Hax
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Character info
Melee main Fox
Other Melee character Captain Falcon
Project M mains Fox, Captain Falcon
Team info
Crew(s) VGBootCamp
Former crews CLASH Tournaments
Personal and other info
Real name Aziz Al-Yami
Birth date (age 30)
Location New York City, New York United States
Miscellaneous info
Skill Other Top professional
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Hax is a young smasher (he is, in fact, one of the youngest professionals ever) based in Manhattan. He used to solo main Captain Falcon with the pink palette swap (commonly known as Captain Fabulous), and is known for his crazy combos and unique playing style. He plays a conservative style with clever baits, which makes him arguably the strongest Captain Falcon versus Marth and Sheik. Hax is currently ranked 2nd on the Tristate Melee Power Rankings. He was considered the best Captain Falcon player in the world before switching to solo maining Fox.

He teamed with Hungrybox at GENESIS, where he was defeated by Armada and Aniolas in winners bracket. They rose through the losers bracket, but only reached 13th place. He reached 7th place in Melee singles among the greatest in all of America and talented players from Europe, Mexico, and Canada. He then reached 13th place at Pound 4, the second highest placed Captain Falcon at the tournament (with of course, the highest placed being SilentSpectre, who was considered the strongest Captain Falcon at the time). In Pound 4 doubles, he teamed with Darc and was rather successful.

At the largest Melee tournament yet, EVO 2013, he placed 9th out of a massive number of 709 entrants.

In addition to Super Smash Bros. Melee, Hax also plays the Pokémon TCG competitively, having topped the annual world's tournament multiple times in the game.

Notable tournament placings

 

Melee

Tournament Date 1v1 Placement 2v2 Placement Partner
Apex 2009 May 9th-10th, 2009 4th
GENESIS July 10th-12th, 2009 8th 13th Hungrybox
Pound 4 January 16th-18th, 2010 13th 4th Darc
Apex 2010 August 6th-8th, 2010 9th 4th Hungrybox
Pound V February 19th-21st, 2011 5th 3rd Hungrybox
Apex 2012 January 6th-8th, 2012 7th 5th Jman
Zenith 2012 May 26th-27th, 2012 5th 3rd Hungrybox
Apex 2013 January 11th-13th, 2013 7th 9th Westballz
Smashacre Rising April 6th, 2013 2nd 1st Mew2King
Zenith 2013 June 1st-2nd, 2012 6th 1st Mew2King
EVO 2013 July 12th-14th, 2013 9th 5th Jman
The Big House 3 October 12th-13th, 2013 5th 3rd Dr. PeePee
Sudden Death 14 October 19th, 2013 1st
No Johns Monthly January 4th, 2013 1st 1st Alukard
Apex 2014 January 17th-19th, 2014 17th 1st Mew2King
Revival of Melee 7 March 8th-9th, 2014 5th 1st Mew2King
The Next Episode March 22-23, 2014 7th 2nd SFAT
Civil War VI April 12th-13th, 2014 3rd
Bar Wars: The Region Strikes Back April 26, 2014 9th 2nd ChuDat
WHOBO MLG May 3rd-4th, 2014 2nd 1st Mango
Justice 3 May 24th, 2014 1st
SKTAR 3 May 31st-June 1st, 2014 5th 5th Westballz
MLG Anaheim 2014 June 20th-22nd, 2014 7th 5th Leffen
CEO 2014 June 27th-29th, 2014 5th Colbol

Project M

Tournament Date 1v1 Placement 2v2 Placement Partner
Sudden Death 14 October 19th, 2013 1st
Civil War VI April 12th-13th, 2014 9th
Bar Wars: The Region Strikes Back April 26, 2014 5th

Trivia

  • Although he is considered to be the best Captain Falcon in the world, he has recently picked up Fox and initially decided to begin solo maining him to someday become the best smasher, claiming that Captain Falcon was, and would be, too inherently weak as a character to consistently win with against other top professionals.
  • Hax has also popularized a "20XX" meme in the Smash community. 20XX describes a futuristic, potentially post-apocalyptic setting, where the metagame and technical skill of players have reached a point where they can no longer continue to improve. Accordingly, only Fox is viable, and as players are able to perfectly capitalise on every situation, matches are determined by a rock-paper-scissors match for port priority. The joke is often referenced on Fox mirror matches, as well as particularly impressive displays of tech skill by players. An example of this occurred at Apex 2014, when during Melee doubles there was a match during grand finals where all four players were playing Fox. The commentator, Prog, said "Are you aware of the year... 20XX?" During The Big House 3, Toph further elaborated on the joke:

Hax's thing is like, "The year is 20XX. Everyone plays Fox." And there's this whole post-apocalyptic universe that is built off of Fox being the only viable character left. Humanity has reached its pinnacle. The peasants are living in poverty. And there's these monasteries where these Fox monks just levitate and TAS Fox with one controller in one hand, and win a tournament with the other. And the tournament metagame has gotten to this point where everything is played out to theoretical perfection, so they Rock-Paper-Scissors for port priority, and that's the set. And everyone gets really excited about the port priority RPS, so RPS's metagame has really evolved to where it's really just like RPS tournaments are now. And then we have warriors like Kevin Toy and Europhoria desperately trying to prevent the apocalypse, the Fox Apocalypse, from happening with their Marths.

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