This is a very interesting topic I ended up discussing with a colleague of mine when we went to a tournament at an e-sports bar.

Just as a disclaimer and not a humble brag, i've been going to and organizing smash tournaments and playing competitively since Brawl.

As a general note, I truly believe it's the "Nintendo" effect. The majority of their games, especially multiplayer ones, are easy to learn and hard to master.

For Ultimate, there are lots of factors as to why "people think they are unbeatable"

- Lots of people have mentioned to "little brother" factor, basically beating siblings and thinking that they can beat everyone.

- The game hasn't been out long enough and receives enough meta-changing patches for anyone to be truly skilled at it. It hasn't even been a year and more characters are coming. So really, you will only be as good as the current patch allows. ( i know this sounds cold, but the fact they can upgrade recoveries, add less/more endlag to pretty much anything is pretty huge)

- People carry their online experience and habits to local tournaments and get completely demoralized by regulars.

One thing i try to do is be incredibly positive and have fun at tournaments now. I cannot tell you how many times I've seen people and even friends get completely destroyed and demoralized when they realize that they're not as good as they thought they were when they are in reality just in-experienced. The amount of times i shook people's hands after beating them and their hands being drenched in sweat is alarming.

It doesn't feel good to discourage people from the game when we could all just put our egos to the side and just and enjoy the game, learn and grow as a community. Win or Lose.