LumiRank 2023

LumiRank 2023
Period active	December 19th, 2022 - December 18th, 2023
Region	Global
Game(s) supported	Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Producer(s)	Barnard's Loop, EazyFreezie, kenniky, Stuart98

The LumiRank 2023, formerly known as the UltRank 2023, is an ongoing power ranking that lists the world's best Super Smash Bros. Ultimate smashers for 2023. The season started on December 19th, 2022 and will end on December 18th, 2023. A mid-year ranking was also released, ranking players from the start of the year up to July 23rd.

Methodology

Methodology
Tournament Tierer

The tournament tier system for the LumiRank 2023 utilizes OrionRank's system while implementing changes meant for the OrionRank 2023.

Due to the disputed tiering of a few tournaments that OrionRank 2022 labeled as a "major", several changes regarding tournament points were implemented. First, the threshold for several tournament tiers were raised, with the major score being raised to 3,000, and new tiers were added including "submajor" (at 2,000 points) and "premier" (at 9,000 points). Player point values were also changed: the top 20 had their point values increased significantly, while players who qualify for the rankings are no longer given points to counteract overinflated scores towards the end of the season.

In order to be ranked, players are required to attend two open majors and a total of six ranked events.

Score calculation

A tournament's score is calculated by adding the attendance at a tournament to the number of each attendee's player point value if the player has a value, all after factoring in DQs.

There are three different ways players are assigned point values; the highest of the three values is what's assigned:

• A player's placement on the most recent global ranking -- OrionRank 2022 for the first half of the year and LumiRank Mid-Year 2023 for the second half of the year. Point values do not carry over to the following season, so if a player was ranked significantly lower in the subsequent season, then their point value decreases as well.
• A player's placement in their region's power ranking. The top five players of a ranking are given points (50/40/30/20/10 points distribution). Stronger regions are considered "region seats" and grant 50 points to all of its top five players. Point adjustments are applied with each new power ranking released, however these adjustments have no effect on past tournament values.
• The "Hidden Boss" value, which is split into "Hidden Boss 1" and "Hidden Boss 2":
  • Hidden Boss 1 values are assigned to players who would have made the top 150 in the prior season but were unranked due to low activity. Hidden Boss 1 values were also applied to players who had historical notability, but this was discontinued after the mid-year ranking.
  • Hidden Boss 2 values are assigned to players who placed highly at a tournament ranked C-tier and above, and past tournaments are retiered in accordance with the new value. The number of points given depends on a player's placements, and the number of players who are given points depend on the tournament's tier. These points are reset at the end of the subsequent season.

Additionally, some regions have either a x2 multiplier or a x3 multiplier: regions gain a x2 multiplier if they did not hold an A-tier event within the past two years or a x3 multiplier if they did not hold a B-tier event within the past two years. If a tournament held an event that crossed one of the thresholds even without the multiplier, then the multiplier would be removed or decreased; a few exceptions are granted to regions that have held large events in the past but otherwise seldom reached C-tier without the multiplier.

Tournament tiers

Category	Tournament	Point Threshold
P	Premier	9,000
S+	Supermajor+	6,500
S	Supermajor	5,000
A+	Major+	4,000
A	Major	3,000
B+	Submajor	2,000
B	Superregional	1,000
C	Regional	500
D	Notable	—

Tournaments evaluated

Data for the season up to the mid-year ranking is listed here.
Only tournaments that are regional and above (C-tier and above) are listed.
List with full stats

Tournament	Region	Date	Category
Smash Pro League 27	Venezuela	June 10th	C
ichigoCon	Southern California	July 28th	C
Wave 5	Kantō (Tokyo Prefecture)	July 29th	C
Smash Factor X	Central Mexico (Mexico City)	July 28th-30th	S+
Dream Championship Series 2023	Texas	July 29th-30th	C
Warp Zone 2	Great Lakes (Illinois)	July 29th-30th	C
AXE - COMIC CON 2023	El Salvador	August 4th-5th	C
DOSE2SEL - 2023.03	France	August 4th-5th	C
Maesuma TOP 13.5 "U-22"	Kansai (Osaka Prefecture)	August 5th	B+
Alpha 6	Tristate (New York)	August 5th	C
Manoa Monthlies 70: The Rats B-Day Bash	Hawaii	August 5th	C
Manchester Grand Conquest 2023	United Kingdom	August 5th-6th	C
Suma O ADVANCE 1	Kantō (Tokyo Prefecture)	August 6th	C
Super Smash Con 2023	MD/VA (Virginia)	August 10th-13th	P
Ultimate Wanted 5	France	August 10th-13th	B
Gen 2.0	Kantō (Tokyo Prefecture)	August 12th	B
Churabura Ultimate 2023	Okinawa	August 12th	C
Zenkoku Taikai 2	Chile	August 12th-13th	B
Toyota Grand Slam 15	Chūbu (Aichi Prefecture)	August 13th	B+
Battle Over The Bridge 100	Tristate (New Jersey)	August 17th	C
Ruyubura! Part 2	Kantō (Kanagawa Prefecture)	August 19th	C
Delfino Maza 2023	Northwest Mexico (Sinaloa)	August 18th-20th	A+
Regen 2023	United Kingdom	August 18th-20th	B+
KOWLOON 7	Kyūshū (Fukuoka Prefecture)	August 26th	B+
Back to Smash 2023	Great Lakes (Michigan)	August 26th	C
Frismash Swiss Cup 2023	Switzerland	August 26th	C
Shine 2023	New England (Massachusetts)	August 25th-27th	B
Floating Point	New South Wales	August 25th-27th	B
Mex Combat 2	Central Mexico (Mexico City)	August 26th-27th	C
NO JOHNSONS 4	Venezuela	August 26th-27th	C
Rankings 2 2023	Guatemala	August 27th	C
Road To Smash Legends 4 1	El Salvador	August 27th	C