Tournament:The Nightclub

Hax's Nightclub
Dates	Wednesdays weekly (on hiatus)
Venue	Operating System (OS) NYC
Address/City	50 Bowery (Chinatown) Manhattan, New York, NY
Results

"Hax's Nightclub @ Operating System NYC," HNC, or as it's more well known Hax's Nightclub is the premier Super Smash Brothers Melee weekly/local in New York City; being a replacement for Nebulous since it's closure. It's been run September 2019. It's run on Wednesday nights (7:30 PM) by Hax$, DarkGenex, Jeremy, and various other people. The tournaments are sponsored by Even Matchup Gaming; being Hax's sponsor; and Andbox; a "Family of gamers, artists, makers and breakers" who also sponsor other competitive events/teams (NYXL) at this location. The venue has helped spark the renaissance of the NYC melee scene and the current Melee New York City Power Rankings are based primarily on these results. Along with the usual Tri-State players, the well ran events have had many Out of State players come such as Kalamazhu due to the high level of weekly competition. Tournament winners include Rishi, Captain Smuckers, and rising star/hidden boss Aklo among others. It's currently on hiatus as per other venues due to the Corona pandemic.

Experimental ruleset

The tournament is known for it's experimental ruleset compared to other locals around the country. These include:

• Running on lagless widescreen HDMI monitors through an UnclePunch/Achilles (creator of 20XX) mod
• "Frozen" stages (Stadium without transformations, Dreamland without wind, and no shy guys
  • A different stage list due to these changes with Battlefield, Dream Land 64, Fountain of Dreams, Pokemon Stadium, and Yoshi's Story as starters with Final Destination as a Counterpick.
• Anti-Wobbling patch which forces pummels to let go of characters after a certain amount
• 60 Ledge grab limit
• Removing the bright white cloudy portion of the FD transformation due to blinding visuals

External links

• Weekly results
• Early experimental Ruleset
• OS NYC's homepage