Just got back from my Brawl tournament (they held it early at 2 pm). And I had a blast playing with Brawl again.
Adam (the employee) started setting up the tournament with a tournament mode and calling our names out and asking which character we wanted to use (throughout the whole tournament). I picked King Dedede for 2 reasons, he doesn’t die and because he is a badass. Well Adam screwed up and made it all CPUs instead of people so we had to go back again and do it. During this time I started to second guess my choice and maybe use Ike who might be easier to play with, but I stuck with my man (penguin) and chose Dedede again.
The tournament was filled with Fox, Ike, Shiek, Link, and Mario with a Pikachu, Wario, and Yoshi thrown into the mix. The rules were Wiimotechuk controller, 1 minute, no items, on Battlefield, so just pure skill for the players no items to interfere nor obstacles to mess with you. The first round saw some crazy matches including a Yoshi player who didn’t get hit at all, and he seemed pretty intimidating.
First round: Me (Dedede) vs Link
I started out by throwing out some Waddle Dees though the third ended up being an Inhale due to the B button sticking, I spammed Side-A and kept Link at a distance but close enough so he couldn’t use his weapons and I eventually got a KO with a Smash Up-A with about 45 seconds to go. Link then started taking over the match and got me to about 180% with 10 seconds to go. At this time I decided to avoid Link and I jumped up several times off the screen and wasted the remaining time.
Win
Second round: Me (Dedede) vs Pikachu
I wasn’t very intimidated by Pikachu, I was going to take advantage of my weight and just bully him, but Pikachu’s speed started to get the best of me and I got trapped in a combo early on and KOed. I came back fresh and spammed Side-A and Waddle Dees so he couldn’t run away from me and ended up KOing with a Side Smash which drew tons of “Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!” from the crowd. The match went to sudden death and Pikachu hit me about 3 times but I survived and threw a Gordo at Pikachu and won, I also became the crowd favorite, I was using someone unique and doing pretty good with him.
Win
Third round: Me (Dedede) vs Shiek
The crazy Yoshi player ended up losing to this Shiek so I was kind of worried, but Shiek never got me off the ground and I ended up getting a KO with a side smash which again drew the crowd’s attention. With about 10 seconds to go I started getting comboed so I escaped and flew off screen so he couldn’t KO me.
Win
Semi-finals: Me (Dedede) vs Fox
I didn’t want to face Fox at all, if someone was able to stay away and spam lasers I would get raped. This Fox player however wanted to combo me, which he started doing quite well and I was eventually KOed. I was getting frustrated and I accidentally killed myself when I was comboed off the stage, I hit Up-B but missed the stage. I was down with about 30 seconds to go, I ended up hitting a Side Smash and KOing Fox, but I was still losing with 15 seconds to go. Fox was running away and I couldn’t catch him but eventually he ran right into another Side Smash and I won with about 3 seconds to go.
Win
Finals: Me (Dedede) vs Mario
The previous round was Mario vs Mario and I was wholly confident I could beat him easily, this was the one match up I really wanted the whole tournament. However even if I lose I will advance because the kid was under 13, so now it was bragging rights and a trophy at stake for me. The match was rather uneventful, I grabbed the lead about 10 seconds in due to a Side Smash and he started to play super aggressive, but I spammed Side-A and kept him away from me, I ended up misplaying an Up-B (again, sigh) and the game was tied with about 15 seconds to go. I spammed a couple Waddle Dees and kept him by the edge of the stage and I dashed at him and hit A (THE DEDEDE TRIP!!!) and he was knocked off the stage, and started to recover, I charged up Down-B and put an exclamation mark on the tournament with a massive KO.
Win!!
I won the tournament everyone was surprised Dedede was that good and I was congratulated by everyone and even convinced several people to use Dedede when Brawl comes out. I went to the counter, got my trophy and certificate for going to the next round. I had tons of fun and actually plan on using Dedede a whole lot more when I actually get the game in hand.
And some props and slops:
+Dedede for never dying
+Dedede for giving me a phrase to use when each match started (It’s HAMMER TIME)
+Dedede for the awesome side smash
-Dedede for killing himself whenever I needed to use Up-B
-People for using the same 5 characters
