Ninja Hypes Melee Tournament, Watches the Finals on Stream

This weekend saw a lot of tournaments taking place, a majority of which occurred at DreamHack Austin. One tournament that wasn’t at the event but which still garnered a significant following was the Smash 'N' Splash 4: Melee tournament, which saw the best players in the world combine for a truly stacked Super Smash Bros: Melee tournament not to be missed. One such fan who decided to catch the action of the finals, watching the games alongside his chat on Twitch, was none other than Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, the most watched solo streamer on the platform.

Watching the games live, Ninja took the opportunity to talk to his stream about the quality of the games, and to help educate them on the history of the game and its importance for esports as a whole. It did seem as though some of his audience were not as familiar with the game however, expressing confusion about the games graphics, age, and why they would need to play on an old school CRT monitor.

Ninja is hosting a Melee tournament right now and the chat is full of youngsters and it's great. pic.twitter.com/aSLbKkSOiW

— Sykin (5 Days) (@SykinSSB) June 4, 2018

Evidently catching the attention of some of the players themselves, Echo Fox Melee superstar Jason “Mew2King” Zimmerman reached out on Twitter to invite Ninja to catch up and play the game sometime.

@Ninja yo let's play melee sometime (cant be today im at a tourney)

— Jason Zimmerman (@MVG_Mew2King) June 4, 2018

Ninja’s response was quick and to the point.

Would be an honor man.

— Ninja (@Ninja) June 4, 2018

Could we be seeing some mind of Ninja Melee stream in the future? Possibly, he’s obviously a fan and certainly has the reach to gather any number of celebrities together, both esports and otherwise. Fingers crossed we can see Ninja flex his competitive muscle against Mew2King and others soon, and maybe even train them up in Fortnite too.

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