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Apex is an annual
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tournament held in
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that is focused on ''
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'' The event's first incarnation was in 2009 with Jesus "Jman" Fernandez as the champion of '' Super Smash Bros. Melee'' and Elliot "Ally" Carroza-Oyarce as champion of ''
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''. Each year the event grew with more competitors entering. Apex 2014 garnered 629 entrants and was the 2nd largest tournament for ''Melee'' at the time after EVO 2013. Though the tournament initially focused on ''Brawl'', the feature game has since switched to ''Melee'' due to its popularity. In 2010, an event for ''
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'' for the
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was added. In 2014, the fan
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of ''Brawl'', ''
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'' was added for singles only. ''Project M'' has recently been removed as an official event out copyright concerns under
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sponsorship and Third Party relations. Apex 2015 was officially sponsored by
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and was the largest tournament for ''Super Smash Bros.'' in history until it was surpassed by EVO 2015. Apex has been described as the "
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of 'Super Smash Bros.'" by Ben Lindbergh of sports website ''
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''.


History

Apex was founded in 2009 by Johnathan Lugo, known by his alias "Alex Strife", as a ''Super Smash Bros.'' tournament. The tournament also hosts side events which include fighting games such as ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', and others.


2009

Apex 2009 was hosted at the
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Palmer Inn in
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. The tournament featured ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'', ''Melee'', and Brawl+. Melee singles was won by Jman and doubles was won by Mew2King and Jman. Brawl singles was won by Ally and doubles was won by Ally and Mew2King. Brawl+ singles was won by ChuDat. In Brawl crews, MD/VA won.


2010

Apex 2010 was hosted in
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's College Avenue Student Center. It featured ''Melee'', ''Brawl'', and ''Super Smash Bros. 64''. It also featured the Brawl mods Brawl+ and Brawl-.


2012

After a one-year hiatus, Apex 2012 returned to New Brunswick, New Jersey at
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's College Avenue Student Center. It featured ''Melee'', ''Brawl'', and ''64''. Melee Singles was won by Armada and doubles by Armada and Mew2King. Brawl was won by Otori in singles and Otori and Kakera in doubles. Smash 64 was won by SuPeRbOoMfAn and doubles was won by Isai and Nintendude. In Melee USA v the World, USA won by a massive 8 stocks. Brawl was set to have a crew battle, but it was cancelled due to time constraints. The tournament was criticized because Brawl did not have enough setups, causing delay in pool matches and necessitating the cancellation of the crew battle.


2013

Apex 2013 was again hosted in the College Avenue Student Center at Rutgers University featuring ''Melee'', ''Brawl'', and ''64''. It also featured USA v The World crew battles for both Melee and Brawl. In addition, Melee had The Links v The Stinks crew battle, in which a team of seven Links challenged team of six well known low tier mains and were joined by "The Final Boss," Kage, to a crew battle.


2014

Apex 2014 was hosted at the
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hotel in
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featuring ''Melee'', ''Project M'', ''Brawl'', and ''64''.


2015

Apex 2015, which ran from January 30 to February 1, included ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'', ''Super Smash Bros. for Wii U'', ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'', ''Super Smash Bros. 64'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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''. It was initially hosted at
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Hotel Empire Meadowlands in
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and featured the first ''Melee'' tournament with over a thousand entrants with 1037 players participating. ''Super Smash Bros. for Wii U'' included over 800 entrants. The tournament was officially sponsored by Nintendo and included a playable demo of ''
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''. Apex dropped ''Brawl'' fan mod ''
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'' from its 2015 lineup and all of its qualifiers. Streaming for fangame, ''Super Smash Bros. Crusade'', has also been denied. Lugo alleged he received
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s for the dropping of ''Project M'' from some members of the community. In January 2015, Lugo announced he was stepping down from Apex after multiple media reports alleging sexual harassment by tournament attendees. After a false fire alarm occurred on the morning of January 30, fire marshals discovered that parts of the hotel were in violation of safety codes. The marshals removed access to the ballrooms, which had a partially collapsed roof. The main tournament was delayed for a day and was moved 40 miles away to the Garden State Convention Center in
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.


2016

After the controversies surrounding the 2015 event, there were doubts over the future of the Apex tournament. However Andre "Bifuteki" Augustin announced that the event would continue under his leadership. Apex 2016 was the seventh edition of the Apex series which took place on June 17–19, 2016 under the new management of the Bifuteki crew. The event was considerably smaller the previous incarnation and even had to cancel its ''Brawl'' event due to low turnout.


2022

Apex 2022 took place on November 18th-20th, 2022 in
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. It featured ''Melee'', ''Ultimate'', ''Smash 64'', ''Brawl'', and ''Smash 4'' events.


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