Tournament:Luminosity Makes Moves Miami 2025

Luminosity Makes Moves Miami 2025
Dates	October 10th-12th, 2025
Venue	Newport Beachside Hotel & Resort
Address/City	16701 Collins Avenue Sunny Isles Beach, Florida
Attendance	400
Results
winners	Hungrybox 1v1  moky &  Hungrybox 2v2
winners	Peabnut 1v1  Syrup &  Pharaoh 2v2
Staff
Organizer(s)	Max Ketchum, Toronto Joe

Luminosity Makes Moves Miami 2025 was a Super Smash Bros. Melee superregional and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate major held in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida from October 10th-12th, 2025. It is the final event in the series to use the "Luminosity Makes Moves" title.

Tournament summary

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Despite having a solid top 10 player count, having 5 out of the 10 present on the SSBMRank Summer 2025 (discounting Zain, who opted to sandbag as Roy throughout the tournament), due to the event's far smaller size than its predecessor, alongside having fewer top 100 players in comparison, the event failed to attain major status, which has been reflected in sources such as Liquipedia.

The tournament's less prestigious nature allowed for various mid and low-tiers to place comparatively higher than normal. The aforementioned Zain was able to place 13th with Roy, additionally eliminating North Carolina's best player, Zasa, to enter top 16, where he would face Ben, and was narrowly eliminated in a game 5 set to place 13th overall. Additionally, Joe(y) Bats and Mas Gato both placed 25th with Ness and Ganondorf, respectively, with Mas Gato additionally finding an upset over CPU0.

Much like Ultimate, there were very little upsets overall, and none of them had exceeded an upset factor of 2. The most notable upset was the 12th seed, JChu defeating 6th seed, Krudo, earning JChu his first ever top 10 win, and marking his first set won over Krudo, who had been defeated twice by Krudo at Central Florida Face-Off 2025.

Ultimately, the most notable aspect of the tournament would be with Hungrybox and moky's battle for the throne; the two would first meet in Winner's Finals, where, in a game 5 finish, Hungrybox would pull through to enter Grand Finals on Winner's side. moky would face Aklo, and once again, in a game 5 finish, moky would defeat Aklo for the runback with Hungrybox. moky would force a reset on Hungrybox, but Hungrybox would once again emerge victorious to win the tournament, totaling an astounding 15 game count with moky.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

This was the smallest iteration of the Miami series, with the singles entrants count falling short of 300. Contributing to the smaller size was the absence of several players who were sponsored by Luminosity Gaming, such as MkLeo and Maister, casting further doubts on the team's role in Smash for the foreseeable future. Nevertheless, this event remained a major, in part due to many of North America's best players being in attendance, and despite several notable players dropping out beforehand.

Continuing his streak of excellent performances throughout the latter half of 2025, Toon would reach Winners Semis after beating Monte and #1 seed Syrup(upset factor 5), both in 3-1 fashion. While his run would immediately end at 5th after losing to eventual finalists Peabnut and Sonix, this would mark not only his first ever major top 8 but also the first ever major top 8 for a player from both South America and the entire southern hemisphere in Ultimate. This achievement combined with his other high major placements and superregional victories throughout the year would solidify him as the best South American player in the post-pandemic metagame.

With the exception of #4 seed ShinyMark who placed 9th, all of the top 8 seeds would go onto place top 8 at this tournament, though their paths all differed from what was initially projected. After being upset by Toon in Winners Quarters, Syrup defeated PkChris to enter top 8 through losers side where he would also defeat ApolloKage before falling to longtime Tri-state rival Zomba for 5th. #3 seed Sonix was similarly upset in Winners Quarters by MuteAce but would proceed to go on a 6-set losers run which included wins over Monte, Kola, Toon, Zomba, and MuteAce in the Losers Finals runback. This momentum would continue into Grand Finals where he was narrowly able to reset the bracket against Peabnut in a close game 5. However, Peabnut would retaliate in True Finals and came out on top with a 3-1 victory. This would mark not only Peabnut's first ever major win but also the first major win for a Mega Man player since Kameme's victory at 2GG: SwitchFest 2019 more than six years prior. This is also the third Luminosity Makes Moves Miami event in a row where Sonix ended his run at 2nd place, and marks a continuation of Sonix's "2nd place curse" at major tournaments, having extended his second streak of second place finishes to 3 majors in a row and 5 tournaments in a row.

Besides Toon over Syrup, only 3 other upsets had an upset factor of at least 4. LightningCam defeated Just Blue to eliminate him at 65th; ApolloKage defeated ShinyMark 3-0 in Winners Top 32 and went on to place 7th, being the only non top 8 seed to finish in the top 8 and marking his first major top 8 since Smash Ultimate Summit 6 over 2 years prior; and tied with Toon over Syrup as the largest upset of the tournament was #80 seed Epic_Gabriel's 3-0 victory over omega. Though it is worth noting that the tournament's preliminary seeding had Gabriel seeded within the top 32, so his significantly lower seed in the final draft may have been an oversight.

Results

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles

(112 entrants)
Top 32 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Hungrybox
2nd	moky
3rd	Aklo
4th	Axe
5th	JChu
5th	Wizzrobe
7th	Panda
7th	Magi
9th	Wevans
9th	MOF
9th	Krudo
9th	Ben
13th	Spark
13th	Zain
13th	Gahtzu
13th	Fudge
17th	Lowercase hero
17th	Chem
17th	Preeminent
17th	prof
17th	Mono
17th	Zasa
17th	King Momo
17th	Dimension
25th	Dirtboy
25th	Mas Gato
25th	Forrest
25th	Joe(y) Bats
25th	Porkers
25th	Freezus
25th	Jude
25th	Paladin

Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles

(21 teams)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Hungrybox		moky
2nd	Panda		Krudo
3rd	Preeminent		Spark
4th	Axe		OG Kid
5th	Wizzrobe		Gahtzu
5th	JAM		Wevans
7th	Freezus		plush
7th	MOF		Mas Gato

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles

(281 entrants)
Top 64 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Peabnut
2nd	Sonix
3rd	MuteAce
4th	Zomba
5th	Syrup
5th	Toon
7th	Kola
7th	ApolloKage
9th	ShinyMark
9th	Monte
9th	PkChris
9th	Anarchy
13th	MPg
13th	Atomic
13th	Suspect
13th	Epic_Gabriel
17th	Ploopy
17th	Free KayFlock
17th	Quandale Dinglelingleton
17th	Arkdee
17th	Karu!
17th	Bruho
17th	ATATA
17th	NoTag
25th	Ikan
25th	Dice
25th	Dr. Kirb
25th	Ling
25th	ChocoTaco
25th	Geist
25th	Psysilex
25th	StarZ
33rd	Lukechito
33rd	MVD
33rd	GuyGuy
33rd	Goblin
33rd	Anathema
33rd	Dominator
33rd	spickles
33rd	Dark Wizzy
33rd	Libré
33rd	AnthonyIsntCool
33rd	HyperKirby
33rd	omega
33rd	elijmin
33rd	Juanpi
33rd	Newo
33rd	LightningCam
49th	D0g3
49th	Nexus
49th	Shaine
49th	DamesTC
49th	Sticccy
49th	MASTER1801
49th	Mystearica
49th	Amnesty
49th	Ranger
49th	chpstks
49th	Skeleton
49th	Magic
49th	Arsenic
49th	51Spitfire
49th	Keen
49th	Izunia

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate doubles

(47 teams)
Top 16 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Pharaoh		Syrup
2nd	Toon		Atomic
3rd	Goblin		Epic_Gabriel
4th	NoTag		Monte
5th	GuyGuy		Free KayFlock
5th	PkChris		Cody
7th	Beast		StarZ
7th	VaLoR		TemporaryPlan

National Arcadian

Super Smash Bros. Melee National Arcadian

(61 entrants)
Top 16 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Walmart Shoes
2nd	Kola
3rd	Dirtboy
4th	Stockholm Syndrome
5th	Mono
5th	Cappuccino
7th	plush
7th	spencie
9th	Freezus
9th	Lamonster
9th	psy-phy
9th	Puppy
13th	Walby
13th	Carbon
13th	S+Hiro
13th	Joe(y) Bats

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate National Arcadian

(127 entrants)
Top 24 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Toon
2nd	MPg
3rd	Epic_Gabriel
4th	StarZ
5th	Juanpi
5th	Libré
7th	leafyified
7th	Zie
9th	Ling
9th	VaLoR
9th	Lukechito
9th	Nuggetz
13th	Pugi619
13th*	vitz
13th	Beast
13th	fletcher

*DQ'd in Losers.

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