ZaplinG said:
As you can see, only two names were switched. The person whom I think you are referring to that was excessively mad about this actually came up to me during the LAN very angry about how rigged the brackets were. He ended up all the way in the semi-finals (#8 Dekoa). Did he leave out that part when talking to you?
It couldn’t have been the same person. He quit in the first round.
ZaplinG said:
Also, you use the description of “cheap obsessives who only come to play one game, abuse every glitch, ect…” in a negative manner. Do you not do that in any game?
Hell no. Have you ever heard of sportsmanlike behavior? The guy who beat me did so because he was better, not because he was cheap. I have no problem with that. What I do have problem with are folks who I see twice a semester showing up and talking about how Smash is their life and how they are better than 99% of players out there. Then they have their characters flip around the stage like a jackass so nobody can catch them. Wavedashing is a completely unethical form of gameplay and a large number of people I talked to at the LAN agree with me.
ZaplinG said:
And finally, even though wavedashing is indeed out of Brawl, there are still many many advanced techniques that have already been discovered. You can find the ever-growing list of them here http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=142139
I don’t want to win that way.
The way I see it, we have a small group of people who show up at LANs for the single purpose of showing off with annoying, unsound methods and a second group who defend them. This defense only leads to bad feelings among club members. Quite a few dedicated club and LAN attendees are getting weary of rules which bar most stages and items, yet allow the most ridiculous methods for winning.
Also, how the hell are these people not Pros? They keep bragging about how much money they make at tournaments.