Second Round of CHSAA’s Esports’ Super Smash Bros Ultimate Tournament Has Been Completed

AURORA – The second round of the Colorado High School Activities Association’s esports postseason tournament for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was completed today, seeing 16 teams advance to the in-person rounds of the tournament, played at Localhost on Thursday, May 2.

The second round saw far more tumult in the opening matches, as there were five upsets across the 16 second-round games, compared to six upsets over the 32 first-round contests. Chief among those round two upsets was Top-seeded “Varsity Patriot Smash” of George Washington High School lose to the 32-seed “Senior Nighthawks” from Northfield. The lowest surviving seed entering round two — Cherry Creek High School’s No. 48 seed “Creek Shy Guys” — managed to advance to the in-person stage to keep their cinderella story hopes alive. The second round also saw every school with multiple teams suffer at least one elimination, making it so that no school will have more than one team competing in the third round.

Find the full bracket on PlayVS, in addition to match times.

All 16 remaining teams are listed below in rank order:

No. 2 Super Smash Wolves – Black

• School: Grandview High School
• Players: Jonathan Bannoura, Tim Weber, RJ Keller
• First Round Result: Defeated “BrawlersSmash” (Falcon High School), 6-0.
• Second Round Result: Defeated “RMHS Lobos JV 1” (Rocky Mountain High School), 6-2.

No. 3 SMT SMASH Bros. 1

• School: Rocky Mountain Prep: SMART
• Players: Gabriel Rodriguez, Ivan Ochoa, Dylan Orona
• First Round Result: Defeated “Hornets SSBU – B” (Pueblo County High School), 7-3.
• Second Round Result: Defeated “Comrade Crunch” (Conifer Senior High School), 6-0.

No. 4 Bad Decisions

• School: Lakewood High School
• Players: Kayla Kuntscher, Finn Goodloe, Kyle Herman
• First Round Result: Defeated “San Pedro Gaming 2” (Arrupe Jesuit High School), 6-0.
• Second Round Result: Defeated “Thunderhawks C” (Prairie View High School), 6-0.

No. 5 VISTA SMASH VARSITY

• School: Mountain Vista High School
• Players: Avery Wilson, Penn Hoang, Briston Stewart
• First Round Result: Defeated “PCHS_02_Smash” (Pine Creek High School), 6-0.
• Second Round Result: Defeated “Rice and Beans” (STEM School Highlands Ranch), 6-2.

No. 6 Pueblo West Smash Varsity

• School: Pueblo West High School
• Players: Rowan Corona, Brandon Cross, Malachi Larson
• First Round Result: Defeated “ACHS Varsity” (Aurora Central High School), 6-6.
• Second Round Result: Defeated “Chatfield Smash Varsity” (Chatfield Senior High School), 6-6.

No. 8 PCHS_01_Smash

• School: Pine Creek High School
• Players: Aydin Escamilla, Ryan Villa, Kai Liebert
• First Round Result: Defeated “DCHS Varsity Smash” (Douglas County High School), 6-2.
• Second Round Result: Defeated “The Cutie Pies” (Denver Christian School), 7-6.

No. 9 Lancer Esports

• School: Abraham Lincoln High School
• Players: Wily Rivas, Edward Ruiz, Gill Reeves
• First Round Result: Defeated “Smash 1” (Mountain Range High School), 6-1.
• Second Round Result: Defeated “Alameda Smash” (Alameda International High School), 6-4.

No. 10 RMHS Lobos Varsity

• School: Rocky Mountain High School
• Players: Maya McCaughan, Cooper White, Fernando De La Crus
• First Round Result: Defeated “Bear Creek Gold Smash” (Bear Creek High School), 6-0.
• Second Round Result: Defeated “Fairview Knights” (Fairview High School), 7-2.

No. 11 Fossil Ridge Varsity Smash Bros

• School: Fossil Ridge High School
• Players: Aidan Lewis, Braden Modafferi, Kye Mahoney
• First Round Result: Defeated “SHS Navy Knights Smash” (Severance High School), 6-0.
• Second Round Result: Defeated “Smash Spartans A” (Greeley West High School), 6-2.

No. 12 Kadet Smash Bros

• School: Air Academy High School
• Players: David Basanez, James Phelps, Creed Anderson
• First Round Result: Defeated “CECP Smash Lions 1” (Colorado Early Colleges Douglas County), 6-1.
• Second Round Result: Defeated “Goofus Doofuses” (Legend High School), 6-2.

No. 14 North Smash A

• School: Denver North High School
• Players: Landon Sanchez, Lorenzo Romero, Osiris Rodriguez
• First Round Result: Defeated “Super Smash Wolves – White” (Grandview High School), 7-3.
• Second Round Result: Defeated “Hornets SSBU – A” (Pueblo County High School), 7-6.

No. 18 San Pedro Gaming

• School: Arrupe Jesuit High School
• Players: Edgar Luevano Juarez, Uriel Lamas, Edwin Candia Marcelino
• First Round Result: Defeated “Denver South Ravens” (Denver South High School), 6-0. 
• Second Round Result: Defeated “RHS Smashville” (Rangeview High School), 7-6.

No. 20 Pagosa Springs Phantoms

• School: Pagosa Springs High School
• Players: Aiden Serr, Christopher Rafferty, Calvin Voss
• First Round Result: Defeated “JV Patriot Smash 2” (George Washington High School), 6-5.
• Second Round Result: Defeated “Berthoud Spartans Smash Bros” (Berthoud High School), 7-4.

No. 32 Senior Nighhawks

• School: Northfield High School
• Players: Anthony Shermer, Xander Dionne, David Mendoza
• First Round Result: Defeated “GHS Smash Team A” (Gateway High School), 8-5.
• Second Round Result: Defeated “Varsity Patriot Smash” (George Washington High School), 7-6.

No. 39 AWEST Ultimate Warriors

• School: Arvada West High School
• Players: Lucas Coto, Sage Rabyor, Ethan Lyon
• First Round Result: Upset “SMT Smash Bros 2” (Rocky Mountain Prep: SMART), 6-1.
• Second Round Result: Defeated “RHS Funky Kong” (Rangeview High School), 7-5.

No. 48 Creek Shy Guys

• School: Cherry Creek High School
• Players: Levin Vang, Anpetu Chrisjohn, Lux Vang
• First Round Result: Upset “CHS Smash 1” (Centaurus High School), 6-3.
• Second Round Result: Defeated “Fossil Ridge JV Smash Bros” (Fossil Ridge High School), 7-2.