Editing Tournament:Australian Smash Circuit

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The '''Australian Smash Circuit''' is a dedicated, highly-dispersed and well-traveled smash community. The majority of [[smasher]]s are predominantly located in the large cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, and the Gold Coast.

Some of its well known resident smashers include {{Sm|Bringer of Death}}, {{Sm|CAOTIC}}, {{Sm|Shaz}}, and {{Sm|Kupo}}

===Previous major [[tournament]]s===

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|{{h2|Tournament:SEAT|SEAT2}} (Moorabbin, Melbourne, Victoria)||December 10th, 2005||{{Sm|Kupo|Australia}}||{{Sm|Shaz|Australia}} & — ||—

|{{Trn|OHN5}} (University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Sydney, New South Wales)||July 1st, 2006||—||—||—

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|{{Trn|Comrades of the Anfology}} (Lower Plenty, Melbourne, Victoria)|| January 27th, 2007||{{Sm|Bringer of Death|Australia}}||{{Sm|Bringer of Death|Australia}} & {{Sm|CAOTIC|Australia}}||—

|{{Trn|Comrades 2}} (La Trobe University, Bundoora, Melbourne, Victoria)||June 9th, 2007||{{Sm|Ken|USA}}||{{Sm|Ken|USA}} & {{Sm|CAOTIC|Australia}}||{{Sm|CAOTIC|Australia}}, {{Sm|Myst Walker|Australia}}

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|{{Trn|S3 Cubed}} (University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Sydney, New South Wales)||July 2007||{{Sm|CAOTIC|Australia}}||{{Sm|Jaz|Australia}} & {{Sm|BJay|Australia}}||{{Sm|Jaz|Australia}}{{Sm|C0d3M0nk3y|Australia}}

|{{Trn|Comrades of the Kaydash}}(Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland)||December 8th, 2007||{{Sm|Tristan|Australia}}||{{Sm|Sirias|Australia}} & {{Sm|Accelerate|Australia}}||{{Sm|Syke|Australia}}, {{Sm|CAOTIC|Australia}},[[TECH TEAM]]

|{{Trn|Reloaded Festival 08}} (Wayville, Adelaide, South Australia)||January 26th-27th, 2008||{{Sm|CAOTIC|Australia}}||{{Sm|CAOTIC|Australia}} & {{Sm|Shaz|Australia}}||[[Adam Internet]]

|{{Trn|Rambo}} (Dallas, Melbourne, Victoria)||March 21st - April 7th, 2008||{{Sm|CAOTIC|Australia}}||{{Sm|CAOTIC|Australia}} & {{Sm|Shaz|Australia}}||{{Sm|CAOTIC|Australia}}

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|{{Trn|OHN7}} (University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Sydney, New South Wales)||December 7th-8th 2008||—||{{Sm|CAOTIC|Australia}} & {{Sm|Kupo|Australia}}||{{Sm|CAOTIC|Australia}}, [[Ozhadou]]

|{{Trn|Shadowloo Showdown V}} (Melbourne, Victoria)||August 29th-31st, 2014||{{Sm|Armada|Sweden}}||{{Sm|Armada|Sweden}} & {{Sm|Syke|Australia}}||{{Sm|Dekar|Australia}},{{Sm|Attila|Australia}},{{Sm|Redact|Australia}},{{Sm|SD|Australia}}

|{{Trn|Project Melbourne}} (Perth, Western Australia)||May 22nd, 2015||—||—||—

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|{{Trn|Battle Arena Melbourne 7}} (Melbourne, Victoria)||May 23rd-24th, 2015||{{Sm|Mango|USA}}||{{Sm|Leffen|Sweden}} & {{Sm|blue2ez|Australia}}||{{Sm|Leisha|Australia}}, {{Sm|Bijou|Australia}}, {{Sm|Dreadtech|Australia}}, {{Sm|Atilla|Australia}}, {{Sm|Redact|Australia}}

|{{Trn|DI Another Day}} (Perth, Western Australia)||August 28th-30th, 2015||{{Sm|Karu|Australia}}||{{Sm|Karu|Australia}} & {{Sm|Depolaroid|Australia}}||{{Sm|Sundowns|Australia}} & {{Sm|Chappos|Australia}}

====Perth and the beginning (2002-2004)====

[[File:MEL1.jpg|280px|right|Perth Smashers and Kupo]]

Driven by the thirst for greater levels of competition, Australian smashers have looked beyond the scope of their local friends - this search has led many to [[Smashboards]], an online forum where players communicate with each other to establish gatherings in their region. For a couple of years after ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''{{'}}s PAL release, there was no solid concentration of players to construct a proper competitive tournament, with only a mere handful of players spread over all capital cities of Australia. However, by 2004 two distinct and tight-knit communities emerged in Perth and Melbourne. The Perth community at this point was viewed as the largest. Strengthen by their newly-found and existing friendships, they took the initiative to set up Australia's first tournament attended by players from multiple [[wikipedia:States and territories of Australia|states]], inviting Melbourne's "core four," Shaz, Kupo, Cella and Sabrent to its city for some serious smash. The attendance of a humble 12 marked the start of a consolidation of communities in several other regions.

====The dominance of Melbourne (2005)====

2005 could be seen as the year that Melbourne really took off and established itself as a competitive 'Smash Central' for Australia - most if not all traveled Smashers have visited the city at some point for one of its tournaments. Its growth owes much to [[Nintendo]]'s 'SuperChallenge Series,' held in late 2004, that drew several hundred gamers to compete in the new release [[GameCube]] games in cinema locations throughout Melbourne. Many of Victoria's players have a connection back to the super challenge. After Melbourne's original crew of 4 visited Perth, they returned determined to host Australia's next national, with an added bonus. They planned and carried out amongst themselves a sponsorship plan to bring the most popular and (then) most highly skilled player, {{Sm|Captain Jack}}. Shaz and new SuperChallenge recruit CAOTIC spearheaded efforts to coordinate the event dubbed @M in early 2005. It was a marked success with interstate representation from three other states.

The success of @M and its advantageous position in the East Coast eventually saw Melbourne commit to more major tournaments with the creation of the SEAT series. These tournaments were originally intended to strengthen the local community, but due to organizational rigor and promotion, saw further interstate participation. During 2005, Shaz and Kupo made international ventures to the USA and Japan for an insight into international Smash culture. CAOTIC left for California in December and Bringer of Death took a trip to Sweden shortly afterward.

[[File:COM.jpg|280px|right|Comrades of the Anfology]]

 

In mid-2004 Naked_gamer was pushing a Adelaide LAN (Adelaide_LPCs) to include consoles into PC LAN. Launching in late 2004 was Adelaides first console LAN not aimed at {{iw|wikipedia|Xbox}}es. The tournament was heavily promoted on a few Australian forums and brought in 15-30 players on average, the competition was early dominated by {{Sm|2SXC}}, with other challengers such as Oliver, {{Sm|Suhayb}}, and Haku.