{"id":71267,"date":"2019-10-01T16:56:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T21:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=71267"},"modified":"2019-10-01T16:58:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T21:58:23","slug":"jayhawk-arcadian-paves-way-for-lesser-known-smash-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2019\/10\/01\/jayhawk-arcadian-paves-way-for-lesser-known-smash-players\/","title":{"rendered":"KU Smash Tournament Paves Way For Lesser-Known Players"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\tLast Saturday, Sept. 21,  KU Smash refrained from holding their regular tournament on Sunday to hold a unique competition on Saturday: the Jayhawk Arcadian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tThis year marks the third installment of the Jayhawk Arcadian, a special kind of tournament where the best players in the region are not allowed to enter. Due to this unique stipulation, the Jayhawk Arcadian draws players from as far as Kansas City and Independence, Missouri in addition to the regular Lawrence competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tThe tournaments run by KU Smash always feature two games: Super Smash Bros. Melee <\/em>and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.<\/em> The smaller Melee tournaments are usually dominated by ranked players such as Daniel \u201cdansdaman\u201d Coppock and the player known as \u201cGuardKnight,\u201d while the larger Ultimate tournaments are won by GuardKnight or Isaiah \u201cToffee\u201d Bellinger.  As these players aren\u2019t allowed to compete, the door is opened for lesser-realized talent to take the gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t\u201cIt\u2019s just a good time because it\u2019s a tournament that feels a little bit more manageable if you\u2019re a newer player,\u201d Carter \u201cwoozy\u201d Trout, a KU sophomore, said. \u201cYou don\u2019t have all these people who you know are insane at the game and will just destroy you if you face them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tThe competition for the Ultimate tournament was fierce, with several players having a claim to the first place spot in the double elimination tournament. While the tournament ended up being won by Adam \u201cMurabito\u201d Shafton, a Palutena player and the second seed at the event, his road to first place did not go as planned. The tournament was filled with upsets on the winner\u2019s side of the bracket, with Murabito losing in winner\u2019s quarterfinals to KU student Omar \u201cHWANGDDD\u201d Raheel and the first seed, Asa \u201cTron Bonne\u201d Ortega losing in winner\u2019s semifinals to sixth seed Nicholas \u201cSelah\u201d D\u2019Angelo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tMurabito ran his way through the loser\u2019s bracket, winning sets against the higher-seeded Tron Bonne and getting his revenge on HWANGDDD. Many of these sets ended with well-timed up smashes from Murabito\u2019s Palutena as his opponents attempted to recover to the stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tAfter beating Lawrence Ken player Rylan \u201cstop_dodging\u201d Hoffman in a clean 3-0 sweep, Murabito was lined up to play against Selah in grand finals, needing to win two consecutive sets in order to take the tournament. While Selah\u2019s Shulk seemed dominant in the first two games, Murabito was able to make the necessary adjustments in his play to win the next three games back-to-back, resetting the bracket and then beating Selah 3-1 to claim first place out of 38 listed attendees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tOn the Melee side things went a little smoother, with the tournament being won by first seed Gregory \u201cAbsolute Garbage\u201d Wilkinson without too much trouble. Sixth seed \u201cArc Tangent\u201d had a great performance, landing at second place out of 13 entrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tWhile KU\u2019s Smash tournaments are usually dominated by a few players, the results of lower-seeded players such as Selah, stop_dodging and Arc Tangent prove that talent runs far deeper than only the ranked players in the Kansas Smash community.
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Last Saturday, Sept. 21,  KU Smash refrained from holding their regular tournament on Sunday to hold a unique competition on Saturday: the Jayhawk Arcadian. This year marks the third installment of the Jayhawk Arcadian, a special kind of tournament where the best players in the region are not allowed to enter. Due to this unique stipulation, the Jayhawk Arcadian draws players from as far as Kansas City and Independence, Missouri in addition to the regular Lawrence competitors. The tournaments run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21907,"featured_media":71269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3226,3225,15,3262,610],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-culture-articles","category-culture-events","category-featured-on-kjhk","category-sports","category-sports-articles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/super-mario-2690254_640-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}