March 1, 2008

• 3.1/2008
  
  

  I decided not to go to the SMASH tournament...but I went to the Halo 3 tournament at Spelman. I won without much effort. (Won $25 towards buying SMASH Brawl.) I did see some interesting things today.

  1) Cocky SMASHERS
  -There were a few arrogant SMASHERS. The first was a Sheik user. This kid claimed to have beaten me yesterday. "What?" I said. "Yeah, you were the guy using Peach, right?" He responded. He then turned around as if I wasn't worth his time. Arrogant prick. Add this arrogance to the fact that his friends were hyping him up to the be the best Sheik player alive.  I found a television, tapped him on the shoulder and led him to his controller. We played five stock, his Sheik versus my Marth. Long story short: I beat him with two full lives to spare. He walked away without saying a word.

  -The second guy actually found me. Immediately after I beat the Sheik kid, another guy (sitting right across from me in fact) looked at me and said confidently, "My Peach could take you." "What? Did you say Peach?" I laughed. "Peach?" I asked again. "Yep." He responded. I laughed again. We ended up playing, and I chain-threw him to hell. He ended up forfeiting because he realized how the match would end.

  2) Girl Gamers
  -I guess I'll never get completely used to this. They weren't too good at Halo, (They were legit 20-somethings) but they seemed to be pretty sick at Rock Band. This girl, named Jasmine, played the drums as if she did in real life. It almost made me sick to watch them play. I guess we'll probably be playing something in the future, because we exchanged Gamertags to play Halo, Rainbow Six:Vegas, or something.

  3) One Random but Good Halo Player
  -He arrived too late for the tournament, but I played him none-the-less. We weren't able to finish our match, but it was definitely back and forth for a while. (Although in the end I was wining by about six kills.) It was one of those good matches where you get to pull out all of the stops. For example, I realized that he liked to abuse the sword on me. What I then did was kill him with my BR, take his sword, and grab a bubble shield. If I felt threatened, or wanted to corner him, I could drop the bubble shield and either wait or jump him. I'll probably play this kid later 2v2 with Cliff. That should be fun.
  
  I hope they have another one of these video game nights at Spelman.

  
  

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  Here are the reasons why I didn't enter the SMASH tournament.

  First, the tournament creator was playing in his own tournament. This is a weak reason not to play however. The second reason, perhaps the most persuasive reason not to play, was because the winner was not necessarily decided by the last man standing. Chad, the creator and contestant, was also the judge. The judge could arbitrarily determine whether someone who had the most kills, but lost, "won" the match. This is crap for a variety of reasons: Chad is a biased judge since he's playing himself, and, additionally, the whole concept of the judge negates the skill involved in winning completely. I don't pay money to play in ignorant tournaments.

  Chad is a noob. End of story.
  

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