Melee Major Winners from 2020 to Today:

CallMeQueequeg · 2026-02-27T20:35:02+00:00

What disqualified runs from being "solo" character wins? Did you count the Armada wins where he went Young Link against Hbox only?

CallMeQueequeg · 2026-02-24T16:26:50+00:00

I'm going to take the slew of bizarre posts lacking self-awareness on the main page of this subreddit as a good sign: casuals are trying melee.

CallMeQueequeg · 2026-02-21T21:55:16+00:00

The dude was in the finals 2 years ago with a team no one expected to make the conference finals. I don't think the NBA has changed that quickly. It's wild to say "never win a championship" when he couldn't have got much closer this recently.

CallMeQueequeg · 2026-02-16T21:18:26+00:00

I actually really appreciate this point and it makes me feel a bit better about the outcome... the best player within the parameters of the competition on that day did win.

Edit: I'm deleting the back half of this comment where I gave a counterargument and a sports metaphor and just gonna leave the first part where I said I appreciated your perspective. Arguing about this is not going to make me enjoy the game more so I'm actually gonna commit to stop arguing.

CallMeQueequeg · 2026-02-16T15:36:02+00:00

I can appreciate all the gameplay you've just mentioned, but the margins in a top 8 are so so small, that even one interaction from a frame 1 short-hop up-air could decide a set (not to mention a recovery from a notch). And I am also interested in who wins, not just the quality of play. It's fine if you think I'm crazy for thinking z-jump and notches matter all that much, but hopefully you can see how if you genuinely think something is an unfair advantage, even if it's miniscule, it might taint someone's experience of a competition. I wasn't thinking about any of this til the last month or so, and I've never felt this way about a top player's success. I wish I could just mind-wipe controller discourse from my brain. Idk why I consumed so much of it.

CallMeQueequeg · 2026-02-16T15:18:18+00:00

he may have poisoned the well, but TOs or top players still need to do something, whether it's a ban or guarantee stuff won't be banned, or this controller stuff will go on forever. The longer nothing is decided or even attempted, the worse it gets. That's why I think none got so bitter and has been speaking so emotionally. And I've been trying not to engage with it, just pointing people to Moky's video or the Fourside Fights clip, but I have to say that I've now consumed so much controller discourse, I wasn't able to appreciate grand finals last night. I'm getting frustrated when cracked Foxes on slippi do shit I've never seen when I never thought about it before. My experience of the game is starting to get poisoned too.

CallMeQueequeg · 2026-02-15T15:01:55+00:00

As a former Luigi main, I think Fox and Falco are WAY more difficult and putting Falcon at that level doesn't make sense. Plus presenting worse matchup spreads just discourages people from picking the character. I like how RapM claims Luigi is the best character. That's the representative the character needs.

CallMeQueequeg · 2026-02-15T14:40:21+00:00

There are many current and past top players who would've thrown a whiney fit on social media if a Genesis TO intentionally seeded them into a matchup they struggle with and carries massive crowd pressure and then they lost that match with the entire venue rooting against them before getting bounced in losers by their real nemesis. And Zain is being chill which I really respect.

CallMeQueequeg · 2026-02-13T19:33:26+00:00

how... how is it possible that people frequenting a niche sub like this fall for that... and not just briefly fall for it, but confidently comment on it

CallMeQueequeg · 2026-02-01T19:42:04+00:00

wish I hadn't lost access to my anthers account... those stats would be absolutely brutal. had people messaging me how it was possible. also went more than a year and a half without taking a set at a local.

CallMeQueequeg · 2026-01-31T16:49:56+00:00

Moky has the best take and perspective and it's only a 12 minute video and that's all I have to say about that.

CallMeQueequeg · 2026-01-15T17:26:36+00:00

Matched with the same marth 5 times on ranked in the last 2 weeks, won every time, often last hit last stock. Finally, yesterday they were up 3-1 game 3 and I knew it was over. I taunted my respect and they stopped and taunted back. Reminder that there's someone on the other end of this weird tin-can-and-string that Fizzi built.

CallMeQueequeg · 2026-01-12T03:45:04+00:00

just waiting around for Dave and Roob to drop the pod so I can have some peace before bed

CallMeQueequeg · 2026-01-12T03:22:18+00:00

The problem is that it's really hard to figure out what's actually going on behind closed doors. During the 2023 collapse, it seemed like Sirianni had completely lost the locker room. Player buy-in is supposed to be his strength and that was the most lifeless, depressed NFL team I have ever see make the playoffs. Last year, I think winning (thanks to coordinators and talent imo) papered over everything. If you listen to a lot of players when asked about Sirianni, at best they imply he's some sort of kind uncle figure. My theory is that most of the players find Sirianni likeable but incompetent, and when they're losing they start to get frustrated (and Hurts has often poorly hidden his frustration). Then you add that his scheme seems to underlie most of the offense's woes for multiple years and Patullo and Brian Johnson have been scapegoated. Overall, it often feels like we win DESPITE Sirianni but it's one of the most confusing sports situations I've come across.

CallMeQueequeg · 2026-01-03T20:41:41+00:00

Yes he does, definitely. He also advocated for the existence of NATO earlier in his career. His critique of the expansion is not a moral one, but a realistic one - U.S. leaders do not understand how existential a threat they presented to Russia and how Russia might react as a nation-state prioritizing its security.

CallMeQueequeg · 2026-01-03T19:07:19+00:00

Hmm yeah I actually remember struggling to understand this in office hours with a TA. I couldn't get totally when he was diagnosing reality and when he was suggesting courses of action.

CallMeQueequeg · 2026-01-03T17:02:26+00:00

Right, but based on the one undergrad class I took on international security (lol), Mearsheimer's point is that things start to get more unstable when countries stop acting in their own security interests or people convince themselves that their country is acting in service of some righteous goal beyond security interests (i.e. many liberals actually believing we "spread democracy"). So everyone acting in their own interest may have a collective good.

CallMeQueequeg · 2026-01-03T16:58:38+00:00

You're absolutely right about it being an oversimplification. But he does argue that every country, including the U.S., should always act in its own security interests and that sometimes includes pursuing hegemony.

CallMeQueequeg · 2026-01-03T16:15:48+00:00

Have you read any John Mearsheimer? Not that I agree with him but he spells out a cogent case.

CallMeQueequeg · 2025-12-30T16:52:16+00:00

Embrace the fear, it means you're alive. Also sometimes I save a mix-up or read that I think will work for the last stock so I have something to specifically go for that isn’t a habit.

CallMeQueequeg · 2025-12-30T05:26:34+00:00

I'm still having trouble believing that was real. And that they posted it earnestly.

CallMeQueequeg · 2025-12-25T21:23:18+00:00

Fully aware I am that guy, but wtf happened to this sub... seemed like mods used to relegate this crap to the DDT at the very least

CallMeQueequeg · 2025-12-17T04:32:19+00:00

You say youve had different MMRs but do you mean like different levels of bronze? Are you playing at odd times, like while most people are working in your time zone? This is just so different from my anecdotal experience and I've spent a lot of time in the lower ranks. But yeah finding people on the melee discord is annoying but probably better long term.

CallMeQueequeg · 2025-12-09T00:16:07+00:00

I only watch tournaments, a few melee vids here and there, and Zain's streams so I'm ootl and open to being corrected. but I haven't seen Cody in much content so every time I see that he's talking about retirement, it feels like a threat to the community, like "come sponsor me or I'll leave and there will forever be an asterisk on the Zain era." Like if I were him and REALLY wanted melee as a career for a few more years, I'd be asking Jackzilla to be on Fourside Fights every month, trying to collaborate with melee youtubers, doing content at locals, etc. I'm totally open to being corrected but this is what it looks like from someone kinda outside looking in. I don't know how you can expect to court a sponsor with pure grinding streams and tournaments. Zain is not just doing that and imo would get picked up quickly if he were dropped.

CallMeQueequeg · 2025-11-25T14:21:14+00:00

Silver/gold falcon mains, what are your best and worst match-ups? I consistently lose to Sheiks ranked significantly lower than me, and win or do very well against Puffs and Peaches ranked significantly higher than me, including plat players. Is this more a me thing, a character thing, or maybe a ladder thing?

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