Tournament:GSM
| GSM | |
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| Dates | December 21st-22nd, 2024 |
| Venue | Palais du Littoral |
| Address/City | Rue Charles Garnier Grande-Synthe, Hauts-de-France 
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| Attendance | 171 |
| Results | |
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 Lima 1v1 Snow & Raru 2v2
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| Organizer(s) | Vegacy Esports, MetaMind |
GSM was a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate major held in Grande-Synthe, Hauts-de-France from December 21st-22nd, 2024.
Tournament summaryEdit
GSM served as the breakout event for the 27th seed, Japanese King K. Rool player Ball. After losing to #6 seed Glutonny 3-0, Ball went on a 5-set losers run, defeating #43 seed Xetroz, #44 seed Ponflex ツ, and #18 seed Eko all 3-0, and both #10 seed Supahsemmie (UF 3) and #16 seed NaetorU 3-1, before losing to #11 seed Sisqui 3-1 to finish 7th, marking not only the best placement of Ball's career, but the first ever major top 8 for a solo King K. Rool player. Aside from Ball's run, there were little major upsets on the top seeds, and as such 5 of the 8 players seeded in the top 8 were able to enter top 8. However, #1 seed Raru greatly underperformed at the event, as he lost to NaetorU 0-3 (upset factor 7) and #9 seed Raflow 3-2 (upset factor 6) to place 13th. Though #4 seed SHADIC and #7 seed crêpe salée also failed to make top 8, they lost to players who were seeded in or near the top 8 (#5 seed Snow and Sisqui for SHADIC, #2 seed Asimo and Raflow for crêpe salée), and both ultimately placed 9th.
Despite taking up half of the top 8 slots, Japan ultimately lost all but one set where they fought against a non-Japanese player: both Ball and Asimo lost to Sisqui (1-3 and 2-3 for a upset factor 5 respectively); Snow lost to both #8 seed Lima and Raflow; and #3 seed Doramigi lost to Lima 1-3 (UF 3) in Winners Final. Doramigi was able to win Japan's sole set against a non-Japanese player by defeating Raflow 3-1, which ended Raflow's 7-set Losers run where he notably eliminated Raru, crêpe salée 3-2, Glutonny 3-0, Snow, and Sisqui 3-0. Raflow finished 3rd, his best result since King Con almost a year ago. Conversely, Glutonny’s 7th place is his worst result at a European tournament since L'Odyssée - Chant I more than 2 years ago. However, Doramigi then lost the runback against Lima 1-3. As such, Lima won the first major of his Ultimate career as well as his second major victory of his entire Smash career, six years after he won the Smash 4 event at EVO 2018, and therefore became the eighteenth player to have a major win in more than one Smash game. This also marked the second major victory from a Bayonetta player that year, after TamaPDaifuku at Seibugeki 17.
ResultsEdit
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singlesEdit
(171 entrants)
Top 32 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket
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| 1st | Lima |
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| 2nd | Doramigi |
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| 3rd | Raflow |
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| 4th |  Sisqui |
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| 5th | Snow |
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| 5th | Asimo |
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| 7th | Glutonny |
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| 7th | Ball |
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| 9th | SHADIC |
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| 9th | NaetorU |
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| 9th | KID |
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| 9th | crêpe salée |
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| 13th | Ling |
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| 13th |  Supahsemmie |
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| 13th | Raarchyor |
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| 13th | Raru |
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| 17th | Leon |
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| 17th | Susu |
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| 17th | AndresFn |
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| 17th | Eko |
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| 17th | Donut |
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| 17th | MoDzai |
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| 17th |  Joni |
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| 17th | Mezcaul |
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| 25th | Bac |
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| 25th |  SuperStriker |
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| 25th | Oryon |
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| 25th | Ponflex ツ |
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| 25th |  Lancelot |
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| 25th | Adrian |
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| 25th | Dras |
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| 25th | Neeroz |
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| 33rd | Cracha |
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| 33rd | Dizay |
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| 33rd | cherryo |
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| 33rd | PeW |
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| 33rd | TBN |
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| 33rd | M.Pop0 |
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| 33rd | king |
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| 33rd | RyuKai |
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| 33rd | Yanos |
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| 33rd | Nibodax |
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| 33rd | Jun |
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| 33rd | Kéképi |
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| 33rd | Zura |
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| 33rd | Xetroz |
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| 33rd | BlackSoul |
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| 33rd | Lioko |
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate doublesEdit
(27 teams)
Bracket
| Place | Name | Character(s) | Name | Character(s) | Earnings |
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| 1st | Snow |
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Raru |
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| 2nd | Glutonny |
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Leon |
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| 3rd | Asimo |
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Ball |
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| 4th | AndresFn |
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Sisqui |
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| 5th | Bac |
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Raarchyor |
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| 5th | Maedakun |
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Doramigi |
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| 7th | yamis |
Yanos |
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| 7th | Enki |
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Oryon |
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Ling v. Mezcaul money matchEdit
Following trash talk between the two players from Mezcaul's 2-0 win over Ling at the online event Coinbox 111 - Going Global, Ling was flown out to GSM to money-match Mezcaul offline.
| Player | Character(s) | Set Score | Player | Character(s) | Prize |
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| Ling |
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0-3 | Mezcaul |
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$100 |