Melee is not worth it any more, too expensive to travel. Teams and TO's wanted to run melee events but nintendo don't want them too, ESL wanted to run a melee circuit like they do for cs

Amsah mentioned

Llod?

The 49th of EU won a money match VS the 36th of the world. We are cooking a lot

EU is cooked, Amida (a random NA Puff main) won an EU major where Amsah was aswell

great stuff nicki love your content

My "hidden" boss list: Makenshi (top 50), Isdsar (top 70-100) May (top 70-100) Amsah (lol) (top 70-100) Tekk (maaybe top 100, played recently in unranked)

Love the music choice. I guess I shouldn't be surprised after seeing you on the Fridge!

king meruem tippy top player

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You should use "rainbow road but its minor key" as bgm next time

m2k at smash world tour going so close with frenzy and getting absolutely demolished by wizzrobe i think is the prime example of how quickly times change. he was gone for 2 or 3 years and went from the absolutely peak level to really struggling. Not that he couldnt, but i think more time to improve would be needed. its been another 3 years since smash world tour. so much has changed. slippi made people improve so fast

Watched your Don't Park run from the audience, and LOVED seeing your ICies! Keep up the grind Nicki-you're going to crush it in 2025!

the dream if for europe to have like 3 international majors, not just "eu majors" just so people get their shot it feels theres relatively low melee tournaments in general which is ofc a big deal and super hard to try to change, just frustrating

I dont get it, why doesnt eu just make their own melee tourney system?

I made a personal top 100 off of a few metrics and have you at 15

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Europe's top player lost to Mango's secondaries, and IC MU and DK MUs to lower ranked that are highly Peach favoured 💀

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Still feel like Max should be in the 50-100 range, felt like a real snub based on the amount of positive h2hs he had vs people ranked 70-100 as well as getting wins like Salt/Wevans/Grab/Kalvar/Kins0 at locals which ended up not counting.

no hate, but why ppl still care about this game when ssbu excist ?

not putting geldman and squiltendorf in top of the top is blasphemy.

Lmao the kingu callout

hell na. bring back that dude that played peach

bet those trillions of muslims you're importing are gunna be great at melee hope they respect your pronouns and gender identity too

Song at 9:40 ?

Pipsqueak is a gcc marth main??? I'm so out of the loop...

17:50 You forgot to timestamp Kingu's placement

I love Nicki content Thanks Nicki!

I remember you mentioning this on Reddit and I see you've picked out a nice clickbait title for it ;)

ICIES!!

mojohans ez top 50

Big Icies fan Nikki! I'm really trying to get the basics of icies mechs down, I'm grateful for your content!

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U da goat ssbm Nicki

Covid 2020 Allegations Most tourneys being in NA and Smash not looking promising monetarily after the allegations were probably good reasons for anyone to stop playing. In the end, you'll make more money streaming than competing. It's also budget friendly too since they won't have to a lot on airline ticket/hotel/ubers/food while in the U.S.

Imagine Hbox RTC resting in 2015-2016. He would never lose a match. He was forced to start doing this to keep up with the higher level of play from everyone across the board.

yeah i’m sure it would be easy for you in a last stock situation at a major 😂

Good ol juan

Congrats on the Nouns 2025 sponsorship!! I agree that this is a fascinating aspect of Melee mid-tier matchups. Looking forward to commentators trying to dissect the plays and counterplays that come up in tournament next year.

Congratulations on the Nouns Sponsorship! Your "hard work" is paying off ;)

13:51 - this may be a philosophical question, but if you play the Red and white ICs your main climber is the girl, so the NPC part of duo should be Popo. Or is the NPC one always called Nana?

The angle at 18:43 was insane

Pound 2 Chudat as a major is crazy, but IMO this whole conversation is kind of dumb. icies could totally win a major :P

A well articulated, great video. It felt like it was going into a sponsor me type vibe but after hearing your rational, logical analysis and the fire burning in your soul to compete and learn, not to mention the entertainment factor of a new character in the mix, I’m rooting for you Nikki Good luck!❤🎉

It wouldnt surprise me that another version of wobbling might win a major

I think any character above ganon on tier list can win a major

Oommmmmgggg ich bin sooooo betrunken 😭😭😭 nickiiiii 😭😭😭