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EXPosure 16 | Results Thread | December 20th, 2014 | Oak Park, IL
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This month, there were no outstanding challengers to Kels' Melee throne. Neither Dart, nor Frootloop, nor Darkatma made their respective trips to take on The Man, The Myth. Instead, it was up to the usual suspects to continue their efforts to dethrone the long reigning EXPosure Melee champion.
Amid this, however, the prodigal son of EXP Gaming made his return to Chicago from school in Socal. Many eyes were on Captain Faceroll to see how he would fare after months spent training amongst the likes of Lil Fumi, Kira, Connor the Kid & other Socal players.
While most of the Melee bracket proceeded with little upsets to the status quo, Faceroll quickly made his way to Winner's Semis with upset wins over Bieber & Sago (who self-admittedly has historically had trouble handling Shiek). Scythe was also knocked into losers early as well by Kirkq, and as a result went on to eliminate ORLY at an uncharacteristically early 9th place.
Vro finally dealt with Faceroll, setting up the typical Vro / Kels Winner's Finals. The set proved insanely close, coming all the way down to last stock in game 5 on Stadium... where Vro promptly killed himself, giving Kels a free ride to GF.
In Loser's Quarters, Bieber got his revenge over Faceroll, and Oro?! defeated Sago, setting up another Shiek (Oro?!) vs Puff in Loser's Semis. Bieber showed that his loss to Faceroll was a flub, forcing Oro?! off Shiek and onto Marth where he made the 2 game comeback and got his shot against Vro in LFs.
Vro, with his eyes set on Kels, promptly 3-0d Oro?! in LFs. In Grand Finals we were treated to a sandbagging Kels who tried to prove something(I'm not sure what) by playing the first 3 games with Falcon before switching to Fox to try to bring the set back. Vro dispatched the Fox as well, taking it 3-1 and forcing a second set. In set two, however, Kels specially developed Anti-Marth™ Shiek came into play and neither Vro's Marth nor his Falcon were up to the task. Kels 3-0 Vro.
EXPosure 16 Melee Singles Playlist
Project M, in contrast to Melee, brought some serious shakeups to it's top 32 bracket.
On the Winner's side of Project M, the Winter break brought 2 Chicago Ness players back to EXP Gaming- Delicious Octorok and the rarely seen Aki. Octorok, despite an unusually poor bracket performance, gave us one of the most entertaining sets of the day in Pools against Ten's Fox that featured a 4 stock comeback in game 3. Aki was the story of the day, though. Utilizing some very clever and efficient edgeguarding, Aki was able to upset former EXPosure PM finalists Scythe and ORLY on his way to a WSF berth.
Elsewhere in bracket, Ellis was able to upset 3rd seed Kirkq in the 2nd round of Winner's, and DLA (after MONTHS of narrowly losing in 3.02) 2-0d Kels in Winner's Quarters.
Both of these upsets undoubtedly helped Oro?! and Sago en route to Winner's Finals; Oro?! would've had to play Scythe, who has historically given him trouble, and Sago's Luigi would have potentially run into an unorthodox matchup against Kirkq's ROB.
In Winner's Finals, Oro?! couldn't find an answer for Sago's Luigi, seemingly becoming frustrated by a few errors in game 2 and getting fairly cleanly 3-0d on both ZSS and Marth. This set up Sago for his first EXPosure PM Grand Finals coming from Winner's side.
Kirkq, after getting knocked all the way into Loser's round one, made an incredible run through the bracket, eliminating a laundry list of heavy hitters before their usual time; Octorok, Arty, Scythe, Faceroll, DLA, Kels and Oro?! ALL fell victim to the Notorious R.O.B. on his way to Grand Finals. Read that list of names again, it's insane. 3 of those guys have EXPosure PM titles under their belts, and the rest of them have all placed top 8 in PM more than once with the exception of Octorok.
In Grand Finals, though, the dream of the ultimate Loser's bracket run was dashed by Sago in stylish fashion, ending the set 3-1 with a sick zero-to-death combo.
EXPosure 16 PM Singles Playlist
Melee Pools results were done offline but you can dig up PM Pools results on the EXP Gaming challonge if you so desire. http://www.challonge.com/users/expgaming
Melee Results (67 Total Entrants):
Rank
Player
1st
IPG|Kels
2nd
Vro
3rd
Oro?!
4th
Bieber
5th
Captain Faceroll
5th
MuK.Lyfe|Sago
7th
Scythe
7th
DFU
9th
Kirkq
9th
Arty
9th
Hindawg
9th
Na`Vi.ORLY
13th
Moy
13th
Sveet
13th
Cheato
13th
Cousin Earl
17th
Zjiin
17th
Knubs.
17th
WCS|Webs
17th
Tagless
17th
ThaiLer
17th
PseudoTurtle
17th
davrob01
17th
Yoshido
25th
NTBB
25th
Azzu
25th
Hore
25th
Gem
25th
Parzival
25th
Lapekun
25th
Mars
25th
Ten
Project M Results (39 Total Entrants):
Rank
Player
1st
MuK.Lyfe|Sago
2nd
Kirkq
3rd
Oro?!
4th
IPG|Kels
5th
DLA
5th
Aki
7th
Na`Vi.ORLY
7th
Captain Faceroll
9th
Ellis
9th
Azzu
9th
Scythe
9th
Double
13th
Knubs.
13th
ITALIAN N1NJA
13th
WCS|Zwarm
13th
Arty
17th
ViLLN
17th
Ten
17th
Sixonesix
17th
DeliciousROBtorok
17th
5-1
17th
Moy
17th
Cheato
17th
SeeSaw
Melee Doubles Results: http://challonge.com/EXP16_Melee_Doubles
1. Vro & Kels
2. Scythe & Bieber
3. Sveet & Arty
4. Sago & Hindawg
Project M Doubles Results: http://challonge.com/EXP16_PM_Doubles
1. Scythe & Kels
2. Sago & Hindawg
3. ITALIAN N1NJA & Double
4. Knubs & Moy
NEXT EVENT: SWEET PROLOGUE in Ann Arbor, Jan 3 & 4. Almost nobody from Chicago is going though so just
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