Tournament:Smash Summit 12

Smash Summit 12
Dates	December 9th-12th, 2021
Venue	Beyond the Summit
Address/City	unknown Los Angeles, California
Attendance	16
Entry fees	N/A
Pot size(s)	$56,889
Results
winners	iBDW
Staff
Organizer(s)	Beyond the Summit

Smash Summit 12 was a Super Smash Bros. Melee invitational tournament. It was the twelfth installment of the Smash Summit series for Melee, and was held on December 9th-12th, 2021 at Beyond the Summit's studio in Los Angeles, California, which is closed to the general public.

iBDW took first place at the event, defeating Leffen 3-2 and aMSa 3-1 to make it into winners’ finals for his first time at a Summit event. In his set against Zain in winners’ finals, iBDW would lose game one and unexpectedly counter-pick Zain to Final Destination game two, which was widely seen as an unpopular decision. Despite this, iBDW managed to two-stock Zain on FD to even up the score 1-1. After losing game three, iBDW would take the set to a game five and beat Zain 3-2 for the first time in his career to make it into grand finals on winners' side, where he would 3-0 Mango to take his first Summit win as well as his second major tournament win without dropping a set. Mango also had an impressive run at the tournament. Fresh off his previous Summit win, he managed to defeat Wizzrobe in winners' quarters 3-2 before getting 3-0'd by Zain in winners' semis. In the losers' bracket, he went on to defeat Leffen and Wizzrobe 3-2 to reach losers' finals, where he defeated Zain 3-1 before getting 3-0'd by iBDW in grand finals to secure a 2nd place finish.

Players invited/qualified

The following players were invited by Beyond The Summit:

•  Pipsqueak*
•  aMSa
•  Mango
•  Zain
•  Leffen

*Pipsqueak was automatically invited to the tournament, as he had qualified for Smash Summit 11.

The top 6 players at Mainstage 2021 qualified:

•  Wizzrobe
•  Hungrybox
•  KoDoRiN
•  SFAT
•  Ginger
•  iBDW

Players voted in

•  Sora (November 28th)
•  Tyler Swift &  Magi (November 30th)
•  null &  Free Palestine (December 2nd)

Players eliminated

These players were eliminated in voting:

•  FatGoku,  Raikin,  Zamu,  Palpa (November 24th)
•  skullbro,  Asashi,  Ben,  Logan (November 26th)
•  Soonsay,  Eddy Mexico (November 28th)
•  n0ne,  NoFluxes,  TheSWOOPER (November 30th)
•  Ringler,  SluG (December 2nd)

These players were eliminated in the nomination phase:

Captain G	Chape	DarkGenex	Free Balloon Day	JCAM	Kevbot	Koobie	Lotfy	Rocky	Secrets
Travioli	Unsure	Vintage

Eligible players

Players were eligible if they met the following requirements:

• Placing top 64 at Rollback Rumble: THE BIG ONE (NA singles only), Riptide, or Mainstage 2021 (Mainstage eligibility activated on November 16th)
• Placing top 32 at Low Tide City 2021
• Placing top 16 at Super Smash Con: Fall Fest
• Placing top 8 at Smash Kumite DX 1, Battle GateWay 31, or EBONG 2021
• Top 8 on the Australia 2021 Power Rankings
• Top 16 of the S.A.M.E 2021 circuit
• Participating in Summit Champions League Season 1 or 2, a Smash World Tour 2021 Regional Finals event, or in any Melee Smash Summit

Results

Singles

(16 entrants)
Final Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	iBDW		$17,066.70
2nd	Mango		$8,533.35
3rd	Zain
4th	Wizzrobe
5th	aMSa
5th	Leffen
7th	Magi
7th	Hungrybox
9th	Ginger
9th	SFAT
9th	Tyler Swift
9th	Free Palestine
13th	null
13th	Pipsqueak
13th	Sora
13th	KoDoRiN

Side events

Draft Crew Battle

• Each team selects three stages to ban from the complete list of stages for the duration of the crew battle.
• The 6 tournament legal stages are automatically banned, leaving 23 stages legal.
• Each team selects three items to turn on for the duration of the crew battle.
• Item frequency is set to medium.
• The first match of the crew battle is played on a random stage.
• The incoming player selects the next stage, with no bans.
• Players are not character locked.

(4 teams)
Bracket

Place	Crew	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Team iBDW	iBDW		Magi		Hungrybox		Ginger
2nd	Team Leffen	Leffen		Pipsqueak		Sora		aMSa
3rd	Team Zain	Zain		Tyler Swift		Wizzrobe		Free Palestine
3rd	Team Mang0	Mango		null		KoDoRiN		SFAT

Wheel! Of! Bullshit!

• Rock paper scissors is played, the winner gets to decide who spins the wheel.
• The wheel must be spun at least one full rotation.
• Wheel segments: Connect Four, Giant Melee, Mr. Saturn on VERY HIGH, Pokémon Battle (Poké Ball on high, only Poké Ball attacks and Poké Ball reflecting allowed), Single Button Melee, Blindfolded, Spinner Wins, THE PIT (bottom of Temple), Rishi's Jungle Jam (3 stocks, Kongo Jungle, Starman on very low), Celebrity Game (select a player who is not a Summit participant or ever ranked Top 100), CPU Battle, Plead Your Case (debate for being the winner), Spinner Loses, Home Run Contest
• Best of 1 (except for Rishi's Jungle Jam being best of 5), Finals is best of 3.
• Previous segments can not be played again.
• Connect Four, Mr. Saturn on VERY HIGH, THE PIT, Spinner Loses, and Home Run Contest were not played.
• Coin Battle and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate were listed in the voting shop goal, but were not on the wheel.

(8 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Magi*		$1,000
2nd	Sora**
3rd	Free Palestine
3rd	null
5th	Pipsqueak***
5th	SFAT
5th	Tyler Swift
5th	iBDW

*Won with CPU Level 9
**Sora's celebrity: Cailin , a local TO of his
***Pipsqueak's celebrity: Greg Turbo , his controller's creator

Commentator Crew Battle

Team Scar	Character	Stocks Taken	Team Toph	Character	Stocks Taken
The Cheat		5	HugS		3
YungWaff		3	Toph		4
Scar		2	Zhu		7
Lovage		4	Vish		2
Total	—	14	Total	—	16

VIP Bracket

(42 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Spark
2nd	Lucky
3rd	Faceroll
4th*	Albert
5th	Nintendude
5th	Justus
7th	Frenzy
7th	Chango
9th	bonfire10
9th	Chillindude
9th	Ringler
9th	Snap
13th	salami
13th	Dr. Z
13th	TreyTheTrashman
13th	Alex19

*DQ'd in losers.

Trivia

• Pipsqueak was the first player announced for both Smash Summit 12 and Smash Summit 13, qualifying for the latter by winning SAME Finale 2021.
• This is the first Melee Smash Summit without Axe or Plup competing, making Mango the only player to participate in every Melee Smash Summit.
  • However, the attendance of Tyler Swift maintained the presence of a Pikachu player in every Summit.
• This is the first Smash Summit where every player in attendance was able to win at least one set.
• This is the first Smash Summit to omit a competitor in the official poster (albeit by accident). Near the bottom right corner, the poster mistakenly features DarkGenex (a VIP of the event) instead of Tyler Swift.
• Sora's first two pools sets were delayed from Friday to Saturday due to him feeling food poisoning on Friday morning.
• All three reverse 3-0's of the tournament happened to Leffen. They were done by Wizzrobe, iBDW, and Mango.
• Mango and Leffen's set in losers' quarterfinals marks the fourth time Mango has four-stocked Leffen on a unique stage in tournament, due to Mango four-stocking him on Pokémon Stadium in game 3.
  • Mango has four-stocked Leffen on Fountain of Dreams at Apex 2014, Final Destination at The Big House 4, Dream Land at Get On My Level 2019 and now Pokémon Stadium at Smash Summit 12.
• This is the first Melee Summit to feature two spacies facing each other in grand finals.
• This is the first Melee Summit where grand finals ended in a 3-0.

External links

• start.gg page