why can't i forget that this EVO happened!? ;_; it still hurts.
I'm not even a mango fan (go mew2king!!), but i disliked this top 8. It's melee, so it obviously had some great moments, but, overall, it was disappointing.
At times, top 8 felt like i was just watching armada vs hungrybox
I don't find armada's fox particularly entertaining to watch in that matchup. Generally, that's not a huge problem because it's exciting to watch hungrybox trying to catch those campy foxes (b,b,b,b,b,b > up thow > upair :/). However, for some unknown reason, hungrybox ruined everything. What annoyed me wasn't that hungrybox decided to camp, it's that it was both frustating and boring to watch him throwing away any lead that he got by going to the ledge. It could be seen right at the start of some matches: match starts, hungrybox kills armada, then he goes to the ledge, eats percent, and finally dies without having used what remained of his first stock... ?? Lead wasted.
Let's forget about mango for a second. PPMD was kinda disappointing and he hadn't played against hungrybox's puff in a looong time. Personally, i was confident that hungrybox was going to crush both him and plup in losers, so that hungrybox could lose to armada a second time xD That's one of the reasons why i was disappointed with the result of hungrybox's match against mango.
Then there's the mango vs hungrybox match. I would have been perfectly ok with mango losing, if i had felt that hungrybox actually defeated mango. All he did was winning on his counter pick. At that point, the score did say 1-1, but tha's not telling the whole story. Then he had to play on mango's counterpick and, frankly, from what we saw, it was painfully obvious that mango would have won without the second SD.
Had mango advanced, top 8 could have been saved. Like i previously said, i didn't think that plup nor ppmd were going to have a close set with hungrybox (conveniently, they didn't
2-0 and 3-0 respectively). However, Mango vs plup or mango vs ppmd would have probably been more back and forth. So i think that, without hungrybox, the losers bracket matches would have been way better + plup and ppmd would have had a bigger chance of playing armada and giving us a more entertaining/less repetitive grand final. Also, mango vs armada would have been amazing.
The worst part of all this is that i don't know if it was the best who won or not. And i don't think that it's that unfair to say that. Last year, it was really dissapointing that we didn't have a chance to see mango vs armada. However, unlike this year with mango vs hungrybox, hungrybox took armadas stocks by himself, two times (he didn't sit down and watched his opponent kill himself
). First in a best of 3 and then in a best of 5. So, last year, it was easier to accept that we weren't going to see more of armada. This year, it felt like we didn't even have a chance to see mango (although, in reality, we had two, as he lost to both plup and hungrybox).
To me, this top 8 felt like a huge missed opportunity. I'm starting to sound like a mango fan, so hopefully mew2king comes back soon ;D
