Smash Online is Dead and We Killed It. 

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I hate that Zain and Mango never got proper recognition during the pandemic. It absolutely should have "counted" if the community is going to continue to push the narrative that everyone is so good now BECAUSE of Slippi.

we could host online melee tournies similar to how private servers work for mmos. Technically hosted by an anonymous person who is offshore in some random place like Sweden or wherever its outside jurisdiction. No one to go after really except the people they would already go after like the Slippi team or streamers just for streaming it. We enter without our real names, we pay with hard to trace methods etc and just continue as normal underground, just online. The same way they can't stop a private local practically speaking.

Like 15% of the reason online Melee is dead is because Melee figureheads decided that 2020 and 2021 would not have official rankings. Which in my opinion, was a dogshit decision. Add in the unfortunate reality that North America is way too large for low ping Melee, and Nintendo fuckery, and it's no surprise online Melee has died. But the community collectively telling Mang0 and Zain their two years of dominance did not matter was salt in the wound and made sure that online tournaments would never ever be taken seriously.

We dont victim blame. Nintendo killed it

Second is the best

Kadence the goat

So glad this channel is getting vids again. Highkey one of my fav channels on RU-vid

They keep bringing up "playing against hax$" as a reason online sucks, does he have bad Internet or do people just not like playing vs box? Or is it the controversy?

There needs to be an online version of the rankings, get on it Luminosity!

Honestly this makes me really happy to hear a deep discussion on Online and it's part in the community. As someone that used to SOLELY play online, and only just recently started going to locals on a once in a monthly/bimonthly basis (can't go to many tournaments due to location and scheduling conflicts), Online means a lot to me, and seeing many players not take it seriously or giving it the credit it deserved. I can understand the flaws in online though and how it's not as perfect as LAN, and I 100% agree with said flaws, but personally I believe Online in a way made melee what it is today because of it, from the rapidly increasing skill ceiling, to the new top players we have today, and to the upcoming players that show so much potential. Really happy that it's being talked about and tournaments are still being hosted despite the communities lack of interest in it. Gonna register for this event and hope to see lots more people do the same and play some melee! Thanks for hosting <3

ONLINE IS DEAD ONLY IF I'M DEAD

I want to share our experience in Venezuela (and a little bit of LATAM as well) regarding online tournaments:

KCM sounds like a very cool idea. Appreciate the efforts.

Kodorin should bring back tmt man the ladder being once a week was real cool and the fact that you get into the main bracket through it was great. I think if he kept it going it could've coexisted with ranked but can't wait for the new tourney series!

Heck yeah! Kodorin is a legend. I don't play Melee currently... but I will support the charity drive and be watching on the 28th!

damn this took such a wholesome turn, hugeeee W kodorin

It would be great if online tourneys could create bracket runs that prioritize closer connections

We could have a series of online tourneys that you get 1x entry, it leads to an in person tourney where winners or maybe like top 4 (round robin pools later) face each other

Im not sure if we could ever organize it, but I'd LOVE if we integrated online into tournament play. I was thinking holding a seeding bracket or round robin online pre-tourney would be really cool. It would affect the seeding but not determine it. So lets say Zain has been performing a bit worse recently or something, and he crushes here, he might go up a couple seeds determined by a scoring system