Anyone who's struggling with stress, tournament nerves, or excessive autopiloting should check out this recent askscience post

The post asks why we deal with stress the way we do, and while it's not directly focused on smash, the top response is a very well written explanation that many may find useful. I for one feel like it explains a great deal about how my play style shifts with mindset, or rather how it has done so in the past. Definitely something that I will consider in developing strategies to regain both my composure and stage control in tournament matches.

This makes so much sense, I read most of it, but what really stuck out to me was "There was a paper out in 2013 that argued that positive emotions are those that lead to a decrease of uncertainty, while negative emotions are those that to an increase of uncertainty." So relating this back to smash I can say positive emotions will help me get more reads! Cool info!