Weekly Recap 11/25/25
by Mario Macchiarulo
Welcome back to Long Island Smash Network’s Weekly Recap! Here, we provide a wrap-up of all the highlights and headlines from the week of tournaments around Long Island. This week was an interesting one. Let’s get into it!
Starting with Ultimate Rare #47 The Russian Machine taking place on November 19th, an 11 man bracket turned out to be an all-out dogfight. To start the stream, supermario and Ajred played out a contested 5 game set in Winners Quarters, mirroring their previous set, and like last time, Ajred took it to set up a set against KeMonito. Following a 3-0 victory over Vorhees, KeMonito edged out Ajred 3-2 and went on to take the entire tournament by defeating player 4 twice. Some highlights included intriguing top 8 appearances from Vorhees and SMT, along with a 4th place finish for supermario. After defeating GMX and Vorhees, supermario played against SMT (SuperMarioTyler) for the first ever time, and the two Marios (the former plays zss, yes) duked out a 5 game set where supermario secured victory. Ajred would secure the double over him in losers-semis before a defeat to player 4 in losers finals. Really fun tournament! See top 8 graphic and start.gg link below.
The next day, a 17 attendee Gotham kicked off, with 4 PR players in attendance. Some really interesting matchups throughout the bracket with a lot of strong players. PkChris took home the bracket in dominant fashion- only dropping 1 game using Ness, doing the double over Stratas. Top 8 was rounded out by solid runs from Bluespark7, Mixycat :3, Nico, Christian, and Hikarizard. Stratas had a solid run with 2 wins over Amaryllis and a 2nd place finish. See top 8 graphic and start.gg link below!
Now for the biggest event of the week- Shieldbreaker Monthly #5- with a $250 pot bonus. With that type of money involved, everyone was bound to turn up and sure enough they did. 35 entrants in singles with invaders like LRA_START, Apple Reviewer, Gaius, vitz, Slingshot, and BIG CRUMB coming out to duke out with LI heavyweights Cody, SoulArts, Amayne, Wheezer, Raptor, pango, GuyGuy, DTP, Hikarizard, SirDunk, and Yufine. Plenty, plenty of amazing players filled the bracket. Hot sets and upsets to note: SirDunk 2-0 Amayne in WR2, Slingshot 2-0 Wheezer in WR3, BIG CRUMB 2-1 Raptor WR2, Revenge of the Duke 2-1 Entrendre LR2, among many others. Cody took home 1st place without dropping a set- defeating Gaius, SoulArts x2, and All 6 But No 7. Gaius, LRA_START, and Apple Reviewer made the most of their invasions by placing 7th, 5th, and 5th respectively. Check below for Top 8 graphic and bracket link!
Another competitive week for Long Island’s locals with some new and returning faces getting some spotlight. The road to summit continues! Stay tuned for another week of locals!
