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Daniel "KoreanDJ" Jung, long time member of the scene and subject of 'The Smash Brothers' documentary, is confirmed to attend Shine 2016 on August 26th - 28th. While not a permanent return, he's set to make his first national tournament appearance after retiring in mid-2015.

This is the story of how SmashG, Singapore's competitive Smash community, started. From its humble beginnings to where it is now, its come a long way.

Today is Smash director, Masahiro Sakurai’s birthday! In order to celebrate, I thought it would be fun to organize a reading list of articles, interviews and columns which are particularly noteworthy. After reading through this list, you may have a deeper understanding of how Sakurai works!

The organizers of Shine 2016, New England's premiere event, have just confirmed via Twitter that Team Solo Mid's Gonzalo "ZeRo" Barrios will be attending the event.

The first Latin American community effort tournament, Astra, is taking place on August 26th-28th, at the Combarranquilla Convention Center, Barranquilla, Colombia. And Smashboards is going to cover it all!

The Youtuber One Hit Smash recently released a fourth installment in his "Mythsmashers" series, in which he goes through "myths" asked by subscribers.

Big Blue eSports, organizers of Shine 2016, announced today that Joseph "C9 | Mango" Marquez will be attending the New England-based event, which will be taking place on August 26 - 28.

It’s been a busy week for those of us who like to keep up with tournaments! With important majors and regionals going on all over the map, from México to Japan, it’s been almost impossible to keep up with all of the news about our favorite players. But worry not, for Smashboards has you covered! Here’s what you may have missed over the last few days.

In preparation for the offline event on August 26 - 28, Shine 2016 will be hosting a Super Smash Bros. for Wii U online qualifier. Round-trip plane tickets, housing and more are at stake for the victor of the event.

Sumabato for THE BIG HOUSE was an astounding success. We set new records for stream viewership at a Japanese tournament. It was also the highest level tournament in Japanese Smash 4 history. Over 200 players from all over Japan came out to compete. They all wanted to get their name out there, be recognized for all their hard work, and be given a chance to compete at one of America's biggest events, The Big House.

Well known for his crazy off-stage play, strong edgeguards and even stronger opinions, Eric “ESAM” Lew is considered to be one of the best, if not the best Pikachu in the world. Now, as one of the big summer events approaches, we will be following ESAM as he prepares for the second installment of Super Smash Con.

Smashboards' publication is teaming up with Shine 2016, New England's premier national, as one of its official media partners!

GimR, the creator and owner of VGBootCamp, one of the oldest and most popular streaming and video-archiving organizations in the Smash community, just posted a video informing his subscribers of a serious mistake made by an employee that could severely affect the future of their YouTube channel.

Melee It On Me, one of Super Smash Bros. Melee's longest-running organizations, announced the addition of James "Duck" Ma to its team.

Welcome back to another Weekend Watchlist! We are bringing back the Watchlists to highlight tournaments not only in the United States, but globally!

This weekend (July 30-31) marks a very special two-day Sumabato tournament. Held in Daito City, Osaka, Sumabato is the main gathering point for Kansai's Super Smash Bros. Wii U scene. It's always an interesting tournament to watch, but this time the stakes are higher and the competition is tougher.

With Super Smash Con 2016 approaching, the Smashboards publication is happy to announce that it will be an official media partner for the event, which will be happening on August 11-14 at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, VA.

Everyone loves checking in on the results of Japanese tournaments because they simply do not make any sense. Even for Japanese tournaments, Umebura 24 had some of the craziest results yet. Many people try to theorize that Japanese rulesets lead to an overabundance of variance but, the truth is, Japan's metagame gives us a preview of what Smash 4 in the 1.1.6 era will look like around the world in the near future. Once the other regions have as high of an average player skill level as in Japan it will become clear that in 1.1.6, everyone is a threat.

Sakurai discusses how he brought Sonic to Smash in this Famitsu Column (Originally published before Brawl's release date). The translation was done by the folks at Source Gaming!