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Tournament:Smash Summit 3

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Smash Summit 3
Smash Summit 3 logo.PNG
Dates November 3rd-6th, 2016
Venue Summit Gaming House
Address/City unknown
Los Angeles, California USA
Attendance 16
Entry fees N/A
Pot size(s) Singles: $21,090.00
Doubles: $5,815.00
Results
Super Smash Bros. Melee winners Sweden Armada 1v1
Sweden Armada & USA Mew2King 2v2

Smash Summit 3 was the third edition of the Smash Summit tournament series. It was a national Super Smash Bros. Melee invitational tournament held in Los Angeles, California from November 3rd to 6th, 2016 by Beyond the Summit. Singles, doubles and side events were hosted. The tournament was held at the Summit gaming house, a private residence, and was not open to the general public.

Players invited

These 10 players were invited by Beyond The Summit:

  Armada   Axe   Hungrybox   Leffen   Mango
  Mew2King   Plup   SFAT   Shroomed   Westballz

Players voted in

6 more players were voted in by the community. They had to be Top 50 in the 2015 SSBMRank, or have placed top 16 at The Big House 6, Get On My Level 2016, CEO 2016, Super Smash Con 2016 or Heir 3. The players voted in were, in that order:

Players eliminated

These players were eliminated in the nomination phase (October 14th):

  Laudandus   MacD   HugS   Overtriforce

These players were eliminated in the voting phase, in that order:

Eligible players

  Abate   aMSa   Amsah   Android   Ares   Bladewise   Cactuar   Chillin   ChuDat   Colbol   Däumling   dizzkidboogie
  DJ Nintendo   Duck   Druggedfox   Eddy Mexico   ESAM   Fly Amanita   Fiction   Frootloop   Gahtzu   Hax   HugS   Ice
  Javi   Jeapie   Kage   Kels   KirbyKaze   KJH   Laudandus   MacD   Mafia   Mike Haze   Nintendude   n0ne
  Overtriforce   PewPewU   PPMD   Professor Pro   Santiago   Silent Wolf   Swedish Delight   S2J   Tekk   The Moon   Trifasia   VA
  Wizzrobe   Wobbles   Zhu

Crews

The same way it was done at Smash Summit 2, 4 captains previously chosen by vote (Westballz, Mew2King, Leffen and Mango) formed crews using the snake draft method.

energy BALLZ mcdaniel   Westballz   Armada   Shroomed   Duck
*screeching*   Mew2King   Plup   Axe   The Moon
L O S L E F F O S   Leffen   Hungrybox   SFAT   n0ne
Team Beer   Mango   S2J   PewPewU   Mafia

Each crew competed in the Summit's various games and side events such as Jeopardy! and the Iron Man Tournament.

Results

Singles

(16 entrants)
Bracket

Place Name Character(s) Earnings
1st   Armada   
2nd   Hungrybox  
3rd   Mew2King   
4th   Mango  
5th   Axe  
5th   Plup   
7th   Shroomed  
7th   Duck  
9th   Westballz  
9th   PewPewU  
9th   Leffen  
9th   The Moon  
13th   Mafia  
13th   n0ne   
13th   S2J  
13th   SFAT  

Doubles

(8 teams)
Bracket

Place Team Name Character(s) Name Character(s) Earnings
1st American Gothenburg   Armada     Mew2King  
2nd PewFat   SFAT     PewPewU   
3rd Swedish House Mafia   Leffen     Mafia  
4th Happy Birthday Johnny   Mango     S2J  
5th PlupBox   Hungrybox     Plup  
5th Hershey's Kisses   The Moon     Shroomed  
7th n0ballz   n0ne      Westballz   
7th QUAXE   Duck     Axe  

Side events

Draft crew battle

(4 crews, single elimination bracket)
Bracket

Place Crew Name Character Name Character Name Character Name Character Earnings
1st energy BALLZ mcdaniel   Westballz     Armada     Shroomed     Duck  
2nd *screeching*   Mew2King     Plup     Axe     The Moon  
3rd Team Beer   Mango     S2J     PewPewU     Mafia  
3rd L O S L E F F O S   Leffen     Hungrybox     SFAT     n0ne  

Iron Man tournament

(4 entrants, double elimination bracket)
Bracket

Place Crew Player Character(s) Earnings
1st energy BALLZ mcdaniel   Armada       
2nd Team Beer   Mango      
3rd *screeching*   Axe      
4th L O S L E F F O S   Leffen      

Around the World

Around the World is a 4-player game where each player starts with a character from a corner of the select screen and advances characters by winning a round. Each round consists of a 2 stock, 2 minute random stage free-for-all with items on--sudden deaths are played out. Player who advances the most characters in a set time or travels around the world wins.
(4 entrants)

Place Crew Player Starting character Moves Earnings
1st *screeching*   Mew2King   10
2nd energy BALLZ mcdaniel   Westballz   9
2nd L O S L E F F O S   n0ne   9
2nd Team Beer   PewPewU   9

VIP doubles

Winners Character(s) Losers Character(s) Score
  Armada &   BobThunder   &     Mango &   MegaUltraDan   &   3-1

Blind Man Challenge

Each team consists of a blindfolded player receiving instructions from their teammate.
(4 teams, double elimination bracket)
Bracket

Place Crew Players Character(s) Earnings
1st *screeching*   Plup &   The Moon   
2nd energy BALLZ mcdaniel   Duck &   Shroomed    
3rd Team Beer   S2J &   Mafia   
4th L O S L E F F O S   SFAT &   Hungrybox     

External Links

Smash.gg page

Trivia

  • This is the first invitational tournament in 2016 to not have an Ice Climbers main in it.