Its the first day of the worlds largest fighting game tournament, the Evolution Championship Series, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Nearly 15,000 competitors have gathered to compete in nine different fighting games, with over 2,300 of them competing in Super Smash Bros. Melee.In a sea full of people, there stands a man with a Pikachu hat and an Arizona flag on his back. Jeffrey Axe Williamson is a legend, someone whos been on top of the Super Smash Bros. scene since his first national, Genesis, in 2009. With Pikachu by his side, Axe cemented himself as the ninth best Smash player in the world last year, according to Super Smash Bros. content and analysis site Melee It On Mes SSBM Rank.At Evo 2016, he looks to win it all, something thats never too far out of his reach. Hes been close before, taking fourth at Genesis 3 and fifth at Community Effort Orlando 2016, and he believes that Evo will be his time to shine, albeit not on Fox.I think [I have a shot to win this tournament.] Ive already beaten most of [the gods] a couple of times in the past, and a couple this year and I feel like its really doable, Axe tells ESPN.com. I just have to be super on point and I cant be stopped. I know that for sure. Even losers bracket Mango or beast mode Armada, I feel like I can take them to be honest. It takes a lot of preparation and mental power and just feeling well. Theres a lot of little factors I need to be on top of to perform my best.Fifth at CEO is a good indication that Axe can perform as expected, but at Evo, there are nearly 1,800 more players in attendance, in comparison to CEOs 683. Axe says that makes this event infinitely more difficult, and that to win it all, you have to play your best.This tournament has way more players [than CEO], so its going to be a lot harder because all of the top players are here minus Leffen and PPMD, he says. Its going to be very difficult still, but technically its kind of the same top players. More of the top 100 players are here than they were at CEO. A lot of the top 100 players still give me problems, so its going to be a lot more difficult overall, but I feel more ready than I did for CEO.At CEO, he fell to Justin Plup McGrath, another player within the Top 10, who like Axe, is considered a demigod. In Melee, there are five gods: Adam Armada Lindgren, Juan Hungrybox Debiedma, Kevin PPMD Nanney, Jason Mew2King Zimmerman, and Joseph Mango Marquez. Demigods are players within the top echelon who continuously challenge and at times beat the gods, or their counterpart William Leffen Hjelte.For the past few years, Axe, alongside names like Plup and Weston Westballz Dennis, have become demigods. But none have been able to take it all the way and win super majors, such as Evo, CEO, or Genesis. I ask Axe who is the next player to join the demigods.Normally, its a player thats not currently a top 100, he says. Its usually not a player whos at the top. Im looking at the players who are on the come up. Pretty much the players that come out of nowhere. Its those kind of players who surpass people and enter the top six.So if a new face breaks through, theyll need to beat the Top 10, which is currently not solidified in 2016. Axe, who was among the final list last year, thinks that a new player, Zac SFAT Cordoni, has entered the list, while the remainder of the list, besides DaJuan Shroomed McDaniel, stays the same.The top order is so confusing to order, but based off how good I think players are, I think Armada is the best. Hes number one. He just has the most skill, the most consistency, he explains. Hes crazy, hes a beast. Hungrybox has to be second at this point. Armada, Hungrybox, Mango, Leffen, Mew2King, PPMD, Plup, Axe, SFAT, and Westballz. Wes hasnt been doing so hot lately, but I know he has the skill. Hes hella good.Only one will be crowned the champion of Evo. That opens the field significantly for new people to break through, and Axe thinks as long as he beats Hungrybox and his consistent Jigglypuff, hell have his best shot. Its terrible [to play against Jigglypuff], Axe says. I hate it. I do want to beat Hungrybox really bad. Ive been watching our sets and its doable, so I have a few tricks up my sleeve for that.But above all, he believes that Mango will take the tournament, if he doesnt himself. A previous champion of Evo 2013 and 2014, Mango is favored to repeat and win Evo once again. Hes been outspoken about wanting it all, and practicing a ton to get there. Americas hometown hero has the best shot hes had in quite sometime.Id say Mango has a great shot at first. Mango wants it very badly, and I think that the only way for Mango to win is only if he goes absolute beast mode, Axe explains. The one trait Mango has that all of the other top players dont have, of the Top 6, is the ability to go in the zone, where he has absolute focus and everything is 100 percent different. I think hes going to take the tournament. Vapormax 2019 Femme Pas Cher . 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Instead, theyre feeling defensive and taking to social media to slam what they perceive as sexist portrayals of some of the worlds greatest athletes.Some examples so far:- When gay beach volleyball player Larissa Franca embraced her spouse after a match, NBC Sports broadcaster Chris Marlowe referred to her as her husband, not wife.- Corey Cogdell-Unrein won a bronze medal in trapshooting -- the second bronze of her career -- and a tweet from the Chicago Tribune promoted her success in a headline as Wife of a Bears lineman wins a bronze medal today in Rio Olympics. She is married to Chicago Bears defensive end Mitch Unrein.- When Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszu set a world record in winning the gold medal in the 400-meter individual medley, NBC play-by-play announcer Dan Hicks noted her coach/husband Shane Tusup in the crowd and said: Theres the guy responsible for turning Katinka Hosszu, his wife, into a whole different swimmer.- The editor of an Italian newspaper was fired over the headline The Chubby Trio Just Misses Out On An Olympic Miracle after the countrys womens archery team finished fourth.- As three-time world champion Simone Biles performed on the uneven bars, NBC commentator Jim Watson said: I think she might even go higher than some of the men. And as the team chatted during preliminaries, he said they might as well be standing around at a mall.Each comment is pounced upon as a dig against women, that they arent as athletic -- important? -- as men, but that tone was set long before the games even opened. When NBC executive John Miller discussed tape-delayed broadcasts for the U.S. audience back in July, he argued that the core female audience isnt invested in the results.The people who watch the Olympics are not particularly sports fans, Miller said last month. More women watch the games than men, and for the women, theyre less interested in the result and more interested in the journey. Its sort of like the ultimate reality show and miniseries wrapped into one.NBC executives said on a Thursday conference call that 55 percent of its 18-and-over viewers for the Rio Olympics are women. Mark Lazarus, chairman of NBC Sports Group, was aware of the criticism concerning sexism in its coverage and said gymnastics announcer Al Trautwig had addressed comments he made regardinng Biles adoption.ddddddddddddOf course were sensitive if people feel were not being proper to certain groups, Lazarus said. In most of these cases, theyve been addressed very quickly by the talent themselves. In one particular case, we addressed with the talent that we felt the comments that (Trautwig) put on Twitter and not on the air were insensitive and he addressed that. We of course want to make sure that were being inclusive and open to all groups.Still, female viewers have been angered at the way women have been portrayed and have been relentless in pouncing on every perceived slight. Its impossible to know why its striking such a nerve now, but it could be that disgruntled viewers have been offended before, only now have multiple social platforms to talk about it.Social media and the internet have democratized communications globally. Everyone has a voice, no one needs a publisher, said Dennis Deninger, author of Sports on Television: The How and Why Behind What You See.Deninger, who teaches sports media courses at Syracuse University, believes NBC has put tremendous effort into its telecasts and selected its top talent for its coverage. But he noted a lack of female broadcasters at the venues, with the majority assigned to analysis or sideline roes.Andrea Joyce is the only female play-by-play announcer for NBC Sports, which has her assigned to rhythmic gymnastics. The network lists more than a dozen female analysts on its roster, most on less visible sports such as handball, shooting, water polo and field hockey.Even for all the womens events, the first analysis voice you hear is a male. When the message is delivered by a woman, thats a powerful moment for womens sports, Deninger said.He also noted that many of the hot button topics could have been avoided through simple journalistic rules.Some of the comments that have hit some nerves, all you need to do is go back to the basics and attribute, he said. If Dan Hicks had quoted Hosszu and said she credited her husband for her success, then you are being a reporter.The U.S. womens Olympic basketball team is used to it. While the men are celebrated for blowing out opponents, big victories by the women usually lead to questions about whether or not the big margins are bad for the game.Were never going to apologize for being that good, said Geno Auriemma, coach of the womens team.These are Olympians. Theyre supposed to play at a high level. Theyre professionals, theyre supposed to put on a show. Theyre supposed to entertain you.Diana Taurasi, who broke the U.S. Olympic record Wednesday with six 3-pointers, wondered why the mens team is never questioned about the negatives of being so dominant.I dont know how to answer it anymore, she said. Its a bit disrespectful, I would say. Its the world we live in. ' ' '