The Smash Summit

So for any readers who do follow super smash brothers you know that the big thing that everyone is talking about right now is the smash summit, in terms of smash this is really a one of a kind event. Smash tournaments are usually open to everyone, no matter how big they are or what the status of it is. Evo for example is the world’s largest fighting game tournament that happens every year out of Las Vegas. Even with all of its prestige, anyone can sign up to play at Evo. The smash summit however is a little bit different, the organizers of this event invited 10 of the world’s best smash players to compete at this event, in addition to those 10 players 6 more will be able to attend this event, and these 6 however get voted in by the fans. Now before I talk about who I want to see make it into the summit I want to name off the players that were invited. 5 of the top 6 are going with the exception of HungryBox, I believe he was invited but had to decline for conflicts with the real world. So that means we will be seeing Armada, Mango, Mew2king, Leffen, and surprisingly PPMD. For those who don’t know PPMD doesn’t go to very many events these days as he has been struggling with illness and depression, my hopes go out to him for a full recovery. So because of this it makes me very happy as a big PPMD fan to see him attending this event. The other 5 players that were invited were PewPewU, Axe, Westballz, Plup and Lucky. So those are the faces you can expect to see at the summit. On to the voting aspect. So I have a few gripes with this one, so currently there are 2 players who were in the voting process that are already guaranteed a spot at the summit, these players being Kage (pronounced Ka-gay for those who don’t know) and Alex19. This is where my issues start. I understand this is a vote to give all the players an equal chance to get in however I sometimes cannot understand the thought process of other smash bros fans. I don’t have a problem with Kage what I do have a problem with is alex19. Now before I go on my rant let me just say that I have no problems with alex19 as a player, person, or even personally, I’m happy for him that he got this opportunity. I personally just don’t think he deserves this chance. To elaborate I just don’t see what’s so special about him, he’s a friend of Mango and Lucky, cool, but he really has no accomplishments to speak of, he’s not that well known and truthfully I don’t think he’s that good, at least in comparison to everyone else who was in contention to go and especially compared to the 10 invited players. I just feel there are more worthy players out there such as Ice and Wizzrobe who both got eliminated. I don’t know what the fans see in him or what they expect out of him when the summit rolls around. That’s my main gripe with this whole thing but anyway onto who I want to see make it in to the summit. Luckily for me my top 2 picks for the summit since the day the voting started are still in contention to make it. Let’s talk about my first pick Sephirothken or just Ken, or as he has been known for the past 2 years Liquid Ken, Team liquid being his sponsor. So I want to see Ken go for a couple reasons. Ken is known as the “King of smash” he received this title because back in the early days of competitive smash, way before brawl and smash 4 even existed he dominated the scene, he was the undisputed best in the world at this game for so many years, and since I found competitive smash back in 2006 I have always been a Ken fan. Now while he still holds the title “King of smash” he’s not the best in the world anymore, his last active year of competitive play was 2007 where he essentially left the smash community to handle real life before finally making a rather surprising return 2012. Since his return he has been making many strides yet again in smash and even surprising a lot of people by placing 13^th at Evo 2015 despite the meta-game changing so drastically in his absence. Of anyone that was in contention to be voted into the smash summit I think Ken deserves it more than all of them and I would be thrilled to see him go. The other player I want to see make it into the summit is Druggedfox, Druggedfox has been around for a while but has recently having some huge breakout performances such as almost taking out Leffen at Evo 2015 and even defeating Mango at HTC Throwdown. He’s a very skilled reactionary player and as of late I have become a big fan of his. I think making it to the smash summit would be a great opportunity for him, not only because of the experience he’ll get but also to show how much improvement he has been making. I hope some of you out there share my views on who should make it into the smash summit, don’t forget to vote! The voting ends in just 2 days!