Tournament:The Gimvitational

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The Gimvitational
Dates	June 16th-19th, 2022
Venue	Xanadu Games
Address/City	198 Laurel Race Track Road Laurel, Maryland
Attendance	16
Pot size(s)	TBD
Results
winners	TBD

The Gimvitational is an ongoing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate major invitational held in Laurel, Maryland, from June 16th-19th, 2022. The tournament was announced following GimR's presentation on the slingshot technique and features a Summit-esque voting style, where 20% of all donations and shop profits will be added to a "Player Fund," a fund that returns a percentage of money to those who make it into the nomination phase. The tournament is also experimenting with a mixed hazards on and hazard off ruleset.

Players invited/qualified

The following players were invited:

•  Cosmos
•  Kola
•  Light
•  Marss
•  Riddles
•  Sparg0
•  Tweek

The top 2 players of Kagaribi 7 were also invited:

•  acola
•  Asimo

Players voted in

•  Larry Lurr &  Chase (June 4th)
•  Jin &  Gackt (June 5th)
•  Ferps,  yonni, &  loaf* (June 7th)

*Replaced VoiD.

Declined players

VoiD was originally invited, but was unable to attend due to health issues. He was replaced by loaf, who had the highest amount of votes out of the players eliminated on the final day of voting.

Players eliminated

These players were eliminated in voting:

•  JeJaJeJa,  Dany,  Mugen,  ShinyMark (June 1st)
•  ApolloKage,  Jakal,  Echofire,  One O'Seven (June 3rd)
•  Sonix &  Xerzal (June 4th)
•  MazeBeans &  Sekai Doggo (June 5th)
•  Skyjay (June 7th)

Skyjay was invited as a VIP.

These players were eliminated in the nomination phase:

Axiom XL	BigBoss	Caius	Capitancito	DDog
enhancedpv	Floppeh	Frawg	Jake	Javi
Jonhy	Marvelous_Marco	Monte	Peanut	Peckham
Pink Fresh	Quaylectra	Rm8	Rockman	Shoe
Skitz	SlushieV2	spot	T3 DOM	Toxex
WaDi

Eligible players

Players were eligible if they met the following requirements:

• Placed top 64 at GENESIS 8 and Kagaribi 6
• Placed top 32 at Let's Make Big Moves 2022, Glitch - Infinite, LVL UP EXPO 2022, Collision 2022, WANTED S4 C4 - Free Agent Edition, Pound 2022, Low Tide City 2022, Maesuma TOP 7, and Kagaribi 7
• Placed top 16 at Back in Blood 3, Glory 2.0, WANTED S4 C3 - Saint Valentin Edition, LEVELUP Arena 4, CT Gamercon 5, RCADIA SMASH 2, Ultra Hard, Tijuana At War 2022, Invasion: April 2022, Battle Arena Melbourne 12, and Virtuocity Smash Open 2022
• Placed top 6 at any Smash World Tour Silver 4 event
• Placed top 3 at any Smash World Tour Silver 3 event
• Won any Smash World Tour Silver 2 event

Ruleset

Singles

• Best of 5 all tournament
• Phase 1 - Research and Development: 4 round robin groups of 4 players, 1st in each group advances to Phase 3 bracket Winners' side, 2nd-4th advance to Phase 2
• Phase 2 - Clinical Trials: Gauntlet stage of 8 sets across 4 groups of 3 players
• Phase 3 - Final Review: Double-elimination bracket stage with 8 players starting Winners’ side and 8 players starting Losers’ side

Singles stage list

• Winner of the previous game gets 3 bans in counterpick stages
• Banning one stage in a row on the table bans both stages

Starter
Battlefield
Small Battlefield
Pokémon Stadium 2
Smashville*
Town and City*
Counterpick
Battlefield	Fountain of Dreams*
Small Battlefield
Pokémon Stadium 2
Smashville*	Hollow Bastion
Town and City*
Final Destination	Pictochat 2
Yoshi's Story*
Kalos Pokémon League

*Hazards on

Draft quads

• 4 teams playing 4v4s in 8-Player Smash
• Team captains picked by viewers: Jin, Gackt, Kola, Light, teams drafted live
• Standard team rules with Final Smash Meter on
• Stage list, all with hazards on: Hyrule Castle, Jungle Japes, Temple, WarioWare, Inc., Mario Bros.
• Sudden Death is played out
• Game 1's stage is selected at random, losing team of the previous game counterpicks stages
• No bans, no stage can be repeated in the same set
• Each team gets two character bans, all characters on screen must be unique, players take turns choosing characters

Random singles

• Best of 3, 1 stock, single elimination

Boomers vs. Zoomers

• 8v8 crew battle; originally 9v9 including Skyjay and loaf, but VoiD dropped out, so loaf did not participate
• Players born before the year 2000 are on the Boomers team
• Players born in or after the year 2000 are on the Zoomers team

Results

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles

(16 entrants)
Final Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
5th
7th
7th
9th
9th
9th
9th
13th	Gackt
13th	Jin
13th	Chase
13th	loaf

Side events

Draft quads

(4 teams)

Place	Crew	Captain Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Team Light	Light		Chase		Sparg0		Asimo
2nd	Team Acola	acola		Kola		Riddles		yonni
3rd	Team Jin	Jin		Tweek		Larry Lurr		loaf
3rd	Team Gackt	Gackt		Marss		Cosmos		Ferps

Random singles

(16 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	loaf
2nd	acola
3rd	Riddles
3rd	Light
5th	Larry Lurr
5th	Jin
5th	Kola
5th	Asimo
9th	yonni
9th	Gackt
9th	Sparg0
9th	Cosmos
9th	Ferps
9th	Chase
9th	Tweek
9th	Marss

Boomers vs. Zoomers

Boomers	Character	Stocks Taken	Zoomers	Character	Stocks Taken
Marss		3	Chase		2
Larry Lurr		3	yonni		3
Light		1	Ferps		5
Tweek		4	Sparg0		3
Jin		3	Asimo		3
Skyjay		2	acola		5
Cosmos		1	Kola		3
Gackt		2	Riddles	—	—
Total	—	19	Total	—	24

Chaos Tournament

(16 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Riddles
2nd	Kola
3rd	Chase
3rd	Asimo
5th	Larry Lurr
5th	acola
5th	Sparg0
5th	yonni
9th	Jin
9th	Tweek
9th	Gackt
9th	Cosmos
9th	Marss
9th	Light
9th	Ferps
9th	loaf

Trivia

• Cosmos, Light, Marss, Tweek, and Larry Lurr participated in both The Gimvitational and Smash 4 Boot Camp in December 2017, which were both 16-player invitationals held by VGBootCamp.
  • VoiD, who was in The Gimvitational but dropped out due to health issues, was a player at Smash 4 Boot Camp too. Coincidentally, he was sick for part of that event.

External links

• Start.gg page
• Announcement trailer