Tournament:Shine 2023

Shine 2023
Dates	August 25th-27th, 2023
Venue	DCU Center Convention Center
Address/City	50 Foster Street Worcester, Massachusetts
Attendance	1,207
Results
winners	Cody Schwab 1v1  Polish &  Swedish Delight 2v2
winners	Light 1v1  Antimony &  Apple Reviewer 2v2
Staff
Organizer(s)	coldo, Rorec, MattDotZeb, stocmoney, RJ, Hapless Hero, Gtown_Tom

Shine 2023 was a Super Smash Bros. Melee major and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate superregional held in Worcester, Massachusetts, from August 25th-27th, 2023. It was the final tournament in the Shine series.

Tournament summary

Super Smash Bros. Melee

At 683 entrants, this is the largest Melee Shine tournament since Shine 2018, and the largest Shine ever held at the Worcester venue. It is also one of the largest Shine events for Melee in terms of top talent, with 6 of the most recent ranking's top 10 in attendance. In addition, Mango was scheduled to compete in Melee singles, but was late to the airport and missed his flight. Given that Mango missed his flight and Hungrybox (the other remaining God in active competition) was on vacation, this tournament marks the first Melee major with none of the Five Gods since MLG New York 2005 in February 2006, over 17 years prior.

Cody Schwab's victory marked the first and only time a Fox player, the origin of the namesake of the tournament series, won an installment of Shine; he also broke Zain's major winning streak spanning from Fête 3: By the Sea to Super Smash Con 2023. Aklo's run to 3rd place, accruing wins over Wevans, Jmook, SDJ and most notably bracket demon aMSa marked his best tournament run at a notable Melee event since his victory at Redemption Rumble.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Despite being the final Shine tournament, this marks the smallest Shine tournament for the most-recent Smash game, with the entrants count not even cracking 400 entrants. The number of top talent attending the event was also noticeably smaller than previous iterations: with Tweek's dropout due to Tera the following week, only 3 of the most recent ranking's top 50 players were in attendance.

The #4 seed, Jakal, was eliminated at 9th place, losing to #5 seed Aaron and #17 seed DM, with the latter being an upset factor of 5.

Light, in winning Ultimate singles, broke the fabled "Shine Curse" and became the first (and only) player from New England to win a Shine tournament.

Results

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles

(683 entrants)
Top 48 Bracket 1
Top 48 Bracket 2
Top 12 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Cody Schwab
2nd	Zain
3rd	Aklo
4th	aMSa
5th	SDJ
5th	Axe
7th	Jmook
7th	KoDoRiN
9th	Wevans
9th	Krudo
9th	Zamu
9th	Chem
13th	Panda
13th	JoJo
13th	Magi
13th	Lunar Dusk
17th	Joshman
17th	Spark
17th	Franz
17th*	moky
17th	Swedish Delight
17th	Polish
17th	Jude
17th	Sirmeris
25th	Mekk
25th	Freezus
25th*	Wally
25th	Mot$
25th	Preeminent
25th	n0ne
25th	Grab
25th	Jah Ridin'
33rd	Azel
33rd	essy
33rd	KoopaTroopa895
33rd	Lowercase hero
33rd	Q
33rd	Inky
33rd	DrLobster
33rd	Bbatts
33rd	E-tie
33rd	Ben
33rd	Paladin
33rd	Squid
33rd	Zuppy
33rd	Matteo
33rd	ckyulmiqnudaetr
33rd	Zeo
49th	Panko
49th	Palpa
49th	Project
49th	Fudge
49th	YAMI
49th	Maelstrom
49th	Kalvar
49th	vortex
49th	Foxy Grandpa
49th	YungWaff
49th	RC
49th	Ember
49th	Nickemwit
49th	hexjo
49th	Zealous5000
49th	Chango

*DQ'd in Losers.

Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles

(158 teams)
Top 32 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Polish		Swedish Delight
2nd	aMSa		Axe
3rd	Zuppy		Azel
4th	Krudo		Panda
5th	Jmook		Cody Schwab
5th	Spark		Zamu
7th	Aklo		Foxy Grandpa
7th	Ben		Joshman
9th	Chem		Mot$
9th	Stone		Wevans
9th	Artan		TheAsianOne
9th	Preeminent		essy
13th	DrLobster		Brad
13th	Kalvar		Arkouda
13th	Icy