Super Smash Bros. Melee
Tournament

Tournament:HTC Throwdown

HTC Throwdown
Dates September 19th, 2015
Venue Folsom Street Foundry
Address/City 1425 Folsom Street
San Francisco, California USA
Attendance 514
Entry fees Early-Bird Venue Fee: $15 (until 9/1)
Normal Venue Fee: $20 (until 9/8)
Late Venue Fee: $25 (until 9/15)
Singles: $10
Doubles: $5 per person
Pot size(s) Singles: $3,860 + $10,000 pot bonus
Doubles: $1,130 + $2,000 pot bonus
Results
Super Smash Bros. Melee winners Sweden Leffen 1v1
USA Mew2King & USA Hungrybox 2v2

HTC Throwdown, is a national Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament that was held in San Francisco, California on September 19th, 2015, at the Folsom Street Foundry, the same venue used for the Get Smashed at the Foundry series of weekly tournaments. It held the record for being the largest one-day Smash tournament for singles, before being surpassed by 2GGT: Mexico Saga. It is hosted by Showdown Smash and HTC eSports, and livestreamed on their respective channels on Twitch. HTC provided over $12,000 in pot bonuses, with $10,000 going to singles and $2,000 to doubles. The tournament was notable for being Mango's lowest performance in 5 years, placing 17th after losing to DruggedFox and MacD, since he got 25th at Apex 2010 while sandbagging with Mario as his Scorpion Master alter ego.

Results

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles

(386 entrants)
Brackets

Place Name Character(s) Earnings
1st   Leffen   $5,544.00
2nd   Hungrybox   $2,772.00
3rd   Silent Wolf   $2,079.00
4th   DruggedFox    $1,386.00
5th   Colbol    $693.00
5th   Mew2King     $693.00
7th   Shroomed   $346.50
7th   SFAT   $346.50
9th   Cactuar   
9th   Frootloop  
9th   Axe   
9th   Lucky  
13th   Wizzrobe  
13th   MacD  
13th   PewPewU  
13th   HugS  
17th   HomeMadeWaffles  
17th   S2J  
17th   Ken  
17th   Mango   
17th   Tai  
17th   Mike Haze  
17th   Tang  
17th   Zhu  
25th   Rudolph  
25th   Ralph  
25th   Berto  
25th   Plup  
25th   Alan  
25th   gaR  
25th   SilentSpectre  
25th   Alex19  
33rd   L  
33rd   Phil  
33rd   NMW  
33rd   Mooninite  
33rd   Cereal Rabbit  
33rd   ycz6  
33rd   Bizzarro Flame  
33rd   Hyprid  
33rd   Reno  
33rd   Coolkid  
33rd   Chillin  
33rd   Azusa  
33rd   Moose  
33rd   Laudandus  
33rd   Scar  
33rd   BlueFoxXT  

Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles

(113 teams)
Brackets

Place Name Character(s) Name Character(s) Earnings
1st   Mew2King     Hungrybox   $1,878.00 ($939.00 each)
2nd   MacD     Leffen   $939.00 ($469.50 each)
3rd   PewPewU     SFAT   $313.00 ($156.50 each)
4th   Mango     Lucky  
5th   Colbol     DruggedFox  
5th   Axe     Ken  
7th   Wizzrobe     Plup  
7th   SilentSpectre     Tang  

Trivia

  • HTC eSports produced HTC One M9s with Team Liquid, Team SoloMid, and Cloud 9 logos emblazoned on the back of the phone. Ken, Leffen, and Mango each received a complimentary phone with their respective team logo.

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