Tournament:2GG: Kongo Saga

2GG: Kongo Saga
Dates	December 7th-8th, 2019
Venue	Holiday Inn La Mirada
Address/City	14299 Firestone Blvd La Mirada, California
Attendance	1,001
Entry fees	Ultimate Singles / Doubles / Squad Strike: $10 Main Venue: $30 Late Venue: $40
Pot size(s)	Ultimate Doubles: $1,000 Squad Strike: $1000
Results
winners	MkLeo 1v1  MkLeo &  Glutonny 2v2
Staff
Organizer(s)	2GGaming

2GG: Kongo Saga was a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate supermajor tournament held in La Mirada, California, from December 7th-8th, 2019. The tournament celebrated the four year anniversary of 2GG Sagas and the event revolved around the Donkey Kong and the Banjo-Kazooie series. It was the last Saga event ran by 2GGaming before they disbanded.

Tournament summary

With an entree count of 909 entrants, 2GG: Kongo Saga was the biggest 2GG event for Ultimate and one of the biggest tournaments of the year, being the sixth and final Ultimate supermajor of the Fall 2019 PGRU season. Similar to most 2GGaming events, the "2GG Curse" remained prevalent at this tournament, having the highest placed player who solo-mained a Donkey Kong or Banjo-Kazooie player being Japanese Diddy Kong player Twinkle who ended his tournament run at 33rd. Additionally, no players from SoCal were able to place top 32 at this tournament with the highest placing players of the region, Nito, Eon, and Nicko, all tying in a 33rd place finish.

The most notable upset came from #31 seed Ned defeating #2 seed Nairo 3-2 (upset factor 9) during winners top 32 qualifier. Nairo would ultimately fail to place top 8 at this tournament, being eliminated by Samsora at 9th place. The second most notable came from #114 seed Runes defeating the #15 seed KEN (upset factor 6) early in pools in a close 2-1 fashion, sending KEN into losers where his run was stopped by #34 seed quiK (upset factor 3). This placed KEN at 65th, his lowest placement at an Ultimate tournament, tying with his placement at Umebura Japan Major 2019.

Outside of these instances, some of the most notable upsets of the tournament include #270 seed ΩRugal defeating #27 seed Kurama (upset factor 7), #216 seed Lukewarm defeating #41 seed kept 2-1 (upset factor 5), #220 seed Kite defeating #37 seed Sonido 2-0 (upset factor 5), #24 seed Stroder being eliminated by Sonic players #105 seed Phoenix 2-1 (upset factor 5) and #57 seed Sonix 2-0 (upset factor 3), #51 seed Big D defeating #14 seed ProtoBanham 2-0 (upset factor 4), #71 seed Klaatu defeating both #23 seed Raito 3-0 (upset factor 4) and #47 seed Abadango 2-1 (upset factor 2), #52 seed Gackt defeating #20 seed Kome 3-2 (upset factor 3), #16 seed Cosmos 3-2 (upset factor 4), and #13 seed VoiD 2-1 (upset factor 4), #86 seed Dakpo defeating #43 seed Kola 2-0 (upset factor 2), and #879 seed ZUCC defeating #111 seed player 4 2-0 (upset factor 6).

The top 8 for the tournament marked a multitude of milestones for the early metagame, including the first time a Link and Greninja made top 8 at an American Ultimate supermajor. Lea placed 7th with Greninja after falling early to moxi in pools and going on an extensive losers run, defeating Lumbre, Sonix, Myran, Shuton, Goblin, and Dabuz, before being eliminated by Light who was in the midst of his own lengthy losers run. T placed 5th with Link, qualifying for top 8 after defeating players such as Zackray, Gackt, and Dabuz, before being eliminated back-to-back by MkLeo and Maister. To this day, this tournament remains the greatest run seen by a Link player at a major/supermajor in Ultimate, causing many people to compare it to T's best run as the character in Smash 4 with 3rd at 2GGC: Civil War, another 2GGaming hosted event.

This tournament would be a bit of a return to form for Tweek, who primarily went Wario after dedicating himself to mostly Joker since Return to Yoshi's Island and was his first top 8 since The Big House 9 two months prior. He went through his winner's side going game 5 against many top players, including Glutonny where they fought in the Wario ditto match, a set that is considered one of the greatest ditto matches in Ultimate history. At the same time, MkLeo was continuing his dominance of the season, only dropping 4 games in his entire bracket up until winners finals. This would be where MkLeo and Tweek would meet in bracket, who was Tweek's current bracket demon and continuing their rivalry for the season. Tweek would be up 2-1 in the set before MkLeo brought it back with game 4 and 5 to swing him the victory, continuing the infamous "Game 4 Leo" moniker that MkLeo obtained during the fall 2019 season. After Tweek won 3-1 against Maister in losers finals, the two would have a runback in grand finals where Tweek would take the first two games in a two-stock fashion before MkLeo clutched a reverse 3-0 to take the tournament, closing the chapter on major 2GGaming events in Smash history. MkLeo's victory marked his third supermajor victory of the season behind EVO 2019 and Super Smash Con 2019. This would also mark the only tournament MkLeo won during the Fall 2019 PGRU season without being sent to losers in any sort of fashion.

Results

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles

(909 entrants)
Top 32 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	MkLeo
2nd	Tweek
3rd	Maister
4th	Light
5th	Glutonny
5th	T
7th	Lea
7th	Samsora
9th	Dabuz
9th	Tea
9th	Nairo
9th	WaDi
13th	Kome
13th	Goblin
13th	Gackt
13th	kameme
17th	Zackray
17th	Cosmos
17th	Shuton
17th	Rivers
17th	Umeki
17th	Shogun
17th	Ned
17th	Kuro
25th	Fatality
25th	Big D
25th	ProtoBanham
25th	Wrath
25th	Klaatu
25th	Locus
25th	Pandarian
25th	Kola
33rd	Riddles
33rd	Twinkle
33rd	Nietono
33rd	Suarez
33rd	Raito
33rd	quiK
33rd	Mr. E
33rd	Nito
33rd	Eon
33rd	Nicko
33rd	ZekeTRP
33rd	Myran
33rd	ven
33rd	ΩRugal
33rd	T3 DOM
33rd	Tsu
49th	Trela
49th	Sonix
49th	0mart
49th	Elegant
49th	Legit
49th	AC
49th	Eim
49th	BestNess
49th	KiraFlax
49th	Firehao
49th	Runes
49th	Lui$
49th	Razo
49th	Ross
49th	Larry Lurr
49th	Sparg0
65th	Cyro
65th	AlexDisC
65th	Heavy
65th	K9sbruce
65th	Stas
65th	VinS
65th	Lumbre
65th	Konga
65th	Jumpsteady
65th	SweetT
65th	Zan
65th	Machu