Tournament:Epita Smash Arena

Epita Smash Arena
Dates	April 7th-8th, 2007
Venue	EPITA
Address/City	66 rue Guy Moquet Villejuif, France
Attendance	90+
Results
winners	Amsah 1v1  Amsah &  JD 2v2
Staff
Assisted by	SSBUP
Housing	Parisian players/venue

The Epita Smash Arena was a tournament presented in April 2007 in France by Poilon and the SSBUP, held within the Epita school.

Events and rules

ESA featured 2 main Smash tournaments:

• Saturday: Singles
• Sunday: Doubles

A crew battle pitting France against the Netherlands was also held.

Rules

Singles

• No items.
• 4 stocks.
• Stages allowed: Final Destination, Dream Land 64, Pokémon Stadium, Yoshi's Story, and Fountain of Dreams.
• Pools were best of 3.
• Results of pools determined the seeding of the bracket.
• Double Elimination Bracket was best of 3 for the beginning of the bracket.
• The rest of the bracket was best of 5.
• Finals were best of 7.
• Double blind pick was possible for the first match of a set.
• The stage for the first match of a set was random between Final Destination, Dream Land 64, and Pokémon Stadium.
• After the first match, loser picks the stage, then winner picks character, then loser picks character.
• Stalling was completely forbidden.

Doubles

• No items.
• 4 stocks.
• Stages allowed : Final Destination, Dream Land 64, Pokémon Stadium, and Yoshi's Story. No other stage is allowed.
• Double Elimination Bracket was best of 3 for the beginning of the bracket.
• The rest of the bracket was best of 5.
• The stage for the first match of a set was random between Final Destination, Dream Land 64, and Pokémon Stadium.
• After the first match, losers pick the stage, then winners pick characters, then losers pick characters.
• Life stealing was allowed.
• Team attack was ON.

Results

The exact results were lost, as well as the bracket. The only info remaining is the following ranking.

Singles

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Amsah
2nd	Clemj
3rd	Faab
4th	Nnja
5th	Doraki
5th	Poilon
7th	Makenshi
7th	JDFrance
9th	NGCXX
9th	Intart
9th	Agony
9th	Aska
13th	Zgetto
13th	Koh
13th	niam
13th	Ryuker
17th	Adam
17th	Seb33300
17th	Fatality-CC
17th	Vargas
17th	Kurisu
17th	Darkluigi
17th	Saviour
17th	CM
25th	Gabz
25th	Baxon
25th	Infernum
25th	pq3000
25th	Qlex
25th	Marc
25th	4ever
25th	Shadow
33rd	Leon
33rd	Slhoka
33rd	Venom
33rd	Vincs
33rd	Puma
33rd	Zoto
33rd	Quentin
33rd	Waxon
33rd	Drako
33rd	bGin
33rd	SETTLERMAN6
33rd	Gorn
33rd	sat
33rd	Nardine
33rd	Lguy
33rd	bossofsmash

Reception

ESA was well-received by most smashers who attending the event, due to its excellent organization compared to previous tournaments; some players even consider ESA as the best European tournament in competitive Melee history. This extreme popularity caused its sequel, Epita Smash Arena 2, to receive 231 entrants, making it the largest Melee tournament ever hosted in Europe. Reception to this tournament, however, was not as positive as the initial installment. Three more "sequels" to the event were later hosted, though none attained the number of entrants as ESA or its immediate successor.