by MIOM|Tafokints

We are about 1 week away from launching MeleeItOnMe 2.0 and hope to continue to provide the community with information and resources. We’ve also passed the 1,000,000 page view mark. Thank you for supporting MIOM!

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13 years of Melee and still going on?
An article about expectations on Smash 4, hope and fear about the future of Melee
– by Tero @TeroLawliet
About the author:
Tero’s first contact with the competitive smash scene was in 2006, watching MTV True Lifes “I’m a professional gamer” featuring KillaOR. He is the founder of the German Smash Boards, former Melee and Brawl Back Room member on smashboards, and founding member of Salty Playground (until July 2014). Over the years, he has hosted several tournaments (Smash Royale) and has been a TO at most German events. Currently, he lives in Sweden in the Uppsala/Stockholm area.
Introduction
A few days ago I stumbled across this article called “Melee the masterpiece, Melee the demon” and I was fascinated by its last paragraph:
For him, Melee was more than a sequel, more than a game even. It was his idée fixe, his impossible ambition to create something infinitely deep and comfortably shallow at the same time. Now Melee has become his Pinkerton: A revitalized cult masterpiece, a bolt of lightning caught in a bottle, and the one puzzle piece that could fix everything… if it didn’t already belong to another era.- Joshus Calixto

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by MIOM|Tafokints

The metagame has many unspoken rules in how to pick stages in a set. Often, these assumptions about what is considered a “good” stage have gone unchallenged. We hear that Yoshi’s Story is a Marth’s Stage and that Pokemon Stadium is a Fox’s stage. The rationale seems to make sense; Marth likes close encounters and cornering his opponent, so Yoshi’s Story seems to be a great choice. Stadium has low ceilings and transformations that seem to favor Fox.

Recently, I’ve been observing Mango and some of his strengths and weaknesses extensively.  From watching some of the earlier summer tournaments, I subconsciously noticed that Mango was losing quite often on Stadium, a “Fox Stage”, and began to track his win-loss records.

Stages
Mango
Mew2King
Mango’s Win Rate

Yoshi’s Story
15
5
75%

Final Destination
5
14
26%

Dreamland
5
10
33%

Fountain of Dreams
12
3
80%

Pokemon Stadium
2
10
17%

Battlefield
6
3
67%

Table 1: Mango vs Mew2King (2013-2014)
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By MIOM|Tafokints

Note: The Weekly Wrap Up post will go up tomorrow

Top 8 Recap (Videos are Here)

The biggest melee tournament ever has finally come to a close with C9.Mango coming out on top. The action was exciting, although a bit unexpected. Curse.Hungrybox, arguably played the tournament of his life, taking down long-time rivals, EG.PPMD and P4K EMP Armada, before losing to Mango in grand finals. Fly Amanita and MOR|Axe also performed very well, finishing in the top 8, narrowly losing to PPMD and Armada respectively.

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by MIOM|Tafokints

It’s finally here! It’s amazing that we’ve set another new record in tournament attendance, meaning that this is probably the first national for many of you. Here are five quick tips to make your experience more enjoyable.

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