“Smash Bros.” Club Brings Friendly Competition to Game Lovers
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1 NEWS OPINION SPORTS ASCSU discusses bill Seriously: Colin Kaepernick Volleyball is set to fund flags recast as Captain America for success Vol. 128, No. 27 Thursday, September 13, 2018 page 4 page 11 page 16 Players in the Super Smash Brothers club, bring different versions of the long running game series.PHOTO BY NATHAN TRAN COLLEGIAN “Smash Bros.” club brings friendly competition to game lovers By Graham Shapley a long-running and well-loved nice to be able to play such a during each weekly meeting of Fighters are ranked by the @shapleygraham game series from Nintendo. free-form game, compared to the Super Smash Bros. Club. “Smash” community on a tier There have been four releases other fighting games which There are doubles tournament, list from G-tier to A-tier de- Northern Colorado resi- since its release in 1999 and is have built-in combos.” where teams of two will fight pending on how likely they are dents have been duking it out gearing up for the release of a Starting on Wednesday at one another, and the singles, to win a game in high-level play. with peers for years, but not in fifth ‘ultimate’ edition later this 5:30 p.m. and stretching well where fighters face off one-on- Aaron David Evans, a com- the ways you may think. This year. after 9:00 p.m., competitors put one. Each tournament is fur- petitor who goes by the name modern-day Fight Club would “It really gets the adrenaline money into a pot and sign up to ther divided by game. ‘NotAaron’ for the tournament, seem horrifying if it weren’t for pumping,” said Elliot Cullen, a play for a shot to show off their Two games are played at the doesn’t see the competition one thing: the violence is all vir- Colorado State University eco- Super Smash skills. Competi- club: “Super Smash Bros. Me- as the main point but rather a tual. nomics graduate after being tors play and practice for doz- lee” and “Super Smash Bros. 4.” place to have fun. Depending on In actuality, fighters of the eliminated from a bracket. “The ens of hours to become the best, Most fighters are specialized in the week and amount of compe- Super Smash Bros. Club are sit- reason I enjoy (Smash Bros.) is and this club is their proving one of the two games, though tition, some meetings are more ting down with a game console that it’s a game where you can ground. some fight in multiple tourna- see SMASH on page 19 >> playing “Super Smash Bros.,” make your own combos. It’s Four tournaments are run ments across each game. 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As of Wednesday night, 120 Public affairs specialist for firefighters were assigned to the the U.S. Forest Service Reid fire, along with two heavy air A mountain wildfire that Armstrong said the fire is burn- tankers, two type 1 helicopters, 1 started Tuesday night west of ing entirely in the area scarred type 3 helicopter, and three Sin- the Seaman Reservoir grew to by the 8,000-acre Hewlett Gulch gle Engine Air Tankers (SEATs). 150 acres Wednesday after- Fire in 2012. The Seaman Fire The National Weather Ser- noon, threatening 11 homes near is primarily burning on rocky vice issued a red flag warning the Poudre River a half-mile terrain in an area of grass and starting at 10 a.m. Wednesday away, according to a news re- patches of pine trees, making ac- for Colorado’s northern moun- lease issued by the United States cess difficult. tains and valleys, including the Forest Service. No properties have been area near Seaman Reservoir The U.S. Forest Service re- damaged at this time and the where the lightning-caused ported the fire was 25 percent area is under voluntary evacu- wildfire ignited on Tuesday, ac- contained as of about 5:00 p.m. ation, Armstrong said. The fire cording to ARP. on Wednesday. did not move much during the Firefighters are expecting Smoke conditions are re- day and the structures near the red flag conditions to contin- ported to be light, according to fire are being actively protected. ue for the mountains of north- A wildfire that started Tuesday evening near Seaman Reservoir has a tweet from the Arapaho Roos- The Greyrock Trail and trail- ern Colorado on Thursday, in- grown to 139 acres and is now threatening structures near the Poudre evelt National Forests & Pawnee head will be closed because of cluding the Seaman Fire area, River a half-mile away, according to a news release by the United States National Grassland forest ser- the fire, but the roads will re- from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and are Forest Service. PHOTO BY COLIN SHEPHERD COLLEGIAN vice (ARP). main open, according to the Sea- preparing to adjust tactics to drones in the area stay grounded expected to impact water quali- Light winds and substantial man Fire’s incident page spon- meet the challenging condi- air support helped firefighters as additional air support is to ar- ty, according to reports from the sored by the U.S. Forest Service. tions, according to the U.S. For- rive today to help fight the fire. Greeley Tribune. make good progress in the latter Fire management is transi- est Service. half of the day to begin the pro- The Seaman Reservoir, “We are working closely with tioning from a Type 4 to a Type A type four incident man- which draws water from the water providers in the area and cess of containment, according 3 management team Wednes- agement team along with crews to an evening update released by north portion of the Cache La have implemented mitigation day night, according to ARP. from the Forest Service, Roos- Poudre River, offers Greeley’s measures to limit impact to the ARP. This means an organized team evelt Hotshots, Larimer Coun- The Seaman Fire, burning largest mountain reservoir at reservoir and intakes,” Arm- of fire management specialists ty Sheriff’s Office, Poudre Fire 5,008 acre-feet, according to the strong wrote in an email to The primarily in the Arapahoe and will come together to coordi- Authority and Rocky Mountain Roosevelt National Forest about City of Greeley.