Tournament:LVL UP EXPO 2025

LVL UP EXPO 2025
Dates	April 25th-27th, 2025
Venue	Las Vegas Convention Center South Hall
Address/City	3150 Paradise Road Las Vegas, Nevada
Attendance	675
Pot size(s)	$10,000
Results
winners	Doramigi 1v1  Onin &  acola 2v2
Staff
Organizer(s)	VGBootCamp

LVL UP EXPO 2025 was a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate supermajor held in Las Vegas, Nevada from April 25th-27th, 2025.

Tournament summary

The event is the first supermajor in the Las Vegas area since Double Down 2022. Some players considered this event to be the start of Japan's Golden Week, as it takes place the weekend when it started and features many of Japan's best players, mainly acola, Miya, Shuton, Raru, Doramigi, Snow, and Zackray. With many of North America's best players also in attendance, this event eventually reached P tier, becoming the second P tier event of the LumiRank 2025 season.

In spite of the Japanese presence, many of these players underperformed, most of them by a lot. The biggest underperformance was the first seed, acola, who was double-eliminated by two Mario players — #32 seed Kurama 1-3 (upset factor 9) and #81 seed Skinny the Pooh 2-3 (upset factor 12) — to place 33rd. Not only did this end acola's streak of top 8 finishes at ranked events, becoming the first time he placed outside the top 8 since Seibugeki 12 in December 2022, but it was also acola's first-ever double-digit performance offline, and as such marks by far his worst performance in Ultimate. Finally, this is also the worst performance for a first seed since Hurt's 49th place at Seibugeki 17 in July 2024. Alongside acola, #4 seed Miya fell early as well, losing to #36 seed omega 1-3 (upset factor 7) before facing an unfavorable opponent in #28 seed Marss, who swiftly defeated Miya's Mr. Game & Watch and Steve 0-3 (upset factor 6), his worst result since his 49th place at Kagaribi 9 more than 2 years ago. Finally, joining the two players at 33rd was #11 seed Zackray, who lost to #54 seed Ludo 1-3 (upset factor 5) before losing to #14 seed Ouch!? 2-3, his worst placement since DELTA 5 in September 2023. Outside of these upsets, #15 seed Snow lost 1-3 to #50 seed elijmin (upset factor 4) before being eliminated by #18 seed Kola for 49th, his worst result since Kagaribi 11 back in October 2023, and #3 seed Shuton lost his runback against #30 seed Jahzz0 1-3 (upset factor 7) but was still able to enter top 24 on the Losers side.

The upsets and early losses were not limited to Japanese players, however. Notably, #10 seed Tweek was knocked into Losers by #42 seed Capitancito 2-3 (upset factor 4) and then played Donkey Kong against Kola, losing 1-3, placing 33rd, and tying both Smash 'N' Splash 5 and GENESIS 8 as his worst offline performance. In addition, #22 seed Dabuz lost to #43 seed Kiyarash 1-3 and was eliminated by Zackray 0-3 for 49th, tying Luminosity Makes BIG Moves 2024 as his worst offline performance; conversely, Kiyarash entered top 24 on the Winners by defeating #6 seed Glutonny 0-3 (UF 6), then guaranteeing himself a spot in top 8 with a 3-2 over ShinyMark. In top 24, the last japanese top 8 seed to not make top 8, Shuton, was eliminated at 17th, losing his runback to Sonix 2-3 (UF 4). Finally, #17 seed MkLeo defeated Glutonny in a close game 5 set (UF 3), eliminating him at 17th, but failed to win his runback against #16 seed Onin, losing 1-3 and finishing at 7th.

Despite two other Steve players projected to join them, Onin became the only Steve player to advance to top 24 on the Winners side after acola was eliminated and #5 seed Syrup lost to #12 seed Raru in a reverse 3-0 and to #19 seed ShinyMark 2-3 for 9th. Onin was eventually knocked into Losers by Zomba, but then preceded to make an incredible Losers run by defeating #20 seed Wrath outside of top 8, and in top 8 MkLeo 3-1, Kiyarash 3-0, #13 seed Light 3-0, and Zomba in the runback 3-1 in order to meet Doramigi in Grand Finals. However, Onin's Losers run was shut down by #7 seed Doramigi, who made top 8 rather effortessly, including 3-0'ing #2 seed Sparg0 (UF 4) before clutching out two game 5 sets against Kiyarash and Zomba. However, as the sole Japanese player in this top 8, Doramigi dominantly defeated Onin 3-1, which included a three-stock in the final game where Doramigi took an early second stock by reflecting Onin's Anvil, dealing around 60% and taking Onin's stock at 80%. As such, Doramigi claimed his third major victory, as well as his first supermajor victory. With his overall consistency up to that point (as his most recent placement outside of top 8 was at Cirque 4, back in October 2024), all other candidates (Sparg0, Light, Raru, acola or Miya fo example) having noticeable underperformances, and Hurt serving out his ban, Doramigi's victory at this event made him a strong contender for the #1 position for the LumiRank 2025 half-year season. Although this American P-Tier was won by a Japanese player, this event seems to prove, just like Battle of BC 7 a month before, that North America was catching up to the Japanese scene, as seen by the severe underperformances of some of Japan's best players like acola, Miya, Zackray or Snow, and therefore that Kagaribi 13 the week after would not be the "destruction of North America" that happened last year.

Results

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles

(665 entrants)
Top 128 Brackets
Top 24 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Doramigi		$4,000
2nd	Onin		$2,100
3rd	Zomba		$1,400
4th	Light		$900
5th	Sparg0		$500
5th	Kiyarash		$500
7th	MkLeo		$300
7th	ShinyMark		$300
9th	Syrup
9th	Wrath
9th	Sonix
9th	Raru
13th	IceKnight
13th	Kola
13th	Lui$
13th	Jahzz0
17th	Shuton
17th	Glutonny
17th	MuteAce
17th	Riddles
17th	omega
17th	Kurama
17th	elijmin
17th	Capitancito
25th	Ouch!?
25th	Monte
25th	SHADIC
25th	Cosmos
25th	Marss
25th	BassMage
25th	Skinny the Pooh
25th	Dtier
33rd	acola
33rd	Miya
33rd	Tweek
33rd	zackray
33rd	ApolloKage
33rd	Chase
33rd	Beastly
33rd	Ikan
33rd	MFA
33rd	Dany2theny
33rd	Ludo
33rd	Deathspade
33rd	frawg
33rd	CaptainCRUP!!!
33rd	Frostbyte
33rd	Kai Mystic
49th	Snow
49th	Dabuz
49th	MKBigBoss
49th	JeJaJeJa
49th	MVD
49th	Scend
49th	Lammers44
49th	Marvelous_Marco
49th	JMafia
49th	FD
49th	Apple Reviewer
49th	HyperKirby
49th	Opsine
49th	Colorondo8
49th	ShiNe
49th	Kame
65th	Floppyfail
65th	Mr. E
65th	Jo tastic
65th	Atomic
65th	ATATA
65th	Kasawi
65th	Charlie D.
65th	Dr Insano
65th	Tohru
65th	Pharaoh
65th	Shawshank
65th	Noctilucent
65th	Kreeg
65th	Synergy
65th	Vongola
65th	Shai!
65th	Vendetta
65th	Chag
65th	Lemmon
65th	$$$
65th	loaf
65th	Zie
65th	Grandmaster
65th	Abe
65th	Hue
65th	Ave~
65th	Bubunski
65th	Rodnysalt
65th	TemporaryPlan
65th	Gonzo
65th	Shady
65th	ant
97th	Oriole
97th	Drakoh
97th	Guts
97th	Jaeden
97th	Yeast
97th	peparony
97th	ven
97th	Oa
97th	steamy
97th	Longo
97th	Whisky
97th	Nexus
97th	Nessboy12
97th	Kyros
97th	Domnique
97th	Star
97th	Tux
97th	C@den
97th	Blur
97th	Goldhat
97th	Amnesty
97th	Flowz
97th	Wight
97th	umanz
97th	Kople
97th	maxx
97th	MageYosh
97th	Cube
97th	Jxn
97th	orchid
97th	AciD
97th	cody

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate doubles

(80 teams)
Top 12 Bracket
Top 4 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Onin		acola
2nd	MkLeo		MKBigBoss
3rd	Scend		MuteAce
4th	Kurama		Lui$
5th	Miya		Shuton
5th	Ouch!?		Dark Wizzy
7th	MVD		Beastly
7th	ATATA		Syrup
9th	BassMage		Stroder Ame
9th	Raru		Zackray
9th	Doramigi		Snow
9th	Sparg0		Chag

External links

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