OninO
Smash Journeyman
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Auckland Smash: Recap for May
From the start of this year Smash has experienced a resurgence in Auckland, and I believe in NZ in general. The Smash Brothers documentary has played a huge part in getting a number of people, including myself, excited for a more competitive form of smash. Since January the NZ Smash group has grown by 40 and we’re currently growing with a couple of new people every week.
In the months of April and May we’ve had 2 full Double Elim melee tournaments, 2 PM tournaments and 2 smash fests. Things are expected to quiet down over June as everyone goes through their semester one exams, but there will be more smash fests in the works for July. There’s even talk of hosting a National in September at the same time we have international visitors in the form of German smashers Phex and Pasi.
A brief tournament recap:
The April tournament was organised through a fortunate interaction with the University of Auckland video game club who happened to be hosting a Console day. The smash crew turned up in force with CRT’s and Wii's in tow and ended up being the largest contingent there. The melee tournament had 13 entrants and was taken by Dz with stiff competition from Jason8. Bracket and results can be found here: Results
Kelots kept the buzz going with a smash fest/practise session at his house which saw a good turn out and much hype in a series of off the cuff teams matches.
The May tournament was hosted once again through the UAV console day and once again smashers were the largest party. This time we had some interested new comers joining in for the Melee and PM tournaments. We had 14 for Melee and 13 for a PM single Elim with Dz taking both. Once again Jason8 was vying for the melee title and OninO took second for PM. Bracket and results here: http://challonge.com/LiHMelee and http://challonge.com/LostinHogwarts_PM
The month of May ended with a smash fest hosted by myself to get people excited about PM. The turnout was great and resulted in an impromptu double elim tournament with 14 entrants and a number of spectators. Dz took the tournament with competition from Pino and Mexican new comer to the local scene, CarlosMX. Bracket and results here: http://challonge.com/PMftP
Other things on the go:
There are a couple of guys here with streaming equipment but we’ve yet to figure out a good system for getting matches recorded and uploaded. Hopefully we can get a vid production facility going soon and get some matches uploaded.
PM uptake has been pretty good with most people willing to give it a go. Melee is definitely still the dominant force in the scene though.
All in all, exciting times, if you find this post by googling NZ smash, head on over to the facebook page linked above and come join us for some games!
From the start of this year Smash has experienced a resurgence in Auckland, and I believe in NZ in general. The Smash Brothers documentary has played a huge part in getting a number of people, including myself, excited for a more competitive form of smash. Since January the NZ Smash group has grown by 40 and we’re currently growing with a couple of new people every week.
In the months of April and May we’ve had 2 full Double Elim melee tournaments, 2 PM tournaments and 2 smash fests. Things are expected to quiet down over June as everyone goes through their semester one exams, but there will be more smash fests in the works for July. There’s even talk of hosting a National in September at the same time we have international visitors in the form of German smashers Phex and Pasi.
A brief tournament recap:
The April tournament was organised through a fortunate interaction with the University of Auckland video game club who happened to be hosting a Console day. The smash crew turned up in force with CRT’s and Wii's in tow and ended up being the largest contingent there. The melee tournament had 13 entrants and was taken by Dz with stiff competition from Jason8. Bracket and results can be found here: Results
Kelots kept the buzz going with a smash fest/practise session at his house which saw a good turn out and much hype in a series of off the cuff teams matches.
The May tournament was hosted once again through the UAV console day and once again smashers were the largest party. This time we had some interested new comers joining in for the Melee and PM tournaments. We had 14 for Melee and 13 for a PM single Elim with Dz taking both. Once again Jason8 was vying for the melee title and OninO took second for PM. Bracket and results here: http://challonge.com/LiHMelee and http://challonge.com/LostinHogwarts_PM
The month of May ended with a smash fest hosted by myself to get people excited about PM. The turnout was great and resulted in an impromptu double elim tournament with 14 entrants and a number of spectators. Dz took the tournament with competition from Pino and Mexican new comer to the local scene, CarlosMX. Bracket and results here: http://challonge.com/PMftP
Other things on the go:
There are a couple of guys here with streaming equipment but we’ve yet to figure out a good system for getting matches recorded and uploaded. Hopefully we can get a vid production facility going soon and get some matches uploaded.
PM uptake has been pretty good with most people willing to give it a go. Melee is definitely still the dominant force in the scene though.
All in all, exciting times, if you find this post by googling NZ smash, head on over to the facebook page linked above and come join us for some games!
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