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The Typical tourneyfag
The Typical tourneyfag
What tournaments look like.
What tournaments look like.
To all Tournyfags
To all Tournyfags
A common prize for most tournaments.
A common prize for most tournaments.

Tourneyfags, short for "Tournament Faggot", is singlehandedly the most embarrassing thing to ever rear its distended head into the world of video gaming--even more embarrassing than being caught masturbating to Dead or Alive: Extreme Beach Volleyball by your grandmother. Tourneyfags like to take flawless video games such as Super Smash Bros. Melee and beat the living shit out of it with completely unnecessary rules. Now that Brawl is available, their unnecessary revisions result in not so much Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but Super Smash Bros. BAWWWWWWW.

At these tournaments, all the basement-dwellers get together with their Gamecubes and spend several hours circle jerking waiting to touch a damn controller and actually play the game in the biggest sausage fest on Earth. After your five to eight minutes of playing, you get to wait several more hours to play again, unless you lost your last match, in which case you can either leave or stay and watch the rabid fanboyism. Either way, the day will end with you alone in your basement, crying, and wondering where your life went wrong.

All tourneyfags desperately want Super Smash Bros. to be a competitive fighting game like Street Fighter, but of course this will never happen, since Nintendo has gone completely casualfag. In fact, most self-imposed tourneyfag rules are aimed towards making the game more like Street Fighter anyway. So why don't they just play Street Fighter? The answer is simple: they're retards who love Nintendo's shitty characters.

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People who complain about tourneyfags to me are like the fucking idiots who want to play sports with their friends, but suck at it, so they bitch and complain until everyone takes it easy on them, so they can win without even putting in any practice or dedication. What a bunch of fucking babies.
 

 

—WTF? If you practice a video game, you already fail. GTFO, fag.

 
 
Or maybe when I realized Brawl Captain Falcon sucks.Or maybe when I realized Brawl Ganondorf sucks...
 

 

 
 
WE'RE PLAYING FOOTBALL, YOU FAGORT, TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF AND HOP ON YOUR BIG TOE DOWN THE FIELD WHILE I BEAT YOU WITH THIS BASEBALL BAT, IT'S THE WAY THE GAME WAS MEANT TO BE PLAYED!!1
 

 

—An ignored casualfag explains the obvious.

 
 
the way they massacred Fox, Falco, and JIGGLYPUFF, and just about half of the other characters is just disgraceful.
 

 

—A tourneyfag angry that his yiff was massacred

 
 
Tourneyfags are Complete Assholes Hell, I like Smash Bros., and I play it FOR FUN. Not so I can go brag to the people on Smashboards about how I pwnt all these n00bz at some fucking tournament as Fox on Final Destination. I mean really, Tourneyfags are, and always will be FUCKING ASSHOLES.
 

 

 
 
i realized i didnt like brawl when i realized there were no L canceling and wave dashing. aka the first time i played the game
 

 

—Tourneyfag angry that he can't do his tourneyfag thing

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Types of Tourneyfags

  • Casual Fag - These are the type of people who show up to tournaments with absolutely no idea what any of the rules are and provoke the ensuing wrath of the Typical Tourneyfags; they may even choose their favorite character. They may actually defeat some of the Typical Tourneyfags since they're more or less on the same level of skillz. The only thing that really separates them is whether or not they actually bothered to memorize the rules. There's a 50/50 chance that the Casual Fag will get sucked into the never ending spiral of self-destruction that is Tourney-faggotry or leave the scene forever thinking Tourneyfags fail hard.
  • The Professional - These most likely azn players have dedicated their lives into getting really good at playing the game. You stand no chance against them unless you are a Professional Tourneyfag like they are, in which case you're just as much a loser as them. They know all the rules by heart, and have carefully calculated every statistic to give them the mathematical advantage over their opponent. Normally these Tourneyfags are saving their virginity for Zelda or Princess Peach, and have a severe case of basement dweller-ism. Despite all this, they're not all that annoying, because they're generally easy to avoid.
  • Typical Tourneyfag - This type of Tourneyfag is not as dedicated as the Professional, but they're really damn close to failing just as hard as them. They use their favorite character while acknowledging their disadvantages, but occasionally choose a less popular character simply for the sake of wanting to win, with no intention of having any fun. They tend to disagree with some of the rules unless they want to ass kiss the moron who wrote them. They're the most annoying type of Tourneyfag, because they're fucking everywhere. You can most likely find them foaming at the mouth while yelling at someone.

B& FAGGOT! U R NOT FAIR AND BALANCED!!1

Dont U touch dat INNOVASHUN!!1
Dont U touch dat INNOVASHUN!!1
A tourneyfag saying he is NOT a tourneyfag? Oh wow.
A tourneyfag saying he is NOT a tourneyfag? Oh wow.

Do you have a favorite character, a favorite stage, or a favorite item? There's a 98% 100% chance that the Tourneyfags have banned all three from being used. Why? To be simply put, they do it to make the game "fair and balanced." For example, certain stages provide "unfair defensive positions" (ie: the far right cloud in Yoshi's Island). The correct thing to do when a person has an "unfair defensive position" is run over, kick their fucking ass, and TAKE THE DAMN POSITION. What the Tourneyfags prefer to do is bitch and moan about it until the stage is banhammered. That's why Tourneyfags are gay for Final Destination, there are no "unfair defensive positions."

Items are also banned. Sometimes just certain items that give "unfair advantages" like the superstar or hammer which makes a character invincible, or items that replenish heath. What the Tourneyfags fail to realize is that items randomly spawn, meaning that your character has just as good a chance to nab an item as another character does. Deactivating items is a matter of preferences, but the Tourneyfags are emo bitches about it.

There is no video game in existence that's perfectly "fair and balanced;" players are always going to find exploits and ways that certain characters can be made more powerful than the rest. Tourneyfags simply water down the game until they're left with this gray, mushy abortion that Nintendo never wanted in the first place.

 
 
What I don't understand about tourneyfags is, wouldn't being best at the game mean you just dominate all aspects of it? Wouldn't being the best mean that no matter what items or settings there were, you could adapt and overcome?
 

 

—Anonymous Casualfag, being a non-faggot

Smashboards

SmashBoards, the primary focus of this article, is a Super Smash Bros dedicated forum full of these tourneyfags that call themselves "Pro Smash Players". Most of the topics on this forum are arguments about whether Brawl or Melee is better, so-called facts that are really just opinions without any actual basis behind them, and Brawl screenshots that claim to be funny, such as Solid Snake's Ass, or the inevitable Princess Peach pantyshot. They do not take very kindly to newfags, as they are often shit upon and blacklisted from every VIP forum if they are unable to interpret any of their inside jokes and/or jargon; most of these are viewable here.



A Quick Guide

In closing, nine out of ten stages are banned. Don't believe it? Do the math yourself.
In closing, nine out of ten stages are banned. Don't believe it? Do the math yourself.
5/41 stages are acceptable.
5/41 stages are acceptable.

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You Probably Suck at Smash

Masahiro Sakurai, expert troll and game designer of Brawl gave the tourneyfags the finger when he unveiled the "Special Brawl" mode. This is an example of Stamina Mega Flower Curry Heavy Slow Angled Brawl
Masahiro Sakurai, expert troll and game designer of Brawl gave the tourneyfags the finger when he unveiled the "Special Brawl" mode. This is an example of Stamina Mega Flower Curry Heavy Slow Angled Brawl
 
 
Anyone who thinks that the pros don't have stupid glitches to hide in anymore, and that they're destined to fall, doesn't know anything about any competition, let alone Melee. Tourneyfags will ALWAYS find new glitches to exploit, like Mortarsliding, and we WILL reign supreme.
 

 

—Tourneyfag Commander, defending his legion of assholes' inability ability to play a game the way it was meant to be played by the creators.

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Brawl: Unsuitable for Tourney

Does this new level fit the Tourneyfag seal of approval?
Does this new level fit the Tourneyfag seal of approval?

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Super Smash Brothers BAWWWWW!!1!

Get over it bitch, you lost because you suck.
Get over it bitch, you lost because you suck.

Iwata Asks: Brawl

Masahiro Sakurai takes another jab at the tourneyfags, hitting them where it hurts most.
Masahiro Sakurai takes another jab at the tourneyfags, hitting them where it hurts most.
Use this picture as Tourneyfag Kryptonite.
Use this picture as Tourneyfag Kryptonite.

In January 2008, before Super Smash Bros. Brawl hit shelves in Godzilla Land, wii.com began to post a series of interviews between Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of Smash Bros., and Satoru Iwata, the president of Nintendo. In the third installment of the interview, the two touched on the topic of online gameplay: how to create an unlulzy atmosphere free of harassment, but more importantly, how they could stick it to the tourneyfags. Online play was created with the casual gaming faggots in mind, which shouldn't be a surprise given Nintendo's targeting that demographic specifically.

 
 
...online gaming had always been a place for the strong. One person [tourneyfags] would be living it up while hundreds or thousands of people [casual gamers] were unhappy... as long as things remain this way, online gaming can spread only so far. ...Even if people thought [the game] looked interesting, most would hesitate to get involved and stay lingering on the sidelines. ... [Brawl] would be more about the fun of sharing rather than simply competing. ... Those in the top five might feel pretty good about themselves, but what happens if you’re number 15,398 in the rankings? People considered formidable in their own particular community wouldn’t be the least bit pleased.
 

 

—Satoru Iwata, saying Casualfags > Tourneyfags

 
 
When people think of playing Smash Bros. online, they think about battling opponents to see what happens based on their record of wins or losses, or about holding tournaments online. But I felt that this would make it a service from which only a select group of players [tourneyfags] could derive enjoyment. For Smash Bros., there are small communities here and there where there’s fun in winning and losing, even when there are more skilled players than others. But if you make an environment where everyone is trying to climb their way to the top of a single tall mountain, it’s clear that the people having fun would be limited to a small number of individuals.
 

 

—Masahiro Sakurai, telling tourneyfags to fuck off

Tourneyfags Invading Other Situations

All a tourneyfag has to hear is the word "casual", and he forgets that he has to think.
All a tourneyfag has to hear is the word "casual", and he forgets that he has to think.


FINAL DESTINATION FGT

Memorable Quotes

  • "A few items like motion-sensor bombs, super scopes, and bombs can dramatically unbalance gameplay."-Super Smash Bros. BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW tourneyfag, being a fucking crybaby.
  • "You can't practice "luck". You can't choose to have "luck". it wouldn't be fair to the person who actually tries to win and puts his all into it to lose because a pill that JUST SO HAPPENED TO BE FUCKING EXPLOSIVE kills him, or that a bomb-omb that JUST SO HAPPENS TO BE NEXT TO HIM kills him, or that sort of ilk."
  • "There fact that it is possible to turn off items presumably means that some matches were meant to be played with them off. No one likes them in tournies because it allows the weaker player to win if they get sufficiently lucky, and when there is a prize for the ultimate winner, that sucks balls."-Holy shit, what time in the morning did you get up to come up with this?
  • "Are you talking about wavedashing? I don't consider it a glitch, but I digress. Wavedashing is a short burst of movement that only a handful of characters can take advantage of. Not exactly game breaking."-Wow, this is actually over my head. Get a life, tourneyfags.
  • "If the choice is either full on tourneytard or ultra-casual not even caring who wins, I'll go tourney myself. The whole point of competition is to do your best to win. If you're not trying your hardest, go read a book, take a nap, anything else that doesn't have winners and losers."- Tourneyfag, on video games. Could video games be more competitive if there weren't just a bunch of racist 12 year-old kids and 30-something basement-dwelling fags occupying the online community?
  • "If you want to hit four buttons over and over for your free kill, go eat a cake or do something else that's really easy and gives simple gratification."- If it's that easy to win, why do you even bother with these cocksucking rules in the first place?
  • "lol @ casual "gamers" I love how people participate in a hobby the suck balls at and think they count. Casual "gamers" are no better than fanfiction writers or deviantfags who draw pictures of Spongebob fucking Haruhi."-People who take this shit seriously must feel pretty good about themselves after this shitty comeback.
  • "Yea, but a random change in the stage, though you know its coming can turn a strategy over and everybody knows that if you're so into the game the fact you have to jump to a platform instead of hitting your enemy is going to piss you off, thats why all tourney fags use maps you can Waveshine on"-Why do I bother continuing? It's not like these guys will want to take this kind of abuse towards their life's accomplishments.
  • "the point of a tournament is being able to fight each other without any sort of outside influence affecting the fight, to show who is more skilled than another. having an "off day" has nothing to do with being skilled or trying your hardest, and shouldn't have to affect a regular, balanced fight."-You missed the point of video games in general, faggort.
  • "it removes the more random parts of it to try and make it into a more balanced fighter. it takes away what makes it a casual, jump-in sort of game, and molds it into the kind of game that can be practiced, the kind of game that actually is at least more equal. some people find a battle of equality, where no one can get an upper hand due to a retarded deus ex machina, and where the only thing that you can be graded on is how well you can execute your moves and keep focused. but of course, NOPE, IT HAS TO HAVE BOB-OMBS AND SUPER FLAT ZONE AND BE COMPLETELY RANDOM AND WACKY LOL TO BE FUN ^^ DESU-NE. die slowly in a fire."-Tourneyfag, on what tourneyfags must, but refuse, to do in order to save themselves from eternal damnation.
  • "Tourneyfags are the shit killing ALL video games in general. They can't handle the heat of items so they turn it off. They can't handle the way a map works so they ban it. They can't handle the way a character outmatches Fox so they ban it. But they don't ban bugs and exploits....right and WE'RE the scrubs"-A casualfag on tourneyfags. Truth.
  • "Fixing the game so the only stages or methods of gameplay you can use benefits a grand total of maybe five characters tops doesn't seem like "fair and even" to me. What about characters like Mewtwo, who benefit from items and are thus totally fucking shafted? or characters who would do well on moving stages who are once again fucked for Final Destination/Battlefield? Balancing the game in favor of certain characters doesn't seem like balancing it at all, it seems like fucking it up."-Well, do you think tourneyfags who only ever use those five characters care? You're dead to the fuckers.
  • "SSB is the tourneytard game for faggots who suck at every other FIGHTAN GAEM in existence. Basically SSB tournaments are a desperate grasp for some kind of achievement in their pathetic lives."-Moar truth. These guys should get an award.
  • "50 dollars for two characters and one stage. Sounds like a solid investment, eh what? :D"-EH WOT. Indeed.
  • (On needing items to use Zero Suit Samus) "I'm boycotting this game guaranteed now. Wavedashing or not, that's just completely stupid. I in no way trust sakurai anymore and hope he dies." ~ To tourneyfags, forcing them to use items is like shoving a cake in an oven.
  • "But I guess I'm not getting anywhere with proving the greatness of competitive Smash. So I'll propose a challenge to anyone on this thread who doesn't like competive smash.When Brawl comes out, I'll play anyone in a best out of 5, no items. If I lose, I'll never post on these boards again(I'm dead serious) but if I win, then the person(s) must admit that competive smash is awsome."-This tourneyfag is definately lying, if he lost he would (dead FUCKING seriously) come back with some shitty "U PRCK!!!!!!1111111111111i WHANT A rEmAtCh!!1

U RNT FARE n BAlANCED!!!!!

  • "I especially love the "real men use items" Tag thing. Makes sense, I guess peace is a "Real Man" now, idiots. By this item logic "Real men" suck at the game too. Whoever Nate is, I'll trash him."-So tourneyfags aren't real men? Thanks for that one.
  • Casualfag: "Yes, we're using items. We'll discuss this further in the faction forum but i'm making sure this clan stays as tourneyfag free as possible, and the only way to do that is to make all stages usuable and items mandatory."-Don't these fuckers have lives? No, they don't.
  • Tourneyfag: "You future and downfall in Smash has been writtin in that [above] post. There's no better way in declaring that you suck other than of that statement you posted."-The person he's writing to probably has a life. Well, at least he has one!
  • "cause ull lose? and who said i would lose with items? im a sniper with items id pwn ur ass all over the place. and what do u have against fox? afraid of getting shined off the stage? i can do that with items on and on any stage."-I still have no idea what the fuck "shined" means. It's like another language with tourneyfags.
  • "If you're playing against a real pro, then whether you use items or not, you will lose to them. It's just that items get in the way of skill and technique."
  • "all the casuals play gay"-That's why they're called tourneyFAGS.
  • "You suck, idiot. I can chop the game disc in half, and that's all pros need."-The pros really should chop the disc in half and throw it away, then get a goddamn job.
  • "None of the tourney players are complaining about this. None of us even fucking care. The fact that you "casualfags" (and effective opposite to your beloved tourneyfag), are saying this is broken just goes to show you can't even fucking figure out how to use mechanics that were intentionally programmed (like directional influence, or for gods sake, fucking teching) to get out of something this retarded just goes to show how inept 99% of you are. Go back to 4chan you fucking scrubs."
  • "im happy when i hear players who i know are skilled arguing over the tiers....it just let's me know actually well balanced Melee is...and for those who say it isnt very well balanced, i say: Play another another fighting game and get to know those tiers and how separated they are"-Failing to realize that just about any other fighting game does a 100% better job at discerning skill from faggotry.
  • "characters are better than others, but im assuming nintendo didnt care about balance in the first place"-They didn't, or else none of their characters (all of whom are gay, since sexual practice is taboo to even their most mature fans) would look like the target audience was a bunch of six year-olds off their meds. Seriously, Yoshi looks like something in Dragon Tales. And do I even need to mention furry's involvement?
  • "Who cares what SAKURAI wants. It's me who is playing and it is me who wants to ENJOY playing it. His way, to me, is NOT the FUN way. Also why is it a big deal to you? Who is holding a gun to your head saying YOU PLAY LIKE THIS OR I SHOOT YOU? Nobody. You play your way(randomness) and I'll play mine(as skill oriented as can be)."-Your way (lulz), and my way (gay).
  • "Not necessarily. Sakurai has definitely acknowledged the large tourney fanbase. Smashboards is hardly a good sample of decent tourney players."
  • "Sakurai's just a scrub. Reading his thoughts on competitive gaming just makes me want brawl to be more competitive than ever."
  • "Glitches," "Tricks," whatever you want to call them that made the game more than what it was. It helped turn it into a deep fighting game. Combos in street fighter were not intended either. Instead of pulling a Sakurai, however, they knew that they were on to something, and kept going with it. Sakurai had come across a great thing, and instead, dismisses it. It's a shame, really."
  • "Sakurai can go to hell, he's deliberately ruining the metagame. Seriously, if your not good, just don't play with good players.-A particularly balsy statement from a tourneyfag. Without Skurai, you wouldn't even have a decent game to rape the shit out of for everyone else who actually wants to PLAY, not WORK.
  • "PrakirJaq, you are correct, I believe the animation is called "landfall special." I made a huge post about the mechanics of wavedashing in another thread. It's not a glitch. Technically none of the exploits we frequently use are glitches, which is rare. But as Mookie said, glitch vs. exploit is just an argument in semantics. In Halo 2, the BXR was probably a glitch, the doubleshot was almost certainly a glitch, yet both widened the skillgap so people used them and didn't complain. Nintendo fans just tend to be scrubbier than other communities."
  • "He's Nintendo's biggest selling point now-a-days and gets not Smash lov'n.
  • "You do that. Note that the best Mewtwo in the world, Taj. Has never won a major tourney. And NO LOW TIER HAS EVER GOTTEN FIRST AT A MAJOR TOURNEY!
  • " If you use a character who is weak against another character and lose, that's your fault. It is your choice who you use, so you shouldn't whine if you have a bad match-up.-Ironically, the tourneyfag in this quote was most likely the one bawwing about a bad match-up. Or not, considering that he probably won and spat in the face of the poor loser so he could use a line like this one.
  • "Fun is subjective, understand that CPB&. Ebaums has fun posting porn all over the place for the "lulz", casuals have fun playing with items on wacky stages, and I have fun beating my opponent to a bloody pulp with no aid whatsoever on neutral stages. When I played with my 4 year old nephew, I tore him to shreds." ~ Superstar-What the fuck? Tourneyfags families aren't even safe. His nephew probably kicked his ass IRL and in the game.
  • Casualfag troll girl:"To be honest, I think it's actually good Evo decided to put items and not ban certain stages. Why? Because it actually would make you work harder to "fight against luck". To me, that takes more skill than staying on the ruleset of "no items, these certain tiers only, final destination". 'Cuz if someone could also play skillfully with items and whacky stages, then that's some **** skill right there."-Moar truth, for teh winnzar.

Tourneyfag Jargon

Post this in Tourneyfag hives.
Post this in Tourneyfag hives.
Masahrio Sakurai yet again shows tourneyfags how Brawl is supposed to be played.
Masahrio Sakurai yet again shows tourneyfags how Brawl is supposed to be played.

Tourneyfags think they are so awesome by having a lot of esoteric and gay jargon roughly equivalent to memes:

Notable Tourneyfags

This is what tourneyfags believe.
This is what tourneyfags believe.
Being the favorite Smash Bros. player is important to every Tourneyfag, even in forum polls.
Being the favorite Smash Bros. player is important to every Tourneyfag, even in forum polls.
  • The Buzz Saw: Like most Tourneyfags, Buzz believes that low tiers can never beat a high tier character, which is ironic considering his main was Young Link. He has a blog someplace that no one reads, but it's amusing to see his pseudo-intellegent cases for why "competitive melee" is somehow not retarded.
  • RDK: Tribal war god of tourneyfags. Either you agree with him and join the ranks of mindwashed minions or you're a fucking scrub.

Tourneyfagism in other games

What? This section does not need any more examples, not at all.
You can help by not adding anything, especially not more shitty examples.
A summary of this section.
A summary of this section.
THEY RUIN EVERYTHING.
THEY RUIN EVERYTHING.

Besides Super Smash Bros., there are other games that tourneyfags make more "balanced and fair":

  • About every single FPS - NO GRENADES, NO LANDMINES, NO VEHICLES, NO COVERED STAGES, KNIFE/HANDGUN ONLY FINAL DESTINATION FGT
  • Half-Life series - NO CROWBARS, NO GRAVITY GUN, NO ALYX, NO DOG, NO HEV SUIT ONLY FINAL DESTINATION FGT
  • Halo series - NO ALIEN WEAPONS, NO SHIELDS, NO CLOAKS, RADARS OFF, SET STARTING WEAPONS, CHIEF ONLY, MAX DAMAGE FINAL DESTINATION FGT
  • Metroid - NO MISSILES, NO SUPER MISSLES, NO PLASMA BEAM, NO ICE BEAM, NO WAVE BEAM, NO BOMBS, NO POWER BOMBS, NO VARIA SUIT, NO GRAVITY SUIT, POWER BEAM ONLY FINAL DESTINATION FGT
  • Oblivion - NO MAGIC, NO WEAPONS, NO ARMOR, HAND TO HAND ONLY FINAL DESTINATION FGT
  • Pokémon - NO SAME ITEMS, NO DOUBLE TEAM/MINIMIZE/OHKO, NO UBERS, NO EVOLVED FORMS, SLEEP CLAUSE, FREEZE CLAUSE, SELF-KO CLAUSE, LEVEL 50 MAXIMUM, SKARMBLISS ONLY FINAL DESTINATION FGT
  • Resident Evil 4 - NO INFINITE LAUNCHER CHICAGO TYPEWRITER OR HANDCANNON, NO BUYING AWESOME WEAPONS FROM MERCHANT, KNIFE ONLY FINAL DESTINATION FGT
  • Tetris - NO I- J- L- S- Z- OR T-PIECES, O-PIECES ONLY, HARD-DROP ONLY FINAL DESTINATION FGT
  • (Insert Game of Choice Here) - NO FUN, IRRATIONAL RULES, UNNECESSARY LIMITATIONS, SERIOUS BUSINESS ONLY FINAL DESTINATION FGT

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