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The Road to Evo

So, the day had finally come, it was time for Evo baby! I rode with s2j and lovage and we arrived at like 12:30ish. Which is normally a good time but I had the 8 am pool ;_;. So, I got a few hours of sleep, and when I walked into the venue that morning it hit me that it was GAME TIME. It was time to put up or shut up. I knew if I lost this tourney I could never say a word about winning or about being amazing.

First few rounds of pools were pretty easy like I expected, and were over at like 10 am or something like that. Then I decided to have a beer and a shot or two of those amazing 2 dollar tequila shots (ROFLL). My intention was to just get a nice buzz then hang out and go to bed. Being in Vegas got to me, and I just wanted to have a good time, and I super noobed it up and figured I could beat anyone I played the next day because it wouldnt be any of the big names.

I ended up getting WAY TOO DRUNK and staying up too late. I was pretty upset at myself in the morning because I felt pretty awful, but I had no one to blame but myself. It was weird because every match I played, I either played pretty well or pretty sloppy, or a mix of both during the match. My consistency wasn’t there which is a HUGE shame when you’re playing Fox.

I saw my bracket and saw that I had a Pikachu and an Ice Climbers. Those were easily the last characters I wanted to fight against when I’m having an off day. I knew I could get super lamed and gimped very easily.

My set with Axe was actually pretty funny, I lose a close game 1 and just think to myself, “why do I have to make things so hard on myself?” Second game he should have won by all means, but after he got that gimp on me that put me down 3 stocks to 1, I just told myself, “please just play better and make this comeback.” He started choking a little it seemed and I took advantage and made my sweeeeet 3 stock comeback. After that I was riding the momentum train, and the one tip I’d give to anyone I’ll ever play against is “don’t give mango momentum.” When I have momentum on my side it is A WRAP. I win game 3 very convincingly, but by no means was I happy about my win. It should not have been that close or that difficult.

Then time goes by, and I ask the TO when I have to play. He said that I could play Wobbles right now if I wanted to. I SHOULD HAVE said that I’d play him later, then leave to get myself in the zone, get water, all that stuff. Instead I said I’ll play him right now. I just wanted to get my day over with because of how bad I was feeling and how upset I was with myself and the way I was playing.

The match starts and I get wobbled twice in like 30 seconds off of really AWFUL mistakes on my part. So I lose game 1, then win game 2 super easy because I randomly played really good (ROFL). Game 3 was all bad for the kid. I think I lost to his solo popo every time I had the 1-on-1, and I SD’d on top of it. Just like that, I’m in losers bracket after all my hard work, with no one to blame but myself.

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In Part 5, we’ll read about Evo top 8!