A short summary of Smash Ottawa Monthly #7

3 weeks ago I went with a couple of friends from our school to a Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament.

Heres pretty much how it went down.

First of all the rules are that only a set group of stages are playable, there are no items and each player gets four stocks (lives)

My match record was 2-3. I won 2 sets and lost 3.

The start of the tournament was comprised of friendly matches and pools. I won two sets and lost one in my pool.

The first player I played was a guy that stated this was only he second tournament. Even though this was my first he seemed just as nervous as I was, he wasn't experienced with playing against Yoshi (who I play as my main character) and I used that to my advantage to win. The next player used Fox, who is very fast and very good if the player has good technical skill. He noticed how nervous I was and beat me with at least a 3 life lead of the two out of three matches we played. Next I played a kid who was even more nervous than I was. He played Fox too, but wasn't nearly as good. And I preyed on his nervousness just as the last had on me.

Next were actual brackets. First I played SSF. A captain falcon main from Montreal that destroyed me. That disaster put me in the losers bracket. After that match I talked to PerhapsMan. A top 10 Yoshi main of Ottawa, I asked if we could play some friendlies and that I played as Yoshi too. He told me that he gladly would, but that we were actually matched up in the next bracket.

These matches I had were the most fun I had at the tournament. The first match went to Perhapsman with a one stock lead, the second match I somehow managed to win with two stocks thanks to some tricky and unpredictable moves. At this point I didn't even realize the crowd behind us huddled around the CRT screen. Then I realized that a Yoshi ditto doesn't happen very often, and im putting up a fight against a guy who is top ten. Unfortunately I wasn't able to take the tiebreaker and I lost the third match by one stock. A close set but I don't deny that he bested me. I spent the remainder playing friendlies with Perhapsman and other players.

It was fun and I'm definitely going to tournaments whenever I can now.