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NorCal Arcadian #2 (292 Singles Entrants) – 1/24/2015, Cupertino Ca
The 2nd NorCal Arcadian became the largest melee tournament in Norcal history with 292 Singles entrants. There were more than 300 but some people dropped out and there were plenty more than 300 spectating. https://www.facebook.com/events/545822245553005
Singles Results
1. SonomaBoys
2. doyoung2win
3. Nhat
4. Van Fransisco
SWEET XVII (182 Singles Entrants) – 1/24/2015, Ann Arbor, MI
Armada, in town during the week between Paragon and Apex, took care of business and even busted out the Fox in Grand Finals for extra style points. KJH made a huge statement by defeating Duck for the second time in two weeks, giving the Samus main a salty one-way ticket out of the bracket in Losers Finals. Prince Abu, Shady, and Moose rounded out the top 6. Elsewhere in bracket, notable upsets occurred as Juggleguy eliminated Kalamazhu in the 9th place match and JU4N stunned Beach to knock him out in 17th place. Overall, this was the biggest single-day tourney in Michigan history, even surpassing a few previous two-day turnouts such as TBH3 and Super SWEET.
Singles Results
1. [A]rmada
2. KJH
3. Duck
4. Prince Abu
Mayhem (182 Singles Entrants) – 1/24/2015, South Pasadena, CA
So many good things about this Mayhem. Our 2nd largest event to date, largest of our Melee only tourneys. 40 teams and 182 singles entrants. It was also the most efficient tourney to date starting signups at 10:30am and ended at 10:30pm. We had our stream running during top 32. There were event parents who came with 6 kids (some of which younger than melee!!).
Doubles went as expected based off seeding. Fiction & MacD taking first and getting in their last practice for Apex.
1st Fiction & MacD
2nd Reno & Lucky
3rd OXY SUNG475 & MikeHAZE
Singles on the other hand was full of surprises. The biggest being Kira’s outstanding performance defeating MacD & Sung before losing to Fiction in Winners. He wasn’t done yet though, as he defeated HugS in losers before losing to Fly and finishing 4th. Lucky and Fiction fought in both Winners/Grand Finals. The games were close despite what the set count shows. Lucky is holding strong at the top of SoCal, but we’ll see what happens as all of SoCal’s top players will be looking to shine at Apex this weekend.
Videos will be uploaded to MacD’s youtube, but if you can’t wait, the archives can be found at MacD’s twitch channel.
www.youtube.com/macdsmash
www.twitch.tv/macdsmash
Doubles went as expected based off seeding. Fiction & MacD taking first and getting in their last practice for Apex.
1st Fiction & MacD
2nd Reno & Lucky
3rd OXY SUNG475 & MikeHAZE
Singles on the other hand was full of surprises. The biggest being Kira’s outstanding performance defeating MacD & Sung before losing to Fiction in Winners. He wasn’t done yet though, as he defeated HugS in losers before losing to Fly and finishing 4th. Lucky and Fiction fought in both Winners/Grand Finals. The games were close despite what the set count shows. Lucky is holding strong at the top of SoCal, but we’ll see what happens as all of SoCal’s top players will be looking to shine at Apex this weekend.
Videos will be uploaded to MacD’s youtube, but if you can’t wait, the archives can be found at MacD’s twitch channel.
www.youtube.com/macdsmash
www.twitch.tv/macdsmash
Singles Results
1. Lucky
2. Fiction
3. Fly Amanita
4. Kira
MVG Endgame (128 Singles Entrants) – 1/24/2015, Tempe, Arizona
Although the venue was a bit crowded and smash 4 couldn’t finish in time, MVG’s presence was promising as there were Nintendo representatives there and a great environment was present. Hoping MVG could improve on the venue and more tourneys are held. BUT AXE BEATING M2K 3-2, 3-0 THO? AZ HYPE!
Singles Results
1. MOR | Axe
2. MVG | Mew2King
3. Forward
4. Medz
Super Nebulous 2 (123 Singles Entrants) – 1/24/2015, New York, NY
Super Nebulous 2 was a crazy tournament. Since the lease for the new venue doesn’t start til feb 1st, our schedule was completely up in the air. Yet, we still managed to do doubles, then pools, then a special new format dreamt up by MDZ, where we ran 3 brackets: pro (1/2 seed in pools), intermediate (3/4 seed in pools), and amateur (anyone else). Due to the large amount of setups, we were able to run all of these on time, and finish the tournament in about 8 hours total. This tournament also featured players from Germany, Sweden, and England, making this the most international nebulous to date.
There were a number of hugs upsets as well.
Starting in doubles, resident NYC ColumbiaU teams pros Run ‘N’ Gun (Fiya + Zero Omega) managed to take a set off the swedish Android + CalleW. Our other consistent NYC team, Grab ‘N’ Go (DJ Nintendo + The Moon) made an mockery of every other team, winning the entire tournament without dropping a game.
In singles, we saw an even larger number of upsets, starting from pools:
dizzkidboogie > calle w
hectohertz > vj
tian > otg
chuuper > cheezpuff
ryan-k > zanguzen
eikelmann > emukiller
mike-haggar > green ranger
Moving on to the actual bracket, we saw even more insanity:
vino > dev
beerman > calle w
fuzzyness > android
the moon > ice
fiya > dev
dudutsai > calle w
vino > ryan-k
emukiller > zoler
zanguzen > android
finallly culminating in an intense WF set, between Hax and Moon. Hax, coming off a hand injury, was severely out of practice. Before yesterday, their record was at least 20-0 in Hax’s favor. WF was a tight set going to gave 5, and on last stock, Hax missed a perfect ledgedash causing an SD, giving Moon his first set win against Hax in tournament! Hax went on to make quick work of Ice in LF, before rematching Moon to get 3-0’d quickly. Moon wins a tournament with Hax present! A historic day for NYC smash!
NYC is hype for Apex, are you guys?
There were a number of hugs upsets as well.
Starting in doubles, resident NYC ColumbiaU teams pros Run ‘N’ Gun (Fiya + Zero Omega) managed to take a set off the swedish Android + CalleW. Our other consistent NYC team, Grab ‘N’ Go (DJ Nintendo + The Moon) made an mockery of every other team, winning the entire tournament without dropping a game.
In singles, we saw an even larger number of upsets, starting from pools:
dizzkidboogie > calle w
hectohertz > vj
tian > otg
chuuper > cheezpuff
ryan-k > zanguzen
eikelmann > emukiller
mike-haggar > green ranger
Moving on to the actual bracket, we saw even more insanity:
vino > dev
beerman > calle w
fuzzyness > android
the moon > ice
fiya > dev
dudutsai > calle w
vino > ryan-k
emukiller > zoler
zanguzen > android
finallly culminating in an intense WF set, between Hax and Moon. Hax, coming off a hand injury, was severely out of practice. Before yesterday, their record was at least 20-0 in Hax’s favor. WF was a tight set going to gave 5, and on last stock, Hax missed a perfect ledgedash causing an SD, giving Moon his first set win against Hax in tournament! Hax went on to make quick work of Ice in LF, before rematching Moon to get 3-0’d quickly. Moon wins a tournament with Hax present! A historic day for NYC smash!
NYC is hype for Apex, are you guys?
Singles Results
1. The Moon
2. Hax
3. Ice
4. Professor Pro
MVG Endgame (120 Singles Entrants) – 1/24/2015, Tempe, Arizona
What was originally supposed to be a focused outreach tournament at the Endgame Arcade Bar incredibly turned into the largest tournament AZ has ever seen. A 119 entrants Smash 4 bracket was also ran, doubling the previous record for overall attendance, set earlier this year at Smash the Target (119 entrants).
While Axe besting mew2king to win the tournament was indisputably the highlight of the night, there were many other great sets during the night. Medz versus Forward in Losers Semis, for example, was perhaps one of the most exciting, closest matches AZ has ever had.
With two 110+ Melee tournaments in AZ just this month, it is safe to say that AZ Melee is alive and strong, and looking to get bigger in the future.
While Axe besting mew2king to win the tournament was indisputably the highlight of the night, there were many other great sets during the night. Medz versus Forward in Losers Semis, for example, was perhaps one of the most exciting, closest matches AZ has ever had.
With two 110+ Melee tournaments in AZ just this month, it is safe to say that AZ Melee is alive and strong, and looking to get bigger in the future.
Singles Results
1. MOR Axe
2. MVG mew2king
3. Forward
4. XTR Medz
Smash for Smiles (103 Singles Entrants) – 1/24/2015, Bellingham, WA
100+ Entrant Charity Smash tournament. Feat. Silent Wolf, Bladewise, Vish, Iceman and more!
Melee, PM, Smash 4 and 64 were also run.
Melee, PM, Smash 4 and 64 were also run.
Singles Results
1. GC | Silent Wolf
2. [62-bit] Bladewise
3. [62-bit] Vish
4. Vino
KING OF GARDEN STATE (84 Singles Entrants) – 1/17/2015, Red Bank, New Jersey
KING OF GARDEN STATE (hosted by Chain-Ace at Yestercades in Red Bank) was a tournament where only current New Jersey residents could participate in singles. The tournament was the biggest Melee event at Yestercades to date, with 84 singles entrants! Virtually all of New Jersey’s best players (Unfortunately Eggm, QERB and Teczero were not in attendance) duked it out for the title “King of New Jersey”. With all of top 5 playing out intense best of 5 sets, the event boiled down to Swedish Delight (Sheik/Peach) ultimately defeating StriCNYN3 (Falco) in game 4 of grand finals set 2 on Yoshi’s. The tournament was streamed by up-and-coming stream team “SigMelee”. Check the SigMelee twitch archives or their youtube.com/SigMelee channel for the replays!
Singles Results
1. Swedish Delight
2. StriCNYN3
3. Zanguzen
4. Icer18
DIME 12 (67 Singles Entrants) – 1/24/2015, Plano, TX
Bracket: tloc.challonge.com/
DIME 13, coming Feb. 21, will have Lucky in attendance.
Entrant count might actually be a person or two higher because numbers are bigger in Texas.
DIME 13, coming Feb. 21, will have Lucky in attendance.
Entrant count might actually be a person or two higher because numbers are bigger in Texas.
Singles Results
1. FX_DFW | Wobbles
2. AG | Arc
3. JF
4. Moophobia
Press L+R+A+Start 7 (58 Singles Entrants) – 1/17/2015, Las Vegas, NV
While only really being active at the beginning and very end of 2014, Trahh came full force this tournament defeating SK92 in Grand Finals.
Prinny made it interesting by sending Saiko to Loser’s early, and giving SK92 a hard time in Loser’s Semis.
Prinny made it interesting by sending Saiko to Loser’s early, and giving SK92 a hard time in Loser’s Semis.
Singles Results
1. Trahh
2. SK92
3. Saiko
4. Jpeg
Geeksboro Apex Prep Sesh (57 Singles Entrants) – 1/25/2015, Greensboro, NC
After a 4-month hiatus, Geeksboro Coffeehouse Cinema returned to hosting Melee locals in Greensboro, NC. The Geeksboro Apex Prep Sesh had 57 entrants, which were split up into 8 pools of ~7, with top 2 advancing to a final 16-man bracket. The recently updated NC PRs and motivation for Apex made this tournament very competitive and a huge success. $mike and ~twitch~ advanced to winners finals with relative ease, and their set was extremely tight until an explosive end with $mike taking it 3-2. In losers semis, Sky had a close run with Tah., but Tah. managed to defeat him 2-1. Losers finals between Tah. and twitch was a display of twitch’s dominance, ending with a quick 3-0 in twitch’s favor. Finally, in grand finals, twitch reset the bracket vs $mike, but $mike adjusted his play to win the whole tournament 3-2 in a nailbiting set.
Singles Results
1. $mike
2. ~twitch~
3. Tah.
4. Sky
Queen City Melee V (50 Singles Entrants) – 1/25/2015, Burlington, Vermont
It was awesome. The still young scene of Vermont got to meet skilled players and get some help from more experienced members of the community. Thus far it’s been our largest turnout, and definitely a humbling and exciting experience. It’s not often enough that smashers from Quebec and New England get to duke it out, so we’re all quite excited for the future of this region.
Singles Results
1. Vwins
2. Kage
3. Dadutsai
4. Tian
One More Round Winter Circuit #3 (42 Singles Entrants) – 1/25/2015, Toronto, ON
Videos coming soon to youtube.com/user/teammanopo/
The third tournament in the One More Round Melee Circuit (leading up to a final invitational event) was also the first in Toronto’s latest venue, the Ryerson University Tecumseh Auditorium.
42 entrants isn’t large for Toronto locals anymore, but it is pretty impressive considering the Student Union only gave the TO 4 days’ notice before the event.
The absence of any regional “gods” made everything more interesting. Lockon upset Toast in Winners and Sanu in Losers, while Scidadle’s impressive run through Losers was halted by Jamrun. Jamrun’s own reign finally came to an end in Losers Semis, where HammerTime demonstrated his own improvements in the ICs vs. Peach matchup.
n0ne and EMG|idea met in Winners Finals, as predicted, but it wasn’t a free ride – Jamrun and HammerTime brought both sides of Winners Semis to game 5, respectively. idea and n0ne’s equally close Jigglypuff vs. Falcon set ended in idea’s favour, and they met again in Grand Finals for a quick 3-0 by idea.
Then came the post-tournament Chipotle.
The third tournament in the One More Round Melee Circuit (leading up to a final invitational event) was also the first in Toronto’s latest venue, the Ryerson University Tecumseh Auditorium.
42 entrants isn’t large for Toronto locals anymore, but it is pretty impressive considering the Student Union only gave the TO 4 days’ notice before the event.
The absence of any regional “gods” made everything more interesting. Lockon upset Toast in Winners and Sanu in Losers, while Scidadle’s impressive run through Losers was halted by Jamrun. Jamrun’s own reign finally came to an end in Losers Semis, where HammerTime demonstrated his own improvements in the ICs vs. Peach matchup.
n0ne and EMG|idea met in Winners Finals, as predicted, but it wasn’t a free ride – Jamrun and HammerTime brought both sides of Winners Semis to game 5, respectively. idea and n0ne’s equally close Jigglypuff vs. Falcon set ended in idea’s favour, and they met again in Grand Finals for a quick 3-0 by idea.
Then came the post-tournament Chipotle.
Singles Results
1. EMG | idea
2. n0ne
3. HammerTime
4. Jamrun
Matthews Smashers Crazy 8 (41 Singles Entrants) – 1/24/2015, Matthews/Charlotte, NC
Singles Results
1. Stingers
2. Tah.
3. Starlord
4. Bl@ck Chris
Black Cat Videogames #3 (40 Singles Entrants) – 1/18/2015, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/374786672704187/380546292128225/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity
The tournament was held in a local videogame plaza in Monterrey, Javi and Twin did not attend.
The tournament was held in a local videogame plaza in Monterrey, Javi and Twin did not attend.
Singles Results
1. Valdo
2. Pit
3. Maxi
4. .JPG
PPX – Torneio Pré-Apex (26 Singles Entrants) – 1/18/2015, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Singles Results
1. Aisengobay
2. Izzi
3. Brunão Radical
4. Walk
Sudbury Bi-weekly 7 (26 Singles Entrants) – 1/22/2015, Sudbury, Ontario
Sudbury’s 7th bi-weekly saw a total of 26 entrants, once again breaking attendance records. Featuring PM along side Melee brought in 30 smashers total to the event. With a recent top 10 PR released, 9 of those players were in attendance to fight for that top spot. Winner’s Finals saw #2 Lahti and #1 Hex meeting as expected. However Lahti bested Hex. #3 Menard faced Hex in Loser’s Finals but fell just short losing 3-2. Hex returned, taking the 1st set of Grand Finals 3-0, resetting the bracket. However Lahti was able to win the 2nd set 3-2 and take the whole tournament. Previously, Hex had won all Melee events in town until this bi-weekly. The next monthly is only 2 weeks away, let’s see how things play out in Northern Ontario.
Singles Results
1. Lahti
2. Hex
3. Menard
4. Joat Guy
PB’s Danger Zone (24 Singles Entrants) – 1/24/2015, Chagrin Falls, OH
A small cozy tournament in Chagrin Falls, OH had a decent showing despite the awful weather in the Northeast. Hot off the tails of Pittsburgh’s massive success of Man On A Ledge getting 80 entrants the PGH crew came down to ohio to see if they could take the ohio players. PGH Carroll and Dempt faced off in winners semis with Dempt taking the win making Carroll run all the way back in losers and taking the losers finals match to face off with 4% in grand Finals. 4% took the tournament in game 5 with some solid Puff play.
Besides some awesome smash action the tournament was held in a gym and had the “Danger Zone” portion before the bracket. This included feats of bravery, an obstacle course, and some American Gladiator style games showing off some of the agility and prowess of PGHNEOH. Check out the Hits and Misses here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTOQtDg-OHk
Besides some awesome smash action the tournament was held in a gym and had the “Danger Zone” portion before the bracket. This included feats of bravery, an obstacle course, and some American Gladiator style games showing off some of the agility and prowess of PGHNEOH. Check out the Hits and Misses here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTOQtDg-OHk
Singles Results
1. 0.04
2. PGH Carroll
3. Dempt
4. Ralis
Jersey Japes South 14 (24 Singles Entrants) – 1/24/2015, Princeton, NJ
Princeton Weekly #14, first appearance by BERTgaming (Qerb and Mr. F)
Singles Results
1. Qerb
2. Mr. F
3. C!z
4. Tweek
Hightime Monthly #1 (16 Singles Entrants) – 1/25/2015, Berlin, Germany
The third installment of the “#1”-Monthly series in Berlin, Germany saw many upsets & was incredibly hyped overall. With Luma & Usleon not being able to attend, the 2nd tier players of Berlin were able to reach for the stars & almost every set of the top 8 phase was incredibly close. Bert upset V-K in WQF, Sodrek had a solid run into WF where he met MISTRRLOVE, who convincingly beat Charon in WSF. Charon however played 3 last stock 3:2 sets against V-K, Bert & Sodrek to reach grands, where 3:0ed MISTRRLOVE to reset the bracket & play yet another 3:2 last stock set against MISTRRLOVE to take the crown eventually.
Singles Results
1. Charon
2. MISTRRLOVE
3. Sodrek
4. Bert
Videos here
Matthew Smashers Crazy 8 (61 Singles Entrants) – 1/24/2015, Matthews/Charlotte, NC
In the largest Smash Wii U tournament in NC to date, Stingers trumped the competition yet again, in addition to taking 1st in Melee and Project M. Kai’s Sonic was the runner-up. GQ & Sneak rounded out the top 4.
Singles Results
1. KDG | Stingers
2. RedPanda| Kai
3. GQ
4. RedPanda | Sneak
Stuff N Such: Wii U Biweekly (38 Singles Entrants) – 1/25/2015, Raleigh, NC
With no competition from Sushiman or Kai, Stingers continued a dominant weekend at Stuff N Such, netting his fourth 1st-place win in just 2 days in 3 different smash games. Ian’s Ness took 2nd, with Killinator and Dandy Penguin rounding out the top 4.
Singles Results
1. KDG | Stingers
2. Ian
3. RedPanda | Killinator
4. Dandy Penguin (Shady)
Smashing Grounds (41 Singles Entrants) – 1/22/2015, Framingham, Massachusetts
One of the premier Project M weekly events in the country, Smashing Grounds features top New England talent including excellent Marth’s Sora and AOI, smashing DK main Poob, and the master of many characters Risky. Check out our stream 7pm EST every Thursday at twitch.tv/GameUnderground.
Singles Results
1. Sora
2. Poob
3. AOI
4. Risky
Matthews Smashers Crazy 8 (37 Singles Entrants) – 1/24/2015, Matthews/Charlotte, NC
Singles Results
1. Stingers
2. Starlord
3. Tah.
4. Karma
Sudbury Bi-weekly 7 (25 Singles Entrants) – 1/22/2015, Sudbury, Ontario
Sudbury’s Smash scene has a fierce Project M competition brewing in Northern Ontario along side Melee. With both games running at this bi-weekly there was a total of 30 entrants. Results for PM varied at the last monthly which left the first place title up for grabs. #1 ranked Hex saw a loss in WQ to Barb. Barb then lost in WS to Joat Guy. The other WS match Camerino bested Chirka in a nail bitter 2-1, setting up Camerino vs Joat Guy WF. Joat Guy was able to clutch out the win 3-2 in another close set, bringing himself to Grands. Rallying back from loser’s, Hex saw a surprising loss in LQ to Chirka. Barb, also in loser’s was playing to win. Coming back to beat Chirka, Camerino, and Joat Guy, taking the whole event.
Singles Results
1. Barb
2. JOAT Guy
3. Camerino
4. Chirka
PPX – Torneio Pré-Apex (24 Singles Entrants) – 1/18/2015, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Singles Results
1. Joker
2. Brunão Radical
3. Phoca
4. Izzi
Full Results here
Why is MVG Endgame listed twice, one with 128 entrants and another with 120 entrants?