Tournament:Apex 2015

Apex 2015
Dates	January 30th-February 1st, 2015
Venue	Garden State Convention Center
Address/City	50 Atrium Drive Somerset, New Jersey
Attendance	1,600+
Entry fees	Smash 64 singles: $10 Smash 64 doubles: $10 per person Melee singles: $15 Melee doubles: $10 per person Brawl singles: $10 Brawl doubles: $10 per person Smash Wii U singles: $15 Smash Wii U doubles: $10 per person
Pot size(s)	SSB64 singles: $2,129 Melee singles: $18,070 Brawl singles: $1,960 Smash Wii U singles: $15,055
Results
winners	SuPeRbOoMfAn 1v1  JaimeHR &  SuPeRbOoMfAn 2v2
winners	PPMD 1v1  Hungrybox &  Mew2King 2v2
winners	Ally 1v1  Nairo &  Ally 2v2
winners	ZeRo 1v1  Mew2King &  ZeRo 2v2

Apex 2015 was the sixth tournament in the Apex series of tournaments, directed by Team Apex, and held from January 30th-February 1st, 2015, at the Garden State Convention Center in Somerset, New Jersey. Like previous tournaments of the series, Apex 2015 hosted a variety of fighting games, including singles and doubles events for Super Smash Bros., Melee, Brawl, and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. The tournament was the largest Melee tournament of all time, with over 1,024 unique entrants (breaking the previous record of 970 entrants set by EVO 2014), and the largest Smash 4 tournament of all time, with over 800 unique entrants.

Apex 2015 was officially sponsored by Nintendo of America. Among the results of this sponsorship were a lounge where attendees could play a demo version of Splatoon; additionally, Nintendo and ScrewAttack provided a second livestream for the last day of the tournament designed to be clearer for newcomers to competitive Smash. An apparent side effect of the partnership was the absence of Project M from the tournament's game lineup.

The tournament was originally slated to take place at the Clarion Hotel Empire Meadowlands in Secaucus, New Jersey. As the tournament was set to begin, a fire alarm was set off. While the alarm was false, the responding police and fire marshals realized that the venue was unsafe and lacked permits, and subsequently shut down and evacuated the event. After several hours, an alternative venue was found. As players and equipment had to be transported to the new venue, the tournament lost all of Friday and events began on Saturday.

PPMD, despite being relatively inactive in the Melee tournament scene over the previous months, was able to defeat Leffen in winners' finals and Armada in grand finals to take the Melee tournament for the second year in a row. After Leffen defeated Chillin 5-0 in a match during VGBootCamp's Salty Suite (with the loser being prohibited from using Fox's default color costume in tournament matches), Mango challenged Leffen to a $1,000 match if they faced each other in bracket; the two eventually fought in winners' semis, which Leffen won 3-1. aMSa managed to place 5th in the tournament using Yoshi, defeating Fly Amanita, Zhu, Lucky, SFAT, and KirbyKaze, before being eliminated by Mango in losers' quarters in a 2-3 set. Hax was notably disqualified from Melee singles after he did not show up to the venue (likely due to a hand injury), placing only 33rd.

List of games

• Super Smash Bros.
• Super Smash Bros. Melee
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
• Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire
• Ultra Street Fighter IV
• Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
• Killer Instinct
• Guilty Gear Xrd

2014-2015 Apex World Circuit

The 2014-2015 Apex World Circuit was a series of fourteen qualifiers for the Melee singles tournament at Apex 2015. Each qualifier featured a $1,000 prize bonus and complimentary flight and hotel for each of the winners, provided by sponsorship from Twitch.

The Apex World Circuit's qualifiers are as follows:

• Tipped Off 10 - September 20th-21st, 2014 in Doraville, Georgia
• Justice 4 - October 11th, 2014 in Scarsdale, New York
• Do You Fox Wit It? - November 15th-16th, 2014 in Oakland, California
• KTAR XI - November 22nd, 2014 in Somerset, New Jersey
• BUST - November 22nd, 2014 in Boston, Massachusetts
• The Come Up - December 6th-7th, 2014 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Super Smash Sundays 29 - December 7th, 2014 in Walnut, California
• Battle Gate Way 6 - December 13th-14th, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan
• Pacific Northwest Regional - December 20th-21st, 2014 in Des Moines, Washington
• Forte 2 - December 20th-21st, 2014 in Austin, Texas
• Super Smash Sundays 30 - December 21st, 2014 in Walnut, California
• SWEET Prologue - January 3rd-4th, 2015 in Ann Arbor, Michigan
• B.E.A.S.T 5 - January 9th-11th, 2015 in Gothenburg, Sweden
• Paragon 2015 - January 17th-18th, 2015 in Orlando, Florida

The following players qualified for the final Top 48 Melee bracket:

• Mew2King
• Armada
• Hungrybox
• Lucky
• Westballz
• KirbyKaze
• Hax
• HugS
• SFAT
• DJ Nintendo
• Silent Wolf
• Leffen
• Axe
• Wizzrobe
• Duck
• Shroomed

Results

Smash 64 singles

(187 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	SuPeRbOoMfAn		$852
2nd	tacos		$426
3rd	Wizzrobe		$319
4th	Mariguas		$212
5th	KeroKeroppi		$107
5th	Blue Suit		$107
7th	Fireblaster		$53
7th	Dext3r		$53
9th	Banze
9th	Cabelo
9th	Star King
9th	The Z
13th	clubbadubba
13th	Killer
13th	Revan
13th	Stranded

Smash 64 doubles

(42 teams)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	JaimeHR		SuPeRbOoMfAn		$164 ($82 each)
2nd	The Z		tacos		$102 ($51 each)
3rd	Star King		Killer		$61 ($30.50 each)
4th	Dext3r		Wizzrobe		$41 ($20.50 each)
5th	Banze		Cabelo		$21 ($10.50 each)
5th	Firo		Nintendude		$21 ($10.50 each)
7th	Jimmy Joe		clubbadubba
7th	Shalaka		Mariguas

Melee singles

(1,024 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	PPMD		$7,228
2nd	Armada		$3,614
3rd	Leffen		$2,711
4th	Mango		$1,807
5th	Hungrybox		$903
5th	aMSa		$903
7th	KirbyKaze		$452
7th	Shroomed		$452
9th	Nintendude
9th	PewPewU
9th	SFAT
9th	Mew2King
13th	Ice
13th	Lucky
13th	Axe
13th	The Moon
17th	Swedish Delight
17th	Cactuar
17th	Colbol
17th	Fly Amanita
17th	Silent Wolf
17th	MacD
17th	S2J
17th	Zhu
25th	Bladewise
25th	ChuDat
25th	DJ Nintendo
25th	HugS
25th	Kalamazhu
25th	DEHF
25th	Slox
25th	Eddy Mexico
33rd	C!Z
33rd	Wizzrobe
33rd	Drephen
33rd	Duck
33rd	Fiction
33rd	Wobbles
33rd	KJH
33rd	Chillin
33rd	KoreanDJ
33rd	Redd
33rd	SwiftBass
33rd	Tafokints
33rd	th0rn
33rd	Hax (DQ)
33rd	Blea Gelo
33rd	Westballz

Melee doubles

(264 teams)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Mew2King		Hungrybox		$1,056 ($528 each)
2nd	Armada		Android		$528 ($264 each)
3rd	Ice		Leffen		$396 ($198 each)
4th	Chillin		ChuDat		$264 ($132 each)
5th	Mango		Lucky		$132 ($66 each)
5th	PewPewU		SFAT		$132 ($66 each)
7th	Alan		HomeMadeWaffles		$66 ($33 each)
7th	MacD		Fiction		$66 ($33 each)
9th	Professor Pro		Fuzzyness
9th	Shroomed (DQ)		S2J (DQ)
9th	s0ft		Flow
9th	Vish		Bladewise
13th	Colbol		Plup
13th	Gahtzu		Wizzrobe
13th	Kuja		Dev
13th	ZoSo		th0rn

Brawl singles

(176 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Ally		$784
2nd	Nairo		$392
3rd	MVD		$294
4th	Salem		$196
5th	V115		$98
5th	Vinnie		$98
7th	cyve		$49
7th	Shimitake		$49
9th	Chris Fisch
9th	LOE1
9th	Mr. R
9th	Player-1
13th	Alphicans
13th	Eddy
13th	K9
13th	Toronto Joe

Brawl doubles

(31 teams)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Nairo		Ally		$162 ($81 each)
2nd	Salem		Mew2King		$102 ($51 each)
3rd	Seibrik		MVD		$61 ($30.50 each)
4th	MJG		FOW		$41 ($20.50 each)
5th	ChuDat		Chibo		$21 ($10.50 each)
5th	Shaky		V115		$21 ($10.50 each)
7th	Player-1		DRN
7th	Zinoto		LOE1
9th	Firefly		Alphicans
9th	Ralph Cecil		Mister Eric
9th	ScaryLB59		GDX
9th	Xaltis		8Bitman

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U singles

(839 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	ZeRo		$6,022
2nd	Dabuz		$3,011
3rd	Mr. R		$2,258
4th	6WX		$1,506
5th	Nietono		$753
5th	Mew2King		$753
7th	Abadango		$376
7th	MVD		$376
9th	AeroLink
9th	Nakat
9th	Nairo
9th	aMSa
13th	Ally
13th	Jtails
13th	False
13th	NinjaLink

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U doubles

(181 teams)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Mew2King		ZeRo		$716 ($358 each)
2nd	MJG		FOW		$358 ($179 each)
3rd	Mr. R		Cyve		$269 ($134.50 each)
4th	Nietono		Choco		$179 ($89.50 each)
5th	Ally		Boss		$89 ($44.50 each)
5th	Nakat		False		$89 ($44.50 each)
7th	Tyrant		Nairo		$45 ($22.50 each)
7th	Dabuz		Denti		$45 ($22.50 each)
9th	ScaryLB59		6WX
9th	PB&J		Dark Wizzy
9th	Static Manny		Phuzix
9th	Zucco		Koolaid

Salty Suite

The Salty Suite was run by VGBootCamp during the after hours of Saturday, and featured various money matches and other exhibition sets.

Winner	Character(s)	Loser	Character(s)	Score	Amount
Bizzarro Flame		Eikelmann*		3-0
Westballz		Colbol		3-0
Axe		Silent Wolf		3-1
PC Chris		Ken		3-2
Leffen		Chillin		5-0	$100 + rights to Fox's default costume

*Eikelmann was a replacement for Kage the Warrior, who had become very ill prior to the tournament.

External links

• SWF thread
• Official website
• 2014-2015 Apex World Circuit announcement
• Official trailer