Tournament:GENESIS 8
| GENESIS 8 | |
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| Dates | April 15th-17th, 2022 |
| Venue | San Jose McEnery Convention Center San Jose Civic Top 8 |
| Address/City | 150 W San Carlos St San Jose, California 
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| Attendance | 3,464 |
| Entry fees | Venue: $75 (until July 26th) $85 (until December 20th) $95 (until March 21st) Singles: $10 (NASB, Strive, RoA, SSB64) $15 (Melee, Ultimate) Doubles: $20 per team |
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Shihman 1v1 Shihman & Moustasher 2v2
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 winners
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Zain 1v1 Plup &  aMSa 2v2
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 MkLeo 1v1 Chag & Sparg0 2v2
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| Staff | |
| Organizer(s) | Boback, Dr. Z, NathanSandwich, Jayde, RPSville |
GENESIS 8 was a supermajor tournament for Melee and Ultimate and the 8th edition of the GENESIS tournament series. It took place place in San Jose, California, from April 15th-17th, 2022. The event featured singles and doubles tournaments for Super Smash Bros., Super Smash Bros. Melee, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and is a major event for Rivals of Aether, Guilty Gear Strive, and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl. GENESIS 8 also featured side events for Dance Dance Revolution Extreme, Magical Drop III, Super Street Fighter II Turbo, and Windjammers 2.
The event was originally set to take place between January 28th-30th, but was postponed to April due to concerns over the high amount of cases of COVID-19.[1] A charity event called GenAssist was made to help the GENESIS 8 crew with the six-figure cost of postponing GENESIS 8, which partnered with the online Melee tournament Ludwig Ahgren Championship Series 4.
GENESIS 8 was the largest offline Melee tournament by entrants since GENESIS 4 in January 2017, and the largest offline Ultimate tournament by entrants since Super Smash Con 2019 in August 2019.
Summary of events[edit]
Melee[edit]
GENESIS 8 became most well-known for Jmook's breakout run all the way to 2nd place; seeded 21st and fairly unknown on the world stage, Jmook tore through winners' bracket and defeated Plup, LloD, n0ne, and iBDW, only losing to champion Zain in winners' and grand finals. Jmook's run was seen as arguably solo Sheik's best tournament performance ever at the time, made more impressive by his victories over Plup and iBDW, two players with historically dominant records over Sheik players. Jmook's run is often regarded as the greatest breakout performance in Melee history, due to the fact that he had never ranked top 100 on a Melee global power ranking prior.
Mang0 was famously upset by Fizzwiggle outside of top 64, before being eliminated by Hungrybox for 9th, his lowest ever placing at a GENESIS tournament. With Hungrybox's 5th placing, this was the first open bracket supermajor for Melee since Viva La Smashtaclysm (nearly 15 years prior) to not have any of the Five Gods in grand finals.
Ultimate[edit]
The top 3 for Ultimate were the same players as the ones in Delfino Maza RETA 2022 (MkLeo, Glutonny and Sparg0) approximately two weeks prior. This tournament also stands as Tweek's worst placement at an Ultimate tournament, tying Smash 'N' Splash 5 and LVL UP EXPO 2025 with a 33rd place finish.
Due to the venue having a hard cutoff at 10:00 p.m. before paying staff for overtime, the Ultimate doubles Grand Finals reset was played offstream.[2]
Official game lineup[edit]
| Game | Entrants | Pot Size |
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| Super Smash Bros. singles | 60 | TBD |
| Super Smash Bros. doubles | 10 teams | TBD |
| Super Smash Bros. Melee singles | 1,552 | TBD |
| Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles | 228 teams | TBD |
| Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles | 1,959 | TBD |
| Super Smash Bros. Ultimate doubles | 298 teams | TBD |
| Rivals of Aether singles | 233 | TBD |
| Rivals of Aether doubles | 29 teams | TBD |
| Rivals of Aether workshop | 49 | TBD |
| Guilty Gear Strive | 223 | TBD |
| Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl | 137 | TBD |
| Dance Dance Revolution Extreme | 59 | TBD |
| Windjammers 2 | 41 | TBD |
| Super Street Fighter II Turbo | 32 | TBD |
| Magical Drop III | 16 | TBD |
Results[edit]
Super Smash Bros. singles[edit]
(60 entrants)
Top 16 Bracket
| Place | Name | Character(s) | Earnings |
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| 1st | Shihman |
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| 2nd | Dr. Grin |
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| 3rd | Moustasher |
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| 4th | Sir Eddie |
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| 5th | Hunter |
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| 6th | Eltiti |
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| 7th | M-n-Mz |
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| 7th | Gaon |
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| 9th | Hectohertz |
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| 9th | Multiball |
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| 9th | Traydozer |
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| 9th | Dinks |
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| 13th | Quhzk |
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| 13th | Shredder |
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| 13th | azzpounder |
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| 13th | Cagt |
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Super Smash Bros. doubles[edit]
(10 teams)
Bracket
| Place | Name | Character(s) | Name | Character(s) | Earnings |
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| 1st | Shihman |
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Moustasher |
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| 2nd | Shredder |
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DSJ |
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| 3rd | Hunter |
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Sir Eddie |
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| 4th | Mortech |
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Multiball |
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| 5th | Dr. Taco |
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M-n-Mz |
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| 6th | Quhzk |
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Traydozer |
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Super Smash Bros. Melee singles[edit]
(1,552 entrants)
Top 64 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket
| Place | Name | Character(s) | Earnings |
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| 1st | Zain |
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$9,312 |
| 2nd | Jmook |
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$5,820 |
| 3rd | iBDW |
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$2,910 |
| 4th |  n0ne |
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$1,513.20 |
| 5th | aMSa |
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$698.40 |
| 5th | Hungrybox |
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$698.40 |
| 7th | Kalamazhu |
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$465.60 |
| 7th | lloD |
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$465.60 |
| 9th | KoDoRiN |
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$232.80 |
| 9th | Ginger |
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$232.80 |
| 9th | Mango |
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$232.80 |
| 9th | SluG |
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$232.80 |
| 13th | Plup |
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$116.40 |
| 13th | moky |
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$116.40 |
| 13th | Axe |
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$116.40 |
| 13th | Krudo |
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$116.40 |
| 17th | Salt |
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| 17th | Aura |
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| 17th | Polish |
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| 17th | KJH |
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| 17th | SFAT |
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| 17th | Fiction |
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| 17th | Zamu |
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| 17th | Spark |
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| 25th | Azel |
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| 25th | Ralph |
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| 25th | S2J |
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| 25th | bobby big ballz |
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| 25th | null |
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| 25th | ChuDat |
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| 25th | Panda |
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| 25th | Dawson |
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| 33rd | Magi |
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| 33rd | Ben |
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| 33rd | Suf |
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| 33rd | TheSWOOPER |
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| 33rd | Zuppy |
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| 33rd | Eddy Mexico |
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| 33rd | SDJ |
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| 33rd | Drephen |
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| 33rd | Kalvar |
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| 33rd | Slowking |
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| 33rd | 404Cray |
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| 33rd | Juicebox |
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| 33rd | Fizzwiggle |
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| 33rd | cliché |
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| 33rd | rom |
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| 33rd | Umarth |
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| 49th | Seal |
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| 49th | Lucky |
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| 49th | FatGoku |
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| 49th | Shroomed |
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| 49th | Bimbo |
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| 49th | CPU0 |
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| 49th | dansdaman |
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| 49th | Logos |
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