It was a well made prank and we all fell for it

A few days ago, there were news of a 10-year old girl beating up a lot of pro Super Smash Bros. players in a promotional event at California for the Super Smash Bros. Wii U game. The girl was known to the players there as Karissa The Destroyer and many were amazed on her skills as a Super Smash Bros. player.

Though there were rumors that the said child prodigy was just a hoax and she was just acting and a different player was actually controller her character. soon it was finally revealed that it was a prank all along and it was part of GameStop’s marketing promotion for Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiyVsXqg4KU

The hidden player was then revealed to be as Daniel Jung, also known to all as Liquid’KDJ; a top pro Smash player and the 10-year old girl was revealed as Karissa Bannister a young actress that can be seen from different American TV commercials, here’s a Twitter post showing both Karissa and Liquid’KDJ

The Dream Team #JoyToThePlayers #SmashBros
Watch the video: http://t.co/4GiHcCIYvm @LiquidKDJ pic.twitter.com/89ACTQcRJN

— GameStop (@GameStop) November 21, 2014

Though it was sad that Karissa was not really a fighting game prodigy but the prank really fooled a lot of gamers at the area and gave them quite a surprise, talk about impressive marketing gimmick. Well played GameStop, well played.