#Chilling v rising professional#

Before the match, Leffen was seen as the favorite to win, but most thought that Chillin would be able to win at least a couple of games in the first-to-five set Melee It On Me analyst Tafokints predicted that Leffen would win the set 5-2. Leffen played with the red Fox color, while Chillin used Vanilla Fox. The money match between Leffen and Chillin was played on Saturday, January 31st, 2015, at Apex 2015, during VGBootCamp's Salty Suite, with Scar serving as emcee, and Prog and D1 commentating. The release of 'Respect Your Elders' helped to further increase the excitement leading up to the set. In the rap, Chillin claimed that his veteran experience would allow him to defeat Leffen. Set to the music from the stage Corneria, the video featured clips of Leffen getting beaten by other top players, including a recent defeat to Plup's Samus at Paragon Orlando. On January 30th, 2015, one day before the start of Apex 2015, Chillin released a diss track titled 'Respect Your Elders' on his YouTube channel, with video production by PapaPaint and the beat produced by Brian Knapp. He said that he would spend his time practicing to win Apex 2015 instead of practicing for Chillin, and that Chillin only cared about winning the money match because 'he has no shot at winning Apex whatsoever, and he will probably never have a shot at winning a major, considering how long he's been playing and won absolutely nothing.' A cut segment of the interview was uploaded to YouTube the next day and went viral on reddit. Leffen claimed that he would defeat Chillin 5-0, without letting him take a single game. On January 18th, 2015, at Paragon Orlando 2015, Leffen spoke about his upcoming match with Chillin during an interview with D1. He then added an additional wager, saying that the loser of the match could never use Fox's default color, often known as 'vanilla Fox,' in tournament ever again. Chillin then challenged Leffen to a money match at Apex 2015,, to which Leffen accepted. The next day, Leffen posted a new tweet claiming that Chillin never won anything notable during his days as a top competitor. Leffen then replied, 'if your peak performance is as good as my by far worst this year, I don't think that's good enough.' In a separate thread, Leffen then tweeted, 'picking someone because they were relevant 5 years ago in the smash doc isn't smart.' Chillin, recently signed to Team Curse and a former competitor of Ken and KDJ, responded to Leffen's tweet by claiming that his sponsor had done fine by signing Hungrybox, who placed 2nd at EVO 2014, and himself, who placed 9th, the same place as Leffen.

#Chilling v rising professional#

Leffen, who was unsponsored at the time, posted a tweet arguing that Team Curse and Team Liquid had made poor decisions in signing veterans who rarely played anymore, Chillin, Ken, and KoreanDJ, to their professional roster. The first notable conflict between Leffen and Chillin began on October 28th, 2014. Chillin was a longtime veteran of the Melee scene, considered one of the best in the world during the MLG era and a major innovator of the Fox metagame, but was no longer as strong as he was in the past, ranked 26th on the 2014 SSBMRank. Leffen was also known as an extremely outspoken competitor, frequently trash-talking other players in person and on social media in 2013, he was banned from entering tournaments in his native Sweden for a year due to his behavior. His skill level was seen as approaching that of the dominant Five Gods, having defeated four of the five in tournament within the past year: Hungrybox, Armada, PPMD, and Mango.

Leffen was considered one of the rising stars in the competitive Melee scene, recently ranked 6th on the 2014 SSBMRank.