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Going to Mars: Salt the Roads 2025
Mars reflects on her run at Salt the Roads and her tournament experience

Upstate Melee’s First Power Rankings of the Modern Era
After a lot of work by our panelists and one hell of a great year by all our competitors, we’re happy to reveal the 2024 Upstate Melee PR!

Salting the Roads for 2025 [Photo Galleries]
Salt the Roads 2025 brought Upstate Melee together for the first regional of 2025, with recently ranked players looking to prove themselves

Frame 15: Bread (Photo Gallery)
Frame 15 makes history, becoming the largest Smash Melee event ever in Upstate, outdoing Ghost Pepper Smash. There was also a lot of bread.

Upstate Melee Circuit Championship & Arcadian [Photo Gallery]
BING stayed on top as players at all levels throughout the region fought through some of the toughest brackets of the year

Zanya, SassyFlygon crowned at Smash’s 2024 King of Upstate [Photo Gallery]
Kicking off the summer, King of Upstate crowned two dominant figures as King and Queen in the scene for Ultimate and Melee, as smash joined the FGC celebration for the first time.

Going to Mars: Triple Header for Frame 14
Mars goes over her experience at the triple header of Melee tournaments of CR Clash #95, The Prowling Grounds #93, and Frame 14

Frame 14: Record attendance as Upstate gains a 64 major (Photo Gallery)
Frame 14 was the biggest in the regional series yet, with record 64 and near-record Melee attendance.

Bearcat Brawl 7: Seeing off Upstate’s best with a passion [Photo Gallery]
A run-of-the-mill iteration of Binghamton’s monthly, Bearcat Brawl 7, very soon grew into a 53-entrant, region-wide Melee sendoff for Jmook when he announced it would his last event before heading off to Los Angeles.

Frame 13: Fresh starts and a bright future (Photo Gallery)
Frame 13 in many ways harkens in a new era for the region, especially for Melee.