[quote name='mpj31']hah i beat crystal cup by getting up and just running with dry bones in the back court. Koopa couldnt catch up to me. The game wants to be cheap I'll do the same.[/QUOTE]
Interesting... Another day for me, another run at the Crystal cup. I got to the championship series against Diddy Kong and lost 2-1 and 4-3 or something in SD. Suckage - all the way back to the

ing beginning. Who thought that was a good idea? Damn...
I actually used a little bit of the keepaway strategy myself when I was up by 1 goal with 30 seconds or so left in a couple of games earlier. I went up on Diddy early and should have done that, but it would have been more like 2 minutes or so and I didn't want to chance a steal and quick score on his part. Of course, what happened was a miss be me followed by a quick score, and then a shuffling of the characters so he was left with Diddy and that stupid mole. Then any slight slip-up with your 2 chars and he gets off a megastrike. I actually blocked 3 out of 4 so it wasn't too bad, but then I was playing catch-up. Next time I play keepaway if I get the chance.
While this cup looked flat-out impossible at first, I know now that I can beat it if I just keep at it. This time I restarted the Fire Cup so I could have Luigi (just 'cause) and pair him up with a couple of toads and a hammer bro. I use the toads and Luigi for quick passing to charge up shots and take several toad jump attempts for goals. I got all kinds of goals in the Fire cup since I could megastrike a lot, and used the rest of the time practicing toad jumps. In case anyone blazed through the Fire Cup the first time they played the game (as I did) and didn't snag both trophies, you should do it again. I got the Wasteland field unlocked by getting both the brick wall and golden shoe awards (fewest goals allowed and most goals scored). That should be pretty easy for most of you at this point. I just figured many didn't know that as they probably played that one day 1 and haven't gotten back to it. The first time I played I got the brick wall but not the golden shoe.
Then on to the hard part, the Crystal cup - I would usually end up with 1 or 2 toad jump goals, and maybe a hammer bros skill shot goal and/or a megastrike or regular goal. That got me wins in most of the qualifying games. My achilles heel was damn Daisy and her lightning speed. I lost 2 qualifiers to her and then had to face her in the last elimination round. I finally beat her by going up 2 goals and then playing keepaway - the key thing being I didn't let her fire off all the megastrikes she did earlier. It seems like she can get them off WAY too quickly, so I just made sure to have the character I controlled shadow her whenever possible. Diddy Kong is pretty fast, too. Had I just played keepaway when he and Luigi were knocked out and I had my toads to run around with I would have won that one game at least.
Oh well, I'll give it another shot tomorrow.
And isn't there ANOTHER cup after the Crystal? Has anyone even tried that one? Does the difficulty take the same jump as from Fire->Crystal? If so, screw that :lol:.