Special tournament highlight play-by-play: (Bossch Battle: Smash Bros Ultimate)
Here we have a special blog post for you folks that highlights a very exciting, recently finished tournament. The first team players of Zephyr Smash (Tanglad, Tino, Unique and Vincentg) pulled up to a fun tournament in the city that all non-native Dutch speakers dread to pronounce: ‘s Hertogenbosch, or Den Bosch for short. This tournament was called Bossch Battle: Smash Bros Ultimate and was a 32-player bracket held in skatepark World Skate Center organized by Denboschesports. This tournament was a 2-day tournament where top-8 qualifiers was played on the 18th of January and the top 8 players would return to battle it out on the 8th of February to decide the ultimate winner.
Top 8 qualifiers:
The top 8 qualifiers format was round-robin of four pools with 8-players each. Each player had to fight all the other 7 players and the top 4 players would advance out of their pool to the next stage of the qualifiers. In this round robin phase, our players Unique and Vincentg unluckily were placed in the same pool. This would effectively decrease the chances of all our players making it out of the round-robin phase. On the other hand lady luck did smile upon Tanglad and Tino as they were placed in separate pools so they did not have to “team kill”…. well, this is not entirely true. As you, the attentive reader, might have already noticed from the pictures, there were also some very familiar players in the tournament. Indeed, the ex-Zephyr smash legends, BrockBeBrocking and Voerzitter were also attending this tournament! It was an epic clash of the strongest Zephyr smash utlimate players in history vs the strongest Zephyr smash ultimate players of today where Voerzitter was placed in Tanglad’s pool and BrockBeBrocking was placed in Tino’s pool.
After the round-robin phase, we lost Vincentg and Voerzitter ending as sixth and fifth respectively in their pools and the rest advancing to top 16 double elimination. Here, Tanglad was immediately met with his old arch rival and fellow Kazuya main BrockBeBrocking. BrockBeBrocking beat Tanglad and send him to losers to fight Unique. Tanglad won this battle and his consecutive matches to qualify for top 8. On the other side of bracket, Tino had to face BrockBeBrocking for their qualifying match after they both lost in winners. Tino won against BrockBeBrocking and punched his ticket to top 8 as well.
Top 8:
Now, with both Tanglad and Tino as the only (ex-)Zephyr members remaining in the top 8 they had to lock-in even more to obtain the win. This was especially true as their opponents were seeded higher than them. Tino played first against his opponent, and although he put up a good effort, he had to eventually bow down in defeat at 7th. Tanglad had to face an opponent who he had faced and lost to before, Kayleigh, the runner-up of Dynamash 2024. It was an uphill battle but Tanglad clutched it out and made an upset beating the Yoshi main. Next, Tanglad now faced a character he was also all too familiar with, the king of the jungle himself Donkey Kong donned in the same white fur Tanglad prefers himself. These matches were intense and the DK main even started trying to style on Tanglad, feeling confident after winning the first two games. Tanglad however, did not approve of this and destroyed him the next game under 2 minutes, which can be seen below. Tanglad unfortunately did lose afterward finishing 5th, but he at least showed his opponent that you cannot disrespect him and when asked what that insane game was, he will just say “yeah, that was just a Kazuya game”
With this we end this special tournament highlight blog post and stay tuned for more awesome tournament blog posts in the future.