Eight Pros, One Champion: PAX Arena at PAX East

Players at the invitational. Photo Credit: Twitch.
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While PAX East 2017 won't be hosting an official open-bracket Smash tournament this year, fans will still have something to look forward to in the form of PAX Arena at PAX East.

Organized by Twitch, PAX Arena at PAX East is an eight-man Super Smash Bros. for Wii U invitational happening on the last day of the convention, March 12. It will feature players local to PAX East's host region of New England as well as out-of-region threats.

These players are:

• Gonzalo "ZeRo" Barrios - New Jersey
• Jason "ANTi" Bates - New York
• Larry "Larry Lurr" Holland - California
• Marcus "Pink Fresh" Wilson - Maryland
• Tyler "Marss" Martins - Rhode Island
• Alexander "Pugwest" Martins - Rhode Island
• Eric "ESAM" Lew - Florida
• Samuel "Dabuz" Buzby - - New York

Should you want to catch the action live, tune into the PAX Arena stream at 11:30AM EST on the day of the invitational. Premiere casters D'Ron "D1" Maingrette, Terrence "TKBreezy" Kershaw, Phil "EE" Visu and Brendan "Gunblade" Triano will be lending their voices and analysis throughout the day.

Casters at the invitational. Photo Credit: Twitch. Note: Twitch swapped EE and TK.
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PAX, formerly known as the Penny Arcade Expo, is a gaming festival series founded in 2004 by the team behind the Penny Arcade web-comic. PAX events are held multiple times throughout a single year at different locations such as PAX South in Texas and PAX East in Massachusetts.

Stay tuned to Smashboards for more updates on PAX Arena at PAX East.

 

Wait, Larry has a Dr. Mario?

 

Wait, Larry has a Dr. Mario?

Donkey Kong*

Haha, my b. They're right next to each other on the emoticon selector.

 

Lol why these players? Okay I get Massachusetts because home state but Pink Fresh and ESAM? This could be so much better, and ZeRo will obviously take this.

Their picture shows TKBreezy's picture but it says EE, and EE's picture says TK. Hahaha.

 

I'm pretty sure Marss and Pugwest are from Rhode Island

 

I'm pretty sure Marss and Pugwest are from Rhode Island

Fixed. The brothers compete a lot in MA tournaments, got that one mixed up.

 

Buttt esam needs to come back to melee like seriously tho why doesnt he still play melee he was a good samus main?

 

Kudos to Marsss for actually smiling. I get the players had no choice on what photo's they chose but all the other players have such boring faces lol.

 

TK and EE are switched ^^"

 

Also, ZeRo has moved to Midwest now.

 

Lul FREE Tourney for ZeRo.

 

Lul FREE Tourney for ZeRo.

There's always Larry.

 

Ah yes, Keitaro and False moved to northeast Ohio. Does that include ZeRo?

 

Popi the commentary infographic is wrong. TK Breezy and EE should be switched.

 

Popi the commentary infographic is wrong. TK Breezy and EE should be switched.

Not our infographic. It's the one Twitch used in the press release. We can't edit it ourselves since it's not our graphic.

 

ZeRo's profile looking evil af