Smash Bros. Melee General Discussion - Page 159

Upsets:

• Envy (Puff) > Ice
  
• JSalt (?) > s0ft

• WR1:
• Xif (Peach) > Wobbles
• Drunksloth (ICs) > DruggedFox


• WR2:
• n0ne > Colbol
• Gravy > Nintendude


• LR4:
• Iori (Peach?) > Nintendude


• LR5:
• Iori (DK???) > Over


• WR3:
• n0ne > DJ Nintendo


• WR4:
• n0ne > Professor Pro: great set.

Other interesting results:

• WR2:
• The Moon > Javi: The Moon continues to take sets off great spacies.
• Wizzrobe > Over: Wizzy makes a case for being the best Falcon vs Sheik (he's probably still a bit behind S2J, but close). Over looked kind of lost.
• Prof Pro > Fly: Prof continues to show how good he is vs ICs, while Fly is looking a bit rusty.


• WR3:
• ESAM > The Moon: The Moon continues to not know anything about mid/low-tier matchups.


• LR4 (loser gets 17th):
• Ice > Colbol: Colbol looked a little sloppy, but boy was Ice solid (ha, ha). Colbol getting 17th is sort of a big surprise, but his results tend to have quite a bit of variance.


• LR5 (loser gets 13th):
• Javi > Wobbles: Does Javi even have ICs practice??
• DruggedFox > Ice: Ice, who imo is easily top 15 in the world, got 13th. Wow.


• LR6 (loser gets 9th):
• The Moon > Fly: Despite The Moon sucking vs mid-tiers, he's still somehow good vs ICs. ???


• LR7 (loser gets 7th):
• DruggedFox 3-1 The Moon: Not an upset, but notable because Moon is good vs Sheik, and DruggedFox doesn't have that many notable Marth wins yet.


• LR8:
• Javi 3-1 ESAM: Javi beats a Samus, avenging his Apex 2013 loss! (and loses a game as Sheik vs Fox)

• Stock up:
• DruggedFox: Scalped 3 Peaches, 3 Foxes, 3 [distinct] Falcons, and a Marth in losers en route to his title.
• n0ne: wins over Colbol, DJ Nintendo, and Professor Pro are some of his best wins yet.
• Iori: Nintendude and Over are really solid wins.
• JSalt: dang dude, where'd you come from?


• Stock slightly up:
• Javi: beat Drephen, s0ft, Wobbles, JSalt (??), DJ, ESAM, lost to The Moon and DruggedFox. Lots of solid wins, but the only real doubts here were Wobbles and maaaaybe ESAM.
• ESAM: Beat The Moon but got outclassed by Wizzy and Javi. Had a high placing with not many impressive wins.
• XIF: I thought he retired or something, but then he beat Wobbles. Peach-ICs, but still.
• Drunksloth: The Next Big ICs™ is being hyped up by Florida. His bracket record was W DruggedFox L ESAM L Wobbles, so we can't draw too many conclusions there, but DruggedFox is a good big-name win.
• Gravy: Beat Nintendude, I guess.
• Articanus: Not really a national threat (yet), but decent regionals wins (Flamin Roy, Een, Envy) en route to 17th.


• Staying steady:
• Wizzrobe: Over was his only really impressive win, and his millionth rematch with DruggedFox looked waaaay worse than usual.
• Professor Pro: Good win vs Fly, bad loss vs n0ne, got wrecked by DruggedFox.
• DJ Nintendo: meh. Beat .jpg, XIF, and Iori on his way to the least inspiring 7th place ever.
• The Moon: good at the matchups he knows, bad at the rest. Apparently beat DruggedFox really bad in the one game he took, but lost 3 pretty close ones.


• Stock slightly down:
• s0ft: Pools loss was bad. Losing to Javi is ok I guess.
• Fly Amanita: He's been taking a break, so he's clearly not at peak form. Professor Pro and The Moon are both good vs ICs, but Fly's definitely not at his 2014 top-15 level, as evidenced by his scare vs Kaeon (NC/NY Fox).


• Stock down:
  • Ice: Losing in pools to Puff... oof.
  • Wobbles: Hopefully he'll start taking the game more seriously again?
  • Nintendude: RIP
  • Overtriforce: Bopped by Wizzy, then lost to Iori's DK? Oof.
  • DruggedFox's ICs matchup: come on Sami you can do this. He even wrote about the ICs matchup and how he's feeling more confident about it lately, thanks to his strong shielddrop game. I didn't see the match, so I'll try not to judge until I can see it, but... a loss is a loss.
  • ICs: Fly was the highest placing ICs player at the tournament at 9th. (Wobbles 13th, Nintendude and Drunksloth 17th, Sharkz 33rd). Very interesting that no ICs placed top 8 despite the volume of strong ICs players at the event.