Tournament:Scuffed World Tour

Scuffed World Tour
Dates	December 18th, 2022
Venue	Golden Guardians Facility
Address/City	unknown Los Angeles, California
Attendance	32
Pot size(s)	Melee Singles: $25,000 Ultimate Singles: $25,000
Results
winners	aMSa
winners	Sparg0
Staff
Organizer(s)	Ludwig, Calvin, Anna Molly

Scuffed World Tour was a Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate invitational tournament intended to serve as a replacement for the cancelled Smash World Tour 2022 Championships. It was hosted by Ludwig on December 18th, 2022. The 8 players with the most points on the Smash World Tour 2022 standings for both games were invited. Ludwig also added "8 more players that we handpick for each game" for a total of 16 players per game. The 1 player with the highest amount of points in a Smash World Tour 2022 region in the overall Top 30 of the leaderboards was invited if not already qualified. Any replacements for players who couldn't attend were handpicked. The tournament was a double-elimination bracket, with both games running simultaneously. There was a pot prize of $50,000 ($25,000 for each game). The tournament raised $27,589.39 for VGBootCamp, who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars due to the cancellation of the Smash World Tour 2022 Championships, and had to cancel major tournaments Glitch: Duel of Fates and Double Down 2023 in the process.

Players invited/qualified

Melee

The following players qualified by being the 8 highest players on the Smash World Tour 2022 standings for Melee:

Name	Points
Hungrybox	3,300
aMSa	2,970
Zain*	2,600
iBDW	2,130
Mang0	2,095
Fiction	1,690
S2J	1,605
Professor Pro	1,490

*Zain dropped out due to a family emergency.

The following players were invited for being a regional point leader in the Top 30 on the Smash World Tour 2022 standings for Melee:

Name	Points
Raikin	1,211
Joshman	890

The following players were invited by Ludwig for Melee:

•  Plup
•  Jmook
•  Leffen
•  KoDoRiN
•  lloD
•  Axe
•  Inngenn

Ultimate

The following players qualified by being the 8 highest players on the Smash World Tour 2022 standings for Ultimate:

Name	Points
MkLeo	3,750
Sonix	2,835
acola	2,770
Onin	2,510
Glutonny	2,390
Light	2,270
Riddles	2,195
Dabuz	2,170

The following players were invited for being a regional point leader in the Top 30 on the Smash World Tour 2022 standings for Ultimate:

Name	Points
Jdizzle	1,505
Ferps	1,191

The following players were invited by Ludwig for Ultimate:

•  Sisqui
•  Maister
•  Shuton
•  Sparg0
•  Tweek
•  Miya

Declined players

Zain was qualified for Melee, but dropped out due to a family emergency. SluG, a Top 15 player in Melee, could not make it to Scuffed World Tour or Redemption Rumble.

Tea, a Top 10 Ultimate player from Japan that qualified for the Smash World Tour 2022 Championships in Ultimate, declined to take some time off. Yoshidora, another top player in Japan that qualified for the Smash World Tour 2022 Championships in Ultimate, could not make it to any more overseas tournaments in 2022. He had not attended an overseas tournament at the time due to having work and being married, and used his paid time off days for the planned days for the cancelled Smash World Tour 2022 Championships.

Results

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles

(16 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	aMSa
2nd	Hungrybox
3rd	Mango
4th	Axe
5th	Leffen
5th	Jmook
7th	lloD
7th	iBDW
9th	S2J
9th	Fiction
9th	Plup
9th	KoDoRiN
13th	Professor Pro
13th	Inngenn
13th	Joshman
13th	Raikin

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles

(16 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Sparg0
2nd	Tweek
3rd	Shuton
4th	acola
5th	MkLeo
5th	Light
7th	Glutonny
7th	Onin
9th	Miya
9th	Dabuz
9th	Sonix
9th	Riddles
13th	Jdizzle
13th	Sisqui
13th	Maister
13th	Ferps

Trivia

• The YouTuber Jacksepticeye's Top of the Mornin Coffee sponsored the tournament.
• The tournament was going to overlap with the final day of the Panda Cup Finale before it was postponed.
• The Top 2 players of Ultimate, Sparg0 and Tweek, were the only two players who did not originally qualify for the Smash World Tour 2022 Championships.
  • They also made Grand Finals at Mainstage 2022, two weeks prior.
• This tournament was the first time MkLeo and Shuton faced in Ultimate outside of a weekly. Shuton maintained his perfect record against MkLeo by defeating him 3-0 in Losers Quarterfinals, making their overall record 3-0 Shuton's favor in sets and 9-0 in games.
• On November 22, 2023, Alan Bunney would claim on the podcast Lights Out that the Scuffed World Tour was the "final nail in the coffin" that canceled the Panda Cup and forced Panda to shut down. This tournament happening on the same day Panda Cup was supposed to happen put Panda in a position where they could not compete with it or any future tournament in the state they were in, forcing them to refund the reportedly millions of dollars worth of sponsorship money for not upholding their end of contracts. Bunney would emphasize that he does not blame Ludwig or the organizers for causing this situation, as they could not have known what was happening to Panda behind the scenes.
• The tournament was the first with all of the Four Horsemen of Ultimate in attendance (acola, Miya, Sonix, and Sparg0). They would be the Top 4 of the LumiRank 2023 season, which started the day after the tournament.

External links

• start.gg page
• Ludwig's announcement
• Mogul Moves Twitter