Accept it can happen but don’t expect it to happen.
If it does, then maybe the others were just better than you on that day.
Doesnt mean you are horrible, just that they were good.
Lets face it, in some of these games one wrong guess and you are in a prime position to get blown up.
Dang, that really gives me a new prospective. One lose and your out…
This happened to me for YEARS. Eventually my own realization was that I can’t be searching for gratification via tournament placings. There’s a great deal of luck involved with how far you’ll go in a tournament.
And eventually I started doing well in tournaments. Persistence pays off.
Were you nervous going into the matches? Were you worried about losing? Marvel is one of those strict games where you really have to be psychologically in the right place in order to do well. If you’re high strung going into the matches, then you’ll be that much more prone to mistakes and you’re not allowed to make many of those in this game.
Its tough because nobody likes to be beaten, but you just have to train yourself to be in the mindset of not giving a damn whether you win or lose. Like the old samurai saying goes, “Go into battle expecting to die and you shall survive. Go into battle hoping to live and surely you will not”. One cannot think of victory without also dwelling on its opposite and that distracts from what must be done.
I’m not a big alcohol drinker but i’ll damn sure have a few drinks before and during a tournament to chill out. Has helped me a lot to be calm & collected, and not freak out whenever one of my characters gets caught in a touch of death combo. Did pretty decent on the last two tournaments I’ve been too.
I grabbed an entire pitcher before my last tournament. That might not have been the best of ideas. A few drinks though, as you suggested? Could be good depending on what time it is.
Honestly, I’m far more relaxed than I thought (except when I show up with a barely put together team I found out I hated playing the day before the tournament). When I’m playing my dude(s), win or lose, I’m far less stressed.
But yes - stress will make you fuck up stuff you don’t believe you should fuck up. In that vein you should work on lowering your stress levels by attending more tournaments, getting used to the atmosphere.
Whatever it takes to get you to loosen up and not be nervous, as well as not freak out if your get your ass kicked once. I also take my MP3 player with me and have my favorite track going whenever i’m in a match so i’ll be more upbeat.
lol i remember one particular tournament match i won, i actually stopped during the HEAT of BATTLE against a tough opponent to adjust my MP3 player to an earlier part of the track. Crazy.
Sometimes i kick myself for doing that, but that was how cool & laid back i was at the time, and i resumed kicking ass afterwards. That is the kinda composed mindset one should be in during a tournament.
As stated, 25% of people in a standard double-elim tournament will go 0-2. It’ll happen to everyone (unless you’re some prodigy who has mastered a game before entering a tournament) at some point. Always stay optimistic and always learn, even if you win. Don’t treat winning and losing too differently. When you lose, reflect on what you did wrong and how you can do better next time. When you win, look back on the mistakes you made and figure out how to win better next time.
Also appreciate how well you did, even if you lost. For example one of the recent tournaments i competed in, i beat two players and lost to four.
However, because i held my own and did decent in each of those(one was supa-close) i didn’t feel bad about the losses. Its marvel, stuff just happens sometimes.
Unless of coarse that person experienced absolutely CRUSHING defeats. Then i dunno what to tell ya, but either way feeling bad about it and being demoralized won’t help your game. Gotta pick oneself up and get back into it. If you can’t take a beating and keep pushing onward then the tournament scene isn’t for you.
Edit: My personal quota for tournaments actually is winning two. If i can take down LEAST two players, then i’m satisfied with my performance. Can’t expect to win’em all.
So far i’ve competed in 4 marvel tournaments and kept the quota up so its cool :smokin:
Yeah, always remembering the positive is a big thing. I got CRUSHED in the only SFxT tourney I entered. My Ryu/Marduk nearly got double-perfected, so i switched to Marduk/Random, and learned how much I love using Dhalsim in games. I like to find the silver lining in any event, and that was it.
YOGA!
I cry. Constantly and profusely, during the match even - it seems to help.
i smoke my Meds before i play fighting games now its calms me down even when i lose
Find someone (preferably more than one person) in your local area and train hard.
I know exactly what you’re feeling, I went to SvB at the end of my first year of uni (maybe it was second actually, I forget), I’d been going berzerk training (6-8 hours/day) I thought I was the best I’d ever been at SF, we got there and my Rog goes 0-2 to a Dhalsim, then I get matched up with one of the guys who traveled up with me and 2-0’s him which felt awful. Then a Bison 2-0’s me and I’m out of the tournament. Soon after that I get obliterated in HDR by two Zangiefs (it was just after Snake Eyez win at Evo) and before the last game even ended I could feel that cloud of depression looming.
The car ride home was pretty salty, and after that the guys I traveled up with stopped playing and pretty soon after so did I. There was nobody in my area (that I knew of) to play against, I couldn’t afford to travel, and my poor net connection made me rage so hard that I just gave up.
So it’s really really important to keep finding people to play against offline, friends, new people, whatever but it’s so important. I’ve only just now started getting back into fighting games.
Well I just went 0-2 yesterday @ MWC and I still managed to have fun. I played a ton of casuals that helped dilute the salt a bit, definetely if you manage to get a win streak or two going. I was happy for the ppl that advanced so I watched the finals for my respective game Hung out and chatted with ppl and @ the end of the day imo my early exit means i have room for improvement and could play more consistent but I still feel good knowing I’m actually contributing to my scene and participating in the FGC. Which is what its about anyway…
I just went 0-2 in both AE and Marval at console combat in Ohio last sunday. I dealt with it by buying some beers and awesome burgers (coco was @ The Fox and Hound) hit on the sexy brunette bartender who kept calling me luv (I know it was the big tips that was getting her to call me that), and talked some of the members of CORN in to do the Suicide Karaoke (watch the whole video!) In other words relax and have fun[media=youtube]7IFNF9WC7Wc[/media]
0-2 and 2-2 are the same, neither dude is getting paid and the dude who went 2-2 just got luckier with the bracket.
If you care about tournament results, if you want to make waves, if you want to be top 3 or top 8… then get motivated and work for it.
Or realize you don’t care. Have fun. Get drunk. Maybe quit playing the game. Play Karnov’s Revenge.