CaviarMeths
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Thought this thread bump would be due to people still shitposting about Smash. But it looks like The Hero We Need has been snuffed. :'(
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Is this guy who played Smash for a year the most dominant eSports player in history?
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StoppedInTracks
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One of the funniest threads in gaming side for a while.
Thanks, GAF.
Thanks, GAF.
CaviarMeths
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Been to Grey Cup once, but never really got into Clock Stoppage: The Game. Smash is more interesting to me.
Forkball confirmed for touch of death on anything's chances. First Takamaru, now ZeRo. What's next? :lol
spazchicken
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I wasn't watching either. I was watching the best sport: hockey
You were watching grown-ass men throw a ball around? smh
We have to put it all in perspective.
55 Smash tournaments in a row is of course nice. However, when you do hear that that is all within a single year, it makes you step back a moment and ask - how many of those tournament wins really just had terrible competition? I don't think anyone is questioning if he is one of if not the absolute best Smash 4 player in the world. I don't see anyone arguing that he isn't, nor that 55 wins in a single year (tournament wins) isn't impressive.
It's just that there have been 2 or 3 others that had several years of impressive wins in competitions where you knew they were playing the best of the best. Essentially - if in 4 years he can claim he's won every major Smash 4 tournament there is, including the grand daddy of them all - alright, now he's up there in rarified air.
He's doing something special right now, no doubt. But most people only really care when he's doing that special something against the very best - of which (based on the tournaments he's been in), he's really only done that maybe twice this year, and honestly most only really count the ONE tournament as the grand daddy (the super bowl), because that one single tournament has the best players from all over the world.
Basically - he's damn good, one of the best, maybe even the best at the game he plays. But there are others who have been dominate for much longer periods of time.
Obviously this could bring up the question of just how good the Smash 4 tournament players are... like world wide. That he seems to win so easily. But I'll leave that be because it's really hard to judge that. When Tiger Woods was dominating golf, no one was his equal but that didn't mean other great players weren't playing. The field didn't diminish him, so I wont' use that argument here.
However, he needs to beat the best players of Smash 4 consistently in the biggest tournament before most will start to be really impressed.
The nice thing, however, is that Smash 4 is being taken seriously for tournaments anyways. I thought we'd never move off Melee (not htat Melee has stopped, but clearly Smash 4 is going to overtake it years down the road).
55 Smash tournaments in a row is of course nice. However, when you do hear that that is all within a single year, it makes you step back a moment and ask - how many of those tournament wins really just had terrible competition? I don't think anyone is questioning if he is one of if not the absolute best Smash 4 player in the world. I don't see anyone arguing that he isn't, nor that 55 wins in a single year (tournament wins) isn't impressive.
It's just that there have been 2 or 3 others that had several years of impressive wins in competitions where you knew they were playing the best of the best. Essentially - if in 4 years he can claim he's won every major Smash 4 tournament there is, including the grand daddy of them all - alright, now he's up there in rarified air.
He's doing something special right now, no doubt. But most people only really care when he's doing that special something against the very best - of which (based on the tournaments he's been in), he's really only done that maybe twice this year, and honestly most only really count the ONE tournament as the grand daddy (the super bowl), because that one single tournament has the best players from all over the world.
Basically - he's damn good, one of the best, maybe even the best at the game he plays. But there are others who have been dominate for much longer periods of time.
Obviously this could bring up the question of just how good the Smash 4 tournament players are... like world wide. That he seems to win so easily. But I'll leave that be because it's really hard to judge that. When Tiger Woods was dominating golf, no one was his equal but that didn't mean other great players weren't playing. The field didn't diminish him, so I wont' use that argument here.
However, he needs to beat the best players of Smash 4 consistently in the biggest tournament before most will start to be really impressed.
The nice thing, however, is that Smash 4 is being taken seriously for tournaments anyways. I thought we'd never move off Melee (not htat Melee has stopped, but clearly Smash 4 is going to overtake it years down the road).
After the football games I saw today, I'd rather have watched the grown-ass men play a party game.
Holy shit. I've never seen this! LMAO!
Then why is he using a 4:3 monitor?
CadetMahoney
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BigBadShamoo
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Enter the tournaments. That's all there is to it.
I doubt you'll be able to attend all of them especially if they are on opposite coasts but whatever.
55 is still impressive. And I'm sure no player goes there with the intention of losing.
I doubt you'll be able to attend all of them especially if they are on opposite coasts but whatever.
55 is still impressive. And I'm sure no player goes there with the intention of losing.
I play a little casual smash but don't really watch it. This is hilarious to me though, what makes your sitting-on-your-ass-having-zero-input hobby more worthy of someone's time than spectating smash games?
Cool facts like this are why I love GAF.