Sunday, August 28, 2022

My Spring 2022 Smash Ultimate Season Recap

 2nd Semester of BYU-Idaho complete. 2nd Season of competitive Super Smash finished.


Such a good season.


Highlights from this season:

- Won a total of $119, which blows my mind. ($75 was from a single tournament that was sponsored, so that helped).

- Have a 0-10 record against Jake. (0-11 if you count when we fought in redemption bracket at the pre-local to Crown II). 

I faced Jake a lot, haha. More than anyone else this semester. And I lost to him every single time :) I'll get him next semester. Jake is my practice partner, but in theory that should help the both of us when we fight. We both know each other's habits super well. Jake's my GOAT.

- 3-0'd Bojangle's Roy. He proceeded to 3-0 me back with Falco. Twice. But regardless, I'm happy I got a set of Bojangles.

- Won my first ever tournament! (not counting the Fallon and High School tourneys). This, of course, meant that Jake and Naters weren't in attendance, but that doesn't mean my tournament win wasn't any a solid tournament win.

- Kept a clean 7-0 record against Carson, which lowkey might be the most impressive thing I've done this semester. Carson is really good and is definitely climbing in the ranks. He's consistently taken sets off everyone except the top 5 (but even then he's definitely gotten close against several of the top 5).

- Speaking of the top 5, I'm freakin' one of them!! I'm honestly super happy. My goal at the start of this semester was to be top 10. After a few tournaments of doing extremely well, I set an updated goal for myself; that new goal being to be top 5. And I achieved it :)

Here's the official Power Ranking graphic for this past semester (created by my brother Eric Perazzo):


Below are the various tournaments and placements that I got this past semester. This is simply a copy paste from my list that appears on the far right. The ones that will be copied below will be removed from the list. 

As the new semester/season moves forward, my new results will be placed there. My plan is to refresh this list every semester and then update it throughout the course of the next semester/season.

The list includes Crown and associated tournaments as well even though those didn't count toward the Rexburg Power Rankings.

Note: They are all still hyperlinks. If you wanted to look at any of the stuff, it is still there.

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Monday, August 22, 2022

My Take on Angel Beats

 Finished watching Angel Beats for my first time.

And, to be honest, I'm kind of disappointed.

To compare my thoughts to others, I looked up a few reviews. I found Glass Reflection's final verdict (check it out here) shared a lot of the thoughts that I had. 


Here's part of his review that very much aligns with my own thoughts:

"I don't feel like I should be calling Angel Beats bad per-se. Because it recovers enough from a lot of its executions to make itself somewhat enjoyable. However, the show's tone is all over the place and the pacing has been shot to [heck].    

Honestly, this show needs more episodes. Not a sequel, mind you. The story is done. It's played out, and a sequel would only make things worse. But it really needed to be, like, twice the length that it actually was in order to fully flesh everything out, and that was something it just never got.

Emotion without purpose or reasoning means nothing to me.

Angel Beats never really gave me enough time to become attached to any character of any real interest.

And that's why even the ending failed me; forgetting about the massive plot-hole that was somehow shoehorned in there to make the emotional rollercoaster exist in the first place."


The show does have it's enjoyable moments for sure. But the pacing really was all over the place. And the characters felt shallow. Many parts that I could tell were supposed to be emotional didn't hit home for me at all. There were a couple shining moments that did, though (although only a couple).

I really think more episodes is exactly what was needed. More time to develop the characters, more time to pace out the plot and explain certain things. It would really really help.


I'm also curious if my watching of The Good Place has negatively influenced my perspective on Angel Beats. They both deal with the similar concept of being ready to move on after reaching the afterlife and such. And so I've already been through that sort of arc with a different set of characters. 

Along those lines, The Good Place had 4 seasons (53 episodes of varying lengths (granted, I failed to watch several of the episodes from the first season)) to help me fall in love with those characters. I care for them. And so the last episode was powerful. 

I only had 13 episodes (20ish minutes each), and by the end of those I only really had a decent connection to a couple of the characters. And so the last episode really didn't land for me.


Not bad, though. Not a bad anime at all. Definitely a pleasurable watch, for sure. Just not my favorite.

Has some really solid unexpected comedic moments that got me laughing out loud. Has a solid premise. Has good mystery elements; things that keep you curious about the world and how it works (granted, a lot of these questions never get answered, but regardless, it kept me engaged). Music is great. Animation is solid.

 Maybe a 7/10?

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Sunday, August 14, 2022

The Surprising Power of Ping Pong the Animation

You know, whenever I talk to people about Ping Pong The Animation, I always start off by explaining that it's not your typical sports anime.

And although that's true, I failed to realize just how true it really is until I rewatched it recently.

It was even better than I remember.


Perhaps because I'm older now, I've learned more about myself, experienced more things. Regardless of the reasons, Ping Pong The Animation really struck home this time around.

It really is a work of art.


It's so much more about other things rather than who's going to win. It focuses so much more on story-telling, character-development/character-arcs than it does on flashes action scenes.

The anime tackles so many deep topics in beautiful ways.

The topic of why we do the things we do. The topic of the pressure of always being on the top. The topic of Talent vs Hard Work. The topic of priorities -- work vs relationships, work vs fun. The topic of finding happiness.

The topic of being a good friend. Of being a hero.

And it does all of this in 11 episodes.

It astounds me.

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Sunday, August 7, 2022

My Favorite Movies Tier List

Super Important Note About This List:

I only included movies that I've watched recently enough that I remember well enough to rank. Or movies that are memorable enough/I remember how much I like them enough to include them.



Because of this we get:

Random additions such as Ice Age and Avatar which I just so happened to watch because my roommates were watching.

Fantastic movies that I haven't seen in many many years, but I know I adore such as Prince of Egypt and Joseph King of Dreams.

Movies that I haven't watched in many many years, but I remember that I didn't like them at all such as Captain Marvel.


But this also causes the list to miss out on a lot of things, of course. Many many movies fall into this category of simply not being included (all the Harry Potter Movies, The Hunger Games are also ones that I thought of in the past two seconds).

This is why you see movies such as Frozen II but not Frozen I, even though I'm confident I prefer Frozen I.




Eric and my mom also made Tier Lists that should be posted soon. Check them out as well :)

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