Episode 3: Reaching our Apex

  1. Campbell X
    1. Seeding top 8 out of pools and straight into bracket
    2. “Fight Night”
  2. Getting stale?
    1. Tying Fight Night back into a larger purpose
  3. Stages
    1. BO7
      1. No bans feels comfortable
      2. Prior to striking, players agree on PS or FD being the 5th stage.
      3. Each stage could only be selected once each
    2. Stage and ruleset
      1. Stage variety
      2. FD and Pokemon Stadium
      3. Testing skills
      4. Counterpick, loss and salty runback – does this promote anything of worth?
      5. Pick character first? Or stage first?

 

Episode 3:  New Year’s Revolutions

  1. Introduction to panel, quick holiday check, resolutions etc.
  2. Topics
    1. Campbell X
    2. Stages and Counterpicking
    3. The Revamping of Smashboards and creation of Smash4U
      1. what do both sites offer
      2. what do they lack
      3. is it good?
      4. we love neal
      5. COMMUNICATION IS KEY, lets talk
    4. Approaching Apex2013
      1. Pokemon. … ………………… DOT DOT DOT pokemon is for children and stupid people.
      2. What it takes to run a tournament this large
      3. What can the average player do to make sure it’s run smoothly
      4. The Hype
        1. World’s Best, The Defending Champ – Armada
        2. Mango Nation – Mango
        3. Turn Your Head and Cough – Dr PeePee
        4. Claw Type, Super Effective? – Javi
        5. Mind versus Matter – M2K
        6. The Forum Troll – Leffen
        7. Japan – Who are they?
        8. Beast of the East – HAX
        9. Bairly There – Hungrybox
        10. Canadia – KirbyKaze/Weon X
    5. [scientology] presents The “Let It Rock” Invitational (PP, Hbox, Hax, Shroomed, Mango, Javi, Armada)
      1. Vote for the following:  Axe, Lovage, MacD, Wobbles
    6. Looking forward to 2013
      1. increased number of sponsored players (MH|DJ Nintendo, CT EMP M2K)
      2. What issues in 2012 still aren’t resolved?
      3. What can we do as a community to improve our scene’s quality?
        1. Social media improvement?
        2. Better promotion of the scene?
  3. Break
  4. Call In Topics
    1. Juggleguy for a brief 2012 recap?

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