Issue 26, Volume 84

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IAN EVERETT

STAFF WRITER @IANEVERETT8

Super Smash Bros. may be a video game, but it is also a community that has laid a foundation for countless friendships among avid fans. Without Super Smash Bros., Thai Tran may not have met his best friend. They began playing the game together after realizing they had it in common and have been hanging out, watching Netflix and grabbing food ever since. “She mentioned she played Smash after I told her in part of the Smash Club,” said Tran, a computer science sophomore. “I invited her over to my

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apartment, we played Smash — I destroy her at it.” While Tran’s friend isn’t part of UH’s Smash Club, he said they still play the game that helped cement their friendship when they hang out. “For the first round, I go easy on her so she beats me, and then I beat her,” Tran said. “Then we make cookies and watch ‘Stranger Things.’”

Camaraderie on campus UH’s Smash Club has a constant stream of players in and out of Student Center North, where the club is based. The gaming club hosts weekly tournaments dubbed “Labwork,” where players battle it out in Super Smash Bros.

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Melee and Ultimate. For a $3 entry fee, or the task of bringing your own set up and TV, players attending the Labwork Tournament can join either the Melee bracket or the Ultimate bracket and fight their way to the top. “No matter who wins, we’re all friends here,” said psychology senior Tristen Lyons, a Sheik main and the number one Melee player at UH. When Lyons first joined the UH Smash Club, he found the carrel empty and the scene dead. He put out a call for Melee players on Facebook, and people showed up to play. Now there are daily events, and the

weekly Labwork Tournaments regularly draw over 50 people. “Smash is a big game. You can just go anywhere, people know Smash, people play

The TVs sitting in their club space are always surrounded by chairs filled with focused players, often making it the most active and largest club in

"No matter who wins, we're all friends here.” Tristen Lyons, psychology senior and No. 1 Melee player Smash. What really draws me in is a community sense,” Lyons said. “We also have the carrels, and no matter what time of the day you go, there will be somebody to play.” The club can be found in the SC North carrels for daily play from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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the carrels. “I love people’s availability to play at any time,” said Financial Officer for the UH Smash Club Robert Hines, a computer science sophomore. “Everybody is super cool,

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