Hey everyone, HugS here, and I wrote a little piece.

This is for the players that are getting good and are wondering how to get known. This is for the players who feel they are better than some of the game’s biggest names, yet can’t seem to pull in the same kind of notoriety. Building a brand that people associate with can get you more support than your skills ever could alone.
Intro to Branding
While I can’t say I’m the foremost expert on brand building, I can say that I am very much in control of the image I put out there, and it’s all very intentional. I want there to be no confusion about who I am, and what I represent. In fact, it’s almost disgusting how predictable I am. However, that makes my actions a consistent reminder of my brand.

The thing about building your brand is that you can produce both positive and negative perceptions about yourself. Widespread likability is not the point. I don’t care who you are, as long as you’re in the public eye, you’re going to get negative feedback. Is your record completely spotless? Well then, there are people out there who hate cookie cutters too.

So let’s get this straight: the main point about brand building is to generate support from the people who associate with it.

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Many players have recently approached us on how to contribute and write on the Melee it on Me Blog. We’ve had various articles from guests such as:

Ugh this TV Lags by Jas
The Voices of Women in the Super Smash Brothers Community by […]

Introduction:
Knowing the ins and outs of your character as a melee pro is not only necessary, but expected. Every character, even if they are duplicates (Fox Falco, Mario Doc, Falcon Ganon) has unique hitboxes that everybody needs to learn. This excerpt isn’t about the specifics of Marth hitboxes, but I will use a few Marth images to analyze the importance of knowing hitboxes because I feel he has a very defined set of hitboxes.

The first thing everybody needs to know is that there are both hitboxes and hurtboxes.
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Six Ways to Up Your Smash Game and Why There’s More to Smash Than Game,  by Chris Fabiszak

When I went two-and-out at my first tournament, I became obsessed with getting better. I swore to myself I would become a top ten player. I sacrificed my college social life, held no interest in classes, and jeopardized several relationships in the process. When I earned 10th at the end of Major League Gaming’s 2006-2007 season, it felt great. But you know what? I turned around to find no one was watching.

In the meantime, the Smash scene was unable to hit the meager, sub 200 player caps MLG set for the events, and my family and non-Smash friends just saw Smash as the thing that took me away. So while there were impassioned and dedicated players, to be sure, the scene was so fragile that it nearly collapsed when Brawl was released.
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