EXPosure 15 results, 11/22/14 - Oak Park, IL

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EXPosure 15 | Results Thread | November 22, 2014 | Oak Park, IL

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The pre-registrants for EXPosure 15 easily surpassed 130 unique entrants. Melee Singles alone stood around 110. Would the day-of attendees number finally surpass 100 for a single event at an EXPosure?!

As it turns out, not quite.

But with 90 Melee Singles entrants, EXP15 is now the closest that EXP gaming has come to hosting a 100+ (for a single event) monthly!

Despite the Kentuckens (Kentuckites?) registering online and making it clear that they were attending, something went wrong and their car never showed. Wisconsin & Central Illinois still made their respective trips down and up, though, and Strong Bad made his long awaited return to the City of Broad Shoulders for the first Project M 3.5 monthly at EXP.

Melee was more of a toss-up than usual; 3 of the top Midwestern players (Dart, Kels, Frootloop) were in attendance this time around. No easy brackets for Kelly Smith today! In addition, the FB group voted on a poll to try out the Swiss Tournament System for Melee pools, to mixed results. Some liked it, but with uneven numbers in some pools and a lack of understanding from many of the attendees, the schedule ended up falling slightly behind.

My personal opinion? Interesting in concept but poorly executed. Back to bracket pools imo.

Frootloop, coming off the momentum of his second place finish over Kels at KotN3, was able to set up a WF rematch with the Chicago Fox main after narrowly defeating Dart in Semis. Kels first resorted to the Marth & Sheik, but Frootloop shows that his victories over Kels secondaries at KotN3 weren't flukes and managed to force Kels' Fox out. After clutching game 5, Frootloop advanced to Grand Finals through winner's side.

Dart made a short run through losers to meet Kels in Loser's Finals, but after a super close set Kels' Sheik was enough to earn him his rematch against Frank. In GF, Kels once against started with Sheik, but after getting 2 stocked it was all Fox. A quick 3-0 later Frootloop earned his third consecutive tournament set against Kels. (and made Kelly salty for the rest of the day.)

EXPosure 15 Melee Singles Playlist

Nobody knew how PM Singles would play out. Despite the much lower player turnout for PM, the top of the bracket was stacked with good players. Frootloop, Strong Bad, and Ripple were all contenders from out of Chicago, and none of the top Chicago players were absent.

Towards the end of 3.02, the EXP Wavedash Wednesday weeklies had been mostly Kels, Dart, and Oro?! coming out on top. at EXP15, however, both Kels and Dart barely managed to sneak in top 8 finishes, tying one another at 7th place.

The out of region players all made strong runs at the bracket. Frootloop's Sheik made it through a host of tough players to Winner's Finals. Ripple, after being knocked into Loser's Bracket by Oro?!, made it to Loser's Semis where he lost to Strong Bad, who, despite dropping a disappointing set in Winner's Quarters to Scythe, managed to run it all the way through Loser's to earn his shot at the title against Oro?! in Grand Finals. The common denominator of these 3 players run through bracket was that once each of them ran into Oro?!, their luck was up.

Indeed, Oro?! turned out to be the savior of Chicago PM, dropping only 2 games(one to Kirkq and one to Frootloop) on his way to the EXP15 title, and making it clear that despite the changes to ZSS in 3.5, she is still dangerous in the right hands.

EXPosure 15 PM Singles Playlist

Specific pools results for Melee can be found on EXP's challonge at http://www.challonge.com/users/expgaming, but Project M bracket pools were done offline.

Melee Results (90 Total Entrants):

Exposure 15: Melee Singles

Rank

Player

Characters

Points

Earnings

User

1st

Frootloop

128

$160.00

F FrootLoop

2nd

Kels

112

$64.00

Kels88

3rd

Dart

96

$44.80

Dart!

4th

Vro

80

$28.80

Vro

5th

Hindawg

64

$11.20

H Hindawg

5th

Scythe

64

$11.20

Scythe

7th

Arty

46

Arty

7th

Kirkq

46

K kirkq

9th

Sveet

31

Fortress | Sveet

9th

Goose

31

9th

Ripple

31

Ripple

9th

John

31

john!

13th

Lanceinthepants

20

Lanceinthepants

13th

Na`Vi.ORLY

20

ORLY

13th

Viperboy

20

V viperboy_74

13th

Bieber

20

Bieber

17th

TheO'ReillyDoctor

13

17th

Gustavo

13

17th

Markow

13

Markow

17th

Noremac

13

Noremac

17th

Oro?!

13

Oro?!

17th

@teh_blazerer

13

blazerer

17th

PseudoTurtle

13

PseudoTurtle

17th

DLA

13

DLA

25th

Rat

6

Rat

25th

Wilz

6

W Wilzyak13

25th

5-1

6

5-oNe

25th

Cheato

6

25th

HarryTheChin

6

H HarryTheChin

25th

Mindy

6

25th

LILD

6

25th

Formuoli

6

Project M Results (53 Total Entrants):

Exposure 15: Project M Singles

Rank

Player

Characters

Points

Earnings

User

1st

Oro?!

128

$160.00

Oro?!

2nd

Strong Bad

112

$64.00

Strong Badam

3rd

Frootloop

96

$44.80

F FrootLoop

4th

Ripple

80

$28.80

Ripple

5th

Scythe

64

$11.20

Scythe

5th

Kirkq

64

$11.20

K kirkq

7th

Kels

46

Kels88

7th

Dart

46

Dart!

9th

ORLY

31

ORLY

9th

Arty

31

Arty

9th

Viperboy

31

V viperboy_74

9th

Plasma

31

Plasma

13th

Double

20

Double Team

13th

Ellis

20

13th

IRS

20

I IRS

13th

DLA

20

DLA

17th

Solidus Soap

13

solidussoap

17th

Mudkyp

13

mudkyp

17th

Lemon

13

17th

Oven

13

O Oven

17th

Bean

13

B Bean

17th

5-1

13

5-oNe

17th

Rat

13

Rat

17th

Drugfreechu

13

D Drugfreechu

25th

Norm

6

MachinegunNorm

25th

ColumW

6

C ColumW

25th

Markow

6

Markow

25th

Sixonesix

6

S Sixonesix

25th

Moy

6

Moy

25th

SeeSaw

6

SixSaw

25th

Pooch

6

pooch182

25th

Kaysick

6

Kaysick

Melee Doubles Results: http://challonge.com/EXP15_Melee_Doubles

1. Kels & Dart
2. Viperboy & Sveet
3. CunningKitsune & Lanceinthepants
4. Ten & TheO'ReillyDoctor

Project M Doubles Results: http://challonge.com/EXP15_PM_Doubles

1. Oro?! & Strong Bad
2. Scythe & Kels
3. Dart & Ripple
4. Frootloop & ORLY

NEXT EVENT: IMDB 12 in Madison, WI. Dec. 6th.

 

[Juggleguy]

Now that's how you make a results thread.

 

[mudkyp]

This was fun. Highest placing Peach in PM *******, thanks for not entering that John ;]

 

[john!]

^ lol no problem, i'm all about that G&W and ROB now though

 

[darkatma]

Woo go Frootloop!

 

[blazerer]

ggs

s/o to Webs

 

[pooch182]

Yeah, I definitely wasn't too huge of a fan of running Swiss. This end bracket for Melee is really bad from anybody placing 17th or worse. The pokémon kids were right when they said not to go for it, and it ended up hurting both Melee and PM for time and seeding and stuff. Overall, not my favorite tourney from EXP, but I'm also just a little salty that I played like garbage.

GG's to everybody I played with, and I'll see a bunch of you tomorrow at the weekly.

 

[Lanceinthepants]

Wasn't a huge fan of Swiss either, LILD got 2nd seed for losing first round and never had to play me or Dart. Also, I don't think it saved time compared to having a bunch of bracket pools in certain parts of the venue.