Tournament:Riptide 2025

Riptide 2025
Dates	September 5th-7th, 2025
Venue	Kalahari Resort & Convention Center
Address/City	7000 Kalahari Drive Sandusky, Ohio
Attendance	1,430
Results
winners	Zain 1v1  Cody Schwab &  Jmook 2v2
winners	Miya 1v1  Lui$ &  Kurama 2v2

Riptide 2025 was a Super Smash Bros. Melee major and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate supermajor held in Sandusky, Ohio from September 5th-7th, 2025.

Tournament summary

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Having dominated competitive play throughout the summer, the major storyline going into this event was whether Zain would perform a four-peat — winning four major tournaments in a row. Zain was ultimately able to achieve this feat, winning the tournament after being reset by Cody Schwab in the first set of Grand Finals. This made Zain the fourth player to win four majors in a row, behind Ken, Armada, and Hungrybox, and the first player to do so in the post-Slippi metagame. In addition, this marked Zain's 22nd major win, which some sources claimed made Zain tie with Armada in the total number of major wins, although on SmashWiki, Zain had already surpassed Armada's number after Supernova 2025.

This event was also a resurgence performance for Jmook, who was in a slump period throughout the first half of the year and who had recently fell out of the top 10 as a result. Jmook's run notably saw him defeat his bracket demon, Hungrybox, 3-2, and he claimed 2 additional top 10 wins by defeating Wizzrobe and Joshman 3-2, ultimately losing to Cody Schwab twice. Similarly, Axe also defeated Hungrybox, who was also his bracket demon, 3-1 using Fox, marking the first time he had defeated Hungrybox since MLG Anaheim 2014, and ending a 28-set losing streak against him. Finally, this event marked Smash Papi's first-ever major top 8; his run included wins over SDJ, RapMonster, and Preeminent. He was eliminated by Wizzrobe at 7th, and he notably used Bowser in the final set, marking the first time Bowser appeared in a top 8 major game in the modern era.

Conversely, this event was SDJ's first major where they failed to place single-digits since Tipped Off 15: Connected, as well as their worst major placement since The Big House 11; after losing to Smash Papi, they were eliminated by Joey Donuts 2-3 for 33rd.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

This event was initially tiered as a P tier, but several disqualifications, most notably Sonix, knocked this event down to just under the threshold. The event eventually returned to P tier following Toon's win at What's the Daily Smash Advice?. As such, this was the first time the series held back-to-back Ultimate major events.

During top 64, JeJaJeJa upset Snow in the losers bracket by camping at the ledge and performing Kirby's inhale to footstool gimp for a large number of stocks. This would spawn numerous memes on social media about Kirby players and JeJaJeJa's completely unapolagetic response.

Following a disappointing 40th-place ranking on the LumiRank Half Year 2025, owing to a lack of top 20 wins, Wrath was able to win several sets over top 20 players at this tournament, ultimately making top 8 at yet another supermajor. Wrath notably took out acola 3-0 (upset factor 6) before defeating both ShinyMark and Light to finish 5th. His win over Light was notably the first time he had defeated Light in his tournament career, having previously lost their last 7 sets. Conversely, acola lost to Syrup in a reverse 3-0 for 7th, the first time he ever lost to another Steve player in a serious set.

Otherwise, the event was notable for the top 3's performance being virtually the same as their performance in the last American supermajor, Supernova 2025. Doramigi first lost 3-2 to Hurt in Winners Semi-Finals, with Hurt using Snake for all 5 games. Hurt was then swiftly defeated by Miya 0-3, with Hurt choosing to use Sonic in the final game. Doramigi and Hurt faced off once again in Losers Finals, with Hurt using Snake for the first three games and Sonic for the final to no avail, as Doramigi defeated him 1-3. Miya then swept Doramigi in Grand Finals 3-0 to win the tournament, with Doramigi counterpicking to Luigi the first game. With Miya's back-to-back supermajor wins, a dominant record over Doramigi (4-0 since the start of the 2025 season), and his overall consistency since LVL UP EXPO 2025, some believed Miya has become a contender for the #1 position for the full year ranking, even in spite of a weaker start to the year.

Results

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles

(489 entrants)
Top 16 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Zain
2nd	Cody Schwab
3rd	Jmook
4th	Joshman
5th	Axe
5th	Wizzrobe
7th	Hungrybox
7th	Smash Papi
9th	Preeminent
9th	Aklo
9th	Morsecode762
9th	Gahtzu
13th	max
13th	Ginger
13th	MOF
13th	Michael
17th	RapMonster
17th	lexor
17th	Lowercase hero
17th	n0ne
17th	Spark
17th	Zuppy
17th	Ben
17th	Faust
25th	Skerzo
25th	Joey Donuts
25th	Dawson
25th	Drephen
25th	Free Palestine
25th	KJH
25th	Blue
25th	Pleeba
33rd	Frost
33rd	Iceking
33rd	Chango
33rd	SDJ
33rd	Louis
33rd	Grab
33rd	Captain G
33rd	Ober
33rd	Balloon Day
33rd	TheAsianOne
33rd	Ble$$é
33rd	Namzerra
33rd	Graves
33rd	dz
33rd	Butterdonkey
33rd	salami
49th	altan
49th	TheRealThing
49th	DannyPhantom
49th	HPR
49th	Jacklyn
49th	Enderdxg
49th	Mono
49th	Cranky
49th	Majersk
49th	Seke
49th	King Momo
49th	M1sf1re
49th	Hank
49th	OG Kid
49th	Boyd
49th	Just

Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles

(100 teams)
Top 24 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Jmook		Cody Schwab
2nd	Zuppy		Artan
3rd	Axe		Joshman
4th	Free Palestine		salami
5th	Wizzrobe		Gahtzu
5th	Drephen		Boyd
7th	Maher		Aklo
7th	Spark		Preeminent
9th	TheAsianOne		Majersk
9th	Morsecode762		M1sf1re
9th	Chango		Smash Papi
9th	SparkinMed		RapMonster
13th	3HUNA		Bagels
13th	Joka		Rich
13th	coffee		Lord English
13th	SDJ		PGH Fahey

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles

(952 entrants)
Top 24 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Miya