New Apex Schedule Announced With No Cuts!

[LiteralGrill]

#Savepex has managed to succeed! The tournament has been moved to a new venue thanks to the amazing efforts of the community with Bifuteki finding a venue, help from Twitch.tv securing the new venue at the Garden State Convention Center and making plans to provide buses to get players to the event, and Red Bull helping with trucks to move equipment. As NAKAT said: "Apex is You, I, and the thousands of people who attend and watch the event." Our community certainly proved that to be the case today.

Leave it to the amazing members of the Smash community to rally! #Apex2015 kicks off tomorrow! http://t.co/WpmkH9BjBB

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) January 31, 2015

The tournament still running isn't the only good news either! Due to some amazing logistics work by the Apex team and volunteers this previously 3 day event has managed to be condensed down into a 2 day event with no events cut despite previous speculation that they might be!

Here is the information you have been waiting for!​

Some of the highlights:

• Each wave is now 90 minutes instead of 120
• Melee and Sm4sh pools will only advance 2 players instead of 4.
• Melee and Sm4sh singles pools run from 9am-6pm, with overflow from 6pm-7:30pm. Bracket round begins at 7:30pm.
• Shuttles are not 100%, but are scheduled to start at 7am.

So everybody put on your seat belts and get set for the hype that is Apex 2015. It has been a bumpy ride thus far but it will be incredibly exciting to see how the event goes with this compacted schedule and watch the fierce competition take place!

SmashCapps wants to thank everyone who followed him on Twitter today to keep up with the news. He feels honored that he could help keep the public informed. He's continuing to re-tweet any major Apex news or fun quotes involving the event, so follow him on Twitter to keep up!

 

[PillsBuryDopeBoy]

This year is gonna be hype! Can't wait to see everything unfold.

 

[Shinobi1]

So excited!

 

[Unicorn]

Do we have a new stream schedule as well?

 

[[Obnoxshush/Dasshizer]]

YES the finals and special announcement still set for Sunday, what time is the special announcement in Pacific time?

 

[ShadyWolfe]

Great effort on Team Apex, their sponsors, and the Smash Community to get this train back on track. I wonder what Nintendo's special announcement is? It will probably be the Mewtwo trailer but I'm hoping a certain space animal claws back in a trailer or announcement.

 

[Road Death Wheel]

Holy crap i love every member of this community.

Also, Nintendo knows of smashboards? This is AMAZING!

 

[[Obnoxshush/Dasshizer]]

Holy crap i love every member of this community.

Also, Nintendo knows of smashboards? This is AMAZING!

Wait where does it say Nintendo knows of smashboards? TELL ME!

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

#Savepex?.... Really?

 

[CyberHyperPhoenix]

WHAT AN AMAZING 4 STOCK COMEBACK BY APEX TO TAKE THE WIN!!

 

[KayB]

Nintendo is linking smashboards on its twitter. SMASHBOARDS ON NINTENDO'S TWITTER

We've come far

 

[[Obnoxshush/Dasshizer]]

Nintendo is linking smashboards on its twitter.

This is it guys, this is now.

THEY KNOW WE EXIST! https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica

 

[Pazzo.]

Tears in my eyes...

This is the day we've proven ourselves. :')

 

[Venus of the Desert Bloom]

Holy crap i love every member of this community.

Also, Nintendo knows of smashboards? This is AMAZING!

Nintendo has known Smashboards for a loooong time. I recall them making mention of it at least once Nintendo Power or something. Nintendo knows and visits the site. When and how much; we don't know but you'd have to be blind to not notice or hear about the biggest Smash community on the Internet.

 

[Nabbitnator]

YES the finals and special announcement still set for Sunday, what time is the special announcement in Pacific time?

If the announcements are before melee finals at 8pm est. It should be 5pm pst and if it is at 10 it should be at 7pm pst.

 

[[Obnoxshush/Dasshizer]]

If the announcements are before melee finals at 8pm est. It should be 5pm pst and if it is at 10 it should be at 7pm pst.

Sweet! Now I won't have to worry about missing it.

 

[deepseadiva]

Love the player power behind all this.

 

[Road Death Wheel]

Nintendo has known Smashboards for a loooong time. I recall them making mention of it at least once Nintendo Power or something. Nintendo knows and visits the site. When and how much; we don't know but you'd have to be blind to not notice or hear about the biggest Smash community on the Internet.

>.,< sorry for unwarrented hype then.

 

[Venus of the Desert Bloom]

Now is the time to be proud of being a Smasher!

>.,< sorry for unwarrented hype then.

Nothing wrong with that! Seeing Nintendo tweeting Smashboards definitely calls for hype and mad representation!

 

[[Obnoxshush/Dasshizer]]

Now is the time to be proud of being a Smasher!



Nothing wrong with that! Seeing Nintendo tweeting Smashboards definitely calls for hype and mad representation!

Man now if Nintendo employees told us their smashboards usernames, we could follow them (on smashboards) and maybe get in tournaments and talk with them on their lunch break, great company-consumer interaction. I heard Bill Trinen is really good with Rosalina.

 

[Show Me Your Moves]

Wow! Nintendo! <3

 

[allison]

This is awesome. As in the literal definition: "inspiring awe".

 

[toro194]

this is so amazing. i really want to spectate. im in nyc. but no funds to do it. next year tho, im in there for sure.

 

[AirFair]

YESSS Apex is back! I'm glad they made no cuts, but how late are they going to run into the night?

 

[TheVampirian]

Things are changing for the better. All that's left so far is for Sakurai to take a look at Diddy Kong and decide to do something.

 

[Stoven]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

 

[Newt Floss]

Are there any buts or coconuts?

 

[jhunter_d]

View attachment 37457 YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

As the Good Captain would say,

HYESSSZZZ!!!

We showed our moves and it paid off!

 

[thadd_fin]

This is amazing! The Smash community is so damn amazing, chock full of people who don't let anything like a structurally compromised building keep them from playing!

 

[ninrok]

Man, this is all kinds of amazing to see. New to the community and damn, I love how y'all rally. I can get down with this.

 

[Sonsa]

Gosh, y'all are amazing. Sakurai must be so proud <3 Along with all of us of course! So proud!

 

[[Obnoxshush/Dasshizer]]

Things are changing for the better. All that's left so far is for Sakurai to take a look at Diddy Kong and decide to do something.

Simple add in a character who can trash Diddy. (though Diddy's no match for Wario as is)

Spoiler

 

[Sonicthesneak]

Ever heard of the "Miracle on Ice"? This is the "Miracle at Apex 2015". Nintendo is damn right to be proud.

For all the in-fighting we do, the Smash Community truly is #1 from causal to hardcore. From Official to Fan games. Melee to Smash Wii U. From Final Destination to PokeFloats.

We represent.

 

[Deleted member]

So it's going to be back up? Great news.

 

[Sir_Zedd]

So happy it's going ahead, I was pretty scared for the people who travelled all the way to Apex for a while there.

Good on Nintendo for recognising the effort that went into making this happen

 

[ZomBiehn]

Lol love how they left splatoon behind

 

[Davis-Lightheart]

I'm guessing shuttles are only for the competitors as is?

 

[Runic_SSB]

Great to hear that the event is still going with nothing cut, but I really don't get why they would cancel Brawl before Killer Instinct. KI got about half as many entrants and this is a Smash Bros. tournament. Not to mention that it's not gonna be in EVO, so there'd be no seeding issues caused by it.

 

[TheLilK98]

SUPER FIGHTING TOURNAMENT....APEX!
FIGHTING TO SAVE THE WORLD!

 

[acekingoffsuit]

Great to hear that the event is still going with nothing cut, but I really don't get why they would cancel Brawl before Killer Instinct. KI got about half as many entrants and this is a Smash Bros. tournament. Not to mention that it's not gonna be in EVO, so there'd be no seeding issues caused by it.

I don't know of anyone who thought Brawl would've been cut. There was speculation that doubles for all games might get cut, but that was only speculation.

As for KI and the other "FGC" games, I don't think they were ever going to get cut. Their consoles aren't used for any other games at Apex, and the monitors only get used for Sm4sh, which presumably had enough monitors to work with already. Cutting those games would've freed up space, but nothing else that was useful to the TOs.