Tournament:Luminosity Makes BIG Moves 2024

Luminosity Makes BIG Moves 2024 was a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate supermajor held in New York, New York, from January 5th-7th, 2024.

Tournament summary
Alongside, this was the first tournament and supermajor of the 2024 season. At 891 attendees, it is the largest Ultimate tournament in the Tristate area, surpassing from the previous year.

The biggest upsets of the tournament were on #4 seed, who first lost to #132 seed in a nailbiter game 5 set (UF 11) before losing to #100 seed  3-1 (UF 10) to place 49th, tying  as his worst performance at a tournament. Other notable upsets include #28 seed upsetting #5 seed  3-2 (UF 7, as well as WebbJP's second win over Light), #76 seed  upsetting #12 seed  3-2 (UF 6), #72 seed  eliminating #17 seed  3-2 for 65th (UF 4), #113  upsetting seed #16  3-0 (UF 6), and both #233 seed  and #145 seed  upsetting #24 seed  3-0 for 97th (UF 7 and 6, respectively).

Despite the number of upsets, all but two of the top 8 seeds made it into top 8, those two being Dabuz and #6, who was notably eliminated by 3-1, the first time Maister ever defeated Riddles. In addition, defeated  in Winners Quarter-Final, his first win over Sparg0 since  as well as his first top 5 win since he defeated  at.

The top 4 was notably made up of the same four players who placed top 4 at the previous Let's Make Big Moves event:, Sonix, Sparg0, and MkLeo. Tweek defeated Sonix 3-1 to move on to Grand Finals, while Sparg0 won the runback against MkLeo 3-2. Loser's Finals saw Sparg0 go up 2-0 against Sonix, notably using for the second game. However, Sonix ultimately completed the reverse 3-0 to make Grand Finals on Loser's side, where he lost the runback to Tweek 3-0, with the last game notably seeing Sonix SD on last stocks while at a percent advantage. This not only marked Tweek's first major win since the previous Let's Make Big Moves event, but also marked the first major since that had at least one of the Four Horsemen in attendance that was won by a non-Horseman.

Steve ban
In response to questions regarding Steve's legality at the tournament, head TO posted a poll on Twitter asking players whether Steve should be banned at the tournament. The poll closed a week later with 3,738 responses.

The results showed a majority of players who were attending or planned on attending the event wanted Steve ban (69.47% and 62.83%, respectively), while the percent for those not attending was smaller yet still a majority (52.47%). Due to the results, Steve was banned from the event.

The poll saw a rather split reaction. Some players lauded how the ban was based on a community vote rather than solely the decision of the tournament organizers, which also gave clearer picture on the general playerbase's opinions on the ban, specifically how most players who attend tournaments want the character banned. Other players believed the ban was more so due to Steve's unpopularity in the community and/or the Tristate area, with them also arguing that other unpopular characters such as and  would likely see the same result if polled.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles
(891 entrants) Top 16 Bracket

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

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate arcadian
(256 entrants) Top 32 Bracket Top 8 Bracket

Trivia

 * A pre-recorded video featuring Josh Hutcherson promoting his upcoming movie The Beekeeper was played during top 8, in which the actor revealed he played.
 * Before top 8 of the event, rapper Jay Eazy performed his song "Mega Man" live at the venue, as the song's associated meme "Don't Worry Mega Man Drops Jan 7th !! Listen !!" coincided with the tournament's last day.