By George — February 18, 2019
Hey everybody, Renzo here! Happy to be joining as the first community contributor to this site, can’t wait to see the community grow even more! So without further ado, here’s weekly community highlights #40! Featuring some clips from Arizona local tournaments, some great shovel knight clips and a lot of wrastor clips, enjoy!
As always, feel free to leave suggestions/comments/concerns and be sure to like and subscribe to stay in touch with the series!
By George — February 18, 2019
Today we’re announcing a new type of post that you’ll see on RivalsofAether.com. One from contributors in our very own community sharing their stories, articles, videos, experiences, and expertise. If you’re interested in becoming a community contributor, leave a comment here or get in touch with us through any of our social media.
In the meantime, I’m proud to introduce our first community contributor below.
“Hey everybody! My name is Renzo Salazar, I go by just Renzo as my tag in Rivals, and I’m from South Florida. I’ve been playing the game for a pretty long time. I got it the day it came out when I saw Dan post about it in /r/smashbros, and I’ve been hopeful for the game’s success ever since! I’m a long time Orcane main but love playing any character in friendlies.
A little over a year ago I was wondering how I could help the community even more (I attempted but failed to run a local scene in my region while also running the Florida Rivals of Aether discord, where other local scenes are present), when all of a sudden I had a genius idea.
What if someone went through and took all the popular twitch clips of the week, added some other user submitted clips, and put them into a weekly series!
So I’ve been doing that on and off for the past year, even though my upload schedule is a little inconsistent at times, I aim to release my videos anywhere from Sundays-Tuesdays.”
You can find Renzo’s Community Twitch highlights on his social media above, as well as now featured here on RivalsOfAether.com as our first community contributor.
By George — February 7, 2019
Genesis 6 is over, and with it Season 3 of the Rivals Championship Series. As we close the book on our latest year of competitive Rivals it’s always nice to take a look at how far we’ve come. Spoilers obviously abound in this article so make sure to only give this a read if you’re happy with finding out who won Genesis.
Some of the Rivals community at Genesis 6!
Congratulations to Panda Global’s FullStream for his amazing losers side run at Genesis 6 that secured him the title of RCS Season 3 Champion. On top of this being our largest live event yet, FullStream took arguably the most difficult path through the final day, making this win a true testament to FullStream’s Rivals of Aether legacy.
Left: Windows, Center: FullStream, Right: Penguin
This Genesis is also the first time a previous champion has won again, making FullStream our only 2 time champion over all 3 years of the series. We also broke some other first-time records for Rivals with a singles prize pool of over $13,000 and more than 45,000 viewers watching the finals. We can’t thank our players, community, and fans enough for making this event a piece of Rivals history.
He does it! After taking a year off @FullStream comes back, runs through the gauntlet of death in losers and is your #G6 @RivalsOfAether champion! pic.twitter.com/HIeDgRIlkp
— Genesis 6 (@Genesis_Smash) February 3, 2019
Players came from all over to compete, meet their Rivals friends, and test their skill in the RCS World Finals. Here are the standings for our top 16 competitors who all deserve a congratulations for their placings. Thanks to everyone who joined us at the event to help make Genesis 6 an event to remember.
| Standing | Player | Character |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | PG | FullStream |    |
| 2nd | Penguin |  |
| 3rd | AF | Windows |  |
| 4th | BxA | MattyIce | |
| 5th | Vireo.pro | CakeAssault |  |
| 5th | ZeeBee |  |
| 7th | Jesier |  |
| 7th | Blue | |
| 9th | Kaos |  |
| 9th | Lord Bagel | |
| 9th | TurtleBox | |
| 9th | DolphinBrick |  |
| 13th | SNT | MSB | |
| 13th | hoppyKnitz | |
| 13th | Chompers | |
| 13th | uS | DosRogers | |
The majority of the event was streamed live, and you can catch the action on either ShowdownGG for days 1 and 2, or VGBootCamp for the finals. We’ve also put together some highlight videos below with the help of Youtuber JarekBloodDragon.
Top 32 Highlights
Top 6 Highlights
We asked our photographer from last year, FS | Xenos, to once again to capture the Rivals event. Relive (or experience for the first time) the event through his fantastic album that covers all 3 days: xenosmccloud.com/ESPORTS/RoA-Gensix
My @RivalsOfAether album from #Genesis6 is live! Check it out in the link below.https://t.co/M73EgQlriG pic.twitter.com/ievpauWDBj
— FS| Xenos @ Heart of battle (@XenosMccloud) February 6, 2019
Even though season 3 is over, we have plenty in store for 2019. At Genesis we announced that season 4 is coming this summer and opening with Smash’N’Splash 5.
In the meantime we’ll have 3 events during the offseason that will serve as Road to Season 4 events.
Winning any of these events will secure you a $500 travel voucher (on top of any other winnings) towards Smash’N’Splash 5. The first event coming up is Frostbite 2019 in just 2 weeks. With a $2,000 pot bonus, a travel voucher, and more on the line this will be one you won’t want to miss.
By George — January 30, 2019
For the last 2 years the Genesis series has been a standout tournament for competitive Rivals, and this year is no different. Once again this storied series will play host to the Rivals Championship Series World Finals. The culmination of eight months of competition as players from around the world vie for the title of champion.
Along with a record-breaking entrant count for the third year in a row, we’ve also topped our prize pool with more than $13,000 raised in our RCS compendium. If you’re an attendee, viewer, or new fan just tuning in this primer will guide you on how to enjoy Rivals at one of its biggest weekends in competitive gaming and what we’re doing to make it special.
Rivals will be featured on two different streams this event, with ShowdownGG handling the Friday and Saturday streams and VGBootCamp featuring us on the big stage Sunday in the Paramount Theatre.
It will be a great show either way, but if you’re in the area we recommend coming out to the gorgeous theatre to see the action live and support the competitors. A limited amount of tickets are still available at the door.
In addition to everything else that comes with winning Rivals at Genesis, the victor will also earn the chance to work with the Rivals dev team on their own skin as part of the Make Your Mark series.
Players won’t want to miss their chance to ensure that they go down in Rivals history.
Rivals Turbo
We’ll be featuring the first official Rivals Turbo mode tournament on stream Friday evening. After an exciting day of more serious events we’re opening entry to anyone who wants to compete with the super charged (and super silly) Rivals Turbo Mode. A $500 pot bonus is provided through the generosity of the community from the Genesis 6 compendium.
Rivals Amateur
Our second special bracket will be an amateur-only event happening after the completion of singles R1 pools on Saturday. Players can opt into this event after their pool throughout the weekend if their record is 0-2 or 1-2 in singles. The bracket will run from 2PM – 4PM with grand finals kicking off the beginning of the Saturday stream at 4PM.
Since we don’t currently offer all of our products online, we’ll be bringing some of our rarer Rivals merch to the event. You can get your hands on these exclusives as well as some of our standard skins:
Rivals at Genesis 6 will be run using the standard RCS ruleset with one addition:
‘The Forest Floor’ stage will be banned during the singles event unless both players in a match agree to select it.
All that’s left to do at this point is bring the hype! Check out some of the ways our community is getting excited, and make sure to join us on stream for the event.
Unofficial Rivals at Genesis 6 Trailer pic.twitter.com/x2a7RV4R0t
— AF | Windows (@WindowsRoA) January 30, 2019
Make your own fantasy bracket on smash.gg!
Looking for hires on an esteemed RoA Fantasy Team. Please contact us if you are going to G6 and our qualifications meet your fancy. Team Captain @WindowsRoA will review your resume. Wingless creatures need not apply. pic.twitter.com/fnasJJvrYn
— $NT | MSB (@notMSB) January 31, 2019
https://t.co/oytTLkHeFo Genesis 6 HYPE WEEK CONTINUES! #SupportSmallStreamers #SupportSmallStreams #SupportSmallerStreamers #Twitch #Twitchtv #Twitchstreaming #TwitchStreamer #TwitchLivestreamer #Streamley @Hound_Esports @itsTwerkTaco @SoooMungry @RivalsOfAether
— Hound | TekKnite (@TekKnite) January 29, 2019
Take note of Sparx21’s extensive Head to Head results list from top players season 3. This might be useful for your fantasy bracket 😉
I put all of the tournament placements, wins, losses, and everything into this spreadsheet here: https://t.co/sSIDu6eF1J
Will add more players later on, but I need to rest#G6 #RivalsOfAether@CakeAssault_ @PenguinUpB @FullStream @WindowsRoA
— ISG | Sparx21 (@Sparx21RoA) January 28, 2019
By George — January 21, 2019
Today we’re excited to unveil our brand new Buddy System. Unlike the typical buddy system that’s supposed to prevent you from drowning in a lake or whatever, ours lets you bring small creatures from Aether into action-packed battles! These buddies will primarily be used to support Rivals players and events throughout the 2019 competitive season.
Read on for a little more information about them as well as some additional bugfixes we’ve fit in with patch 1.4.7.
Buddies are now available in-game, with the first being the adorable Frostbear Cub. This new feature lets you choose creatures from Aether and beyond as companions during local and online matches. Buddies are cosmetic additions similar to skins in that they don’t affect gameplay, but instead each bring their own personality as they tag along.
They even have their own taunts.
Another thing to mention about most buddies (one of the best things in fact) is that funds raised go towards supporting Rivals players and events. More are planned for release throughout the year, so make sure to let us know in the comments which buddies you’d like to see.
Pick and choose your buddies on the character select screen. You can also optionally disable them online in the “stats and options” online menu.
A new Genesis 6 color palette has been added as the latest seasonal skins for all characters. Genesis 6, our Championship Series World Finals event, begins in just about 2 weeks.
Rep the event and make sure to tune in for the stream on ShowDown and VGBootCamp. Full viewing schedule to be announced soon.
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