Out of the 60+ people i have played, only one person has ever beaten me (my brother).

By the standards of this forum I'm extremely good. I main Ice Climbers using Wavedashing for movement, desyncing nana, chain throwing, SHFFLing, the works. I've won my college tournament and placed second another time each with a entrance of about 50 each time. Of course, by the standards of the real tournament scene I'm pretty bad.

I look forward to relearning the gameplay for brawl and beating you all down =D.

i was pretty good
got all trophies
beat all events
every character in extra hard in story and adventure
also i had a lot of characters that i played with
probably like a 9.5 back in the day

I was just playing last night and i sucked
didn't even remember the jump button
but got the feel back so now i am like a 7

also what counts as an advanced move
every move in melee was pretty simple to pull of and incorporate in different situations

There are techniques in melee (programmed and exploits) that are not listed in the instructions.

Among these, the advanced techniques are generally considered to be:

Directional Influence (DI)
Smash Directional Influence
Teching
Short Hop
Fast Fall
Lag-Cancel
Shield Grab
Shield Cancels (upsmash, wavedash, & upb)
Crouch Cancel
Dash-Dancing
Wavedashing

A more thorough list and explanation can be found here: http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=42749

Unfortunately, if you have not incorporated these into your game you are at a huge disadvantage to those who have - i.e. you rated yourself a 9.5 but if you were to play a tournament goer you would be at a tremendously massive disadvantage.

 You're not entirely correct.  Its true that the most dramatic of the advanced techniques, l-canceling and wavedashing, are out but pretty much every other advanced technique is still in (although some such as dash-dancing and crouch canceling have been slightly altered),

 Yeah, they also have already found some new advanced techniques. Compilation of New Techniques/Discoveries

Be afraid be very afraid, I'm so confident in winning every battle I enter, I'd put hard cash on it, even my families lives.

Bruce Lee can't lose, neither can I.

One time I put myself against 3 Level 9 Samus's, 99 lives for all 3 of them, 50 lives for me, I won with 3 lives left, If you can do that, get back to me, I want to hear from you.

I button mash!..
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yeah i know, i suck...

It's hard to explain skill in words, but here's an example. See the Lucas in this video? He's my friend, and I can beat him using Link.

We'll just have to see how we all match up when the game actually comes out.