Tournament:GENESIS 8

GENESIS 8 was a supermajor tournament for Melee and Ultimate and the 8th edition of the GENESIS tournament series. It took place place in San Jose, California, from April 15th-17th, 2022. The event featured singles and doubles tournaments for Super Smash Bros., Super Smash Bros. Melee, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and is a major event for ', ', and . GENESIS 8 also featured side events for ', ', ', and '.

The event was originally set to take place between January 28th-30th, but was postponed to April due to concerns over the high amount of cases of COVID-19. A charity event called was made to help the GENESIS 8 crew with the six-figure cost of postponing GENESIS 8, which partnered with the online Melee tournament.

GENESIS 8 was the largest offline Melee tournament by entrants since in January 2017, and the largest offline Ultimate tournament by entrants since  in August 2019.

Melee
GENESIS 8 became most well-known for 's breakout run all the way to 2nd place; seeded 21st and fairly unknown on the world stage, Jmook tore through winners' bracket and defeated, , , and , only losing to champion in winners' and grand finals. Jmook's run was seen as arguably solo Sheik's best tournament performance ever at the time, made more impressive by his victories over Plup and iBDW, two players with historically dominant records over Sheik players. Jmook's run is often regarded as the greatest breakout performance in Melee history, due to the fact that he had never ranked top 100 on a Melee global power ranking prior.

was famously upset by outside of top 64, before being eliminated by  for 9th, his lowest ever placing at a GENESIS tournament. With Hungrybox's 5th placing, this was the first open bracket supermajor for Melee since (nearly 15 years prior) to not have any of the Five Gods in grand finals.

Ultimate
The top 3 for Ultimate were the same players as the ones in (MkLeo, Glutonny and Sparg0) approximately two weeks prior. This tournament also stands as 's worst placement at an Ultimate tournament, tying with a 33rd place finish.

Due to the venue having a hard cutoff at 10:00 p.m. before paying staff for overtime, the Ultimate doubles Grand Finals reset was played offstream.

Super Smash Bros. singles
(60 entrants) Top 16 Bracket

Super Smash Bros. doubles
(10 teams) Bracket

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles
(1,552 entrants) Top 64 Bracket Top 8 Bracket

Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles
(228 teams) Top 6 Bracket

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles
(1,959 entrants) Top 64 Bracket Top 8 Bracket

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate doubles
(298 teams) Top 12 Bracket

Vendetta vs AndresFn First to Five
Both players were locked into using or. was awarded $1,000 for winning.

Trivia

 * flew from France to San Francisco, California on January 14th, 2022 to arrive early before the tournament's original dates of January 28th-30th, 2022. After his flight landed, he learned the tournament had been postponed earlier that day.
 * This is the first major Melee tournament to have only one spacie player in Top 8 ( with ) since ( with ) almost 17 years prior.
 * Although and 's exhibition FT5 was for the symbolic title of best shoto player in Ultimate, both finished 97th in bracket and were significantly outplaced by, who used only  on route to a 9th place finish. This spawned numerous jokes (in which both players took part) about Ikan being the one true shoto master.
 * Prior to vs.  in Top 8 of Ultimate, a video was played announcing Sparg0's sponsorship by, with Sparg0 subsequently removing his hoodie to reveal a FaZe jersey.
 * 's winner's semifinals set with marked the lowest seed combination (17th and 21st seeds, respectively) for a Top 8 set at a Melee supermajor.