Tournament:Smash 4 Boot Camp

Smash 4 Boot Camp was a national invitational tournament held on December 7th-10th, 2017. It was held at the Downtown Grand, had $10,000 in pot prizes, and was run by VGBootCamp. The invitational was similar to, a series of Super Smash Bros. Melee invitational tournaments with invited players as well as players nominated by Twitter and voted in.

Players invited/qualified
The following 8 players were invited by VGBootCamp:

The highest placing, non-invited finisher at qualified: The highest placing, non-invited finisher at also qualified:
 * (who finished 2nd)
 * (who finished 2nd)

Players voted in

 * & (November 14th)
 * & (November 15th)
 * & (November 16th)

Players eliminated
These players were eliminated in the voting phase:
 * ,, , & (November 14th)
 * ,, , & (November 15th)
 * & (November 16th)

These players were eliminated in the nomination phase:

Eligible players
Anyone ranked in the Panda Global Rankings v3 Top 50 and those who placed Top 64 (49th or better) at, , , or were eligible for voting. 152 players were eligible for voting, a few more than Smash Summit 5's number of eligible players. The 16 with the most Twitter nominations progressed to the voting phase.

Out of the eligible players, there were 116 Americans, 21 Japanese, 8 Canadians, 4 Mexicans, a Dutch, an Ecuadorian, and a French.

singles
(16 entrants)

doubles
(8 teams)
 * VoiD was unable to participate due to sickness so Pink Fresh replaced him.

Chaos Tournament
Format:
 * Choose your opponent's character, Best of 1 two-stock game.
 * You can't pick the same character for your opponent for Round 2 that you picked for Round 1.
 * Any character used before Round 3 can't be picked for Round 3 or Finals. In Round 3, both players can turn on one item each on medium frequency.
 * Every item chosen so far is still on. Finals are on Kalos Pokémon League with three stocks. The characters you picked is now your own character, by surprise. Both players can turn on one more item each on medium frequency.
 * Cosmos and VoiD did not participate so Pink Fresh and GimR replaced them respectively

Trivia

 * Smash 4 Boot Camp continued the trend from the Smash Summit series where exactly five Americans and one international player are voted in every time.
 * As of this tournament, no player has competed at both a Melee Smash Summit event and a Smash 4 Boot Camp event. However, was both in  and made it to the second phase of voting of Smash 4 Boot Camp, and  was both in  and eligible to be nominated for Smash 4 Boot Camp. ESAM ended up attending, but only as a VIP spectator and not a competitor.
 * defeated 2-0 in Group B of pools, marking his first victory over ZeRo since  over a year prior. However, the results of this tournament are not included on the Panda Global Rankings.
 * also notably defeated in the Zero Suit Samus ditto, being the first player to do so. However, this tournament is not counted for the Panda Global Rankings said above.
 * Smash 4 Boot Camp was 's last Smash Wii U tournament before his retirement in January 2018.