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School of Smash: L-canceling

Super Smash Brothers is an iconic game series enjoyed by many people. Although Masahiro Sakurai (the creator of the Smash series) intended Super Smash Bros. Melee (the second game in the series for the Nintendo GameCube) to be a party game, there were many advanced techniques that if used correctly in competitive Smash, you could get an edge. Mastering advanced techniques in Melee, can lead to combos or being able to input an attack faster, which gives you a significant edge over people who don't know that these techniques exist. The most "basic" technique is L-canceling. Every time you use an aerial attack, which is a non-special move in the air (you can input with jump (X, Y, or Up on the control stick), then the attack button (A) for neutral air, or C-stick one of 4 ways to do other aerial attacks (You can also point on the left control stick and the A button at the same time). While doing an aerial attack, your character is falling towards the ground. When your char

Chess

The chess season starts today as Uni hosts Regionals. Regionals is part of the "regular" season where Uni takes part in a round-robin with 5 other schools in the area (Bismarck Henning, Georgetown Ridge Farm, Notre Dame de la Salette, and Urbana). Today we were supposed to play Georgetown, however they couldn't make it so we will have to play another time... My Chess Career I started playing chess when I was 5 years old. I would just bring my queen out, and try to checkmate as fast as possible. When I joined a chess club in first grade at Robeson, I would soon realize that bring the queen out early is a bad idea, since it can be chased away while your opponents develop their pieces at the same time. Despite this early setback in my playstyle, I would soon become one of the best player at the school. One day, we played a match against Dr. Howard, and I played Blair Hu. He completely destroyed me, and Dr. Howard 10-0 us. I was applying to the gifted program, and I reme