Apex - Biggest Tournament in NYC and why WC should attend!!!

[Alex Strife]

Hey there west coast, you guys have been really supporting the smash scene by coming to our tournaments and here is another big one to take a look at. All I ask is that you guys give me a few minutes of your time to show you why my tournament will be one of the big ones on the East Coast. I have a Brawl tournament coming up on April 4-5 called Apex. It is hosted by me Alex Strife ( lightxdream ) and my goal is to have this to be my biggest tournament yet. I am creating this thread in an attempt to spread HYPE and the word of this tournament.

Here are a few things to consider about this tournament.

--Huge Venue for a cheap price
-A tournament ran by me, Phoenix Era ( With the best ZSS in the EC Snakee) and Team Supremacy! ( with Ninjalink and D1 two of the best in NYC and EC )
-2 day tournament where everything will end at 10pm so we can get great sleep!
-Mics and Recording equipment so we play matches online
-Chairs!!!
-Great low price to encourage all tournament goers to go!
-Commentating by me and other great smashers
-Super close to Manhattan and Bronx ( 1st stop in Brooklyn in the best area and college possible )
-MUCH MORE




I have information for Travel and Housing here :

VI. Traveler's Info

VIa. Hotels

Hotel Reserve
20 Maiden Lane
New York, NY, 10038
866-539-0036
Price : $[FONT=&quot]149.00[/FONT]

New World Hotel
101 Bowery
New York, NY, 10002
866-539-0036
Price : [FONT=&quot]150.00[/FONT]

Hotel 17
225 E 17th St
New York, NY, 10003
866-539-0036
Price : [FONT=&quot]153.33[/FONT]

The Jane Hotel
113 Jane St
New York, NY, 10014
866-539-0036
Price : 99.00


VIb. Flying Into New York City

Flying in via plane? Apex is pretty close to La Guardia Airport. LGA the M60 bus ( $2 bucks each way ) which picks you up at the airport and drops you off at 116th and Broadway in front of the gates of Columbia University. From here you can take a bus, taxi or subway to anywhere in Manhattan.


VIc. Driving To New York City

Driving in via car? Mapquest it. Parking is pretty awesome around here.

VId. Public Transportation

If you are traveling from New York:

Poly is located on Jay St. It is across the street from City Tech, and is located right outside the Jay St. exit of the A, C, F Jay St.- Borough Hall stop. It is also walking distance away from the R, M and 2,4,5 trains

If you are traveling from New Jersey:

To get here from NJ you would go to Penn Station via NJ Transit and from there take the A and C Jay St.- Borough Hall stop

If you are traveling from PA in Philadelphia or right outside of it: Take the ChinaTown bus to Penn Station and take the A and C Jay St.- Borough Hall stop.


VIe. Housing

I, Alex Strife, am housing 10 people at my house Saturday Night. If you are interested, please PM me.

DJ Nintendo will be housing people as well. If you know him please PM him as he does not want strangers at his house.

Jtails may be able to house someone

Ron ( phillybilly ) may house some depending on who needs it and if he attends the tournament

Xivik will house people if needed as well

Now here is where I tell you what is in it for you besides that. This tournament is in NYC. You can literally end at 10pm and go out to 42nd street ( which is 4 stops on the train away ) or go to Chinatown and the place is still booming. This is NYC and it can be HUGE.

My last LOCAL tournament had 172 players and if you think about it most of those return for your second event. So we are guaranteed 120 players locally. Imagine the math :

Singles $10 = $1200 GUARANTEED
Doubles $20 x 50 teams ( my last doubles tournament ) = $1000 Guaranteed

That is LOCALLY $2200 in prizes in NYC. If more come from out of state if could reach $3000-5000.


Bottom line WC you guys are kewl peeps I haven't talk to many of you outside of DSF for a little bit and maybe a few others but I do know that you guys are willing to make the trip. Please support in some way.


The choice is ultimately yours guys so please take a look at the thread at the very least

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=211171

 

[Naota21t]

uhh

you forgot the part where you say if its brawl and/or melee

 

[Alex Strife]

It's brawl bro

 

[Nasty_Nate]

It's brawl bro

why west coast shouldnt attend

 

[Alex Strife]

ya I doubt that man I mean I love melee to but $ is $ and I know some of you travel to EC and play all day and night...I seen DSF and peeps come through to many tournaments. I am not here to ***** about brawl cause its a pointless debate...just try to show support and its all gravy from there .

 

[The Greater Leon]

wah OP is too cool
green sonic with shades
change your name to Cloud, sir, with a last name like that
and my **** its pokemon red/blue

 

[Alex Strife]

wah OP is too cool
green sonic with shades
change your name to Cloud, sir, with a last name like that
and my **** its pokemon red/blue

The green sonic is scourge he is from the sonic comic ( too dark and awesome )

Alex Strife is just a name i came up with cause my 2 fav RPGS are Lunar ( alex ) and FF7 ( strife )

and uh O.o at the pokemon comment XD


what do you PW region do for fun around there?

 

[The Greater Leon]

play melee
spam smashboards

 

[Alex Strife]

we play melee down in the EC you guys should come through once in a while...

spam smashboards...ur mods are nicer than ours we gotta beg for freakin ish


either way...i gotta get this tournament going...its brawl but **** if i can get 170 locals imagine what i can get with oos u kno

 

[ender]

IM NOT NICE AT ALL!!! >:|

*locks thread*

 

[JTB]

most people go to AiB for pac west brawl

just sayin

 

[Alex Strife]

why do u want to lock the thread I am just posting to get ppl to come im not spamming each thread i did this in ( which is 4 including my own region ) is diff to some degree.

 

[Alex Strife]

most people go to AiB for pac west brawl

just sayin

well i did post there I just want 200+ I mean 170 local is gdly imo

but sorry for double posting but i mean the more ppl who see this the better and this is my goal of ECRC2 so i just want to get the word out properly and not be a **** about it

 

[Awex]

Coachella is taking up my funds for around that time, sorry.

 

[Alex Strife]

what the heck is that lolz

 

[RelaxImAProfessional]

coachella is a music event/concert with many bands and performances. you should make it melee too and people would go like genesis.

 

[Alex Strife]

well my issue is setups vs time allotted. If I had it for 3 days I'd work towards it. Right now I want to focus on doing an all brawl tournament and get the ECRC stuff set up. In all honesty there are a LOT more EC melee tournaments around and its probably better to separate the two cause it just avoids ppl *****ing about one or the other ( why they still ***** after about a year I dunno but ppl are silly like that ).

Also Genesis has a LOT bigger pot than I do... I do not have sponsors that can donate 10k. So this is what we are going with. Building a Circuit that can be successful.

This is not to say that it will not happen in the future but as with everything you have to start small. Like I said I got 170ppl locally so they are out there.


btw how u been bro i wanna play sometime melee/brawl


edit : my bad im musically inclined...now films...thats where I got my B.A for XD

 

[The Greater Leon]

a⋅pex
   /ˈeɪpɛks/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ey-peks] Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural a⋅pex⋅es, a⋅pi⋅ces  /ˈeɪpəˌsiz, ˈæpə-/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ey-puh-seez, ap-uh-] Show IPA Pronunciation .
1. the tip, point, or vertex; summit.
2. climax; peak; acme: His election to the presidency was the apex of his career.
3. Astronomy. solar apex.

 

[LunInSpectra]

Yeah this belongs in AiB

 

[Cheeri-Oats]

COACHELLA!

10concerts.

P.S.

Hmm... I'll think about Apex, though.

 

[RelaxImAProfessional]

well my issue is setups vs time allotted. If I had it for 3 days I'd work towards it. Right now I want to focus on doing an all brawl tournament and get the ECRC stuff set up. In all honesty there are a LOT more EC melee tournaments around and its probably better to separate the two cause it just avoids ppl *****ing about one or the other ( why they still ***** after about a year I dunno but ppl are silly like that ).

Also Genesis has a LOT bigger pot than I do... I do not have sponsors that can donate 10k. So this is what we are going with. Building a Circuit that can be successful.

This is not to say that it will not happen in the future but as with everything you have to start small. Like I said I got 170ppl locally so they are out there.


btw how u been bro i wanna play sometime melee/brawl


edit : my bad im musically inclined...now films...thats where I got my B.A for XD

true, hopefully it work up to have melee to then someday but you got start somewhere i understand. im in the west coast right now!!! ill see you at a tourney next time i come back to brooklyn hollaaa.

 

[quak]

rumors of SOAD hooking back up to play at cochella?

anyone else here this?

 

[Alex Strife]

rumors of SOAD hooking back up to play at cochella?

anyone else here this?

I didnt hear that but SOAD hooking back up would be AAMZING

 

[★J.G WentWorth★]

Apex is going to be huge!! And now it's Melee too!

 

[Grunt]

it's brawl, it'll never get done at 10 pm if you want it to be the biggest tourney yet.
EDIT: And if it's melee too.

 

[★J.G WentWorth★]

Alex Strife always finishes up on time. And this is a 2day tourny.

 

[The Greater Leon]

good luck lightxdream

 

[Rosedemon]

Lemme get this right.

Its brawl....

You didnt know what Coachella was....

Its 2-day....

And here I was thinking I was about to shell out $$$ so some cool kids from Pac West could go.

 

[Alex Strife]

Well here is a few reasons

#1 - its Brawl + Melee

#2 - its at a kick *** hotel thats ran by a smasher

#3 EC will be there 100%.

#4 nothing will go wrong? XD

 

[Rosedemon]

How do you propose to have a Brawl + Melee tourny go well in 2-days.

What are your schedules?

Are there any intermissions?

What are you housing arrangements? IE. Is the Hotel providing anything? Are people who are housing providing rides to and from the venue?

 

[Alex Strife]

yes its all on the op here is most of it

LOCATION

The Palmer Inn
3449 US Highway 1
Princeton, NJ 08450
609-452-2500

Call the hotel and mention a tournament called APEX in order to reserve a room at a cheaper rate.

Inui's Information
Since the the venue is a hotel, rooms will be sold at a discounted rate starting at $83.50. The normal rates are $120+, so don't complain about a mere $83.50. May is an extremely busy time of year. The Garden Room and the Windsor Room will be used for the tournament. The Garden Room is downstairs, but it's still very close to the Windsor Room, so this shouldn't be a problem at all. We’ll only have the Windsor Room on Sunday, so it’s best if people not in the final brackets didn’t stick around, although we can still accommodate you if you decide to stay, especially if you pay for another night at the hotel. The hotel has a rule that only 4 people can stay in a room, but it’s really hard to enforce, so you can probably get away with more if you’re not an idiot and don’t make it obvious. You’re going to be held responsible if something goes wrong. It's basically around 21 bucks per person if you round up with four people. It gets cheaper if you pool with even more people.

I am starting at 12noon on Sat and ending around 1am and Vice versa for Sunday. The hotel gives me no time limit and I will be attempting 10-15 min intervals while I am making the brackets. There are eateries around the ENTIRE hotel a few actually and within walking distance that it would not be an issue.


As far as rides we have several people driving there and driving ppl from the airport to the venue. That is being complied and pretty much set in stone but I will post up after i get back from work

 

[Rosedemon]

Yeah but is there Melee day and then a Brawl day, or are the games mixed within the days?

 

[Alex Strife]

The games are mixed within the days but my goal is to do most , if not all, melee sat. Brawl is the main event but I want people to want to watch melee to ( lets be honest its MORE interesting anyway to watch melee. ) so I figure that it can all co-exsist

 

[The Greater Leon]

why does everyone hate so much

 

[Alex Strife]

cause ppl are scrubs to the gaming community

 

[Miharu]

cause ppl are scrubs to the gaming community

lol...

good luck with this

 

[pockyD]

sounds cool

anyone else in norcal interested in going?

looking around at first glance, plane tickets would be somewhere from 250-350, depending on date (duh), airline (duh), and airport (philly is actually the closest I believe, then newark, then NYC airports)

first post in this thread isn't updated but apparently it's barlw and melee, and it's in central NJ

 

[Dantarion]

300 ticket +
100 hotel +
50 food =
-------------------
450 dollars I don't have to get my *** kicked in Brawl.

 

[Alex Strife]

i'll update this wheni got home