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'''Smash @ Xanadu''', or '''S@X''', refers to tournaments run by the [[VGBootcamp]] team at the Xanadu venue. They currently hold weekly tournaments for ''[[Ultimate]]'' on Tuesdays and for ''[[Melee]]'' on Wednesdays. They also previously held weekly tournaments for ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'', ''[[Brawl]]'', ''[[Project M]]'' and ''[[Smash 4]]''. The Xanadu weekly is one of the most watched ''Super Smash Bros.'' tournament weeklies, averaging at its peak, a few thousand viewers.

On January 16th, 2018, VGBootCamp announced that the Xanadu Games Store in Halethorpe, Maryland would be closing and the Xanadu series would be ending with a final tournament, {{Trn|Xanadu - End of an Era}}, being held from February 24th-25th, 2018. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSIEUV4mZgs</ref>. However, at that tournament, the VGBootcamp team announced that the Xanadu series would be continuing at the new Xanadu Games, located at the Laurel Park Racetrack, in Laurel, Maryland. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyKGX6hbhV8</ref>

Because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on competitive Smash|COVID-19 pandemic]], the series transitioned to online tournaments beginning with S@X 346 from March 24th-25th, 2020. It returned to physical tournaments starting with S@X 409 from June 8th-9th, 2021.