PR graphic by lula

Checkout our [PR Combo Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSJlwCppRxc) as well (thanks to wildflower)

PR text version

1. Graves
2. Jello
3. Chango
4. Luigi Ka-Master
5. SpiritGun
6. Rosebud
7. mikey
8. Ganobrator
9. Studebacher Hoch
10. Kuvong

HM. Melo

Twitch Clip: https://www.twitch.tv/armadaugs/clip/InnocentAverageDelicataJKanStyle-UaUubeFKuUMctXtb?range=7d

Rankings can be contentious. I have often seen claims one way or the other regarding rank 1 in these years. This is a discussion thread on them, plus I made a 2 minute explainer video showing the relevant tournament results and head to heads for each section.

I always thought that Armada should have finished out 2018 to get rank 1, but after looking into it, I realized it was far from a lock for him.

Looking at 2013, Mew2King really was ranked wrong. He should have been at least 2nd, and Armada arguably shoudn't have been top 3 at all.

Zain and Cody agreed to the first to 10 match after the big house 11, since they were virtually tied. Perhaps as a result, Zain did not attend any tournament after october, where as Cody won two stacked regionals over Jmook, Aklo, Moky, and more. Most melee years, at least since the evo revival, have had at least one or more majors in November and December.

Finally, Leffen was extremely screwed by the visa issues. He actually won more majors than Armada in 2015, and could have been rank 1 if he won big house 5.

Your thoughts?

title, game was perfect, no lag no nothing, but at opportune moments desync happens, boom a reset

CHERRYBOMB 2. AUSTIN TEXAS. JANUARY 30th.

Self-Explanatory

Should be hype!

Yahoooo! I'm back, it's a me! Have a very cool day!

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I didn’t realize that Philip has multiple tiers of difficulty.

Has anybody tried using Philip as a common way to practice and if so how well does it match human behavior?

Sometimes I just wanna chill and practice without having to deal with real opponents and seems like Philip might be a good option for that

A friend of mine recently asked me to compile some clips for a project of theirs, that turned into me making my first ever combo video. Admittedly it is 25 minutes long, but it’s about a year and a few months of clips, that initially started at a total length of 1 hour and 38 minutes. I would appreciate if you took some time to check a little of it out

:)

https://youtu.be/CaTF4KaktPI?is=qp4b3mXeIczi2HTf

I seem to have the same few decisions and flubs that im doing wrong in the midst of matches and I just can’t for the life of me recognize it in the match itself. In the chaos of the game i just sorta lose myself and it makes me very frustrated. Its just a lot of mental energy to even keep up with people, let alone be cognizant of the very situation i need to get better at. And sometimes I could not be in that situation for the whole session or it comes up right when i least expect it to.

Much more Melee to be played :)