We're delighted to welcome Jose "Lucky" Aldama to Team Dignitas. Based out of Southern California, Lucky has played competitive SSBM since 2007. He has surpassed 150 tournaments played for Super Smash Bros Melee and a handful of Project M tournaments. Lucky has been Doubles partner to HugS across several tournaments and were teammates together on Selfless Gaming, former home of our CS:GO Women's team as well.
Lucky primarily plays as Fox and has emerged as one of the best on the bustling West Coast Melee scene. He also switches to Captain Falcon as a secondary option.
In the latest 2017 SSBMRank report, Lucky was ranked 17th in the world. In SoCal's Melee Power Rankings, he ranked 4th and also ranked 5th in the SoCal Project M Power Rankings.
Lucky has continually impressed at national events which include strong finishes at MLG Anaheim 2014 (9th or 325), EVO 2015 (13th of 3,284), GENESIS 4 (9th of 3,575) and EVO 2017 (5th of 6,799), among numerous other achievements.
Joined by HugS, Lucky will compete at the upcoming GENESIS 5 in Oakland, California (January 19-21). It will be the first event for both of our SSBM players.
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We're excited to welcome Hugo "HugS" Gonzalez to Team Dignitas. Based out of Southern California, HugS has played competitive SSBM since 2004. His first tournament was MLG Los Angeles 2004. It was in 2006 that he started turning heads on the MLG 2006 Pro Circuit. HugS secured a number of top eight finishes during that 2006 season, including MLG Anaheim 2006, MLG Orlando 2006, MLG New York Playoffs 2006 and MLG Las Vegas 2006.
HugS has participated in a number of famed EVO events. Most notably, at EVO World 2007, HugS took home a silver medal, beating out 268 other opponents. With an astonishing 150+ tournaments on his resume, HugS is as veteran as they come in the space.
In the 2017 SSBMRank report, HugS was ranked 23rd in the world. Most recently, he played for Selfless Gaming at the same time as our CS:GO Women's team competed under the Selfless Gaming banner.
At the upcoming GENESIS 5 in Oakland, California, HugS will wear the black and yellow for his first tournament under Team Dignitas.
from GoNintendo
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