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Competitive Super Smash Bros. Melee Discussion Thread

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LucidMomentum

Member
chaosblade said:
Getting one of those Sewell HDMI adapters. Those are supposed to be legit, my TV is probably too laggy even with that but my monitor should be fine. Curious to see how that works out.
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Let me know how it goes! I want one and a $150 ASUS 1ms GTG monitor for taking to events. Set it up with a Avermedia LGP and let it record away during friendlies.

Also to everyone worrying about a GameFAQs or whatever poll, remember melee is almost two decades old at this point.
Most people have moved on apart from the die hard fanbase.
 
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chaosblade

Unconfirmed Member
Anth0ny said:
i mean... there's popular and then there's beating out Mario World, Mario 64, Pokemon RBY and possibly Melee on the gamefaqs vote thingy.

I had no idea there was THAT much popularity and hype behind the game right now.
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Looking at the predictions I'm going to guess there's a 4chan/reddit/something gag going on with it.

LucidMomentum said:
Let me know how it goes! I want one and a $150 ASUS 1ms GTG monitor for taking to events. Set it up with a Avermedia LGP and let it record away during friendlies.
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Based on what I've read, with a fast enough monitor it's supposed to have less than 1/5 of a frame of lag. Which isn't quite CRT level but in practice it is effectively* lagless. I have a VH236H which should be sufficiently fast.


*effectively, because even CRTs aren't all the same and aren't truly lagless. Once you start getting into subframe accuracy things get weird.
 
Acerac

Acerac

Banned
Anth0ny said:
i mean... there's popular and then there's beating out Mario World, Mario 64, Pokemon RBY and possibly Melee on the gamefaqs vote thingy.

I had no idea there was THAT much popularity and hype behind the game right now.
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It's surprisingly good.

I mentioned earlier that I had voted for Melee over it, but Melee is one of a handful of games that I would choose over Undertale. Really something special.
 
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Codeblue

Member
Anth0ny said:
i mean... there's popular and then there's beating out Mario World, Mario 64, Pokemon RBY and possibly Melee on the gamefaqs vote thingy.

I had no idea there was THAT much popularity and hype behind the game right now.
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There's always some weird drive going on for these GameFAQs polls. Last one I remember was some League hero winning best character.

Not that Undertale isn't a phenomenal game. It's just not that popular and would have drowned in the first round without some concerted effort.
 
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theprodigy

Member
Genesis 3 numbers:
Melee-1588
Smash 4-852
Smash 64-181

Melee is now less than 300 away from Evo 2015, and this is also now the 2nd largest Smash 4 tournament of all time
 
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emb

Member
theprodigy said:
Genesis 3 numbers:
Melee-1588
Smash 4-852
Smash 64-181

Melee is now less than 300 away from Evo 2015, and this is also now the 2nd largest Smash 4 tournament of all time
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When is the registration cut off?

I could see it matching up to Evo's number by the end of things.
 
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Daouzin

Member
Tomohawk said:
Aww sheet!!! that's amazing. Hopefully it crosses 2000 but i doubt it.
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I think it might.

Also. Smash 4 is such a disappointment. Could you imagine all these announcements for a game that felt like Melee/PM?

I'll download all the new characters, but I doubt I'll play either of them for more than a week.

I think Smash 4 is fun, but I'm mostly done with it at this point. It's a great game, but there are a lot of great games.
 
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chaosblade

Unconfirmed Member
Daouzin said:
I think it might.

Also. Smash 4 is such a disappointment. Could you imagine all these announcements for a game that felt like Melee/PM?

I'll download all the new characters, but I doubt I'll play either of them for more than a week.

I think Smash 4 is fun, but I'm mostly done with it at this point. It's a great game, but there are a lot of great games.
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I'll probably download the characters (and Dreamland) once there is a full character bundle. And if it costs too much I might wait until it's discounted. Haven't bought any DLC for it, but why would I buy DLC for a game I haven't played since last December.
 
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Pappasman

Member
Daouzin said:
I think it might.

Also. Smash 4 is such a disappointment. Could you imagine all these announcements for a game that felt like Melee/PM?

I'll download all the new characters, but I doubt I'll play either of them for more than a week.

I think Smash 4 is fun, but I'm mostly done with it at this point. It's a great game, but there are a lot of great games.
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Ya this is where I am at too. When the last characters came out I got them and played for about a week.

I just don't like the game that much, despite all the cool DLC characters.
 
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emb

Member
LucidMomentum said:
I'm gonna main Bayo and make people hate her. That is all.

Knuckles Mii costume is a punch in the balls after seeing the PMDT's work.
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I really hope PM didn't die for this.

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Pappasman said:
SFAT just got sponsored by CLG.

Is pewfat the first sponsored team?
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Ken and KDJ teamed for a while, but I guess PewFat would be the first that was a team before getting sponsored. It's good, that's exactly what should happen. Next let's see Alliance get Android!
 
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chaosblade

Unconfirmed Member
Fortunately, I doubt that was it :p Even the official Sonic twitter gave them a semi-thumbs up. And if it were, they could have just dumped Knuckles and the Sonic alts anyway.
 
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Codeblue

Member
chaosblade said:
I'll probably download the characters (and Dreamland) once there is a full character bundle. And if it costs too much I might wait until it's discounted. Haven't bought any DLC for it, but why would I buy DLC for a game I haven't played since last December.
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Has Nintendo DLC ever gone on sale?

I've been waiting for a discount on Awakening DLC for years.
 
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Anth0ny

Member
Daouzin said:
I think it might.

Also. Smash 4 is such a disappointment. Could you imagine all these announcements for a game that felt like Melee/PM?

I'll download all the new characters, but I doubt I'll play either of them for more than a week.

I think Smash 4 is fun, but I'm mostly done with it at this point. It's a great game, but there are a lot of great games.
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Pretty much where I'm at.

Maybe someday we'll get the Melee 2 we so strongly desire, and when Sakurai announces playable Goku and Master Chief for that game, I can truly get excited :)
 
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xezuru

Member
I'm watching what looks to be a dorm tourney stream of PM.
It's a land with zero techskill and Marth forward smashes tear through the universe.
It's like I'm in a time machine, dey keepin the hype real tho.
 
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chaosblade

Unconfirmed Member
That bottom row would have everyone screaming. The character choices. The disorder. Everything about it is "wrong" and breaks the "rules." But here we are.

So uh. Where are they going to fit two more characters? Because I only really see room for one, unless they drop the random button.
 
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fredrancour

Member
chaosblade said:
That bottom row would have everyone screaming. The character choices. The disorder. Everything about it is "wrong" and breaks the "rules." But here we are.

So uh. Where are they going to fit two more characters? Because I only really see room for one, unless they drop the random button.
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I believe the 3ds version added a "additional characters" tab that goes to a second page containing the dlc characters. It ran out of room with cloud's release and chose this solution. Might be about to happen to wiiu when the rest drop.
 
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Quenk

Member
fredrancour said:
I believe the 3ds version added a "additional characters" tab that goes to a second page containing the dlc characters. It ran out of room with cloud's release and chose this solution. Might be about to happen to wiiu when the rest drop.
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That works for the 3ds because only one person will be using the character select screen. On WiiU I don't want to switch to a different tab when up to 7 other players are picking their character and want to pick from the first tab.
 
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fredrancour

Member
Quenk said:
That works for the 3ds because only one person will be using the character select screen. On WiiU I don't want to switch to a different tab when up to 7 other players are picking their character and want to pick from the first tab.
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True true. hmm well people have been complaining about obnoxiously tiny text on game screens since the hd era began. perhaps we'll be enjoying the era of obnoxiously tiny smash icons soon.
 
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FZZ

Banned
Westballz vs. Wobbles

GF set 1 & 2

WHEW

Wanted Weston to win it, but dear lord was it back and forth. Wobbles earned it as much as I hate to say it.
 
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fredrancour

Member
Jesus the wobbles/westballz sets took the throne of "came closest to exploding my heart" for 2015.

I need to go back in the vod tomorrow and see how much easier, if any, wobbles' life would have been if he had just resorted to his namesake immediately at every opportunity instead of making things interesting. With how weston was mashing out of seemingly-unmashable things a couple times, I guess maybe wobbles's quest to style out of grabs instead has now had a practical benefit.
 
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theprodigy

Member
Bumping this thread with Genesis 3 registration numbers:

Melee-1769 (+19)
Smash 4-1010 (+16)
Smash 64-210 (+4)
Total players registered-3030

Melee is exactly 100 away from matching Evo 2015
 
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fredrancour

Member
Pappasman said:
What was the set recently that armada lost? It was an upset but i can't seem to remember who he lost too.
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you mean vs Hbox at dreamhack winter? I don't think he's lost a serious set to any non-top 6 people in approximately eternity, and before this his last lost serious sets were, what, leffen like 6 months ago?
 
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Crocodile

Member
Not sure where else to put these so this thread seemed like the best place:

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Smash Characters wearing the colors or logos of the E-Sports teams to which noteworthy players who use them belong to

- Team Liquid Jigglypuff (Hbox)
- TSM Fox (Leffen)
- Alliance Peach (Armada)
- C9 Falco (Mang0)

Source
 
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theprodigy

Member
oh man I can tell that the plan of giving 32 Smash 4 players byes through pools at Genesis 3 is going to be a riot, can't wait for crazy regional bias to kick in and comparatively weaker players to get a spot and 0-2!

anyway registration update

Melee-1777 (+8)
Smash 4-1022 (+12)
Smash 64-211 (+1)
Total players registered-3060 (+30)
 
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sinxtanx

Member
Crocodile said:
Not sure where else to put these so this thread seemed like the best place:



Smash Characters wearing the colors or logos of the E-Sports teams to which noteworthy players who use them belong to

- Team Liquid Jigglypuff (Hbox)
- TSM Fox (Leffen)
- Alliance Peach (Armada)
- C9 Falco (Mang0)

Source
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requesting Youporn Ganondorf
 
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Daouzin

Member
The Smash community sort of exploded with the Round 1 bye info announced. I think this was mostly for Smash 4, but for Melee I didn't have any strong opinions. I think it should have been something like top 32, because after top 25, it gets kind of murky, but I do believe having top 32 players available for side events is much more valuable and makes the competition in the pools significantly more exciting.

Did anyone have a strong opinions regarding this?
 
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emb

Member
I don't think it's such a big deal as people make it.

Doesn't seem like it'll really impact the bracket at all. Upsets that far down are pretty rare in Melee.

But if I'm SSJxMarthMasterx3000 (I am ^.^) and I'm paying 50 or 100 bucks to go to Genesis and enter (though I'm not), I would really like to have a shot at playing against someone relevant. I guess Genesis is big enough that top 32 or 64 removed still has enough 1st seed big names to go around for everybody though.
 
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LucidMomentum

Member
Yeah on the one hand I think everyone should have to slug it out in pools, regardless of who you all. But, round one byes mean more people get chances to play without getting destroyed by pros, in a sense.

Speaking of TO'ing, I reserved a room on campus for the end of the month but to get the cost reasonable I have to make venue fee free to students and "ask" for donations. Not to mention I can't charge for tournament entry due to the school requirements.

Trying to find new venues / run tournaments has just been a pain in the ass. I need to drop it for a while and focus on Bad Blood in February.
 
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theprodigy

Member
Daouzin said:
The Smash community sort of exploded with the Round 1 bye info announced. I think this was mostly for Smash 4, but for Melee I didn't have any strong opinions. I think it should have been something like top 32, because after top 25, it gets kind of murky, but I do believe having top 32 players available for side events is much more valuable and makes the competition in the pools significantly more exciting.

Did anyone have a strong opinions regarding this?
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For Smash 4 it gets difficult after like the top 10.

seriously you could've taken #23-#42 on the initial seeding list, randomized it, and the resulting order would be no better or worse than before

edit: Happy New Year for everyone on the continental US now!

Genesis 3 registration update

Melee-1779 (+2)
Smash 4-1037 (+15)
Smash 64-217 (+6)
Total players registered-3096 (+36)
 
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theprodigy

Member
AGDQ time boys!

also another Genesis 3 update real quick

Melee-1790 (+11)
Smash 4-1053 (+16)
Smash 64-221 (+4)
Total players registered-3136 (+40)
 
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