Pictures of app from the car. We were in a cloud, so it was windy, wet, and cold:
When we finally made it to the Student Union building where the LAN was held, people were still kinda setting up:
Trevor and I left from the LAN building to go with some kids who were going back to their dorm room to play some smash before the tourney started. There was about 13~ of us:
We eventually returned to play in the Mario Kart 64 Tournament. These are pictures taken during the time in between my games (which I must say, I dominated pretty hard, until I lost in a very close race)
They finally got smash set up in another room with 4 projectors. This is Trevor looking intimidating before the grueling 5 hour tournament started:
This was taken during the finals match. The leftmost two people are playing, while the other 20~ or so people were watching. They were all cheering for who they wanted to win whenever they made a good combo or killed the other person. It was fun:
The long ride back. Here is us taking a break at a rest stop:
Overall, I had fun. The smash competition was excellent and all the matches were very close. They stuck Trevor and I in the same pool with like 4 other really good players. We both advanced (Trevor won the pool, while I snuck through in the last spot), but were paired up against each other first round in the brackets due to the seeding. The final count was 2-1 and Trevor knocked me into the losers bracket. Here, I had an epic game vs a slick Falco player, which had everyone in the room hooping and hollering. I eventually took it, only to be knocked out from the tournament the next round in another close game by probably the best Dr. Mario player in the state (The final count was 2-1 again, with the last match ending in 1 stock). I secured a respectable 8th place finish out of a very tough group of 32 players. I hung around and cheered Trevor on. He took 3rd place after simply running out of energy from a full day of smashing. The finals were intense as the person who knocked Trevor out, Charlie (wearing white in the picture above and using a defensive Captain Falcon), came through the losers bracket and won 2 quick sets in a row against the defending champion Angel (wearing black and is the Marth player who also won our LAN).
The prize for the top two spots were 50$ and 25$ respectively. Third place received nothing, so Trevor just barely missed cashing. Afterwards, I was so mentally tired (2 hours of sleep the night before + 8 hours of straight gaming) that I kept running into chairs/walls/ect. haha.