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[January 6-8] APEX 2012! New Brunswick, NJ: MK9, SSF4AE, UMvC3, SSBM, SSBB, Pokemon

Dogysamich

The Designated Hype Man!!

Last Update: 11/8/11 4:20pm EST

Check the Trailer here: -- Check Your Excuses at the Door --

Location:
Rutger's Student Center
126 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

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This year's Apex is branching out from primarily a Smash Bros. event, to bring New Jersey one of the biggest tournaments it has ever seen! Aside from the Smash Bros events that Apex's name was built on, we're throwing Mortal Kombat 9, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and Super Street Fighter 4: AE (2012) into the mix.

Every game hosted by the APEX this year will have a guaranteed pot bonus of at least $500! Brought to you by some of the best sponsors and biggest companies in gaming, we're guaranteeing this event to be one of the strongest showings, and are amped to bring to you the best competitive gaming has to offer!

We're going to have two amazingly high quality streams, brought to you by some of the most dedicated people in the business:



Jaxelrod of 8wayrun is mainly famous for both his work in the Soul Calibur community, and his streams for the 8-on-the-Break series, which runs Tuesday nights at 9pm. Jaxel will be on board all weekend, providing you guys with the best possible stream!

Alongside Jaxel, concurrently, we'll have Bifuteki on board, providing a secon HD stream, to ensure the community has as much content coming at them as we possibly can!

Bifuteki, famous for their work at SummerJam2011, and the Salty Battles series, will be heping out Apex with as much hype as they can. Capable of a perfect 720p hd stream, Bifu is going to be bringing you the streams for MK9, SSF4AE, and UMvC3 on Saturday, January 7th!



Also, we're working with Level|up Live, and Alex Valle to bring you some serious incentive to attend Apex 2012!



First off, any player who attends Socal Regionals will receive a 50% discount off of Apex's venue fee! So, all you west coasters looking to save some money, and stay in the hype, make sure you're hitting up SoCal Regionals!

Secondly, SoCal Regionals is also going to act as an Apex Qualifier (One more to be announced!) for Mortal Kombat 9, Ultimate MvC3, and Super Street Fighter 4: AE! The top 8 placers in these games will receive seeding points for Apex, to ensure the best and most fair playing field we can possible give!




Pot Bonuses and venue accommodations are brought to you, in part, by:

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-- vVv-Gaming --

* Sabre-Gaming

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--Local Battles --

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--Dominion Method Gaming --



The venue fee for this event (spectator pass included) covers free play for the weekend, and access to all of our sponsor's booths during the weekend! You'll find t-shirt sales, custom artwork, and a slew of set ups dedicated to casuals all weekend long!

Venue Fee:

* Smash events: $30
* FGC events: $20
* Pokemon: $10
* Spectator: $10

Note: All of these prices will increase by $10 on November 29th.

Tournament Line-up:

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Entry fee: $10
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Entry fee: $10
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Entry fee: $10
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Entry fee: $15 singles, 10 per teammate doubles
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Entry fee: $15 singles, 10 per teammate doubles.
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Entry fee: $10



Friday, January 6th:

* 9am-11: Check in
* 11am: Super Smash Bros Melee Doubles Bracket
* 4pm: Super Smash Bros Melee Singles Pools, Round 1
* 6pm: Pokemon Black/White
* 6pm: All Brawl
* 6pm: USA vs the World Melee Exhibition 8v8
* 8pm: Super Smash Bros Melee Singles Pools, Round 2
* 9:30pm: Super Smash Bros Melee Bracket (until top 8)

Saturday, January 7th:

* 8am-10am: Check in
* 10am: Super Smash Bros Brawl Doubles Bracket (Until top 4)
* 10am: Super Street Fighter 4 (until top 8)
* 10am: Mortal Kombat 9 begins **entire tournament**
* Noon: Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom begin (To top 8)
* 3pm: Super Smash Bros Brawl Singles Pools, Round 1
* 5pm: USA vs the World Brawl Exhibition 8v8
* 5pm: Give-a-ways!
* 6:30pm: Super Smash Bros Brawl Singles Pools, Round 2
* 7:30PM: Super Smash Bros Brawl Bracket (until top 8)

Sunday, January 8th:

* 8am-12pm: Check in, and Casual play.
* Noon: Give-a-ways!
* Noon: Super Street Fighter 4 top 8
* 2pm: Super Smash Bros Melee top 8 singles and top 4 teams
* 4pm: Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 top 8:
* 7pm: Super Smash Bros. Brawl top 8 singles and top 4 teams
* 9pm: Awards & Closing Ceremonies

Payouts:

All payouts, pending greater than 128 entrants (Plus $500 per event) , will be as follows:

1. 45%
2. 22%
3. 12%
4. 8%
5. 4
6. 4
7. 2.5
8. 2.5

Sign up and registration: Click Here
Here, you'll find the rates for all of the events we're offering throughout the weekend. Pre-registering will save you a boat load on venue fee, and is required for all Smash related events. Anyone attending solely for MK9, SSF4AE or UMvC3 is welcome to register at the door, but there will be a late fee! Save yourself some cash and register now!


* Hotel information: http://apexsmash.com/information/hotels/


The hotel has offered us a severely reduced rate to those who follow the link to their site. If you're looking specifically for housing, there will be a link to the smashboards housing thread, where you'll find some players who are allowing other players to stay for extremely cheap. Either way!

Two Albany Street
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA 08901
Tel: +1 732 873 1234

The hotel is conveniently located down the road from the venue and available at a discounted price. See the instructions below for booking and rates.

RESERVATIONS PROCESS & BOOKING WEBSITE

ONLINE RESERVATIONS ONLY the link below will take you to a site dedicated toward making your reservation quick and easy. You will be able to make, modify and cancel your hotel reservations online, as well as take advantage of any room upgrades, amenities or other services offered by the hotel.

To view the website, please click the following link:
Please click here to book your room


Here are the current room rates:

Single Occupancy$119
Double Occupancy$119
Triple Occupancy$144
Quadruple Occupancy$169
Suites$219
The “cut-off date” is 12/19/2011. Reservation requests received after the cut-off date will be based on availability at the Hotel’s prevailing rates and will be credited to the Group’s Guest Room Block.



* Travel information: http://apexsmash.com/information/traveling/

American Airlines is offering a 5% discounts on flights into LaGuardia (LGA), JRK, Newark Liberty Interational (EWR), and Westchester County Airport (HPN). When booking your flight please use the AUTH. code: 2512BG for your discount to be added.
The discount can be booked on-line at www.aa.com/group for AA/AE flights only, without a ticketing charge, allow at least one business hour for the aa.com loading. Use the Authorization Number noted above without the preceding A as the AA.com Promotion Code. May not apply to some contracts.

For anybody aged 18-22 and living in the US:
JoFTWin said:
"I just heard the recent DI podcast interview with Alex Strife and I am going to do everything in my power to make it to APEX now. I have a feeling this will be legendary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But I noticed some people are kind of skeptical about going. Specifically college students like myself. I didn't see it mentioned on this thread, so for all my broke college students who are not aware here is a very cheap way to fly that I plan on using to get to APEX, AirTranU: http://airtranu.com/cheap-student-tickets.aspx

Their flight tickets range from $49 to $99 depending on where you're located in the U.S. if you can't afford that then I don't know what to tell you. The catch is that you have to be between the age of 18-22 to use it. Read the link for more specifics, but that's basically it. Also as an aside, I'm sure you all can split hotel costs with some fellow smashers or even find housing. So there are several ways to get around costs, and it should be worth it for a worthwhile event. Hope this helped some folks. Get hype!!"


Those traveling from out of country come a very long way to be here at our event. That's why we want to do our best to provide the best experience before, after and during the event. We will be providing free housing to as many as possible. It may not be possible for everyone but the earlier you let us know you're attending the easier it will be to set you up with someone who will be willing to house you. If you/and or your group plan on coming early we have a special trip planned!
Since our 2012 event is during the winter and in the beginning of January we will be adjusting our tour to making the following trips:
Nintendo World
Times Square Ball Drop
Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree/Ice Skating
Union Square
For more information see our site. Here

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Of course, if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us via our site, or by leaving a comment here! We're keeping close watch on player suggestions, so if you have a voice, use it!
#Apex2012

We're so very excited to have the event grow in such a massive way this year! The fighting game community and the Smash community have been estranged for too long! The biggest names in competitive fighting games will be in attendance to bring the world one of the most hyped events of all time. Apex 2012-- You have to be there.

Be sure to tune into both:
8-on-the-Break, every Tuesday at 9pm EST
Wednesday Night Fights, every Wednesday at 9pm PST
 

Ether

Noob
Such a ridiculously hype way to kick off a new year of competitive gaming. Sexy pot bonuses, kiosk setups, a bunch of fantastic sponsors on board, and more; this is gonna be a HUGE event.

If you're serious about MK(or any of the other games being hosted), you definitely need to make it out to this event. And if you can't for some ridiculous reason, definitely make sure hit up the stream. It's being run by Jaxelrod of 8-Way Run. If you're familiar with The Break weeklies, Salty Battles, Concentrate, etc. you know that this man produces streams of godlike quality.
 

Dogysamich

The Designated Hype Man!!
Thank you for the support thus far!

I just made some updates regarding hotel info, travel info, and most importantly

Anybody who attends SoCal Regionals will receive a 50% discount from their venue fee. If you place Top 8 at SoCal Regionals, you will also gain seeding points towards Apex 2012
 

Ether

Noob
I'd like to reiterate that SoCal Regionals will be a qualifying event for Apex 2012. Definitely make it out to that event if you want to receive the fairest possible seeding for Apex 2012. We're currently in the process of setting up a qualifying event for the east coast.

I'd also like to point out that MK9 will be run on PS3 and SSF4:AE2012 and UMvC3 will be run on the Xbox 360.
 

Dogysamich

The Designated Hype Man!!
I'd like to reiterate that SoCal Regionals will be a qualifying event for Apex 2012. Definitely make it out to that event if you want to receive the fairest possible seeding for Apex 2012. We're currently in the process of setting up a qualifying event for the east coast.

I'd also like to point out that MK9 will be run on PS3 and SSF4:AE2012 and UMvC3 will be run on the Xbox 360.
^^^ This

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Made a small update about streaming!
 

Dogysamich

The Designated Hype Man!!
Important update! (important enough for me to double post, I'm sorry!)

By suggestion of Bifuteki, MK9 is now going to run on Saturday only. The entire thing. You are still welcome to come play casuals (or take people's money in MMs ^_^) on Sunday!!, but as of now, MK will be ran ENTIRELY on Saturday!
 
Hot damn! Right in my backyard, just 5 minutes away by car!! Definitely going, will try to get some MK friends to register too. Awesome.
 

CD jr

Noob
im going to this.[MENTION=58]9.95[/MENTION] [MENTION=16]REO[/MENTION] you guys going to apex?
 

CD jr

Noob
It looks like I'm going to to be there.
awesome im confirmed then.one question phil it says all of mk9 will run saturday is this true?i think it should be like that no top 8 sunday just run the whole thing saturday.
 

9.95

Noob
awesome im confirmed then.one question phil it says all of mk9 will run saturday is this true?i think it should be like that no top 8 sunday just run the whole thing saturday.
If that's what it says, then I'm sure that's the case...and I would prefer it that way to be honest.
 

CptXecution

Brain Dead Bro
If you guys run top 8 on Sunday I'll be interested in this...just to make the trip worth it to travel from RI
 

CitizenSnips

A seldom used crab named Lucky. AKA Citizen Snips.
Damn I don't think I'll be able to go but I would love to be able to enter both a MK9 and SSBM tournament on the same weekend.

[MENTION=4675]CD jr[/MENTION] quit ducking my SSBM challenge :D
 

Tim Static

Adminerator
[MENTION=8703]Dogysamich[/MENTION]

why not let the Kombat Network run MK9 at this event? No one can do it better anyways. :coffee:
 

Dogysamich

The Designated Hype Man!!
First off, sorry for not being on point with the replies. Thank you for the mentions, I kept wandering down to my region threads.

[MENTION=8703]Dogysamich[/MENTION]

why not let the Kombat Network run MK9 at this event? No one can do it better anyways. :coffee:
If you want to do so, I can put you in contact with the person who's running everything on that. I'm basically a messenger who's relaying info from various places.

-As of now, MK9 is entirely on Saturday- We're trying to work stuff out to get MK9 to be two days. Honestly, if it's two days, the 2nd day will be no more than Top 8 (That's an FYI if you're assuming it'll be day 1 pools, day 2 brackets or something to that effect.)

We are working to try to make this happen (like, I'm literally sitting in an Apex meeting RIGHT NOW talking to people about all of this).

If Kombat Network seriously wants to get up on this, I'll hit you up.

If you want two days, it's looking like a numbers thing, but we're working on it!

I'm not going to leave you hanging. Sorry for the long wait!