Smashboards Under New Ownership

[AlphaZealot]

Smashers,

As of November 20th, 2012, Major League Gaming Inc. has sold Smashboards to Xyelot LLC, a company I own that will house everything related to Smashboards. Since joining the community in 2003, I’ve worked with many other passionate fans to build and support all things Smash. With this sale, the attention and needs of Smashboards can finally be met. In the next six months two major efforts will be undertaken.

1. A forum upgrade to the latest and best available
2. A site redesign with new features to support players, tournament organizers, and fans of Super Smash Bros. games

Before any of these changes take place though, a brief transition phase will occur. During the month of December, Smashboards will be transferred from MLG’s servers to a dedicated server worthy of housing the largest Smash Bros. community in existence. This transition should go smoothly, but expect up to 24 hours of downtime during the day it is performed. * In addition to the transfer, other issues may give rise to downtime, but before 2012 comes to a close the transfer in ownership should be complete.

I look forward to continuing my work with the community and to setting our sights toward new goals and endeavors. To all the Smash fans, thank you for the continued support of Smashboards, the wait for improvements is finally over and a new era begins in 2013.

AlphaZealot
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*More information on the exact date of the transfer will be provided at a later time.

 

[Эикельманн [РУС]]

Will you disclose the exact amount that Smashboards.com was purchased for?

 

[grizby2]

cheers! I hope all goes well. :]

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

Oh wow that sounds amazing. Good stuff.

 

[Strong Badam]

I am excited. MLG was nothing but bad news for Smashboards.

 

[Sinister Slush]

About time.

 

[joY]

Will you disclose the exact amount that Smashboards.com was purchased for?

I doubt this.

Anyways, congrats! I'm looking forward for what's in store.


edit: I am hype for the possibility of a dedicated subforum for Project: M!

 

[-Ran]

I hope you can continue to maintain your passion for Smash. Thank you though; this is appreciated. This is great news. If I remember, MLG was preventing numerous improvements to the site and hierarchy of various organizations due to oversight they wanted to have.

Good **** Az.

 

[Wieners]

Goooooooood ****.

 

[Raziek]

Fantastic news.

I'm hopeful that the site will begin to improve immediately.

And our premium money can be USED for something now! (I hope)

 

[QWA]

Hopefully the transition will go smoothly!

 

[Alex Strife]

woot so glad for this

 

[Opossum]

Hopefully this means less 503s and such.

 

[Frogman751]

Even though I made my account a while ago, because of this I plan on starting to post now. XD

 

[GuruKid]

Truly wonderful news. Really excited to see what's planned for the future.

 

[Sanji Himura]

Good news. Now the divorce proceedings can begin.

 

[Lovage]

turn off profanity filter

 

[joY]

turn off profanity filter

**** that!

 

[~ Valkyrie ~]

Sweet! I hope the transition's smooth!

 

[Ishiey]

Excellent news, good work AZ!

 

[Life]

Good luck AZ.

(Why is this in this forum though? Shouldn't it be in announcement discussion?)

 

[Spyro]

Awesome stuff, I hope everything goes well!

(Yay for 600th post)

 

[QWA]

turn off profanity filter

Lovage isn't messing around.

 

[Xyro77]

YES! This site is finally owned by a pro-ban HERO.

You can finally get rid of so many trash mods/admins! Truly the best day SWF has seen.

 

[KoRoBeNiKi]

YES! This site is finally owned by a pro-ban HERO.

You can finally get rid of so many trash mods/admins! Truly the best day SWF has seen.

of course you would somehow equate this to a Metaknight ban thread

On a more relevant note great news, this is a triumph

Spoiler

I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.

 

[Handorin]

Excellent!

Forum awards can actually be done now!

 

[Alex Strife]

Xyro it is not about the mk ban jeez dude thanks for making it about something that has been dead for months >_<

 

[crismas]

I think he's just saying he's happy someone like-minded is running the forums.

Anyway, grats AZ! Looking forward to a lot of changes.

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

Congrats AZ! This is great to hear! I know that this is a change for the better : )

 

[MetalMusicMan]

Good play, AZ. Congrats and good luck moving forward

 

[GimR]

interesting. This should be good...

 

[SFA Smiley]

coooooool.

 

[Life]

Wonder if it means the return of the URC.

 

[Mic_128]

Hopefully this means less 503s and such.

That was about the only thing they were fast to fix to keep max add revenue.

Excellent!

Forum awards can actually be done now!

I know! :D And the award system! And, and, more!

 

[M@v]

Nice .

I'm an IT guy, well almost. Senior in college. Wouldn't mind helping in any way I can, albeit I don't know how much I could xD

 

[Alex Strife]

Xenforo here we comeeeee

 

[SS4 Shinobi]

Great!!! Now let's start anew and ban ***gy characters like jiggs and icey's! But keep fox though.....fox is fine! Lol

 

[It's me Q]

turn off profanity filter

......This

 

[Scar]

sweet news, congrats AZ. please reach out if you need any help with anything

 

[standardtoaster]

can't wait :D