3/26/25 Middle School Smash Open 2024:

Another Year, Another Epic Showdown! 🎮🏆

The 2025 Middle School Smash Open is in the books, and what a tournament it was! Once again, the best players from Santiago Charter, Yorba Middle, Cerro Villa Middle, and McPherson Magnet brought their A-game, competing through five intense rounds of bracket play to crown this year’s champion.

As we hinted before... Santiago Charter defends their title! 🏆 They locked in 1st and 3rd place, while Cerro Villa made a strong statement, securing 2nd place! A huge shoutout to all the competitors who showed skill, strategy, and sportsmanship—this event was filled with smiles, laughter, family support, and nonstop hype. This is what scholastic esports is all about! 🎮❤️

A special thank you and heartfelt farewell to Coach Steven Van Smaalen. Your dedication to your students and the esports community has made a lasting impact. Best of luck in Idaho—you will be missed!

We’ll be back next spring... and maybe, just maybe, even in the fall. 😉 See you all next season!

Thank you to Data Impressions for the Nintendo Switch donation. Thank you to Mr. Flores and the El Modena esports team for helping with the event.

PC: Elijah C. Communications

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3/30/24 Middle School Smash Open 2024:

Woo-hoo! Another Middle School Smash Open season has come to an end, and boy, was it a blast! Our scholastic gamers rocked the house with their insane Super Smash Bros skills! We challenged Cerro Villa, Yorba, McPherson, and Santiago Charter to bring their top 5 players to battle it out in an epic bracket of champions. The goal? To crown the ultimate middle school Smash champion in our district! 

After all was said and done Santiago Charter was crowned the Champion by taking first place with O.Bjork and winning the overall points champion! 

Second place went to Z. Rahman [SC] and third place went to J. Castaneda [CV]