Tournament:Shine 2023

Shine 2023 was a Super Smash Bros. Melee major and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate superregional held in Worcester, Massachusetts, from August 25th-27th, 2023. It was the final tournament in the series.

Super Smash Bros. Melee
At 683 entrants, this is the largest Melee Shine tournament since, and the largest Shine ever held at the Worcester venue. It is also one of the largest Shine events for Melee in terms of top talent, with 6 of the most recent ranking's top 10 in attendance. In addition, was scheduled to compete in Melee singles, but was late to the airport and missed his flight. Given that Mango missed his flight and (the other remaining God in active competition) was on vacation, this tournament marks the first Melee major with none of the Five Gods since  in February 2006, over 17 years prior.

's victory marked the first and only time a player, the origin of the namesake of the tournament series, won an installment of Shine; he also broke 's major winning streak spanning from  to. 's run to 3rd place, accruing wins over, , and most notably bracket demon  marked his best tournament run at a notable Melee event since his victory at.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Despite being the final Shine tournament, this marks the smallest Shine tournament for the most-recent Smash game, with the entrants count not even cracking 400 entrants. The number of top talent attending the event was also noticeably smaller than previous iterations: with 's dropout due to the following week, only 3 of the most recent ranking's top 50 players were in attendance.

The #4 seed,, was eliminated at 9th place, losing to #5 seed and #17 seed , with the latter being an upset factor of 5.

, in winning Ultimate singles, broke the fabled "Shine Curse" and became the first (and only) player from New England to win a Shine tournament.

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles
(683 entrants) Top 48 Bracket 1 Top 48 Bracket 2 Top 12 Bracket
 * DQ'd in Losers.

Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles
(158 teams) Top 32 Bracket

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles
(396 entrants) Top 48 Bracket 1 Top 48 Bracket 2 Top 8 Bracket

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate doubles
(84 teams) Top 16 Bracket

Trivia

 * During Round 2 Pools in Melee singles, and  (who were scheduled event commentators) decided to self-commentate their set. Waff also self-commentated his set against.


 * The winners of both Ultimate and Melee singles ( and, respectively) were Fox players using the green costume.