Tournament:MELEE-FC

MELEE-FC
Info
Founded	July 9th, 2004
Region	United States
Format	Double elimination
winners	Isai (Diamond)  Battlecow (10R)
winners	Ken (1, 3)  PC Chris (6)  Mew2King (Diamond)  Mango (10R)  Leffen (15XR)
winners	D. Disciple (10R)
winners	Hungrybox (10R)
winners	ZeRo (15XR)
Most successful player(s)	Ken (2 main event titles)
Staff
Organizer(s)	KishPrime,  KishSquared

MELEE-FC is a tournament series hosted by the Ship of Fools. The first four main installments each set a new Melee tournament attendance record, with MELEE-FC1 featuring 98 entrants, MELEE-FC3 featuring 186 entrants, MELEE-FC6 featuring 205 entrants, and MELEE-FC Diamond featuring 256 entrants. After a five-year hiatus, the series returned in 2012 with MELEE-FC10R Legacy, which also included one of the first Project M national tournaments.

There were other smaller tournaments such as MELEE-FC2 and MELEE-FC5, with the tournaments only receiving four and five entrants, respectively.

List of tournaments

Event	Date	Attendance	Games
MELEE-FC1	July 9th-10th, 2004	98
MELEE-FC3	July 10th-12th, 2005	186
MELEE-FC6	July 13th-15th, 2006	250+
MELEE-FC Diamond	July 12th-14th, 2007	256+
MELEE-FC10R Legacy	August 12th-14th, 2012	146+
FC Smash 15XR: Return	July 4th-5th, 2015	289+

Side Event	Date	Attendance	Games
MELEE-FC2	October 19th, 2004	4
MELEE-FC5	May 15th, 2006	5

MELEE-FC4 was planned for February 23rd, 2006, but was apparently cancelled.

Results

MELEE-FC2

Archived official site
Due to the lack of a SmashBoards post and relying on word of mouth to announce the tournament, the four Ship of Fools members were the only entrants at this event. As such, the tournament consisted of a single free-for-all match.

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles

(4 entrants)

Place	Name	Score
1st	KishSquared	+7
2nd	Joshu	+2
3rd	Ignatius	-2
4th	KishPrime	-9

MELEE-FC5

Archived official site
Similar to MELEE-FC2, the members of Ship of Fools were the only participants in the tournament, and the tournament was held last minute at Jeff Kish's sister-in-law's house.

Ruleset

• A 64-person singles bracket was created, with each player entering twice and 54 CPUs.
  • The official site states that 59 CPUs were used, but this is presumed to be an error due to the published results table showing that each player entered twice.
  • Due to the formatting of the CPU results, it is possible that Tournament Mode was used.
• A free-for-all bracket was also held, with two 3-player 3-minute games in the first round (KishSquared entering in both games) and the top two per game advancing to a final 4-player 5-minute game.
  • The official site states that at least some players lost to CPUs in free-for-alls, but the results page has no record of any free-for-all games involving CPUs.

Singles

CPU results below the top 8 were omitted from the official results page.

Place	Name	Character
1st	KishSquared
2nd	KishPrime
3rd	CPU22
3rd	Joshu
5th	KishSquared'sWife
5th	Joshu
5th	KishSquared
5th	CPU20
17th	Ignatius
17th	KishSquared'sWife
33rd	Ignatius
33rd	KishPrime

Free-for-all

First round, first game: the stage and characters used as well as Ignatius's score were not documented. KishPrime defeated KishSquared in the tiebreaker.

Place	Name	Character	Score
1st	Ignatius		?
2nd	KishPrime		-1
3rd	KishSquared		-1

First round, second game: the stage was Fountain of Dreams.

Place	Name	Character	Score
1st	KishSquared		+1
2nd	Joshu		0
3rd	KishSquared'sWife		-1

Finals: the stage was Flat Zone.

Place	Name	Character	Score
1st	Joshu		+10
2nd	KishPrime		-1
3rd	Ignatius		-4
4th	KishSquared		-7

Champions

Melee Singles Winners

Event	Date	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
MELEE-FC1	July 9th-10th, 2004	Ken Hoang	Ken		Azen
MELEE-FC3	July 10th-12th, 2005	Ken Hoang	Ken		Sastopher
MELEE-FC6	July 13th-15th, 2006	Christopher Szygiel	PC Chris		Mew2King
MELEE-FC Diamond	July 12th-14th, 2007	Jason Zimmerman	Mew2King		PC Chris
MELEE-FC10R Legacy	August 12th-14th, 2012	Joseph Marquez	Mango		Hungrybox
FC Smash 15XR: Return	July 4th-5th, 2015	William Hjelte	Leffen		Hungrybox

Side Event	Entrants	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
MELEE-FC2	4	Jeff Kish	KishSquared		Joshu
MELEE-FC5	5	Jeff Kish	KishSquared		KishPrime

64 Singles Winners

Event	Date	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
MELEE-FC Diamond	July 12th-14th, 2007	Joel Alvarado	Isai		Sensei
MELEE-FC10R Legacy	August 12th-14th, 2012	Charlie Bullock	Battlecow		Moogle

Brawl Singles Winners

Event	Date	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
MELEE-FC10R Legacy	August 12th-14th, 2012	DeShane Strong	D. Disciple		Aposl

Project M Singles Winners

Event	Date	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
MELEE-FC10R Legacy	August 12th-14th, 2012	Juan DeBiedma	Hungrybox		Vro

Smash 4 Singles Winners

Event	Date	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
FC Smash 15XR: Return	July 4th-5th, 2015	Gonzalo Barrios	ZeRo		KP Joey

External links

• MELEE-FC website archive