Tournament:Fête 3: By the Sea

Fête 3: By the Sea
Dates	July 14th-16th, 2023
Venue	Pontins Camber Sands Holiday Park
Address/City	New Lydd Rd Rye, England
Attendance	436
Results
winners	Zain 1v1  Polish &  Pipsqueak 2v2
winners	+HOPE+ 1v1  SpookyFrog &  Gulag Manager 2v2

Fête 3: By the Sea was a Super Smash Bros. Melee major and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate regional held in Rye, England, from July 14th-16th, 2023.

In addition to the main brackets, Project+ and HDR brackets were formally run as a separate side tournament called Not Fête: International Waters in the same venue.

Format

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles

In each of the 52 Round Robin pools, the Top 3 advance to Gold Pools, 4th-5th advance to Silver Pools, and 6th and below advance to Bronze Pools. Gold/Silver/Bronze Pools are Round Robin pools, where the Top 3 of each pool advances to their respective division's bracket (Gold/Silver/Bronze Bracket). Gold Pools is 156 players in 26 pools, with 1st advancing to Winners' side of the double-elimination Gold Bracket (Top 78), and 2nd-3rd advancing to Losers' side of Gold Bracket. The Top 8 of Gold Bracket advance to the traditional Top 8 bracket. Silver and Bronze Bracket start with all players in Winners' side in a double-elimination format.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles

In each of the 4 double-elimination pools, the Top 4 advance to Gold Bracket (Top 16, 8 in Winners and 8 in Losers), 5th-7th advance to Silver Bracket, and 9th and below advance to Bronze Bracket.

Tournament summary

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Fête 3 was the first major Melee tournament to be held in the United Kingdom, per the SmashWiki definitions of a major tournament. Bbatts had originally intended to compete in both Melee and Ultimate singles, but had to drop out of registration due to losing his passport. This tournament marks the first time Zain has won an offline Super Smash Bros. Melee major tournament from losers, defeating Jmook twice in grand finals to reset the bracket. Jmook's controller began to malfunction during grand finals of the Melee bracket. Both players agreed to restart game 3 of the first set and game 1 of the second, but this ultimately did not impact the final game count, which was 6-0 in Zain's favor for both sets. For the first time, Hungrybox placed higher in Ultimate singles (2nd) than Melee singles (3rd) at the same event (although it is important to note that only the latter was considered a major). This tournament marks the first time aMSa has defeated Trif in Melee singles, in a matchup historically dominated by Trif.

Results

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles

(409 entrants)
Gold Bracket
Top 8 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Zain
2nd	Jmook
3rd	Hungrybox
4th	aMSa
5th	Joshman
5th	Trif
7th	Aklo
7th	Polish
9th	Frenzy
9th	Foxy Grandpa
9th	Pipsqueak
9th	Sharp
13th	astar
13th	Kins0
13th	Professor Pro
13th	Risc
17th	Jah Ridin'
17th	Jim Morrison
17th	Rikzz
17th	Goodie
17th	Fat Tino
17th	Renzo
17th	Tony Bomboni
17th	Moe
25th	$TYN
25th	Okameed
25th	Jadde
25th	max
25th	Mahie
25th	Humpe
25th	Saftblandarn
25th	BlackH4ze
33rd	Calvin
33rd	Stranger
33rd	chaos6
33rd	RestlessWhale
33rd	R23
33rd	Liax
33rd	bab
33rd	irfan
33rd	i4
33rd	Marah
33rd	Madness
33rd	Tekk
33rd	GG
33rd	Fecfec
33rd	Kingu
33rd	Espi
49th	Nikstrat
49th	Nuckels
49th	пooп
49th	Xin
49th	Little Bear
49th	UnHaven
49th	HOBORG
49th	Emps
49th	TheLabMaster
49th	Khalas
49th	Pi
49th	ThommyN
49th	RashAttack
49th	Lil Chief
49th	duckrobin
49th	NVZ

Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles

(128 teams)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Polish		Pipsqueak
2nd	Rikzz		Kins0
3rd	i4		Fecfec
4th	max		Professor Pro
5th	Nuckels		Joshman
5th	Aklo		Foxy Grandpa
7th	irfan		Mahie
7th	Humpe		Dev
9th	astar		yung Ullrich
9th	Renzo		Happymealz
9th	R23		HoorayForJay
9th	Skip		Jah Ridin'
13th	Little Bear		Rich
13th	Silas		10QuidShoes
13th	GAwes		Focus
13th	ILikeTurtles		Marlo

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles

(54 entrants)
Gold Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	+HOPE+
2nd	Hungrybox
3rd	Lucretio
4th	Jam
5th	sp0derr
5th	Spooky
7th	benjibob
7th	Poda

Side events

Super Smash Bros. Melee Salty Suite

There were five Salty Suite matches: Stoneymalony vs. Exy-, Zain as Roy vs. Hungrybox as Ness, skullbro vs. Madness, Abbe vs. Kingu, and LunarySSF2 vs. Tony Bomboni. All sets are first to 5 (except the third and fourth listed, which were best of 5), and players could not pick the last stage they have won on during a set.

Many of the players involved chugged beers before each game.

Winner	Character(s)	Loser	Character(s)	Score	Prize
Exy-		Stoneymalony		5-3	€50
Hungrybox		Zain		5-4
skullbro		Madness		3-1
Abbe		Kingu		3-1
Tony Bomboni		LunarySSF2		5-4

Super Smash Bros. Melee International Crews

(19 crews)
Bracket

Place	Team	Players					Earnings
1st	South Asia	Foxy Grandpa	Aklo	Branspeed	Stranger	Zain
2nd	England	Kingu	max	Frenzy	Fat Tino	Professor Pro
3rd	Switzerland	Marlo	BlackH4ze	Exy-	Jah Ridin'	diamon
3rd	Sweden	Sharp	Saftblandarn	Jadde	Pipsqueak	Abbe
5th	Canada	aMSa	duckrobin	Espi	Silas	techno
5th	France	Mr.Rit	Tekk	Madness	JiM	chaos6
5th	Germany	irfan	astar	Rikzz	Kins0	Schima
5th	United States	deez	Focus	Polish	GAwes	HOBORG

Trivia

• This is the first major competitive Melee tournament held in Europe since DreamHack Winter 2016.
• Aklo and Foxy Grandpa, who are brothers, played each other in the Losers' Top 8 qualifier round on Melee singles, of which Aklo won 3-0.
• Philadelphia Luigi main HOBORG was knocked out of the tournament after losing only to two other Americans. He lost to Jmook in pools to make Gold bracket losers side, before being knocked out by Falcon main bab, one of only two other Americans in losers at that point.
• After both his exhibition match and the award ceremony following grand finals, Zain started beatboxing after being handed a mic from Hungrybox.
• Due to the tournament being in Europe and the general lack of European Melee majors, it was frequently joked that the entire event was being run on the PAL edition of Melee instead of the NTSC version.

External links

• Start.gg page