Super Smash Bros. Melee
GameBy HAL Laboratory · Released Nov 2001
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Cloud9 Partners With Mueller Esports Medicine
North American esports organization Cloud9 has entered into a partnership with Mueller Esports Medicine to promote the latter’s health and wellness products.
- Cloud9 has entered a partnership with Mueller Esports Medicine to promote the company’s esports-focused health and wellness products.
- Super Smash Bros. Melee professional player Joseph “mang0” Marquez will serve as the central figure for the campaign, which focuses on recovery tools like the REVIVE pneumatic compression system and performance compression sleeves.
- The partnership aims to promote sustainable health habits for gamers to extend professional careers and improve performance.
The Esports AdvocateMay 2025
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How Gaming Achieves Popularity: The Case of The Smash Brothers
A 2015 DiGRA study by Elmezeny and Wimmer examines how digital game culture is represented in mainstream and online media, using the crowd-funded YouTube documentary series The Smash Brothers as a case study.
- The study is a 2015 DiGRA paper by Elmezeny and Wimmer that uses the nine-episode, roughly 257-minute YouTube documentary series The Smash Brothers as a case study of how gaming is portrayed in media, focusing on the competitive Super Smash Bros. Melee (SSBM) community after its 2012 surge in visibility.
- A qualitative content analysis coded the documentary into four categories (gamer, game, gameplay, community), with gameplay (216 codes) and gamer (197 codes) dominating, and the portrayal of gamers was found to both challenge and reinforce stereotypes.
- The documentary underrepresents female gamers, who appear in only four instances, and the community it depicts is male-dominated and geographically split, especially between East and West Coast players.
DiGRAJan 2015