Editing Tournament:IVGF NorthWest Regionals

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'''International Video Gaming Federation Northwest Regional Festival and Tournament''', shortened as '''IVGF Northwest''' or '''IVGF Seattle''', was a ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'' superregional tournament run by the International Video Game Federation on March 1st, 2003 alongside ''{{iw|wikipedia|Tekken 4}}'', ''{{iw|wikipedia|Halo: Combat Evolved}}'', and ''{{iw|wikipedia|Unreal Tournament 2003}}: Death Match''. The ruleset for the tournament seems to have been "1v1, best of 1, [[double elimination]], [[item]]s on medium, almost all [[stage]]s on random". {{Sm|Recipherus}} was the winner, while fellow [[NorCal]] players, {{Sm|Matt Deezie}} and {{Sm|Adam|p=California}}, rounded out the top three. The tournament is most notable for its absurdly large pot size for the time of $12,500, supplied by the IVGF, though the tournament also had an unusually high $50 entry fee to compensate. Recipherus' winnings of $8000 would stand as the record for the largest prize payout from a ''Smash'' tournament for over three years, until it was exceeded by {{Sm|PC Chris}} winning $10,000 from {{Trn|MLG Las Vegas 2006}}. There have also been claims of the tournament having had 151 entrants, which would have made it the [[list of largest Smash tournaments|largest ''Smash'' tournament]] of all-time until {{Trn|MELEE-FC3}} got 186 entrants over two years later. However, the tournament has no known official documentation of its results, nor has any other definitive source been found to prove this number's veracity, and the possibility of such an anomalously large tournament for the time occurring in a remotely located region has been met with skepticism. The attendees beyond the top three are also largely unknown; it is believed that top [[Pacific Northwest]] players at the time like {{Sm|Rori}} were in attendance, as well as [[Japan]]ese player {{Sm|Kei}}, who was living in the region at the time, but other than that, there are no other notable attendees known to have entered the tournament, casting further doubt on the veracity of the 151 entrants claim.

As implied by the event's name and as stated on IVGF's website, this was the first event of a planned 10-city 2003 circuit. Given the lack of any word of the other events ever occurring, it appears IVGF cancelled their planned circuit and ceased operations after this first event. The other planned locations were: [[Northern California]] (San Francisco/ San Jose); [[Southern California]] (Los Angeles/ Orange County); Rocky Mountain Region (Denver, CO); [[Southwest]] Region (Dallas, TX); [[Midwest|Mid-America]] Region (Chicago, IL); [[New England]] (Boston, MA); [[Tristate|Greater New York]] (New York City/ Meadowlands); Mid-Atlantic Region (Philadelphia, PA); and [[Southeast]] Region (Atlanta, GA).

|3rd||{{Sm|Adam|p=California|USA}}||{{Head|Luigi|g=SSBM|s=16px}}||$1,500

* [http://themachine.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=12026 Tournament thread from themachine.com] {{Dead link}}

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080229083210/http://www.smashboards.com:80/showthread.php?t=39251 Archived results thread for MELEE-FC1] - While the thread was about {{Trn|MELEE-FC1}}, a Washington [[Smashboards]] poster by the name of Yagi would dispute the claim of it being the [[List of largest Smash tournaments#Record progression|largest tournament ever at the time]], claiming that IVGF had 151 entrants, albeit still without evidence nor any other elaboration. Yagi also provided details about the ruleset (Ctrl+F for "IVGF").