10 year old girl attends Smash Bros WiiU event. Beats several top West Coast players.
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SparksterMeta0
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Hard to believe this is for real.
Think she's ready for the big leagues (e.g. Evo)?
KittenMaster
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Are the big leagues ready for her?
Who else did she beat?
Because I don't think D1 is considered a "top" west coast player is he? He's more known for commentating.
You can watch her beat Xzax and Sky in the other video. ZeRo was in attendance, don't know if he played her. There were a lot of pros there.
Noah was 8 years old when he beat several top players in UMVC3. And he is quite skilled in other fighting games.
Kayane was around the same age when he was beating up on top players in Soul Calibur 2 which she became world champion before she was 13 at one point.
Jayce the Ace was less than 16 when he beat several top players in SFIV.
There is a very young, around 13 years old Filipino Tekken player who made it to the Global championship. There is also another young Tekken player around the same age who is also as good.
Sonic Fox is 16 years old, started earlier than that and he has won several majors in several fighting games in the last two years.
I can list more and more young competitive gaming prodigies. It isn't far fetched to see a 10 year old kid play Smash at a very high level.
Oh man, lol
She beat a Marth, and a Diddy too. One of the players she took a match off of was Sky with a Diddy ditto.
Anyway, I'm more impressed that she was able to play Diddy that well after picking Diddy up cold. As in never playing the character before.
Also, I'm dispointed that nobody made a Karissa Explains it All joke yet.
Coreda
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She won me over at the start trying to get some support up •‿• And the guy in the background, 'I can't believe it... this is real life...'
KittenMaster
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I had thought about it... but there was nothing to explain: everyone got destroyed.
theprodigy
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actual players, since people are asking:
Xzax got 17th at Apex 2014 for Brawl, however assuming that he was the Robin in the first two matches he didn't actually lose a game (I can't tell who's playing which games here?)
Sky's highest placing at a major was 17th at MLG Raleigh, however that was 4+ years ago, his most recent one is 97th at Apex 2013 and 13th in doubles at Apex 2014
and D1 is a great commentator but not a good player, the other matches and apparently picking up Diddy on the fly are more impressive
Xzax got 17th at Apex 2014 for Brawl, however assuming that he was the Robin in the first two matches he didn't actually lose a game (I can't tell who's playing which games here?)
Sky's highest placing at a major was 17th at MLG Raleigh, however that was 4+ years ago, his most recent one is 97th at Apex 2013 and 13th in doubles at Apex 2014
also isn't this dude a LoL person
and D1 is a great commentator but not a good player, the other matches and apparently picking up Diddy on the fly are more impressive
Krappadizzle
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I just want to point out all these kids sound cool as fuck. I can only imagine being that good at something at that age.
Heavy's Sandvich
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I was going to make a similar comment :'(
Bboy AJ
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I appreciate the videos. They're awesome. But you're being a little ridiculous. They're cheering for the player they want to win. How is that disrespectful?
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Kacho
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No its really not a button masher.
This is probably the most adorable thing ever. Props to the kid. Truly impressive gameplay.
She was actually quite good. It makes me wonder how many defeats I've suffered in For Glory to 10 year olds...
LOL this
All of them were Karissa practising.
Seriously she picked up Diddy after watching a game? She's basically Ender.
No, he doesn't and no, it isn't.
I bet I don't even know how to do that crap even if I knew what they meant, guess I should look it up.
Cosmic Dreams
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Wait where / when was this?
I don't see how something like wouldn't be surprising, otherwise we'd see it happen fairly often.
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thepotatoman
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That's all very interesting.
I'd also add Starcraft 2 player Life to the list. Life played his first televised match when he was 15, and is probably the best starcraft 2 player there is now at the age of 17.
And there's obviously chess, with a bunch of examples, most notable probably being Bobby Fisher starting to show up on the scene at age 12 and becoming a grandmaster at age 15.
She's not beating actual top players quite yet, but I really hope she sticks with the scene because she very well might someday soon.
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Firmus_Anguis
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Haha, this is just too good! :-D
Is Mango the dude who used to let people win because he liked them too much?
Last Saturday, At a Gamestop in West Hollywood.
This is amazing.
great job
So you found a way of feeling superior to everyone involved without knowing anything about the subject matter
great job
Yeah, my favorite part of the video is how she is not phased at all and just turns around and gets some support for herself.
I would like to add that Mangnus Carlsen, the world champion in 2013, became grandmaster at 13.
You might be thinking of Isai? I know Wife said in the Smash documentary that he thought Isai used to let the other person win, just because he'd rather see the other person be happy that they were advancing than be sad that they lost.
I don't think Mango has ever really let people win to my knowledge.
Cosmic Dreams
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Aw man. Could've went to this! Was this posted on GAF?
Also, that girl will probably go far with smash if she keeps it up. It'll definitely make the tournament scene more interesting if she stays consistent and makes it to the finals.
You're right. It was Isai who had the really good Falcon when he tried.
I think Mango was the crazy partying dude.
You're just salty because your not in the game
Ssshh, there might be some truth to it.
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