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EXPosure 14 | Results Thread | September 27, 2014 | Oak Park, IL
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EXPosure 14 continuted the school-is-in-session trend of smaller attendance at monthly events. Fortunately, we had some amazing games to make up for it, including Bieber making a run at Kels, Ripple committing to DK in Melee, and Lazarond finally making his long heralded return to Link in Project M.Hosted by:
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In Melee, Kels looked clean, as we all expect him to leading up to a big tournament(The Big House 4 if you've been living under a rock). Ripple's DK had given his Fox some trouble at SMYM15, but Kels' Sheik made quick work of it in winner's quarters before dispatching Bieber 3-1 in winner's finals. Vro continued to show improvement with his Falco, the ICs player Fluid from CA made top 8, and ORLY/TGD made their staple appearances towards the later end of the bracket.
The real surprise came in Grand Finals, where Bieber managed to reset the bracket against Kels rather cleanly before succumbing to a close 3-2 in the second set that came down to a last stock situation on FoD. Hats off, Bieber looked really good.
EXPosure 14 Melee Singles Playlist
Everyone expected big things from the return of the Lazarond's Hylian adventurer, but he ran into a bit of trouble in winner's quarters in the form of Ripple's Dedede. After a convincing game one defeat, Laz was forced to switch to Toon Link once again and camp out Ripple just enough to squeak a game 2 victory and eventually wear down the giant penguin in game 3. ORLY and Plasma both had great tournament performances as well, finishing 3rd and 4th respectively and putting on a couple of great sets in both winner's quarters and loser's semifinals.
At the tip of the bracket, however, the results stayed consistent; Kels vs. Lazarond in PM GFs. Laz reset the bracket in 5, and looked primed to take the second set to a game 5 as well, but Kels put together a solid last runaway fox stock and managed to close it out.
All told, the story of this monthly was that KELS BE SLIPPIN but not quite enough to lose yet :^)
EXPosure 14 PM Singles Playlist
Once again, I don't have specific placings for everyone who didn't make it out of pools, because those results were done by hand offline. Sorry! Only bracket results.
Melee Results (43 Total Entrants):
Rank
Player
1st
Kels
2nd
Bieber
3rd
Vro
4th
O'Reilly Jeffery
5th
Ripple
5th
Na`Vi.Simon Belmont.US
7th
Scythe
7th
Fluid
9th
Lazarond
9th
DLA
9th
Spife
9th
Knubs.
13th
Snex
13th
MC Strike
13th
ICETRAIN
13th
Totino's|Romkca
17th
Jumb0
17th
Pooch
17th
IRS
17th
RFC|BoScotty
17th
WCS|Webs
17th
Hore
17th
Ten
17th
Mars
25th
BigDave
25th
Lied
25th
Yung Lean
25th
Function
25th
Norm
25th
Mr. Sweet
25th
Zoow
25th
Mudkyp
Project M Results (34 Total Entrants):
Rank
Player
1st
Kels
2nd
Lazarond
3rd
Na`Vi.ORLY.US
4th
Plasma
5th
DLA
5th
Ripple
7th
Scythe
7th
5-1
9th
IRS
9th
Mera Mera
9th
Ellis
9th
Double
13th
BigDave
13th
SeeSaw
13th
Mudkyp
13th
Norm
17th
RFC | BoScotty
17th
Shrug
17th
Tetrev
17th
Mr. Sweet
17th
Function
17th
Pooch
17th
Sixonesix
17th
Drugfreechu
25th
Soup
25th
Kbuns
25th
Exile
25th
Kumatora
25th
B.W.
25th
Lied
25th
Fourcan
25th
JbrockPony
33rd
RICE
33rd
Leif the Red
Project M Doubles Results: http://challonge.com/EXP14_PM_Doubles
1. Scythe & Kels
2. Lazarond & Plasma
3. ORLY & Dart
4. DLA & Norm
NEXT EVENT: THE BUG HOUSE 4! OH MY GOD IT'S GOING TO BE GREAT! CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU ALL THERE!