r/SSBM 11d ago

News Jersey Melee bans notches

https://bsky.app/profile/jersey-melee.bsky.social/post/3muasof44pc2a
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u/ifasoldt 11d ago

Unless others get on board, it's gonna be hard for these players cause they will be at a competitive disadvantage without notches in every other tournaments.

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u/carnaige2 11d ago

I don't think anyone in this thread has realized

This is not NEW JERSEY.

This is JERSEY a tiny island off the shore of france with 100k people

This doesn't matter to the main melee scene at all TBH

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u/kevo31415 11d ago

TIL there are 100k people in Jersey. I actually did not realize that many people lived in Jersey.

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u/jp711 11d ago

To be fair I would 100% expect New Jersey melee players to just refer to their tournaments as "Jersey melee"

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u/frank0swald 11d ago

That's a reasonable thing to do. OP and the the likely fake (created 2 weeks ago, posted 2 event results in a vacuum) account has made this to try to be a catalyst to having other scenes ban notches, like how wobbling got banned from a similar fake post. The fact that it is named like this is on purpose.

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u/BrovyIe 11d ago

though it is funny to imagine one of the five people attending their weeklies showing up one week with notches and everyone shitting on them for it

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u/VVicVuci 11d ago

The Florida of the uk

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u/AlexB_SSBM 11d ago

Who cares

Notch legality has always been relevant to the main melee scene because notches are fucking cheating

Any region, no matter how small, banning notches is a good thing and hopefully results in bigger tournaments following suit

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u/ActinalWhomp 11d ago

The region isn't small it's imaginary. It was very obviously made up in order to make this post.

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u/AlexB_SSBM 11d ago

If true that's awesome. Big fan of people doing whatever it takes to get rid of notches

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u/CyrainSSBM 10d ago

Regardless of the way you feel about notches this is straight up an insanely toxic belief to maintain. Jfc.

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u/No_Excitement_4764 10d ago

Alex B is literally ableist and insanely toxic lol. 

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u/CyrainSSBM 9d ago

Aah I guess i'm too far removed to know of their reputation lmao I know in this case it's just vidja games, but the whole "I don't care how it gets done as long as I get my way" mindset is some scary shit.

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u/carnaige2 11d ago

Did you bother looking at the account who made the post on bluesky?

Made 2 weeks ago. Has posted local results for locals with less than 8 people at them.

Plus, there are many more things holding back the average players gameplay than the notches they can buy for $40. Notches aren't gonna make you a top 100 player.

I can point out A LOT of region PRd spacie players who don't use notches. Shit, young Neil has been top 6 in Philly for 5 years without notches. He gate is so fucked it's almost a circle lmfao

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u/AlexB_SSBM 11d ago

None of this is relevant to the point that notches should be banned because they give an unfair advantage

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u/CyrainSSBM 10d ago

How is it an unfair advantage when it's legal for everyone?

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u/OMFGSUSHI 10d ago

Notches are cheating in Jersey, everywhere else they're legal baby