Tournament:GSM

GSM
Dates	December 21st-22nd, 2024
Venue	Palais du Littoral
Address/City	Rue Charles Garnier Grande-Synthe, Hauts-de-France
Attendance	171
Results
winners	Lima 1v1  Snow &  Raru 2v2
Staff
Organizer(s)	Vegacy Esports, MetaMind

GSM was a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate major held in Grande-Synthe, Hauts-de-France from December 21st-22nd, 2024.

Tournament summary

GSM served as the breakout event for the 27th seed, Japanese King K. Rool player Ball. After losing to #6 seed Glutonny 3-0, Ball went on a 5-set losers run, defeating #43 seed Xetroz, #44 seed Ponflex ツ, and #18 seed Eko all 3-0, and both #10 seed Supahsemmie (UF 3) and #16 seed NaetorU 3-1, before losing to #11 seed Sisqui 3-1 to finish 7th, marking not only the best placement of Ball's career, but the first ever major top 8 for a solo King K. Rool player. Aside from Ball's run, there were little major upsets on the top seeds, and as such 5 of the 8 players seeded in the top 8 were able to enter top 8. However, #1 seed Raru greatly underperformed at the event, as he lost to NaetorU 0-3 (upset factor 7) and #9 seed Raflow 3-2 (upset factor 6) to place 13th. Though #4 seed SHADIC and #7 seed crêpe salée also failed to make top 8, they lost to players who were seeded in or near the top 8 (#5 seed Snow and Sisqui for SHADIC, #2 seed Asimo and Raflow for crêpe salée), and both ultimately placed 9th.

Despite taking up half of the top 8 slots, Japan ultimately lost all but one set where they fought against a non-Japanese player: both Ball and Asimo lost to Sisqui (1-3 and 2-3 for a upset factor 5 respectively); Snow lost to both #8 seed Lima and Raflow; and #3 seed Doramigi lost to Lima 1-3 (UF 3) in Winners Final. Doramigi was able to win Japan's sole set against a non-Japanese player by defeating Raflow 3-1, which ended Raflow's 7-set Losers run where he notably eliminated Raru, crêpe salée 3-2, Glutonny 3-0, Snow, and Sisqui 3-0. Raflow finished 3rd, his best result since King Con almost a year ago. However, Doramigi then lost the runback against Lima 1-3. As such, Lima won the first major of his Ultimate career as well as his second major victory of his entire Smash career, six years after he won the Smash 4 event at EVO 2018, and therefore became the eighteenth player to have a major win in more than one Smash game. This also marked the second major victory from a Bayonetta player that year, after TamaPDaifuku at Seibugeki 17. Conversely, Glutonny’s 7th place marked his worst result at a European tournament since L'Odyssée - Chant I over 2 years ago.

Results

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles

(171 entrants)
Top 32 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Lima
2nd	Doramigi
3rd	Raflow
4th	Sisqui
5th	Snow
5th	Asimo
7th	Glutonny
7th	Ball
9th	SHADIC
9th	NaetorU
9th	KID
9th	crêpe salée
13th	Ling
13th	Supahsemmie
13th	Raarchyor
13th	Raru
17th	Leon
17th	Susu
17th	AndresFn
17th	Eko
17th	Donut
17th	MoDzai
17th	Joni
17th	Mezcaul
25th	Bac
25th	SuperStriker
25th	Oryon
25th	Ponflex ツ
25th	Lancelot
25th	Adrian
25th	Dras
25th	Neeroz
33rd	Cracha
33rd	Dizay
33rd	cherryo
33rd	PeW
33rd	TBN
33rd	M.Pop0
33rd	king
33rd	RyuKai
33rd	Yanos
33rd	Nibodax
33rd	Jun
33rd	Kéképi
33rd	Zura
33rd	Xetroz
33rd	BlackSoul
33rd	Lioko

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate doubles

(27 teams)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Snow		Raru
2nd	Glutonny		Leon
3rd	Asimo		Ball
4th	AndresFn		Sisqui
5th	Bac		Raarchyor
5th	Maedakun		Doramigi
7th	yamis		Yanos
7th	Enki		Oryon

Ling v. Mezcaul money match

Following trash talk between the two players from Mezcaul's 2-0 win over Ling at the online event Coinbox 111 - Going Global, Ling was flown out to GSM to money-match Mezcaul offline.

Player	Character(s)	Set Score	Player	Character(s)	Prize
Ling		0-3	Mezcaul		$100

External links

• Start.gg page