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Tournament:Fête 3: By the Sea

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Fête 3: By the Sea
Dates July 14th-16th, 2023
Venue Pontins Camber Sands Holiday Park
Address/City New Lydd Rd
Rye, England UK
Attendance 436
Results
Super Smash Bros. Melee winners USA Zain 1v1
USA Polish & Sweden Pipsqueak 2v2
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate winners Denmark +HOPE+ 1v1
Norway SpookyFrog & Norway Gulag Manager 2v2

Fête 3: By the Sea was a Super Smash Bros. Melee major and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate regional held in Rye, England, from July 14th-16th, 2023.

Format

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles

In each of the 52 Round Robin pools, the Top 3 advance to Gold Pools, 4th-5th advance to Silver Pools, and 6th and below advance to Bronze Pools. Gold/Silver/Bronze Pools are Round Robin pools, where the Top 3 of each pool advances to their respective division's bracket (Gold/Silver/Bronze Bracket). Gold Pools is 156 players in 26 pools, with 1st advancing to Winners' side of the double-elimination Gold Bracket (Top 78), and 2nd-3rd advancing to Losers' side of Gold Bracket. The Top 8 of Gold Bracket advance to the traditional Top 8 bracket. Silver and Bronze Bracket start with all players in Winners' side in a double-elimination format.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles

In each of the 4 double-elimination pools, the Top 4 advance to Gold Bracket (Top 16, 8 in Winners and 8 in Losers), 5th-7th advance to Silver Bracket, and 9th and below advance to Bronze Bracket.

Results

 

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles

(409 entrants)
Gold Bracket
Top 8 Bracket

Place Name Character(s) Earnings
1st   Zain  
2nd   Jmook  
3rd   Hungrybox  
4th   aMSa  
5th   Joshman  
5th   Trif  
7th   Aklo  
7th   Polish  
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Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles

(128 teams)
Bracket

Place Name Character(s) Name Character(s) Earnings
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
5th
7th
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9th
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles

(54 entrants)
Gold Bracket

Place Name Character(s) Earnings
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
5th
7th
7th

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate doubles

Side events

Super Smash Bros. Melee Salty Suite

There were five Salty Suite matches: Stoneymalony vs. Exy-, Zain as Roy vs. Hungrybox as Ness, skullbro vs. Madness, Abbe vs. Kingu, and LunarySSF2 vs. Tony Bomboni. All sets are first to 5 (except the third and fourth listed, which were best of 5), and players could not pick the last stage they have won on during a set.

Many of the players involved chugged beers before each game.

Winner Character(s) Loser Character(s) Score Prize
  Stoneymalony     Exy-     3-5 €50
  Zain     Hungrybox   4-5
  skullbro     Madness   3-1
  Abbe     Kingu   3-1
  LunarySSF2      Tony Bomboni   4-5

Super Smash Bros. Melee International Crews

(19 crews)
Bracket

Place Team Players Earnings
1st South Asia   Foxy Grandpa     Aklo     Branspeed     Stranger     Zain  
2nd England   Kingu     max     Frenzy     Fat Tino     Professor Pro  
3rd Switzerland   Marlo     BlackH4ze     Exy-     Jah Ridin'     diamon  
3rd Sweden   Sharp     Saftblandarn     Jadde     Pipsqueak     Abbe  

Trivia

  • This is the first major Melee tournament to be held in the United Kingdom, per the Liquipedia and SmashWiki definitions of a major tournament.
  • Bbatts had originally intended to compete in both Melee and Ultimate singles, but had to drop out of registration due to losing his passport.[1]
  • This tournament marks the first time Zain has won an offline Super Smash Bros. Melee major tournament from losers, defeating Jmook twice in grand finals to reset the bracket.
  • Jmook's controller began to malfunction during grand finals of the Melee bracket. Both players agreed to restart game 3 of the first set and game 1 of the second, but this ultimately did not impact the final game count, which was 6-0 in Zain's favor for both sets.
  • For the first time, Hungrybox placed higher in Ultimate singles (2nd) than Melee singles (3rd) at the same event (although it is important to note that only the latter was considered a major).
  • This tournament marks the first time aMSa has defeated Trif in Melee singles, in a matchup historically dominated by Trif.
  • After both his exhibition match and the award ceremony following grand finals, Zain beatboxed on the mic.[2]
  • Due to the tournament's location being in Europe and the scarcity of European Melee majors, it was frequently joked about on social media (as well as the tournament's livestreams) that the entire event was being run on PAL edition.
  • Project + singles and doubles were formally run as a "separate" tournament called Not Fête in the same venue.

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