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The Melee Games
One exciting event that took place at INY was the California Melee Games Finals. For those who don't know, The Melee Games is an intercollegiate Melee circuit featuring over 100 teams from New England, the Tri-State area, the Mid Atlantic, California, and Ontario universities. This match had an epic crew battle between the University of California Berkeley and the University of California Santa Cruise. After the final game came down to 3 stocks for UCB with Nimzo's Falco vs Dikboi94's Fox from USCS, Nimzo managed to clutch out the victory. The match is available to watch on Youtube here. This victory secured them the invitation to The Melee Games Finals, which is currently in its last days of fundraising to help fly the West Coast players out to the East Coast finals.
Outside of the exhibition matches the Melee Doubles tournament at INY was incredibly exciting as well with many excellent teams coming to compete. The grand finals were by far one of the greatest highlights of the entire tournament with MacD and Leffen against Shroomed and Armada, the team they originally sent to loser's bracket and who had to take out Mang0 with Lucky and SFAT with PewPewU to come back for the rematch managing to reset the bracket. After MacD pulled out a clutch 1v2 win at over 130% in game two of the bracket reset, they were able to ride out the momentum securing victory for MacD and Leffen.
The singles bracket was also filled with many exciting moments with Bizzaro Flame even taking a game off of Armada. There were some interesting upsets as well that neither the public nor MeleeItOnMe's TaFoKiNts could predict, with Kira taking down KirbyKaze as well as SFAT, Shroomed, Lucky, and Fly Amanita not making the final bracket. In the end after being previously defeated by Mang0 and managing to rest the bracket, Armada finally dropped the Fox he had used quite a bit in tournament to bring out his Peach to secure the tournament win in a convincing 3-1 set. The top eight were as follows:
1st- Armada
2nd- Mang0
3rd- Leffen
4th- PewPewU
5th - Westballz
5th - Kira
7th- KirbyKaze
7th- MacD
I'm Not Yelling was a roaring success and there were plenty of other exciting matches and highlights as well. To see all of the recorded sets from the tournament be sure to check out ShowDown's Youtube channel.2nd- Mang0
3rd- Leffen
4th- PewPewU
5th - Westballz
5th - Kira
7th- KirbyKaze
7th- MacD
SmashCapps stayed up past 3AM to watch the entire tournaments and it was 100% worth it! Follow him on Twitter to discuss the next exciting upcoming Smash events.
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Great peach comeback Armada
