Old and New

This week/weekend was and will be jam PACKED full of amazing games. First over the weekend The Big House 5 tournament took place in Dearborn, Michigan. Sadly I was a little to late when it came to getting tickets and I was not able to go. The Big House 5 was one of the biggest Super Smash Bros. Melee tournaments of the year, it even had more entries than APEX 2015. The tournament had 2 streams available for it but the one the majority of people watched was the VGbootcamp stream.(http://www.twitch.tv/vgbootcamp) The person who ended up winning the tournament was a Swedish player named Armada. Armada is very known for his peach but opted to play his fox most of the final rounds it seemed because he was going up against a puff(jiggly puff) player named Hungrybox. Both Armada and Hungrybox are well known very skilled professional players, but they also might be some of the most hated players as well. It was kind of easy to tell this because when these 2 were playing the crowd (which was about 99% US) was having a hard awkward time figuring out who to cheer for. I feel they eventually gave up and just cheered whenever good plays were being made. It was kind of upsetting watching a swede taking home the first place trophy at an american tournament, but its hard to be mad at him because you could tell Armada was outplaying ever single person there. If you are interested in learning about all the past players and how melee became apart of the competitive gaming scene I will leave a link below that explains everything about the history of melee. Now with whats coming up with week is going to be very, very hit or miss. They are releasing OPEN BETA for the new Star Wars Battlefront being made by EA. Now, yes Star Wars Battlefront could potentially be an amazing game with hours and hours of gameplay to be had and yada yada yada. BUT, let us not forget that this game is being made by EA. If you don't understand why this is a problem, go play any game that was made by this company after Battlefield Bad Company 2. This company is known for taking some of the most anticipated games titles and putting the ol' "EA twist" on it and ruining the entire thing for everyone. Streams of the CLOSED BETA are out there showing off the gameplay and from what I have seen and heard from others is that it won't be another one of those "EA ruiners". Maybe this could be the game where EA makes a turning point for there company and starts making good games, I don't know. What I do know is that if EA does ruin this game, they will have a lot of nostalgic grown ups pretty pissed off with them. 

The Smash Brothers Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX9hbbA-WP4