Tournament:Glitch 7 - Minus World

Glitch 7 - Minus World
Dates	September 14th-15th, 2019
Venue	Xanadu Games
Address/City	198 Laurel Race Track Road Laurel, Maryland
Attendance	578
Results
winners	ESAM 1v1  Tweek &  Nairo 2v2

Glitch 7 - Minus World was a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate national tournament held in Laurel, Maryland, from September 14th-15th, 2019. It was the largest Glitch tournament to date.

Results

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles

(566 entrants)
Top 16 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	ESAM		$3,523.60
2nd	Light		$1,685.20
3rd	Dabuz		$919.20
4th	Nairo		$612.80
5th	Tweek		$306.40
5th	Samsora		$306.40
7th	WaDi		$153.20
7th	Dark Wizzy		$153.20
9th	Gen
9th	Jakal
9th	VoiD
9th	ZD
13th	Wishes
13th	Salem
13th	LeoN
13th	Cosmos
17th	Ismon
17th	8BitMan
17th	Sinji
17th	Lui$
17th	SMB
17th	Mr E
17th	MVD
17th	Stocktaker69
25th	Juice
25th	BestNess
25th	Vinny G
25th	Mekos
25th	Dexter
25th	Young Eevey
25th	LingLing
25th	Dill
33rd	Rivers
33rd	SAUCE
33rd	Deluxemenu
33rd	Fatality
33rd	Lucky
33rd	Suarez
33rd	Sonido
33rd	Goblin
33rd	Puppeh
33rd	BlazingPasta
33rd	Odyssey
33rd	yeti
33rd	Kofi
33rd	DiZ
33rd	Bully
33rd	Dazai
49th	Ralphie
49th	Benny&TheJets
49th	Qwerty
49th	Blank
49th	DevvyStar
49th	Seagull Joe
49th	burntsocks
49th	Hawk
49th	6WX
49th	Adastran
49th	Static
49th	Sova Unknown
49th	PreCookedBread
49th	JLim
49th	Rocky~
49th	Beast
65th	Geist
65th	Mallow
65th	Ben
65th	NoTag
65th	Frostbyte
65th	Frozen
65th	Xerom
65th	FROOT
65th	Pink Fresh
65th	Eden
65th	Master Raven
65th	CORONA17
65th	Ketchup
65th	Tension
65th	colinies
65th	Dusty_Carpet
65th	Wal00gi
65th	Sandstorm
65th	NickRiddle
65th	Citadel
65th	Joe-J
65th	Flippy
65th	Alo!
65th	Xzax
65th	Dietsoda
65th	Mata-Door
65th	Rideae
65th	Disgaea
65th	Biddy
65th	enhancedpv
65th	Ninja
65th	Logic

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate doubles

(118 teams)
Top 12 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Tweek		Nairo		$649.00 ($324.50 each)
2nd	Dark Wizzy		Light		$354.00 ($177.00 each)
3rd	MVD		ESAM		$118.00 ($59.00 each)
4th	MuteAce		Samsora		$59.00 ($29.50 each)
5th	WaDi		Dabuz
5th	BestNess		Lui$
7th	JLim		Dazai
7th	Mekos		Puppeh
9th	VoiD		Cosmos
9th	Suarez		Raptor
9th	Biddy		Gen
9th	yeti		8BitMan
13th	SMB		LingLing
13th	CORONA17		Beast
13th	Frozen		Odyssey
13th	Mata-Door		excalibur!
17th	Juice		Sabo
17th	Young Eevey		Ketchup
17th	Seagull Joe		Deluxemenu
17th	Prettiest Girl In School		Stocktaker69
17th	Alo!		Wal00gi
17th	Mr E		Roxas
17th	Wishes		Jakal
17th	Dexter		Pink Fresh

Side events

Squad Strike

(190 entrants)
Top 24 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Tweek
2nd	ESAM
3rd	Nairo
4th	Puppeh
5th	Lui$
5th	Samsora
7th	Vinny G
7th	Mr E

amiibo Tournament

(25 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Sova Unknown
2nd	SamurottNick
3rd	Descolae
3rd	DanTheMan

GlitchGate Controversy

A week before the tournament started, PGStats determined that Glitch 7 would be a S-Tier tournament due to the number of currently-ranked PGRU players attending the tournament. However, Stroder would disqualify himself from the tournament, directly affecting Glitch 7's score and dropping it below the S-Tier threshold of 2,400 points. As a result, PGStats announced that Glitch 7 would be demoted into an A-Tier. This decision, which some have dubbed as "GlitchGate", caused some controversy, with people pointing out how MomoCon 2019 kept its S-Tier status even after having over 50 disqualifications, which would have also lowered it into an A-Tier.

In response to the controversy, PracticalTAS explained that counting disqualifications for normal entrants was extremely difficult and potentially inaccurate due to how many are listed as 0-2 instead. Furthermore, suar linked and agreed to a post where another player stated that tier values were simply a title, and that how much the tournament weighted was more important.

This event is likely the reason behind the following Spring 2020 PGRU season adding a 1-DQ buffer to S-tier tournaments, along with counting disqualifications in free-to-enter tournaments.

Trivia

• ESAM's victory in Ultimate singles at Glitch 7 notably coincided with Ash Ketchum's victory at the Manalo Conference in the Pokémon anime. Both are known for using Pikachu.
  • Additionally, ESAM's victory in Ultimate singles at Glitch 7 is the first major tournament win of his career. 2019 also featured the first major win of Melee's best Pikachu main, Axe, at Smash Summit 8.
• The tournament was named after a notable glitch in Super Mario Bros. where clipping through the pipe at the end of World 1-2 and going down the first pipe of the Warp Zone can access the glitched level known as the "Minus World" or "World -1".

External links

• Smash.gg page