Tournament:The Off-Season

The Off-Season was a Super Smash Bros. Melee super regional tournament held on October 15th-16th, 2022 in Arlington, Texas. There were 8 players invited to the final bracket, and 8 players qualified to the final bracket through an open bracket. The 16 players played in a double-elimination singles bracket. The tournament had a combined $25,000 prize pool: a $23,000 prize pool for the top 8 of the singles bracket, and $250 and a pair of Oakley sunglasses for each of the 8 qualified players. The winners of the singles Redemption Bracket and 3v3 crews won free entry to one LTC event each. The winning team in doubles won a pair of matching controllers from Top Notch Controllers. The event raised $45,000 by the end of October 15th and $65,106.50 at the end of the event, reaching the charity milestone of enabled as a counterpick stage starting with the final bracket, and while it didn't happen, tequila shots before Grand Finals was reached. counterpicked to Mute City in Winners' Semis, and counterpicked to Mute City in the last game of Losers' Semis and Losers' Finals. The event was a retro-themed charity fundraiser event in support of Movember that also featured a ' invitational, a ' celebrity showmatch, retro game speedruns, and card openings.

Players invited/qualified
The following players were invited:

The following players qualified through Winners of the open bracket:

The following players qualified through Losers of the open bracket:

Results
The singles tournament had a total of 113 entrants, with 105 players entering the open bracket coupled with the 8 players that were invited to the final bracket prior to the tournament.

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles final bracket
Show Matches Finals Bracket

Super Smash Bros. Melee open bracket
Top 48 Bracket

Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles
(21 teams) Bracket

Super Smash Bros. Melee 3v3 crews
(9 teams) Bracket

Trivia

 * Call of Duty commentators Miles Ross and Chance commentated vs.  in Losers' Semis, leading to praise from the Melee community.
 * In reverse fashion, Melee commentators and  did commentary for .