Tournament:Battle of BC 6

Battle of BC 6
Dates	March 29th-31st, 2024
Venue	Vancouver Convention Centre West Building
Address/City	Canada Pl Vancouver, British Columbia
Attendance	867
Pot size(s)	Melee singles: C$5,970 Melee doubles: C$1,950 Ultimate singles: C$7,410 Ultimate doubles: C$2,450
Results
winners	Cody Schwab 1v1  Cody Schwab &  Jmook 2v2
winners	Hurt 1v1  Ron &  Yoshidora 2v2
Staff
Organizer(s)	Dhir

Battle of BC 6 was a Super Smash Bros. Melee supermajor and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate major held in Vancouver, British Columbia, from March 29th-31st, 2024.

Tournament summary

Super Smash Bros. Melee

The tournament notably featured 3 Yoshi players in top 64: Mono, Egg$, and aMSa.

Battle of BC 6 is best known for Cody Schwab's lengthy Losers run. After losing to Soonsay 2-3 in Winners Quarter-Finals of Top 64, he ran through the following 9 sets, defeating Skerzo 3-0, Axe 3-0, Leffen 3-0, Joshman 3-1, Mang0 3-1, Jmook 3-1, and Zain 3-0, before double-eliminating aMSa 6-0 to win the entire event. This run is often considered one of the greatest Losers runs of the post-Slippi metagame.

During top 8, Cody Schwab performed a mid-set popoff against Joshman and inadvertently disconnected the Wii from the match setup, resulting in a 10 minute delay between Game 3 and Game 4.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Prior to the event, the tournament saw many notable players DQ due to various reasons, most notably visa issues (AlanDiss, among other Mexican players) and flights getting cancelled (Sonix, Onin, and Blacktwins13); other notable DQs include Light, Jakal, and Scend. These dropouts caused the tournament's point value to drop significantly, going from S+ tier a few weeks prior to A+ tier days before the event. On the other hand, this tournament was the international debut -- ignoring pre-locals -- for Doramigi, Toriguri, Gorioka, and Tarakotori, and was also Ron's first North American event.

This event saw strong runs from Doramigi and Toriguri, who were both seeded outside the top 8, but were both able to make upsets or overcome difficult matchups to place top 8. In Doramigi's case, despite Jigglypuff considered by many to be one of Min Min's worst matchups, he was able to defeat BassMage 3-1 to advance to Winner's Finals. In Toriguri's case, although he historically struggled against Gorioka when the latter used Joker, he was able to defeat Lemmon 3-1 and MkLeo 3-0 to move on to top 12 Winner's side. Although Toriguri then lost to Hurt in a close game 5 match, he was able to defeat Big D 3-0 to enter top 8 on the Loser's side.

On the other hand, the biggest upset of the event was on #3 seed Glutonny, who placed 33rd after losing to #30 seed Armadillo 3-1 (upset factor 7), a player who he previously lost to in the crew battle, and #38 seed Ludo 3-0 (upset factor 8) for 33rd, his worst placement at an offline Ultimate event. In addition, #20 seed Gorioka was upset in pools by #109 seed Vic 3-1 (upset factor 5), although he made a small Loser's run to 25th, only missing his seed by 1 placement. Finally, Ron was knocked into Losers by Lancelot 3-1; however, he also made a small Losers run, which included eliminating MkLeo 3-1 at 13th, to place 9th and match his seed; MkLeo therefore lost to the two players he fought against in the crew battle.

In top 8 Winners Side, Hurt defeated Doramigi 3-0 and Sparg0 defeated Yoshidora, leading the two to meet each other in a highly-anticipated Winners Finals match. Hurt ultimately came out on top, defeating Sparg0 3-0 to enter Grand Finals. In the Loser's side, Toriguri ultimately placed 5th after defeating BassMage and losing to Yoshidora, tying his placement at Maesuma TOP 15 "FINAL" as the best solo-Banjo & Kazooie placement at a major. Yoshidora then defeated Doramigi before meeting Sparg0 in Loser's Final, where he came close to winning the runback, but lost in a game 5 last hit scenario. Hurt ultimately defeated Sparg0 in the runback 3-1, making him the first Snake player other than Ally to win a major in any Smash game, as well as the first Snake player to win a major since Pound 2019 almost five years prior.

Results

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles

(398 entrants)
Top 64 Bracket 1
Top 64 Bracket 2
Top 24 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Cody Schwab		C$2,388
2nd	aMSa		C$881.73
3rd	Zain		C$661.30
4th	Jmook		C$440.87
5th	Hungrybox		C$220.43
5th	Mang0		C$220.43
7th	Joshman		C$110.22
7th	Salt		C$110.22
9th	moky
9th	Leffen
9th	Aklo
9th	Soonsay
13th	Axe
13th	Spark
13th	KoDoRiN
13th	Fiction
17th	Graves
17th	Nickemwit
17th	salami
17th	Chango
17th	null
17th	Skerzo
17th	Paladin
17th	CPU0
25th	Iron
25th	Aura
25th	Anchovy
25th	Casper
25th	Maher
25th	R0M
25th	Preeminent
25th	Ka-master
33rd	Beezy
33rd	Zvara
33rd	Egg$
33rd	Elliot
33rd	Shon
33rd	rainy
33rd	Polo
33rd	cliché
33rd	Stiv
33rd	Younger
33rd	Lowercase hero
33rd	Zuppy
33rd	Amrak
33rd	Matteo
33rd	God's Only Son
33rd	shmugs
49th	Zemi
49th	Zaza
49th	Metroxe
49th	Divine Senator Kelly
49th	Mono
49th	Life
49th	Unruly
49th	BOR
49th	duckrobin
49th	BluePiñata
49th	Snap
49th	Ding Hing
49th	yumina
49th	OG Kid
49th	Jiffy
49th	vugzi

Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles

(78 teams)
Top 16 Bracket
Top 4 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Jmook		Cody Schwab		C$576.01 (C$288 each)
2nd	aMSa		Axe		C$288 (C$144 each)
3rd	Maher		Aklo		C$216 (C$108 each)
4th	Matteo		Zuppy		C$144 (C$72 each)
5th	Veto		Pasta		C$72 (C$36 each)
5th	Salt		Preeminent		C$72 (C$36 each)
7th	Espi		Unruly		C$36 (C$18 each)
7th	Beezy		Symbol		C$36 (C$18 each)
9th	Polo		Amrak
9th	Chango		salami
9th	Megaman		Paladin
9th	Aura		Stiv
13th	Vincessant		Silvi
13th	WabM		Weenie Hut Sr.
13th	Zaza		OG Kid
13th	BC Chris		Marcus!

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles

(494 entrants)
Top 128 Brackets
Top 24 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Hurt		C$2,964
2nd	Sparg0		C$1,482
3rd	Yoshidora		C$1,111.50
4th	Doramigi		C$741
5th	Riddles		C$370.50
5th	Toriguri		C$370.50
7th	BassMage		C$185.25
7th	Ouch!?		C$185.25
9th	Big D
9th	Armadillo
9th	Ron
9th	Syrup
13th	Raflow
13th	Mr.R
13th	MkLeo
13th	Monte
17th	Ryuoh
17th	Tickle
17th	Lancelot
17th	Lemmon
17th	WebbJP
17th	Soar
17th	Ludo
17th	Chag
25th	quiK
25th	Gorioka
25th	Seesaw
25th	Quandale Dinglelingleton
25th	Tarakotori
25th	MFA
25th	Burst
25th	Goblin
33rd	Dark Wizzy
33rd	Hawk
33rd	TimPrater
33rd	SPARKLE
33rd	Dmitrii
33rd	Glutonny
33rd	Tilde
33rd	GuyGuy
33rd	Saltlord
33rd	Eddawg
33rd	Nessboy12
33rd	Dany
33rd	Machu
33rd	Opsine
33rd	Karflo
33rd	/  BIGTTARFAN600
49th	jaredisking1
49th	Maphoo
49th	X'avier
49th	StirFryTy
49th	yuba
49th	Marvelous_Marco
49th	NadiA
49th	Calamity
49th	Nanaba
49th	Jaeden
49th	Terroxas
49th	Nanoash
49th	Wetdog189
49th	FireThePyro
49th	JoJoDaHoBo
49th	Thorn
65th	snowy
65th	Bishly
65th	luisito
65th	Vodka
65th	Shigo
65th	koro
65th	THE SCHMIXTAPE
65th	crembu
65th	Bernie
65th	embo_z
65th	Skeletal
65th	Liam
65th	Invictus
65th	NeroTak
65th	Binoo
65th	Capsize
65th	Sawstep
65th	SpamCop
65th	Maedakun
65th	Slime
65th	Vic
65th	Jovann
65th	Savio
65th	rm8
65th	Sherwood
65th	Snickeldorf
65th	Adam
65th	Nexus
65th	Shoghi
65th	Linus
65th	Sam

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate doubles

(98 teams)
Top 16 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Yoshidora		Ron		C$$980 (C$490 each)
2nd	Dark Wizzy		Ouch!?		C$490 (C$245 each)
3rd	Chag		Sparg0		C$367.50 (C$$367.50 each)
4th	Linus		Hawk		C$245 (C$122.50 each)
5th	Maedakun		Doramigi		C$122.50 (C$61.25 each)
5th	jaredisking1		SPARKLE		C$122.50 (C$61.25 each)
7th	Hurt		Gorioka		C$61.25 (C$30.62 each)
7th	Ryuoh		Toriguri		C$61.25 (C$30.62 each)
9th	Marvelous_Marco		Monte
9th	Karflo		Quandale Dinglelingleton
9th	Ludo		Wetdog189
9th	SuperGirlKels		Soar
13th	Seesaw		JoJoDaHoBo
13th	THE SCHMIXTAPE		Tarakotori
13th	@pinkbombo91		NadiA
13th	legit247		Samuel

Side events

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate NA vs The World crew battle

NA	Character	Stocks Taken	The World	Character	Stocks Taken
Ouch!?		2	Yoshidora		4
Tilde		2	Tarakotori		3
Monte		3	Ryuoh		3
Armadillo		5	Glutonny		1
BassMage		3	Doramigi		3
Big D		0	Raflow		8
WebbJP		2	Mr.R		2
Chag		3	Ron		2
MkLeo		5	Toriguri		2
Sparg0		3	Hurt		2
Total	—	28	Total	—	30

Trivia

• The tournament was featured in a mini segment on the local news station CBC British Columbia, with Vish, Hungrybox, Riddles, and Dhir getting interviewed.

External links

• Start.gg page