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I analyze my lukewarm play

Dreamepitaph said:
  • You're good your tactics work your plays pulls you through. Have confidence in what you do - so says the crappy player-
Thanks man. Also if you're crappy then we all are.
 
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drewski said:
What I'm really paying attention to in these matches isn't the gameplay (which, I dunno, I honestly feel I'm pretty bad at analyzing gameplay) but more so my body language before the sets start. Against Cloud, I look really serious, I'm fidgeting in my seat, "shake hands" with the wrong hand, and overall seem pretty nervous. After pulling a win out of my butt, I was pretty happy with myself and was basically like "cool, I made top 3. I can relax now." If you look at me versus peanuts or SonicFox, I look a lot more calm and collected and more like I'm actually enjoying myself. My goal for Winter Brawl (and NEC, the only two majors I've attended so far) was just to play not-bad. Like, at the beginning of both brackets I was so scared about going 0-2 that I really wasn't talking to anybody or trying to play casuals or anything. In regards to Winter Brawl, I feel like once I reached winner's finals, I was content with my performance and wasn't worried about what was going to happen next. That is BAD for a competitive mindset (at least for the way I approach competition) and is what I contribute most to why I lost both those sets (peanuts & sonicfox). I don't mean to imply that I wasn't outplayed, but if you look at those two matches and compare them to my match against cloud, I play completely differently. I seem lost about what to do next and make a couple really odd drops/decisions. Once I reached top 3 I should have shifted my mindset to like "oh man, I can win this" and continued concentrating.
For what it's worth I was in the same kind of mindset after my set with Twerk. I am always the most stressed at the beginning of a tournament, once I get far enough in the bracket I start relaxing a bit. I personally feel like I play better when I'm relaxed like that. Maybe that doesn't work for everyone. I don't know. Just saying it can work for a nonzero number of people.

I've also done the early handshake thing before back when I played Mortal Kombat 9. It was a close set that came down to the last hit but I offered the handshake after the penultimate round and it kinda threw me off a bit. Since then I've kind of waited until I actually see the game announce that a player has won before shaking hands. That really only works for the level 3 thing though, for the 3/5 thing idk.
 
I never shake hands until the KO screen appears. I always feel weird when the opponent I just supered/ultraed and beat wants to shake my hand before the win screen, especially when it's a super that scales really hard. You might not be dead dude!
 
FuLLBLeeD said:
I never shake hands until the KO screen appears. I always feel weird when the opponent I just supered/ultraed and beat wants to shake my hand before the win screen, especially when it's a super that scales really hard. You might not be dead dude!
I think I even said something like that during handshake #2, like "hold up this might not actually kill you"
 
mcpeanuts said:
For what it's worth I was in the same kind of mindset after my set with Twerk. I am always the most stressed at the beginning of a tournament, once I get far enough in the bracket I start relaxing a bit. I personally feel like I play better when I'm relaxed like that. Maybe that doesn't work for everyone. I don't know. Just saying it can work for a nonzero number of people.
I feel like that's what makes sense. You play better when you don't have stress. That's why I'm hoping it's just a thing that will pass with time (I'm pretty new to competitive stuff in general).

mcpeanuts said:
I've also done the early handshake thing before back when I played Mortal Kombat 9. It was a close set that came down to the last hit but I offered the handshake after the penultimate round and it kinda threw me off a bit. Since then I've kind of waited until I actually see the game announce that a player has won before shaking hands. That really only works for the level 3 thing though, for the 3/5 thing idk.
FuLLBLeeD said:
I never shake hands until the KO screen appears. I always feel weird when the opponent I just supered/ultraed and beat wants to shake my hand before the win screen, especially when it's a super that scales really hard. You might not be dead dude!
You guys are right. That's something I should keep in the back of my head until it becomes natural. "it ain't over 'til it's over."

mcpeanuts said:
I think I even said something like that during handshake #2, like "hold up this might not actually kill you"
Yeah you did lol. I might have just started getting up if it wasn't for that.
 
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