Esports in Australia is seen as niche, a hobbist's dream of passionate minority, but in the last few year's it's been expanding to the mainstream, and it's important to explore what makes gaming such an engaging sport.



Breakthrough is a documentary of the Australian Super Smash Bros. Melee scene, that explores Te Tuhi "Spud" Kelly and Joshua "Sora" Lyras , the number one and number two competitors of a game almost two decades old as they enter Oceania's most prestigious fighting game tournament, Battle Arena Melbourne 12. What keeps their motivation up to play such an ancient game, and will they ever compare to the best players in the world? What sets Spud, a New Zealand prodigy who burst into the top 50 players worldwide, apart from number two, Sora, who just fell short this year to make the top 100?



This is an Australian underdog story of esports, and what sets competitors apart from laymen!



Funding will go towards travel fees, interview and catering funds, and more content behind the scenes!



Reward Tiers (Each tier includes previous tier rewards!)



$1 - We appreciate it!

- The team's gratitude! We love you anyway!



$5 - Thank you for being a part of it!

- Name in the credits as one of our contributors!



$10 - Big ups!

- Personal thank you from the Director!



$25 - An invested party!

- Access to exclusive behind-the-scenes videos, updates and more!



$50 - We owe you!

- Access to the 2K Resolution final file, a week before movie premiere!



$100 - Investigator's pass!

- Influencing the next episode of the Melee Through A Lens Podcast topic!

- Access to Uncut Interviews!



$500 - You're clinically insane and we can't appreciate you more! Thank you so much!

- Executive producer status in our credits, it means everything to us!

- Probably a hug and a shoutout, I'll order starbucks under your name (lol)



Stretch Goals



$500 - Teaser for the upcoming documentary and what's to come!



$1000 - A snapshot behind the Victorian Smash scene, the scene that Sora trains in.



$1500 - Stringing the whole crew to a Smashfest at a gamer bar (GGEZ Melbourne) to celebrate hitting our goal!



$2500 - I don't think we'll hit this but if we do I'll be able to create more documentaries in the future on other Australian Smash topics, I'd like to think about further documentaries/short documentary series of the Australian scene, detailing history, rising players and more, of my own volition outside of this project

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