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Ludwig Ahgren Championship Series 5
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Dates July 7th-9th, 2023
Address/City unknown
Covina, California USA
Attendance 140
Entry fees Friday only venue fee: $39
All weekend venue fee: $89
Open Qualifier: $1
Pot size(s) $50,001
Results
Super Smash Bros. Melee winners TBD
Staff
Organizer(s) Ludwig, Calvin, Slime, Anna Molly

Ludwig Ahgren Championship Series 5 is an ongoing Super Smash Bros. Melee invitational tournament held from July 7th-9th, 2023 by YouTube streamer Ludwig. It is the first tournament in the series to be held in-person, being in held Covina, California. 12 players were directly invited to the tournament, and 4 more players qualified from the Open Qualifier on July 7th. The prize pool is $50,001, which is the ninth largest prize pool for a Melee tournament.

Format

The main singles event has a total of 16 players, with 12 directly invited players and 4 players qualifying through the Open Qualifier. There are Swiss system pools and a final double-elimination bracket. Swiss pools worked the same way as Ludwig Smash Invitational, but with one pool of all 16 players instead of two pools with 16 players each. In the Swiss pools, each player played until they won 3 sets, where they qualified for the Top 8 final bracket, or until they lost 3 sets, where they were eliminated from the tournament. The 2 players that went 3-0 in sets in Swiss pools were able to draft pick their Winners' Quarters opponent out of the 3 players that went 3-2 in sets. The Top 8 are playing in the final bracket in a double-elimination format, with everyone starting Winners' side. All sets at the event will best of 5, in both Open Qualifier and main singles.[1] Swiss pools Rounds 1-3 were played on July 8th, and Rounds 4-5 were played on July 9th. The Top 8 final bracket is being played to completion on July 9th.

Players invited/qualified

The following 12 players were invited:

*Jmook dropped out due to a health issue. KoDoRiN was moved from the Open Qualifier to the main singles event as the replacement player.[2]

4 players qualified from the Open Qualifier.

Results

Singles

(16 entrants)
Swiss Pools
Final Bracket

Place Name Character(s) Earnings
1st $15,001
2nd $10,000
3rd $5,000
4th $4,000
5th USA Mang0 Falco (SSBM)Fox (SSBM)Marth (SSBM) $3,000
5th Canada moky Fox (SSBM) $3,000
7th Canada aMSa Yoshi (SSBM) $2,000
7th USA Swift Pikachu (SSBM) $2,000
9th Spain Trif Peach (SSBM) $1,125
9th Canada Joshman Fox (SSBM) $1,125
9th USA KoDoRiN Marth (SSBM) $1,125
12th USA Axe Pikachu (SSBM) $625
12th USA Magi Falco (SSBM) $625
12th USA Spark Sheik (SSBM) $625
15th USA Salt Captain Falcon (SSBM) $375
15th USA Zamu Fox (SSBM) $375

Side events

T.O. Bracket

(13 entrants)
Bracket

Place Name Character(s) Earnings
1st USA IggyNieves Fox (SSBM)
2nd USA YungWaff Falco (SSBM)
3rd USA Calvin Sheik (SSBM)
4th USA Kevon Sheik (SSBM)
5th USA s-f Marth (SSBM)
5th USA in10city Falco (SSBM)
7th USA schmoop Fox (SSBM)
7th USA webs Captain Falcon (SSBM)
9th USA zazamaster27
9th USA Papi Chulo
9th USA Georgie Marth (SSBM)
9th USA Chu12ch Yoshi (SSBM)
13th USA Bingus

Trivia

  • In Swiss pools, KoDoRiN became the first Marth player to 3-0 Axe's Pikachu, in a matchup the Axe has historically been dominant in.
  • Swift became the second Pikachu player to make Top 8 at a Melee major, after Axe first did so at Apex 2010 13 years prior. Swift was also the only qualified player to make Top 8 at Ludwig Ahgren Championship Series 5.

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