Tournament:Smash Summit 2

Smash Summit 2
Dates	April 21st-24th, 2016
Venue	Summit Gaming House
Address/City	unknown Los Angeles, California
Attendance	16
Entry fees	N/A
Pot size(s)	Singles: $27,000+ Doubles: $2,800+ Side events: $4,250+
Results
winners	Armada 1v1  Armada &  Mew2King 2v2

Smash Summit 2 was a national Super Smash Bros. Melee invitational tournament held in Los Angeles, California from April 21st-24th, 2016 by Beyond the Summit, an eSports company known for their Dota 2 coverage. Singles, doubles and side events for Melee were hosted. The tournament was held at the Summit gaming house, a private residence, and so is not open to the general public. This tournament is also notable for being only the second tournament where Mew2King beat Armada, the other being SKTAR 3.

Players

These 10 players were invited by Beyond The Summit.

•  Armada
•  Hungrybox
•  Silent Wolf
•  Mango
•  Mew2King
•  Plup
•  Westballz
•  Axe
•  Shroomed
•  SFAT

• Leffen was not able to attend and was replaced by Silent Wolf.

6 more players were chosen by the community. They had to be Top 50 on the 2015 SSBMRank or have placed Top 32 at either The Big House 5 or GENESIS 3.

Players voted in

•  Duck
•  ESAM
•  PewPewU
•  S2J
•  Ice
•  Wobbles

A few days before Smash Summit started, Hax confirmed that he would not be able to attend Smash Summit due to hand pain. He was replaced with Duck.

Players declined

These players were invited to Summit but were forced to decline due to personal reasons:

•  PPMD (personal issues)
•  Hax (hand pain)
•  Leffen (visa issues)

These players declined being voted in:

•  Eddy Mexico
•  Nintendude
•  aMSa (declined during the voting phase)

Players eliminated

These players were eliminated in the voting phase:

•  HugS
•  The Moon
•  JAVI
•  Alex19
•  DruggedFox
•  Professor Pro
•  Duck
•  Lucky
•  Wizzrobe

These players were eliminated in the nomination phase:

•  MacD
•  KJH
•  Santiago
•  ChuDat
•  DJ Nintendo
•  HomeMadeWaffles
•  Colbol
•  Gahtzu
•  Mike Haze
•  Kage
•  Chillin
•  Prince Abu
•  Arc
•  Zhu

Eligible players

•  PPMD (declined invitation)
•  Lucky
•  PewPewU
•  MacD
•  S2J
•  Ice
•  Druggedfox
•  Hax
•  HugS
•  Colbol
•  Duck
•  Wizzrobe
•  aMSa (declined)
•  Nintendude (declined)
•  JAVI
•  KirbyKaze
•  The Moon
•  Zhu
•  Fly Amanita
•  Swedish Delight
•  Wobbles
•  Abate
•  Professor Pro
•  ChuDat
•  Eddy Mexico (declined)
•  Cactuar
•  Fiction
•  Bladewise
•  Mike Haze
•  DJ Nintendo
•  Santiago
•  Tekk
•  Kage
•  Gahtzu
•  KJH
•  Overtriforce
•  Android
•  Frootloop
•  Kels
•  Chillin
•  Darkatma
•  Prince Abu
•  HomeMadeWaffles
•  ESAM
•  Alex19
•  CDK
•  ARC
•  Lord
•  Laudandus
•  SilentSpectre

Crews and Smash Olympics

At the very beginning of Smash Summit 2, 4 captains who were previously chosen by vote (Hungrybox, Mango, Armada, and Westballz) formed crews by picking smashers through a snake draft process.

Team Pandabox	Hungrybox	Plup	Wobbles	ESAM
Team Mango	Mango	S2J	Silent Wolf	Duck
Team Armada	Armada	Ice	SFAT	Shroomed
Team Westballz	Westballz	Mew2King	Axe	PewPewU

Each crew would gain points when their members won or placed high enough at the verious side events such as the Shared Controller Tournament and the Iron Man Challenge. The team with the most points at the end would win the Smash Olympics and earn $750 to share among themselves.

Results

Singles

(16 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Armada		$9,073.05
2nd	Hungrybox		$4,666.14
3rd	Mew2King		$3,240.38
4th	Mango		$1,944.23
5th	Plup		$1,166.54
5th	Shroomed		$1,166.54
7th	Axe		$777.69
7th	SFAT		$777.69
9th	Duck		$518.46
9th	S2J		$518.46
9th	Ice		$518.46
9th	Westballz		$518.46
13th	Silent Wolf		$259.23
13th	Wobbles		$259.23
13th	PewPewU		$259.23
13th	ESAM		$259.23

Doubles

(8 teams)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Armada		Mew2King		$1,875 ($937.50 each)
2nd	Hungrybox		Plup		$1,312.50 ($656.25 each)
3rd	Mango		S2J		$562.50 ($281.25 each)
4th	SFAT		PewPewU
5th	Shroomed		Westballz
5th	Axe		Wobbles
7th	Duck		Silent Wolf
7th	ESAM		Ice

Side events

Shared Controller Tournament

(8 teams, single elimination bracket)

Place	Crew	Players	Character(s)	Earnings	Points
1st	Team Pandabox	Plup &  ESAM			2
2nd	Team Armada	SFAT &  Shroomed
3rd	Team Westballz	PewPewU &  Westballz
3rd	Team Westballlz	Mew2King &  Axe
5th	Team Armada	Armada &  Ice
5th	Team Mango	Duck &  Silent Wolf
5th	Team Mango	Mango &  S2J
5th	Team Pandabox	Hungrybox &  Wobbles

Iron Man challenge

(8 entrants, single elimination bracket)

Place	Crew	Player	Character(s)	Earnings	Points
1st	Team Mango	Mango			6
2nd	Team Armada	Armada			2
3rd	Team Westballz	Mew2King
3rd	Team Mango	S2J
5th	Team Westballz	Westballz
5th	Team Pandabox	Plup
5th	Team Armada	Shroomed
5th	Team Pandabox	Hungrybox

Draft crew battle

(4 crews, double elimination bracket, no reset in Grand Finals)

Place	Crew	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character	Earnings	Points
1st	Team Armada	Armada		Ice		SFAT		Shroomed		$2,250 ($562.50 each)	6
2nd	Team Pandabox	Hungrybox		Wobbles		ESAM		Plup		$1,750 ($437.50 each)	2
3rd	Team Mango	Mango		Silent Wolf		Duck		S2J		$1,500 ($375 each)
4th	Team Westballz	Westballz		Mew2King		Axe		PewPewU

Smash Olympics crew battle tiebreaker

Since both Team Pandabox and Team Armada tied at 8 points, another crew battle was done immediately after the previous one to determine the winner of the Smash Olympics.

Place	Crew	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character
1st	Team Pandabox	Hungrybox		Wobbles		ESAM		Plup
2nd	Team Armada	SFAT		Armada		Shroomed		Ice

Smash Olympics final results

Place	Crew	Points	Earnings
1st	Team Pandabox	8	$750.00 ($187.50 each)
2nd	Team Armada	8
3rd	Team Mango	6
4th	Team Westballz	0

• Team Pandabox earned 2 points for winning Smash Charades and 2 more when Plup won the Rivals of Aether tournament.

VIP doubles

Winner	Character(s)	Winner	Character(s)	Loser	Character(s)	Loser	Character(s)	Score
Mango		MegaUltraDan		Hungrybox		Ringler		3-2

Duck vs. ESAM money match

Winner	Character(s)	Loser	Character(s)	Score	Amount
Duck		ESAM		3-0	$100

Trivia

• This tournament was the first time ever that Mew2King defeated Armada in a best of 5 set, winning 3-0 in Winners Semis (although Armada ended up defeating him 3-0 in Losers Finals).
  • The last time Mew2King took a set off Armada was in 2014 at SKTAR 3.
• This was the very first Melee tournament in California that both Armada and Mango entered where they did not meet in Grand Finals.

External links

• Twitter announcement