Rocky continued his streak of solid netplay performances at Rona Rumble: West Coast VIII. He beat Salam “salami” Habib, Ryan “Traplord” Willard, Michael “Nintendude” Brancato, and SFAT to reach Winners Finals. Biography []. We and our partners use cookies on this site to improve our service, perform analytics, personalize advertising, measure advertising performance, and remember website preferences. Johnny “S2J” Kim won Super Smash Bros. Melee Singles at Rona Rumble: West Coast VIII on May 8. Slippi is just about taking Super Smash Bros. Melee into another dimension. The Champions Tekken 7 tournament, Capcom Pro Tour Online South America 2: What you need to know, Tekken 7 Online Challenge US East: All you need to know, Street Fighter League US: Multiple player replacements take place, Dragon Ball FighterZ: Wawa and AS Monaco part ways, Street Fighter V: Red Bull Double KO: The Champions Details, All you need to know about Tekken 7 Online Challenge: Korea, Daigo Umehara to receive Esports Awards Lifetime Achievement award, Street Fighter League Season 3 revealed during SFV Summer Update, SoulCalibur Online Challenge: Schedule for the upcoming year, All weapons in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, FFXIV Fashion Report Guide and Rewards, Week of September 25, Fortnite Season 4 Gnome Secret Challenges: The GNOM Talk, Smash Bros.

Johnny “S2J” Kim has joined beastcoast as the organization’s latest Super Smash Bros. Melee player.He is the fourth Smasher to join beastcoast, following Ramin “Mr. Ultimate is now the third best-selling game in the Switch store. He dropped his first game of the tournament in Winners Quarters to Juan “Medz” Garcia. Schedule, dates, times, streams, and results — here's all you need to know about the CLG MIXUP tournament taking place this weekend, where both grand finalists will earn tickets to the Slippi Champions League. He placed 17th, losing to Nintendude and Axe.

S2J wins Smash Melee Singles at Rona Rumble: West Coast VIII. While it has been recently getting better, he is still known to make poor decisions and sometimes even self-destructing by just attempting to edgeguard like at Apex 2015 against PPMD and at The Big House 5 against Abate. 16 invited players will … He has had many impressive tournament performances, finishing 4th at DreamHack Austin 2016, Full Bloom 4, WTFox 2, Smash Summit 7, and Get On My Level 2019, 3rd at Enthusiast Gaming Live Expo 2018, 2nd at Smash Rivalries and DreamHack Winter 2017, and 1st at OpTic Arena and Smash 'N' Splash 5. He reached Grand Finals on winners side after earning 3-0 victories over both Luis “Smashdaddy” Rangel and Kristian “Rocky” Cruz.

The two highest placing players not already invited to the Slippi Champions League will be invited as the final two players in Division 2 of the League. Zaid “Spark” Ali has generally performed well in online Super Smash Bros. Melee tournaments since the beginning of the pandemic. R” Delshad, Michael “MikeHaze” Pulido, and Phil “EE” Visu.. He dropped his first game of the tournament in Winners Quarters to Juan “Medz” Garcia. Those plans were cancelled because of the overcrowding of events in the summer of 2014 as … He beat Salam “salami” Habib, Ryan “Traplord” Willard, Michael “Nintendude” Brancato, and SFAT to reach Winners Finals.

GENESIS 3 is the third installment in the GENESIS series. Nevertheless, S2J defeated Medz 3-1 and advanced into top 8 on winners side. He reached Grand Finals on winners side after earning 3-0 victories over both Luis “Smashdaddy” Rangel and Kristian “Rocky” Cruz.

The top four in Division 2 will advance to this Division 1 relegation series, while the bottom 4 will have to play relegation matches against the winners of open bracket qualifiers to stay in the league. Even for a player of his caliber, S2J has an excellent neutral game, using a combination of precise wave-dashing and dash-dancing to perfectly space his attacks.

As a result, homemadewaffles established an online tournament for the South, with these players providing monetary prizes. Rona Rumble: South was born out of a controversy where multiple Southern players entered a West Coast tournament under a single false name. Ultimate reaches the 20 million mark in sales.

Invited players for Division 1: Mango (C9), Hungrybox (Team Liquid), Zain (Golden Guardians), Wizzrobe (Team Envy), iBDW (Panda Global), Plup (Panda Global), n0ne (UYU) and Axe (Tempo Storm).

Traplord and Jason “CrossFitJesus” Fagundes both scored many upsets in order to reach top 8. I'm trying to think of a video to show my friends who play ultimate why melee is so popular and why I think it's a better fighting game.

Throughout the whole tournament, no opponent was able to take more than one game off of S2J.

Even for a player of his caliber, S2J has an excellent neutral game, using a combination of precise wave-dashing and dash-dancing to perfectly space his attacks. He is known for his high risk-high reward gameplay.

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Rona Rumble: South was born out of a controversy where multiple Southern players entered a West Coast tournament under a single false name. Then S2J beat Zachary “SFAT” Cordoni 3-1 to win the whole event.

A few hours before the beginning of Rona Rumble: West Coast VIII, Brandon “homemadewaffles” Collier launched Rona Rumble: South. All rights reserved. Nevertheless, S2J defeated Medz 3-1 and advanced into top 8 on winners side.

Abate is a smasher from Pittsburgh and originally from New Jersey who mains Luigi in Melee.Originally a Falco player, he began using Luigi when he counterpicked him against Forward.After taking inspiration from fellow Pittsburgh Luigi player, Vudujin, he has made Luigi his main character.

CrossFitJesus beat Weston “Westballz” Dennis, Christian “Kürv” Melendez, and Isaac “NOOT” Blake en route to 7th place. A few hours before the beginning of Rona Rumble: West Coast VIII, Brandon “homemadewaffles” Collier launched Rona Rumble: South.

In his interview with Tempo Storm, S2J said he attended UCLA, and that's where he became seriously interested in Melee. However, Spark underperformed a bit at Rona Rumble: West Coast VIII.

He is a gaming journalist with a love for Nintendo esports, including Smash Bros., Splatoon, ARMS, and Pokémon.

Everything started when FIZZI#36, a software/computer engineer, created a Melee emulator that runs on PC, with integrated matchmaking, replays, and rollback netcode.

Home » eSports » S2J wins Smash Melee Singles at Rona Rumble: West Coast VIII. He placed 17th, losing to Nintendude and Axe.

From SmashWiki, the Super Smash Bros. wiki, Wednesday Night Fights 2016 New Years Week Edition, Wednesday Night Fights 2017 Offseason 1.1, Wednesday Night Fights 2017 Offseason 1.6, https://www.ssbwiki.com/index.php?title=Smasher:S2J&oldid=1474800, According to his ask.fm, S2J quit his job to play. S2J started his run in pools with predictable 2-0 victories over Tristan “Mustache Massacre ” Hoefer and Brandon “Panda” Orooji. 16 invited players will compete across four weeks to identify the true champion of Melee.

Everything started when FIZZI#36, a software/computer engineer, created a Melee emulator that runs on PC, with integrated matchmaking, replays, and rollback netcode.

The Melee Games Season 4 finals took place at this event.

He said that this is the main reason that he hasn't reached the top 10 spots on the yearly SSBMRank, particularly the 6th-10th spots. Dylan Tate is a student in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Throughout the whole tournament, no opponent was able to take more than one game off of S2J. Traplord beat Jeffrey “Axe” Williamson, Medz, and CrossFitJesus en route to 5th place. Edit: removed the word 'objectively' lol He was the first Captain Falcon main to reach top 8 at EVO, doing so at. Tournament organizer Beyond the Smash has collaborated with FIZZI#36 to run a Melee championship during the pandemic. He is also one of the best defensive Falcons with good smash DI and mix-ups with Falcon's otherwise poor recovery. As a result, homemadewaffles established an online tournament for the South, with these players providing monetary prizes. Zaid “Spark” Ali has generally performed well in online Super Smash Bros. Melee tournaments since the beginning of the pandemic. In order to compile the ranking, top level players, tournament organizers, commentators, and figureheads are asked to rate players on a scale from 1 to 10.

Dylan also writes Nintendo news articles for Nintendo Enthusiast. Traplord beat Jeffrey “Axe” Williamson, Medz, and CrossFitJesus en route to 5th place.

There will two divisions, and each week 19 matches will be played.

Justin “Plup” McGrath, Forrest Griffin, Colbol, and Krudo disrupted the bracket by taking turns playing on this “smurf” account. Johnny “S2J” Kim has joined beastcoast as the organization’s latest Super Smash Bros. Melee player.He is the fourth Smasher to join beastcoast, following Ramin “Mr.

[2] On January 18th, 2019 he joined Halocline Gaming,[3] but left later that year on November 25th.

Despite being one of the best Captain Falcon players, he hates Falcon dittos. with these players providing monetary prizes.

Rocky finished in 3rd after losing to S2J and SFAT.

S2J started his run in pools with predictable 2-0 victories over Tristan “Mustache Massacre” Hoefer and Brandon “Panda” Orooji.

Colin “Colbol” Green placed 1st at this inaugural event. He is also one of the best defensive Falcons with good smash DI and mix-ups with Falcon's otherwise poor recovery.

Beginning of dialog window. After a spectacular launch in December 2018, Super Smash Bros. Tournament organizer Beyond the Smash has collaborated with FIZZI#36 to run a Melee championship during the pandemic. The esports team announced that S2J would join its ranks in a tweet and video from the beastcoast Twitter account. This page was last edited on September 15, 2020, at 23:43. The top four in Division 1 will stay in the division, with the bottom four playing a relegation series. Throughout the whole tournament, no opponent was able to take more than one game off of S2J. Rocky continued his streak of solid netplay performances at Rona Rumble: West Coast VIII.

Colbol defeated Gregory “Captain G” Aguila, Matthew “MT” Chan, Jason “Gahtzu” Diehl, Albert Luu, and Kyle Krudo. Justin “Plup” McGrath, Forrest Griffin, Colbol, and Krudo disrupted the bracket by taking turns playing on this “smurf” account.

Then S2J beat Zachary “SFAT” Cordoni 3-1 to win the whole event.

Location: Online, limited to USA, Mexico, Canada, Format: Double-elimination tournament, FT2 (BO3) except the Finals, which are played FT3 (BO5). CrossFitJesus beat Weston “Westballz” Dennis, Christian “Kürv” Melendez, and Isaac “NOOT” Blake en route to 7th place. S2J (an abbreviation for Smoke2Jointz) is a Melee Captain Falcon professional who is considered to be the one of the three best Falcon players in the world, along with Wizzrobe and n0ne.

He is currently ranked 5th on the SoCal Melee Power Rankings and 11th on the 2019 MPGR.