Team:Team Apex
Team' Apex, seen as Apex| in tournaments, is a crew and Tournament organization group based in the Tristate Area of the United States, created by Alex Strife and Crismas. The crew originally started to promote SSBB events, originally hosting the moderately small Apex 2009 event with Ally winning over Mew2King. Past 2009, they have progressively added other games, including SSBM and SSB64 in 2010. In 2012, they became part of the Road to EVO 2012. The crew, in short, has been a major contributor to the Smash scene in the Tristate Area as well as bringing smash brothers to a wider audience by getting sponsorships with Twitch and other major companies.
Sponsors and Partners
And various other sponsors such as Screw Attack and PlayAsia, as well as streamers such as VGBootCamp, CLASHTournaments, Bifuteki, 8WayRun, and Team Sp00ky for Apex/Zenith.
Major Members
Alex Strife 
(Chief Executive Officer, Sponsorship Manager, Qualifiers Manager)- Crismas
(Chief Executive Officer, Event Project Manager) - D1 (Chief Marketing Officer, Official Caster)
- Chibo (Chief Technology Officer, Streamer)
See http://www.apex-series.com/staff/ for the rest of the staff.
Hosted events
See Apex Series as well as Zenith 2013 and Zenith 2014
Controversies
More recently, for Apex 2015, there were 2 major controversies. In one, Project M was no longer given an official slot. It is hypothesized that the reasoning behind this is that Project M is a fan game and there might be copyright issues. It is also hypothesized that there is official Nintendo sponsorship, but this might not be true.
For the other, DMBrandon/Diem was given a chance to do commentary for top 8 in melee. For the later, due to various comments on Reddit, as well as Diem's own decision, he was instead replaced by Toph.
