Tournament:Smash Summit 9

Smash Summit 9 was a national Super Smash Bros. Melee invitational tournament. It was the ninth installment of the Smash Summit series for Melee, and was held on February 13th-16th, 2020. It was held at the Beyond the Summit's studio in Los Angeles, California, and was closed to the general public.

Players invited/qualified
The following 8 players were invited by Beyond The Summit: The top 4 non-invited players at all qualified: The highest-placing non-invited player at was given the last qualifying spot.
 * (who finished 4th)
 * (who finished 5th)
 * (who finished 7th)
 * (who finished 7th)
 * (who finished 2nd)

Players voted in

 * (February 2nd)
 * , (February 4th)
 * , (February 6th)

Players eliminated
These players were eliminated in voting:
 * ,, , (January 30th)


 * ,, (January 31st)


 * , (February 2nd)
 * was initially eliminated, but was re-added after qualified through, as bambi was the most-voted eliminated player.


 * ,, (February 4th)


 * , (February 6th)

These players were eliminated in the nomination phase:

Eligible players
Players were eligible if they met the following requirements:
 * Top 100 on the 2019 MPGR
 * Placing top 8 at, , , , , and
 * Placing top 16 at, , , , and
 * Placing top 32 at and
 * Placing top 64 at, , and
 * Placing top 128 at

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles
(18 entrants) Final Singles Bracket

Sami singles
(18 entrants) Sami Singles Bracket

Swag Bracket
(24 entrants) Swag Bracket

VIP Bracket
(14 entrants) Bracket
 * DQ'd

Trivia

 * This is the first Smash Summit tournament where players can be eliminated by a Swiss pools format instead of the standard double-elimination format.
 * As a direct result of this, since more singles sets were played overall, this is also the first Melee Smash Summit tournament to forgo having a Doubles tournament.
 * This is the first Smash Summit where 18 players competed instead of 16.
 * This is the first Summit with a Swiss Pools format where a player did not drop a game during the Pools stage, with going 15-0 in games (5-0 in sets) against the rest of his pool.
 * Excluding forfeits and sandbagging, this is the first tournament that placed outside of Top 8 since.
 * This is the third odd numbered Smash Summit in a row where Hungrybox has won.