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Smash Bros Pro Hurt Jumping From Illegal Taxi On Way To Tourney
A big fighting game tournament, Genesis 9, took place from January 20-23 in San Jose, California. Top talent from around the world, including Super Smash Bros. competitors Leonardo “MkLeo” Lopez and Samuel “Dabuz” Buzby, gathered at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center to play games like Guilty Gear Strive and Rivals of Aether. But for one Super Smash Bros. Melee pro, British player Elliot “Frenzy” Grossman, the Genesis 9 tournament started with an illegal taxi and, he claims, a near kidnapping.
“Got tricked into an illegal taxi coming out of [the San Francisco International Airport] and nearly got kidnapped,” Frenzy tweeted on January 19 with a picture of his scarred-up right hand. “Jumped out of the car after seeing the police chase after the vehicle and very luckily only bruised and scraped my hand and back. In the hospital [right now], [but I have] no idea how anything works here [to be honest].”
You might be wondering what the hell Frenzy’s talking about, as it sounds like some action movie stunt with Tom Cruise or something. Well, as it turns out, the Falco main, who was making his way to the Genesis 9 tourney, encountered some…complications when he touched down in California.
“So, I had just got off an 11-hour flight from London Heathrow Airport to San Francisco International Airport,” Frenzy told Kotaku in an email. “I was planning to get an Uber to my hotel in San Jose, but my phone had run out of battery on the way and wifi was often spotty at the airports. I decided to get a taxi instead and so, I walked out to the taxi stand.”
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Frenzy is a pro Melee player for the British esports organization Reason Gaming. Hailing from England and maining Falco, he is the UK’s second-best player and the 47th-best Melee competitor in the world as of 2022. His record speaks for itself, though. He regularly places in the top 10 bracket at most tournaments he participates in and has a few first-place wins under his belt as well, with his last one being at the Galint Melee Open: Fall Edition 2022 back in November. The dude can game! However, he wasn’t prepared for the game of California transportation.
“A driver approaches me and asked if I was looking for a taxi, to which I replied yes and then asked where I was going as per usual,” Frenzy said. “He shows me to the car and opens the door for me to get in with my things and as I close the door and belt up, I look out of the window and see multiple police officers with weapons drawn running towards the vehicle and shouting ‘Stop the vehicle!’ and ‘Get out!’ The driver ignores this and then accelerated immediately as I was still getting in and belting up, at which point I knew that I had made a massive mistake. In the moment I just decided that if I got out quick enough, it was safer than either the driver getting away and being at his mercy or getting involved in a police chase which could end in a crash at higher speeds.”
“When I turned around to put my seatbelt on, I saw multiple cops running out to surround the car out of the window,” Frenzy said. “They had guns drawn. The driver then accelerated, foot to the floor, and tried to get away. That was when I decided to bail out. I was familiar with this sort of thing happening from the internet, but I was caught completely off guard by this specific attempt, so I knew exactly what was going on.”
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Frenzy said he was in “such an adrenaline rush” that things went blurry. One minute, he was buckling his seatbelt to head to Genesis 9. The next, he was “rolling on the ground” after jumping out of the fake taxi cab. He said he “didn’t land badly or have anything else on the road” near him to cause further injury as he rolled onto the asphalt, the car going around 15-20mph. Still, he was in “pretty serious pain,” with a backpack only somewhat cushioning his tumble and his right hand taking most of the impact. The Mills-Peninsula Emergency Department in Burlingame said Frenzy didn’t break anything but had “really bad swelling, abrasions, and bruising” on his right hand as well as “friction burns” on his back from rolling on gravel and “low blood pressure” for a while. He also got in touch with cops after the incident for a quick police report.
“The cops asked a lot about what the criminal’s exact actions were and they explained they had been after this guy that had been running this scheme for a while,” Frenzy said. “They gave me some information about the case number and who to contact. I’m not 100% sure how they caught the vehicle or the criminal as I was recovering from the jump, but I saw he was in handcuffs far away as I was being attended to later on.”
A San Francisco Police Department officer told Kotaku over the phone that, although they couldn’t divulge any specific information about the incident, Frenzy’s case is real and an “ongoing investigation” is currently in progress. The officer also told Kotaku that the individual conducting the investigation will give us a callback, but that hasn’t happened yet.
“These sorts of schemes are all over the world and, as a pretty experienced traveller, I’m usually aware of them,” Frenzy said. “However, in a lapse of judgement and after a long flight, I got tricked. They try to trick you by positioning close to where the legitimate taxi stands are and even color their cars in the same layout as legit ones. They will approach people, especially those who are on their own or who are tourists, and ask if they are looking for a taxi and where they are going. Because of this, I usually tend to stick to ride share apps when traveling, but on this occasion my phone was out of battery so I was in a rough situation.”
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In the end, Frenzy made it to Genesis 9 to play some Super Smash Bros. Melee thanks to the help of the tournament’s organizers. After taking a day or two to heal up, he said he felt good enough to compete. He didn’t place that well, getting 49th in the tournament. However, he said the “event itself was amazing even despite what happened” and is “eager to return in full form next year.” Here’s hoping he gets there much safer next time.
Console Shortages Force Xbox To Use Dev Kits For Halo Tourney
If you’ve been trying to buy a PS5 or Xbox Series X over the last year, you know how hard it can be. You might think Microsoft, the company that literally builds and sells Xbox consoles, would be able to snag some, but even it is struggling. So for its latest Halo Infinite tournament, the HCS Kickoff Major Raleigh 2021, the company is using modified dev kits for some tournament players.
Yesterday, the new season of the Halo Championship Series started with a $250k tournament featuring eSport teams from OpTic, G2, eUnited, and Cloud9. But, before the tournament started, 343s esports Lead Tahir Hasandjekic announced on Twitter that some players would have to use dev kits running in retail mode. The reason? “Global supply chain shortage is real,” explained Hasandjekic.
According to Hasandjekic, the dev kits will be “functionally identical” and the only real difference will be that the dev units look different than retail Xbox consoles.
Getting your hands on next-gen consoles continues to be a hassle, even over a year after the machines launched. With some tech giants like Intel suggesting the chip shortage could continue to cause problems well into 2023 and scalpers continuing to use bots to scoop up the few consoles that do appear online, it’s very like that in 2022 it will remain hard and frustrating to buy a PS5 or Xbox Series X at retail price. Scalpers reportedly made some $104 million in profits this past August alone, according to Micheal Driscoll, a data product senior associate lead at consumer finance company Avant.
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Bellator 268 results: Vadim Nemkov demolishes Julius Anglickas to defend title, meets Corey Anderson in tourney final
Vadim Nemkov’s reign of dominance in Bellator continues.
The reigning Bellator light heavyweight champion demolished replacement challenger Julius Anglickas to successfully defend his belt with a fourth-round kimura submission Saturday night in the main event of Bellator 268, which took place in the Footprint Center in Phoenix.
After being stunned early in the opening round with an Anglickas punch, Nemkov came alive, and the rest of the fight quickly turned into one-way traffic.
Nemkov (15-2) really seized momentum in Round 2, when he tripped Anglickas (10-2) to the floor and then went to work with big punches and elbows from top position, including one particularly nasty elbow that sliced Anglickas open and sent blood pouring all over the canvas. Nemkov used a blast double-leg to put Anglickas back onto the canvas in the opening seconds of Round 3 and nearly secured two different armbars, but Anglickas again survived to the horn.
Nemkov’s double-leg takedown again greeted Anglickas at the beginning of Round 4, and this time, the Russian champion finished the job, working to side control, trapping his foe’s right hand while blasting him with punches, then ripping control of the fight-ending submission.
Nemkov remains undefeated in Bellator with a 7-0 record and has won nine consecutive fights in his current streak.
Next up for Nemkov will be the only other man standing in the bracket, Corey Anderson, who made a thunderous statement with a 51-second knockout of Ryan Bader in the night’s co-main event. Anderson (16-5) blasted Bader (28-7) with a nasty overhand right behind the ear, then pounded out the Arizona product with a quickness to extend his perfect Bellator record to 3-0 and advance into the finals of the light heavyweight grand prix.
After finishing just three of his 10 victories in the UFC, Anderson has now notched KO/TKO stoppages in all three of his bouts under the Bellator umbrella.
Elsewhere on the night, former Bellator lightweight champion Brent Primus likely cemented himself as the next No. 1 contender for the belt with a unanimous decision win (29-28, 30-27, 30-27) over former UFC titleholder Benson Henderson.
Primus’ grappling was the story of the fight as he spent long stretches of each round working for submissions on the endlessly flexible Henderson (28-11). Henderson defended valiantly and even swung the action back into his favor with a slick left hand that dropped Primus (11-2) in the opening stages of Round 3, however Primus popped right back up and went right back to work on a single-leg takedown, which he eventually used to take Henderson’s back, flatten him out, and hunt for a rear-naked choke for the rest of the round.
With the win, Primus puts himself in pole position to challenge the winner of Bellator 270’s vacant title fight — Patricky Freire vs. Peter Queally — for the 155-pound belt next.
Meanwhile, the result puts Henderson onto the first three-fight skid of his career.
“I’ve bought so many pay-per-views to watch that guy fight,” Primus said. “He’s a legend.”
In the opening bout of the main card, local product Henry Corrales (19-6) put on an electric show in his return to the featherweight division, sweeping the judges’ scorecards to win a back-and-forth brawl over Vladyslav Parubchenko (16-3) via unanimous 30-27 scores.
Corrales fended off Parubchenko’s takedowns and was active on the counter, consistently blasting his Ukrainian foe with heavy hooks in the pocket. Corrales’ best moments came in the third round, when he rocked Parubchenko several times and even dropped him with a hard left hook, however Parubchenko ultimately survived to hear the final horn.
Corrales has now rebounded to win two of his last three fights in Bellator after dropping back-to-back outings to Darrion Caldwell and Juan Archuleta in 2019-20.
Complete Bellator 268 results can be seen below.
Main Card
- Vadim Nemkov def. Julius Anglickus via submission (kimura) – Round 4, 4:25
- Corey Anderson def. Ryan Bader via TKO (strikes) – Round 1, 0:51
- Brent Primus def. Benson Henderson via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 30-27)
- Henry Corrales def. Vladyslav Parubchenko via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Preliminary Card
- Karl Albrektsson def. Dovletdzhan Yagshimuradov via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
- Mukhamed Berkhamov def. Jaleel Willis via submission (guillotine choke) – Round 1, 4:05
- Nick Browne def. Bobby Lee via submission (heel hook) – Round 1, 1:38
- Javier Torres def. Gregory Milliard via split decision (28-29, 29-28, 29-28)
- Sumiko Inaba def. Randi Field via submission (arm-triangle choke) – Round 2, 2:02
- Lance Gibson Jr. def. Raymond Pina via TKO (strikes) – Round 2, 1:44
- Jaylon Bates def. Raphael Montini via submission (armbar) – Round 1, 3:49
- Sullivan Cauley def. Deon Clash via TKO (strikes) Round 1, 4:59
- Maria Henderson def. Collette Santiago via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 1, 0:40 | (Watch finish)
Dwayne Johnson Unveils ‘Black Adam’ Summer 2022 Release Date During NCAA Tourney Game – Deadline
This afternoon just before the UCLA vs. Alabama NCAA tournament game, Dwayne Johnson unveiled the release date for his New Line/DC superhero movie Black Adam: July 29, 2022.
Johnson appeared in a short spot on TBS for Black Adam, and also posted on Instagram and Twitter as well (see below) showing digital screens in NYC’s Times Square ablaze with the release date.
“The Hierarchy of Power in the DC Universe is about to Change,” declared Dwayne Johnson in the TBS spot.
Johnson also took a fun jab at NCAA sportscaster and former 11-time NBA All-Star Charles Barkley, who is an Alabama native and an Auburn University alum: “And Chuck: There is nothing I can do for an Auburn guy who picks Alabama to go to the Final 4.” Johnson made the tease just before the UCLA vs. Alabama game today.
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“He’s been mad since I’ve been a stunt double in movies for a long time,” Barkley told his fellow NCAA sportscasters after the spot, adding, “If Alabama makes it to the Final 4, I’m brining a Houndstooth hat and wearin’ it! Roll Tide!”
Black Adam also stars Aldis Hodge as Hawkman, Noah Centineo as Atom Smasher, Quintessa Swindell as Cyclone and Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Fate.
Jaume Collet-Serra, who also directed Johnson alongside Emily Blunt in Disney’s Jungle Cruise, will direct. Johnson, Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia of Seven Bucks Productions are producing Black Adam with Beau Flynn of FlynnPictureCo. FlynnPictureCo’s Scott Sheldon will serve as EP.
Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani wrote the latest draft. Adam Sztykiel wrote the previous draft.
While Warner Bros. 2021 theatrical slate is going in theaters and on HBO Max day-and-date, the major studio recently hammered a 45-day exclusive theatrical window with No. 2 U.S. exhibitor Regal for their 2022 slate. The news last week indicated that Warner Bros. was returning to a theatrical distribution first window plan for their movies before they arrive on their streaming service.
Warner Bros. had the Aug. 5-7, 2022 weekend RSVP’ed for an event film. I gotta think they lose that date now since Black Adam is going a weekend before. Interestingly enough, Disney already has Indiana Jones 5 on July 29 next year.
Let the blinking contest between the Rock and Indy commence.
Oral Roberts keeps NCAA tourney hopes alive
The oversized praying hands have long been the landmark of the Oral Roberts campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They are made of bronze, loom 60 feet high and weigh 30 tons. They are known as the World’s Largest Praying Hands, long an attraction for cross-country travelers and those who delight in obscure Americana.
Well, the private Christian school now has another indelible identifier. With a victory over No. 7 Florida in the NCAA men’s tournament on Sunday, Oral Roberts became just the second No. 15 seed to ever advance to the Sweet 16.
Led by the dynamic duo of junior forward Kevin Obanor and sophomore guard Max Abmas, Oral Roberts stunned the college basketball establishment for the second straight game. On Friday, the Golden Eagles stunned No. 2 seed Ohio State to become the ninth team in NCAA history to pull a No. 15 vs. No. 2 upset.
The private school was founded by televangelist Oral Roberts, who wrote an apt memoir on his life and ministry: “Expect a Miracle.”
On Sunday, one arrived. ORU joined Florida Gulf Coast in NCAA lore. Back in 2013, the team remembered as Dunk City swashbuckled its way to victories over Georgetown and San Diego State. It threw lobs in clutch situations and played with a swagger that made it America’s toast. Oral Roberts, which hadn’t won an NCAA tournament game since 1974, erased a double-digit second-half deficit Sunday to outlast the Gators, 81-78.
“It’s really just mind blowing,” Obanor said.
What’s been remarkable about Oral Roberts is the unremarkable way that it has gutted out two wins and went about its business. In his opening statement after the win, coach Paul Mills praised God and looked forward to having clean underwear.
“For me, I’m glad that we get a chance to do laundry,” he said. “Tomorrow will be a good day because I have run out of clothes.”
Oral Roberts defeated Ohio State on Friday by hitting shots, sagging its defense and manipulating the pressure of human nature to force the Buckeyes to go cold and win in overtime.
Against Florida on Sunday, the Gators led by as many as 11 midway through the second half. Oral Roberts didn’t flinch, as it hit five straight field goals in a three-minute stretch starting at the 5:02 mark of the second half. None of those was bigger than a 3-pointer by DeShang Weaver, who was 0-for-5 from the field prior to burying a 3-pointer to give ORU the lead for good, 80-78, with 2:09 remaining.
“You’re going to have a chance to win it,” Mills recalled telling Weaver in the timeout before the shot. “I need you to knock down this three.”
Obanor, a 6-foot-8 junior from Houston, finished the game with 28 points and 11 rebounds. Abmas, the nation’s leading scorer, chipped in 26. They’ve operated this past week with some classic underdog narratives — ignoring seeding, blocking out praise and focusing on the upcoming opponent. “We don’t let our people put a number by our school,” Obanor said. “That’s not what gritty people do.”
After the Ohio State upset, Mills gave the team the bus ride back to the hotel to look at their phones and celebrate the win. He promised them that as good as the win felt in the first round, the Sweet 16 would feel even better. He was pleased with the way they locked in on Florida. When he entered the locker room Sunday night, he had a message: “I told you so!”
No. 3 Arkansas looms next for Oral Roberts, which is a regional game because Fayetteville is just two hours from Tulsa. The two programs played each other earlier this season, with Arkansas coming back to win 87-76 in Fayetteville. Oral Roberts actually led by 12 points in that game, and Abmas hit just 4-of-11 shot from the field.
There’s nothing supremely unique about what Oral Roberts is doing. There’s not a new-age scheme or a magic transfer factory. It is a well-coached team — Mills came from Scott Drew’s staff at Baylor — of under-recruited over-achievers who are playing at a high level. The Golden Eagles are a paradigm of what modern basketball looks like. They play with five shooters, spread the floor and run a crisp offense. Against Florida, they didn’t even shoot that well, hitting 10-for-30 from 3.
Mills pulled off the craftiest coaching move of the tournament by intentionally fouling Florida’s Osayi Osifo to steal a possession in the final minutes. Mills admitted after that he knew Osifo was just a 50% free-throw shooter and ORU was struggling to get stops. Osifo obliged by missing the front end of a one-and-one with 3:11 left. Fifteen seconds later, Obanor gave ORU the lead and shifted the momentum.
After the game, Mills said he hadn’t thought about the history Oral Roberts was making. Entering the NCAAs, he had no idea the school hadn’t won a game since 1974. While ORU’s outfit is a bit more low-key than the Dunk City outfit from Florida Gulf Coast in 2013, the team has met the moment with equal aplomb.
“We play hard, play gritty and play grimy and live with the results,” Obanor said. “And whatever happens, happens.”
What’s certain to happen is unprecedented attention. Florida Gulf Coast athletic director Ken Kavanaugh predicted “lots more well-earned attention.” He told Yahoo Sports about what ORU will experience: “Should be extremely enjoyable. I hope they exceed our now shared platform.”
For Oral Roberts, most of its national basketball fame has revolved around Bill Self once being its coach. Either former NBA player Mark Acres or Haywoode Workman is the most well-known player in school history.
After a stunning weekend in Indianapolis, Florida Gulf Coast’s unprecedented achievement now has company. Oral Roberts is living by its founders’ mantra — miracles have become the expectation. “We’re not capitulating to anyone here,” Mills said.
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Duke pulls out of ACC Tournament, NCAA tourney streak ends
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Duke arrived at the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament hoping to make an unprecedented run to extend its long NCAA Tournament streak.
Instead, the Blue Devils abruptly had to pull out of the tournament and end its season due to a positive COVID-19 test and the resulting quarantining and contact tracing.
The ACC announced that the Blue Devils’ quarterfinal game against No. 15 Florida State for Thursday night has been canceled. And athletics director Kevin White said Duke’s season is over, ending the Blue Devils’ streak of 24 consecutive NCAA appearances that began in 1996.
In a statement, White said the positive test for someone within the program came after Wednesday’s win against Louisville, the Blue Devils’ second win in as many days in Greensboro. Before this, there had been no positive tests all season for a player or coach, he said.
“Since last March when the pandemic started, we have listened to our medical experts and always put safety at the forefront of any determinations regarding competition,” White said. “As a result, this will end our 2020-21 season. We wish every team still playing college basketball good health and the very best during the next few weeks.”
The Blue Devils (13-11, 9-9 ACC) failed to live up to their lofty standards, but coach Mike Krzyzewski said he loved this young team and was honored to coach it.
“We have not asked more of any team in our history, and they deserve enormous credit for handling everything like the outstanding young men they are,” Krzyzewski said in a statement. “I feel deeply for our players, who have done a terrific job all season in taking care of each other and the team.
“I am extremely proud of their collective attitudes and effort, which could not have been stronger.”
With Duke withdrawing, the Seminoles advanced to the ACC Tournament semifinals to play the North Carolina-Virginia Tech winner.
“I just think that preparing yourself for the unexpected is what we’ve been trying to do all year long,” FSU coach Leonard Hamilton said. “It’s unfortunate that we won’t be able to play this game today. But we have to deal with it in a mature way and just be glad that no one’s put at risk.”
Additionally, Louisville released a statement Thursday saying its tests came back negative following the Duke game and didn’t anticipate any concerns with contact tracing.
“Our group is tested daily and on a path to have the requisite consecutive days of negative tests to be able to compete in the NCAA Tournament,” the school said.
With Duke’s season over, this will mark the first time since 1976 that both the Blue Devils and another basketball blueblood — Kentucky — won’t be in the NCAAs. The Wildcats lost their Southeastern Conference Tournament opener to Mississippi State on Thursday, ensuring that program’s first losing season since 1988-89.
Duke hadn’t missed the NCAA Tournament since the 1994-95 season when Krzyzewski stepped away from coaching following complications from back surgery. Assistant Pete Gaudet took over, with that team finishing 13-18 a year after Duke had played in the NCAA title game.
Before that, Krzyzewski had missed the tournament at Duke only in his first three seasons, when he went a combined 38-47 and faced growing pressure to turn things around as Triangle neighbors North Carolina (1982) and North Carolina State (1983) both won NCAA championships.
The first tournament bid came in 1984 and Duke went on to win 37 games while reaching an NCAA final two years later. That was the first in a remarkable run of seven Final Fours in nine years that included championships in 1991 and 1992. Krzyzewski’s teams went on to claim three more titles in 2001, 2010 and 2015.
This year opened with some of the same expectations despite a young roster lacking the same NBA-ready talent of recent years with names like Zion Williamson and Jayson Tatum.
The Blue Devils started the year at No. 9 in the AP Top 25 but was unranked by mid-January for the first time in nearly five years. They lacked the typically rowdy homecourt edge in a fan-less Cameron Indoor Stadium and saw top freshman Jalen Johnson depart the team in February to prepare for the NBA draft.
After a lopsided loss at rival North Carolina, the Blue Devils knew they likely needed to win the ACC Tournament to extend the NCAA streak, even though no team has won five games in five days at the tournament. They opened with a lopsided win against Boston College then beat Louisville in Wednesday’s quarterfinals after losing both regular-season meetings.
All along, Krzyzewski said focused more on developing a young group than past successes.
“This will pay off at some time if you stay with it,” Krzyzewski said after a February loss to Notre Dame. “It did in ’82 and ’83, it did in ’95-96, and it did in 2006. There are times in our program where you learned to appreciate the winning that has come at such a high level and how tough losing is.
“And we as a program need to keep learning that and keep appreciating what it takes to takes to win. You don’t do that by not working hard or trying to get better. And that’s what we’re going to do.”
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