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Top 8 was insane! Filled with SDs, missed edgeguards and flubs, but incredibly hype. Watching as part of the audience was amazing.
Mango's run was of course unbelievable. Also never realized before how much of a factor the crowd is. The energy in the venue as top 8 started with sfat vs ice was crazy, and you could see sfat channel that into his play.
2016 is going to be such an amazing year for melee. Mango and PPMD look like they're both returning to form, Armada and Hbox look stronger than ever, Leffen will finally enter the fray again when his visa stuff gets fixed, and players in the 25-7 range continue to step their game up.
Best tournament to date
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Met my goals kinda, made it out of r1 pool in losers then went 1-1 day 2. I have so much to improve on, amazing event tho.
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All this almost winning from Mango will make the actual win bigger.
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my voice is shot after yelling on saturday + sunday
great performances by armada and mango ofc, and by axe/ice/nintendude/sfat on saturday.
druggedfalco showed it's the real thing. santi is the truth, though idk about his character choices esp vs macd. swedish is amazing but got destroyed by laudandus yet again. laudandus still can't beat samus. colbol still wrecks samus. leeland the hidden SD boss got some sick wins. silentspectre placed top 32... is this 2008?? connor/CDK is also amazing; glad he placed so high and avenged himself vs abate wizzy managed to beat lucky, which is a great win for him. arc quietly placed top 32 with wins over dudutsai, reason, toph, darkatma and zhu. alex19, who i always want to believe isn't that good, scored ridiculous wins over silent wolf and wizzy. ppu clutched out a bunch of sets vs top spacies. lord made top 32 by 3-0'ing gahtzu, who's supposed to be amazing in the ditto.
i'm a little disappointed about plup, silent wolf, and javi's performances (mike haze 3-2'd the latter, which is a pretty impressive win for mike.) wobbles got blown up shroomed had his worst performance in a long time, losing to nintendude and plup for 17th (and placing below both his norcal brethren for the first time in a while.)
both prince abu and 4% failed to make it into top 64 from pool H7... rip puffs that aren't hbox.
medz is amazing (beat ken) but got double eliminated by samus (duck and minty).
met a bunch of new people and a bunch of old friends, and even got to commentate sorta makes up for my own bad play (except in doubles on friday), ha
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