Tournament:Bad Things Happening to Good People

Bad Things Happening to Good People was a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate online tournament held on September 4th, 2021 by. The tournament was single-elimination and all best of one sets. True to its name, it featured an unconventional joke ruleset that took full advantage of Ultimate's notorious online netcode, with no region locks, disqualifications for anyone who requested a lag test, and the option to gentleman to any game. The tournament prided itself as the first online Smash tournament with a vaccine mandate, maintained by the honor system. The Ultimate prize pool was $500 ($300 contributed by ), which entirely went to 1st place. A  bracket with the same rules was held on September 5th, with a $300 prize pool contributed by the game's creator, Dan Fornace.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles
(1,992 entrants) Top 64 Bracket Top 16 Bracket

Notable tournament events

 * Among the non-Smash games and alternative methods that competitors used via the gentlemen clause to decide the winner of games were
 * Clash Royale
 * Guilty Gear Strive
 * Rock-Paper-Scissors via start.gg chat
 * Letting the moderators vote on the winner
 * Guessing the number the opponent is thinking of
 * Flipping a coin
 * Numerous instances of negotiations, bribing and bartering
 * The winner of the tournament,, bribed his way through most of the bracket and only played 3 games. He ultimately won the tournament after accepting:
 * Protou's request to advertise 's Twitter handle for the duration of his tournament stream.
 * 's request to gentleman to one stock, Judge dittos, taking turns until a player died to a 9.
 * Magnolia's request to gentleman to four stocks with the Beastball item enabled.
 * 's request to have Hungrybox's mother shout him out on Twitter.
 * 's request for $50.
 * 's request for $125 and a Twitter follow.
 * 's request for $300 and an appearance on 's Hot Ones parody "Hot Juans."
 * On his way to third place, played all his matches with six of his fans occupying the spectator stands in his Battle Arena in an attempt to maximize lag. He additionally played without a LAN adapter in and opened so many tabs on his computer to strain his internet connection that he accidentally crashed his PC and stream for a short period of time.

Trivia

 * This event was the largest best of one Smash tournament of all time, as well as the first tournament with over 1,000 entrants to have every entrant seeded entirely algorithmically without any human discretion (based on Start.gg winrate).