Zephyr’s Internal Ranking Tournament 2024-2025 Q1
Zephyr’s yearly internal ranking has finally started with the first internal ranking tournament. As usual, the tournament was held on the last day of the open trainings, so even non-zephyr members could join this internal ranking tournament. This makes the first tournament always extra exciting because you never know what new faces will show up and if any hidden bosses might be among them.
We welcomed two new players who joined the tournament, Diego (Dego) & Florian (irregular). They have now joined Zephyr as new members and officially have entered the Zephyr smash rankings.
Furthermore, two alumni zephyr members Ernst (BrockBeBrocking) & Daan (Voerzitter) joined for their very last internal ranking tournament as both have graduated and will not be members of Zephyr anymore starting this year. As known powerhouses of the Zephyr smash ranking, they did their reputation proud one last time with Voerzitter placing third and BrockBeBrocking placing second. These placings were well deserved, especially for BrockBeBrocking because he unwillingly had to play on an empty stomach. This was because Ernst was victim to what we have dubbed the “KFC incident”.
The KFC incident is the unfortunate events that happened to Ernst trying to get KFC for dinner right before and during the tournament. Ernst planned to have KFC for dinner right before the start of the tournament at 18:30, so he ordered at around 18:00. Unfortunately, the food didn’t arrive due to some error on the side of the KFC. After receiving this news, Ernst tried to order again at around 19:00, at which point the tournament had already started. As Ernst was playing in the tournament and getting hungrier, he again received news that his order didn’t arrive. The reason this time was because the delivery driver fell with his food on his way to Fenix. Now, basically starving, Ernst ordered his food for a third time, and finally received his food successfully around 21:00. In the end, he had been waiting more than 3 hours for his food and needless to say, we can assume this was a very memorable last tournament for Ernst.
Lastly, we bid Ernst & Daan a heartfelt goodbye and wish them the best of luck in whatever the future may hold next for them, both in- and outside of smash.
The bracket results can be found here.
Points earned from the Q1 tournament and a nice graphic for the top 8 can be found below:
1. Tanglad (Kazuya, Donkey Kong) – 11 points
2. BrockBeBrocking (Kazuya, Dr. Mario) – 9 points
3. Voerzitter (Bowser) – 7 points
4. Tino (Mr. Game and Watch, Cloud) – 5 points
5. Unique (Falco, Fox) – 3 points
5. Akbob (Yoshi) – 3 points
7. Muurverf (Inkling) – 2 points
7. Vincentg (Byleth) – 2 points
9. DVoid (King Dedede, Sephiroth) – 1 point
9. Maximiliaan (King K. Rool, Steve) – 1 point
9. Dego (Bowser, Byleth) – 1 point
9. Irregular (Yoshi) – 1 point
