Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep Hacked Fights?

It's a possibility. I haven't looked into how to use codes or do hacked fights yet for PSP & KHBBS, but I will after I'm completely done with all the regular challenges I'm doing in BBS. I'm uncertain if my old PSP will be able to handle it, but I guess we'll find out. Just know that it's a possibility.

Youtube's New Player Is Garbage

Seriously, who are the idiots behind all these YT changes these days? Things just get worse and worse. You can adapt to the stupid changes, but they just keep doing more.

The absolute biggest issue with the new player that frustrates me to no end is that when you mouse over the video, the bottom bar COVERS the bottom of the video. Really YT? You can't just have an extension for it on the bottom? You have to BLOCK OUT the bottom of the video so that all annotations are unviewable unless the user mouses out of the video for about 5 seconds?

The second issue, while not as big, is the bottom bar just straight out collasping when your cursor isn't on the video. What if you want to increase volume? Must hover over the video! VERY annoying, and no reason.

Last, but not least, the way you switch a video from 360p/480p to 720p/1080p requires you to once again, MOUSE OVER THE FUCKING VIDEO to bring up that bar, and then instead of hovering over the current resolution like before, now you have to actually CLICK the GOD DAMN button and click the new resolution you want. WHY IS YOUTUBE MAKING SHIT HARDER TO DO?

It just baffles me the way YT thinks.

1400th Video Special is Done!

Looks like my 1400th video is done. It's set to upload July 20th, assuming I don't miss any days of uploading. No spoilers on what it is, but I think it came out pretty well.

The only problem is my 1400th video comes up in the middle of tourney videos for a tourney. I have an idea of what I should do about that, but I guess we'll see. I may take off the rest of the week from uploading videos after uploading my 1400th video.

Clash of the Titans 5 - Tourney Videos

Hey everyone. Those of you who don't know yet, I went to the COT5 tourney last weekend. A bunch of videos from that tourney were recorded of me. So I'll post them all here! I'll also post other NE player sets as well! Here are mine:

Doubles

*Pools*

Nasty & MPrime Vs Bizkit & KingToon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJ7frAU6PI
Bizkit & KingToon Vs Patg & EE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG01p5gHOg8
Boss & Logic Vs Bizkit & KingToon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMTRwnAXV2o

*Bracket*

Bizkit & KingToon Vs Lain & Shugo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpffrANiAno

Singles

Bizkit Vs Pwii: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjjHPJpFSC4
BIZKIT VS M2K: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26l_8-6rA14
Note: HD & Commentary version will be uploaded in the future
Bizkit Vs M2K (Crowd Hype): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP5Zv-YGIBg

Other NE Players

*Kiwi*

*Pools*

Kiwi Vs Nicole: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ldSzdvgc8o

Kiwi Vs Lain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE93lKgJzGw

*Amatuer Bracket*

Kiwi Vs Clai: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d55mMIluO04

Kiwi Vs Sails: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=685TMBG1DM4

Kiwi Vs Tiger: Coming Soon

*Friendly*

M2K Vs Kiwi & Nicole & Izumi with Pokeballs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNi_hwNqgN0

*Bloodcross*

*Pools*

Bloodcross Vs Logic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1zvczOxxKQ

Bloodcross Vs Sharky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D-3w16ORrQ

Bloodcross Vs F00LY: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVOqItuyO5w

*Sails*

*Amateur Bracket*

Sails Vs M@v: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-aawfOEkFE
Sails Vs TKCK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JCL81RRQo4
Sails Vs Kiwi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=685TMBG1DM4

A Good Gamer to Subscribe to!

I didn't find out about this guy until about 5 months ago. He's very popular on YT, as I'm pretty sure he has over 1 mil subscribers. He puts out gaming videos daily with commentary, at least one vlog on another channel a day, and a weekly video series on yet another channel among a few other things he does on that channel. Here are the links to his channels:

Gaming Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TobyGames
Main Channel: http://youtube.com/Tobuscus
Vlogs: http://youtube.com/tobyturner

He's worth subscribing to IMO. His gaming commentary is extremely amusing, as he's funny, clever, entertaining in general, etc. He's currently playing through L.A. Noire, Duke Nukem Forever, and Terreria (fail game though). His older gaming videos I enjoyed were Amneisa, Portal 2,  and Fallout.

His vlogs are usually pretty entertaining, they usually just consist of him walking around an area talking about whatever comes to mind. For some reason it's always interesting.

His main channel is where he uploads his "Cute/Win/Fail" series every Monday where he reviews viral videos, similar to =3 that RWJ does. He also uploads Literal Trailers of movies/games every now and then, which are also very amusing.

Basically, I blogged this since I find he's very worth watching if you're into gaming commentary and such.

X-Men First Class Movie

I highly recommend seeing this movie, especially if you've seen the other X-Men movies. I felt compelled to go see it due to the massive amounts of positive reviews. After watching it, I fully agree. It does a near perfect job of showing how the X-Men came to be. While some of it is rather predictable, especially if you've seen the other movies, it's still extremely entertaining to watch it unfold.

Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep - "Terranort" (Final Boss, Terra's Story) - *Strategy*

Note: This was posted because I couldn't fit it in the description for the video. Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vvYC6j93Wc

The problem with this fight is going in for an attack at any time can get you killed. His Ars Solum attack (the multi-hit combo) will fully connect with you if any of it touches you. However, other than that and his Dark Firaga spam, nothing else will OHKO you for now. Here are a list of his basic attacks for the first part of the fight:

1. Dark Haze, he usually dashes with it twice. He's fully invincible during it and can chain them. Your best bet is to wait it out. Guarding this won't help, and in fact can get you hit if he stops too close to you. You can get him to stop this by spacing perfectly from the second dash so that he does another attack! This is important to know, you can sometimes force his Ars combo out of him this way so that you can Stun Guard + punish!

2. Dark Firaga Combo. He spams a bunch of these at once. You can dodge it with Sliding sideways. You can Guard them back at him for static damage no matter what your level is (immensely useful at LV1). However, if you Guard it he may Dark Haze right at you and hit you (this is only a problem if you're doing No Damage, otherwise it's fine). To fix this, you can use Aerial Slam (learned from another YT user about this). Aerial Slam has invincibility frames (not sure if it's only for projectiles). You can safely use Aerial Slam during this to slam the projectiles back at him while being fully invincible. However, I think there is a small chance you can get hit afterwards depending on how Terranort reacts.

3. Ars Solum. Not sure of the name, but it's a major multi-hit attack. If you get caught in any of it, the rest hits you. It can easily OHKO you without Second Chance/Once More at LV30 or lower. You can dodge this by moving away. Guard can stun him where you can Counter Hammer it for good damage. I'm not 100% sure, but Stun Guard may be needed to stun him all the time. Otherwise sometimes he will just keep going. He only uses this move if you are close enough to him. If you are always at a distance, he won't use this.

4. 3 Hit Combo. Randomly instead of Ars he'll use this. Just a simple 3 hit combo, can be Guard + Counter Hammer'd.

5. Quake. This one is a little weird. I can't seem to consistently guard it, so Sliding away may be best option. Only problem is if you're guarding in hopes of Ars Solum you may get hit by this instead. It does crap damage, but launches you.

Now that you know his basic attacks you can come up with some strats. Terranort CAN be hit with Mine Square, which launches him, but it's tough to get him to land on one. His Dark Haze goes right past it since he's invincible. However, if his Dark Haze finishes right on top of one, he'll get hit. If he gets hit, he's open to a fully aerial combo most of the time. Aerial Slam is great here, it does big damage, but it's tricky to land sometimes. Terranort is only open during the launch. Whenever he touches the ground, he's immediately out of the stun.

Baiting his Ars Solum combo to Stun Guard + Counter Hammer him is a great strat as well. You just have to be careful you don't get hit by Dark Firaga/Dark Haze being so close. If he's running towards you, then you can probably expect Ars Solum.

Shotlocks do pretty big damage to him if you're using a good one. However, he's also not open to these often and it can be tough to lock on him with him Dark Hazing at you constantly. I'd recommend bringing Ethers for when your Shotlocks miss due to his invincibility.

After you take off a bar of HP, he'll start using new moves. Here are the new moves:

1. Dark Firaga 2. This ones like the first, but there are a lot more. He shoots out a few at a time that home in on you then shoots out a bunch at once. It's tricky to Slide away, but it's the best method to damage him because if you Guard back the last wave they'll do big damage at any level. Otherwise you can just Guard normally. Be careful of your position though, sometimes one or two can still hit you.

2. Dark Impulse Combo. A similar combo to Terra's Dark Impulse Command Style. It looks close to Ars Solum, but this one cannot be fully guarded successfully. Your best bet is to just dodge it with Slide. The last hit is the same as Terra's, where he goes underground and quickly zones in on you to come out of the ground. Slide towards him during this to avoid it best. Be VERY careful if you're at 1HP. Unlike Ars Solum, the second to last hit in this combo ignores Second Chance/Once More for some reason.

3. Curaga. He starts using this about 2-2.5 bars of HP left. It heals a good amount, and is pretty annoying. It has nothing to do with you equipping Curaga either.

4. Meteor. This is the most ridiculous attack. I cannot consistently dodge it without Shotlocks. A bunch of meteors come out of the ground at random spots. Slide around the outer edge to best avoid them. After all of them are up in the air, they will launch towards you one after another. There are multiple ways to attempt dodging. Shotlock is the safest option. Second best option is to use Vanish (get it in Mirage Arena for about 700 points). Vanish won't work 100% of the time, but most of the time the meteors will not home in on you this way. You can Slide away from them best you can, but it's really random whether or not you get hit. You can Guard them, but some will bypass Guard. This is the worst option.

If you get hit by one Meteor, you'll get hit by the rest most likely. So wait it out so you can heal after. If you don't have Second Chance/Once More then you're probably dead at this point. Oh, and Xehanort is 100% invincible during this. In fact if you even so much as target him during this attack, he teleports away. This makes it tough to Shotlock him, but if you're on the outer edges you should fully lock on him if the Shotlock is maxed.

5. Ultima Cannon. Dodge it by sliding as far away as possible. You can also Aerial Slam it back into Terra for major damage. Don't forget you're invincible during Aerial Slam.

That's about it I believe. The second half of the fight is MUCH harder than the first, especially to no damage. Best forms of dealing damage is Aerial Slamming his Ultima Cannon back at him and Guarding/Aerial Slamming his Dark Firaga 2 move back at him. For the first form, Aerial Slamming Dark Firaga and Stun Guarding his Ars Solum attack back at him are the best methods.

And there you have it. Don't give up if you're having trouble, this fight is VERY difficult. You can always level up more or get Second Chance/Once More to make this more manageable.

Random Notes:

- Terranort is rarely able to be stunned after Ars Solum or the 3 hit combo. Stun Guarding + Counter Hammer is still best option.
- Sometimes if he gets launched (by a Mine move most likely) he will get out of the stun and teleport next to you for most likely Ars Solum combo. Be careful of this! It may be just because you did too much damage too fast.
- Dark Impulse Combo comes out fast, it's almost impossible to react to.
- Dark Firaga cannot be bully Guarded too close. Make sure he's targeted as well so they aim back at him.
- For his Dark Haze, you can still get hit even with Guard if he starts it right next to you.

My 1400th and 1500th videos...

Not quite there yet, but I'm closing in on my 1400th video. I already planned my 1400th video to be a Brawl compilation video. Nothing really special, but it should be pretty amusing regardless. However, I want to do something pretty special for my 1500th video. Any ideas? Because I'm drawing a blank at the moment.

An old KH2FM video...

A few weeks ago, I finally got the copyright strike off my account for a KH2FM video so that I could get my ability to upload past 15 minutes again. The video was nothing more than a fight Vs Roxas at LV99 labeled "for fun", where I don't abuse looping the boss and just screw around. The video was liked a lot due to how it ended, but it was removed about 1 day after being put up.

Here is a link to that video in case you wanted to watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ywKvCD7oRg

Sub to Friend's YT & More KH Stuff

Hey everyone, just letting you know that a friend (Phuxeds) is uploading videos once again. If you don't remember, he used to do KH hacked fights with me back in 2007. Right now he's uploading FFIV TaY final chapter boss fights for the PSP version. So if you're curious what the game looks like in the PSP version for the fights I've uploaded, check him out:

http://www.youtube.com/phuxeds

As for KH:BBS, I'm currently planning on starting uploading Terra's bosses in about two weeks, assuming nothing goes wrong. All fights WILL be on Critical Mode (hardest difficulty). It won't be at LV1, but it will be low level, and I'll be doing what I'm known for in KH2FM with this game (except hacked fights lulz).

Upcoming Videos?

Just writing this to update you all on upcoming videos for my channel. Right now I'm doing Brawl vids from DNA #14. After those are done, I have 4 videos from another game to complete the videos for that game likely for good. Then I will most likely move onto the next set of tourney videos I have, then after that...get ready for this...will most likely be KH BBS videos!

Yea, so in case you haven't been reading my blogs, I finally got a PSP and KHBBS. I already played through the whole game on CM for fun. Now I'm going to record all the bosses to upload. Sadly, it won't be at LV1. I could have technically did the first few bosses at LV1 quite easily, but I didn't feel like wasting my time grinding out some Abilities and Commands. I figure these sets of boss videos will be sort of display fights. I will also be keeping the cutscenes before and after each fight intact for you guys. While it won't be LV1, it's definitely on CM, and there will be more challenges added onto it.

Just note that while I will be putting up KH:BBS videos really soon, I won't be putting them all up one after another. I'll take breaks in between the character's stories to go back to Brawl so that I don't fall too far behind on Brawl videos. Deciding to do KH:BBS before my special Brawl videos I had planned does sort of bug me, but I figure my KH subscribers have waited long enough for another KH video. Now hacked fights? That's not for sure yet, I'll look into it after I record all the bosses because at this point I have no idea how to use codes for PSP.

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep

So I've been playing KH:BBS for the PSP now that I finally have it. Fun game so far, I'll probably blog a full review of it once I finish it completely. My current playthrough is just to have fun and get a feel for the game before I start recording. The question is, what AM I going to record?

Well, unfortunately, recording LV1 CM playthrough seems out of the question for this game. Unlike KH2FM, you really need those levels to do any amount of meaningful damage to bosses. If you're the lesat bit underleveled, you could be hitting the boss for 1 damage a hit. And trying to do entire boss fights with those stats would make them 20-30 minutes each, and no one wants to watch that IMO.

Instead, I think I'm going to just record a normal Critical Mode playthrough of BBS. I'll probably only record bosses. Not sure if I want to bother including forced fights yet, probably not though. My KH ego is too big from KH2FM, so I started off on Critical Mode right away. Anything lower would make me feel like a scrub. Critical Mode in this game seems quite a bit more difficult than in KH2FM, if not only for damage output issues and lack of dodging options combined with bosses who aren't as safely open to attacks as they were KH2FM.

Regardless, I finished Terra's story already, and am working on Ven's story now. After I finish his and Aqua's as well, I'll do the final story and then figure out how I want to record. I'm going to try to do the boss fights as a semi-low level, so that it's not easy. The wonderful thing about KH:BBS, is that you can get most, if not all abilities right off the bat, due to the ability to Meld Commands right away. So you'd just need to farm Munny, farm CP for the Commands to Meld, and then you can have a rather broken set of abilities for LV1 CM playthrough. Of course, for my initial recording, I won't be doing LV1 likely, so I won't over prepare. However, after I record all the bosses on CM, I may try a LV1 run. If the bosses start taking too long, I probably won't bother, though.

When are these videos going up? Well, got some more Brawl videos to dish out over the next few weeks most likely. By then I should have a good amount of KH:BBS recorded to start upping, hopefully. Because other than my Brawl tourney videos I have coming out soon, I have more Brawl vids planned to be uploaded, and there's about a months worth of them.

PSP Get!!!

Yes, that's right, I finally own a PSP! Big thanks to Pelca for selling me his PSP for only $45. Amazing deal. Came with KH:BBS fully installed and a memory card.

What does this mean for my Youtube subscribers? It means you guys could be seeing new Kingdom Hearts videos soon. How soon? Well...probably not for a few months. But hopefully after I finish up on my backlog of Brawl videos, I can get on that fast.

The only downside to this PSP is it's a PSP 1000, which means I can't easily record with it. But I can record off the PC with Fraps like I did with Touhou, so that should be more than good enough. I started a KHBBS file last night. We'll see how it goes.

A Universal Brawl Ruleset for Brawl?

Depending on how much you know about competitive Brawl will depend on how much this makes sense. So back at the beginning of the year, Alpha Zealot formed the BBR-RC on Smashboards with the goal of constructing a universal ruleset for Brawl tourneys that will be used by all TOs. A stage list was released when it was announced, and it was claimed that all the future Brawl national tourneys will be using the stage list.

I ended up getting invited into the BBR-RC a couple months later to help, since I'm a TO in the New England region. It's been pretty interesting being a part of the BBR-RC and helping put together the ruleset. It's difficult to get everyone to agree to all the rules, but the first version was released publicly last Wednesday. It was a little rushed, but overall it came out pretty good.

If you're curious, the ruleset can be found here:  http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=301032

It's not perfected yet, but the few issues with it will likely be re-discussed and fixed as we get more feedback on tourneys that run the ruleset. The stage list will probably change, and other little things, such as possibly the LGL rule and the Starter Stage List. But anyway, I just wanted everyone to know what's up with this. If you go to tourneys that aren't running this ruleset, try to let the TO know about the ruleset and see if he'll agree to using it. Remember, the goal of this ruleset is to get as many tourneys to follow it as possible.

April Fools?

Many people and websites play pranks on April Fools day. I've played a couple myself. I'll describe the ones I did as well as others I see on websites.

*My April Fools Pranks*

#1. Joke Brawl Power Rankings for NE

I put up fake Power Rankings for New England. They were technically due April 1st, so instead of putting up the real rankings, I put up a fake image I created and wrote up fake reasoning to go with it. Believe it or not, quite a few people fell for the fake rankings. They looked pretty believable. You can check it out here:

Joke PR Image:  http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/6647/neapril1st2011rankings.png
Joke Reasoning:  http://allisbrawl.com/forum/topic.aspx?pid=1282174#p1282174 (if you're reading this past April 1st, you'll have to scroll down to the bottom)

#2. Youtube Video

I put up a video for Brawl claiming that LV9 CPUs are impossible while showing a few clips of the CPU KOing or comboing me. The joke itself is an old GameFAQs joke from back in the Melee days, where a player would jokingly claim a LV9 is impossible, and skeptical readers would comment on how the player is just bad at the game and how they beat CPUs all the time. The original player would likely respond with "you're lying."

 *Other Website April Fools Pranks*

Youtube

Youtube's seemingly only prank is a joke about how the site worked back in 1911, or something alone those lines. You can watch videos using the 1911 button to see them displayed in old movie & music style, replacing the videos original audio. It's pretty amusing if you watch certain videos with it.

GameFAQs

Well the front page makes it pretty obvious. There's a joke 40 year anniversary page for GameFAQs, as well as the poll of games that will likely never be released (or even made). Lastly, there's an Awesome Mode option in the upper right area that turns the website into a gigantic eye sore.

AllisBrawl

Neal went all out this year with April Fools pranks. To start it off, everyone has had their avi changed again to something random. Instead of Pokemon, it was changed to random animated sprite gifs of older video game characters. Pretty neat to see who got who, but apparently it's changeable if you know how, which sort of defeats the purpose of it being random. The front page has a poll on which user should be the next AIB Admin. All of the members in the poll are known trolls. The MLG livestream link to a Brawl Throwback Event links to a Starcraft song parody of Justin Bieber's song "Baby." All the videos on the site were changed to a video where Neal gets a hug from someone.

To make things even more interesting, all comments on the site changes a user name to "Admiral [username], Literally." The Admiral part is a joke against the user Admiral Pit, who is generally hated by most of the site, or just trolled for being weird, rather. The "literally" part is because Neal made a blog a few weeks back calling everyone out who uses the word "literally" wrong. Needless to say, tons of people trolled the blog using "literally" wrong. It's a pretty amusing inside joke, but makes figuring out who made the comment rather difficult. The sites trading card display replaces all characters with Fox, all stages with Final Destination, and removes all Items. Melee joke, really.

Last but not least, there's a joke ModCP, where all users have the ability to view and submit mod commands. For example, there's a Ban User, where a user will get a badge if they try to ban Toonblade (or I think any user on the front page poll). There's a Badge command, Ladder Dispute command, Mod Ladder, and the most amusing, Toonblade Tracker. Toonblade is a known annoying troll on the site, sometimes claimed to be Neal's alt account, so Toonblade Tracker displays all his activity, while adding a few amusing notes, such as when he annoys a mod, or when he makes a spelling error.

Smashboards

Smashboards appears to have replaced the front page with a terrible color scheme, and renaming the site to "The Friday World Forums". The banner at the top is an image of Rebecca Black. Sadly this makes the site an eye sore, and hard to put up with. To make things worse, the front page auto players the song "Friday." This seems more like a major troll than an April Fools prank.

Overall, most were pretty annoying or uninteresting. I found Aib's to be most amusing out of all the others. Whatever happened to making April Fools jokes without making the website impossible to withstand?

Youtube Giving Me Issues

I found out recently my ability to upload videos past 15 minutes has been taken away. I'm not entirely sure why, but it's frustrating. I had to cut down on my 1300th video special to make it fit into 15 minutes instead of the original 19 minutes. What's worse is, I have future videos that go a little past 15 minutes that I can't upload in one video because of this.

After much research, no one seems to know the story behind why some YT users lost the ability to upload past 15 minutes. I can't see why mine was revoked. I've had a strike on my account since 2007 that I've been too lazy to take care of, but if that were the issue, I wouldn't have gotten the ability to upload past 15 minutes in the first place. Other users claim to have no strikes and lost the ability as well. YT doesn't seem to be responding to this either.

I'm hoping I can get it back. I applied for YT Partnership in hopes of gaining the ability to upload past 15 minutes again. If it doesn't work, I'm stuck at the 15 minute cap, which will make some videos annoying to upload, such as the final boss of FFIV TaY, which was originally able to fit into two parts but now will likely have to be 3-4 parts. If any of you know what's up with this, feel free to comment.

1300th Video Special Next Week?

Almost up to my 1300th video! It's all ready to go. It IS Brawl related, but it's not another Silly Moments special. I don't want to reveal it until I upload it, but it'll be different. It's about 19 minutes long, which is the longest video I have ever uploaded yet. Thank god for Youtube dropping the upload cap.

Donation Fund?

I've given some thought to this. Others do it, and I wonder if it could be a big enough benefit to me. The reason I don't buy games often, is quite simply because I can't really go around blowing money like that. If I had a donation fun, I could use the money raised by my subscribers that feel I'm worth donating to to buy a new game every now and then to record and upload.

I worry that it would be taken the wrong way, though. I mean ultimately, any donations would be mine to keep regardless of whether or not I feel like I should actually buy a game with it, but I've always been curious how much I could raise off of subscribers, and I thought it'd be nice to put the money towards games for my channel if there were enough of it.

I wouldn't want to be viewed as a scammer or sell out, or anything, because that wouldn't be the intention.

So what do you guys think? Feel free to post your thoughts on whether a donation fund for my YT channel is worth a shot or not.

T.A.E.R. 5 Tourney Livestream

Hey guys, there will be a livestream for the SSBB tourney tomorrow (Saturday, March 5th) called T.A.E.R. 5. Top players from New England region will be there, such as Fatal, me, Bloodcross, etc. Out of Region players from NY claim to be coming to this also, such as Vinnie and Will. Expect updates on my Twitter as well.

Livestream Link: http://www.justin.tv/NEBrawl
Twitter Link: http://twitter.com/Bizkit047

The Livestream probably won't be up until 11am-12pm. There will likely be commentary. Livestream will last until the tourney ends most likely. If there's any problems with the livestream, I'll let you guys know via Twitter.

Pound V Was Great

I had a lot of fun at Pound V. I met my goals, which was to make it out of both singles and doubles pools. I didn't do quite as well in the pro bracket as I wanted, but I had M2K round 2, so I was sent into losers rather early.

Doubles was hilarious. Fatal and I basically trolled by going all double Snake, which is considered one of the worst teams in the game. We managed to get 7th/48, losing to Jerm & Trela, and Ultimate Razer & Gnes. We took out Neo & Slikvic and Nick Riddle & Kadaj. It would have been nice to get 5th, but I'm fine with 7th.

Singles was alright for me. I 2-0'd everyone fairly easily in my first pool, almost dropping a game to Punishment Divine. Second pool I lost to Esam 0-2 and then 2-0'd everyone else.

Bracket wasn't too fun for me. I almost got DQed for not showing up on time, because Fatal thought it'd be a brilliant idea to put our luggage in the car in the parking garage, 1 mile away. So 2 miles of walking took much longer than we though. Kid Goggles almost DQed me, but Tant said to play it out, so I rushed in without any kind of warmup. I won game 1 pretty decently. I forgot that Sonic is good on Pictochat and banned Rainbow Cruise instead. He ended up winning the Pictochat match, as I DIed a Bair pretty bad. Game 3 was really close, we were both at about 120%, but I got the utilt kill when he jumped up at me while I was on a platform.

Next set was M2K. Despite not warming up, I took both games down to last stock with him at 70% before dying. I was ahead the entire match on FD until the end. I seem to have a habit of blowing leads. In losers, I got a free win since Seagull wasn't there. Then I had to fight Poltergust. I'm usually extremely good at the Yoshi matchup, but last stock on game 1 Poltergust decided to do a suicide Fair spike on me which caught me very off guard and actually managed to kill me. So I ended up just straight out losing game 2 and losing to him. I spent the rest of the tourney coaching Fatal to beat King Toon, Lie, and MVD, before he finally lost to Ultimate Razer. He lost to Lie in winners, because he's awful at the Diddy matchup.

Overall, fun weekend, met my goals so I'm happy with that. Interested to see if I can use what I learned at Pound V at DNA this weekend. :)

Here's some videos from Pound V:

Fatal & Bizkit Vs Nick Riddle & Kadaj: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z2nxPOpu6E
Only doubles set with us saved.

Pokemon Singing during Melee Finals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_KHYGtTIXs

Fatal Vs Lie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XvxxLBdgKA
Fatal Vs Razer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AflkTyO5IQ