Tournament:GENESIS 5

GENESIS 5 was the 5th edition of the GENESIS tournament series. It took place in Oakland, California, from January 19th to the 21st, 2018. The event featured singles and doubles tournaments for Super Smash Bros., Super Smash Bros. Melee, and, as well as side events for ', ', ', ', ', and '.

In the Melee singles event, won the tournament in the biggest tournament victory of his career, taking down, , and , the 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-ranked players in the world on his way to the trophy. While the previous four iterations of GENESIS had featured Mango and Armada in grand finals, the two finished at 5th and 4th place respectively. Both were sent to losers' by  and eliminated by. The tournament also featured two extremely competitive sets between Hungrybox and Leffen, fueled by intense drama between the two on Twitter and other social media sites; Hungrybox ultimately won both five-game sets in winners' semis and losers' finals. Team Dignitas' newly-sponsored players, and, both made deep runs into bracket, finishing at 5th and 7th place respectively, and fan favorite  delivered a strong performance once again, defeating , , and  before being eliminated by  and  to end his run at a 9th place finish.

Super Smash Bros. singles
(124 entrants) Top 16 bracket Top 6 bracket

Super Smash Bros. doubles
(32 teams) Top 8 bracket
 * Nintendude's original partner for doubles was who ended up not competing and was thus replaced with a CPU

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles
(1,365 entrants) Top 64 bracket Top 8 bracket

Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles
(315 teams) Top 12 bracket Top 4 bracket

singles
(674 entrants) Top 32 bracket Top 8 bracket

doubles
(148 teams) Top 32 bracket

Super Smash Bros. combo contest
(9 entrants)

Trivia

 * This tournament marked the first GENESIS in which and  did not meet in Grand Finals, with both players losing to  in Winners and  in Losers.
 * Doubles in Smash 64 was played with and Duel Zone legal in addition to.
 * Notably, none of the active "Gods" (,, , and ) played each other at any point in Melee Singles. Each one was either sent to the Losers Bracket or eliminated by , , or.
 * Humorously, the post-tournament splash screen initially congratulated Hungrybox for winning the tournament, despite Plup having won instead. This was likely due to this image being premade for the favorite of the tournament. The attempted fix that followed then misspelled Plup's name as "Pluip" before the congratulations screen settled on the correct name.
 * After being defeated by in pools,  made a lengthy losers run, defeating, , , , , , ,  and  before losing to  in Grand Finals.