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{{for|the SoCal Smash 64 player, see''|Smasher:Janitor (SoCal)}}
 
{{Infobox Smasher
| name          = Victra
| name          = Victra
| image        = Victra.jpg
| image        = Victra2017.jpg
| mainssbm      = Captain Falcon
| mainssbm      = Captain Falcon
| 2ndmainssbm  =  
| 2ndmainssbm  = Sheik
| otherssbm    = Peach
| otherssbm    = Bowser
| 2ndotherssbm  =  
| mainssb      = Captain Falcon
| moreotherssbm =  
| otherssb      = Yoshi
| mainpm        = Captain Falcon
| mainpm        = King Dedede
| mainssbwu    = Captain Falcon
| mainssbb      = King Dedede
| crew          =  
| mainssb4      = Captain Falcon
| skill        = Pro-Amateur
| 2ndmainssb4  = King Dedede
| alias        =  
| rankingssb    =
| realname      = Victor Tran
| realname      = Victor Tran
| birthday      = 23
| birthday      = 23
| birthmonth    = 12
| birthmonth    = 12
| birthyear    = 1991
| birthyear    = 1991
| location      = Red Deer, AB
| location      = Edmonton, Alberta
| country      = canada
| country      = Canada
  }}
  }}
'''Victra''' is a Canadian [[Melee]] [[smasher]] and [[tournament director]] from Alberta, Canada. Victra is largely responsible for organizing the competitive [[Super Smash Brothers]] community in Edmonton, Alberta.
'''Victra''' is a Canadian ''[[Melee]]'' [[smasher]] and [[tournament director]] from Alberta, Canada. Victra is largely responsible for organizing the competitive ''{{b|Super Smash Bros.|series}}'' community in Edmonton, Alberta. As of the end of 2016, Victra has been largely inactive as a competitive player, but remains active as a community adviser and attends locals from time to time.


== Background ==
== Background ==
Victra and his fellow crew mate {{Sm|K Lover}} were dedicated [[SSB|Super Smash Bros. 64]] players in their earlier days, but it wasn't until [[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'s release on the [[Gamecube]] that the two literally became infatuated with the game.  
Victra became aware of the competitive ''Melee'' scene in late 2005 after reading a article about the game in issue 195 of Nintendo Power titled "Smash Planet". The article included such topics as [[SmashBoards]], {{Sm|Ken Hoang}}, [[MLG]], and rumours about a new installment of ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' tentatively titled ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''. This article also included a brief description of [[wavedashing]] and other competitive techniques that had been discovered. Victra began to get involved with the [[SmashBoards]] website shortly after and started playing ''Melee'' more competitively. After this discovery, he began to teach what he learned to his friends and began building a community in his city in 2006 onwards.


Victra, though playing SSBM for 2 years after the purchase, was unaware about the game's competitive scene until late 2005 after reading a large article about the game in issue 195 of Nintendo Power, "Smash Planet". The article included such topics as [[SWF]], {{Sm|Ken Hoang}}, [[MLG]], rumors about a new installment of [[Super Smash Brothers Brawl|SSB]], as well as a brief description of [[wavedashing]]. Even then, Victra only began to playing SSBM more competitively, signing up on the SWF, and discovering the competitive nature of the game. After the his discovery, he began to teach what he learned to his crew mates and friends.
Between 2009 and 2013, Victra shifted his focus towards his University studies. At the end of his senior year in 2013, Victra established a formal Super Smash Brothers student club that laid the foundation for a centralized community for the Alberta Smash scene. Victra continued his role as a community leader, tournament organizer, and top competitor in his region until 2016 when his activity began to decline as he shifted his focus towards his full time work as a civil engineer and his girlfriend. However, Victra remains an active presence online for his community acting as a community adviser for community and event decisions, and continues to attend locals from time to time.


As a university student
==Tournament placings==
{{results|''Smash 64'' and proper dates for ''Melee'' tournaments}}


=== Central Alberta Smash Tournament ===
===''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''===
:''Main Article: [[Central Alberta Smash Tournament]]''
[[File:Teh fair.jpg|thumb|200px|left|[[Mike Monkey]], [[FalseFalco]], and others at CAST2]]
A year after discovering the competitive scene, Victra and K Lover (Capt.1337 at the time) decided to host a Smash [[CAST|tournament]] in their city Red Deer in order to find more competition in Red Deer - because at the time, the only people in Red Deer playing Smash competitively were themselves. After advertising the tournament in the SWF and Nexopia (an Alberta equivalent of Myspace) they received tons of replies. They failed to meet very many competitive players in their city, but to their surprise, people from ''outside'' the city came to participate. ({{Sm|FalseFalco}}, {{Sm|FastFox}}, {{Sm|RJM}} etc.) The unprecedented attendance paved the way for future CAST tournaments and the second occurrence attracted not only much of the same crowd, but even pulled members of the venerable [[Punch Crew]] out of retirement. The third CAST event occurred on August 11th, 2007 in the Snell Auditorium of the library. Victra, the tournament director, was unable to attend this event because of personal reasons and the responsibility for the tournament was heavily placed upon assistant directors Levi and {{Sm|Backitch}}.
 
2 years after the CAST1, the tournament series had grown to become a nation-wide tournament, where players from Washington, such as {{Sm|Eggz}} and {{Sm|Silent Wolf}}, and even Australian smasher {{Sm|CAOTIC}}, came to participate.
 
== Tournament Activity ==
Not only does Victra host his own tournaments, Victra has attended several tournaments stretching across the west coast of Canada and the United States. During the Summer of 2007, Victra traveled to Seattle, Washington for family reasons. Taking advantage of his stay, Victra attended various tournaments such as [[Seattle Smash]] events and the infamous [[Game Clucks]], playing against several well known players such as {{Sm|NoobKing}} and Silent Wolf. During his time there, Victra teamed along with Washington's {{Sm|ThePrime}} for various [[doubles]] tournaments. However, for family reasons, this trip caused Victra to miss out on his own tournament, CAST3, giving the director seat to {{Sm|BackItch}}.
 
Later that year, in the midst of December, Victra attended [[At Melee's End]] where he landed 3rd in his pool, took 17th place in singles and 17th in doubles along with K Lover. Not only did Victra attend the event as a participant, Victra also filmed the event, interviewing players such as {{Sm|MikeMonkey}} and {{Sm|ManLi}} and posting documentary-like episodes on the Smash World Forums.
 
Near the end of 2008, Victra attended his own tournament, [[CAST|CAST4]], placing 3rd in his pool, 17th in singles and 9th in doubles with his partner K Lover.
 
== Tournament Placings ==
=== ''Melee'' ===
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!Tournament!!Date!!1v1 Placement
!Tournament!!Date!!1v1 placement!!2v2 placement!!Partner
|-
|[[CAST|CAST1]]||October 14th, 2006||?||—||—
|-
|[[CAST|CAST2]]||March 10th, 2007||?||—||—
|-
|{{Trn|At Melee's End|g=SSBM}}||December, 2007||17th||—||—
|-
|[[CAST|CAST4]]||November 22nd-23rd, 2008||17th||—||—
|-
|[https://smashboards.com/threads/adat2-western-regional-championship-2009-july-24-25-edmonton-ab-canada.235344/page-57 ADAT2]||July 24th-25th, 2009||13th||17th||Ppig
|-
|-
|[[At Melee's End]]||December, 2007||17th
|L&VE||October, 2009||2nd||—||—
|-
|-
|[[CAST|CAST4]]||October, 2008||17th
|[https://smashboards.com/threads/alberta-beatdown-results-march-6-7.268226/ Alberta Beatdown]||March 6th-7th, 2010||7th||4th||{{Sm|T-block}}
|-
|-
|ADAT2||July, 2009||13th
|KSA||November, 2011||9th||—||—
|-
|-
|Edmonton Melee Monthly #1||August, 2009||7th
|SSGT #1||February, 2013||9th||—||—
|-
|-
|L&VE||October, 2009||2th
|Otafest 2013||May, 2013||9th||—||—
|-
|-
|Alberta Beatdown #1||August, 2010||7th
|{{Trn|EVO 2013|g=SSBM}}||July 12th-14th, 2013||193rd||—||—
|-
|-
|KSA||November, 2011||9th
|Alberta Beatdown #2||August 9th, 2013||9th||7th||Tags
|-
|-
|SSGT #1||February, 2013||9th
|YEG Open #1||September, 2013||9th||—||—
|-
|-
|Otafest 2013||May, 2013||9th
|Jarrett's Tournament #2||September, 2013||9th||—||—
|-
|-
|[[EVO|EVO Championships 2013]]||July, 2013||N/A
|Smash Chronicles #1||November, 2013||9th||—||—
|-
|-
|Alberta Beatdown #2||August, 2013||9th
|Smash Chronicles #2||January 4th-5th, 2014||9th||—||—
|-
|-
|YEG Open #1||September, 2013||9th
|Semester's End||May, 2014||9th||—||—
|-
|-
|Jarrett's Tournament #2||September, 2013||9th
|{{Trn|EVO 2014|g=SSBM}}||July 11th-13th, 2014||129th||—||—
|-
|-
|Smash Chronicles #1||November, 2013||9th
|Metroid Shoulder Slam||July, 2014||2nd||—||—
|-
|-
|Smash Chronicles #2||Janurary, 2014||9th
|Play 4 Keeps #9||August, 2014||5th||—||—
|-
|-
|Semester's End||May, 2014||9th
|YEG Open #2||September, 2014||7th||—||—
|-
|-
|[[EVO|EVO 2014]]||July, 2014||129th
|Jarrett's Tournament #3||September, 2014||7th||—||—
|-
|-
|BBQ Melee #1||July, 2014||3rd
|Canada Cup 2014||November, 2014||7th||—||—
|-
|-
|Metroid Shoulder Slam||July, 2014||2nd
|Canada Cup Master's Series 2015||January, 2015||13th||—||—
|-
|-
|Play 4 Keeps #9||August, 2014||5th
|{{Trn|Apex 2015|g=SSBM}}||January 30th-February 1st, 2015||257th||—||—
|-
|-
|YEG Open #2||September, 2014||7th
|{{Trn|EVO 2015|g=SSBM}}||July 17th-19th, 2015||?||—||—
|-
|-
|Jarrett's Tournament #3||September, 2014||7th
|Smash 4 Hope||January, 2016||4th||—||—
|-
|Salt Flats #4||February, 2016||9th||—||—
|-
|[https://start.gg/tournament/jarrett-s-tournament-4/details Jarrett's Tournament #4]||March 12th, 2016||9th||5th||PoppinFresh
|-
|For Glory #2||March, 2016||17th||—||—
|-
|GDX||April, 2016||9th||—||—
|-
|[https://start.gg/tournament/the-fifth-angle-ft-bladewise-locus/details The Fifth Angle]||February 3rd-4th, 2017||13th||7th||Jraff
|}
 
===''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''===
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!Tournament!!Date!!1v1 placement!!2v2 placement!!Partner
|-
|-
|Canada Cup 2014||November, 2014||7th
|{{Trn|Pure Gaming 2019|g=SSBU}}||November 9th-10th, 2019||25th||17th||{{Sm|Nullex}}
|}
|}
== Trivia ==
* Victra works as a civil engineer.
* Victra is a moderator on [[Smash World Forums|Smashboards]] for the Canada, Melee, and Smash 4 Falcon boards.
* Victra is a member of the content team for the Smash Bros [[reddit|subreddit]]
* Victra is also an active [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedcubing speedcuber], able to solve the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik's_Cube Rubik's Cube] in under 20 seconds.


== External Links ==
==External links==
'''[[SWF]]'''
*[http://www.smashboards.com/member.php?u=55283 '''Victra''' [[SmashBoards]] public profile]
*[http://www.smashboards.com/member.php?u=55283 '''Victra''' Public Profile]
*[https://twitter.com/VictraGG Twitter account]
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/tranvic '''Victor Tran''' LinkedIn]


[[Category:Alberta smashers]]
[[Category:Alberta smashers]]
[[Category:Tournament directors|Victra]]
[[Category:Captain Falcon players (SSB)]]
[[Category:Tournament organizers]]
[[Category:Panelists]]

Latest revision as of 22:38, February 13, 2024

For the SoCal Smash 64 player, see, see Smasher:Janitor (SoCal).
Victra
Victra2017.jpg
Character info
Smash 64 main Captain Falcon
Other Smash 64 character Yoshi
Melee mains Captain Falcon, Sheik
Other Melee character Bowser
Brawl main King Dedede
Smash 4 mains Captain Falcon, King Dedede
Project M main King Dedede
Personal and other info
Real name Victor Tran
Birth date (age 32)
Location Edmonton, Alberta Canada

Victra is a Canadian Melee smasher and tournament director from Alberta, Canada. Victra is largely responsible for organizing the competitive Super Smash Bros. community in Edmonton, Alberta. As of the end of 2016, Victra has been largely inactive as a competitive player, but remains active as a community adviser and attends locals from time to time.

Background[edit]

Victra became aware of the competitive Melee scene in late 2005 after reading a article about the game in issue 195 of Nintendo Power titled "Smash Planet". The article included such topics as SmashBoards, Ken Hoang, MLG, and rumours about a new installment of Super Smash Bros. tentatively titled Super Smash Bros. Brawl. This article also included a brief description of wavedashing and other competitive techniques that had been discovered. Victra began to get involved with the SmashBoards website shortly after and started playing Melee more competitively. After this discovery, he began to teach what he learned to his friends and began building a community in his city in 2006 onwards.

Between 2009 and 2013, Victra shifted his focus towards his University studies. At the end of his senior year in 2013, Victra established a formal Super Smash Brothers student club that laid the foundation for a centralized community for the Alberta Smash scene. Victra continued his role as a community leader, tournament organizer, and top competitor in his region until 2016 when his activity began to decline as he shifted his focus towards his full time work as a civil engineer and his girlfriend. However, Victra remains an active presence online for his community acting as a community adviser for community and event decisions, and continues to attend locals from time to time.

Tournament placings[edit]

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Super Smash Bros. Melee[edit]

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
CAST1 October 14th, 2006 ? — —
CAST2 March 10th, 2007 ? — —
At Melee's End December, 2007 17th — —
CAST4 November 22nd-23rd, 2008 17th — —
ADAT2 July 24th-25th, 2009 13th 17th Ppig
L&VE October, 2009 2nd — —
Alberta Beatdown March 6th-7th, 2010 7th 4th T-block
KSA November, 2011 9th — —
SSGT #1 February, 2013 9th — —
Otafest 2013 May, 2013 9th — —
EVO 2013 July 12th-14th, 2013 193rd — —
Alberta Beatdown #2 August 9th, 2013 9th 7th Tags
YEG Open #1 September, 2013 9th — —
Jarrett's Tournament #2 September, 2013 9th — —
Smash Chronicles #1 November, 2013 9th — —
Smash Chronicles #2 January 4th-5th, 2014 9th — —
Semester's End May, 2014 9th — —
EVO 2014 July 11th-13th, 2014 129th — —
Metroid Shoulder Slam July, 2014 2nd — —
Play 4 Keeps #9 August, 2014 5th — —
YEG Open #2 September, 2014 7th — —
Jarrett's Tournament #3 September, 2014 7th — —
Canada Cup 2014 November, 2014 7th — —
Canada Cup Master's Series 2015 January, 2015 13th — —
Apex 2015 January 30th-February 1st, 2015 257th — —
EVO 2015 July 17th-19th, 2015 ? — —
Smash 4 Hope January, 2016 4th — —
Salt Flats #4 February, 2016 9th — —
Jarrett's Tournament #4 March 12th, 2016 9th 5th PoppinFresh
For Glory #2 March, 2016 17th — —
GDX April, 2016 9th — —
The Fifth Angle February 3rd-4th, 2017 13th 7th Jraff

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
Pure Gaming 2019 November 9th-10th, 2019 25th 17th Nullex

External links[edit]

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