Thief's 4th tournament

Thief had his fourth tournament in tuscaloosa this past weekend. I did okay i suppose, not as good as I could have done. But I get inspired to get better after every tournament. My goal is to either place top ten at one of thief tournaments or make it out of pools in a larger tournament before Brawl comes out.

Anyway, a little bit before this tournament, i decided to go mostly Roy instead of Marth. Roy is easier for me to control, and controlling the character is a lot of the reason why I dont perform as well as I ought to. I always mess up a dash dance or something with marth. But with roy i NEVER ever miss L-cancels, and his wavedash doesn't require fingers as fast as with other characters. The only problem is that roy has a harder time killing that most characters. He also has the worst recovery on the game :-P

Before the tourney, my Roy was looking pretty good in friendlies. I play a really defensive Roy, which I think is good for him. I actually did pretty well against Iori's mewtwo with Roy. I've noticed, that since i'm a defensive player, I dont do well on small stages like Yoshi's Story. I need to work on that. Anyway, the tournament started.

Thief does a Swiss style tournament, instead of Pools like most people. It's a lot more fair in determining who advances to brackets, the only downside is you don't get to play as many matches sometimes. My tournament experience wasn't that enlightining. For my first match, I played against this good Falco, Xandre. Afraid to use my Roy, I actually went Marth. I did okay, but he beat me decidedly. The second round I went Captain Falcon. I'd been practicing with Falcon, but he wasn't really ready yet and the results showed it. I'm still not sure what to do against falco. Maybe I'll just pick roy next time. My next match is Majist from Huntsville, previously known as Mackendra. I'd played some friendlys with him the day before, he was beating me usually. I think he went sheik both rounds against me. I made a couple of mistakes that cost me stocks like missing my Up-Bs and silly stuff like that, but I probably still would have lost. I think I maybe should have warmed up just a little bit more, my movements were not as fluid as I'd want them to be.

The next two guys I faced had left, so I got two free wins. Then I faced a guy X-Pac, who played Jigglypuff. After hesitating, I picked Ice Climbers, because after lots of practice against Munkus's Jiggs, my ice climbers had always been the only characters I could consistently beat his Jiggs with. I played absolutely terrible, I could barely wavedash. I think I was nervous because this match could have decided whether or not I made brackets. the whole round I basically wavedances until I could downsmash, and I ended up winning. He counterpicked Mute City, which doesn't seem like a good IC's stage, so I switched to roy, and lost. I don't like roy vs. Jiggs AT ALL. I think I went to FD next, went back to IC's and barely beat him. Munkus watched over my shoulder. He probably would have been dissapointed if I lost to a Jigglypuff :-D
Funnily enough, you had to make at least the 16th best record to make it to brackets. I made 17th. :-/