Tournament:DELTA 9

DELTA 9
Dates	October 27th, 2024
Venue	Ota City Industrial Plaza PiO 4F Convention Hall
Address/City	1-chōme-20-20 Minamikamata Ota, Tokyo
Attendance	380
Results
winners	Miya

DELTA 9 was a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate supermajor held in Ota, Tokyo, Kantō on October 27th, 2024.

Summary

The first of the two most notable runs of the tournament is Raru's run. As the second seed, he lost in his third set to Ocha 0-3 for a upset factor 10, the biggest of the tournament. Despite this, he managed to make a 11-set losers run while scoring a lot of good wins : #6 seed Glutonny 3-0, #17 seed Yamanaction 3-2, #5 seed TamaPDaifuku 3-1 and #4 seed Shuton 3-1 before losing to #1 seed Miya to place 2nd, matching his seed. His second place at a supermajor also marks one of Luigi's best results in Smash alongside his second place at KOWLOON 9 with Sumabato and his two majors wins at Sumabato SP 47 and Sumabato SP 50.
On the other hand, this event saw a cinderella run from #47 seed Ryopei. This Snake player was mostly unknown before this tournament, although he had a good run to 33rd at Kagaribi 11, a year ago, notably defeating Karaage and Suinoko. Despite benefiting from players being in loser's bracket or eliminated early, he made 3 upsets over #18 Reno 3-0 (UF 2), #15 Gorioka 3-1 (UF 3) and lastly #14 Toriguri 3-2 (UF 3) to reach winner's finals. He lost back to back sets to Miya 0-3 and Raru 2-3, ending his cinderella run at 3rd place. He became the lowest seed to make top 8 at a major since Many's 5th place finish at S Factor 11 in July, who was the #51 seed.
Miya would convincingly win the tournament, only dropping 5 games (one to #32 Noi, to Yamanaction and #9 M0tsunabE and two to TamaP), extending his already long lead as the player with the most majors wins in 2024, and tying MkLeo as the number of majors won in all of Ultimate's life span, being 24. It's very impressive as Miya won the same amount of majors as MkLeo in less than half the time MkLeo had, since MkLeo was present since the start of Ultimate in 2018 (almost six years ago) while Miya made his breakout run at Kagaribi 8 in July 2022 (2 years ago).
Similar to other Japanese majors, several top seeds were upset, as only 4 of the top 8 seeded players (Raru, Miya and Shuton and TamaPDaifuku) made top 8. TamaPDaifuku's run to 5th also marks his return to form after his several underperformances both in Japan and North America since the start of the 2024.2 season. #3 seed Snow lost 1-3 to Toriguri (UF 5) and M0tsunabE 2-3 (UF 4) for 9th, #6 seed Glutonny (the only notable international invader of the tournament) lost to #27 seed Sin 0-3 (UF 5) before falling into Raru's loser's run for 25th, #7 seed Akakikusu lost to #39 seed Marcos and #36 seed Tameigo, both in game 5 sets and upset factor 5 for 25th, and #8 seed KEN lost to #40 seed Kept 2-3 (UF 5) and Shuton in loser's side top 8 qualifier 0-3 (who was send to loser's early by TamaP) for 9th.
The other top seeds to underperformed are #10 seed Kameme, dropping sets to #119 seed YOC 0-2 (UF 7) and #42 seed Kurofune 2-3 (UF 4), #11 seed Umeki, losing in two game 5 sets to #75 seed Kebanga (UF 6) and #107 seed Tsukasa (UF 7) and #18 seed Reno, who lost to Ryopei and #50 seed Sumaho 1-3 (UF 3), all three being eliminated at 65th. On the other side, despite #12 seed Alice lost in his first round to #268 seed Hiiragi 0-2 (UF 10, tied with Ocha's win over Raru as the biggest of the tournament), he made a 9-set long loser's run, which includes him winning the runback against Hiiragi and defeating Noi, #16 seed Rarikkusu and Ocha.
Lastly, Toriguri's 5th place at a supermajor marks Banjo and Kazooie's best performance, as his three other 5th place finishes (at Maesuma TOP 15 "FINAL", Battle of BC 6 and Seibugeki 17) were made at majors.

Results

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles

(380 entrants)
Top 64 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Miya
2nd	Raru
3rd	Ryopei
4th	Shuton
5th	Toriguri
5th	TamaPDaifuku
7th	M0tsunabE
7th	Yamanaction
9th	Lunamado
9th	Sin
9th	Snow
9th	KEN
13th	Fui
13th	kept
13th	uame
13th	alice
17th	Eik
17th	Gackt
17th	tameigo
17th	Gorioka
17th	Lax
17th	Shinnnnnji
17th	Marcos
17th	Ocha
25th	Glutonny
25th	ElleGo
25th	Akakikusu
25th	Shion
25th	Ari
25th	Kurofune
25th	chicken
25th	Rarikkusu
33rd	Kebanga
33rd	Ezs
33rd	Leaf
33rd	Gachipi
33rd	Tet.
33rd	Karaage
33rd	Kyou
33rd	T.earth
33rd	Kisha
33rd	Sumaho
33rd	MairudonaH.O
33rd	Tsubaki
33rd	Masami
33rd	K.O. Kou
33rd	sssr
33rd	Noi
49th	Paseriman
49th	Chon
49th	Rinoha
49th	Te-sHi
49th	Tomisa
49th	Kamisuke
49th	Kamuko no Namaashi Bikyaku Doriru
49th	Tsukasa
49th	Ly
49th	Natsu
49th	LemozonA
49th	RAIN
49th	Metara
49th	JinJin
49th	Naegiri
49th	LiiMac
65th	Mituhiko (real)
65th	Kou
65th	Koyupon
65th	Lea
65th	Rimu
65th	TK
65th	SK
65th	5k
65th	Futari no Kiwami Ah~!
65th	Kazuhito
65th	Kency
65th	Arika
65th	Mark
65th	Yuzha
65th	Nininga
65th	Wataru
65th	Maipan
65th	Show
65th	Kameme
65th	YOC
65th	Kabo
65th	Umeki
65th	Kei
65th	Hiiragi
65th	Mao
65th	Brood
65th	torog
65th	YamaD
65th	Reno
65th	furamii
65th	No.8
65th	Kyon

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