Upstate Melee Circuit Championship & Arcadian [Photo Gallery]
What a crazy event.
The culmination of the first Upstate Melee Championship Circuit brought the 10 points-qualified and 6 vote-in players into a killer round robin pools round while just under two dozen fought for the last four spots in the Last Chance Qualifier.
At the same time, the first modern Upstate Arcadian brought 50 of Upstate’s new and rising talent to fight in their own round robin bracket.
Two streams, including a quad for championship pools, let more matches be streamed in an Upstate regional than ever before.
Congrats to BING for winning the championship, and ayeGiohh and SweBby for making up the top 3!
Congrats also to Conceit for winning the Arcadian over True without dropping a set!
See event results and final brackets here.
Thanks also to the event sponsors True Customs, Tech Chase Tuesdays, Attack From All Sides, Goblins Den Tattoo, and (coming soon) Megaton Games for contributing to the pot bonus!
Photo Gallery
Photos by Birdie and Swoggles:
Direct link to the gallery here
HQ raw files from Swoggles’ photos can be found here! Flickr did not like the file format and the conversion introduced a bit of unfortunate grain
Event highlights
- SO many game 5s in the championship portion of the event. My God.
- Gio *almost* doing it vs. BING in grands – and being the only one to take games from him the whole event.
- The wcbq and venus jam session – which you can hear here.
- The crowd cheers and player smiles during alright vs. Swebby
- The draft of pools last-place finishers by LCQ qualifiers
- DPD making it to 9th overall after being seeded to not even make it out of the LCQ, beating codeman, mars
- Double stream! Quad stream! Professional equipment! Woo!
- Upstate Crews League team photos
- Gio and SwebBy having their 8th and 9th set within two weeks. 5th in two days.
- The freakachu was discovered
- Jank bringing LordTet to the wire before winning the LCQ
- Eduporp: “Me playing my whole set vs dpd in the time it took Higgins and clay to play 1 game”
- Cowbell being upset by DPD, still qualifying for final bracket after winning 3 losers sets, dropping only one game to ArStar
- Lumor proving himself in the championship bracket, taking names such as CeeLew and Legion
- Monk carrying the torch for Syracuse, beating SwebBy, Mars, Alright, and LordTet
- Spades’ performance, overcoming difficult matchups in Clay and Higgins
- Finishing on time!
- Let me know if you have any more!
Make sure to thank all the TOs and production staff for helping make this such a great event!
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