Lonk’s 2024 Writeup n Recap!
(a good chunk of it anyway. its been a long year)
Contents (theres a lot whoops):
Introduction
Lonk’s Year of Smash — Intro
I Don’t Honestly Know What Happened, But I Swagged Out
OH SHID ITS PHANTOM IN MELBOURNE TIME JUMPSCARE
Uni Semester 2 & Floating Point
Lonk’s Trip To Japan (Mostly The Smash Bit, I’ll Talk About the Full Japan Trip Another Time)
PISSMAS 2024: EVERYONE SAY THANK YOU VI FOR DRIVING TO THE GOLD COAST AND BACK WA HOO!!!!
Epping and the End of Lonk’s Year of Smash
Lonk’s Year of Art and Design
Shoutouts
Onto 2025!
Introduction
Gday.
It’s the end of the year again, and mate — it’s been a very long 2024. This recap will be going over my year of smash, and a couple other big things that happened in the last 12 months.
The smash section is a tad long, purely for the beginning of the year,
so uh. yknow, prepare for some word vomit.
Apologies if there are any spelling, grammar, or other mistakes.
It’s been a long year with a lot of people, events, & places, so I’m sure I’ve forgotten things.
Lets get into it, aye?
Lonk’s Year of Smash — Intro
At the end of the 2023 writeup, I wrote that I didn’t make it out of pro bracket for the December Epping, I could feel the bracket run coming soon, and I had a couple more brackets before the year was actually done (the 2023 writeup was posted on the 15th of December).
I really felt that as a player, if I really applied myself and practiced and went out of my way, I could get on showcase, my goal since going to tournaments. I didn’t wanna push myself too hard cause at the end of the day, I don’t wanna feel shit after losing early in bracket. I wanna hang out with friends. If I get good enough for showcase, it’ll come with a lot time, & thats fine by me.
And then Summer hit like a bag of gold bricks.
I Don’t Honestly Know What Happened, But I Swagged Out.
Starting with Christmas P.O.G., I snagged 3rd place losing to Fruit and Paris, beating Kuriboh (cloud bracket demon wahoo), Hydro (‘s kazuya), and Roboticjo (before his omega glowup).
Afterwards was Super Barista Bros, where I went on a decent run, almost making it to top 8 qualifiers. Happy with a game 3 vs sheeep and a win over Meatlivers tho.
Newcastle onwards is where I really started goin’ WSU SWEEP mode.
After a lovely trip to Newcastle with BigRatt (we WILL finish an escape room together one day(also thanks jaybird for housing us, you’re a legend)) I made top 8 at the Newy Monthly, Storm The Castle.
I took BigMrAman to game 3, beat Techlord game 5, and took Isak to game 5 as well (before getting pranked by the sonic). All kudos goes to BigRatt. He was warming me up the whole trainride over.
I also went game 5 with Soop my goat. What a day man.
A quick break from competing, I spent a weekend running the first OMEGA bracket with The WSU Crew, and I’d say it ran pretty well! A full top 8 with bo5 was a huge victory for us considering we had to cut things short beforehand. Really, over the course of this year I’ve felt myself and my peers become better TO’s. Organising tourneys is hard, no idea how Kitt hasn’t gone insane yet.
Alright, back to Lonk Gaming Season.
LONK DDD BEATS SUSHI SORA GAME 3 LAST HIT AT OFFSTAGE!!!!!!!!!!
AND THEN BEATS BRACKET DEMON TURTLECAT GAME 3!!!!!!!!!!
AND THEN lost to cloudy falco game 3 and robojo marth game 3 for 9th.
What a BRACKET man I was goin’ STOOPID mode. Surely I wont lose at a top 8 qualifier for an offstage again tho right haha FUCK haha.
Next was Sets by the Sea, a Wollongong Monthly.
Lonk DDD got 5th, making it out 3rd in my round robins pool, and going on to beat Chuckstah, a Young Link from Newy, and Legacy, one of the best players in Canberra. WSU SWEEP.
For Epping of February, I once again didn’t make it out of pools, but I’ll be damned if i didn’t put on a show, taking Ryan & BigMrAMan to game 3, and beating the shite out of everyone else. The Epping curse is real I’m afraid. the universe doesn’t want me to mess up seeding in pro bracket.
A couple last things to end out the summer season so we can hurry up the rest of the year:
8th at MegaLAN. The first time I’ve felt disappointed in myself for not making it further in a bracket. I really felt that with all the good tourney runs leading up to this point, I was ready go further. But hey, happy in hindsight with top 8. Not bad.
And then finally, 3rd again at P.O.G., losing the DDD Ditto to my goat Jezmamanezma, and for the billionth time to Paris. I had a couple other decent brackets but compared to what I’ve mentioned, nothing to write home about. But was it enough? Did me going stupid mode get me on showcase?
yeah.
Really proud of this season. I went to a million things and got the results. Hell yeah.
The only bad thing that came of this was…this was my main motivation for smash. After getting on showcase, I really felt that fire dwindle. Wanting to get better at the game really took a backseat for a while, and I ended up playing Palutena for a month into the next season instead. Shmee shmaw. Game still fun, even if i don’t have that fire like i did before, the games still fun, and theres a million things to learn. Hell yeah.
(Btw, the tourney after my 1 month of Palu I beat King Kaz with DDD. Raw.)
Final note before I move on: Offstage moved to Fortress Sydney! beforehand it was a pub in Broadway, just a chunk up the road.
The new venue (which at this point in February was still in a trial period)
is crazy. It’s like going to a major venue every day. Thanks again Kitt for snagging it, it’s sick to compete in it every week or so.
OH SHID ITS PHANTOM IN MELBOURNE TIME JUMPSCARE
TIMESKIP! The first semester of uni 2024 came and went, I made stuff I was proud of, and some stuff I really wasn’t. Ran another season of smash on campus so I could make a cool graphic with Xferno (shoutouts), and did some other stuff.
Near the end, a few of the WSU boys and Jaybird (honorary WSU now, ty for being swag) set up for crashing together in Melbourne for Phantom 2024,
a mainly Melee focused tourney with Ult as well.
Bracket-wise, I got shit on! Is what it is, but aside from that it was a great tourney. Wonderful vibes, cool venue, cheering on NSW peeps was really fun — shoutouts Morgone vs P9, and Robojo vs Aloly. I also did Commentary for the first time at a Major with Olag! It was for Doubles, but I’m still really happy I got to do it. Thanks again AJ for the opportunity.
Joshman winning melee was raw, the crowd and everything just felt incredible. And Kinaji barely clutching out game 5 grands reset vs Zac with the rawest combo and dair spike read…bro…fuck what a day…what a weekend. Played a bunch of friendlies as well, explored a small bit of melbourne (shoutouts Batman), and got the chance to say gday to Slime. Lovely guy, he looked fucked from commentating grands for melee.
I ended up makin a couple vids of the weekend, so if ya want a better look at my perspective of the weekend, heres they are (the second one is moreso bonus footage and sets at the prelocal):
And then…it was over. Phantom 2022 was my first major when I joined the scene. It holds a special place in my heart, check it out if you’re into smash, melee, and/or hearing a big Aussie crowd scream as loud as they can. You’ll have a blast.
After a bit of perusing around Melbourne, a good chunk of us headed on a plane back to NSW. Awaiting the WSU Crew was Omega 2, and then semester 2 of uni.
Uni Semester 2 & Floating Point
With Semester 2 of Uni came Omega 2. Bigger, better, wetter. I got 2nd in HDR so I feel pretty good about myself. Aside from Transport NSW imploding over the weekend and subsequently a bunch of people being late and needing to be dq’d, it ran even better than the first one. We finished early by like 30 minutes, there were some sick moments and upsets, Mugen was really funny. I was super proud of that weekend. Shoutouts Pat btw for his amazing stream graphics.
It was also during this tourney that I finally finished drawing every Ultimate character in a top 2 doodle. It took 2 years and a whole bunch of people asking what characters I had left, but we got there. Thanks again for all the real gamers who got to grands and went characters like Rosa and Ken to help me out.
As the semester continued, I ran the second season of WSU tourneys for the year. The WSU Smash Tourneys are a group effort, but personally they feel like my metaphorical baby. I started the first one purely so I could draw a PR Graphic at the end, as well as giving WSU a shot at getting better at smash. For this semester, Xferno took over the graphic. It came out amazing, & I did pretty much fuck all except Rose’s picture. Hell yeah, check out more on Xfernos twitter, the videos & graphics came out amazing.
ANYWAY! The graphic came out at the end of semester. Floating Point 2024 happened around the middle-ish. I’d write about the whole thing here, but I already wrote about it in this article, and I don’t wanna tread over too much old ground. Heres my writeup:
The big moments for me if ya don’t wanna read through the whole thing: Beating Dugongs after getting owned all season, doing 3 seperate commentary blocks & starting off top cut for Day 2 with Avongarde
(the goat), and generally just hangin’ out for the weekend.
Amazing vibes, thanks again Soop for letting me crash at your place.
After Floating Point, there was just the rest of the semester to do. BigRatt got on showcase cause he’s raw and epic, I finally made it out of an Epping, and went game 3 vs Yine, & we finished the Uni Year with a slightly scuffed HDR bracket (I saved Nichirin’s first place on the graphic btw, my HDR Ridley goes hard.)
Lonk’s Trip To Japan (Mostly The Smash Bit, I’ll Talk About the Full Japan Trip Another Time)
After Uni was finished for the year, & I was done with club stuff, my mum & I headed on a plane to Japan. This had been in the works for over a year, so it was nice to finally go. Shoutouts SebPro101 & Artrix for helping answer a million of my mum and I’s questions.
We saw a lot in Japan, going from Tokyo, to Kyoto, to Osaka, and back to Tokyo again before heading home; about a 3-ish week stay.
During the trip I:
Fed the Nara Deer, watched a sumo wrestler get owned by 5 year olds, ate amazing food, ate an amazing amount of 7/11 fried chicken, watched a sumo wrester completely destroy a jacked American dude, saw 2 motorbike racers have a musical battle with their engines, ate the worst burger ever, ate a pretty good pizza in a small hut on an island, had saké with mum, hated the buses, vibed with the shinkansens, spent too much money, walked a lot, coudn’t find Mt Fuji, found Mt Fuji, found Mt Fuji again, hung out with Bob, climbed a lot of stairs, ate denim flavoured icecream, got interviewed by a tv news crew, spoke really shit Japanese but just enough to get by, bought clothes I cant wear till its cold enough, got very tired…
and went to a smash local in Shibuya. Among other things.
During my stay, I went to 1 local, called Shibuya Bee Tournament: Start.gg.
They had a bunch of different levels of tourney, but this was the only one I was able to go to with the schedule we had planned out. Really lovely people, & not far from the station. Ended up getting top 8 and a set on stream, so happy with that. Barely didn’t get 5th, losing game 3 last hit to the head TO’s ness. ggs, I’ll be back some day I’m sure, I really wanna go to a Kagaribi. Got a bunch of friendlies in with people there, learnt a lot and had a good time.
A long time after that, I headed on a flight back home to Aus. it’s a bit of a shock going from cold Osaka to melting in Sydney during the night, but what can ya do. Well, if you’re a fool like me, you can get in a car for 11ish hours and head up to the even hotter Gold Coast for one of my favourite tournaments of the year, and a banger way to close out 2024’s majors:
PISSMAS 2024: EVERYONE SAY THANK YOU VI FOR DRIVING TO THE GOLD COAST AND BACK WA HOO!!!!
I wrote about Pissmas fairly recently, but I’ll give it another crack. Ill try and keep it to the tourney, but there were a few nice things surrounding it I also wanna bring up.
Day 1: Pissing Mode Activated
After spending the night at Vi’s, Xferno, Dahzii, Bigratt, Vi & I hopped in the car for the long trip up. Vi is a trooper, drove the whole way up and back. Insane. We had a few breaks for the usual roadtrip stuff (food, toilet, blee and blah). Shoutouts to the Mystery Machine, the Adequate Banana, the KFC with almost nothing on the menu, & Bald Knob Road. A good trip up, ouch my bum hurty.
We arrived a bit late to the accomodation, a small 2 story house fit for 8 people (don’t tell the Air Bnb hosts). Originally we planned to be there earlier so BigRatt & Xferno could compete in Rivals 2, but is what it is. When everyone else arrived, we had a full house:
Echo, Jump91, Drasi, and the Real Mitsubishi Pissers. Together, we were the 8 Real Pissers, ready for the weekend.
Day 2: Real Pissing Hours
Saturday begins! Everyone hauls themselves off to the venue & waits for theirs names to be called. I had a Minmin round 1 (happy with how I played, lost 0–2), & then I ran the gauntlet of Lucas, into Mii Gunner/Snake, into fucking ROBOTICJO YOU FUCKER. Now if you’ll recall, earlier in this writeup I beat this nerd at P.O.G. like a gigachad. Unfortunately for me, I havn’t beaten him a single time since in the 5+ times we’ve fought in bracket, and he has gotten way better. First game I get 3 stocked, second game I almost reverse 3 stocked. Ah well, at least I made him work for it a bit. That set was to make it out to Pro Bracket by the way.
fucker.
Good news, BIGRATT MAKES IT OUT TO DAY 2 WSU SWEEP RAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
A good chunk of NSW either made it out or were in a team kill to make it out, so pretty happy for us on that front.
After pools was done for the day, the side brackets started.
For the 3v3 Crew Tourney I was part of the Talk Tuah Trio,
with Evil Aleks Le (Previously Soop), and Drasi.
I think we were seeded to go 1–2 or something.
We uh. We got 5th.
We swagged out man, & ONLY got eliminated by the 2nd place crew
(WHO WE ALMOST BEAT IN WINNERS SIDE BTW!! Bro I swear if I just fucking remembered dugongs is a MASHER & a NERD I could’ve done a better job uuuuuuuuuuu ggs ggs). We had a pretty lucky bracket all things considered, and screaming and hollering HAWK TUAH during our sets probably helped to boost moral and mentally fuck up the other team. Still, I’m pretty proud of how far we got, and maybe we could’ve gotten further if we weren’t so exhausted. We were meant to go to a barbecue after losing like, 3 sets in. But we just kept going. I beat p9 TWICE in that bracket. Bro, I’m so sad my jet hammer and Jdizzle’s monkey punch colliding mid air wasn’t on stream. You had to be there. The fucked up reverse hit ddd up b killing Rambo, the bunda jethammers…a work of art.
What a glorious bracket.
Then we feasted. We planned on having a bbq but it rained, so Xferno cooked up in the kitchen. Yumb. A victorious day indeed.
Day 3: Maybe a Little Too Much Piss (nah)
Final day comes, BigRatt gets pranked in the Fox Ditto by Isak (another team kill rip) & we watch as more & more of our NSW peeps fall in bracket.
I totally forgot to mention this, but PissBet is a thing! A fake digital gambling coin to bet on matches throughout the weekend, the biggest winners getting prizes and whatnot.
I lost it all! Twice! I am not cut out for gambling!
NSW didn’t end up making top 8, and I went 0–2 in ammies (I’m still the goat tho so its ok). After a post-tourney NSW Group Photo, a few of us went to Kitts place for an afterparty. Good times were had, doodles were done, & then we went home. Sleepy hours. Onto the final* day.
Day 4: A Little More Piss In The Tank
Movie World. Fuckin Hot. 1 Hour Lines.
Previous day had flooding so the only ride I wanted to go on was shut down. Fuck.
Good times anyway. Splash Mountain was a sick surprise. Expensive water and food. Cool place. Where did GPS go. Everyone say thanks Xferno. Everyone say thanks Bloodmoon for getting GO cards.
And then Echo cooked a lovely pasta dinner back home for our final night. Everyone say thank you Echo.
Day 5*: The Real Pissers Disband/Will They Piss Again?
In the morning, the Real Mitsubishi Pissers said goodbye to the others.
Vi had a long drive ahead of them. We saw many things, incredible things, too incredible to be believed, you must believe me. Shoutouts the dude driving in the wrong lane at midnight. Good stuff all around. Vi dropped Xferno and myself at parra for the rest of our journey home. Sleepy hours.
Wouldn’t have seen myself hanging out with most of the people in the
8 Real Pissers House 6 months prior to the Pissmas, but I’m happy we ended up together. What an amazing weekend. God I love Pissmas.
Super recommend, if you can only go to 1 major, make it this one.
Epping and the End of Lonk’s Year of Smash
Back from Pissmas & a few days of rest, plus an Offstage in between (almost took a game off DMO lets go), the December Epping was upon us. December Epping includes a regular Epping bracket, NSW Smash Trivia,
& the NSW Smash Awards, a token of appreciation from the panel
& community to the peeps that have made notable impacts in the scene.
Hell Yeah.
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Now, the couple weeks-ish leading up to December Epping I was very busy. A couple days before Pissmas, Kitt contacted me to see if I was available to do the PR Graphic for the Spring Season. I said yes, which left me a little under a week once I got back from Pissmas to throw it together.
A Where’s Wally inspired graphic, I think it come out much goodly. It also meant my brain was omega burnt, especially considering I hadnt had a proper complete rest to myself since the start of Semester 2 (Uni, into Japan, Into Pissmas, Into the PR Graphic. Nothing insane, but damn I was tired), which meant that when Epping came around…I thought I signed up and didn’t. The Epping curse continues into 2025…
A fun day of watching mates play the game, me commentating with Hal (the goat, shoutouts), talking to peeps, having people come up to me to ask about the Graphic, who people were, etc etc. Good day. Seb came all the way over from Melbourne after also coming back from Japan, & on like 3 minutes of bedless boat sleep he finally managed to beat Unfezant — his NSW bracket demon — twice in grands. Nice.
A few more people rocked up in time for Trivia. I think the WSU (Plus Honorary WSU) Team did well, but no cigar. Good time anyway, thanks Kitt & Olag.
The awards came after Trivia, & I ended up getting the Community Creative Award. Dugongs was the only person to make a speech this year, but I had a few words I wanted to say that I’ll write here:
I joined the smash scene about 2 and a half years ago because Ryan (BigRatt) introduced me to the game at a uni open day, and then invited me to Super Barista Bros. At that first tournament, I got my shit kicked in, but I was just happy to be there. I was very awkward, and pretty shit at starting any kind of conversation, but a couple peeps were nice to me and Ifelt comfortable enough staying the whole tourney. Back then, pretty much the only thing I had going for me was drawing. I didn’t have many friends, hell I had pretty much none that I spoke to frequently before going to uni. At the end of that first day, I doodled Byleth and Ike, the characters used by DMO and jT in grand finals. I had fun, wanting to use this as an opportunity to practice character designs, and give back to the scene if I wasn’t so good at smash.
So I kept doing the top 2 doodles. And I got better at art because of it. I put my all into the major doodles, and slowly over time, talking to people and drawing and getting better at the game and beating myself up about all of it here and there, I get to where I am now. Now, my hair is a bit shorter, and my beards a bit shit, & fuck am I proud of my art, the connections I’ve formed, the person I hope to be one day is closer than it ever was those 2 and a half years ago.
A long time ago, during a pretty tearful talk between my dad and I, he said I’d find my people. It wasn’t going to be obvious, but I’ve just gotta go out into the world and I’d find those people. The WSU Crew, Cameron, Max, MAF, a trillion more people I’ll get to later, all of NSW smash and everyone else I’ve met in Aus and wherever else…bro, this is a kids party game. And it’s led to all THIS! Isn’t that insane??
I am who I am now & a big part of that is because of the Syd Smash Scene.
I have done so much over the past couple years and I attribute a lot of it to you all, for playing the game, for existing, for the sick clips and the goofy shit. The fellow artists and designers like Max, Freeze, Kitt, Jaybird, Kuriboh, Froggo, Xferno, Zoppits, Pluto, Taipan, Kathie, more people im absolutely sure im forgetting but if you even did one tiny thumbnail sketch or a stick figure YOU are an artist, you have MADE something out of nothing, and that is AMAZING. The fact that we can all look back and have something, anything to show for the last year of our lives is incredible. That we can go into next year with what we’ve learnt and make MORE. Learn MORE. It’s part of why I keep coming back, week after week. The memories and experiences I make here, I wouldn’t trade em for the world.
I’m so lucky to have this as a part of my life, & I’m so grateful that my doodles and illustration have become something more than just keeping me occupied on the 2 hour train ride back home.
Thank you you so much for everything you’ve given me, here’s to the next 2 and a half years of learning and improving.
Lonk’s Year of Art and Design
From here on out its mostly gonna be personal art, people and places, not too much smashy talk. So if that’s what you were here for (nerd) now’s the time to skedaddle.
Now, this has been a pretty busy year of making stuff. VERY busy. I made a couple things for Uni I thought was cool, but aside from that, these are the big guns.
2023, I focused on composition, tone and anatomy.
This year I wanted to focus more on colour and texture. I also did some editing, photography, writing. Its been a good year creatively looking back, so I’m here to compile some of the bigger and best things. The stuff I’m most proud of. And I’ll start with something I didn’t realise was this year till I began writing this:
The Yard Book~
Yeah wow. How did I forget this thing.
3 years ago, Slime contacted me on Reddit under the name…I dont even remember. Underslop Sasquatch? He contacted me after I posted a comic version of the most recent episode. I made the comic/storyboard(??) after my old boss told me learning to transcribe what a speaker was saying into a live illustration was something he did for work and a pretty good job to get. At that point I’d only listened to a couple episodes of The Yard, but I thought It’d be a good exercise to wack on a 1 hour 30 minute episode & let it play out while drawing what I was hearing. I spose it was good enough, cause the next day I got that DM & bobs ya uncle, here we are 2 years later.
Originally, the book was only 26 pages, the first 26 episodes of podcast in its first year of creation. I spent a whole lot of time in my little ramshackle front-room studio, listening and re-listening and cramming as much as I could into these small comics that sat on a coffee table book sized page. I started at the end of November 2021 & worked till February 2022, workin probably too many hours daily. It was my first big gig, & I wanted to make it something I could forever be proud of. And I did it! That was that! Shipped off and out of my hands…
Until a year later, I get another DM from Slime. Because its WAY late to really just be publishing a book with like 26 pages, he asked for 26 more, because they might as well round up to 52 pages, for 52 episodes,
for 52 weeks in a year. A year of The Yard book! Brilliant.
Back to work I go for a couple months, and I’m only 3 off before I go on holiday with my family when I see the latest Yard episode go live. The last episode…until the week after, a new set, & what they are calling Season 2.
I get a new DM from Slime.
We’re going to 73 pages to round out Season 1.
Starting the new pages from episode 27 up to episode 73 took me from around September 2022 (only did a couple till I finished uni for the year in late October) until February 2023, where I took a weekend off to go to The Action in Canberra. Finally, after months of work, it was done.
And then, after a long many months of radio silence, ‘cept for the odd dm from a couple people working on the book (all lovely people), in march of 2024, randomly announced at the beginning of an episode:
The Yard Comic Book + Extra Goodies. I didn’t even know till I woke up to a DM from Eva (shoutouts, sick photography and the person I bought my melee controller off). The book came out a a couple months after, and yeah; I’m omega proud of that lump of paper. Thanks again Slime for seeing me post a practice sketch in the reddit and thinking “I could make a book out of this”.
I think it came out pretty sick mate.
Alright, enough yappin’ about the book, literally noone gives a half pint of shite. Onto the rest.
The Rest~
Heres my favourite stuff from this year, including Top 2 Doodles, Commissions and personal shtuff : )
Shoutouts
It’s currently 3am & I am eating cold ravioli. It tastes pretty good.
This list is in no order.
If you think I’d rank my friends and people who’ve impacted me positively, you’re an idiot.
Onto shoutouts.
WSU CREW
You lot are the best fuckin’ group of young 20-somethings (plus Archie who is like 80) to be running tournaments and meetups and events. Every year we get better and faster and more efficient. Everyone contributes, you lot are funny, insightful, creative…after all the shite the other uni clubs have had to go through it’s a miracle we keep pulling this off 3 years in, going on 4. Omega 1 & 2 were a blast, 3 & 4 are hopefully gonna be equally as sick. Shoutouts Runescape Legend btw. Relatively new to the exec group but mate you’re so fucken funny and you bring so much to the group.
#raw
Ryan (BigRatt)
Thanks again for getting me into the scene man. I remember bein super anxious at uni & you consistently being a helping hand, inviting me to stuff & then getting me on board for WSFGC. Feels like ages ago now. Happy you finally made showcase man, and makin’ it out of a major. You’re too raw. Seeya in January for the meetup man, and get some rest over the holidays, you’ve more than earned it.
Xander (Xferno)
Blue Mountains Sweep. Thanks for bein’ my friend, especially over this year. It’s been nice to have someone to hang out with on the train, even if we don’t always talk too much. Just havin’ someone I feel comfortable around and chill is really welcome for the 2 hour train rides back. You’re one of the funniest fuckers I know, and with the more rough stuff happening in life, it’s nice to have you around. The PR Graphic you made for semester 2 is still amazing btw, I go and have a look at it every couple weeks.
Send monkey nuts when you read this message.
Ethan (of the Kick Ya Teeth In variety)
Thanks for bein a good mate this year. Between the dm’s and just goofin off in person, you’re a joy to have around. Also, goat TO. Omegas wouldn’t run nearly as smoothly without ya mate. Super Heavies Rise Up. Kung Fu.
Joey (bitch.)
bitch.
Max (poos)
Talk Tuah Trio is some of the most fun and rewarding moments I’ve ever felt playing this stupid fucking game for nerds. You’re a legend man, one of the funniest fuckers to ever do it. Thanks for all the chats this year about the design world and guilty gear and whatever else. It’s lookin’ a lil shaky for our industry but I reckon we’ll push through. Its either that or we’re off to the Elon Munt Mars Mines to power X the Everything App.
Thanks for letting me crash at your place throughout the year, saved my ass plenty of times. Say thanks to ya parents as well from me, they’re chill, and having an argument with your mum about which die hard movie was better was funny.
Cameron (Joxic…?)
Funny cunt. Swag. Ripped. Jawline. Fuck hero side b. I didnt get a photo in on your 21st birthday slideshow so I guess you just hate me or whatever its chill or whatever no its fine man I don’t even like care at all actually :((((((((((
Get a better schedule dude, it’s sick to see you doin so much but zamn you gotta rest those weary bones man. Thanks for bein a good mate this year, heres to the next one.
Rose
Its been sick seein you imrove at the game man. You’ve been a lovely addition to the Syd Smash and WSFGC scene. Your wealth of knowledge and always bringing a setup and extra controllers, you’re on the ball mate. Keep it up, hope 2025 keeps heading in the right direction for ya.
Freeze
GOAT DESIGNER. THANK YOU FOR THE FONTS AND INSPIRATION.
WAS SICK COLLABORATING WITH YOU FOR THE UNSW TOP 8.
Hope Japan’s a good time mate, one day I hope to grow a beard like yours, you sexy bastard. Tell Dark Jesus I miss him & hope he’s doin alright in life.
Unless he’s become, like, the green goblin. then uh. don’t do that.
Relo
Over the past year I have gotten the pleasure to see you go from a strong player, to one of the best in the country. Best Mii Swordfighter man. Missed opportunity if you don’t put that in resume, aye? Your advice & insight into the game is invaluable, and its been really lovely havin’ you swing by for the WSU meetups. Sydney’s lucky to have ya mate, whatever you decide to do for your future outside of smash, I’m sure you’ll put 110% in.
One of the hardest workers I know.
8 Real Pissers
Spoke about it a bit earlier in the Pissmas section, but I had a wonderful time hangin’ out with these fools in the stinkin’ heat of Queensland. So I’m taking this opportunity to thank all of ya.
PJ, you’re a crazy character man. Really appreciate our more down to earth life chats as well. You’re a wealth of stories and seeing you spin Joey around at Epping sent me like a slinky down the stairs laughin’. Gonna miss ya when you head home in January mate. Fuck the French.
Drasi, you have a wild mind mate. Deserving of the Aus Smash and Syd Smash awards. What a glowing honour, fuck what I said to Relo, THOSE should go on the resume. Your knowledge for birds is really wonderful, I’d be down to listen to ya spout facts for hours. Hell, I’ll drag my brother down, he knows everything about every bird in Australia, you’d get on like a house on fire. It’s also been nice to just have normal chats as well. You’re a good lad, seeya back in a couple months. Merry chromdog.
Vi, you’re so sick mate. Thanks for driving 10 decades with us fools yappin and hollering in the back, as well as organising a bunch of stuff. Been lovely gettin to know ya, please give me free glasses cleaner I’ve run out.
Jas, I wish I had your fashion sense but old tshirts and slacks are too cozy,
I fear I will never look swag. Was fun hangin’ out with you and Mitsubishi Pissers, hope Pissmas was a banger Major experience for ya.
Mari, learn to read a spotdodge habit nerd. Swag out.
BloodMoon
Bro, I’m never gonna forget that up b vs the DK at Pissmas. I remember meeting ya at Omega 1 and thinking you were a NERD for not liking us use a modded switch on stream, but nah mate, you’re lovely. Good vibes to have around. One of these days im breaking into ya house so I can experience the bloodmoon 2am grindsesh. But also maybe not, cause mate you’ve gotta fix that sleep schedule. Wishin ya the best for 2025,
Fuck Zelda neutral b.
Kathie
UNSW meetups are always a good time. Thats MY president.
Fuck Bayo. Cool hat tho.
MAF
You lot are wonderful. Between the energy you bring to events, the discord server, late 3am chats, getting FUCKED by meshuga in bracket, watching you all improve, were lucky to have ya. Also you’re all models, stop being hot nerds. Give me Hazzas jawline for a day I’ll crash the American economy
The TO’s
To Kitt, Moey, Dugongs, AJ, Spike, Kathie & more I’m probably forgetting, thank you for hosting, seeding, scheduling, setting up, packing down, chatting, and everything else at the tournaments you run throughout the year. We’re all so privileged to have you put the thousands of hours and dollars of work in. Thank you so much.
Mum, Dad, Oscar
Thanks for everything you’ve done in my life. I know this year’s been rougher than normal for various reasons, and I’m a bit of an asshole around the house, and I forgoet to text back sometimes (often) but its nice to come home and talk and joke and eat good home cooked food.
Heres to the new year.
end of shoutouts weeeeee
Usually I’d do a shoutouts to the artists, but I already did that earlier so I’ve said my piece. Keep makin’ cool stuff.
If you’re not here, sorry. Its either cause I’ve forgotten to add ya, or it’s because I hate YOU specifically. Nerd. Bozo.
Onto 2025!
So! In short:
I’m raw at the video game, WSU is sick, I’m proud of the last year of art and graphics, making and learning, having friends and peers is cool, still no idea what the future has in store for me, but I’m open to whatever. Mostly whatever.
Fuck Meshugas Luigi.
MAF on flop.
Heres to 2025.
Swag out.
