Tournament:Smash Ultimate Summit 2

Smash Ultimate Summit 2
Info
Dates	October 24th-27th, 2019
Venue	Summit Gaming House
Address/City	unknown Los Angeles, California
Entry fees	N/A
Pot size(s)	Singles: $50,450
Results
winners	MkLeo 1v1
Staff
Director(s)	Beyond the Summit

Smash Ultimate Summit 2 was a national Super Smash Bros. Ultimate invitational tournament that was held from October 24th-27th, 2019. This was the second tournament in the Smash Summit series to be focused on Ultimate. 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

The following players were invited directly by Beyond The Summit:

•  MkLeo
•  Tweek

Six wild card slots were given to the top non-invited finishers at Mainstage:

•  Nairo (who finished 1st)
•  Marss (who finished 3rd)
•  Light (who finished 4th)
•  VoiD (who finished 5th)
•  Tea (who finished 5th)
•  MuteAce (who finished 7th and was ceded having to do a playoff for the final spot by Salem, who also finished 7th)

Two wild card slots were granted to the highest placing, non-invited finishers at The Big House 9:

•  Zackray (who finished 1st)
•  Dabuz (who finished 2nd)

One last chance qualifier slot was given to the highest placing, non-invited finisher at 2GG: Nightmare on Smashville:

•  Maister (who finished 1st)

Players voted in

•  Leffen &  RFang (September 30th)

•  Armada &  Samsora (October 1st)

•  ESAM (October 2nd)

Players eliminated

These players were eliminated in voting:

•  ANTi,  Heeew,  Laid,  Mystearica (September 27th)
•  BassMage,  MVD,  Wisdom (September 28th)
•  Elegant,  Sparg0,  Wishes (September 30th)
•  Prodigy &  Riddles (October 1st)
•  Glutonny,  Ozone,  Sandstorm (October 2nd)

These players were eliminated in the nomination phase:

AceStarThe3rd	Adastran	AEMehr	Axiom XL	Biddy	Brandon 1	CORONA	Dragoomba	Dusk	Greg
Hoe	iDK	LeeT	Myran	NAKAT	Pokecheese	PSIguy	Puppeh	Raffi-X	Regulating_Mofo
Roronoa	Tonyztank	Twisted Ego	Vintendo	Xenos

Eligible players

Players who were on the Spring 2019 PGRU; achieved a top 32 placement at Umebura SP 3, 2GG: Prime Saga, Pound 2019, Get On My Level 2019, CEO 2019, Albion 4; a top 64 placement at Mainstage, Umebura Japan Major 2019, MomoCon 2019, Smash 'N' Splash 5, Super Smash Con 2019, Shine 2019; or a top 256 placement at EVO 2019 were eligible for nomination. The 20 with the most Twitter nominations progressed to the voting phase. There were a total of 446 players eligible (not including the top 6 non-invited finishers at Mainstage), who are compiled in this pastebin.

Results

Singles

(16 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	MkLeo		$17,654.00
2nd	Samsora		$9,583.60
3rd	Nairo		$6,557.20
4th	Maister		$3,783.00
5th	Tea		$2,622.88
5th	ESAM		$2,622.88
7th	Zackray		$1,588.86
7th	Light		$1,588.86
9th	Dabuz		$605.28
9th	Marss		$605.28
9th	Leffen		$605.28
9th	MuteAce		$605.28
13th	VoiD		$504.40
13th	RFang		$504.40
13th	Tweek		$504.40
13th	Armada		$504.40

Side events

Squad Strike

(16 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	MkLeo		$600
2nd	Zackray		$300
3rd	Nairo		$100
4th	Maister
5th	Light
5th	ESAM
5th	Marss
5th	Tea
9th	RFang
9th	Samsora
9th	MuteAce
9th	Leffen
9th	Armada
9th	VoiD
9th	Tweek
9th	Dabuz

USA vs the World crew battle

Bracket

USA	Character	Stocks Taken	The World	Character	Stocks Taken
ESAM		2	Tea		3
Nairo		5	Armada		1
Samsora		3	Leffen		3
Marss		4	Maister		4
Light		4	MkLeo		3
Tweek	—	—	Zackray		0
Total	—	18	Total	—	14

VIP Bracket

(16 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Nicko
2nd	Charliedaking
3rd	Nito
4th	Nitro
5th	BassMage
5th	Sandstorm
7th	FullStream
7th	Rival

Trivia

• ESAM is the sixth player to compete at both Melee and Ultimate Smash Summits, having been voted into the second Summit of both games.
• Tweek and Marss are the eighth and ninth players to compete at both Smash 4 Boot Camp and Smash Summit, with Tweek being invited to both events, and Marss qualifying for both events.
• MkLeo, Nairo, Armada, Leffen, VoiD, Samsora, Dabuz, Zackray, and Light have been at both Ultimate Summits so far, with the first four having gotten direct invites to Smash Ultimate Summit, and the other 5 qualifying for it by wild card slots.
• This is the first Smash Summit where Mango and Plup didn't compete, though both were VIP guests for it.
• Samsora cosplayed as Peach during Day 1 of Summit, and went by the name "Samantha" in tournament.
• Samsora's second place finish at Smash Ultimate Summit 2 marks the highest placement for a voted-in player at a Smash Summit, a record previously held by Zain at Smash Summit 6 and Glutonny at Smash Ultimate Summit .

External links

• Smash.gg page
• Annoucement Trailer
• Qualifier announcement