Tournament:ZEST

ZEST is a Smash tournament held in the Netherlands.

It's held in Zoetermeer, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands. This is located next to Den Haag (The Hague).

ZEST stands for Zoetermeer Extreme Smash Tournament.

The Host

The official host of the Zest tournaments is Exalador (Stephan), with help from NGCXX (Coen) Zests are international 64-man tournaments (although most are dutch).

"Zests" so far

ZEST 1: October 2006

ZEST 2: April 2007

ZEST 3: ZEST 3 has yet to come. It will likely be held on November 10th 2007.

Although the first ZEST was a 2-day tournament, other zests are and most likely will be a 1-day tournament.

Location

It has always been (with the exception of the 2nd day of ZEST1) at the same location:

De Patio

Buurtruimte "De Patio"

Gaardedreef 189

2723 AZ Zoetermeer

The Netherlands

The venue has a convenient location, with two grocery stores and a bakery within 5 minutes from the venue, as well as a bar inside the venue with food and drinks against pretty good prices.

Rules

The singles tournament consists of poules followed by a 32-man (24 players + 8 'byes') double elimination bracket.

The team tournament is done by double elimination.

If there is time left, a low-tier tournament will be played

Rules for 1 vs 1

Poules and Double Elimination

Best of 3

Best of 5 from quarter finals

Best of 7 for winner's finals.

4 Stock, 8 minutes Stocktime

If the timer runs out the player with the most stock left wins. In case of a stock tie the player with the lowest percentage wins (so the Sudden Death does not count in this case). In case of a percentage tie the Sudden Death is played. Items are off.

Rules for teams

Double Elimination, Team attack is on.

All other rules are the same as 1 vs 1.

Rules for lower tier

Single elimination

Characters allowed:

Luigi

Link

Pikachu

Roy

Zelda

Young Link

Yoshi

Ness

Donkey Kong

Kirby

Mr. Game & Watch

Mewtwo

Bowser

Pichu

All other characters can not be used.

All other rules the same as 1 vs 1.

Level rules

First match in a set the stage is either agreed upon or random. All further matches within a set the loser of the previous match gets to pick stage. However, if a stage has already been played in a set it can only be played a second time if the winner of the previous match agrees to play it again.

4 stages on random select:

Fountain of Dreams

Pokémon Stadium

Final Destination

Dream Land N64

Counterpicks:

Rainbow Ride

Yoshi’s Story

Brinstar

Mute City

Battlefield

Kongo Jungle N64

Stage bans: basicly every other level.

The other levels are allowed if opponent AGREES to play it.

The first match of a set both players are allowed to pick character, all following matches only the loser of the previous match is allowed to switch character if he wants to. The winner of the previous match must remain the same character. And finally, stalling tactics such as Peach bombering or rising pound are banned unless when used for recovery.

Results

ZEST1:

Singles top 5:

1: Amsah

2: Remen

3: Dave

4: Ivo

5: Faab

5: NNja

ZEST1 Singles Bracket

Teams top 4:

1: Amsah - Zeta

2: Faab - NNja

3: Reffie - Dave

4: Johnny - Fire

ZEST2:

Singles top 5:

1: Amsah - €250

2: Faab - €156

3: Dave - €104

4: Marc - €10

5: Rens

5: Makenshi

ZEST2 Singles Bracket

Teams top 4:

1: Overpowered (pinda's) - €180 (Amsah + Choco)

2: Team Fubbo - €90 (Faab + Utto)

3: Teamo - €30 (Linkje + Dave)

4: Der Wille Zur Macht - €10 (Marc + Remen)

ZEST2 Teams Bracket

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More info will be posted soon