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A Fox main winning the last Shine while in the distance of everyone cheering him on, you hear a faint "Mission, Complete!" On the CRT... Absolutely poetic. (If I remember correctly, Light the Ultimate Fox main won that tournament too!)
Jmook being the first solo Sheik to win a supermajor, the FT10 between Zain & Cody, Cody finally breaking the Shine curse, the back and forth between Zain & Cody for #1, Hbox almost resetting the bracket against Zain at SSC in the most heartbreaking ending I’ve seen in awhile, 2023 was PEAK CINEMA
Mang0 vs Zain at GOML when Mang0 was gonna pull one of the best comebacks of all time and maybe a bracket reset , into him pulling the Mang0 and Zain winning 🤣
2023 was dramatic and cinematic. This game and it's best players just keep getting better, it's been amazing to be a part of what this game has become.
@@Fivewardi found it to be boring, but i think it's because there wasn't as many tournaments as when we had two circuits (no surprise here). the tourneys were hype but had a lot of space between them
Leffen and Plup making cameo appearances and wrecking more active top players was pretty cool IMO. "Godslayers" still applies even when most of the 'Gods' have changed. Awesome.
Leffen Cody was the set of the year. It's so ironic that, to me, he is the guy showing how weird and creative fox can be, just because his style is preserved in amber.
@@gimmedatjelly187I definitely have watched significantly less melee in 2023 (without any obvious factors like less free time etc), so I definitely think there's merit to say this year was more boring to some. I can't really articulate why I haven't been interested in watching this year, but just throwing my hat in the ring.
I mean it was pretty much worse than the last few years we’ve had, I barely watched this year. Hbox slumping so not a ton of good Puff, Wizzrobe and the other Falcons either slumping or not playing much. Then we lost SluG as our icies rep, and also it feels like the top Peaches are gone too. There’s only so much Fox / Marth / Sheik I can stand in a year tbh.
I’d love a smaller stories version of this. Like how the character tier list changed more than it has in a while, with DK actually moving up in most of the lists. Which… I think we all need to praise players like Ringler
2023 was my real start in the community. Even if I started watching and playing in 2022, I started going to locals in 2023 and I met so many new friends, very close friends through the game. I got to go to GOML, Shine and The Big House and those were life-changing events for me. Melee kept me sane during the worst year of my life and it was part of the best moments of my year despite all the shit that was going on in my personal life. To Anne, SarcasticPanda, Zedulo and Lala, Lunar Dusk, Squid, Cody, Salt, Zamu, Axe, lCaribou25, Dougie, Aleesper, Maher, Atheen, Jink, rend, Wibby, the entirety of Montréal Melee and to everyone else who made my year just a little more tolerable but who I can't remember off the top of my head, because there are surely many: Thank you. From the bottom of my heart.
I love how at 3:41 you can see Zain in an EERILY similar situation to G10 Summit 11 GF vs Mango. Up throw, DI to top plat, if he up airs it almost surely gets shielded->shield drop aerial. This time he quickly wavelanded and grabbed. Sure there's counter play their too, but just another rum up the ladder, and him showing how quickly he internalizes lessons learned. I know the tippy top are so good at knowing when to and when not to go in, but this was just a really poetic clip in that sense
As much as I like this video, I don’t think that leffen deserves any credit. He acts like a 5 year old and it doesn’t help that he is really good at video games and has a huge audience so his awful character is always reinforced by this audience. Plus people who make melee content, like you, giving him praise like this. The more praise you give people like him the bigger their egos get and the worse they get as people. Please stop talking about leffen he doesn’t deserve it due to the kind of person he is. What franchises vid on him if you want more examples.
I swear one day at least ONE SINGLE melee video will assume the public that watches actually knows about the 5 gods and doesn't have to be explained but today isn't the day
This is what melee is. Just someone happy to play the game in current year. It's not about the Twitter threads or overpriced convention prices for crap you don't need or the politics of aam ugly rectangle. It's this. This is what it's all about. You give me hope man.
@@lazarbro Heck Yeah! Even as I never had a GameCube growing up (PS2 kid myself), playing Melee the few times my friends would have it and all the content i’d watch of it online it seemed super fun. It feels like most games nowadays with online play and internet drama get so intense, people lose sight as to why they even started playing in the first place, kinda why i’ve been checked out of most modern games for a while. Truly is a breath of fresh air to have a “New” game I can enjoy the way it was meant to be. And i’d say my purchase paid off, friends who got me back into playing Smash were mostly better than me at Ult, they can’t even touch me in Melee 😎
being an oldie since the times of early mango/m2k etc, when you see Plup and Wizzy still competing them being top 5 to me is no surprise cause their fundamentals are just insane. i dont watch them stream so this could be total bullshit but to me it looks like they've let loose of the gass a little ( and understandibly) but if they could flip that little switch in their head again like in the old days; for a year to grind and train and attend as many tourneys as when they needed to face the 'GODS' we wouldv gotten the new 5 gods (zain-cody-mango-plup-wiz) and then came the 2 'Leffens' (amsa-jmook) -who could toppl the 5 gods. if this continues this era of melee could become better than the last 'golden era' naah mate F nintendo let me dream >.
Wait that Asian guy in the ad, that's you? I guess that's nit that weird. But by your accent alone I wouldve placed you in New Hampshire which is a very very white place.
Walt has the most generic North American accent possible. What about his accent makes you think of New Hampshire? Only 1.3 million people even live in that state, which is like 0.4% of the US population, so that's pretty specific.
My bad, I wasn't subscribed. I have been recommending your channel all year and that comment at the end made me realize I had never done it myself. I have remedied that, keep it up!
Personally i think Cody not being signed for as long as he has been without a sponsor shows how little faith people have in him as a person or personality. He can play the game , yeah, but people on the outside looking in dont really get behind him and most people on the inside have a hard time interacting with him
I love these updates, but is it really fair to say every time a top 10, or a "god" of the game, loses to someone who isn't a "god" that they are just off their game? Isn't it more likely that the lower player who beat the top ten player might just be really good?
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Saw a Shiek and a Yoshi win a major this year.
Pretty nutty ngl
another honourable mention that i think needs to be brought up is Junebug getting 13th at Big House 11 with SOLO DK. absolutely insane.
Thanks for the mention I missed this. Hoping there's vods.
this comment aged well.
A Fox main winning the last Shine while in the distance of everyone cheering him on, you hear a faint "Mission, Complete!" On the CRT... Absolutely poetic.
(If I remember correctly, Light the Ultimate Fox main won that tournament too!)
yepppp
would've been better if it wasn't C*dy that won
Jmook being the first solo Sheik to win a supermajor, the FT10 between Zain & Cody, Cody finally breaking the Shine curse, the back and forth between Zain & Cody for #1, Hbox almost resetting the bracket against Zain at SSC in the most heartbreaking ending I’ve seen in awhile, 2023 was PEAK CINEMA
Mang0 vs Zain at GOML when Mang0 was gonna pull one of the best comebacks of all time and maybe a bracket reset , into him pulling the Mang0 and Zain winning 🤣
Whoever wrote the script this year is on point. 🙏🍿
spoken like someone who got into melee in 2021
@@OrchidEleven I mean I did, is that an issue? Doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the past too yk
Technically Light broke the Shine curse first because Ult Top 8 was before Melee Top 8
Dropping that HBox scream into the middle of a video gets me every time I see it lmao
2023 was dramatic and cinematic. This game and it's best players just keep getting better, it's been amazing to be a part of what this game has become.
perfect video to watch after hearing mango say 2023 was boring
For real. Might have been boring for him cuz he didn't try, but it was a perfectly fine year for the audience lol
I thought it was boring. Cool stuff happened but yeah to me it was boring also
Tier 3 mango sub spotted
@@Fivewardi found it to be boring, but i think it's because there wasn't as many tournaments as when we had two circuits (no surprise here). the tourneys were hype but had a lot of space between them
Most of us are mango fans but it definitely doesn't take him winning for it to be hype. I loved 2023 melee
Leffen and Plup making cameo appearances and wrecking more active top players was pretty cool IMO. "Godslayers" still applies even when most of the 'Gods' have changed. Awesome.
turndownforwalt 2023 was a masterpiece.
Leffen Cody was the set of the year. It's so ironic that, to me, he is the guy showing how weird and creative fox can be, just because his style is preserved in amber.
That's the most poetic thing anyone has ever said in a youtube comment
And Leffen winning EVO in a completely different game
Despite all the setbacks, it’s been a good few years for melee since the return of in person events, love this community!
damn right Walt, 2023 melee was NOT boring by any means, no idea why mango and joey made a video on it being "boring"
Apparently Zain and Cody aren't hype because they play each other all the time? Yeah, I didn't agree with them either.
@@gimmedatjelly187I definitely have watched significantly less melee in 2023 (without any obvious factors like less free time etc), so I definitely think there's merit to say this year was more boring to some.
I can't really articulate why I haven't been interested in watching this year, but just throwing my hat in the ring.
Melee is getting boring because there is Little to no space for innovation
I mean it was pretty much worse than the last few years we’ve had, I barely watched this year. Hbox slumping so not a ton of good Puff, Wizzrobe and the other Falcons either slumping or not playing much.
Then we lost SluG as our icies rep, and also it feels like the top Peaches are gone too. There’s only so much Fox / Marth / Sheik I can stand in a year tbh.
imo it was boring some good moments but compared to last year it isn't even close
Got off work, grabbed a sixer, and enjoyed.
Thank you my good man.
That cut of HBox at 3:54 had me crying LOL
I’d love a smaller stories version of this. Like how the character tier list changed more than it has in a while, with DK actually moving up in most of the lists. Which… I think we all need to praise players like Ringler
2023 was my real start in the community. Even if I started watching and playing in 2022, I started going to locals in 2023 and I met so many new friends, very close friends through the game. I got to go to GOML, Shine and The Big House and those were life-changing events for me. Melee kept me sane during the worst year of my life and it was part of the best moments of my year despite all the shit that was going on in my personal life.
To Anne, SarcasticPanda, Zedulo and Lala, Lunar Dusk, Squid, Cody, Salt, Zamu, Axe, lCaribou25, Dougie, Aleesper, Maher, Atheen, Jink, rend, Wibby, the entirety of Montréal Melee and to everyone else who made my year just a little more tolerable but who I can't remember off the top of my head, because there are surely many: Thank you. From the bottom of my heart.
Melee is sick.
can't wait for cody and I's first to 10 next year!!!
It’s gonna happen.
I promise
We went from a 3 way #1 race in 2022 to a showdown for #1 in 2023. I'm glad #1 hasnt been clear cut since 2021.
zain, moky and foremost slime had a great 2023. also cody Pog
I love how at 3:41 you can see Zain in an EERILY similar situation to G10 Summit 11 GF vs Mango.
Up throw, DI to top plat, if he up airs it almost surely gets shielded->shield drop aerial.
This time he quickly wavelanded and grabbed. Sure there's counter play their too, but just another rum up the ladder, and him showing how quickly he internalizes lessons learned.
I know the tippy top are so good at knowing when to and when not to go in, but this was just a really poetic clip in that sense
As much as I like this video, I don’t think that leffen deserves any credit. He acts like a 5 year old and it doesn’t help that he is really good at video games and has a huge audience so his awful character is always reinforced by this audience. Plus people who make melee content, like you, giving him praise like this. The more praise you give people like him the bigger their egos get and the worse they get as people. Please stop talking about leffen he doesn’t deserve it due to the kind of person he is. What franchises vid on him if you want more examples.
Honestly all of fete could have been it’s own entry, it was that iconic
Mang0: Why 2023 Melee was Boring.
Walt: 2023 Melee was a masterpiece.
The duality of melee players.
I always smile at the KH ui sfx'! Good video Walt
Didnt Kodorin talk shit about zane not being as good as him? Then he got destroyed by him....😂
s2j at the function was some of the best falcon gameplay we've ever seen tbh
bros gotta stop saying *insert esports org here*'s very own cody schwab
your awesome amazing video!!! I love you!!!!
kinda drunk forgot i already commented on this video... But who gives a fuck this shit is heat!!!!!!!!
Who would of thought the best set of the year would of been slime blur
Dont hold jmooks lost against him. Morsecode is a seasoned melee dark horse. He regularly gives the top 10 trouble.
HBOX and Mang0 should form The Council, the last two remaining gods who remain to usher in the new eras.
I swear one day at least ONE SINGLE melee video will assume the public that watches actually knows about the 5 gods and doesn't have to be explained but today isn't the day
Just got the game and GameCube myself this year 👍🏻
This is what melee is. Just someone happy to play the game in current year. It's not about the Twitter threads or overpriced convention prices for crap you don't need or the politics of aam ugly rectangle. It's this. This is what it's all about. You give me hope man.
@@lazarbro Heck Yeah! Even as I never had a GameCube growing up (PS2 kid myself), playing Melee the few times my friends would have it and all the content i’d watch of it online it seemed super fun. It feels like most games nowadays with online play and internet drama get so intense, people lose sight as to why they even started playing in the first place, kinda why i’ve been checked out of most modern games for a while. Truly is a breath of fresh air to have a “New” game I can enjoy the way it was meant to be. And i’d say my purchase paid off, friends who got me back into playing Smash were mostly better than me at Ult, they can’t even touch me in Melee 😎
17:40, 23:29 - for those wondering, Morsecode762 ended the year ranked 20th on SSBMRank 2023.
No honorable mention for the DK Uprising?
bro i love your videos, they are very well thought out and the passion bleeds through beautifully. But no cap your rendan Schaub
being an oldie since the times of early mango/m2k etc, when you see Plup and Wizzy still competing them being top 5 to me is no surprise cause their fundamentals are just insane. i dont watch them stream so this could be total bullshit but to me it looks like they've let loose of the gass a little ( and understandibly) but if they could flip that little switch in their head again like in the old days; for a year to grind and train and attend as many tourneys as when they needed to face the 'GODS' we wouldv gotten the new 5 gods (zain-cody-mango-plup-wiz) and then came the 2 'Leffens' (amsa-jmook) -who could toppl the 5 gods. if this continues this era of melee could become better than the last 'golden era' naah mate F nintendo let me dream >.
Shout out Morsecode762 for a banger year
coming here after having watched mang0 and joey say that 2023 was boring 😆
Love you Walt
Wait that Asian guy in the ad, that's you? I guess that's nit that weird. But by your accent alone I wouldve placed you in New Hampshire which is a very very white place.
Walt has the most generic North American accent possible. What about his accent makes you think of New Hampshire? Only 1.3 million people even live in that state, which is like 0.4% of the US population, so that's pretty specific.
@@Neuvost he has long vowels and soft consonants. Reminds me of the people I went to school with. UMass Amherst.
I still feel like AMSA at Big House happened yesterday. #oldman
My bad, I wasn't subscribed. I have been recommending your channel all year and that comment at the end made me realize I had never done it myself. I have remedied that, keep it up!
Thanks walt for being such a highlight, literally and metaphorically, for melee.
2023 was a storm of non stop amazing competition
Loved the video man, i am sadly too shit to play melee competitively, but these videos motivate me to practice anyway!
no one is truly "too shit" take it a day at a time, as long as you can say you were better than yesterday, you can compete, best of luck!
I know im gonna be a buzzkill but i think the only good part of melee was during the summer this year… Great video tho!
Personally i think Cody not being signed for as long as he has been without a sponsor shows how little faith people have in him as a person or personality. He can play the game , yeah, but people on the outside looking in dont really get behind him and most people on the inside have a hard time interacting with him
Thank you so much for highlighting all the great thing that happened in a year where Melee was hit with many setbacks. We love you, Walt!
The personalities need more time in the spotlight, commentators. Put these players on the mic.
I was waiting for that Zain beatbox to come in lmao
thanks for using the term “plethora”, it means a lot to me
morsecode mentioned 🎉
"Magi the aforementioned slug"
Seriously that's out of line. She mid we get it, but cmon.
No, Slug is a player
Slime vs Blur was actually the hypest set somehow loll
I still don't know how to rank this guy.
I always forget that Walt is under 100k because the production quality is so high
Sick year for melee, sick video! Thanks walt
lol the HBox jump scare
Being at goml for that moky clip was insane, the crown was going bonkers
21:40 those are the eyes of a man that hates the marth match up
Aklo vs mang0 should have made it
the era of PPMD Kreygasm is over
now is the time of PPMD Sadge
who knows he might have to start competing without that GG paycheck
Your videos are awesome. But at 5:04 the video looks silly hearing you speak and a different man on screen is also speaking
Slime vs Blur really was a dank set
Haven't been this early to a video in a while
Not kodorin getting bodied twice in the honorable mentions
Yeah, I thought so myself 😅
feels good being this early :)
that edit at 3:54 never fails to slay me, all the best
Wow this video was really well edited! Great job to the editor!!!
19:56 Has SonicFox tried Melee? Cuz tha'd be awesome.
I only know he considered Ultimate for a while, and decided against it.
Watching this right after watching mangos podcast about why 2023 melee sucked lol the duality of melee
2023 was one of the greatest years of Melee
plup club
Great video
10:15 What is up with that sweater and why is everyone in this video wearing it?
mang0’s combo vs moky, big house XI game 5 last stock
Excellent video Walt 👏🏽👏🏽
There wasn't enough Falco!
Srg group pic jumpscare
leffen >>> sonicfox
@mango lololol
salt looks like a strong dude
if you didnt exist your parents would be happier
didnt take long to find transphobic comments after you mentioned salt, gotta love the melee community!
they cant even shower or put on deodorant, do you really expect any sort of intelligence out of them?
Damn you are 30 next year RiP
Amazing recap! Would you ever do this sort of thing for ultimate?
I still think it’s crazy that it took until the last Shine for a spacie to win one (in melee *AND* ult)
cockroaches be out
I'm a simple man, I see a Walt video, I click SOFAST
Tweek vs Jmook. For all the glory. Lmao
0:39
Cody was GEEKIN here LMAO 😭 5:37
Here we are about to bury another Smash sequel and with Melee stronger than ever
Sick video and not long after your last one... surprised you aren't more popular
TURNDOWNFORWALT IM YOUR BIGGEST FAN
16:58 well, I was barely over a week old at the time.
ban leffen
I love these updates, but is it really fair to say every time a top 10, or a "god" of the game, loses to someone who isn't a "god" that they are just off their game? Isn't it more likely that the lower player who beat the top ten player might just be really good?
Both can be true
Nobody is saying that those gods are suddenly not gods anymore
Captain Brando jumpscare
Is salt a dude?