Tourneyfag
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
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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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
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.
| —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.
Crimson King's avatar pic foreshadows the inevitable act of an hero. |
Tourneyfags are also open to extreme Butthurt |
A Quick Guide
You Probably Suck at Smash
| —Tourneyfag Commander, defending his legion of assholes' |
Brawl: Unsuitable for Tourney
Super Smash Brothers BAWWWWW!!1!
Iwata Asks: Brawl
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.
| —Satoru Iwata, saying Casualfags > Tourneyfags |
| —Masahiro Sakurai, telling tourneyfags to fuck off |
Tourneyfags Invading Other Situations
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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
Tourneyfags think they are so awesome by having a lot of esoteric and gay jargon roughly equivalent to memes:
- Azndash: Azndash is based after a person who failed horribly and "wavedashed" off a stage.
- BK: Bk is a phrase used by fat tourneyfags which means "bad kid".
- Bowsercide/Koopa Kamikaze: In Brawl, Bowser has a special move that allows him to grab a foe, jump up, and squash them with his fat body. If he jumps up while over an edge, both characters will plummet into the pit. Other variants include DKcide, Kirbicide, and Regecide (Ganon and King Dedede).
- Edgehog: The act of waiting for your opponent to get close to the edge after you send them flying, at which point you jump off and grab said edge just before they do, thus causing the foe to helplessly plummet to their doom, since only one person can hang from the ledge at a time. Unlike other tourneyfag techniques, performing this requires minimal skill.
- Jiggs: Faggy way of saying Jigglypuff.
- Knee: Since all tourneyfags are gay for Captain Falcon, one of his moves, the "knee", is constantly hailed as awesome by the tourneyfags solely because they have fantasies of Captain Falcon raping their asshole with his knee.
- L-Canceling/Washdashing/Dash Dancing etc: Glitchy faggotry.
- Mindgames: Since tourneyfags thnk thy r soh smrt, they've created a "Mindgames" class of play in which you do some fancy move to distract your opponent.
- Scrub: People who don't follow tourneyfag rules.
- Shining: A tourneyfag's greatest dream. Fox has to get you in a corner, and press down-B many times. Final Destination remains the only available and unbanned stage because of this.
- Shorthop/Fast-Fall Lag Cancel: Since Smash Bros. is a "Serious Fighting Game" and the characters need to be really, really fast, Tourneyfags decided to remove jumping via this method.
- Stafy, why are you here?: A forced meme started by the SmashBoards based on a podcast, which, after much circle jerking, the Smashtards pointed out Stafy's general uselessness and Sakurai's Hate for anything remotely similar to his ideas. Despite this being true, it was never funny. Never. Still repeated by SmashBoards visitors as if it were awesome.
- Tipper: Hitting opponents with the tip of a weapon.
- Tier List: A ranking of characters divided into categories by perceived strength at the highest level of play, assuming that both players are equally skilled, with the usual rules of no items and Final Destination.
- Tires don exits: A meme made by the tourneyfags. Misspelled "Tiers Don't Exist", Tourneyfags have adopted it as "hilarious" because to them, only idiots would criticize Melee. They've also made a t-shirt.
Notable Tourneyfags
- A2ZOMG: A delusional Tourneyfag that thinks that tiers are made for the lulz. He calls himself a Casualfag because he doesn't have time for tournaments.
- Dylan Tnga: Everyone but him is a fukken scrub.
- Ken Hoang: A pro Tourneyfag who is also an azn. Every Tourneyfag is gay for Ken and would gladly yiff with him. He won 40,000 DOLLARS AT A SMASH TOURNEY OMG. He is an Important Person and needs to be focused on for every smash fan. Lulz at this Smash Site writing an essay on his life. Notice he is a faggot and should be shot. If you see him on the street, gladly do so. He is also known to avoid tournaments he knows he will be raped in, which is pretty much the most of it. Spoilers: Ken is revealed to have a casualfag side to him, as he LURVES items and entered Evo2k8 because they were using items, and butthurt finally hit the tourneyfag community as he lost to a 14-year-old casualfag who played as WALL-E. Ken has recently been accepted as a contestant on the CBS reality TV series "Survivor" in a lulzworthy move worthy of Sakurai himself. Much hilarity is expected from him bitching about how the other tribe are "item-using scrubs." Somehow, he finished in the top five, when finally the rest of the contestants just got tired of his tourneyfag bullshit and voted him off.
- 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.
- Nesshelper: Retarded tourneyfag. Literally.
Tourneyfagism in other games
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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
See Also
External Links
- The main cesspool of all things Tourneyfag.
- Another Tourneyfag HQ
- Another example of tourneyfag-based fail
- Tourneyfags don't deserve brawl and tiers are for queers
- Faggot BAWWWING about the Tourneyfag page on ED (Every response to this article is basically, "NO U!")
- Tourneyfags ruin everything!
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