Yeah, when is reverse engineered melee coming? How close are we to that, is anyone on that, give me a sign if you know something. The community is pretty screwed, and I imagine the major calendar will look even smaller if action isn’t taken to side step around Nintendo. Keep having these discussions and come together, otherwise Nintendo will completely take away their relevance from you. Good podcast, solidarity
List of people who, according to liquipedia, won the first major they were in grand finals of (in JUST melee): - Ken (obvious, free, doesn't actually count for bbatts' example because it's by default) at TG4 - Captain Jack at MLGSF04 - PC Chris at MLGNY06 - mang0 at Pound 3 - Amsah (also kind of free because it was the first European major) at Epita Smash Arena 2 - Hungrybox at ROM2 - Leffen at BEAST5 (even if you don't wanna count Europe, Leffen didn't lose a single grand finals he was in for the entirety of 2015, which was the first year he was in grand finals) - Plup at Dreamhack Atlanta 2017 - Zain at Shine 2018 (his streak of losing grands to hbox came later, he was still losing to hbox before shine but before grands) - Wizzrobe at Smash 'n' Splash 5 Then there's a divergence depending on whether you want to pretend online didn't exist If online did exist, we add - n0ne at GOML 2020 If online didn't exist, we add - Cody at Riptide 2021 (because Cody was in grands of 3 online majors but no offline ones before that) So regardless of how you count it, the total is 11. Now let's look at the complete list of players that won a major only after getting to grand finals before: - Azen - Isai - M2K - KDJ - ChuDat - PPMD - Armada - Axe Then universal divergence time - iBDW if online counted - S2J if online counted (both grands were during online only) And now back to one universe - aMSa - Jmook So if you count online, it's 11 vs 12. If you don't count online, it's 11 vs 10. It's almost a perfect coinflip whether someone will win their first grands.
36:45 is true LMAO I was genuinely sitting frozen in horror during game 4 of set 2 thinking about how absolutely ruined my night would be if I watched Plup lose his second Riptide grand finals in a row from winners side (and third Riptide grand finals overall!)
Acola won the first like 7 tournaments he entered and got 5th(?) at the other. Also by definition the first person to ever win a major also made grands for the first time at that major
as a professional academic without enough room for all my books, seeing edwin's beautiful shelf wall so sparsely populated makes me jelly as heck :^) and as a serial music pirate obsessive, seeing wheat's insane CD collection makes me feel everything all at once lmao great show as always guys, proud to be a patron <3
At 18:00 this is not really true, Leffen didn’t stop the puff camping ranked account because he “didn’t want to do it anymore,” he stopped because fizzi tweeted “Sigh… Can you wait until I’m done with vacation before making your point?” in response to him streaming his matches stalling with puff on his AirTimeLimit ranked account. Clearly fizzi was bothered by it and that’s the reason Leffen stopped.
Obviously miss Wheat, but Edwin did a great job hosting. Really good episode! Not sure if this is on purpose, but the Spotify podcast cuts off at a little more than an hour.
as a patron it is OBVIOUS to me that Anokh "Edwin 'Big Nokh' Budding" Palakurthi respects women the most, but i would be open to evidence to the contrary, of course
