No one was pulling the trigger, so I thought, who better than a notable Kazuya main living in the Kazuya/Steve region? Gonna use the data to see if entrants truly increase, and if they do, this might be a permanent solution.
Welcome to No Neutral November! We will be experimenting character bans for the entire month at Shockwave, here is the schedule! If you main the banned character, don’t fret, you have free entry if you feel like coming!
sheeeeeet well now we gotta see this happen LOL
10K is probably egregious but I’m more than happy to host an exhibition for it where both players attend
we need more salty suites anyway
My Round One in Phase 2 was a Diddy who after I won a game called Kaz a crutch and then game 3 was getting 3 stocked and complaining out loud to me calling me carried, got him off stage at 20 and said “don’t airdodge pussy” and he airdodged and got down smashed. So cathartic🫣
I’m not sure other regions really understand DFW. We have a weekly for every day of the week. We don’t share the same ruleset with any other of the weeklies. We are not “Texas”, this is just one little tourney where people can come and be happy:)
With the New Year coming around the corner, festivities begin for all, and there is no one more celebratory then us at TLOC! Our little present to you, for a very Happy Have Fundies Holidays!
Hey guys Kazuya is banned in DFW so if anyone is looking to house me for the time being that’d be great… SIKE this is the moves we make to protect our scene, PR’d with 3 characters before nothing will stop me again, if you can’t play without Casino Mishima you are nothing
People saying majors aren’t banning Steve so we should unban him are fully aware that all the majors we are still watching have been announced prior to PMLG and the Steve Ban attempt, thus could not ban him. The next wave of majors will be what truly decide things! Don’t fold!
I’m feeling violent, how can you call yourself the best Solo Kazuya if you have never beaten a player anyones heard of + only been to 5 offline events? Just cause a tech is named after you?😬
Announced this last night at Shockwave, but I’m moving away from DFW this weekend. Thanks for all the memories and letting me be one of y’all’s TO’s! I’ll be at Freaks tonight to see the homies one last time:)
Happy I’m doing well in my region but definitely feeling discouraged by all the negativity I’ve been receiving from my region. Trying to be nothing but nice but might stop trying soon, becoming a bit jaded haha
My goats, the FGC family I’ve always wanted:) So welcoming and really want each other to be the best we can be, gonna go to every event they are at for real!
FYI I wasn’t invited and I won’t be campaigning for it because the reason I was told was I’d make them more money if I campaigned and I was placing worse than fellow DFW this season. On my birthday too man smh
Announcing the Texas Reverie, a Smash Ultimate Invitational!
We have more details coming very soon so stay tuned! We can't wait for you to see what we've been working on!
🗓️ June 11-12
📍 Austin, TX
✏️ Designed by
@DannyMazari
👨🔧 Organized by
@DragoATX
Kazuya Matchup Chart! Reply with any questions, some characters might be misplaced due to lack of full experience but if I have a general idea of the character I placed them.
When Kazuya was first released, there was a lot of debate about his strengths and weaknesses.
Recently, however,
@thegingerbrrd
has been DOMINATING with the character, so we had
@WaDiRob
,
@imESAM
, and
@Marss_NE
react to his run at Low Tide City.
Watch:
If he bans Steve and the community massively applauds him and praises him I’m gonna have some beef considering all the hate and flak I got from doing it when it wasn’t cool. Frustrating experience for me right now. Anyways if I ever run tourneys again Steve is banned forever.
4th/98 today at Anime Houston, beat BluStriker Goblin and MuteAce on the way! Solo Kazuya, lost to Epic Gabriel and KirbyKid! Had a great time, so nervous and still shaking.
Trying to explain to my therapist that I banned Kazuya Mishima and Steve Minecraft but also Piranha Plant/Banjo as collateral and how it’s a big step in the future of our niche video game community that might receive a lot of backlash but may be celebrated was not easy…
I was on the wrong side of history with the bans, it’s too reminiscent of the wobbling ban and losing one of the best players our region had ever seen to appease a couple people who were going to quit no matter what. Our region is fractured and a shell of its former self.
@FrYonni
It isn’t permanent yet, I needed another month of data. I’m sorry that the region genuinely enjoys the game without Steve/Kazuya, I don’t know what the best solution is. I don’t want to ruin your career but I have to stand by my convictions that I think they should be banned.
@FrYonni
Name drop me instead next time, don’t put my decision onto the goats of our region. I’m trying to come up with a solution that means you can still practice without it being shockwave, but if you want to just keep throwing a melty instead that’s fine.
It's official:
@thegingerbrrd
will be at Glitch: Infinite!
Texas's best Kazuya main popped off at Low Tide City 2021. Now he's looking for another huge run at Glitch!
Help more players:
Reg increases tonight! Sign-up now to save:
Won Freaks with Solo Kazuya over Grayson x2, Danbi, Orex, Marce and Bert! One of our most stacked tourneys in a while, glad I was able to win! Feels good for sure!
Just watched Gabe beat someone, after Game 1 he picked Electroplankton to spite Gabe cause he had his headphones plugged into the setup, and after he lost game 2 he checked to see if it was .9. Next level mald lmao
DFW’s Ultimate PR for this season! Congrats to everybody who made it on, the art will be out sometime this week, alongside a special podcast episode of oNair featuring a Q&A about the PR!
Do you ever advocate for your main to get banned as one of the lead TO’s of your region, and then it happens, but you realize you’ll actually be a little sad without Kazuya Mishima, and you were ready to go cheese a bunch of majors? No? Just me? I hate the hubris of my actions!
Starting today both Kazuya and Steve are banned at our locals. We’ve taken time to talk with our community and the majority voted both IRL and through our discord to ban them both. We’ve always done what our personal community wanted over anything else and we want to keep that -
Official Decree: If you think your seed is low at any major I run, you are free to money match me when I have time from running the event and when I inevitably win I get to laugh in your face
Won my first tournament as Kazuya (and Sora!) and my first Freaks Richardson, beating a bunch of characters I’m not great against(Steve!!). Didn’t really make any upsets, but I survived and I’m still proud of myself!
Ran a tournament where Town and City became Morning version, Ultimate Shockwave 100 is over🥹 160 entrants, 25 teams, was not expecting such a turnout but we survived. Thanks everybody for coming out!
Won Shockwave over Jonhy 🫣 Our first time ever playing, he’s no joke he’s actually so good, had to reverse 3-0 in Set 2. So tired, thanks for letting me borrow your controller Lauren:)
Won Shockwave 105 today, only dropped one game to OP Incin but I brought out my secret counter pick Bowser Jr.! First time ever winning Shockwave, 50+ people and we were done by 10:30, big dub!
The Arcadian is over!
@JonhyFortnite
is the winner, and I’m glad I got to grab a pic with him! This was my first time running a Saturday regional-esque event, and I had a blast! Hope to get even better at these, and hopefully we can run more Saturday events like this!
2nd to Mute in Singles as well at PR Wars! Went Game 5 with him in grands, but he turned up the jets with the camping when he was down in games. Beat Orex, Ben, z3 and Grayson today, solo Kazuya. Time to drive home and rest!
Thanks for all the kind words last night, the stress of running USW 100 into competing a day later and performing poorly after consistently doing great crushed me, alongside my own personal issues. I won’t quit but I will focus on other stuff for now, especially myself. ❤️
Going to bring Steve back next season because they’ve been on good behavior, the Kazuya’s (Brr, Hippo and Junior) have also been on good behavior, but Skeleton has been bad so Kazuya won’t be coming back.
It was another win for
@LimaBayo3
at Ultimate Shockwave 82 last night! In addition to another phenomenal performance in Danbi's book, we also saw a great return to form from Marce!
This top 8 is truly something to behold...
See you all next week at USW 83!
This might be the worst list of characters ever all seeded to be in Quarters, I am not pulling up to this event on god. Corrin Yoshi, Pac-Man ROB, Samus Sonic, and Young Link Snake. The most Anti-Kazuya/Fun tourney possible
Up air tier list
Idk how to rank mechanics so might be wrong on lucario steve and olimar
Yellow is loosly ordered the rest arent
Chrom up air > chrom as a character
@Limabayo_
When I heard this I giggled so hard, one of the TO’s told someone “your pool captain is lima, he’s small and brown, plays Bayo” like that was going to help at all
Reminder that if you’re ever feeling uncomfortable or someone is harassing you at Shockwave or any other DFW local, please come to me or Trey. We will believe you, it will be handled, we will support you.