In 2014 and 2015, Leffen earned himself the title of "god slayer" after he became the first player to defeat Armada, Hungrybox, Mang0, Jason "Mew2King" Zimmerman and Kevin "PPMD" Nanney, collectively, the five gods of Smash. "After that, when I came back, my results were worse. He joined good company, including the "gods": Adam "Armada" Lindgren, Juan "Hungrybox" DeBiedma and Joseph "Mang0" Marquez.
EVO 2018 took place on August 3rd to 5th, 2018, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. It's the tournament that brings in the most people. EVO 2018 is taking place this weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada, and it's even bigger than last year, believe it or not. The biggest, hypest, and most prestigious fighting game tournament in the world! His string of tweets showed both a sense of catharsis and release.
Congratulations to the winner of Melee Singles at Evo 2018! Very respectable, Scar pointing at the number like "you seeing this shit Toph ?". Leffen on what it means to win Evo (1:45) After winning the Super Smash Bros. Melee title at Evo, Leffen shares his thoughts. Alongside Melee, EVO 2018 also featured tournaments for: Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, DragonBall FighterZ, Tekken 7, Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, and Injustice 2 . Instead, Tekken Project and EVO staff member Mark "MarkMan" Julio was the co-host. Many top players asserted that this set tarnished the competitive integrity of the event,[3][4] and most of the audience members attending EVO had left the venue before or during grand finals. From SmashWiki, the Super Smash Bros. wiki, http://ca.ign.com/articles/2018/02/07/evo-2018-lineup-announced, https://www.vg247.com/2018/02/07/evo-2018-games-announced/, https://twitter.com/DabuzSenpai/status/1025978214978445312, https://twitter.com/MVG_Mew2King/status/1025980476807294977, https://twitter.com/CaptainZack_/status/1025996248380203008, https://twitter.com/LimaBayo/status/1026004629786517504, https://twitter.com/mrwiz/status/971921848945528833?s=21, https://www.twingalaxies.com/feed_details.php/794/arc-systems-work-president-playing-smash-bros-melee-at-evo-2018/6, https://smash.gg/tournament/evo-2018/event/evo-2018-1/entrant/1905977, https://www.ssbwiki.com/index.php?title=Tournament:EVO_2018&oldid=1459463. Well who the fuck cares? This website is very much not correct. "It would mean a lot for our game in a negative way," Armada told ESPN.
https://twitter.com/FatGoku64/status/1025827280977686528, https://twitter.com/levingy/status/1025824905072463878, https://twitter.com/PG_Wobbles/status/1025827078573240320, https://twitter.com/SFS_A_Rookie/status/1025857476325851136, https://twitter.com/n0ned/status/1025834689137799168, https://twitter.com/ycz6/status/1025830173537492993, https://twitter.com/HugS86/status/1025830425795551232, https://twitter.com/boNinja_SSBM/status/1025830290923577344, https://twitter.com/Colbol725/status/1025836256406585344, https://twitter.com/boNinja_SSBM/status/1025840108803477504, https://liquipedia.net/smash/index.php?title=EVO/2018/Melee/Singles_Bracket&oldid=233220. Then he expanded. This isn't correct. Would’ve been the craziest run for the 3vo but Leffen’s sick. And unlike the past decade, Leffen, Plup and the others will keep reinventing the wheel. Tournament:EVO 2018 - SmashWiki, the Super Smash Bros. wiki [1][2] EVO 2018 featured a playable demo of Super Smash Bros. Evolution 2018, or simply EVO 2018, was the 17th edition of the Evolution Championship Series, a fighting game tournament held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event saw the return of Melee on the Sunday finals, as Smash 4 was on the main stage in the previous year. Archived. See you at Evo! "In some ways, you could've seen that as the worst possible thing, like bad energy or something like that," Leffen told ESPN. Didn't Evo 2016 have over 200k viewers for melee? r/SSBM: A competitive Melee focused extension of the reddit Super Smash Brothers community. Though some events may be uncertain, the community is anything but stale. Melee doubles was a side event organized by the community and not an "official" part of EVO.
Leffen absolutely deserved the crown this weekend.
Before I saw the numbers I was concerned. There were a bunch of restreams and hosts (notably mango and alex) that all together brought the total over 200k. User account menu. Text/code is available under CC-BY-SA.Licenses for other media varies. (1,353 entrants)Top 48 BracketTop 8 Bracket, (1,358 entrants)Top 48 BracketTop 8 Bracket. On any given weekend -- from Las Vegas to Boston to Oakland, California -- the winner has become a toss-up. Leffen lost 3 stocks off 3 single lost interactions Game 1 vs. HBox. this year was insane, highlight video if you missed it: https://youtu.be/kCkIGBKTJZY, That's not true. Congratulations to the winner of Melee Singles at Evo 2018! Evo Grand Finals for 2018 passed the highest viewer count for a Melee Twitch stream, by a lot. It was the showing of all the negative energy I had. It just shows that Melee is here to stay. Moments earlier, he became the fourth player to win the coveted Super Smash Bros. Melee title at the Evolution Championship Series since the Nintendo GameCube made its return to the tournament in 2013.
GFs Twitch VOD. This is the future of Melee. So I think it's time for us to have a toast. Will be one of the biggest mistakes they ever make if they ever pull Melee. G3 was on Showdown Smash and that channel isn't even displayed on the list. With more than 195,000 people tuning into the finals event on Sunday night, he has a point. See you at Evo! Yeah, seems like there are a lot of thigs wrong with the numbers on this site.
When I got my visa, I had a much more positive outlook, but it also meant I didn't have as much of the drive to perform.". If I may ask, what was Melee's highest peak ever?
Leffen got absolutely destroyed Game 1 of Winners Semis and didn't drop a game for the rest of the tourney. Leffen said during that period of his life, being separated from the competition made him complacent. And unlike the past decade, Leffen, Plup and the others will keep reinventing the wheel.
"I will make this GFs more entertaining than Sm4sh's!". Just like how he broke Fendy, That's not bad considering Melee is earlier this year. two and half years later, he speaks the truth. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. It'd be a bad decision to remove Melee."
The biggest, hypest, and most prestigious fighting game tournament in the world! 15. A DBFZ player just won EVO for Smash, just shows how simple your party game is lmao /s, "I will win Evo." On the track back to the top, losses would make him incredibly emotional -- including salty rants on social media -- something he has been criticized for immensely. - Leffen, January 26, 2016. We had over 1,300 entrants. PPMD retired -- and for younger players, the opportunity to join the likes of Leffen and Plup disappeared.
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Weird, I wonder why that website doesn’t show it. [5] Lima also apologized for giving a "homie stock" to CaptainZack, saying that he did it because he was playing one of his best friends and didn't want the match to end with a self-destruct. This page was last edited on 20 March 2020, at 05:06. I can't speak for all the numbers but evo 2016 had well over 200000 and Evo2 had over 56K yesterday. Ultimate, courtesy of Nintendo, and a Super Smash Bros. Melee. Press J to jump to the feed. Evo 2016 was biggest because that was the largest melee tournament ever and the finals were hype, New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast.
William "Leffen" Hjelte [W] // Twitch | Twitter | Wiki | Sponsorvs.Adam "Armada" Lindgren [L] // Twitch | Twitter | Wiki | Sponsor. play . Evo has always been my worst tournament perfomance wise, but I finally managed to focus just doing my best for the task at hand. Skip navigation. See you at Evo! After being a demo at EVO 2018, on February 26th, 2019, Armada embarked on an impressive losers run after his loss to Swedish Delight, defeating, This is also the first EVO to have no American players in. For Leffen, and for Smash, the win was the culmination of two journeys: one short, one long, but both a sign of the times. Additionally, during game 1 of the second set, both players held Bullet Climax in place for nearly two minutes, which caused tournament organizer Bear to come on stage and issue both players a yellow card. His mentality is something he has had to improve and the results speak for themselves. An even bigger slew of formerly lower-ranked players, like Zain "Zain" Naghmi, Justin "Wizzrobe" Hallett and Masaya "aMSa" Chikamoto, have accelerated and challenged the best, earning themselves top-10 placements in the 2018 Summer Melee Panda Global Rankings. With the impending release of Super Smash Bros. I've definitely seen MeleeEveryDay above 33K too. It just shows that Melee is here to stay. Eventually [Get on my Level] happened.
4.4k. Love how Scar is breaking that 4th wall. The U.S. government did not recognize Super Smash Bros. as a sport, making him ineligible for a P-1A athlete visa. The biggest, hypest, and most prestigious fighting game tournament in the world! Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The eight games played at Evo 2018 were announced on February 6, 2018 during a special announcement stream on Twitch, with event co-founder Joey Cuellar discussing the inclusion of each game. This should be fixed now and the numbers should make more sense. I would like to thank this topic and you guys for helping me track down a bug on the website(twitchstats.net). 1 year ago. It's a never-ending cycle that has kept Evo's oldest fighting game kicking. What a crazy run by Armada.