#Smashtherecord is announced to happen August 22– August 25!
Gaming Knights, a video game club at UCF, will hold a 4 day event full of games, charity, and fun as they attempt to break the Guinness World Record for “Longest Video Games Marathon Playing a Fighting Game.”
The current record is 48 hours and the club is aiming to go past that for about 55 hours. The actual event will be 72 hours.
Gaming Knights is flying out top players from California, New Jersey, and New York to participate along with many other players from around the community to play in the event being held at Allure Resort in Orlando. Gaming Knights is anticipating 1,000 people in the main room over the weekend where anybody is able to participate if they want to help break the record.
Posted below is a list of top players who have the highest rankings for Super Smash Bros. and are coming out to participate. Many ‘smash’ fans are coming to meet them and be able to play with them.
-MIOM | Mango (Ranked #1 in the World)
-CT EMP | Mew2King (Ranked #3 in the World)
-CT | Hungrybox (Ranked #5 in the World)
-Plup (Ranked #2 in Florida)
-Colbol (Ranked #3 in Florida)
-Blea Gelo (Ranked #4 in Florida)
-Lambchops (Ranked #5 in Florida)
-Gahtzu (Ranked #10 in Florida)
And 9 others in the top 20 FL rankings
Jason Diehl (Gahtzu) is the UCF student who will be attempting to break the record by playing over 48 hours. This summer, different people will start practicing for the actual event date. This event will be streamed through different sites, such as Chibo and twitch.tv. They will also have D’Ron Maingrette (D1) which is going to be the commentator for this event.
#Smashtherecord is a charity event and will be asking for $10 donations at the door. Their goal is $15,000 for the weekend and all proceeds will go to the Prevent Cancer Foundation. They will also ask people who are playing on stream to donate $1 for each set (3/5) that they play.
While UCF’s A&SF fees were able to provide about $4,600 to the event, the club still needs to raise about $3,300 more. Gaming Knights will be doing different things to raise the money such as selling t-shirts through their sponsor, Teespring, which will have all the participants names printed on the back.
The club will also use a GoFundMe page as a funding platform for this event. Some of the main sponsors for this event which will be helping with funding and promotions include: Microsoft, Monster Energy, Alex Jebailey from Community Effort Orlando, CLASH tournaments, and Twitch.tv
If you are interested in viewing, going, or participating in this grand event, click here for more information.
