EVO 2015 - Page 2

Before I spiel on my Fantasy picks, question regarding schedule: why does it say Quarters is on Friday and Top-32 is on Saturday? Does Quarters refer to pool bracket quarters?

Anyway, here's my Fantasy team: https://smash.gg/tournament/evo-2015/fantasy/5d00c910

1. M'boy Axe got me in to the game, and generally places well. Only safer pick at his price is Westballz, but I gotta back my boy.
   
   
2. Shroomed has been consistent for years, but lately he's been showing that with a top-tier character, he's only going up. Say what you will about the GOAT's form, the fact is he slept on DaJuan, and now Shroomed has a foot on the peak of Olympus.
   
   
3. Gotta rep that NorthWest pride. Not only is Silent Wolf a solid fox, he's one of our local heroes. He might not be from BC, but he's showed-up to our tournaments plenty enough, so a hero who's a hop-skip across the border I guess ain't all bad.
   
   
4. PewPewU... you know, I wasn't impressed with his recent showings, nay-saying all the people claiming he'd be a top placer at this year's nationals. Was I wrong? Nope. With school over, though, he's begun showing his top form again, and I'm looking forward to a top-13 placement easily. Top-8? Very probably.
   
   
5. Speaking of top form, Plup has been routinely impressed this year. He's long been a consistent high-placer, but with a new top-tier character under his belt a la Shroomed, he as well has been threatening Mount Olympus.
   
   
6. And again, on the Sheiks with "top form" -- well, uh, here's one without it. Just kidding! While KirbyKaze has shown fairly lackluster results over the last year, this Spring he started travelling a bit more to show us, "hey, I'm still here, and I'm not done yet." I believe we're going to see the David MacDonald of "olde" at EVO, so I gotta put some faith in my Canadian representative.
   
   
7. On representatives of olde, we have HugS, who's shown us in the last year not to sleep on the vets. He's been showing upper bracket places time and again at major tournaments, and while he is slotted to one character, he pushes past adversity regardless. At $130, I think the Upper Echelon Gatekeeper is a fantastic pick-up.
   
   
8. My original $70 pick was n0ne. I realized, though, that he hasn't shown quite as good a recent performance as Smash's own Thought-Hammer Tafokints. Tafo is such a likable guy that, with his recent showings, it's hard not to give him my vote. I realize that he might not place as well with literally every Smasher save the kitchen sink (M2K) competing, so think of this as my passion pick outside Axe (who's honestly just a good pick anyway.)
   
   
9. Ok, here's the real steal: Toph at $40. Toph. At $40?? WH-... WHO'S IN CHARGE OF THESE PRICES? WHO DID THIS? ARE THESE PRICES JUST RIPPED FROM LAST YEAR'S EV- actually I think these prices are just taken from last year's EVO. Seriously, though, $40 for a man who never not gets Top-32, and generally gets higher? Sold.
   
   
10. At $20, Flow I feel is a steal. While it's not guaranteed, I think it's a good bet he'll make the big bracket, and at the very least will hit top-50. Time will tell, but I have faith.
    
    
11. At $10 we have PC Chris...
    
    
12. ... And LovageFat Goku. $10. PC Chris. Fat Goku. Like, how could you not? (Lovage had a tough bracket; changed to Fat Goku.)
    

I had Wobbles at a "steal," too -- but then I found-out he's going only Mario in this tournament. You have faith in his Mario? I ruminated over the idea for a while, but in the end it turned-out that I did not, in fact, have faith.

Otherwise, I personally went for as many Top-13 contenders as I could, whereas you only really have two guaranteed. I feel the rest of my line-up, while not guaranteed, have a good chance of hitting Top-32 as well, even in the lower-priced range.