra 33 bucks in my pocket. But I wanted a real rematch...

That time will come, I'm sure I will play him all the time.

So, I got 1st place in a pretty stacked tournament. I didn't feel CRAZY accomplished, but I can't take anything away from myself. I stayed composed, I played my best, and I got some good wins. I love melee so much.

I want to write more, but I think I wrote enough as it is. I need to spend a lot of today studying for my Geography test on Thursday, and those tests are hard as hell. It's a ton of information and will just be time consuming to study for, nothing too mentally draining. So maybe I'll be back on blogger later today to talk more about melee, or whatever.

Till next time.

Words I learned to spell: I was so far off from spelling ridiculous that I just replaced it with 'silly.'