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Tournament:Zero Challenge 2

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Zero Challenge 2
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Dates August 15th-17th, 2006
Venue David L. Baker Memorial Golf Center
Address/City 10410 Edinger Avenue,
Fountain Valley, California USA
Attendance 200+
Results
Super Smash Bros. Melee winners USA Ken 1v1
USA Isai & Japan Captain Jack 2v2
Staff
Assisted by Nealdt, Champ, Azn Lep

Zero Challenge 2 (abbreviated as 0C2 or OC2) was a Super Smash Bros. Melee national tournament held by the professional Smash crew Socal Elite 4 in August 2006. The tournament was held in the recreation room of the David L. Baker Memorial Golf Center in Fountain Valley, California, and advertisements included the line "experience the best Smash talent ever aligned at one tournament...including the very best of Japan, Europe, and the rest of the international community."

The tournament received a very high attendance: 192 singles entrants, 98 doubles teams, 38 crews, and 7 international crews.

Events

Zero Challenge 2 featured four main Smash tournaments. The first day's event focused on teams and crews, the second day focuses on international crew battles and the first two pools of singles. The third and final day focused on the continuation of singles matches.

Rules

Brackets

  • Singles: Players were randomly assigned into 32 pools. Each entrant played round-robin matches against all other players in their pool. The three players with the best record in each pool advanced to a second set of pools. The top four players in the second pool advanced the 64-player bracket.
  • Doubles: All entered teams were placed directly into a very large 98-entrant bracket.

Controller ports

  • Any disagreements over controller port assignments were settled by coin toss.
  • Teams were to use adjacent port numbers (one team on ports 1 and 2, and the other team on ports 3 and 4).

Character selection

  • Advanced slob picks were in effect.
  • All sets were best out of 3, with finals best of 5.
  • Players could call a double-blind pick for the first game of a set.

Stages

Starter Counterpick
Final Destination Fountain of Dreams
Pokémon Stadium Yoshi's Story
Dream Land Battlefield
  • All other stages are banned. This was a compromise with the Japanese smashers, who usually only play on Final Destination and Dream Land.
  • Players were not allowed to ban stages, and the starter stages were chosen randomly.

Staff

Zero Challenge 2 was organized by a team of smashers from or otherwise associated with the Socal Elite 4.

Directors

Producers

Production assistants

Results

Singles

(192 entrants)
Bracket

Place Name Character(s) Earnings
1st   Ken   ~$1,200
2nd   ChuDat   ?
3rd   Mew2King   ?
4th   KoreanDJ   ?
5th   Shu   ?
5th   Hoshino Kirby    ?
7th   Kei   
7th   Captain Jack  
9th   Rob$  
9th   DieSuperFly  
9th   The King  
9th   PC Chris  
13th   Cort  
13th   Sastopher  
13th   Omar  
13th   Forward  
17th   HugS  
17th   Chesterr01  
17th   Hiko  
17th   Manacloud  
17th   Hayato  
17th   The GERM  
17th   FalseFalco  
17th   SOS  
25th   Zelgadis  
25th   Trevyn  
25th   Taj   
25th   PKMVodka  
25th   Blair  
25th   Helios   
25th   Lunaris  
25th   Hitsugaya  

Doubles

(98 teams)
Bracket

Place Name Character(s) Name Character(s) Earnings
1st   Isai     Captain Jack   $1,200 ($600 each)
2nd   Manacloud      ChuDat   ?
3rd   Hoshino Kirby     Kei   ?
4th   Mew2King     KoreanDJ   ?
5th   Sastopher     Blair   ?
5th   HugS     Omar   ?
7th   Ken     Rob$  
7th   Taj      Forward   
9th   Shu     Hiko  
9th   DieSuperFly     Bob$  
9th   KillaOR     Cort   
9th   The King     The GERM  

International crews

Bracket
1. West Coast
2. Japan
3. East Coast (The Pilgrims)
4. O Canada
5. South
5. PAL
7. Midwest

Gallery

External links