Tournament:The Off-Season 2

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The Off-Season 2
Dates	September 23rd-24th, 2023
Venue	Esports Stadium Arlington
Address/City	1200 Ballpark Way Arlington, Texas
Attendance	299
Entry fees	Competitor Pass: $60 VIP Spectator Pass: $99 Weekend GA Spectator Pass: $60 Melee singles: $10 Melee doubles: $20 Smash 64 singles: $10
Pot size(s)	$25,000 (Melee singles) $5,000 (Smash 64 singles)
Results
winners	Nax
winners	TBD 1v1  Jmook &  Cody Schwab 2v2
Staff
Organizer(s)	Saykin, MastaStef, Braul, dunN, pogdee

The Off-Season 2 (stylized as The 𐤈FF-SeA2ON) is an ongoing Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. tournament being held on September 23rd-24th, 2023 in Arlington, Texas. There are 8 players invited to the Melee singles final bracket, and 8 players will qualify to the final bracket through an open bracket. The 16 players will then play in a double-elimination bracket. The tournament has a $25,000 prize pool for Melee singles and a $5,000 prize pool for Smash 64 singles, which is the second largest prize pool for Smash 64 singles. Charity incentives include Brinstar counterpick enabled for Melee doubles, Saffron City and Hyrule Temple enabled for Smash 64 singles, Corneria and Mute City enabled for Melee singles, 5 stocks in Melee Grand Finals, and a caster swap between Melee and Black Ops II. The event is a retro-themed charity fundraiser event in support of Movember that also features a Call of Duty: Black Ops II invitational, a Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock singles open, showmatches, and speedruns.

Players invited/qualified

The following players were invited:

•  Hungrybox
•  Axe*
•  aMSa
•  Zain
•  S2J
•  Jmook
•  Cody Schwab
•  Mang0

*Axe was unable to attend due to complications with COVID-19 and was replaced with n0ne.

•  n0ne

The following players qualified through Winners of the open bracket:

The following players qualified through Losers of the open bracket:

Results

The Melee singles tournament had a total of 263 entrants, with 255 players entering the open bracket coupled with the 8 players that were invited to the final bracket prior to the tournament.

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles final bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
5th
7th
7th
9th
9th
9th
9th
13th
13th
13th
13th

Super Smash Bros. Melee open bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
Winners
Winners
Winners
Winners
Losers
Losers
Losers
Losers
17th
17th
17th
17th
21st
21st
21st
21st
25th
25th
25th
25th
25th
25th
25th
25th
33rd
33rd
33rd
33rd
33rd
33rd
33rd
33rd
41st
41st
41st
41st
41st
41st
41st
41st
41st
41st
41st
41st
41st
41st
41st
41st
57th
57th
57th
57th
57th
57th
57th
57th
57th
57th
57th
57th
57th
57th
57th
57th

Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles

(59 teams)

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
5th
7th
7th
9th
9th
9th
9th
13th
13th
13th
13th

Super Smash Bros. singles

(36 entrants)

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
5th
7th
7th
9th
9th
9th
9th
13th
13th
13th
13th

Side events

Super Smash Bros. Melee All Star Crew Battle

Several top players sandbagged with secondary characters. The loser had to perform a Rock Band song.

Team Toph	Character	Stocks Taken	Team Vish	Character	Stocks Taken
Total	—	22	Total	—	28

Trivia

• The Off-Season 2 is the final tournament aMSa will attend before his year-long Canadian visa expires.
• Mang0 and Scump did a showmatch in NFL Blitz, which Scump won.

External links

• start.gg page
• Tickets page
• Announcement
• Melee singles invitees