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{{for|the SoCal Smash 64 player, see''|Smasher:Janitor (SoCal)}}
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{{Infobox Smasher
| name          = Victra
| name          = Victra
| image        = Victra2017.jpg
| image        = Janitorpic2.jpg
| mainssbm      = Captain Falcon
| main          = Captain Falcon
| 2ndmainssbm  = Sheik
| 2ndmain      = Fox
| otherssbm    = Bowser
| other        = Marth
| mainssb      = Captain Falcon
| 2ndother     = Ganondorf
| otherssb     = Yoshi
| 3rdother     =  
| mainpm        = King Dedede
| crew          = [[The EHsians]], [[Teh Fair]]
| mainssbb     = King Dedede
| skill        = Pro-Am
| mainssb4      = Captain Falcon
| alias        =  
| 2ndmainssb4  = King Dedede
| rankingssb    =
| realname      = Victor Tran
| realname      = Victor Tran
| birthday      = 23
| birthdate    = December 23, 1991<br>''(age '''17''')
| birthmonth    = 12
| location      = Red Deer, AB
| birthyear    = 1991
| country      = canada
| location      = Edmonton, Alberta
| country      = Canada
  }}
  }}
'''Victra''' is a Canadian ''[[Melee]]'' [[smasher]] and [[tournament director]] from Alberta, Canada. Victra is largely responsible for organizing the competitive ''{{b|Super Smash Bros.|series}}'' community in Edmonton, Alberta. As of the end of 2016, Victra has been largely inactive as a competitive player, but remains active as a community adviser and attends locals from time to time.
'''Victra''' is a Canadian [[Melee]] [[smasher]] and [[tournament director]] from Red Deer, Alberta, Canada and is one of the members of [[Teh Fair]] and [[The EHsians]]. Victra is largely responsible for organizing the competitive SSBM community in Red Deer, Alberta as well as the infamously unorganized [[Central Alberta Smash Tournament]] ('''CAST''').


== Background ==
== Background ==
Victra became aware of the competitive ''Melee'' scene in late 2005 after reading a article about the game in issue 195 of Nintendo Power titled "Smash Planet". The article included such topics as [[SmashBoards]], {{Sm|Ken Hoang}}, [[MLG]], and rumours about a new installment of ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' tentatively titled ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''. This article also included a brief description of [[wavedashing]] and other competitive techniques that had been discovered. Victra began to get involved with the [[SmashBoards]] website shortly after and started playing ''Melee'' more competitively. After this discovery, he began to teach what he learned to his friends and began building a community in his city in 2006 onwards.
Victra and his fellow crew mate [[K Lover]] were dedicated [[SSB|Super Smash Bros. 64]] players in their earlier days, but it wasn't until [[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'s release on the [[Gamecube]] that the two literally became infatuated with the game.
 
Victra, though playing SSBM for 2 years after the purchase, was unaware about the game's competitive scene until late 2005 after reading a large article about the game in issue 195 of Nintendo Power, "Smash Planet". The article included such topics as [[SWF]], [[Ken Hoang]], [[MLG]], rumors about a new installment of [[Super Smash Brothers Brawl|SSB]], as well as a brief description of [[wavedashing]]. Even then, Victra only began to playing SSBM more competitively, signing up on the SWF, and discovering the competitive nature of the game. After the his discovery, he began to teach what he learned to his crew mates and friends.
 
=== Central Alberta Smash Tournament ===
:''Main Article: [[Central Alberta Smash Tournament]]''
[[Image:DSC01280.JPG|thumb|200px|left|[[Mike]], [[FalseFalco]], [[Dasupalouie]], [[Tyson]] and [[MICH]] at CAST2]]
A year after discovering the competitive scene, Victra and K Lover (Capt.1337 at the time) decided to host a Smash [[CAST|tournament]] in their city Red Deer in order to find more competition in Red Deer - because at the time, the only people in Red Deer playing Smash competitively were themselves. After advertising the tournament in the SWF and Nexopia (an Alberta equivalent of Myspace) they recieved tons of replies. They failed to meet very many competitive players in their city, but to their surprise, people from ''outside'' the city came to participate. ([[FalseFalco]], [[FastFox]], [[RJM]] etc.) The unprecedented attendance paved the way for future CAST tournaments and the second occurrence attracted not only much of the same crowd, but even pulled members of the venerable [[Punch Crew]] out of retirement. The third CAST event occurred on August 11th, 2007 in the Snell Auditorium of the library. Victra, the tournament director, was unable to attend this event because of personal reasons and the responsibility for the tournament was heavily placed upon assistant directors [[Levi]] and [[Backitch]].


Between 2009 and 2013, Victra shifted his focus towards his University studies. At the end of his senior year in 2013, Victra established a formal Super Smash Brothers student club that laid the foundation for a centralized community for the Alberta Smash scene. Victra continued his role as a community leader, tournament organizer, and top competitor in his region until 2016 when his activity began to decline as he shifted his focus towards his full time work as a civil engineer and his girlfriend. However, Victra remains an active presence online for his community acting as a community adviser for community and event decisions, and continues to attend locals from time to time.
2 years after the CAST1, the tournament series had grown to become a nation-wide tournament, where players from Washington, such as [[Eggz]] and [[Silent Wolf]], and even Australian smasher [[CAOTIC]], came to participate.


==Tournament placings==
== Tournament Activity ==
{{results|''Smash 64'' and proper dates for ''Melee'' tournaments}}
Not only does Victra host his own tournaments, Victra has attended several tournaments stretching across the west coast of Canada and the United States. During the Summer of 2007, Victra traveled to Seattle, Washington for family reasons. Taking advantage of his stay, Victra attended various tournaments such as [[Seattle Smash]] events and the infamous [[Game Clucks]], playing against several well known players such as [[NoobKing]] and [[Silent Wolf]]. During his time there, Victra teamed along with Washington's [[ThePrime]] for various [[doubles]] tournaments. However, for family reasons, this trip caused Victra to miss out on his own tournament, CAST3, giving the director seat to [[BackItch]].


===''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''===
Later that year, in the midst of December, Victra attended [[At Melee's End]] where he landed 3rd in his pool, took 17th place in singles and 17th in doubles along with K Lover. Not only did Victra attend the event as a participant, Victra also filmed the event, interviewing players such as [[MikeMonkey]] and [[ManLi]] and posting documentary-like episodes on the Smash World Forums.
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!Tournament!!Date!!1v1 placement!!2v2 placement!!Partner
|-
|[[CAST|CAST1]]||October 14th, 2006||?||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[[CAST|CAST2]]||March 10th, 2007||?||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|{{Trn|At Melee's End|g=SSBM}}||December, 2007||17th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[[CAST|CAST4]]||November 22nd-23rd, 2008||17th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[https://smashboards.com/threads/adat2-western-regional-championship-2009-july-24-25-edmonton-ab-canada.235344/page-57 ADAT2]||July 24th-25th, 2009||13th||17th||Ppig
|-
|L&VE||October, 2009||2nd||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[https://smashboards.com/threads/alberta-beatdown-results-march-6-7.268226/ Alberta Beatdown]||March 6th-7th, 2010||7th||4th||{{Sm|T-block}}
|-
|KSA||November, 2011||9th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|SSGT #1||February, 2013||9th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|Otafest 2013||May, 2013||9th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|{{Trn|EVO 2013|g=SSBM}}||July 12th-14th, 2013||193rd||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|Alberta Beatdown #2||August 9th, 2013||9th||7th||Tags
|-
|YEG Open #1||September, 2013||9th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|Jarrett's Tournament #2||September, 2013||9th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|Smash Chronicles #1||November, 2013||9th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|Smash Chronicles #2||January 4th-5th, 2014||9th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|Semester's End||May, 2014||9th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|{{Trn|EVO 2014|g=SSBM}}||July 11th-13th, 2014||129th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|Metroid Shoulder Slam||July, 2014||2nd||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|Play 4 Keeps #9||August, 2014||5th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|YEG Open #2||September, 2014||7th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|Jarrett's Tournament #3||September, 2014||7th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|Canada Cup 2014||November, 2014||7th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|Canada Cup Master's Series 2015||January, 2015||13th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|{{Trn|Apex 2015|g=SSBM}}||January 30th-February 1st, 2015||257th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|{{Trn|EVO 2015|g=SSBM}}||July 17th-19th, 2015||?||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|Smash 4 Hope||January, 2016||4th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|Salt Flats #4||February, 2016||9th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[https://start.gg/tournament/jarrett-s-tournament-4/details Jarrett's Tournament #4]||March 12th, 2016||9th||5th||PoppinFresh
|-
|For Glory #2||March, 2016||17th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|GDX||April, 2016||9th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[https://start.gg/tournament/the-fifth-angle-ft-bladewise-locus/details The Fifth Angle]||February 3rd-4th, 2017||13th||7th||Jraff
|}


===''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''===
Near the end of 2008, Victra attended his own tournament, [[CAST|CAST4]], placing 3rd in his pool, 17th in singles and 9th in doubles with his partner K Lover.
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!Tournament!!Date!!1v1 placement!!2v2 placement!!Partner
|-
|{{Trn|Pure Gaming 2019|g=SSBU}}||November 9th-10th, 2019||25th||17th||{{Sm|Nullex}}
|}


==External links==
== Trivia ==
*[http://www.smashboards.com/member.php?u=55283 '''Victra''' [[SmashBoards]] public profile]
* Aside from being an active smasher, Victra is also an active [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedcubing speedcuber], able to solve the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik's_Cube Rubik's Cube] in under 30 seconds.
*[https://twitter.com/VictraGG Twitter account]
* Victra's brother is local CCSC poster child for prodigious young smashers, [[R.L.Prodigy]].
*[https://www.linkedin.com/in/tranvic '''Victor Tran''' LinkedIn]


[[Category:Alberta smashers]]
== External Links ==
[[Category:Captain Falcon players (SSB)]]
'''[[SWF]]'''
[[Category:Tournament organizers]]
*[http://www.smashboards.com/member.php?u=55283 '''Victra''' Public Profile]
[[Category:Panelists]]
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[[Category:Smashers|Victra]]
[[Category:Canadian smashers|Victra]]
[[Category:Alberta smashers|Victra]]
[[Category:Tournament directors]]
[[Category:Smash 64 player]]

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