Tournament:Smash Summit 5

Smash Summit 5
Dates	November 2nd-5th, 2017
Venue	Summit Gaming House
Address/City	unknown Los Angeles, California
Pot size(s)	Singles: $83,190 Doubles: $12,500
Results
winners	Hungrybox 1v1  Armada &  Leffen 2v2
Staff
Director(s)	Beyond the Summit

Smash Summit 5 was a national Super Smash Bros. Melee invitational tournament and the fifth installment of the Smash Summit tournament series, held on November 2nd-5th, 2017. Like previous Smash Summits, it was held at the Summit gaming house, a private residence house in Los Angeles, California, and was closed to the general public.

Players invited/qualified

These 8 players were invited by Beyond The Summit:

•  Armada
•  Hungrybox
•  Mango
•  Mew2King
•  Leffen
•  Plup
•  SFAT
•  Axe

These 2 players qualified:

•  Shroomed (won the wild card slot by being the top non-invited finisher at GameTyrant Expo 2017)
•  Wizzrobe (won the wild card slot by being the top non-invited finisher at The Big House 7 after beating S2J 3-2 in a Captain Falcon ditto tiebreaker)

Players voted in

•  Crush &  Hax (October 13th)
•  Blea Gelo &  MikeHaze (October 16th)
•  aMSa &  S2J (October 18th)

Players eliminated

These players were eliminated in the voting phase:

•  Westballz,  Syrox,  King Momo,  Deegs (October 11th)
•  Zain,  n0ne,  Qerb,  AbsentPage (October 12th)
•  Trif &  HugS (October 13th)
•  PewPewU &  Cal (October 16th)
•  ChuDat &  Reeve (October 18th)

These players were eliminated in the nomination phase:

•  Chris Best
•  TheSWOOPER
•  Darktooth
•  Ka-master
•  Iceman
•  Kaeon
•  Ryan Ford
•  ycz6

Eligible players

Anyone ranked in the Summer 2017 SSBMRank Top 50 and those who placed Top 96 (65th or better) at EVO 2017 or Shine 2017 were eligible for voting. As a result, an unprecedented 143 players were eligible for voting. The 20 with the most Twitter nominations progressed to the voting phase.

2Saint	42nd	AbsentPage	Alex19	aMSa	Amsah	Android	ARMY	Azusa	Bizzarro Flame
Bladewise	Blea Gelo	BMC	bonfire10	Cactuar	Cal	Captain Faceroll	Captain Smuckers	CDK	Chillin
Chris Best	ChuDat	Colbol	Crunch	Crush	Darkatma	darkrain	Darktooth	DaShizWiz	Deegs
dizzkidboogie	DJ Nintendo	Drephen	Druggedfox	Drunksloth	Duck	dudutsai	EastCoastJeff	Eddy Mexico	Fiction
Fluid	Frycook	Gahtzu	Ginger	HAT	Hax	HomeMadeWaffles	HugS	Ice	Iceman
ilovebagelz	Iluvcrispix	Jace	John Wick	Joyboy	Juicebox	Junebug	Kaeon	Kage	Kalamazhu
Kalvar	Ka-master	Kels	Ken	King Momo	KirbyKaze	KJH	KoopaTroopa895	Lad	Laudandus
Legend	lint	lloD	Loadspiller	Lucky	LuigigoShard	MacD	Mafia	mayb	Medz
MikeHaze	Mr. Lemon	Mr. Tuesday	n0ne	Nakamaman	Nightmare	Nintendude	NMW	null	OkamiBW
PewPewU	Prince Abu	Professor Pro	PsychoMidget	Qerb	R2DLiu	Redd	Reeve	Reno	Ricky
Rik	Rishi	Rocky	Rustin	Ryan Ford	Ryobeat	S2J	Santiago	Shroomed	Silent Wolf
Slox	Smashdaddy	Spark	squible	Squid	Swedish Delight	Syrox	Tafokints	Tai	Taj
Tempo	th0rn	The Moon	TheSWOOPER	Thumbs	Trif	Trulliam	UUAA	Umarth	Vish
vortex	Vro	Wavebringer	Westballz	Wizzrobe	Wobbles	Woogity Wu	ycz6	Zain	Zealous5000
Zeo	Zhu	ZoSo

Results

Singles

(16 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Hungrybox		$29,315.30
2nd	Armada		$15,076.44
3rd	Leffen		$10,469.75
4th	Mango		$6,281.85
5th	Axe		$3,769.11
5th	Plup		$3,769.11
7th	Wizzrobe		$2,512.74
7th	SFAT		$2,512.74
9th	S2J		$1,675.16
9th	Mew2King		$1,675.16
9th	MikeHaze		$1,675.16
9th	Crush		$1,675.16
13th	aMSa		$837.58
13th	Blea Gelo		$837.58
13th	Shroomed		$837.58
13th	Hax		$837.58

Doubles

(8 teams)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Armada		Leffen		$6,250 ($3,125 each)
2nd	Mew2King		Plup		$4,375 ($2,187.50 each)
3rd	Axe		aMSa		$1,875 ($937.50 each)
4th	SFAT		Shroomed
5th	Mang0		S2J
5th	Hungrybox		Wizzrobe
7th	MikeHaze		Blea Gelo
7th	Crush		Hax

Side events

Draft crew battle

(4 crews)
Bracket

Place	Crew	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character	Earnings	Points
1st	Plup Club	Plup		Leffen		Crush		Axe
2nd	Mew2thicccc*	Mew2King		Wizzrobe		Hungrybox		Blea Gelo
3rd	Team Sake	Mang0		S2J		aMSa		Hax
3rd	B R O T H B O I Z	Armada		Shroomed		SFAT		MikeHaze

• Mew2thicccc was formally named Alligator Tacos.

Low Tier Iron Man

Each crew selected two players to participate in this single elimination event. Each player had 15 points with which to "buy" five different characters, forcing them to choose lower tiered characters.

Cost	Character
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0

(8 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Player	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Plup
2nd	Axe
3rd	Mang0	*
3rd	S2J	*
5th	Armada
5th	Hungrybox
5th	Mew2King
5th	Shroomed

• Mango used Falco/Roy against Plup and Fox/Kirby against Hungrybox.

• S2J used Mario/Ganondorf against Axe and Young Link/Mr. Game & Watch against Armada.

Tafokints vs. Crunch money match

Winner	Character(s)	Loser	Character(s)	Score	Amount
Tafokints		Crunch		3-2	$250

VIP doubles

Winners	Character(s)	Losers	Character(s)	Score
Armada &  Bob Thunder	&	Mang0 &  Z	&	3-0
Armada &  Bob Thunder	&	Axe &  George	&	3-1
Mang0 &  Z	&	Axe &  George	&	3-1

Trivia

• This marks the end of Armada's four-tourney streak of winning Smash Summit tournaments.
• This tournament held the former record of the largest singles pot in all of Smash history, worth around ~ $80,000. It was beaten by Smash Summit 11 four years later. The first place winner, Hungrybox, won a grand total of $29,315.30. That was also the record for the largest singles payout in Smash history until Mango beat it for winning Smash Summit 11.

External links

• Smash.gg page
• Trailer