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Bibliography
This comic was a major inspiration for this video: http://the-toast.net/2013/08/05/a-cartoon-about-sports/
On why there aren’t more women playing Melee: http://milktea-ssbm.tumblr.com/post/76970566292/why-awareness-in-the-super-smash-bros-melee
The Kotaku piece on competitive gaming: http://kotaku.com/5820907/the-10-best-moments-in-pro-gaming-history
Chris DeLeon on rules in sports vs. games: http://www.hobbygamedev.com/spx/games-are-artificial-videogames-are-not-games-have-rules-videogames-do-not/
Forrest Smith’s Smash charts: http://forrestthewoods.com/unbalanced-design-of-super-smash-brothers/
Daigo vs. Justin Wong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS5peqApgUA
The Smash Brothers documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSf2mgkRm7Q&list=PLoUHkRwnRH-IXbZfwlgiEN8eXmoj6DtKM
Quake speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpiNDxssUL0
Half-Life 2 speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV-AWxqYAgc
Siglemic’s Mario 64 speedruns: https://www.youtube.com/user/Siglemic/videos
aMSa vs. Mew2King at KoC4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDnKE5J7ki8
Axe vs. Silent Wolf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZIxUjct3uo
The year is 20XX, everyone plays Fox: http://killscreendaily.com/articles/20xx-or-limits-esports/
Chuck Klosterman on football and the read option: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=klosterman/091019
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Nintendo doesn't want to be releasing video games that are perfect enough to were they now last forever. They want to be releasing new games 'at all times' so the best strategy for that is to not make a video game too perfect, to were the players are now in love with it and will pass it down to generations and generations but also not too bad to were it can't keep up with the sales and users of now a days.
HBox's Puff would be more like Greg Maddux. Maddux didn't throw the hardest, didn't have the most break on his pitches, but mentality and punishing mistakes was *everything*, and he had probably the best control of any pitcher ever. Maddux would challenge hitters constantly. He'd generate weak contact, and the dude was a really good fielder, so anything back up the middle (usually the best case scenario for a ground ball), he covers when most pitchers wouldn't. As a hitter against Maddux, you cannot slack off, you cannot make mistakes, because he will punish you, and sometimes make you look really, really stupid. How many majors did Hbox win by being patient, having a good mentality, and punishing mistakes by opponents who got too greedy?
everything in every sport translates. Mentality is what won Jose Mourinho so many league titles in soccer, and patience and playing safe is how the Patriots won so many Superbowls. We can talk about Jorge Lorenzo's race management and consistency in MotoGP, or how the Tour de France allows many different disciplines of cycling (from sprinting, to time trial, to climbing, to descents) to thrive, and you don't win by being exceptional at one of them, you win by being pretty good at some of them. There's the debate as to whether competitions in skateboarding matter more than video parts, direct competition versus one-upmanship in creative works.
Sport is beautiful, and it's so intrinsically human. Leave a bunch of humans alone long enough, and they will come up with something approximating a competitive sport. I love this shit.
You don't need to white knight for women either buddy
In 2019, Wizzrobe won the 1st Supermajor with Falcon since 2005.
And in 2022, aMSa actually won a Supermajor with Yoshi and has gone from the hero of 1 set in this video, to a straight up contender for the #1 spot. It's surreal, and watching this video reminds me JUST HOW SURREAL it is!
One big difference this game (and all fighting games) have with Melee is that it goes through patches during its lifetime, so bugs are corrected and characters are buffed or nerfed. They also usually have a shorter life span than Melee (except Street Fighter 2 obviously, but Marvel vs Capcom 2 and 3 are at least still surviving too)
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