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Smashers have a thing for making high-quality documentaries. There’s the big daddy of Super Smash Bros. docs with The Smash Brothers, the soon to be released Metagame, a planned Brawl documentary, and now you have a documentary for the little guys of the Smash community: Smash Scenes. It’s a new documentary series where film-makers Toggle and GosuJasu travel to various regions around the world to learn more about their particular area and its Smash history.

In the trailer, there are interviews with players from South Korea, Hawaii, and Santa Barbara–talking about their various experiences playing Smash and interacting with their local community. Usually, most documentaries about Smash focuses on the top level of play, so this series acts a refreshing change of pace, focusing on the average player and their individual experiences on why they play Smash. The first episode is set to release a week from today, so keep your eyes on the GosuJasu YouTube channel to see the finished product.

Source: GosuJasu

With his impressive performance at Evo 2016–being the only American player to make it into top 8–Joe “LI Joe” Ciaramelli has become something of a folk hero in the fighting game community. Despite this however, he has yet to take advantage of any opportunities his Evo performance might have opened towards going pro.

BornFree recently caught up with LI Joe at Defend the North where they got to talk about a number of topics; on not going pro, Joe states that he isn’t really ready to quit his current job and play fighting games as a full time career. The fighting game community “isn’t there yet,” at least in terms of playing at a pro level being a viable career option. However, he doesn’t discount the possibility of doing so further down the line.

In addition to this, he also talks about playing at live on ESPN at Evo and also shares his thoughts on the final DLC character for Street Fighter V: Urien, who was his main back in Street Fighter III 3rd Strike.

Source: BornFree