Summer Smash Episode 5- Burning Throne

SUMMER SMASH

Alex Boyajian

9/2/20234 min read

Make sure to like the video and subscribe to get more content like this! If the Commissioner can't survive, who can? Defending Champion Armen Boyajian attempts to defend his throne mere days after his son fell to a rookie. Ivory Upchurch, coming off a victory in one of the greatest series we have ever seen over his best friend, looks to keep the Cinderella story going in a battle for the ages. The Boys of Summer are back! 7 Players square off in a high stakes Table Tennis tournament, the second annual Chaotically Intolerant Classic as they all try to take the trophy back from defending Champion Armen Boyajian. Commissioner Alex Boyajian, reeling from his loss in the 2022 Championship, is learning to balance his duties as Commissioner while keeping his game sharp for his own title run. This season features 4 rookies, including Michael Scarlett, who enters the playoffs on a 21 game win streak which includes sweeps of Armen Boyajian and Alex Boyajian. Starring: Alex Boyajian Armen Boyajian Lleyton Verheul Kevin Steinfeld Jaxon Greer Michael Scarlett Ivory Upchurch Produced by: Tyler Cook

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week one I also played arm in week three

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those two weeks alone were very big

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indifference I definitely held my own in

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week three we played Ivory after he

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played Michael Jackson uh you played

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Ivory you beat him 21 12 21 15 21 50.

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he's like it again the double digit

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digits I think honestly I think he was

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the most improved player by far in my

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opinion I would give that to Ivory if if

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we even had that award we're not we're

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not doing that award this year

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thank you

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Ivory definitely

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I would say he was aware that Armin is a

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good player so he may have been a little

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intimidated

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at first or

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or maybe he's even going into the match

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like already thinking he's going to lose

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father and son like the guy has been

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beating my ass at every sport since I

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was

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since I can remember when we would play

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Wiffle ball in in our cul-de-sac when I

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was like seven years old

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it'd be striking me out and he would be

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hitting home runs off me

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and a friend played against him two on

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one in Wiffle ball

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we finally beat him and I remember we

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celebrated it like winning the World

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Series and he was just laughing at me he

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was like yeah I also just destroyed

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every time we play so congratulations on

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being one in 200 you know you know I

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always root against my dad

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in a lot of things deep down I do root

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for him I'll say that deep down deep in

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my soul in the places I don't like to

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talk about

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I do root for my father

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I I would have been shocked if I ever

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would want to pull it out because

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armin's is such a good player

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especially in a a seven game series when

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they played and Longevity wise I was

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like okay maybe Ivy could get two

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but I was just like there's just no way

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he is a really powerful for him that he

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from the you know the best players in

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the tournament couldn't really deal with

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if he was

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you know waiting it

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um

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I think Armin just adjusted to that and

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uh

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I think he just was able to to mitigate

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that going forward I was expecting Armin

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to win

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um but Ivory did put up a decent fight I

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can't remember what their closest game

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was but there was somewhere he kept

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he kept it close throughout the whole

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game Ivory Ivory actually had a few

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games where he was respectable but I

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know my dad wasn't it wasn't going hard

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um he was not taking it as hard as he

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normally would in my opinion I know my

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dad's skill level I know what he can do

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a response he's a good kid

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but he's no match for me can I talk

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about the end result yeah

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yeah uh just a very frustrating

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um I got another chance

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um in in the fourth game I I thought I

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was gonna after the third game I forgot

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it was best out of seven in at for the

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the quarterfinals I was like I still

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have hope and that game was 21-16 so

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very close and you know

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you guys are probably thinking you know

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the whole after effect of me not shaking

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his hand and walking away you know

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it's for a show that's honestly like I

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it was very very frustrating because I

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really wanted to win

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um so honestly most of me was feeling

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like that just like you know it's over

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there's nothing I can do about it so it

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was very frustrating um

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but you know we got to give it to your

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opponent and uh credit where credit's

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due

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there was just some crazy volleys of

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just

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an incredible Spike by Michael and then

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an even more incredible return by Kevin

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and just over and over and over before

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it finally