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Red dot ‘em and dash bitch we speakin morsecode
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Obsession had me SHOOK 😭 Lost my appetite the rest of the night Powerful stuff
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I feel like what has happened in melee to me lately is a manifestation of problems that have existed for a long time. I don't expect this to change anything. I wrote it for closure so I could move on knowing I did everything I could and to say goodbye. docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Please watch this and give it your full attention
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EVOLUTION 3 - Out Now
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there are sentences being formed that haven’t been formed before
#NEW: Justin Trudeau’s son, Xav, set to headline Ottawa’s Shawarma Fest tomorrow.
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The greatest spotdodge of all time.
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This guy is so hard to keep up with lol but he brings out the best in me
the food poisoning is gone i must log off the game now. from 2 hrs w/ goose
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the food poisoning is gone i must log off the game now. from 2 hrs w/ goose
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Holy crap man, 10k steps a day really is the play, I feel like I cleaned out the gunk in my system by just walking a couple miles and enjoying the day.
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Replying to @moky_dokie
The summer rankings should be tier-based instead of awarding each player a specific number. This would allow the ranking of more players w/o accuracy issues, and it seems more appropriate as a sort of halfway preview for the end-of-year rankings anyways.
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I'm not a fan of this change at all, and vocalized my concerns privately to members of the Melee Stats team when the rankers nearly made this change last year. I appreciate that this is in response to fewer events happening in the first half of the year in 2026, but it's also a decision being made prior to BoBC, a major still yet to take place in the first half of the year that will undoubtedly create more meaningful data. An alternative solution would be broadening the ranking-eligible events to include major prelocals, which would effectively double the amount of cross-region h2h data without depriving 20 players of the opportunity to be recognized for their efforts, and also make it much easier for players to meet the activity requirements without breaking the bank on travel. The optics of downsizing from a top 50 to a top 30 are just not great- it implies that the game is shrinking. 50 or 100 players on a ranking have always been arbitrary thresholds that don't reflect ranges of skill or the number of players who are "good" at the game, and the lower spots on the top 100 have also always been pretty volatile. I don't think that that's an issue. When so many players set "getting ranked" as a huge goal, in the same way that players try to push to get on their local PR, I think that there's value in upholding those goalposts. I'm not suggesting that we broaden the top 50 or 100 to let everyone get a participation trophy or something, but when there's such a strong precedent for what the benchmarks are, I think that pulling that opportunity away from people is just missing the bigger picture, especially when there are alternative solutions. I think there are plenty of other solutions that would be preferable- a mid-year top 100 that includes the back half of 2025, delaying the mid-year ranking slightly to include more data, not aligning with the calendar year, or just running it and accepting that it'll never be perfect- and that's okay. I understand that the ranking team prioritizes the accuracy our their output, and I don't fault them for wanting to ensure that they're not effectively making up placings. But I do think that they're missing the forest for the trees with this one.
Two big announcements for SSBMRank Summer 2026! First, the ranking period for Summer rank will end on July 12, the weekend of Garden Brawl and Krewe 2 Event requirements for Summer are 1 major 2 majors/ regionals, and for the year-end Top 100 are 2 majors 2 majors/regionals
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Replying to @MeleeStatsPod
i explained privately last year why i felt this is a bad idea the ranking is more important to the players in the ~50s at this point and even if the list isn’t super accurate depriving players of the opportunity to reach it is upsetting
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Replying to @MeleeStatsPod
if you were actually trying to change with the landscape of the game maybe listen to one of the many players dissatisfied with your product for the last 5 years instead of unfollowing them all and making decisions like this that negatively impact the community imo
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Love my city
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I open twitter in public n this is the first thing I saw
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