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Melee Thread (TOURNAMENT SPOILERS TO BE EXPECTED)
- Thread starter Stratos
- Start date
So after taking a hiatus from competitive Smash for a few months, I've decided I'm going to start playing Melee competitively. Before my hiatus I was mostly playing Smash 4 (since Brawl died) and a bit of 64/P:M, but I'll be going to a Melee tournament tomorrow night and starting next week I'll be hopefully attending smashfests and meet-ups for the game. I plan on playing Peach and Marth. I'm gonna get bodied but I know I'm gonna have fun.
Melee is so, so, so much fun to watch and I will forever root for aMSa and maybe one day he'll get a major win at a tournament and it'll be the happiest day of my life.
Ok, here we go
As for predictions, Armada is the overwhelming favorite in my mind. PPMD is really the only person who is consistently successful against both of Armada's characters, and he's notably the only god not in attendance. Mango tweeted about the possibilty of breaking back Jigglypuff to improve his dreadful results against Armada's Peach, but I think he'll save that surprise for EVO. Leffen is another easy pick for top 3 who is really only liable of getting upset by Marths (after nearly losing to PewPewU at I'm Not Yelling), but the only notable Marths in attendance are M2K (who has been recently inactive and unfocused due to splitting time with streaming and Smash 4) and Tai (who doesn't have a win of that caliber to my knowledge). If you like mid-tiers, Axe is likely to do some damage on his home turf, and Wobbles was good enough to make EVO top 3 despite being a somewhat inconsistent player.
MVG SANDSTORM PREVIEW
Basics:- April 18th (today) and 19th, in Arizona
- Melee, PM, and Smash 4
- Bracket, schedule, and stream
- Notable Players: Armada, Mang0, Leffen, Mew2king, JimJamFlimFlam, Hungrybox, Axe, Wobbles, Westballz, MacD, HugS, Gahtzu, PC Chris, Forward, Tai, Medz
As for predictions, Armada is the overwhelming favorite in my mind. PPMD is really the only person who is consistently successful against both of Armada's characters, and he's notably the only god not in attendance. Mango tweeted about the possibilty of breaking back Jigglypuff to improve his dreadful results against Armada's Peach, but I think he'll save that surprise for EVO. Leffen is another easy pick for top 3 who is really only liable of getting upset by Marths (after nearly losing to PewPewU at I'm Not Yelling), but the only notable Marths in attendance are M2K (who has been recently inactive and unfocused due to splitting time with streaming and Smash 4) and Tai (who doesn't have a win of that caliber to my knowledge). If you like mid-tiers, Axe is likely to do some damage on his home turf, and Wobbles was good enough to make EVO top 3 despite being a somewhat inconsistent player.
http://www.twitch.tv/mvg_league
sandstorm is happening NOW with mango, hbox, leffen, and armada, among others
but no, u just have to check /r/ssbm, which is probably the best subreddit ive ever seen
sandstorm is happening NOW with mango, hbox, leffen, and armada, among others
but no, u just have to check /r/ssbm, which is probably the best subreddit ive ever seen
Note that m2k dropped out of melee singles due to a supposed seeding dispute. It's also worth mentioning that /someone/ entered his smash 4 doubles team as "don't hate me because I'm autistic." The running of the whole tournament has been questionable (the steam was down for most of day 1) but I hope it ends well.
Also Axe just beat leffen for the first time ever, leffen won't have an easy road coming through losers.
Also Axe just beat leffen for the first time ever, leffen won't have an easy road coming through losers.
Having beaten leffen, axe has now taken out all three of the "undergods" in a tournament, but PP, Mango, and especially Armada still seem pretty far out of his reach, his play wasn't perfect he just caught leffen sometimes and PP/Armada don't make spacing mistakes.
the M2K thing is a real shame, i think he's a bitch for quitting especially now that hes sponsored (by a real sponsor) but what they did with his s4 doubles team is also unacceptable
the M2K thing is a real shame, i think he's a bitch for quitting especially now that hes sponsored (by a real sponsor) but what they did with his s4 doubles team is also unacceptable
M2K is clearly fifth in a group with armada/mango/leffen/hbox but that doesn't change the fact the stream and onsite TOing have been suspect. Multiple players have noted on twitter that the steam isn't the worst of it, and meanwhile we watched 8 minutes of an impossible matchup (wobbles/armada) while axe/s2j happened offstream.
M2K said on facebook that he didn't drop out because of a seeding dispute, but because he wasn't feeling it and he wanted to focus on Smash4. So someone's lying...
It was hilarious when the power went out in the Grand Finals match, that event was nothing but a mess.
It was hilarious when the power went out in the Grand Finals match, that event was nothing but a mess.
http://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/35e31h/tournament_thread_press_start_2015_day_1/
reddit has everything tbh.
reddit has everything tbh.
Wait, really?
#ssb is all smash 4 talk unfortunately
but like most of the tournaments crowd is melee fans
