Another Weekly Wrap Up! If you’d like your tournament to be featured, fill out this form in the future.!
Mayhem (227 Singles Entrants) – 8/9/2014, San Gabriel, CA
Mayhem is a Melee and Project M LOCAL in SoCal. There was 317 Unique entrants, 227 in Melee, and 173 in PM, with 94 entering both. All this done in 1 day. This is double our previous largest event. Player register ahead of time and pay at the venue. We took over 200 payments in under 90 minutes. The venue opened to the public at 11:00am. Melee finished a little after 1:00am and PM finished a little after 1:30am.
We had special out of state guess Hungrybox come out before moving back to Florida. He wasn’t the reason so many people came out (though i’m sure it helped). Post EVO hype and SoCal not having an SSS or Mayhem since EVO helped boost numbers to INSANE amounts. There were many new players and it was the 1st tournament for many. Overall heard many positive things from these new players and they seemed to enjoy themselves.
Make sure you don’t miss out on the next Mayhem Oct 4th. Melee will be streamed on twitch.tv/mikehazegaming
Singles Results
1. Crs Hungrybox
2. Lucky
3. Westballz
4. S2j

Full Results here
Videos here

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Another Weekly Wrap Up! This week featured several international tournaments and Zenith. If you’d like your tournament to be featured, fill out this form in the future.!
Zenith 2014 (280+ Singles Entrants) – 8/2/2014, Brooklyn, NY
An exciting weekend of Smash on the East coast that even featured actor, Dylan Sprouse. Singles featured some upsets in bracket as Wizzrobe defeated Axe in Winners and The Moon defeated Fly Amanita in Loser’s. Overall, The Moon played impressively well, finishing 9th and overcoming an early loss to Phish-it. The later matches in Top 8 were all intense as Axe was on the brink of defeat several times before finally losing to Zhu in a contested 5 game set. In winner’s, things look very promising for Hax as he was able to take a 2-0 lead before losing 3 straight to Mew2King. Hax ended up narrowly beating Zhu to get a shot at redemption. Hax managed to take set 1 of grand finals before losing steam and falling to Mew2King, the champion of Zenith.
Singles Results
1. P4K| Mew2King
2. VGBC|Hax
3. Zhu
4. MOR|Axe

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Another Weekly Wrap Up! If you’d like your tournament to be featured, fill out this form in the future!
Smash @ Xanadu Weekly (64 Singles Entrants) – 7/22/2014, Baltimore
Our largest Melee bi-weekly, we got 64 entrants and Team Apex’s Nintendude made a rare Xanadu appearance and stole the show. He beat out DP twice, fully utilizing wobbling and frustrating DP with his tactics. Vist upset Mortality’s ChuDat, although Vist does have other recent victories over Chu as well.
Singles Results
1. APEX | Nintendude
2. DP
3. Vist
4. MOR.ChuDat

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by MIOM|Tafokints

King Koopa Reigns!

Very quickly, people discovered that Bowser was powerful in free for alls. The first three rounds were free-for-alls in which the player with the highest point total moves on. As a result, KOs were highly valued. Bowser’s down+B, the Bowser-Bomb, could KO opponents easily at the 80-100% range. Given the chaotic nature of FFAs, it was very simple to catch un-suspecting opponents with the Bowser-Bomb. In addition, Bowser’s forward smash and aerials KO’d people very quickly. Bowser’s heavy weight also proved to be a valuable asset as he was living until 150-180%.

Several players were not used to the unorthodox control scheme, so as a result, the more “finesse” characters were much more difficult to adjust to. Many people throughout the tournament missed inputs, which would lead them open to attacks such as strong forward-smashes.

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by MIOM|Tafokints

MIOM’s dynamic duo, Toph and Scar, will be commentating Nintendo’s 3DS Smash tournament.

When: Friday 11am PST

Where: San Diego Comic-Con

The stream will be once again on Nintendo’s twitch

Top Players such as FRQ.HugS, LuCKy, Westballz, and other Socal locals will be […]