-ACT Smash-
Feel free to use this thread to ask questions, get to know people, organise meet-ups, discuss future or past events and ACT Smash in general.
Smash events in Canberra are Bring Your Own Controller but if you forget or are unable to someone will usually be able to help you out. Please also remember that while it's not essential bringing equipment (Wii Us, Gamecube adapters, monitors, TVs, CRTs, Wiis, Gamecubes, powerboards, etc.) is greatly appreciated and helps events become more smoothly run and enjoyable for all involved.
Upcoming Events:
Confirmed dates for future Capital Smash events:
Capital Smash 20 - 30th of October
Capital Smash 21 - 4th of December
Rise of the ACT 17 - Wednesday 19th October
WHERE: The Australian National University, room MORAN G007
WHEN: Doors at 6pm, friendlies and registration until 6:45, tournament starts at 7pm
COST: $5 entry, no venue fee
WHAT: Smash 4 Singles, possibly doubles/low tiers later
Rise of the ACT 18 - Wednesday 26th October
WHERE: The Australian National University, room MORAN G007
WHEN: Doors at 6pm, friendlies and registration until 6:45, tournament starts at 7pm
COST: $5 entry, no venue fee
WHAT: Smash 4 Singles, possibly doubles/low tiers later
Capital Smash 20 - Sunday 30th October
WHERE: The Australian National University, room JD102
WHEN: Registration from 10am-11am, singles at 11am. Full schedule available on Facebook.
COST: $5 entry per event, no venue fee
WHAT: Singles and Doubles for both Smash 4 and Melee
Weekly Smash Meetup at ANU for any Smash or Non-Smash Game!
When: Every Thursday from 6pm until late
Where: Room MORAN G007, ANU.
Cost: This event is free of charge and is suited for both regulars and newcomers alike.
Join the Facebook group for more information and updates on the Smash scene in Canberra:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CanberraSmashPlayers/
10/18/2016 02:22:05
Was cool playing with everyone today; I'd upload the videos I recorded, but I forgot that I turned the music off on my setup when I play at home, so I'm gonna need to put music to it all first. Should have it done by the end of the week.
11/01/2015 11:00:41
11/01/2015 11:00:41
People should come to this, one of the last chances to learn how to not drown in pools before BAM. ;)
04/22/2016 03:15:56
04/22/2016 03:15:56
3 additional guests have been added to the star-studded lineup.
Killy - #1 on the Sydney PR, this impressive Sonic main has had his tournament life extinguished by our very own Waveguider on both occasions they have encountered each other in tournament so far. Will Capital Smash 13 be his chance for redemption?
Atyeo - This red hot Fox player will be using this tournament as preparation, hoping he can go one better than his commanding 2nd place finish at last year's BAM 7. Since November he's beaten Earl, MM, Shitashi, Randy, Patv, KuroganeHammer and Scarpian, as well as all the ACT suspects, including taking a set off of Waveguider at Final Fight 2.
Skry - The artist formerly known as Apollo has flown under the radar for a lot of people, but at Capital Smash 13 he will be looking to solidify his place as a top Australian player. Boasting wins over Jezmo, Waveguider, Jaice, Atyeo and Flex in the last year, this will be his first opportunity to show how he compares to the best of NSW.
04/24/2016 13:18:41
Killy - #1 on the Sydney PR, this impressive Sonic main has had his tournament life extinguished by our very own Waveguider on both occasions they have encountered each other in tournament so far. Will Capital Smash 13 be his chance for redemption?
Atyeo - This red hot Fox player will be using this tournament as preparation, hoping he can go one better than his commanding 2nd place finish at last year's BAM 7. Since November he's beaten Earl, MM, Shitashi, Randy, Patv, KuroganeHammer and Scarpian, as well as all the ACT suspects, including taking a set off of Waveguider at Final Fight 2.
Skry - The artist formerly known as Apollo has flown under the radar for a lot of people, but at Capital Smash 13 he will be looking to solidify his place as a top Australian player. Boasting wins over Jezmo, Waveguider, Jaice, Atyeo and Flex in the last year, this will be his first opportunity to show how he compares to the best of NSW.
04/24/2016 13:18:41
haha what kind of nimrod would think I am hoping to place better than 2nd this year with internationals present
04/25/2016 02:51:01
04/25/2016 02:51:01
With VIC seeding, anything is possible
04/28/2016 01:30:07
04/28/2016 01:30:07
EIS-DUON said:
With VIC seeding, anything is possible
04/29/2016 10:14:00
Umeki vs 9B round 1 please
04/29/2016 10:20:23
04/29/2016 10:20:23
However, you may be wondering: What about the non-notable players? Well here I am to fill that gap, and let you know about some of those names that you have no reason to have heard of, unless you are those people themselves. And you're going to see these names, and _not_ think "Aw shit yo! That guy! I'm gonna come to CS13 because they are".
Tila - Ranked #1 on the "Good Attitude" PR, this Pacman player will show you how to get to the ANU bus stop and how to get to the venue from there if it's your first time. He's achieved some good results, managing to take 8th place in pro bracket at CS12 which makes him a pro who will be #8 on the upcoming ACT PR because that's how it works. However he has suffered some disappointing losses lately, such as losing to Zowayix's Ganondorf at Rise of the ACT #4 (who loses to Ganondorf? Come on dude, you must be some kind of fraud). Could this be his chance to take back what reputation as a good player he might have had, or whatever? Is he going to salty suite Zowayix for a pizza?
Elamari - The other other Mario player in the ACT, and the underdog favourite. Looking at these QLDSmash results, he's gotten 13/16 = 0.8125 in CS11 amateurs and then 9/13 = 0.69230769230792 in CS12 amateurs (by intimidating his first opponent from showing up to the set), so if we extrapolate from that data set, at CS13 we expect him to get xth place out of y entrants = 0.5721153846153839, and let's say there's 16 people who don't make it out of pools, so he'll get 9th place or so. And that's not factoring in the training session today which should bump his skills up enough to take maybe 8th place. No pressure. Only from the FLUDD if customs were on.
Zowayix - Elamari's doubles partner, this occasional cosplayer (not this time, sorry) was thought to be the most exciting player to watch based on his Mewtwo vids getting lots of views on the ACT Smash YouTube channel, but then it turned out it was because he posted them on /r/crazyhand to get advice. Somehow he managed to get good results like 3rd place in CS12 amateurs, and 4th place at that one low tier tournament the other day that QLDSmash won't let Pazx upload or something apparently (with his Ganondorf secondary which isn't even that good and how the hell does an allegedly pro player like Tila lose to it?). Maybe this time he'll actually sleep properly, eat a good breakfast, bring a water bottle, or otherwise run out of excuses for being shit.
Also for those of you who missed the Twitter post, he will give free hugs upon request to any CS13 entrant. Isn't that a nice bonus?
Joey - #2 on the Good Attitude PR or maybe we changed our minds and he ended up being #1 instead of Tila. I forgot. Anyway, this Little Mac player is too nice to make it out of pools even though he could, because it means he wouldn't stick around in amateurs to give people advice whilst he's playing against them. I hope that's not against some kind of coaching rule. Anyway, he's actually pretty good, he got 1st at CS12 amateurs. So that's pretty sweet.
Ember - This Corrin player is probably the only one in the ACT who bothers maining Corrin, or maybe there's someone else, but who cares. She's better than she looks, managing to get not last place at Rota3 and Rota4, and she seems alright in friendlies/Thursday meets I guess. CS13 is her first 'proper' tournament, where she will hopefully continue her not losing streak, and maybe gain a bit of Elo in the process.
Could there be more coming as well? Well, yeah, I'd imagine so, but I don't specifically know that they're coming or not, and I'd look dumb if it turned out they weren't and I listed them here, so I refrained from making those kinds of assumptions. Anyway, I'm pretty sure these ones are at least.
04/30/2016 04:48:07
Tila - Ranked #1 on the "Good Attitude" PR, this Pacman player will show you how to get to the ANU bus stop and how to get to the venue from there if it's your first time. He's achieved some good results, managing to take 8th place in pro bracket at CS12 which makes him a pro who will be #8 on the upcoming ACT PR because that's how it works. However he has suffered some disappointing losses lately, such as losing to Zowayix's Ganondorf at Rise of the ACT #4 (who loses to Ganondorf? Come on dude, you must be some kind of fraud). Could this be his chance to take back what reputation as a good player he might have had, or whatever? Is he going to salty suite Zowayix for a pizza?
Elamari - The other other Mario player in the ACT, and the underdog favourite. Looking at these QLDSmash results, he's gotten 13/16 = 0.8125 in CS11 amateurs and then 9/13 = 0.69230769230792 in CS12 amateurs (by intimidating his first opponent from showing up to the set), so if we extrapolate from that data set, at CS13 we expect him to get xth place out of y entrants = 0.5721153846153839, and let's say there's 16 people who don't make it out of pools, so he'll get 9th place or so. And that's not factoring in the training session today which should bump his skills up enough to take maybe 8th place. No pressure. Only from the FLUDD if customs were on.
Zowayix - Elamari's doubles partner, this occasional cosplayer (not this time, sorry) was thought to be the most exciting player to watch based on his Mewtwo vids getting lots of views on the ACT Smash YouTube channel, but then it turned out it was because he posted them on /r/crazyhand to get advice. Somehow he managed to get good results like 3rd place in CS12 amateurs, and 4th place at that one low tier tournament the other day that QLDSmash won't let Pazx upload or something apparently (with his Ganondorf secondary which isn't even that good and how the hell does an allegedly pro player like Tila lose to it?). Maybe this time he'll actually sleep properly, eat a good breakfast, bring a water bottle, or otherwise run out of excuses for being shit.
Also for those of you who missed the Twitter post, he will give free hugs upon request to any CS13 entrant. Isn't that a nice bonus?
Joey - #2 on the Good Attitude PR or maybe we changed our minds and he ended up being #1 instead of Tila. I forgot. Anyway, this Little Mac player is too nice to make it out of pools even though he could, because it means he wouldn't stick around in amateurs to give people advice whilst he's playing against them. I hope that's not against some kind of coaching rule. Anyway, he's actually pretty good, he got 1st at CS12 amateurs. So that's pretty sweet.
Ember - This Corrin player is probably the only one in the ACT who bothers maining Corrin, or maybe there's someone else, but who cares. She's better than she looks, managing to get not last place at Rota3 and Rota4, and she seems alright in friendlies/Thursday meets I guess. CS13 is her first 'proper' tournament, where she will hopefully continue her not losing streak, and maybe gain a bit of Elo in the process.
Could there be more coming as well? Well, yeah, I'd imagine so, but I don't specifically know that they're coming or not, and I'd look dumb if it turned out they weren't and I listed them here, so I refrained from making those kinds of assumptions. Anyway, I'm pretty sure these ones are at least.
04/30/2016 04:48:07
this is a good shitpost
04/30/2016 05:57:27
04/30/2016 05:57:27
So, the results of my hype predictions:
Tila - Unclear if he cleared his name as being a fraud, because whilst he beat Zowayix's Mewtwo in bracket, he lost to his Ganon several times in friendlies. He did not challenge Zowayix to a pizza match.
Elamari - Looks like he didn't get 8th place, and got 13th place instead. Zowayix failed as a coach.
Zowayix - Whilst he brought a water bottle and ate a *fulfilling* breakfast, did not achieve the get a good sleep part whatsoever. As such, got shite results. Fuck 2 stock. I blame 2 stock. Nobody requested the free hugs, but some got them anyway.
Joey - Looks like he didn't make it out of pools from what I can tell, but his motivation was in fact because he was leaving early anyway because he had a life outside of Smash Bros. What the fuck? Who has a life outside of Smash Bros? Like one of those 'social life' type things. The fuck is this shit? That ain't right.
Ember - Got tied for last place, whoops. Probably won't lose too much Elo because of your opponents, dunno. I'm not yet aware how your pool was.
Pros:
- Had fun
- Got there on time
- Managed to bring a setup and Elamari had a setupless monitor, dat team synergy
- Duck Hunt was banned so I didn't have to strike it
- Met Saucydancer-senpai
- Got to play against Saucy-senpai by virtue of being in his pool
- Got Saucy-senpai's autograph
- Hugged Saucy-senpai
- Successfully used the telling opponent "I'm going to pick rock" and then picking scissors mindgame
- Had some great friendlies where it was discovered that 1-stock random customs on walljump practice custom stage is the best metagame
- Got a Ganoncide in tournament (I think)
Cons:
- Holy shit the fucking weather at lunchtime, what was up with that fucking wind?
- Didn't money match anyone
- Didn't gentleman's rule pingas stage
- Didn't gentleman's rule random customs (what the hell Tila why would you not accept, I thought we were bros)
- Didn't face Zac in bracket and he would have gentleman's ruled random customs if I did
- Fuck 2 stock
- Did not sleep well last night or at all the night before, which adversely impacted my gameplay
- I wasn't really feeling Mewtwo today, which may have something to do with the sleep, but it didn't occur to me that the 2 sets I used Ganon were the ones I won and all the other ones I lost and I picked Mewtwo, maybe that should have told me something but eh. Maybe Mewtwo just requires more sleep to work effectively, but... hmm.
- Elawayix team got bodied in doubles, I'm not salty and I didn't expect two players with miniscule doubles experience would win anything on their first day of doubles, but it's not exactly a pro so it goes in this section
- Fuck this fucking two stock bullshit fuck BAM and fuck people who want to practice for it, fuck it's the worst fucking format I was so fucking close to winning some games and sets but fucking two stock fucking held me back and fuck what is this shit. You won't let people upload low tier tournaments because the ruleset's too much different but presumably uploading two stock events which are going to fuck my Elo in the arse are okay? Fucking fuckety fuck fucks.
- Pretty much all of my hype predictions are wrong
- Amateur bracket was a bit weird in the afternoon because of some last-minute adjustments that had to be made
- Forgot to ask Saucy for advice after the set fuck fuck fuck I should probably try and do that retroactively now
Overall rating: Yeah it was still pretty cool, could have been cooler, but most of those cons were just my own problems. Except for 2 stock, fuck 2 stock.
05/01/2016 10:43:12
Tila - Unclear if he cleared his name as being a fraud, because whilst he beat Zowayix's Mewtwo in bracket, he lost to his Ganon several times in friendlies. He did not challenge Zowayix to a pizza match.
Elamari - Looks like he didn't get 8th place, and got 13th place instead. Zowayix failed as a coach.
Zowayix - Whilst he brought a water bottle and ate a *fulfilling* breakfast, did not achieve the get a good sleep part whatsoever. As such, got shite results. Fuck 2 stock. I blame 2 stock. Nobody requested the free hugs, but some got them anyway.
Joey - Looks like he didn't make it out of pools from what I can tell, but his motivation was in fact because he was leaving early anyway because he had a life outside of Smash Bros. What the fuck? Who has a life outside of Smash Bros? Like one of those 'social life' type things. The fuck is this shit? That ain't right.
Ember - Got tied for last place, whoops. Probably won't lose too much Elo because of your opponents, dunno. I'm not yet aware how your pool was.
CS13: The Overall Review Experience Thing I'm Tired and Can't Words
Pros:
- Had fun
- Got there on time
- Managed to bring a setup and Elamari had a setupless monitor, dat team synergy
- Duck Hunt was banned so I didn't have to strike it
- Met Saucydancer-senpai
- Got to play against Saucy-senpai by virtue of being in his pool
- Got Saucy-senpai's autograph
- Hugged Saucy-senpai
- Successfully used the telling opponent "I'm going to pick rock" and then picking scissors mindgame
- Had some great friendlies where it was discovered that 1-stock random customs on walljump practice custom stage is the best metagame
- Got a Ganoncide in tournament (I think)
Cons:
- Holy shit the fucking weather at lunchtime, what was up with that fucking wind?
- Didn't money match anyone
- Didn't gentleman's rule pingas stage
- Didn't gentleman's rule random customs (what the hell Tila why would you not accept, I thought we were bros)
- Didn't face Zac in bracket and he would have gentleman's ruled random customs if I did
- Fuck 2 stock
- Did not sleep well last night or at all the night before, which adversely impacted my gameplay
- I wasn't really feeling Mewtwo today, which may have something to do with the sleep, but it didn't occur to me that the 2 sets I used Ganon were the ones I won and all the other ones I lost and I picked Mewtwo, maybe that should have told me something but eh. Maybe Mewtwo just requires more sleep to work effectively, but... hmm.
- Elawayix team got bodied in doubles, I'm not salty and I didn't expect two players with miniscule doubles experience would win anything on their first day of doubles, but it's not exactly a pro so it goes in this section
- Fuck this fucking two stock bullshit fuck BAM and fuck people who want to practice for it, fuck it's the worst fucking format I was so fucking close to winning some games and sets but fucking two stock fucking held me back and fuck what is this shit. You won't let people upload low tier tournaments because the ruleset's too much different but presumably uploading two stock events which are going to fuck my Elo in the arse are okay? Fucking fuckety fuck fucks.
- Pretty much all of my hype predictions are wrong
- Amateur bracket was a bit weird in the afternoon because of some last-minute adjustments that had to be made
- Forgot to ask Saucy for advice after the set fuck fuck fuck I should probably try and do that retroactively now
Overall rating: Yeah it was still pretty cool, could have been cooler, but most of those cons were just my own problems. Except for 2 stock, fuck 2 stock.
05/01/2016 10:43:12
saucydancer held me close and then pressed up on the control stick and i died
10/10 experience updated with cap smash dates for the rest of the year
07/12/2016 13:45:17
10/10 experience updated with cap smash dates for the rest of the year
07/12/2016 13:45:17
Obama did Capital Smash 18. Jet fuel can't melt steel beams. Also Rice of the ACT #10 was 10/10 would stay up past midnight when I have to wake up at 7am to get ready for work this morning playing Brawl again.
07/13/2016 15:06:29
07/13/2016 15:06:29
Pazx said:
-ACT Smash-
Join the Facebook group for more information and updates on the Smash scene in Canberra:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CanberraSmashPlayers/
Hey, I tried to join the Canberra smash group on facebook, and they blocked me.. I cant even see the page anymore. Why? Why the hell is it even exclusive? I just wanna get into the ACT smash scene
11/16/2016 05:38:15
ArcticFox said:
Pazx said:
-ACT Smash-
Join the Facebook group for more information and updates on the Smash scene in Canberra:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CanberraSmashPlayers/
Hey, I tried to join the Canberra smash group on facebook, and they blocked me.. I cant even see the page anymore. Why? Why the hell is it even exclusive? I just wanna get into the ACT smash scene
PM me your FB name and i'll add you to the group my guy
11/16/2016 10:58:02