Tournament:Smash Blast

Smash Blast
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Dates	July 11th, 2015
Venue	Cafeteria, Cesun Universidad
Address/City	Blvd. Cucapah Sur # 20100, El Lago, 22210 Tijuana, Baja California
Attendance	157+
Entry fees	Melee singles: 50$ Melee doubles: 20$ per person Smash 4 singles: 50$ Smash 4 doubles: 20$ per person
Results
winners	Eddie Mexico 1v1  Bimbo Mexico &  Tete 2v2
winners	Cpt. z0mfg 1v1  IC &  Chaplin 2v2

Smash Blast was the first regional tournament of Team Shockwave MX tournament series directed by Erick Guzman and Issac Cervantes. It was held in Cesun Universidad, located in Tijuana, Baja California on July 11th, 2015. Like previous tournament of TSMX, Smash Blast hosted Super Smash Bros. Melee but this time they introduced Super Smash Bros. for Wii U to their tournament series, being the first SSB4 regional in Tijuana. It was the largest SSB4 tournament of all time in Tijuana with 85+ entrants.

Smash Blast was officially sponsored by Cesun Universidad and Arcadia Games. Among the results of this sponsorship Cesun Universidad provided with setups, microphones and the venue, alongside Arcadia Games which provided the 1st place prizes for both Melee and SSB4, being a sealed Wii U Super Mario 3D World bundle and a sealed Nintendo 3DS XL. Cesun also provided the top 5 winners with some "goodies" and the Internet connection used for the livestream of both games.

Eddie Mexico, despite having lost in recent tournaments and getting 2nd behind Bimbo Mexico, had a good Winners bracket run, defeating Alvin (2-0) In Winners Quarters and Fist In Winners Semis (3-0), until meeting in Winners finals against the 2nd Seed Bimbo, where he lost in a convincing (3-1),With Bimbo waiting in Grand finals and Eddie being sent to the Loser brackets, he had to play the winner of Fist and Navso, Being Fist a Top player of Tijuana, and Navso a Sheik who didn't attended many local tournaments, Fist knew about how good navso was despite never seeing him in tournament because of his win over GuzBallz (2-1) the number 4 ranked player in Tijuana and Lalo a new school Jigglypuff from Brawl (2-1), After a really close set, Navso came up on top in a nail-bitting Game five and proceeding to Losers finals where he meet Eddy Mexico, Eddie getting the edge in the battle won with a convincing (3-0) Resulting in Navso getting 3rd place, after this it was revealed that navso is a top Sheik player from Navojoa, Sonora.

Eddie facing Bimbo in a Winners Finals Runback, this set went down as one, if not the most intense grand finals in Tijuana tournament history, Eddie winning the first set, coming back from a (2-1) deficit to close set #1 of grand finals in a last stock game 5 with % deficit in a tech chase Shoryuken off the highest platform in battlefield with one of the most hyped crowed and reaction EVER, Going into Set #2 Eddy and Bimbo had a level of mindgames hard to explain that was also hard to understand, knowing each one's habits and exploiting them it was a set of pure adaptation and determination, Eddy going up (2-0), Bimbo winning a game on Pokemon Stadium (2-1) and then Eddie finishing the Game and Set #2 with a F-tilt - Edgehog in Final Destination to take the tournament.

Smash 4 also marked the First time Cpt. z0mfg Won a tournament in Tijuana, despite being a top player of Baja california, he had trouble defeating AC in bot Arcadia Games Tournament and Tijuana @ War held by XTR. Getting 2nd place after him. Losing in winners finals Vs. AC, Winy had to defeat Chaplin in losers final who took the place of his teammate IC because of an unexpected soccer game. Resulting in Cpt. z0mfg Victory in a quick (3-0) against Chaplin Mega-Man And Captain Falcon in a close ditto. Going to Grand finals from Loser brackets, AC used a variation of characters being these: Ryu, Sheik and Meta Knight agains the solo main Captain Falcon, With z0mfg winning solidly set #1 (3-1), going into set #2, AC started with metaknight, losing the first game decided to switch for sheik where he lost having a % lead of almost 100% after a downair read, spiking him. Going into game 3, he won in town and city (2-1), last game same thing as the 2nd game happened, AC winning by almost a 70% lead was downaired after a read, spiking him and getting winy up (3-1) and closing the set, also marking the first time he won in tournament against AC with a convincing performance.

This tournament was also important because of a local player, a Brawl Veteran and R.O.B main EZ getting 4th place in a tournament where all top 10 (except for Rival attended, getting a higher place than TKD,Chaplin,Walker,Lalo,TwerkMSTR,Ivan and Esteban.

Being sent earlier to the Losers Bracket by Cpt. z0mfg (2-0) He had one of the best losers brackets run defeating top players incluiding: Lwyz (2-0), Walker (2-1), TWERKMSTR (2-1) and Lalo (2-1), before losing to IC (2-0) and getting 4th place. Proving that a non ranked player can compete among the ranked playrs.

List of games

• Super Smash Bros. Melee
• Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

The white controller amateur price

The white controller amateur price was a bonus price added by Team Shockwave MX where the dynamic consisted in giving the price to the non-ranked player who could reach further in the bracket, being Navso the winner by reaching 3rd place overall.

Results

Melee singles

(72 entrants*)
Singles Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Eddie Mexico		WiiU
2nd	Bimbo Mexico		$1,100
3rd	Navso		$660 + White controller
4th	Fist		$330
5th	GuzBallz		$55
5th	Teté		$55
7th	MK
7th	TK
9th	Lalo
9th	Alvin
9th	Ricardo Flames
9th	Totis

Melee doubles

(8 Teams only)
Doubles bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Bimbo Mexico		Teté		$200 ($100 each)
2nd	GuzBallz		Alvin		$80 ($40 each)
3rd	Eddie Mexico		Ricardo Flames
4th	Totis		Sponk
5th	Fist		Monse

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