Sometimes eSports are about good, clean competition. Other times, they’re battlegrounds for words and red-hot personalities (in addition to tiny virtual wizards). This Smash Bros player, however, was neither — only silence. Silence and a mask.
OK, maybe that’s a bit dramatic, but this is pretty wild. As recounted in this Reddit thread and the above video from Super Smash Bros University, an unspeaking, un-eating, probably un-feeling masked individual who wrote his name on a scrap of paper as “Falcomaster3000” recently showed up to a local Super Smash Bros Melee tournament in Edmonton, Alberta. He was a blue blur of terror as — who else? — Falco, and when the deck was stacked against him he’d switch to Marth or Fox.
The short version? Without so much as a sentence uttered, he won the whole tournament, barely even breaking a sweat until the finals. When he won, people bellowed for him to, “take it off”, but he merely offered a thumbs-up before exploding into a cloud of tiny blue birds and rocketing out the window presumably leaving.
Some people, while watching the tournament’s stream, were in pure awe:
Others speculated that he might be a famous Smash player in disguise, a shark swimming among guppies for giggles:
And of course, there’s the distinct possibility that this was all staged, a ploy for attention from a small-time stream — or just a way to bring people together for some exciting, quietly dramatic fun:
Regardless, for one brief moment The Masked Smasher silently ravaged a tournament and then walked off into the night. Authentic or staged, it’s one heck of a neat story.
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5 responses to “Mysterious Masked Player Wins Smash Bros Tournament”
Wow – who knew Banksy plays SB
It was me.
nah, i wish i had that level of control…
Could be a girl who didn’t want the bullshit…
Or a wanted criminal, a member of anonymous, a terminator sent back through time, a celebrity?
It’s obvious who it is. It’s Rey Mysterio
You thought it was a Falcomaster3000? BUT IT WAS ME, DIO!