Tournament:LVL UP EXPO 2026

LVL UP EXPO 2026
Dates	April 24th-26th, 2026
Venue	Las Vegas Convention Center South Hall
Address/City	3150 Paradise Rd Las Vegas, Nevada
Attendance	719
Pot size(s)	$10,000
Results
winners	Doramigi 1v1  MkLeo &  MKBigBoss 2v2
Staff
Organizer(s)	VGBootCamp

LVL UP EXPO 2026 was a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate supermajor held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from April 24th-26th, 2026.

Tournament summary

Similar to the previous iteration, numerous international players were in attendance at the event, especially from Japan. In total, 15 of the UltRank 2025's top 20, including 9 of the ranking's top 10, were in attendance. Alongside the notable players in attendance was Samsora, who made his first major tournament appearance since the early metagame, and his first notable event since his recommended ban level on the CSRP was dropped to B.

The tournament's initial seeding received criticism for multiple reasons with some players being over/underseeded (such as Doramigi, the incumbent #1 player who had recently won a major in addition to being the previous victor of LVL UP EXPO, who was only seeded 6th) and several regional conflicts (such as Tristate players Zomba, Jakal, and Syrup and Mexico players MkLeo and Sparg0 being seeded in the same side of bracket). It was revealed that the initial seeding draft used SchuStat's seeding algorithm and after player feedback, the seeding was updated.

Doramigi repeated his LVL UP EXPO victory from the previous year. Along with #3 seed acola, Doramigi was the only other Top 8 seed to make it to Winner's side Top 8 safely, with his only difficult encounter being a close reverse 3-0 set against #25 seed Neo in Winner's Quarterfinals. In Top 8, Doramigi dismantled crêpe salée 3-0 to make it to Winner's Finals to face off against acola, with acola's counterpicking to Mr. Game & Watch. Avenging his previous loss to acola's Mr. Game & Watch, Doramigi won the runback 3-2 to enter Grand Finals. On the other side of bracket, Zomba went on a lengthy Losers run after losing to Asimo before Top 24; his Losers run saw him eliminate Sonix, Toon, Neo, Carmelo, Asimo in the runback, crêpe salée, and acola to meet Doramigi in Grand Finals. Though Zomba won the first set 3-1, Doramigi prevailed in the reset 3-2.

Doramigi's victory placed him in contention for the #1 position in the first half of 2026, especially as most of his other competition either underperformed or had their resumes disrupted. Hurt, the #2 seed of the event, was double-eliminated by Light in 2 game 5 sets, finishing 7th; their first set especially saw Hurt accidentally self-destruct with C4 on the final stock of the set. #6 seed Carmelo, a recent contender due to his victory at DELTA x Seibugeki Open the week prior, lost to MuteAce 0-3 and, after making a decent Losers run into top 8, lost to Zomba in a game 5 time-out. Finally, #4 seed Sonix lost to Riddles 2-3 before also falling victim to Zomba's losers run, finishing 17th.

Among other underperformances, #5 seed Miya was knocked into Losers by crêpe salée 1-3 before being eliminated by Hurt 0-3 to finish 13th, the first time he had missed top 8 at a major since the previous LVL UP EXPO. In addition, #9 seed Sparg0's slump continued at the event, as he was knocked into Losers by Ouch!? 1-3 and was eliminated by Hurt 2-3; however, Sparg0 tournament run came with a win over #8 Tweek, whom he defeated 3-1 and eliminated at 25th. Tweek previously lost to Neo 2-3. Finally, #12 seed MkLeo lost to crêpe salée in a reverse 3-0 before losing to Nyonoknb to finish 17th.

Results

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles

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

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Doramigi		$4,000
2nd	Zomba		$2,000
3rd	acola		$1,400
4th	crêpe salée		$1,000
5th	Light		$500
5th	Asimo		$500
7th	Hurt		$300
7th	Carmelo		$300
9th	Riddles
9th	Neo
9th	MuteAce
9th	Nyonoknb
13th	Ouch!?
13th	Toon
13th	Miya
13th	Glutonny
17th	Sonix
17th	MkLeo
17th	Sparg0
17th	Wrath
17th	Syrup
17th	Lui$
17th	MKBigBoss
17th	Bruho
25th	Jahzz0
25th	Bubunski
25th	Ludo
25th	Kola
25th	Karaage
25th	Jakal
25th	Tweek
25th	Beastly
33rd	Colorondo8
33rd	JDV
33rd	Susu
33rd	loaf
33rd	Samsora
33rd	Leaf
33rd	Kyros
33rd	SHADIC
33rd	Skill
33rd	Lammers44
33rd	spickles
33rd	BECK99
33rd	Kurama
33rd	Seesaw
33rd	MFA
33rd	Monte
49th	Raflow
49th	Lucky
49th	NotBrayden
49th	OpZ
49th	Geist
49th	Free KayFlock
49th	Kiyarash
49th	TanMan
49th	Loftz
49th	Chase
49th	BassMage
49th	Tux
49th	frawg
49th	umanz
49th	omega
49th	Puresalt
65th	RandumMNK
65th	Abe
65th	ShiNe
65th	Tohru
65th	Donut
65th	Jxn
65th	Machu
65th	Calen
65th	Rain~
65th	JOmega
65th	Sogoodpop
65th	Marvelous_Marco
65th	Dynamo
65th	nazura
65th	Toblerone
65th	Chag
65th	ven
65th	Yeast
65th	FD
65th	Mr. E
65th	Cesar
65th	Hue
65th	WEST
65th	Yufine
65th	Chachi
65th	Grandmaster
65th	Nessboy12
65th	Weasel
65th	Andrik
65th	Ripka
65th	Linkjayman
65th	Nexus
97th	PainedYew
97th	Dart
97th	Yrneh
97th	Spark
97th	Blizz
97th	diegohd
97th	Avery!
97th	ATATA
97th	Juice
97th	HotCoco
97th	Glug
97th	narrwall
97th	Beef Wellington
97th	Rosario
97th	Terra
97th	ROBOT3050
97th	MarsBars
97th	Goziz
97th	Leonidas
97th	IllusioN
97th	Snoop
97th	Noki
97th	Mugen
97th	cody
97th	Shady
97th	U
97th	Jaeden
97th	paradise
97th	Charlie D.
97th	iGreg!
97th	Upset
97th	Natron

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate doubles

(90 teams)
Top 12 Bracket
Top 4 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	MkLeo		MKBigBoss
2nd	Toon		acola
3rd	Lui$		Kurama
4th	Light		Ouch!?
5th	loaf		Lucky
5th	Hurt		Miya
7th	Kiyarash		FD
7th	Glutonny		Chag
9th	Seesaw		Monte
9th	Machu		JDV
9th	Leaf		Carmelo
9th	Tohru		RandumMNK
13th	Syrup		Susu
13th	Samsora		MuteAce
13th	Zomba		Free KayFlock
13th	Maedakun		Asimo

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