Boback
Character info
Melee main Ice Climbers
Other Melee character Falco
Brawl main Meta Knight
Team info
Crew(s) DBR
Personal info
Real name Boback Vakili
Location Concord, California USA

Boback, also known as Sidefx, is a Melee Ice Climbers main and tournament director from Northern California. Perhaps Boback's most known feat is for being one of the main TOs for the GENESIS tournament series, one of the most prestigious Smash tournament series of all time, and he has been a tournament director for all of its iterations.

Boback was formerly ranked 18th on the NorCal Melee Power Rankings.

Tournaments directedEdit

Tournament Date Attendance
GENESIS July 10th-12th, 2009 350+
GENESIS 2 July 15th-17th, 2011 350+
The Next Episode March 22nd-23rd, 2014 147
Do You Fox Wit It? November 15th-16th, 2014 211
I'm Not Yelling! April 11th-12th, 2015 372
GENESIS 3 January 15th-17th, 2016 3,592
GENESIS 4 January 20th-22nd, 2017 3,575
GENESIS 5 January 19th-21st, 2018 3,000+
GENESIS 6 February 1st-3rd, 2019 2,775
GENESIS 7 January 24th-26th, 2020 2,639

Tournament placingsEdit

Super Smash Bros. MeleeEdit

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
Zero Challenge 3 July 20th-22nd, 2007 97th
Midnight Gaming Championship Dallas 2007 October 7th, 2007 3rd
Mango Juice March 21st, 2009 17th PockyD
CGC @ SFSU VII April 4th, 2009 17th 17th PockyD
Ownapalooza Vol. IV April 18th, 2010 7th 7th Zoap
Combo Food VIII June 27th, 2010 13th 7th Zoap
Ownapalooza Vol. IX August 29th, 2010 7th
Apex 2013 January 11th-13th, 2013 129th 49th Zoap
EVO 2013 July 12th-14th, 2013 49th
The Next Episode March 22nd-23rd, 2014 65th
I'm Not Yelling April 11th-12th, 2015 65th
EVO 2015 July 17th-19th, 2015 186th 65th Ky
Get Smashed at the Foundry 105 January 17th, 2017 25th
Wombo Combo: 10 Year Anniversary December 8th, 2018 65th
GENESIS 7 January 24th-26th, 2020 385th 129th Zoap
DreamHack Anaheim 2020 February 21st-23rd, 2020 33rd

Super Smash Bros. BrawlEdit

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
UCLA VI: A New Hope May 18, 2008 17th