Tournament:Zero Challenge 2

Zero Challenge 2
Dates	August 15th-17th, 2006
Venue	David L. Baker Memorial Golf Center
Address/City	10410 Edinger Avenue, Fountain Valley, California
Attendance	200+
Results
winners	Ken 1v1  Isai &  Captain Jack 2v2
Staff
Director(s)	Ken, Manacloud
Assisted by	Nealdt, Champ, Azn Lep

Zero Challenge 2 (abbreviated as 0C2 or OC2) was a Super Smash Bros. Melee national tournament held by the professional Smash crew Socal Elite 4 in August 2006. The tournament was held in the recreation room of the David L. Baker Memorial Golf Center in Fountain Valley, California, and advertisements included the line "experience the best Smash talent ever aligned at one tournament...including the very best of Japan, Europe, and the rest of the international community."

The tournament received a very high attendance: 192 singles entrants, 98 doubles teams, 38 crews, and 7 international crews.

Events

Zero Challenge 2 featured four main Smash tournaments. The first day's event focused on teams and crews, the second day focuses on international crew battles and the first two pools of singles. The third and final day focused on the continuation of singles matches.

Rules

Brackets

• Singles: Players were randomly assigned into 32 pools. Each entrant played round-robin matches against all other players in their pool. The three players with the best record in each pool advanced to a second set of pools. The top four players in the second pool advanced the 64-player bracket.
• Doubles: All entered teams were placed directly into a very large 98-entrant bracket.

Controller ports

• Any disagreements over controller port assignments were settled by coin toss.
• Teams were to use adjacent port numbers (one team on ports 1 and 2, and the other team on ports 3 and 4).

Character selection

• Advanced slob picks were in effect.
• All sets were best out of 3, with finals best of 5.
• Players could call a double-blind pick for the first game of a set.

Stages

Starter	Counterpick
Final Destination	Fountain of Dreams
Pokémon Stadium	Yoshi's Story
Dream Land	Battlefield

• All other stages are banned. This was a compromise with the Japanese smashers, who usually only play on Final Destination and Dream Land.
• Players were not allowed to ban stages, and the starter stages were chosen randomly.

Staff

Zero Challenge 2 was organized by a team of smashers from or otherwise associated with the Socal Elite 4.

Directors

• Ken
• Manacloud
• Jenny H.
• Helen H.

Producers

• Arash
• CAOTIC
• Justpha
• nealdt
• AzN_LeP

Production assistants

• Azeem
• Champ
• ChuDat
• Edrees
• Pedro
• Tavo

Results

Singles

(192 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Ken		~$1,200
2nd	ChuDat		?
3rd	Mew2King		?
4th	KoreanDJ		?
5th	Shu		?
5th	Hoshino Kirby		?
7th	Kei
7th	Captain Jack
9th	Rob$
9th	DieSuperFly
9th	The King
9th	PC Chris
13th	Cort
13th	Sastopher
13th	Omar
13th	Forward
17th	HugS
17th	Chesterr01
17th	Hiko
17th	Manacloud
17th	Hayato
17th	The GERM
17th	FalseFalco
17th	SOS
25th	Zelgadis
25th	Trevyn
25th	Taj
25th	PKMVodka
25th	Blair
25th	Helios
25th	Lunaris
25th	Hitsugaya

Doubles

(98 teams)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Isai		Captain Jack		$1,200 ($600 each)
2nd	Manacloud		ChuDat		?
3rd	Hoshino Kirby		Kei		?
4th	Mew2King		KoreanDJ		?
5th	Sastopher		Blair		?
5th	HugS		Omar		?
7th	Ken		Rob$
7th	Taj		Forward
9th	Shu		Hiko
9th	DieSuperFly		Bob$
9th	KillaOR		Cort
9th	The King		The GERM

International crews

Bracket
1. West Coast
2. Japan
3. East Coast (The Pilgrims)
4. O Canada
5. South
5. PAL
7. Midwest

Gallery

• 

  The OC2 crowd.

External links

• SmashBoards bracket and results (archive)
• SmashBoards video thread
• NealPro complete results (archived)