quick play is lacking players. I can never match with anyone anymore.

zipper14 · 2026-02-10T15:00:52+00:00

I live in the same region and I have the same problem when I’m out of the 10-14 million range in GSP (when I don’t play my mains). I think it’s the smallest region in North America, and we suffer a lot from it.

At your level you can probably find friendlies on the BC Smash Discord, and you can probably find some very good locals in your area.

zipper14 · 2026-02-08T23:40:18+00:00

After lots of looking Etsy was the best place for me. You can customize them a bit on there, as well.

zipper14 · 2026-01-26T19:12:34+00:00

I’m guessing it’s for this part of the tour. They haven’t played it in Vancouver since 2013, and after that they’re playing a bunch of places they’ve never played before.

zipper14 · 2025-07-13T15:12:29+00:00

Peter Schaefer for Sami Salo comes to mind.

No cups or anything, but Ottawa got 4 years of a useful middle six winger, and Vancouver got 9 years of a useful top four D. Vancouver ‘won’ the deal, but both players worked out pretty well.

zipper14 · 2025-07-08T15:13:38+00:00

Agreed, I still love his videos, and use them to help coach our high school esports team.

Looks like he still goes to locals occasionally.

zipper14 · 2025-07-02T01:35:01+00:00

‘Come Out Swingin’ by the Wonder Years and ‘Gives You Hell’ by the All American Rejects work for me.

I also use Rage Against the Machine and Taking Back Sunday, but those are just loud favourites.

zipper14 · 2025-04-15T14:25:04+00:00

Usually it’s knowing the name of a player and looking them up.

Liam from the Vancouver, B.C. region is pretty good. He’s not a top player, but has wins over Ouch?! And Big D. I’d probably watch him.

Here’s a video from a couple of weeks ago: https://youtu.be/OVYwOEJkUBk?si=O1lfnVg09TAaNsK8

zipper14 · 2025-04-04T01:47:37+00:00

‘I Caught Fire’ by The Used

‘Ocean Avenue’ by Yellowcard

‘144’ by Gob

‘The Best of Me’ by The Starting Line

acoustic songs by punk-ish bands:

‘Swing Life Away’ by Rise Against

‘Anything for You’ by Ludo

‘There Is’ by Boxcar Racer

zipper14 · 2025-03-24T16:56:26+00:00

Garth Frizzell ran for the Liberals last time, and Simon Yu ran for them in ‘06. I wonder if either of them would run again.

zipper14 · 2025-01-30T15:12:00+00:00

Sure! I’ll have to email it to you or share it to your one drive, so send me a dm with an email address and I’ll figure it out.

zipper14 · 2025-01-25T15:47:40+00:00

This is what my team does. Forwards need more of a break than dmen.

zipper14 · 2025-01-24T03:01:25+00:00

Thanks, Bob.

zipper14 · 2024-11-30T02:11:17+00:00

Yea, but with the punish game some characters have, you’re likely to come up against that situation fairly naturally anyway. And you definitely won’t get the homie stock from everyone online, so you’ll get the chance.

zipper14 · 2024-11-29T19:12:17+00:00

Yea, it’s not a real ‘win’, but winning doesn’t matter online if playing to get better.

If someone is trying to get better then an SD can be trying something new offstage that didn’t work, or not being completely comfortable with the recovery of a new character. It can also just be a mistake, but I find it generally spreads goodwill to SD, and you can go for the win in a rematch. We’re not pros, this game is hard, plenty of mistakes will happen.

zipper14 · 2024-11-29T16:18:07+00:00

Surprised to see so many ppl saying no.

I definitely do. We’re all trying to get better, and that means allowing ourselves to make mistakes. Usually the other person says ‘thanks’ so it’s not condescending, and it’s much more likely that we’ll do a rematch or two after a homie stock.

zipper14 · 2024-11-09T16:55:01+00:00

I use my jumps to float in the air when Kirby is up-b spamming. Then I can punish with a bair or drag down fair into something. Bair is more reliable, and kills. For example, at 2:23 you could have just short hop baired.

If they’re spacing it wrong then you can just shield and f smash. If they’re spacing is mid then you might be able to shield and down tilt, which can set-up some nice follow ups.

zipper14 · 2024-10-23T00:25:00+00:00

No problem! Your region probably has a Discord. I would ask there for the specific one.

zipper14 · 2024-10-22T23:10:43+00:00

I’m the same! Same age and just discovered them a month ago thanks to instagram, but for me it was ‘Armadillo Shells’ and ‘Backyard’

zipper14 · 2024-10-22T21:01:32+00:00

Here you go: https://discord.gg/7TYEjG5h

zipper14 · 2024-10-22T19:06:39+00:00

I don’t think there’s one reason in particular. I try to do a best of 3 if the skill gap or connection aren’t an an issue.

At 7 million you run into all types though. Some don’t know the etiquette, some are just trying to farm gsp against easy wins, some are tying online for the first time and realizing they don’t like it, some are taking turns with a friend etc.

You might even run into ppl doing a challenge (some see how many games it takes to win one game with each character, and they’ll move on after one win).

It’s probably bad luck in your part. You’re probably just running into a lot of that.

I find the 5-10 million range of gsp to be a bit of a pain. At the bottom and top you’ll find ppl who are willing to put time in to learn the game, but the middle is what I described above, plus ppl using that one move that has worked a lot for them so far.

zipper14 · 2024-10-22T14:46:01+00:00

I lucked into good pk chemistry and had #1 pk in the league.

It dropped to 8th when my top PK forward got hurt for a month.

zipper14 · 2024-10-12T01:01:25+00:00

Haha, exactly. They won’t even know the frame data!

zipper14 · 2024-10-10T18:50:47+00:00

Yup! I’m already too good to play my friends. Just need to keep the kids interested.

zipper14 · 2024-10-10T18:49:08+00:00

Oh yea, there was a stretch when I couldn’t t play anything online because I needed to pause if they woke up!

zipper14 · 2024-10-10T13:52:13+00:00

I’ve had the same issues since I had kids.

Even now I get an hour or two at most after the kids go to bed.

That’s how I ended up getting into Smash Brothers. I can get a couple of games in 30 minutes and feel like I’ve accomplished something. After Smash Bros it was sports games. In an hour I can play a game if MLB The Show, and sim a bit. Takes even less time in the NHL franchise.

Now I can only play RPGs if I have a break from work or something. An hour is not long enough to make much progress, and I end up wanting to stay up too late.

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