Festivus_2023_ssbm_final_packet

Super Smash Brothers Melee for the Nintendo GameCube Packet by Anderson Wang and [redacted] 0. For 10 points, beat me in Melee . 1. The only moves in Melee that have hitboxes on the first frame are Fox and Falco’s shine, Jigglypuff’s rest, and this character’s up-B. A uniquely weird interaction is that Dr. Mario’s down throw on this character either bounces them into the air or leaves them on the ground depending on who has the higher port. Due to a programming error, this character’s neutral, up, and back aerials are the only aerials in the game that can’t be (*) L-cancelled. This character can be unlocked after playing 1000 versus matches, the highest of any character. In All-Star Mode, the order of all characters fought is randomized except for this one, who is always fought last; during that fight, you need to defeat a team of 25 of this character on their home stage, which is the screen of a handheld console. For 10 points, name this Melee character who uniquely looks two-dimensional. ANSWER: Mr. Game & Watch 2. When I went to CTY summer camp, this person invented a dance set to the Dr. Mario “Fever” track, and a video of this person doing that dance later became a minor YouTube hit. A Netplay combo video by this person is subtitled “The NTSC Special”, because their character’s weak up-B semi-spikes only on NTSC. This person created the infamous Super Mario Maker level “P is for Pain”. As a speedrunner, this person has long had the world record for Any% and All Melons in Yoshi’s Story . This mostly-retired Link main had a funny set with Mew2King at KTAR 7 and originally used the tag (*) Internet Explorer. This person created the now-ubiquitous mod 20XX Tournament Edition . In the credits of a game developed by this person, all of its files are seemingly deleted while playing the song “Your Reality”. For 10 points, a “Team” named for what person developed the game Doki Doki Literature Club ? ANSWER: Dan Salvato [accept Internet Explorer before read] Note to players: Just to be clear, the answer is a tournament series, not a single tournament. 3. At a tournament in this series, the TO supposedly asked hotel staff to lower the temperature to get competitors to buy more sweatshirts. Windrose entered a tournament in this series with the tag “I never thought a tag could be as long as this but here I am at [this tournament] even though I am unemployed”. At that tournament in this series, the organizers seeded Leffen to play Leffen’s Ego and Scar to play Mufasa in round 1 pools. The regional tournament series SWEET takes place in the same area as this tournament and has the same main TO. This was the last major tournament series to unban (*) wobbling following Evo 2013’s decision to do so, largely because its TO has always been one of the biggest voices against legalizing wobbling. For 10 points, name this annual Michigan tournament hosted by Juggleguy, which shares its name with UMich’s extremely large football stadium. ANSWER: The Big House [or TBH ] Note to players: By “character”, we mean something you can type on your keyboard, not a Melee character. 4. At a 2013 New York local, Leffen bustered out by losing to MattDotZeb in losers and a player whose tag ends with this character in winners. At the Big House this year, two players with this character in their tag met in round 2 pools, so they decided the winner would steal this character from the loser’s tag. This is the last character in the tag of a former Dr. Mario player who made the 2006 combo video “Overdose” and once had a money match with Scar over having the same first name. From 2016 to 2018, the best player in North Carolina was a Falcon whose tag was this character followed by the name (*) “mike”. This symbol appears in the tag of the player who was on the receiving end of Mango walking up slowly and downsmashing. For 10 points, name this symbol in a bunch of tags which is usually pronounced “money”. ANSWER: dollar sign [accept money before end of last clue] (In order, the players are G$, Egg$ and Mot$ [who are now known as Egg$$ and Mot], Bob$, $mike, and Hax$.)

5. A player from this country won the MIOM combo contest for which the scumbag MagicScrumpy also submitted his video “600 Hours”, which was discovered to be TAS. That winning combo video, “Don’t sleep on the Link!”, was made by Bou, who is from this country. At the end of a video, two Foxes from this country combo a poor Ganon by shining and lasering him back and forth up to 220 percent, followed by simultaneous up-smashes. In 2022, a player from this country became the only Young Link main to make top 100 in SSBMRank. The YouTube video “How Fast is Melee?” displays the button presses of a technical combo by a player from this country. The legendary 10-minute combo video (*) “AriqueNuubs” (“ah-REE-kay noobs”) was made by players from this country, whose top players today include Raikin, Rocket, and Chape (“CHA-pay”). For 10 points, name this South American country home to the creator of the combo video “Perfect Dark”. ANSWER: Chile (Author’s note: In addition to cheating on that combo contest, MagicScrumpy also submitted a TAS run of Super Mario Bros. to speedrun.com and plagiarized the Melee SD Remix mod to make his own mods.) 6. DontTestMe lost to an Ice Climbers player whose tag mentions this product in the grand finals of the smurf tournament at Smash Summit 10. One of the many disasters during MLG Anaheim 2014 was an ad for this product featuring Blake Shelton being played constantly on stream, including during gameplay. In another ad for this product set in a garage, people like Aiden, HugS, and Joshman all move in slow motion as The Cheat arrives with this product. At Smash Summit 2, right after Mango suddenly brought it back to beat Plup game 5 last stock, the camera panned around the room showing multiple shocked spectators holding this product. Several memed clips show (*) Axe holding this product, which is why the website “axe dot [this word]” redirects to his Twitch stream. The name of the Wombo Combo was originally taken from one of these products sold by the chain Round Table. For 10 points, name this food sold by a company that sponsored a bunch of Melee tournaments in 2022, Papa John’s. ANSWER: pizza [accept specific kinds or brands of pizza] 7. This character, who does not appear in the original Super Smash Bros. , shares a voice actor with the announcer of Super Smash Bros. Melee , Dean Harrington. This character’s trophy describes them as “impulsive and destructive, consumed with that hollow feeling which comes from destroying one's own creations.” A Japanese major that was held annually from 2015 to 2018 and featured an East vs. West Japan crew battle is named for this character. This character also names a now-mostly-dead subreddit dedicated to improving at Smash. This character’s pummel applies a (*) flower to the hit character. Moves unique to this character include one in which they hover above the ground and drop bombs, and another where they crawl across the stage like a spider. For 10 points, name this boss character who can appear at the end of Classic Mode halfway through the fight with their “Master” counterpart. ANSWER: Crazy Hand [reject “Master Hand”] (In every Smash game, the announcer has also voiced Master and Crazy Hand.) 8. One of this person’s most prized possessions is a dollar bill signed by the west coast team at the MELEE-FC3 crew battle. For a period of time, Zain’s stream donation sound effect was a clip of Zain impersonating this person saying “your money, boss.” This person theorized a rock-paper-scissors scenario sometimes summarized as “computer cucumber fire” in explaining why Azen, KoreanDJ, and Mew2King would beat each other. This person said “I am the Marth slayer. I don’t lose to Marth” while recounting their narrow 3-2 loss to Ken at MLG Atlanta 2005. In an autobiographical book, this person recounted the murder of a childhood friend, who gave his name to this person’s crew Team (*) Ben. In the first and last episodes of the Smash documentary, this person asks “You want me to wrap up Smash, like, as a whole? The whole thing?” For 10 points, name this player who formed a doubles team with his friend Husband. ANSWER: Wife [accept Christopher Fabiszak ]

13. A player whose tag begins with this word captained an all-Samus crew to 5th place at Shine 2018. This is the first word in the tag of a player who narrowly lost a set to Jman at Event 52 after some controversy due to confusion over who paused the game at the end. Pipsqueak was upset in round 1 pools at Lost Tech City 2022 by a player named “[this word] Hero”, sparking debate over the Frame 1 controller. A player whose tag is a homophone of this word got 2nd in doubles at GENESIS 1 teaming with Scar, while a player whose tag begins with this word got 2nd in doubles at GENESIS 8 teaming with (*) Ralph. S2J, Isai, and a Midwest player whose tag begins with this word are the only Captain Falcons to make the RetroSSBMRank top 10 in any year. For 10 points, give this word that is followed in the tags of notable Melee players by “Tooth”, “Rain”, and “Atma”. ANSWER: Dark (The players in order are DarkGenex, DarkRain, DarkHero, Darc, DarkAtma, and DarkRain again.) 14. Alukard, who is best known for hosting Revival of Melee, was also a top player of this game in the early 2010s. Though he now primarily streams Overwatch and DBFZ, old school Donkey Kong pro Bum later became known for hosting regular New York tournaments for this game that featured players like Punisher, Flux, and Rayray. Besides Melee, this is the only other game that was added to Evo due to winning a donation drive, doing so in 2017 by beating out Pokken Tournament. DruggedFox has twice defeated the player often considered this game’s greatest of all time, (*) ChrisG. Because this game immediately followed Melee top 8 at Evo 2014 and 2015, many people in Twitch chat unsurprisingly asked “when’s [this game]”. For 10 points, name this 2011 fighting game whose cast of characters includes Vergil, Phoenix Wright, and Doctor Strange. ANSWER: Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 [accept Marvel 3 or U MvC3 ; prompt on just “Marvel” or “Marvel vs. Capcom”] 15. An advanced technique for this character that uses ECB manipulation to set up a perfect waveland is called the “jellydash”. A player of this character upset Aura 3-0 at an early 2023 Domino Effect tournament, which was this character’s best win in a long time. Probably the current best player of this character created a Blogger website detailing tons of advanced techniques named The Profane Tome, and uses the tag “weed lesbian” in tournaments. That main of this character, who has also made custom controllers for many top players, is (*) Rienne. Before his tragic death from COVID complications in 2022, The Lake was considered the best player of this character. Narcissa Wright mained this character, which is appropriate because this character titles the game series she’s known for speedrunning. For 10 points, name this character who is jokingly said to have the best down-B, because it turns her into Sheik. ANSWER: Zelda 16. In a winner’s interview, this player mentioned 3 separate times that he was incapable of beating Duck, and noted that Shroomed “just plays bad because he’s, like, not good at playing well.” In 2019, this player entered Cold Hard Smash 6 wearing a black hoodie and sunglasses and using the tag “Kimba”. While being interviewed for winning the GEMINI regional, this player said “I have this thing where I can only talk about myself for like 3 minutes a day”, apologized, and abruptly left. In a classic tweet, this player asked why all Ice Climbers players look like they collect rare insects, though many of his Twitter gems have been lost since he (*) deleted his account. Before getting into Melee, this player won a record fourteen Dragon Duels in the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG. For 10 points, name this New England Fox player who had a meteoric rise in 2017 and 2018 before suddenly disappearing from the scene. ANSWER: Crush [accept Jack Hoyt ] (The first clue is from Crush’s winner’s interview for the Holiday Bash invitational.)

17. Character and move required. The so-called “Hylian combo” is a weak hit of this move followed by a forward smash. It’s not a Falco move, but this was the final move used by the anonymous player FalcoMaster3000 to win an Edmonton local. In an exciting winner’s semis game at GENESIS 7, both players were above 160 percent and last stock on Dreamland when this move killed Hungrybox after he whiffed a raw forward smash on the left platform. A platform tech-chase using this move was notably used throughout the Cody Zain first to 10 set and called the “Koopa”, in reference to its popularizer KoopaTroopa895. The player (*) Dart is especially known for using the sweetspot of this very situational move. This is the killing move in a Thundercats combo, so named because this move looks like Lion-O when he shouts “Thundercats Hoooooo!” For 10 points, name this move in which a non-Roy character thrusts his sword directly upwards. ANSWER: Marth ’s up-smash [prompt on partial answer] Note to players: Description acceptable, but your answer should at least include the tournament name or the names of the two players. 18. In a Dreamland game during this set, a missed tech during a series of up-air juggles prompted Scar to ask “Did his controller get unplugged?” In the last game of this set, a comment about one player “somehow playing good Melee under this pressure” prompted the response “pressure makes diamonds” from HomeMadeWaffles. During this set, HMW also made an incredible callback to a set 13 years earlier, noting that the players wanted “70 percent of the 45 thousand dollars”. This set featured the same players and game counts as the grand finals of The Big House 9, two years earlier. Despite going down 2-0 at first, the eventual winner of this set somehow reset the bracket by winning on two consecutive (*) FD counterpicks. For 10 points, name this grand finals set in which one of the Five Gods won a certain invitational tournament for the first time. ANSWER: Smash Summit 11 grand finals [accept answers that mention all of Mango , Zain , and either Smash Summit grand finals or Smash Summit 11 and prompt on partial; accept descriptions of Mango winning his first Smash Summit ; players don’t need to say “grand finals” after “grand finals” is read] 19. In one appearance, Captain Falcon passes a capsule to Mr. Game and Watch while running away from this character in the Home-Run Stadium. In another scene, Young Link encounters this character, followed by a scene where Link suddenly vanishes, implying Young Link’s death. In the early days of Slippi, DarkGenex [“dark JEN-ex”] became known for revolutionizing this character’s meta. A classic machinima set to Final Fantasy 8 ’s “Liberi Fatali” and made by SuperDoodleMan is titled “The Wrath of” this character. This character’s up-B has an insane 26 frames of intangibility, and their down-smash is a spin that (*) freezes characters when hit. In event match 51, the player fights against a team of Ganondorf, Mewtwo, and this character, who is also a bonus final boss in Adventure Mode. For 10 points, name this extremely large and evil version of the king of the Koopas. ANSWER: Giga Bowser [prompt on “Bowser”] 20. Right after being put in this status, SilentSpectre did a crazy combo that ended by moonwalking off the right platform on Yoshi’s to ledgehog, followed by reverse kneeing the Marth that up-B’d on stage, thereby completing a 4 stock on Taj. In the Mogul Chessboxing Championship, a team named for this status sponsored KJH’s opponent, who walked into the ring wearing a chain that referenced this status. Near the beginning of a loser’s semis game at GENESIS 6, both players were in this status for 20 seconds straight, causing them to taunt and smile. An apparel brand named for this status currently sponsors the top 25 players (*) Trif and Fiction. On several occasions, Axe has up-B’d out of the screen to purposefully put himself in this status, which many Arizonans believe makes you more powerful. For 10 points, name this status that results from taking a “nice” amount of damage. ANSWER: being at 69 percent damage