"German Smash" is now "German Melee" + moving forward


Starting immediately, the German-speaking Super Smash Bros. Melee community will no longer run under the brand „German Smash“, but „German Melee“. We just renamend our Discord server, as well as this twitter account and our twitch channel.

So why are we rebranding and what will change?

Some of you might have read our latest tweet where we cleared up that we are not associated with „German Smash Community“ but understandably because of the similar and ambiguous name people called us out on decisions they made regarding sexual assault cases in the Ultimate community. With the rebranding we are trying to prevent those confusions in the future. Of course we do not hold the power to make them change their name as well but we are doing all we can do.

Despite the confusion we are doing this to make clear that we do not want to be associated with how the „German Smash Community“ handled past incidents.

German Melee’s goal is to be an inclusive community, which also mirrors in our new logo. We strive to be a space where every member is welcome and enjoys safety, no matter their gender, age, race or sexuality. We are trying to identify and stop any current discrimination or even worse and prevent it from happening at all in the future, have an open ear when someone feels uneasy and to act appropriate with punishments so we can all just do what we love – playing Super Smash Bros. Melee without worrying about anything else.
Despite currently not having any serious allegations in our community, we know that there is still a lot we have to work on to achieve our goal and are deeply sorry that we have not done or tried hard enough in the past.

To help us make the community a safer space for everyone, we are looking to bring more diversity in leading positions in our community. We would especially appreciate voices from female community members to help us better understand problems women experience. If you would like to help us out, DM this account or @solariiiiSSBM / solariiii#8523 on Discord, we would love to talk to you!

We hope you will understand this decision and continue supporting us!

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If anyone is interested in the history of the brand „German Smash“:
„German Smash“ originated from a forum in 2007 called „German Smash Boards“, a forum that combined multiple German, Austrian and German-Switzerland SSBM forums that existed even before. With Super Smash Bros. Brawl‘s release, the forum became a spot for all competitive Super Smash Bros. communities, like the 64, Project M and obviously Brawl community. Before Smash 4‘s release, some of the former Brawl community leaders decided to part ways with the German Smash Boards to create an own spot for the Smash 4 community. We kept our name and with the rise of social media and the growth of the community we started branding all of our platforms as „German Smash“, which we had until today.
In June 2019, the German Super Smash Bros. Ultimate community announced their „German Smash Community“, which sounds very similar to our brand, though we never had any kind of inclusion in this project.

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