Smash Bros legend Leffen set to miss EVO Leffen\/TwitterLegendary Super Smash Bros player William \u201cLeffen\u201d Hjelte will be missing Evo in Las Vegas on August 2 because he couldn\u2019t pick up his passport. \u201cMy passport with my visa arrived, just in time so I could make it to EVO. But I couldn\u2019t pick it up because, well, you need ID to verify and the only one I have atm that they recognize is my passport\u2026\u201d The superstar who was set to compete in Smash Ultimate revealed on Twitter. Leffen said he showed cards and bank statements from five years back and had his girlfriend Jennie vouch for him, but had no luck. \u201cCalled support and they say they cant do anything, gotta call the embassy which is already closed for today. GG no Evo for me :(,\u201d the opinionated Swedish smasher added. He explained his situation in greater detail in a TwitLonger, \u201cStarted the visa process a long time ago, even paid for premium processing too ($500 extra). Making the petition takes extra time since it recently got a lot more strict. politics etc.\u201d My passport with my visa arrived, just in time so I could make it to EVO. But I couldn’t pick it up because, well, you need ID to verify and the only one I have atm that they recognize is my passport\u2026 showed cards &bank statements from 5 years back and had jennie vouch, but no.\u2014 L3ff3rd (@TSM_Leffen) August 1, 2019 \u201cThen after getting it approved to get a time at the embassy, then you leave your passport there and then they send it back to you (iirc you can pick it up but it was already very close time wise),\u201d he said. \u201cGenerally when you pick up passports at the police etc you can have parents\/partner to verify you, thats why I thought I\u2019d be ok, but this specific postal service refuses to accept anything other than state id\/drivers license.\u201d Leffen admitted it was stupid of him to not have another form of ID, but said he didn\u2019t have this issue back in 2016. \u201cI\u2019ll probably be able to get my passport in the next few days so its a shame that everything took longer than expected\u2026 Hopefully I can get it back in time for smashcon and sorry for anyone I disappointed,\u201d the popular Smash icon apologized. Leffen\u2019s absence should open up the Smash Ultimate field a bit more, especially in pools where he was likely to advance. As a player, Leffen is most well-known for his success in Melee, being the first player to defeat the \u201cfive Gods\u201d of Mew2King, HungryBox, Armada, PPMD and Mango. At Evo 2018, Leffen finished 1st in Melee using the fighter Fox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Smash Bros legend Leffen set to miss EVO Leffen\/TwitterLegendary Super Smash Bros player William \u201cLeffen\u201d Hjelte will be missing Evo in Las Vegas on August 2 because he couldn\u2019t pick up his passport. \u201cMy passport with my visa arrived, just in time so I could make it to EVO. But I couldn\u2019t pick it up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}