PV Smash is a club that plays Super Smash Brothers and meets twice a week: at lunch Mondays and Fridays. They do meet more outside of school where they compete for cash prizes. Advisor Mr. Killian claims, “They’re very active. They competed at Cal Poly and against other high schools like Orcutt Academy.” President Steve Haro encourages everyone to give it a try, “You can learn quick. We have the best players on the central coast. Who wouldn’t want to try and win money by playing a game?”

Haro claims that this club gives mental athletes a chance to be someone, “Not everyone gets a chance to shine. You feel like you’re a somebody in this club. You don’t need to audition. No one will say, ‘No, you didn’t make the team.’ If you have the drive, you can be the best.”

The game itself is a fighting game where the objective is to knock the opponent off of the stage. There is no life bar, but a percentage identifying how close the character may be to getting knocked off. The character selection consists of various characters from other video games such as Super Mario Brothers, Legend of Zelda, Pokemon, etc. They all come clashed together to see who is the best of the best.         -Christina Bulosan