Smash event attendees have been trashing each other about tournament stench for years.
In 2008, a California tournament organizer put a rule into effect that, if players aren’t keep up with their hygiene, he has the right to disqualify them.
In 2015, a Tallahassee Smash event coordinator feared losing their biweekly tournament slot after locals apparently labeled it “stinky day.”
Smash games can get intense, tickling players’ sweat glands, and that odor can become particularly pronounced around games for which opponents sit next to each other.
Unfortunately, compounding upon that, it looks like some Smash event attendees don’t take precautionary measures.
It’s not that a majority of Smash event attendees smell, he told me over e-mail.
Pidge added that, while tournament stench is sometimes an issue, what’s really obnoxious is how incessantly Smash players tweet about it. »