APEX 2015 | Fighting Game Tournament | Jan 30-Feb 1

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Twitch is amazing, Jebailey is amazing. The Smash community is amazing.

I'm always amazed at the lengths that the community will go.


Unfortunately, I think it's a fair bet that teams from every game will be cancelled. However, if that plus an early start time is what gets us singles then so be it.

The other worry is for the contestants. Some of them may have nowhere close to stay.
 
Anth0ny said:
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crazy lol
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All these adapters tho
 
Wow they must of bought those game cube adapters in bulk or something. That's a lot of hardware. Good to see the staff hold things together especially on such short notice.
 
I can't believe the biggest Smash event ever was almost derailed, by booking a venue at a collapsing shit hotel, that was also without the permits to even host an event like this.

Fucking hell.
 
Karsticles said:
What did I miss? O.o
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One of the tourney attendees accidentally (or maybe even for kicks) set off a fire alarm at the Apex venue.
The Fire Marshalls were summoned to investigate but eventually found out that the entire structure of the venue was unstable after the storm leveled the venue's ceiling earlier in the week, despite the Apex staff being guaranteed full optimal security.
The room for SSB64 and SSB4 had to be sealed off for the weekend and Melee's was put into questionable state. The Fire Marshalls had to have the event cancelled in the end for the sake of everyone's safety. Several hotel personnel were supposedly arrested on account of lack of proper management and safety protocol. Supposedly a lot of shady shit surrounding it's management and legal stuff is about to go down.
Apex staff recouped for emergency meeting, Twitch swooped right in and managed to secure another venue in town. Everyone's currently relocating there right now and though schedule is tight and several events might have to be cut, it might be possible to salvage this thing.

Tl;dr fuck the Clarion Hotel.
 
For whatever reason the cop in the first picture reminds me of Kage/Ganondorf.

I'll just assume he was one of those two, and decided to make it at the last minute to shut things down.
 
NotLiquid said:
One of the tourney attendees accidentally (or maybe even for kicks) set off a fire alarm at the Apex venue.
The Fire Marshalls were summoned to investigate but eventually found out that the entire structure of the venue was unstable after the storm leveled the venue's ceiling earlier in the week, despite the Apex staff being guaranteed full optimal security.
The room for SSB64 and SSB4 had to be sealed off for the weekend and Melee's was put into questionable state. The Fire Marshalls had to have the event cancelled in the end for the sake of everyone's safety. Several hotel personnel were supposedly arrested on account of lack of proper management and safety protocol. Supposedly a lot of shady shit surrounding it's management and legal stuff is about to go down.
Apex staff recouped for emergency meeting, Twitch swooped right in and managed to secure another venue in town. Everyone's currently relocating there right now and though schedule is tight and several events might have to be cut, it might be possible to salvage this thing.

Tl;dr fuck the Clarion Hotel.
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According to a reddit post from someone who is there, it apparently wasn't someone at Apex that tripped the alarm. They said it was on a different floor (supposedly hanging something on a sprinkler and breaking it), but it tripped all the alarms.
 
Diprosalic said:
i didn't know the annoying LoL guy is also playing Smash.
and he's just as annoying.
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Yeah, he seems to be pretty big into the Smash scene since the new game. And he seems pretty obnoxious.
Moaradin said:
I hope this tournament breaks streaming records. These dudes deserve it.
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Hopefully. All this disaster is extra publicity I guess. But, like Juggleguy mentioned on Twitter, "Apex isn't saved yet."

Tomorrow is going to be crucial.
 
Juggleguy @ Apex2015
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Space, tables, chairs, electricity, parking, everything will work on the new venue side of things. Just need mass transportation to pan out.
 
JB-the-Hunter said:
He was in the Smash scene before he even got LoL famous.
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True. I've heard as much, but he was never very prolific with it before. I guess he just wasn't into content creation back then, so no one really knew about him. Or he's slipped under my radar.
 
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