Tournament:Smash Summit Spring 2017

Smash Summit Spring 2017 (sometimes retroactively referred to as Smash Summit 4) as was a national Super Smash Bros. Melee invitational tournament and the fourth installment of the tournament series, held on March 2nd-5th, 2017. Like previous Smash Summits, it was held at the Summit gaming house, a private residence house in Los Angeles, California, and was closed to the general public.

Players invited
These 10 players were invited by Beyond The Summit:

Players voted in

 * & (February 15th)
 * & (February 16th)
 * & (February 17th)

Players eliminated
These players were eliminated in the voting phase:
 * & (February 13th)
 * & (February 14th)
 * & (February 15th)
 * & (February 16th)
 * & (February 17th)

These players were eliminated in the nomination phase:

Eligible players
Anyone ranked in the top 70 of the 2016 SSBMRank was eligible to opt-in to the nomination phase.

Crews
Once again, four captains previously chosen by vote (Mango, Armada, Leffen and Mew2King) formed crews using the snake draft method. This time, however, four of the six casters (HomeMadeWaffles, Lovage, Toph, and Vish) were included on the teams as a donation incentive.

Format
Unlike previous installments, the singles bracket was not decided by initial seeding but through four group stages in the GSL format, which is a four player double-elimination bracket without a grand final. The pool order was decided by the top four seeds (Armada, Hungrybox, Mango and Mew2King) who selected players in snake order.

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles
(16 entrants) Bracket

Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles
(8 teams) Bracket

Draft crew battle
(4 crews, single elimination bracket)

Low Tier Iron Man challenge
Each crew selected two players to participate in this single elimination event. Each player had 15 points with which to "buy" five different characters, forcing them to choose lower tiered characters.


 * Mew2King substituted his Roy for Mewtwo against Armada.


 * Since S2J is on Team Beer, he and Mango both won $250.00 as per the Compendium.

Trivia

 * A Summit tournament organizer confirmed that the Summit team decided against numbering Smash Summit events after the third entry. However, the fifth event was revealed to be named, returning to being numbered.
 * 's name was uncommonly placed as "L3ffen" on the first promotional image for the tournament, which happens to be how his YouTube and Instagram username is stylized.
 * This tournament broke the seven-year record for the largest singles pot in all of Smash history at $51,444, beating Brawl at 's $35,000.