This weekend is supposed to feature one of the best-known competitive gaming events of the year - in Nintendo circles - with Apex 2015; Apex is typically referenced as one of the largest Smash Bros. tournaments of its kind in the world. In a bizarre turn of events, however, the current rounds for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Brawl are on hold as the hotel venue has been closed off by fire marshals. Not only is this peculiar, but it's also embarrassing for the organisers after it officially partnered up with Nintendo for this event.
Below are the latest updates - at the time of writing - from the event's official Twitter account.
Excitable chatter online is referring to damaged areas of the Ballroom from the recent storms in New Jersey, and there's talk of the event being in various states of cancellation - some say it's out for the rest of the day, others that it won't re-open at all over the weekend. At present, the official statements to note are those in the tweets above.
This caps off a tough month for Apex, in which it was previously faced with allegations of sexual harassment that prompted organiser Johnathan "Alex Strife" Lugo to step down.
Were you planning to follow Apex online this weekend? Let us know.
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Super smash brothers melee
Someone abused Mario's final smash...
Fire Marshall's troll'n.
Apex just can't get a break can't it?
Poor smashers...
I can imagine allot of the attendees are reckless eedjits that might set off alarms or do potentially hazardous stuff. Fire Marshals probably realised a couple safety risks and had to pull the plug - dust it off - and put it back in hopefully.
Microsoft paid the Fire Wardens
Alex Strife triggered it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
So.. is NLife planning to stream the matches? At least, once APEX 15 back and running?
@VeeFlamesNL I honestly lost track so only realised it was on when it, er, wasn't. If it gets back up and running I'll look into it
Huh, I wonder what will my friend have to say about this. Hopefully it's up and running soon since I know he was pretty excited to watch the tournaments.
I swear, APEX is ****ing cursed this year. Like, really, THIS is getting out of freaking control. In fact, it's really scary.
@Tsurii897 PLEASETELLMEYOU'REJOKING
"Popular" is an understatement. Apex is huge. The show must go on!
I don't understand the joke from 2014....
This is a conspiracy to stop competitive Smash by Sakurai and the anti competitive community!
@ThomasBW84 Oh, okay lol.
Isn't there an emergency venue or something? If not, I see this thing postponed till next week or something. It looks like bad timing. I mean, during the Super Bowl craze? O.o
@VeeFlamesNL
It's actually incredibly difficult to postpone the tournament by 1 week. This is because most of the people participating have jobs and took time off work to participate. This includes a whole lot of players that come from out of state and even out of country.
Also I remember there was a fighting game tournament in the past that on the day the tournament started the organizers were suddenly told by the fire department that the weren't allowed to have the tournament at that location because it was a fire hazard, and eventually had to pay a fire marshal a lot of money to basically sit on a chair in the corner of the room to "make sure it was safe".
I'm not a big user of Twitter - I've posted about 8 times in 3 years and have read maybe a handful more - but in situations such as this I can certainly see it's value.
APEX IS STILL HAPPENING! They're moving to a different location.
https://twitter.com/xD1x/status/561220815635886080
It's back. https://twitter.com/apex_series/status/561234780533293056
Been following all of this, all day. Can't wait until tomorrow since they moved to a new venue.
I would say something about this, but it looks like all that I could has already been said in the comments.
Okay, who let the Charizard main in?
@TingLz @SlicingScyther LOL
I stopped at "every1". Very professional.
@ryanator008 There's a limited number of characters you can use in a tweet, the message may have been too long to they shortened it.
between this and the sex-offender allegations, the smash "community" at its finest.
Great game, horrible "competitive" community.
@DGGames Are you blaming the community for this?Come on man no person would do this,and about the sex offender allegations thing is one man!One man doesn't define a community.Great avatar, horrible comment.
@DGGames The two aren't comparable and just makes you seem dim by doing so.
@Trapleton
It's nowhere close.
@ryanator008 Isn't the limit 140? 136 characters (the amount in that tweet) is very close to the limit. Also, are you really complaining about a tweet being unprofessional? lol
@DGGames
http://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/2u88wb/can_we_get_a_thank_you_for_twitch/
https://twitter.com/SkyWilliamsTho/status/561263470017269760
Yep. What an awful, horrible community. Right?
@DGGames One man doesn't define an entire community.
@Storytime7
It would've given them exactly enough to put "everyone". It makes me feel as if this tournament is being arranged by somebody who is five years old.
@ryanator008 You can't honestly expect them to care about that when they were more concerned with saving the tournament. It's just a tweet, get over it.
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