Tournament:Smash Summit 3

Smash Summit 3
Dates	November 3rd-6th, 2016
Venue	Summit Gaming House
Address/City	unknown Los Angeles, California
Attendance	16
Pot size(s)	Singles: $21,363.00 Doubles: $5,831.00
Results
winners	Armada 1v1  Armada &  Mew2King 2v2

Smash Summit 3 was the third edition of the Smash Summit tournament series. It was a national Super Smash Bros. Melee invitational tournament held in Los Angeles, California from November 3rd to 6th, 2016 by Beyond the Summit. Singles, doubles and side events were hosted. The tournament was held at the Summit gaming house, a private residence, and was not open to the general public.

Players invited

These 10 players were invited by Beyond The Summit:

•  Armada
  
•  Hungrybox
  
•  Leffen
  
•  Mango
  
•  Mew2King
  
•  Plup
  
•  Westballz
  
•  Axe
  
•  Shroomed
  
•  SFAT
  

Players voted in

6 more players were voted in by the community. They had to be Top 50 in the 2015 SSBMRank, or have placed top 16 at The Big House 6, Get On My Level 2016, CEO 2016, Super Smash Con 2016 or Heir 3. The players voted in were, in that order:

•  Mafia &  S2J (October 19th)
•  Duck &  PewPewU (October 20th)
•  n0ne &  The Moon (October 21st)

Players eliminated

These players were eliminated in the nomination phase (October 14th):

Laudandus

MacD

HugS

Overtriforce

These players were eliminated in the voting phase, in that order:

•  Mike Haze &  dizzkidboogie (October 17th)
•  Santiago &  Druggedfox (October 18th)
•  ChuDat &  Lucky (October 19th)
•  Professor Pro &  Chillin (October 20th)
•  Ice &  Wizzrobe (October 21st)

Eligible players

Abate	aMSa	Amsah	Android	Ares	Bladewise	Cactuar	Chillin	ChuDat	Colbol	Däumling	dizzkidboogie
DJ Nintendo	Duck	Druggedfox	Eddy Mexico	ESAM	Fly Amanita	Fiction	Frootloop	Gahtzu	Hax	HugS	Ice
JAVI	Jeapie	Kage	Kels	KirbyKaze	KJH	Laudandus	MacD	Mafia	Mike Haze	Nintendude	n0ne
Overtriforce	PewPewU	PPMD	Professor Pro	Santiago	Silent Wolf	Swedish Delight	S2J	Tekk	The Moon	Trifasia	VA
Wizzrobe	Wobbles	Zhu

Crews

The same way it was done at Smash Summit 2, 4 captains previously chosen by vote (Westballz, Mew2King, Leffen and Mango) formed crews using the snake draft method.

energy BALLZ mcdaniel	Westballz	Armada	Shroomed	Duck
*screeching*	Mew2King	Plup	Axe	The Moon
L O S L E F F O S	Leffen	Hungrybox	SFAT	n0ne
Team Beer	Mango	S2J	PewPewU	Mafia

Each crew competed in the Summit's various games and side events such as Jeopardy! and the Iron Man Tournament.

Results

Singles

(16 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Armada		$7,563.15
2nd	Hungrybox		$3,889.62
3rd	Mew2King		$2,701.13
4th	Mango		$1,620.68
5th	Axe		$972.41
5th	Plup		$972.41
7th	Shroomed		$648.27
7th	Duck		$648.27
9th	Westballz		$432.18
9th	PewPewU		$432.18
9th	Leffen		$432.18
9th	The Moon		$432.18
13th	Mafia		$216.09
13th	n0ne		$216.09
13th	S2J		$216.09
13th	SFAT		$216.09

Doubles

(8 teams)
Bracket

Place	Team	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	American Gothenburg	Armada		Mew2King		$2,921.50 ($1,460.75 each)
2nd	PewFat	SFAT		PewPewU		$2,045.05 ($1,022.53 each)
3rd	Swedish House Mafia	Leffen		Mafia		$876.45 ($438.23 each)
4th	Happy Birthday Johnny	Mango		S2J
5th	PlupBox	Hungrybox		Plup
5th	Hershey's Kisses	The Moon		Shroomed
7th	n0ballz	n0ne		Westballz
7th	QUAXE	Duck		Axe

Side events

Draft crew battle

(4 crews, single elimination bracket)
Bracket

Place	Crew	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character	Earnings
1st	energy BALLZ mcdaniel	Westballz		Armada		Shroomed		Duck		$1,000 ($250 each)
2nd	*screeching*	Mew2King		Plup		Axe		The Moon
3rd	Team Beer	Mango		S2J		PewPewU		Mafia
3rd	L O S L E F F O S	Leffen		Hungrybox		SFAT		n0ne

Iron Man tournament

(4 entrants, double elimination bracket)
Bracket

Place	Crew	Player	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	energy BALLZ mcdaniel	Armada		$500
2nd	Team Beer	Mango
3rd	*screeching*	Axe
4th	L O S L E F F O S	Leffen

Around the World

Around the World is a 4-player game where each player starts with a character from a corner of the select screen and advances characters by winning a round. Each round consists of a 2 stock, 2 minute random stage free-for-all with items on--sudden deaths are played out. Player who advances the most characters in a set time or travels around the world wins.
(4 entrants)

Place	Crew	Player	Starting character	Moves	Earnings
1st	*screeching*	Mew2King		10	$500
2nd	energy BALLZ mcdaniel	Westballz		9
2nd	L O S L E F F O S	n0ne		9
2nd	Team Beer	PewPewU		9

VIP doubles

Winners	Character(s)	Losers	Character(s)	Score
Armada &  BobThunder	&	Mango &  MegaUltraDan	&	3-1

Blind Man Challenge

Each team consists of a blindfolded player receiving instructions from their teammate.
(4 teams, double elimination bracket)
Bracket

Place	Crew	Players	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	*screeching*	Plup &  The Moon		$500 ($250 each)
2nd	energy BALLZ mcdaniel	Duck &  Shroomed
3rd	Team Beer	S2J &  Mafia
4th	L O S L E F F O S	SFAT &  Hungrybox

External links

Smash.gg page

Trivia

• This is the only major invitational tournament in 2016 to not have an Ice Climbers main in it.
• This is the first tournament in the Smash Summit tournament series where a participating member of the Top Six did not make top eight, with Leffen's placing at 9th.