East London Smash (ELS), a Super Smash Bros Ultimate tournament organiser, has announced a new tournament series: Rise.
The first event in this series will take place on Saturday April 22nd 2023 at the Red Bull Gaming Sphere in Shoreditch, London.
East London Smash says the singles tournament will feature a £1,000 prize pool if the player cap of 96 is reached, plus a secondary quadstream and a range of paid commentators. It’s for players aged 16 and over.
This will be the first time that a quadstream (four games being shown at once) will be done at an offline Smash Ultimate event in the UK.
Registration for Rise opens this Thursday (February 16th 2023) from 7pm GMT.
East London Smash announced the event on Twitter recently:
Rise will also feature a 32 player cap Giant Smash side event, and an amateur ladder for those who don’t make it out of pools.
It costs £10 for a player to enter or £5 for a spectator to attend. Giant Smash Singles costs £3 to enter.
Rise is the latest event from East London Smash, a tournament operator that’s been running events for three and a half years now.
There are six people in the East London Smash group, including Wade ‘AggresiveDuck’ White, who also occasionally writes for Esports News UK. The head organiser for Rise is Peter ‘FocusMiss’ Johnstone.
Peter told Esports News UK: “We’re very excited to be running Rise. It has the potential to be the largest event we have organised and is an opportunity for the London Smash community to showcase its talent against the rest of the UK and European competitors.”
The news comes after Birmingham hosted the UK&IE Smash Ultimate Circuit Finale and New Era 3 last chance qualifier in January 2023. The UK has a host of talent in Smash and other fighting games, including Smash Ultimate player Bloom4Eva.
There’s more info including registration, rules and scheduling details on the Start.gg ELS Rise page.
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
