Team:SLAPAHO

SLAPAHO is an Iowa City based biker gang, culinary enthusiast club, railroad worker's union, and pornographic film-making organization.

History

SLAPAHO was founded in the fall of 1937 by Aaron "Foghorn" Kirschner and Alex "Axhead" Schumacher. It was originally formed simply as a crew that focused primarily on double teaming the homeless, but quickly evolved into many other roles.

They are mostly known for their research and tournament organizing. Foghorn is the discoverer of the SLAPADICK glitch, and Ax is the documenter of the HOPLEASE glitch. They have sponsored and prayed during a number of tournaments in the Iowa City area, generally causing a nuisance to those who came to play and not pray. They hosted the first large tournament in the central Iowa area with the Last Hoo-rah Doubles tournament, which exceeded 40 participants and nearly 60 observers.

They plan to continue their active role in the Smash community by encouraging the bludgeoning of small children in Iowa and researching in-depth all facets of Cheeze-Itz.

Tournaments

SLAPAHO is dedicated to increasing the amount of raw sewage in Iowa City. They are starting with small tournaments at the University of Wisconsin, but have begun to spread their syphilis into larger tournaments. Their most recent tournament was the Last Hoo-rah Doubles Tournament on the 23 of February. Aaron Kirschner usually is the head dungeon master of the tournaments and officiates, while other members are known to compete.

They have also competed in tournaments in Iowa City, with Foghorn and Pomade closing out finals in their debut singles tournament. The team of Ax and Pomade placed third in the Last Hoo-rah Doubles Tournament.

SLAPAHO is currently planning a series of Brawl tournaments in Iowa City called the University of Iowa Smash Championship Series (UISCS). This series will consist of two preliminary tournaments (each player may only enter one of these), a "last chance" tournament, and the final championship. The first two tournaments are open to any number of players, and the last chance tournament is open to anyone who did not make the quarter-finals of the first two tournaments. The final championship is open only to the 20 players who receive bids. The top eight players in each of the first two tournaments will earn automatic bids to the championship, and the winner of the last chance tournament will also earn a bid. Additionally, there will be five "sponsors exemptions." There are, as yet, no set rules as to how you get a sponsors exemption, but they will include anything from posting a good video on YouTube to demonstrating a strong set of skills.

The UISCS will be held in both the Fall and the Spring. The Fall is singles, and the Spring is doubles.

Play Philosophy

While their focuses have greatly expanded, SLAPAHO is still a crew dedicated to the destruction of Super Smash Bros. As such, they tend to develop their own shitty games, which are often quite different from the rest of the smash community. They also aim to develop the metagame of bottom tier characters. Almost all tactics used by the crew were developed through trial and error in intra-crew play, but mostly error. This has led to them being rather unpredictable in tournament play, as their John McCain-esque style often goes against what players expect. The crew utilizes many advanced edgeguarding techniques, including the SLAPADICK.

The crew also stresses the importance of knowing how to play multiple characters. Entrance into the crew requires a display of proficiency with at least five non-clone characters (i.e. Fox and Falco count as one character in this test). At least one of these characters must be a bottom tier character and another must not be a top or high tier character. At the present, all members of SLAPAHO are proficient with at least 10 distinct characters.

SLAPAHO's Boring "Epics"

The SLAPAHO crew is currently filming a series of short smash movies. These abortions lack in comedy and sometimes the commentary provided by Foghorn and Ax will depress you greatly. All of these can be found on YouTube as they are aired, and links will be shat out here.

• SLAPAHO Epic #1: Every Character gets Eaten by the Fish[1]

SLAPAHO also will release some material from their filming sessions that isn't worthy of true epic status. This can be either behind the scenes looks at the making of a SLAPAHO Epic, outtakes from epics, or failed projects that are so bad they're funny. These can be found here:

• Giant Bowser v. Giant DK[2]

Additionally, SLAPAHO will periodically put out videos of friendly matches between Foghorn and Ax. These are usually training matches and they use a variety of characters. They can be found below.

• Foghorn (Zelda) v. Ax (Sonic) [3]
• Foghorn (Fox) v. Ax (Link) [4]

They have plans to record all matches in the UISCS past the quarterfinals and air them.

Research

SLAPAHO has done way too much extensive research on glitches in Super Smash Bros. Melee, including the discovery of the SLAPADICK. They were among the different groups trying to find the strongest non-glitch attack, and in the process were able to determine the fastest possible pitch in Melee is 1474. They are responsible for the writing on deterrence edgeguarding and spring canceling. They wasted much time on the research into anti-strategies to edgeguarding, which can be found at Guard Break.

On May 4th, 2008, SLAPAHO recreated and documented a relatively new Brawl glitch involving Ness. It is tentatively named the HOPLEASE because it involves the failed retraction of Ness' large, throbbing cock.

They have made a proposed tier list, with video and commentary to support their decisions on the way.

They are preparing a new, definitive, theory on character comparisons. They hope to double-team a hobo in an experiment to confirm their suspicions.

Members

Aaron "Foghorn" Kirschner--Marth (SSBM), Kirby (SSBB)

Alex "Ax" Schumacher--Ice Climbers (SSBM), Pit (SSBB)

• SLAPAHO is looking to recruit new members in the Iowa City area, though their crew limit is 4. Any prospective players should contact them through their YouTube account or participate in the UISCS.

Former Members

C.J. "Palm Tree" Palmer--Ness

Dustin "Callista" Quam--Fox

Common Quotes

• You Dead!
• Here's a box!
• Baby, why you make me hit you?
• It's bomb time!
• I'm the Gingerbread Man!
• The Goombas can't see me!
• Camel!
• And now it's time for the cavemen...
• FISH!
• Let's get into this scat thing.

Trivia

• The name was taken from an opponents' wife.
• They record their videos via satellite uplink.
• No members of SLAPAHO are allowed to choose their gamer tags; they are given generally in ridicule by other members or even passersby.
• The clan tag (a set of characters after the gamer tag which identifies the clan, crew, or association of a player such as the famous multi-game clan 'Meet Your Makers' "MYM]") is {~XTRM}~. For example, Ax's full tag would be {~XTRM}~Ax. As can be seen, sometimes the tags can have nothing to due with the actual crew name and more to do with what Johnny Xtreme says.