Sony Santa Monica designer and longtime fighting game figure Seth Killian a photo of Hicks (at right) during the tournament.

Nearly 700 players took part in the Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament, meaning Hicks finished better than most.

The Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament at EVO this year was in question. Just days before the event, organizers revealed that .

"It's their IP, they can do what they want," EVO founder Joey Cuellar said last week.

Nintendo would ultimately , 134,000 of which watched the Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament.

An launches for Wii U and 3DS next year.

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Texas new outlet reports the anonymous person came through with the funds after learning Carter's family could not afford the payment.

Carter, a 19-year-old from Austin, was arrested in March after he said on Facebook that he was going to "shoot up" a school and "eat their still, beating hearts," according to his father.

He reportedly followed up these comments with "LOL and "JK." A woman in Canada saw his comments and informed the police, who arrested Carter for making a terrorist threat.

Carter's comments came just months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut, where 20 children and six adults were killed.

Carter spoke with about his case last evening, telling the news outlet that #148;I just think that it got taken out of context and it#148;s been blown out of proportion."

If he could go back in time, Carter said he would have given more thought to his comments before posting them on Facebook. He also warned people that anything said on the Internet is more public than they may believe.

"I certainly would have thought a lot more about what I said and how permanent my writing is#148;. I just want to make it clear that people should be very, very careful of what they say and it's being recorded all the time if you say it on any website, anywhere. And you can get in trouble for something that's not something you should get in trouble for. And I just want people to be warned."

Carter faces up to ten years in prison if convicted.

From: www.gamespot.com

Texas new outlet reports the anonymous person came through with the funds after learning Carter's family could not afford the payment.

Carter, a 19-year-old from Austin, was arrested in March after he said on Facebook that he was going to "shoot up" a school and "eat their still, beating hearts," according to his father.

He reportedly followed up these comments with "LOL and "JK." A woman in Canada saw his comments and informed the police, who arrested Carter for making a terrorist threat.

Carter's comments came just months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut, where 20 children and six adults were killed.

Carter spoke with about his case last evening, telling the news outlet that #146;I just think that it got taken out of context and it#146;s been blown out of proportion."

If he could go back in time, Carter said he would have given more thought to his comments before posting them on Facebook. He also warned people that anything said on the Internet is more public than they may believe.

"I certainly would have thought a lot more about what I said and how permanent my writing is#146;. I just want to make it clear that people should be very, very careful of what they say and it's being recorded all the time if you say it on any website, anywhere. And you can get in trouble for something that's not something you should get in trouble for. And I just want people to be warned."

Carter faces up to ten years in prison if convicted.

From: www.gamespot.com