Rouens. A major esports competition at Novick’s Stadium on Sunday
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Rouen (Seine Maritime) will host this weekend, from Friday March 4 to Sunday March 6, the second edition of the Smash Ring, a great competitive tournament on the essential game Super Smash Bros Ultimate. Released in 2018, players compete there, often one on one, through characters from a video game universe. Sunday, from 2 p.m. Novick Stadium, 96 players will be competing, including many players from the French top 20. For connoisseurs, Léon, from the Solary structure, or Raflow, from the BMS structure, will be in the game, being respectively number two and three in the national ranking.
“Educate the youngest and parents” in video games
Initially open to the general public, the event is already a victim of its own success: only a few places were available in the middle of the week. This is the second edition of the Ring of Smash, already organized at Novick’s Stadium last October, by ASPTT Rouen. The sports association opened to the game world with the establishment, at 94 rue de Beauvoisine in Rouen, of a gaming house, a place dedicated to video games. If the room is open to regulars daily, it is also open to everyone, young and old, who would like to try their hand at practicing. Stadiums are also set up during the holidays, but they are not only dedicated to video games, the objective of the ASPTT also being to open the doors of traditional sport to the youngest.
The organization makes it a point of honor to make children and teenagers aware of the dangers and advantages of digital technology, as explained by David Cadinot, coordinator at the ASPTT: for him, the primary objective of the tournament is “to educate younger children and parents to video game practices.
The gambling house, rue Beauvoisine therefore, will host the first activities of the weekend. From this evening, Friday, it is possible to compete there on different video games. As is the tradition of the establishment, from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., a place for the weekly tournament on Smash Bros, which brings together weekend registrants, but also “some of the players”, reports David Cadinot. This competition is open every week to everyone, from the simple beginner to the confirmed player.
A virtual tournament, and a dodgeball
The next day, Saturday March 5, there will be a series of new events at the gaming house, which this time will be open from 10 a.m. Two new tournaments will take place during the day, a virtual part, still on Smash Bros, another physical part. The first is played by teams, but in individual confrontation, from 2 to 6 p.m.; the second will be a competition of Dodgeball, another name for the dodgeball that will take place at the Mandela gymnasium, Saint-Clément district. This playful moment will allow players to disconnect from their busy weekend in competition!
Finally, on Sunday March 6, the long-awaited event of the weekend will take place at Novick’s. The ASPTT, which also has its own e-sports team, has managed to bring together big names from the competitive gaming scene. Naetoru, winner of the first edition, is trying to retain his title, this time against adversaries of a different caliber. The event will be followed face-to-face but also remotely, the competition being broadcast on the ASPTT Rouen Twitch channel.
The attractiveness of the tournament also seems to give ideas to the organizers who, if they will seek above all to “embellish what already exists”, are now thinking about organizing other tournaments, one having already taken place there has a few weeks on the Fifa football game.
Jules Hubault
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