Smashicality!
So yesterday there was a campus-wide Smash Bros. Melee tournament. I mentioned something along these lines earlier.
We ended up having 18 teams with a pretty good diversity of pairings. The only duplicate team was Marth-Roy; there were two of those. Other good teams were Marth-Ness and Sheik-Falco. I played Peach and was teamed with my roommate, who played Fox or Jigglypuff and switched up a couple times. My other roommates played Sheik and Sheik (actually worked surprisingly well).
This time it was more competetive than the previous tournaments. This time ’round, several players were pretty darn good. I was surprised that we managed to beat everyone that we did.
We managed to beat all comers in the first bit of the tournament and then played against our roommates for champion of the undefeated bracket. We lost, with their last life at 120%.
So then we played our way through the losers’ bracket. By this point, almost every other match had been played already, so we had to play 4 matches back-to-back. There were a couple close calls, but we clawed our way back to the top somehow.
Then, naturally, we had to face our roommates again. No change of strategy, but this time we managed to win by a fair amount – 3 lives total. Of course, that meant that we had each lost once, so we still had a final match.
All I can say is that it was incredibly intense. I was the first one out, as John – the best in our room – has managed to get beating me down to a science, and made sure I wasn’t around to survive and throw turnips.
This left my teammate in the ring, with 60%. As Jigglypuff against two Sheiks, who had a combined 3 lives. Although I thought he didn’t stand a chance, I cheered him on.
He took out one with a nice edge-guard, took out John’s last life with a lucky well-timed kick, and then Jiggly-slept to win the match at 130% damage. If they’d have hit him, he’d have been toast.
That may have been the most intense game-playing experience of my life. It was lots of fun, and I really hope there’s another tournament before I graduate.