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ROEDL SMASHES BACK TO NORTH
Sophomore Pace Roedl is an up-and-coming player on the FHN Esports team
by Alex Wheadon awheadon315@g.fhsdschools.org
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Super Smash Brothers
Ultimate is one of the games played by the e-sports team. The team has a record of nine wins to three losses going into playoffs which is a best of one, double elimination bracket where the winner moves to state. One instrumental player on the team is sophomore Pace Roedl. He has been able to take out a lot of players in the sets he has played in.
He has been playing since he was a child. His first game was Super Smash Bros. Brawl on the Wii. When Smash for Wii U and 3DS came out, he would play on the bus with his friends. He got really into competitive smash this year even though he had been delving into it since Ultimate came out.
“I started playing Smash Bros when I was 5 or 6. I played Brawl on the Wii and that was my first introduction to the game,” Roedl said. “After that, I played Smash 4 on the 3DS and enjoyed it a lot. I’d frequently play with my friends on the bus.”
Pace joined in the spring crew battle season when he moved to North in January.
He got into competitive smash when Ultimate came out, which was his first time he really got into smash. He had been playing smash for a lot of his life; he only really went to tournaments here and there until he moved to North and joined the e-sports team, going to more tournaments to practice.
“Once Smash Ultimate came out, I started looking to play it competitively,”
Roedl said. “I went to a few tournaments here and there, but I never really did much. When I moved back here in January, and started going to as many as I could. I’ve only really been playing competitive smash bros for about four months now.”
He “mains” (which is the character you mainly play) Robin, a character where the specials, aerials, tilts and smash attacks have a meter to show how much you use them. For example, Robin has a move called Arcfire where the input of the side special is a fire spell from a tomb that has a meter that when it’s depleted, needs to be recharged and the tomb will be able to be picked up and thrown the same with the rest of their specials.
“I main Robin,” Roedl said. “I press
