Sorry SmashGAF, I failed to get any matches on the recorded setup.
Ended up getting 21st out of 120 I think. Both of my losses were super close but involved me doing something stupid to die. First one was against Zage, a good Pac-Man player. I was up about 20% to 80% or so on the last stock game 1 and he started his up-b from just off screen at the bottom of the stage. So I went off to hit him on the third jump from the trampoline and hit him with a luma d-air that hit him towards the stage and then I was just gonna up-b back to continue from there. Then I hit up-b and nothing came out and without really hearing any sound, I didn't realize that I must've hit the trampoline right before I did my up-b and got put in tumble falling through it, so I just continued falling and died at 20. Then in game 3, it went down to both of us above 100% on last stock and I hit him with a Luma f-smash at like 110%. Sparks came out and I thought that would finish him, but he managed to survive it and I didn't remember he had a key charged up on him. So he throws it at me coming back from off screen and I die to it instead.
Then after getting through the next several matches in losers bracket, I ended up playing a good Dedede that I actually roomed with when I went to Apex. That set also went to game 3 since I'm also pretty bad at the Dedede matchup. He just survives so long and has so much rage because of it. I end up getting him to about 180% most of the time before finally killing him but before that point, I have to be afraid of death at anything above 40%. So last game I'm at about 50 something % and on the ledge and I do my stupidest option of getting off the ledge and just do a regular get up and eat the back swing of an up-smash to the face because Luma's a dick and just extends the length of hitboxes to make sure I get hit by it as well.
Then to add a bit more insult to injury, the guy I beat in the first round ended up beating that Pac Man in loser's bracket and placed one round ahead of me <.<
Ah well, lots of solid players showed up today. Didn't get to play all the ones I wanted to, but still got some good friendlies in. Also found out the guy that got 5th happens to live in the same city as me, so might try to get some more offline practice with him sometime.
Man, my last tournament experience went terribly, I lost to Silentspectre (rank 5 on our power rankings), then lost to a Metaknight player in losers who had no business beating me. I was playing terribly, and for some reason after losing our first match I decided that I should strike 2 stages and let him counterpick instead of the other way around, so our match 2 was on Delfino, a stage I certainly would not have picked. He didn't know the rules that well, and I was out of it, so after realizing it afterwards I just took my loss and went home. That same metaknight player then lost to the other Bowser player at the tournament who I don't consider very good.
Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is, sounds like it went alright, and you learned at least a few things to watch for in the future. Can't say I learned anything from mine besides to try not to choke so badly.