Tournament:CEO

Community Effort Orlando Series
Info
Founded	2010
Region	United States
Format	Double elimination
winners	Armada (2014)  Leffen (2015)  Hungrybox (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)  Plup (2022)
winners	ZeRo (2014)
winners	ZeRo (2015, 2017)  ANTi (2016)  MkLeo (2018)
winners	MkLeo (2019)  Kola (2021)  Sonix (2022)
Most successful player(s)	Hungrybox (Melee 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019)
Staff
Director(s)	Jebailey
Website(s)	http://ceogaming.org/

The Community Effort Orlando series, or simply CEO, is an annual fighting game tournament series typically held annually in Orlando, Florida. CEO is widely recognized as one of the premier events for fighting games. The event is hosted and organized by Alex Jebailey and CEO Gaming. The series has held events for Super Smash Bros., Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Project M, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

History

The tournament series began in 2010, with Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl as side events. The two games would be dropped after CEO 2011, but Melee would later return alongside Project M on the official game lineup at CEO 2014. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U would later be introduced at CEO 2015, replacing Project M on the official lineup. For CEO 2019, for Wii U was replaced with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Melee was absent from CEO 2021, making Ultimate the sole Super Smash Bros. event at the tournament. However, Melee returned at CEO 2022 alongside Ultimate.

The CEO Dreamland subseries is dedicated entirely to Super Smash Bros., and features all official Smash games as its only main events. So far, two Dreamland events have been held, one in 2017 and one in 2020.

List of tournaments

Main events

Event	Date	Attendance	Games
CEO 2010*	June 5th-6th, 2010	80+
CEO 2011*	June 10th-12th, 2011	60+
CEO 2014	June 27th-29th, 2014	262+
CEO 2015*	June 26th-28th, 2015	512+
CEO 2016	June 24th-26th, 2016	1,488
CEO 2017	June 16th-18th, 2017	866
CEO 2018	June 29th-July 1st, 2018	1,091
CEO 2019	June 28th-30th, 2019	1,493
CEO 2021	December 3rd-5th, 2021	777
CEO 2022*	June 24th-26th, 2022	834

• Prior to CEO 2014, all Smash games were side events. In addition, Project M was a side event at CEO 2015 and Smash 64 was a side event at CEO 2022.

Dreamland series

Event	Date	Attendance	Games
CEO Dreamland	April 14th-16th, 2017	727
CEO Dreamland 2020	March 13th-15th, 2020	970

Champions

Melee Winners

Year	Event	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
2010	CEO 2010*	Juan Debiedma	Hungrybox		Colbol
2011	CEO 2011*	Juan Debiedma	Hungrybox		Linguini
2014	CEO 2014	Adam Lindgren	Armada		Mango
2015	CEO 2015	William Hjelte	Leffen		Armada
2016	CEO 2016	Juan Debiedma	Hungrybox		Mew2King
2017	CEO 2017	Juan Debiedma	Hungrybox		Plup
2018	CEO 2018	Juan Debiedma	Hungrybox		Plup
2019	CEO 2019	Juan Debiedma	Hungrybox		Wizzrobe
2022	CEO 2022	Justin McGrath	Plup		Magi

* Melee was a side event in 2010 and 2011.

Project M Winners

Year	Event	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
2014	CEO 2014	Gonzalo Barrios	ZeRo		Wizzrobe
2015	CEO 2015*	Forrest Griffin	MrLz		Jfyst

* Project M was a side event in 2015.

Smash 4 Winners

Year	Event	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
2015	CEO 2015	Gonzalo Barrios	ZeRo		Nairo
2016	CEO 2016	Jason Bates	ANTi		Zinoto
2017	CEO 2017	Gonzalo Barrios	ZeRo		MKLeo
2018	CEO 2018	Leonardo Lopez Perez	MkLeo		Tweek

Ultimate Winners

Year	Event	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
2019	CEO 2019	Leonardo Lopez Perez	MkLeo		Marss
2021	CEO 2021	Kolawole Aideyan	Kola		Glutonny
2022	CEO 2022	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Riddles

Smash 64 Winners (side event)

Year	Event	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
2022	CEO 2022	Steven Rodriguez	Loto		Crockett

Brawl Winners (side event)

Year	Event	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
2010	CEO 2010*	Akilade Akiwumi Daniel Rodriguez — —	RedHalberd  ChuDat  HRNUT  Mero		—	—
2011	CEO 2011	Akilade Akiwumi	RedHalberd		Xaltis

* The top 4 players decided to split.

Trivia

• ESAM notably won Divekick at CEO 2014, having won a belt which is not for Smash Bros.

External links

• Official website
• Official twitter