Choose your own Adventure: 1: Stop -- To colloborate and listen, turn to 26. To hammer time, turn to 31.

Alright, time for the tourney wrap-up post by Pete. If Vlade uploads the videos, my shameless plug will hopefully catch more viewers, especially since he agreed with my shameless plug. All hail the power of free advertising!

So, as you may or may not know, last Sunday was We're Starfox 3 - Katina. Though a few regulars couldn't turn up (Ric in particular, as well as Glenn, Alex and Elton), the hatches were most definitely open for relatively new faces. Technodeath turned up to his second tournament to pledge allegiance to the dark lord Ganon, and Dax, Jesusface and Fractal all showed up as well. Doubles started things off with a bang, since Team Godot was no more complete, and Sam instead teaming up with Mic to make the mighty Corpsewang. The finals ended up with Jupz and Vlade playing against Corpsewang, with Corpsewang coming from the loser's bracket after being defeated by Masked Love Bandits. They took MLB down in the loser's finals, bringing Sam back for a chance to win doubles. They won the first set, but alas, Vlade and Jupz won the day and took doubles, eluding to a possible dethroning of the great Sam today.

After a lunch break in which Corey revealed to the SQUAT crew he'd be joining them there (causing a particularly hype lunch break), singles kicked off, with Alzi, Ghnaschnakoff, Trill and Corey entering, having been too cheap to enter doubles. First round was particularly uneventful, because everyone and their dog got byes, but second round lead to a clash of godlike proportions, one that has yet to happen so far. After Sam created a corpse out of Trill, he played against the mighty Level 9 Luigi, who'd defeated Bye easily in the first round. Luigi put up a huge effort in game 1, barely losing, before counterpicking Pirate Ship in game 2. Sam, however, accidentally took the match to Luigi's Mansion. He quit the game, but as Luigi was okay with the stage, it was considered a forfeit of game 2, ending in the Pirate Ship game 3. Luigi put up in a good effort, but in the end, fell into the loser's bracket. While I didn't get to see much else in round 2, due to losing my voice while commentating Weegee's game and needing to go get a drink, I'm sure Alzi vs Jupz and Corey vs Trav were also high caliber games.

Round 3 came in instantly after Weegee's game, as Andy sat down, knuckles cracked, ready for the epic game ahead. First game resolved to stage striking, ending on Smashville, and while Weegee put up a good fight against the King of Evil, including a mighty Shin Shoryuken to Dorf's head to punish a whiffed dash attack, he fell eventually. Game 2 went to Rainbow Cruise, after Pirate Ship got banned, and Luigi took a massive dent in Andy's life as he did a 70% combo to Andy's first stock. He was ahead by a stock as the stage reset, but decided to throw it away in an act of overconfidence and SDd, and Andy pulled the game back and won from there.

Round 4, I didn't get to see much, due to having a long clash against Bob (good games, by the way, but I don't want to write about them since it'll seem selfish of me. Pity my Ivysaur sucks so much) but, by Andy's body language ('I beat Jupz!' with a huge smile on his face, caught by Kane's response of 'really?!' indicates it was hard fought). Since I then got eliminated, all the games on TV 1 I saw as part of the commentary team in our booth (there totally was a booth). By the way, I'd like to thank whoever called out for me to commentate Muzga vs Vlade, makes me feel like I'm special :D.

I managed to catch the end of Muzga vs Vlade, as Kane went off to play a game (how disrespectful to the commentary booth, actually playing in the tournament. Pffft). It was hard fought by Andre, but alas, Vlade showed why he's in the Falco backroom, and why he's one of our three chances at dethroning the Great King Sam, owner of Marteh. I'm sure you'll do a fine job at representation for WA at squat, Andre, especially if you get a bit more practice in beforehand. Preferably from someone who isn't Sam so you don't get read like a book.

Also round 4 was a disappointed Trav telling me of his heart-wrenching loss to Mar...I mean MFZB. He had a nice lead, he told me, until he SD'd and brought his run through the loser's bracket to an end, also letting me feel better about my loss to Marty, considering Ivysaur is pretty much an SD.

Next game I got to watch as Vlade vs Corpsecreate, in winner's semifinals. Really, there's not much I can say about this match now. Its happened a billion times before, you all know what happens. Lasers, arrows, bombs, gimp attempts, Sam avoiding death like he's a highlander. No offence intended to Vlade, since he's an infinitely better player than me, but there can only be one.

Kane vs Sam was up next, as winner's finals. Kane was clearly not playing at his full potential, initially because of being hungover and then because his anger at his own mistakes seemed to get the better of him and do rash mistakes. Sam took the match easily, and went into the grand finals. Kane vs Vlade was the next commentary game, with Kane seemingly still angry at himself, and, despite his knowledge of playing against Falco and Vlade in particular, he lost the game. Disappointing result for Kane, as he has defeated Vlade on prior occasions.

So, grand final was yet again Vlade vs Sam. My theory, that Vlade and Ric will alternate grand finals until one defeats Sam, is still completely intact. Same thing as every other time they play, yet again, with all the counterpicks being done as if they were second nature. I'm sure it'll be uploaded soon enough, anyway. Next time, I'll bring a video camera and do things with it, promise.

Shout-out time (copied from Andre, blame him if you're missing):

Jesusface: Good games in our matches, next time I see you, I'll give you tips on Falcon. As an ex-main and current secondary, I hope I can show you a thing or two.
Technodeath: Good games in doubles, disappointed in the effort I put in there. Good friendlies, as well. I'd probably play DK more than Ganon, if I were you, as it looks fairly good from the bits I saw against Bob.
Fractal: Didn't actually see you. No offence intended, but I have nothing to say.
Jesse: I'm sure I played against you at Kane's smashfest. Oh well, good friendlies, you'll be making t8 in no time.
Lvl 9 Luigi: King as always. Good luck at SQUAT, I'm sure you'll represent us well.
Trav: Didn't get to see you play, but you seemed heartbroken about that loss to Marty. Also, nice discovery for Brawl+ :P.
Mic: Didn't play you, only got to saw you in Corpsewang. You've got a nice looking Ganon on Pirate Ship, and your Ivysaur is pretty good for an Ivysaur. :P
Jason: We made a pretty good commentary team, eh :D? Although I didn't see it, I'm sure you didn't lose to Andy without a damn good fight, so better luck next time.
Bob: We have one real Shiek main, and two Pokemon Trainers, and you complain about lack of matchup experience :P? Doesn't seem fair to me, but eh. Good games, and hopefully you got all the knowledge you need from my laptop.
Marty: I'll get you next time! :P
Graeme: Didn't really speak to you much, but you seemed funny as usual.
Dax: Good games in doubles, you gave me a ton of trouble in game 2. Keep working on the Ike and you'll be spiking everyone like a boss.
Alan: Didn't see you except when you were watching the finals, so got nothing to say. :(
Andy: Like you need a shout-out from me.
Luke: I got to see a bit of the ROB mirror, and didn't see enough spot dodge -> down smashes. It disappointed me greatly. :P
Corey: Good work on getting 4th at Brawl and SF4. Soon enough you'll be a fighting game king :P. Good luck at SQUAT.
Kane: Same as above, but drop the part about placing SF4 and change 4th to 3rd. :P
Alister: Pew pew lasers. Thanks for the recording equipment and letting me take Weegee's matches. Hope you enjoy Yugioh. If you had practice in between now and last tournament, I feel you would've done pretty damn well against Sam.
Samuel: All hail the great lord Sam, for when he doth descend from the heavens to win Brawl, thou shalt know his name.
Andre: Man, I'm retarded for forgetting you. Course you wouldn't be on your own list. :/ Anyway, I didn't play against you, and I didn't get to talk to you much before you left the commentary booth tired. Judging by your placing, you did fairly well for that state of awakeness, though.

EDIT: By the way, this little edit is almost entirely for Jupz. Remember that video of the black guy talking about maining the best you linked? I should've posted this then, but I lost the opportunity, so let's go now. That guy's Santhrax, one of the best in the world in MvC2, SF4 and Tekken. In none of those games he plays the best. In MvC2, the best team is Magneto/Storm/Sentinel. He plays Storm/Sentinel/Captain Commando. In SF4, Sagat is the best. He beat Daigo, the best in the world, with Cammy, a solid mid-tier character. In Tekken 6, the best is Bob. He plays Ganryu, a nearly bottom tier character. So, basically, regardless of what he says, he's a perfect case you don't need to play the best.