Tournament:Super Smash Bros. Invitational

Super Smash Bros. Invitational
Dates	June 10, 2014
Venue	NOKIA Theatre
Address/City	Los Angeles, CA
Attendance	16
Entry fees	—
Pot size(s)	—
Results

To commemorate the release of Super Smash Bros. 4, and the Super Smash Bros. series as a whole, Nintendo has announced an invitational tournament being hosted during E3 2014, at the NOKIA Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

The game played will be Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
16 "highly skilled" players will be invited to participate.
The tournament will have 3,000 in-person spectators with costumed fans receiving priority seating,^[1] and there will be a live stream of it with commentators.
A video contest is currently in progress, the winner of which will be awarded a VIP trip to the event and have the opportunity to play one of the tournament winners.
The host of the event will be Geoff Keighley.^[2]

Confirmed players^[3]

Masaya "aMSa" Chikamoto
Cristin "Crismas" DesSaro
Hendrick "DJ Nintendo" Pilar
Hugo "HugS" Gonzalez
Juan "Hungrybox" Debiedma
Ken "Ken" Hoang
Daniel "KoreanDJ" Jung
Neha "Lilo" Chhetri
McCain "MacD" LaVelle
Lilan "milktea" Chen
Sam "PeachyHime" McNaughton
Kevin "PewPewU" Toy
Kevin "PPMD" Nanney
Dakota "TheRapture" Lasky
Kris "Toph" Aldenderfer
Gonzalo "ZeRo" Barrios

Announcers^[4]

D'Ron "D1" Maingrette
Wynton "Prog" Smith
Bobby "Scar" Scarnewman

Playable characters

Most characters that were revealed at the time of the tournament's original announcement at the end of April will be playable, though there are some notable omissions.