Editing Tournament:Smash World Tour 2022

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The '''Smash World Tour 2022''' was a cancelled ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' tournament circuit organized by the team behind {{Team|VGBootCamp}}. The circuit began on March 12th, 2022 and concluded on November 20th, 2022. The championships were going to be held on December 9th-11th, 2022, with a Last Chance Qualifier held at the event. There is a pot prize starting at $250,000 ($125,000 for each game).

Due to the interference of [[Nintendo]], the Smash World Tour 2022 was cancelled on November 29th, 2022, weeks before the finale was set to take place.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://medium.com/@smashworldtour/smash-world-tour-official-statement-f568a3d135c8|title=SWT 2022's cancellation}}</ref>

[https://smashworldtour.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SWT-2022-Rulebook.pdf Rulebook]

These rules are for the championships. Tournament organizers could run their own rules or stage lists.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/tbrd8h/im_gimr_cofounder_of_the_smash_world_tour/i090c7x/|title=GimR's response on the ruleset}}</ref>

On November 29th, 2022, Smash World Tour released [https://medium.com/@smashworldtour/smash-world-tour-official-statement-f568a3d135c8 a document] detailing actions behind-the-scene that eventually led to its cancellation.

Prior to the {{Trn|Smash World Tour 2021 Championships}}, members of {{Team|VGBootCamp}}, the SWT organizers, were invited to a meeting with [[Nintendo]] and its legal team. During the meeting, Nintendo discussed how they had no plans on shutting down the championship, but were in fact open to the possibility of having the Smash World Tour licensed by them in the future, noting that their partnership with {{Team|Panda}} was not exclusive. Discussions continued throughout the first few months of 2022, however during this time SWT organizers learned that many other organizers were hesitant on joining the circuit due to statements from Panda's CEO Alan Bunney, who had told the organizers that SWT was not coming back. Despite Nintendo reassuring them otherwise, Bunney continued to sow doubt on the circuit's longevity and going against Nintendo's words by both preventing other organizers from joining the SWT and pressuring tournaments on the SWT to drop out of the circuit, stating that tournaments that do will not be allowed to join the {{Trn|Panda Cup}}. The latter, however, backfired as not many events agreed to participate in the Panda Cup, leading Panda Cup to lift their exclusivity rule.  

During this time, communications between Nintendo started to slow down. After SWT ran out of time to get an official license for the year's circuit, Nintendo recommended the group to apply for a license solely for the championship tournament at the end of the year, in hopes that it could lead to a full license for the 2023 iteration. However SWT saw little communication from Nintendo in the following months, which led SWT to push back the championship's announcement until August, after which Nintendo apologized to them for the slow communication. The following month, Nintendo told them that while nothing has been decided yet in regards to their license, Bunney's conduct and the behind-the-scenes drama with the Panda Cup were coming under evaluation. Despite SWT requesting for one, Nintendo declined to have its decision makers discuss the license with the SWT organizers.

SWT's last few discussions with Nintendo came in November, a month before the championship. Nintendo confirmed that they were still figuring out the license while noting that people they were discussing with have advocated for the SWT, community, and grassroots organizers; despite this, however, Nintendo still declined to have their decision makers discuss with the SWT organizers. The following conversation came with a verdict: Nintendo would not license both the championship and any tournament activity from the SWT in 2023, with Nintendo giving little reason as to why and refusing SWT from running the tournament without a license, effectively going against what they discussed a year prior, forcing the team to cancel the finale.

The shutdown cost VGBootCamp hundreds of thousands of dollars and led VGBootCamp to release a statement on their uncertainty for the organization's future.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n6FNvlt8X19jM0qeA7MWqGYkGsqBAbFZ_VmZHt9oXik/preview?pru=AAABhOqEFMg*RR27ruN0YyuDm5X0I9qEZg|title=VGBootCamp's statement on the future}}</ref>

In addition, many others also blamed Panda, more specifically Bunney, for interfering with the conversation in order to promote their tournament circuit.

|{{Flag|USA}} {{Trn|Smash World Tour 2022 Last Chance Qualifier}}||December 9th, 2022||TBD||&mdash;

|{{Flag|USA}} {{Trn|Smash World Tour 2022 Championships}}||December 9th-11th, 2022||32||TBD

|{{Flag|China}} [https://www.start.gg/tournament/2-48/event/smash-odyssey-reviewing-soldier-2/overview Smash Odyssey——Reviewing Soldier 2]||July 17th||Silver 4||77||{{Sm|Bethly|China}}

|{{Flag|USA}} {{Trn|Smash World Tour 2022 Last Chance Qualifier}}||December 9th, 2022||TBD||&mdash;

|{{Flag|USA}} {{Trn|Smash World Tour 2022 Championships}}||December 9th-11th, 2022||32||TBD

The top 30 players will move on to the championships, with a Last Chance Qualifier for the last 2 slots. Of the 30, the 1 player from each region with the highest amount of points auto-qualified for the finale: North America, Central America, Europe, Japan, Oceania, South America, and a Wild Card Region comprising of every region not included in any of the other regions. The 23 highest players on the leaderboard who did not auto-qualify made up the rest of the 30 who will move on to the championships.

|2nd*||{{Sm|aMSa|Japan}}||2,870

|6th*||{{Sm|Fiction|USA}}|||1,690

|29th||{{Sm|Spark|p=Melee|USA}}||825

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Though he moved to Canada in September 2022, {{Sm|aMSa}} represents Japan in the Smash World Tour 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/186708155873492993/1041917994256842812/SWT_regions_KH.PNG|title=Liquipedia Discord K H message 1}}</ref> However, this is a moot point as the next highest player from Japan, {{Sm|Inngenn}}, is qualified in 11th place.

{{Sm|lloD}} breaks the 22nd place tie with {{Sm|Skerzo}} for having a higher total number of points earned from his best 3 Platinum tournaments (925 vs. 540). {{Sm|Sala}} is in a 70th place tie with {{Sm|caioicy}} and {{Sm|Mew2King}}. caioicy has the most total Platinum points, and Sala and Mew2King's tiebreaker comes down to a coin flip, which is unlikely to happen as it is not for a qualification spot.

|7th||{{Sm|Shuton|Japan}}||2,215

|8th||{{Sm|Riddles|Canada}}||2,195

|9th||{{Sm|Dabuz|USA}}||2,160

|12th||{{Sm|ProtoBanham|Japan}}||1,810

|13th||{{Sm|Chag|Mexico}}||1,755

|14th||{{Sm|Sisqui|Spain}}||1,700

|18th||{{Sm|KEN|Japan}}||1,465

|19th||{{Sm|Asimo|Japan}}||1,445

|20th||{{Sm|Yoshidora|Japan}}||1,430

|21st||{{Sm|Bloom4Eva|UK}}||1,390

|22nd||{{Sm|Gackt|Japan}}||1,390

|26th||{{Sm|Nietono|Japan}}||1,281

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Though he lived in the United Kingdom for part of the year, {{Sm|eMass}} represents Saudi Arabia in the Wild Card Region in the Smash World Tour 2022. This is because he has been living in Saudi Arabia since the beginning of the summer and has earned points in the Wild Card region since March 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/186708155873492993/1042268926358331454/eMass_Wildcard.PNG|title=Liquipedia Discord K H message 2}}</ref>

{{Sm|Bloom4Eva}}, {{Sm|Gackt}}, and {{Sm|Kola}} are 21st, 22nd, and 23rd respectively, as their tie is broken by total number of points earned from their best 3 Platinum tournaments (925 vs. 895 vs. 820).