Tournament:HTC Throwdown

HTC Throwdown
Dates	September 19th, 2015
Venue	Folsom Street Foundry
Address/City	1425 Folsom Street San Francisco, California
Attendance	514
Entry fees	Early-Bird Venue Fee: $15 (until 9/1) Normal Venue Fee: $20 (until 9/8) Late Venue Fee: $25 (until 9/15) Singles: $10 Doubles: $5 per person
Pot size(s)	Singles: $3,860 + $10,000 pot bonus Doubles: $1,130 + $2,000 pot bonus
Results
winners	Leffen 1v1  Mew2King &  Hungrybox 2v2

HTC Throwdown, is a national Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament that was held in San Francisco, California on September 19th, 2015, at the Folsom Street Foundry, the same venue used for the Get Smashed at the Foundry series of weekly tournaments. It held the record for being the largest one-day Smash tournament for singles, before being surpassed by 2GGT: Mexico Saga. It is hosted by Showdown Smash and HTC eSports, and livestreamed on their respective channels on Twitch. HTC provided over $12,000 in pot bonuses, with $10,000 going to singles and $2,000 to doubles. The tournament was notable for being Mango's lowest performance in 5 years, placing 17th after losing to DruggedFox and MacD, since he got 25th at Apex 2010 while sandbagging with Mario as his Scorpion Master alter ego.

Results

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles

(386 entrants)
Brackets

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Leffen		$5,544.00
2nd	Hungrybox		$2,772.00
3rd	Silent Wolf		$2,079.00
4th	DruggedFox		$1,386.00
5th	Colbol		$693.00
5th	Mew2King		$693.00
7th	Shroomed		$346.50
7th	SFAT		$346.50
9th	Cactuar
9th	Frootloop
9th	Axe
9th	Lucky
13th	Wizzrobe
13th	MacD
13th	PewPewU
13th	HugS
17th	HomeMadeWaffles
17th	S2J
17th	Ken
17th	Mango
17th	Tai
17th	Mike Haze
17th	Tang
17th	Zhu
25th	Rudolph
25th	Ralph
25th	Berto
25th	Plup
25th	Alan
25th	gaR
25th	SilentSpectre
25th	Alex19
33rd	L
33rd	Phil
33rd	NMW
33rd	Mooninite
33rd	Cereal Rabbit
33rd	ycz6
33rd	Bizzarro Flame
33rd	Hyprid
33rd	Reno
33rd	Coolkid
33rd	Chillin
33rd	Azusa
33rd	Moose
33rd	Laudandus
33rd	Scar
33rd	BlueFoxXT

Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles

(113 teams)
Brackets

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Mew2King		Hungrybox		$1,878.00 ($939.00 each)
2nd	MacD		Leffen		$939.00 ($469.50 each)
3rd	PewPewU		SFAT		$313.00 ($156.50 each)
4th	Mango		Lucky
5th	Colbol		DruggedFox
5th	Axe		Ken
7th	Wizzrobe		Plup
7th	SilentSpectre		Tang

Trivia

• HTC eSports produced HTC One M9s with Team Liquid, Team SoloMid, and Cloud 9 logos emblazoned on the back of the phone. Ken, Leffen, and Mango each received a complimentary phone with their respective team logo.

External links

• SmashBoards thread
• Facebook event