I got serious johns, Go up 2 days before the tournament to get things rolling on the new stream machine, spend a day with it, everything works. and of course this means that when it counts it will stop working and crash for no reason, literally a brand new machine...come on man...I managed to get it working with a different capture card but still I sacrificed half the quality for it. And even with that sacrifice it looked pretty damn good.

he real downside is that I only slept 45 minutes to an hour the night before, even with taking almost two full doses zzquil, fuck insomnia, I knew it would be a huge burden. as of writign this its nearly 6 am and I still haven't slept. I was cranky, I hadn't practiced any melee in several days and when I started my first set it showed, this tournament was so unremarkable that I won't even show the names of my opponents, well maybe just one.

I sat down to play whoever it was I played in round one and he was using sheik. I did a few hand warmers and then we went into it. It was a little close game one but I clutched it out while warming my game, which included exactly zero waveshines for some reason...Game was a lot cleaner, I mostly just tried to get punishes which I did, I won...meh.

Set 2 was against funcrazyfish, overall a really great player who went Link on me! This is the second time I have run into a Link at a smash nest....I guess I better practice the match up lol. I won game 1 just barley with my fox, game was not so great, still close-ish but lost.

Game 3 is where I switched to Link though as I felt I had a lot more experience in the Link ditto. Which I did and it started off great but his reads and hitbox placements were really good and I quit out of the match because I just didn't want to finish, I was tired, I was trying to care and it was only making me angry so I figured I would just dip.

My third set was against a falco..a Falco who was very..well..standard.. not bad at all, probably around my level (When I am not running on 45 fucking minutes of sleep) I got made, I bitched about falco the whole time and then just walked away afterwards, it wasn't worth it. even if I had gotten good sleep I still would have lost to falco, because its falco and it doesn't matter who is holding the controller as long as they have put in a week of practice on falco then they will murder any character I pull out to use against them. 

there is absolutely no point in trying if falco is on the screen, he is to good and I am just too fucking bad at the match up. 

I am going to practice the match up at home, with 20xx, friends and on netplay to get ready for when I get my confidence against falco back. I used to be good at the match up but lack of practice and the advancement of the meta game have made him a character just about everyone can play pretty well now which is stupid because well. fuck falco.

Until I get my confidence in the match up back I am going to forfeit every falco I play if I think they are too good for me to beat in the first game. Because its just not worth the $30 to replace my controller and verbal abuse I will put myself and possibly someone else through. Because why the fuck would I do that? Better for everyone, especially me if I forfeit my sets vs falco from now on.

Edit: After going back and watching my vods earlier I realized I was actually playing like complete garbage, no sleep man.