Melee Stats Podcast - S2E6 - Rankings Talk, Breakout Players & Predictions For 2019 HD

Happy New Year! Edwin and Save are back with special guest Alex “Quality Steve” Lee to talk about SSBMRank, the new year and more on another episode of the podcast. Apologies in advance for delayed timestamps - they’ll come soon! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/meleestats Itunes: https://t.co/d5bJoLgCIr Discord: https://discord.gg/aahFzXT 0:00 Introductions 0:52 Why locals matter 9:24 Community Politics innate to ranking 17:22 The Four Puff Horseman below Hbox (Michael/Jerry/2saint/42nd) 24:35 Boyd’s accomplishments 26:25 JakenShaken and Smashdaddy recaps 29:47 Talking about Vortex’s year 32:18 Edwin’s defense for ranking bobby big ballz No. 100 39:25 Melee Stats Speed Round 39:53 Speed Round: Who will be most upset with their rank? 41:40 Speed Round: SFAT or PewPewU in 2019? 44:00 Speed Round: Who wins a 100+ Ultimate tourney first, Leffen or M2K? 46:04 Speed Round: Which player will have the hardest blurb to write? 48:20 Speed Round: Best writer in Melee (outside of anyone on the call) 51:00 Victory Lap 54:15 2019 Rising Stars (who weren’t top 100 nominees or ever ranked?) 54:30 Rising Stars: Joyboy 55:23 Rising Stars: Thumbs/Whiskey Priest 56:20 Rising Stars: BigJoig 58:15 Rising Stars: A Rookie for Top 100 in 2019? 58:52 Rising Stars: Icy 59:36 Rising Stars: DrLobster and other Northeast up-and-comers 1:01:00 Rising Stars: John Wick, MegaXmas, Dacky 1:01:53 Rising Stars: GWM420 1:02:28 Rising Stars: Dacky 1:02:57 Rising Stars: CAN TWOTRAN MAKE TOP 100??? 1:04:30 Rising Stars: Closing off other rising stars 1:06:00 Bold Predictions for 2019? 1:06:20 Edwin and Alex remember a bet and make another big bet 1:08:12 Edwin: Mango will win two majors! 1:13:30 Alex: Team UGS will not win another doubles major 1:16:10 Patron shoutouts and goodbye