Tournament:Smash Summit 5

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:

These 2 players qualified:
 * (won the wild card slot by being the top non-invited finisher at )
 * (won the wild card slot by being the top non-invited finisher at after beating  3-2 in a  ditto tiebreaker)

Players voted in

 * & (October 13th)
 * & (October 16th)
 * & (October 18th)

Players eliminated
These players were eliminated in the voting phase:
 * ,, , (October 11th)
 * ,, , (October 12th)
 * & (October 13th)
 * & (October 16th)
 * & (October 18th)

These players were eliminated in the nomination phase:



Eligible players
Anyone ranked in the Summer 2017 SSBMRank Top 50 and those who placed Top 96 (65th or better) at or  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.

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles
(16 entrants) Bracket

Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles
(8 teams) Bracket

Draft crew battle
(4 crews) Bracket
 * Mew2thicccc was formerly 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.

(8 entrants) Bracket


 * 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.

Trivia

 * This marks the end of '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 four years later. The first place winner,, won a grand total of $29,315.30. That was also the record for the largest singles payout in Smash history until  beat it for winning Smash Summit 11.