Tremendous Smash Bros Melee professional HAX$ is confirmed lifeless at age 30 after a psychological well being battle that got here partially because of him being banned from most Melee occasions.
He tried to take his personal life in August of 2024 by leaping in entrance of a shifting prepare, leading to his proper leg needing to be amputated. Although he survived the endeavor, he had ongoing well being issues that got here because of these accidents.
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It’s but unclear what Abdulaziz ‘Hax$’ Al-Yami’s official reason for dying was. However, as of March 25, 2025, it has been confirmed by his household that he died.
HAX$ situation revealed in his household’s GoFundMe
There was some confusion round Al-Yami’s dying, as a few of his pals helped his mom put collectively a GoFundMe for him, considering he wouldn’t survive the evening. He, nevertheless, pulled by for a bit and was in a position to keep alive on life help.
The final two tweets earlier than his dying reveal a few of what was on his thoughts earlier than then, with a put up on March 14, 2025 that reads: “I miss the Melee group a lot.”
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One other put up from March 18, 2025 says: “I want the Melee group again by my aspect. I miss my pals a lot and might’t go on like this. I’m sorry to all of you for what I did. All I would like is to return to the group I as soon as referred to as house.”
His dying has sparked quite a lot of controversy within the Melee group, with many sending hate towards the TOs and group members who maintained his everlasting ban and blaming them for this end result.
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Hax$ did, nevertheless, reveal what was going by his thoughts on the time of his try again in August.
“It occurred as a result of I dwell with the ache of being separated from my group of the previous 20 years. Nonetheless, let me be clear in saying that this occasion was extremely unwarranted and isn’t the fault of any TO or the group at massive. This was clearly a really rash determination, fueled by components similar to social isolation and despair,” he defined on December 13, 2024.
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“I wish to guarantee everybody that I assume full culpability, and that my life has been shifting in an extremely optimistic route since. After the incident, I began to make a concerted effort to enhance my present state of affairs. I’ve been working with a number of psychological well being professionals, attending counseling, and total making my psychiatric well being a prime precedence along with rehabilitating myself bodily.”
He additionally nonetheless had the help of different members of the Melee group, with Smash professional HungryBox revealing he caught a flight to go see Hax$ as quickly as phrase of his situation unfold, solely to land and listen to information that he died throughout that flight.
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Smash Bros professional Mew2King additionally made a video and put up calling for his group’s help to the creator and his household. The identical is true of different group legends like Jmook, Armada, and Cody Schwab.
Why was Hax$ banned from Smash Bros tournaments?
Hax$ ban is a large a part of this story. So, why did he really get barred from coming into Melee tournaments?
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The professional participant launched numerous YouTube movies that referred to as out a outstanding member of the Melee group, Leffen, which led to turmoil throughout the Smash scene. Hax$ deleted the movies himself, however the injury it brought about, mixed along with his conduct within the aftermath, resulted in a everlasting ban. You’ll be able to learn the total ruling right here that was printed on January 28, 2024 for extra context.
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The closing assertion of the ruling reads as follows:
“Hax’s lack of enough regret for his actions, incitement of harassment campaigns focusing on different individuals, and his sample of doubling down when confronted, even by match organizers who’ve tried working with him for years, makes his presence essentially poisonous to the scene’s well being. Though Hax has proven no cause for match organizers to consider his presence at occasions constitutes an lively menace to different gamers, this isn’t the one cause to completely ban gamers,” the ruling explains.
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“Nobody has a proper to play a online game at a match – it’s a privilege. The signatories of this doc have collectively decided that Hax’s actions have abused this privilege. He’s proven that he can’t be trusted to respect the foundations of the Melee group and conduct himself in an applicable method.”
The doc was signed by virtually each match organizer for the most important Melee occasions in the US, leaving him unable to take part within the overwhelming majority of occasions for the sport.
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This assertion was meant to strengthen his indefinite ban that got here in June 2021 after the discharge of his controversial movies, although many contested his ban up till the day he died, claiming that he had proven he realized from his ban and needs to be welcomed again into the group.
Hax$ had been competing since 2008 as a devoted Fox principal, with him successful virtually $40k in prize cash earlier than his ban.
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Fox is understood for being a personality who’s solely nearly as good because the individual enjoying him, a top-tier that requires such a excessive degree of mechanical ability that the most important dynasties in Melee historical past are sometimes outlined by his character specialists. Within the eyes of many, Hax$ was among the best.
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