Zero Challenge

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The Zero Challenge (abbreviated as "0C2") was a Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament held by the professional Smash crew Socal Elite 4 in August 2006. The tournament was held in Fountain Valley, California, and advertisements included the line "experience the best Smash talent ever aligned at one tournament...including the very best of Japan, Europe, and the rest of the international community."

Through advertising and reputation the tournament received a very high attendance: 98 doubles entrants, 38 crews, 192 singles entrants and 7 international crews.

Contents 1 Place and time 2 Events and rules 3 Common rules 3.1 Brackets 3.2 Controller ports 3.3 Character selection 3.4 Stages 4 Staff 4.1 Directors 4.2 Producers 4.3 Production assistants 5 Results 5.1 Doubles 5.2 International crews 5.3 Singles

[edit] Place and time

Address:

• 10410 Edinger Avenue
• Fountain Valley, CA 92708

Dates:

• Tuesday, August 15 through Thursday, August 17, 2006.

Times:

• 9:30 AM start daily.
• Events ran through 8:00 PM.
• Doors open at 8:00 AM.

The tournament was held in the recreation room of the David L.

[edit] Events and rules

The Zero Challenge featured four main Smash tournaments. The first day's event focused on teams and crews, the second day focuses on international crew battles and the first two pools of singles. The third and final day focused on the continuation of singles matches.

[edit] Common rules

[edit] Brackets

• Singles: Players were randomly assigned into 32 pools. Each entrant played round-robin matches against all other players in their pool. The three players with the best record in each pool advanced to a second set of pools. The top four players in the second pool advanced the 64-player bracket.
• Doubles: All entered teams were placed directly into a very large 98-entrant bracket.

[edit] Controller ports

• Any disagreements over controller port assignments were settled by coin toss.
• Teams were to use adjacent port numbers (one team on ports 1 and 2, and the other team on ports 3 and 4).

[edit] Character selection

• Advanced slob picks were in effect.
• All sets were best out of 3, with finals best of 5.
• Players could call a double-blind pick for the first game of a set.

[edit] Stages

• Counter-pick stages were Fountain of Dreams, Yoshi's Story and Battlefield.
• Random stages were Final Destination, Pokémon Stadium and Dream Land.
• All other stages are banned. This was a compromise with the Japanese, who only play Final Destination and Dream Land.
• Players could not be able to ban any stages.

[edit] Staff

The Zero Challenge was organized by a mature, experienced team of smashers from or otherwise associated with the Socal Elite 4.

[edit] Directors

• SephirothKen
• Manacloud
• Jenny H.
• Helen H.

[edit] Producers

• Arash
• CAOTIC
• Justpha
• nealdt
• AzN_LeP

[edit] Production assistants

• Azeem
• Champ
• Chu Dat
• Edrees
• Pedro
• Tavo

[edit] Results

The full, final results can be found on Tio.

[edit] Doubles

1. DS (Isai and Captain Jack)
2. ManaChu (Manacloud and Chu Dat)
3. Hoshino Kei (Hoshino Kirby and Kei)
4. Hop and Kick (Mew2King and KoreanDJ)
5. Team BS (Sastopher and Blair)
5. Hey, mind if I get a slice? (HugS and Omar)
7. Ken and ROB$ Rapesies Kids (Ken and RobMoney)
7. Shadowclaw (Taj and Forward)
9. Shu and Hiko
9. DSF and Bob Money
9. KillaorCort (KillaOR and Cort)
9. So Intense (King and Germ)

[edit] International crews

1. West Coast
2. Japan
3. East Coast (The Pilgrims)
4. O Canada
5. South
5. PAL
7. Midwest

[edit] Singles

1. Ken
2. ChuDat
3. Mew2King
4. KoreanDJ
5. Shu
5. Hoshino Kirby
7. Kei
7. Captain Jack
9. RobMoney
9. DSF
9. King
9. PC Chris