My placement shouldn't be praised honestly, I just lucked out big time: Kasper didn't attend and neither did Doplghost. Neither Cong nor KillerJawz entered singles and Pafos quit. So the absence of Falco, 2 Olimar's, Samus and Diddy Kong meant I was bound to get a better placement than usual. There was a pretty big turnout this time and I was paired with a lot of easy randoms. JMiller screwed up late in the game and I beat his Luigi 2 - 1, hopefully the set is uploaded soon. I was fortunate enough to not get paired against Hoe4u, but I would have Pikachu mirrored him anyway had that happened because he doesn't lose to Bowser anymore.
I lost to CloudRainZero twice. He knocked me into losers, and then knocked me out, all matches were on Battlefield and I didn't take a single game, the Fox MU is impossible. Had I won I'd have likely made grand finals since I'm sure I could have taken Calzorz' Marth (he went all Marth this time) without much trouble because it's very mediocre. Though I imagine he'd have switched to Snake if the pressure was on, then I'd have lost.
I foresaw a placement of 6th - 4th the moment I saw those brackets. The only people posing any kind of threat there were JMiller, Hoe4u, CRZ, Calzorz and Anaky. Grand finals were pretty much out of the question as that's reserved for the latter two, and I expected to lose to at least two of the former three. I didn't expect to beat JMiller, I think I played well, I knew I had a chance against his Luigi at least because it's not the hardest MU out there. It was quite surprising though, I don't think any of us really expected it, I think he took it a bit hard since he's usually really comfortable against Bowser, no matter what character he chooses.
This was a one-off, though, next local I'll get the usual low - bottom positions as the more bothersome players will likely enter.