Sep 4, 2014

A “Gutsy” Proposal

By |September 4, 2014|Uncategorized|7 Comments

by MIOM|Tafokints
Local Tournaments need to have higher venue fees
For the longest time, I have been a firm advocate of making tournaments as “bare-bones” as possible. When I ran the “Campbell” series, I charged a $3 venue fee and even waived […]

Sep 2, 2014

Show Me Your Moves 15 Melee Recap

By |September 2, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

by Omar Rifai

Show Me Your Moves 15, the latest entry in Illinois’ historic Smash tournament series, was held Saturday, August 30 and featured Melee and Project M singles and doubles events. Midwest TO Ripple made some significant improvements over previous […]

Sep 2, 2014

Choosing a Character

By |September 2, 2014|Uncategorized|3 Comments

A popular question through countless Reddit posts, Smashboard threads, and Ask.fm questions is “Which character should I choose?” Understandably so, many new players sometimes feel lost when it comes to picking a character to pursue, practice, and refine in the competitive Melee field. In this guide, I hope to:

• Shed some light on this choosing process,
• Show how new players can, without a doubt, know they made the “right” choice.

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Sep 2, 2014

Weekly Wrap Up (9/2/2014)

By |September 2, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Hey Everyone! We are slowly switching over to this weburl, so update your bookmarks!

With more functionality, we will be including all of the Smash games in the weekly wrap up! If you would like to see your tournament or event […]

Aug 29, 2014

Twitch Iron Man Tournament

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by MIOM|Tafokints

On, Twitch’s channel on twitch (lol….), C9.Mango, P4K EMP Mew2King, Silentwolf, and Westballz duke it out in an Iron Man Battle over PAX weekend. Mango and Mew2King have won their matches and play each other in Winner’s Finals.
Preliminary Results
Winner’s […]

Aug 29, 2014

Show Me Your Moves 15 Preview

By |August 29, 2014|Uncategorized|1 Comment

by David Mendez

The Tournament
Hosted once again by Ripple, this historic series is seeing some big changes which will be great for entrants and spectators alike. First, a new venue. Instead of the Champaign area church that once housed the series, […]

Aug 27, 2014

Finding Players at your College Campus

By |August 27, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

by MIOM|Tafokints

I remember it just like it was yesterday. I was starting my grad school program at UC Berkeley and had very little hope of finding nearby Smashers. The Super Smash Bears club was long gone and the only ranked […]

Aug 26, 2014

Weekly Wrap Up (8/26/2014)

By |August 26, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Hey Everyone! We are slowly switching over to this weburl, so update your bookmarks!

With more functionality, we will be including all of the Smash games in the weekly wrap up! If you would like to see your tournament or event […]

Aug 25, 2014

#SmashTheRecord Raises Over $13,500 for Charity!

By |August 25, 2014|Uncategorized|1 Comment

by MIOM|Tafokints
Introduction

Over the past weekend, the Gaming Knights club spent the past four days running a Super Smash Brothers Marathon stream to break the Guinness World Record for “Longest Video Games Marathon Playing a Fighting Game” , while also raising […]