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ive tried to find tournaments and stuff like that here in utah, but i cant.
i find stuff that happened in st. george (bottom of utah, and i live in the northern part) a year ago and stuff like that.
i woud love to be able to play smash like i do pokemon, regularly.
 
Hot_Carl said:
Regis Neo, I checked your profile.. You live in AZ. You have a GREAT Smash tournament scene fyi, with some of the best players around. (Taj, Wobbles, Forward?! Look them up on Youtube.)

Anyone who is considered pro by the majority of competitive players almost certainly is. Someone who calls themselves pro but hasn't been heard of probably isn't. That's not to say there aren't some hidden, really good players who could do well in tournaments. But the real pros deserve that title.

Also, I'm Absolution's alt? lol, no. Mew kinda already said it.
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Yeah but one problem, people who get noticed is noticed only by a popularity contest, when your popular your labled as the best when reality is they are probably far from the best.

I dealt with that on many occasions, mostly in online games more then the card game.

But when in a card game such as yugioh, I was labeled as the best when I wasnt only because I had the elite cards and all the rare Japanese cards and was popular off of that and what not.

Players stating someone is Pro can be taken like a grain of salt imo.
 
Somewhat agreed. Word of mouth is no basis for deciding who is pro. But there any many players with high tournament finishes and popularity who are undeniably professionals at this game.
 
Hot_Carl said:
Somewhat agreed. Word of mouth is no basis for deciding who is pro. But there any many players with high tournament finishes and popularity who are undeniably professionals at this game.
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I can believe that for online games.

But I dont even believe that in card games though, maybe Pokemon since Wizards lost the license, but others games like yugioh, best only means your opponents threw the game for you, same goes for most other games to, I can back all of that up to.
 
Yeah but one problem, people who get noticed is noticed only by a popularity contest, when your popular your labled as the best when reality is they are probably far from the best.
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QFT.

And again, "professional" Smash players comprise far too limited a scope even compared to professional TCG players to draw any real conclusions.
 
Hot_Carl said:
Regis Neo, I checked your profile.. You live in AZ. You have a GREAT Smash tournament scene fyi, with some of the best players around. (Taj, Wobbles, Forward?! Look them up on Youtube.)

Anyone who is considered pro by the majority of competitive players almost certainly is. Someone who calls themselves pro but hasn't been heard of probably isn't. That's not to say there aren't some hidden, really good players who could do well in tournaments. But the real pros deserve that title.

Also, I'm Absolution's alt? lol, no. Mew kinda already said it.
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All I can say is that I sure as heck have never heard of them or any tournaments here for that matter (unless they're being planned on some forum and being held at some guy's basement, which is kind of icky then...).
 
Regis_Neo said:
All I can say is that I sure as heck have never heard of them or any tournaments here for that matter (unless they're being planned on some forum and being held at some guy's basement, which is kind of icky then...).
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Oftentimes this is the case; i've been to a few shady places to play smash but once you sit down and play with people it's not so bad. If you check the tournament section of Smashboards.com and look in your region, you should really be able to find things going on somewhere around you. And if not, it usually doesn't hurt to ask in an already existing thread if there are any players remotely close to you.

Also @ Marril, I'd say it's hard to make a statement like that, when it would seem it is much more difficult to make a living playing this or any TCG than it is to make quick cash playing smash against people willing to lay down some dough. Competitive fighting games have a very dedicated scene with several players who do nothing more than go from tournament to tournament winning prize money. In any TCG where there is definitely luck involved, as well as a constantly changing metagame/format, it's going to be harder to win over and over. (Except that year when Tom Dolezal won every Harry Potter TCG event he entered without any effort at all.) You've also got to remember for most TCGs they have OP; tournament play for a video game is player-based, and it's a lot easier to frequent tournaments when there are more to compete in [this is a bit of a generalization, and it can't be true in every area.]
 
Ugh, why are you guys still debating this?

I'm celebrating the fact that so MANY of my favorite tunes made it! I was SHOCKED to find Dark World Woods remixed. : )
 
Can everybody stop the arguing? Alot of people, including me,don't want this thread to get locked. Please forgive/correct me if I'm wrong.
 
Mew said:
For you to know they aren't alts, they both have Prof. Logos. (and you have to be verified and all that to get them on the gym).

Secondly, I've played Carl IRL, and I've seen Absolutions (he was pointed out to me by some of me buddies). So, yeah I know they aren't the same person; there's your proof.
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I said I was joking. Of course they aren't alts. I knew someone would have proof. Drop the argument, I was just messing with the guy, no need to pile me.
 
I don't particularly care what SmashWiki says, the technical definition of a pro gamer is someone who plays in competitive gaming tournaments for a living. It is, quite literally, a job. However, in this context it's like the word n00b. It means a lot of things to a lot of different people (trust em on that one. I've seen tons of different opinions on what it means). How we label "pro" is our own business.
 
In any TCG where there is definitely luck involved, as well as a constantly changing metagame/format, it's going to be harder to win over and over.
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Then how do you explain the pros winning consistently? Surely, if there's so much luck, then any random scrub should be able to take down a pro. So we shouldn't be seeing the same pro TCG players on top 8 time and again? Wait, we do keep seeing the same pros in top 8? Weird. It's like posters here have no idea how probability and games interact...
 
The point is, even in a card game, both luck and skill play important roles. Take, for example, poker, a game with a large amount of luck involved in it. How can we apply skill here? Well, in two incredibly important ways that I know of and one less important and somewhat cheap, but still effective way, reading your opponent, keeping a poker face, and counting cards, respectively. So in other words, games properly and naturally have a balance of skill and luck, in some cases where one is weighted a bit more than the other, but without either, the game becomes less interesting.
 
Lol Azen fits just about half that characters in the game. I heard that hes like the 26 character wonder or something. Sigh if i were in the pro league, I would probibly be under Link since thats my main in Melee.
 
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