Zephyr’s Dynamash 4.0
On the 22nd of March, Zephyr held its annual Dynamash smash ultimate tournament for the fourth year in a row in collaboration with the Dynamo esports center. Various smashers, including some tournament regulars and both current and old zephyr members, attended this classic singles, double-elimination tournament to battle it out for a couple of pretty nice trophies and prize money.
The day started off at 10:00 where members of Zephyr and Dynamo were up early to prepare the venue for the tournament. This included setting up the switches, preparing the stream and setting up the payment and bracket management booth. Afterward, the first attendees began entering the venue around 11:00 and the start of the tournament would be kicked off by an opening speech at 12:00.
The first phase of the tournament had the 23 participants play until the best 8 players were left. The matches in the first phase had a lot of character variety, with almost no participants playing the same character as any of their other competitors. This makes each match unique because you will see a different character face another different character each time and makes watching each match very exciting and fresh. Some personal highlights for me who was commentating and thus only watched stream matches, were Voerzitter vs. Tino, two of the strongest Zephyr (ex-)members Zephyr has known and Eneomas vs. Potatoes, as Eneomas was in the top 3 of last year’s Dynamash and thus here to defend his title from losers side.
Onto the next phase of the tournament, top 8.
The top 8 was almost entirely streamed, starting from the top 6 players, and so I could happily watch them all. I’m glad we did because these matches I would not have wanted to miss for the world. From dutchmvp26 flying all over the stage with his insane movement tech to an insane clutch by YUFFIE! against sansvolk (my favorite moment of the tournament which made me lose my voice the next day), every match showed the time, effort and love these people have put into this game.
The grand finale was an exciting match between xDTL who played Terry and Momo! who played Banjo-Kazooie. At this point the question was who would win. Would it be xDTL who had won all his matches and who was the one who put Momo! into losers, or would it be Momo! who would then become the successor of VeCystim who won last years Dynamash with Banjo-Kazooie. After a hard-fought set, xDTL beat Momo! with a clean 3-0 and was thus crowned the champion of Dynamash 2025 with Momo! taking second and sansvolk taking third. After the set, the closing ceremony started where the trophies were handed out to the winners (sansvolk had to leave early so xDTL pulled up a very charming picture of him on his phone lol) and ending Dynamash 2025.
And with that, another successful and fun event comes to a close. Keep an eye on the Zephyr YouTube channel if you want to watch the VOD of the stream, and if you want to see the tournament results, they can be found here.
Again, congratulations to our winners and hopefully until next year!
