To clear up some confusion:

1. This is a very real, serious competition. Each of our competitors is a serious gamer, and they all have been tirelessly practicing Mario the past few months in preparation for this showdown.

2. We'll be playing a hacked version of SMB3 which is considerably more difficult than any official Mario game. Play will begin starting from the first level of the fifth world.

3. VODs of each individual player's gameplay from last year are available, but since they may reveal key techniques, you'll have to personally request them from the players themselves.

ilovejonn

Canada2548 Posts

August 26 2011 03:29 GMT

#29

go Goose!

Mikilatov

United States3897 Posts

August 26 2011 03:30 GMT

#30

I'm going to have to echo the confusion of the others here...

What the hell is this exactly? At least some (if not all) of it is obviously exaggerated, but which parts? So confused. Is it just like you and your buddies, or what?

GoShox

United States1835 Posts

August 26 2011 03:31 GMT

#31

On August 26 2011 12:23 justdweezil wrote:
Who the hell is ShoX and why isn't he playing in SC2 tourneys if he's such a little boss?

No respect for the future 2011 World Mario Champion

LordOfDabu

United States391 Posts

August 26 2011 03:32 GMT

#32

Last year's topic: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=135679

Fighter

Korea (South)1531 Posts

August 26 2011 03:37 GMT

#33

Is this for real? I really can't tell.

I feel like it's at least partially true, but I'm... I'm really not sure how much of it.

pieisamazing

United States1234 Posts

August 26 2011 03:38 GMT

#34

On August 26 2011 11:33 Redmark wrote:
I can`t tell if this is an actual thing or not. Like obviously a goose didn't put up 20k, but are they playing with one (a goose)?

Holy shit is this a real post

LordOfDabu

United States391 Posts

August 26 2011 03:47 GMT

#35

Can't believe I'm last in the poll when I won last year. =(

Zedders

Canada450 Posts

August 26 2011 03:50 GMT

#36

On August 26 2011 12:47 LordOfDabu wrote:
Can't believe I'm last in the poll when I won last year. =(

Cuz old

BisuDagger

Bisutopia19154 Posts

August 26 2011 03:50 GMT

#37

Are there any VODS from last year? If so, post em plz!

LordOfDabu

United States391 Posts

August 26 2011 03:59 GMT

#38

Unfortunately I think the livestream purge ate what vods we had

(This used to be the link of the vods/commentary) http://www.livestream.com/abomination/video?clipId=pla_57e5b33b-91e6-48ec-81b1-da8de457cb93

I do have the first person of *my* perspective for the second half: http://www.livestream.com/dabu/video?clipId=pla_35bec27e-6ca7-44d1-9b82-615ccc286c85

but I'm not sure that's actually worth watching since you can't see any of the other competitors and you can't hear any of the commentators.

endy

Switzerland8970 Posts

August 26 2011 04:02 GMT

#39

The competition is real for sure. It's just the description of the participants that is totally surrealistic.

.Aar

Korea (South)2177 Posts

August 26 2011 04:10 GMT

#40

On August 26 2011 13:02 endy wrote:
The competition is real for sure. It's just the description of the participants that is totally surrealistic.

That kind of ruins the whole thing, though. People who aren't familiar with the scene (ie me) will see those descriptions, then pull a OH IS THIS LIKE AN ONION ARTICLE OR SOMETHING HAHAHA 80K FOR MARIO CAN'T BELIEVE I BOUGHT THAT.

If this is a srs bsns competiton, I would advise to have more srs bsns for people like me (who I'm guessing was your target demographic, considering you posted this here and not, say, in some SM mod/hack forum).

Cool stuff, though.