Tournament:LVL UP EXPO

LVL UP EXPO
Info
Founded	2016
Region	Las Vegas, Nevada
Format	Double Elimination
winners	dansdaman (2022)  aMSa (2023)
winners	Nairo (2016)
winners	ImHip (2019)  FOW (2020)  Sonix (2022)  Light (2023, 2024)  Doramigi (2025)
Most successful player(s)	Light (2 wins)

LVL UP EXPO is a convention held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada. The convention features several fighting game events, including those in the Super Smash Bros. series since 2016. Though earlier events were small and featured a handful of ranked players, the series grew in size in the 2020s, with Ultimate event especially becoming more popular thanks to VGBootCamp's involvement. This culminated in the 2025 iteration, which became a supermajor following the attendance of numerous international players, especially from Japan due to the Golden Week taking place around the same time.

List of tournaments

Event	Date	Attendance	Games
LVL UP EXPO 2016	May 14th-15th, 2016	200
LVL Up Expo 2019	April 26th-28th, 2019	398
LVL UP EXPO 2020	February 21st-23rd, 2020	364
LVL UP EXPO 2022	February 25th-27th, 2022	413
LVL UP EXPO 2023	February 17th-19th, 2023	485
LVL UP EXPO 2024	April 26th-28th, 2024	410
LVL UP EXPO 2025	April 25th-27th, 2025	675
LVL UP EXPO 2026	April 24th-26th, 2026	537

Champions

Super Smash Bros. Melee Winners

Year	Entrants	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
2022	36	Daniel Coppock	dansdaman		AJ
2023	87	Masaya Chikamoto	aMSa		KoDoRiN

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Winners

Year	Entrants	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
2016	172	Nairoby Quezada	Nairo		VoiD

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Winners

Year	Entrants	Player	Tag	Character(s)	Runner-up	Character(s)
2019	398	Quinton Goodman	ImHip		FOW
2020	364	Freddie Omar Williams	FOW		Nicko
2022	243	Carlos Pérez	Sonix		Scend
2023	389	Paris Ramirez Garcia	Light		Tweek
2024	374	Paris Ramirez Garcia	Light		Sonix
2025	665	unknown	Doramigi		Onin
2026	525	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD