Tournament:The Gimvitational

The Gimvitational was a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate major invitational held in Laurel, Maryland, from June 16th-19th, 2022. The tournament was announced following 's presentation on the slingshot technique and featured a Summit-esque voting style, where 20% of all donations and shop profits were be added to a "Player Fund," a fund that returned a percentage of money to those who made it into the nomination phase. The tournament also experimented with a mixed hazards on and hazard off stagelist.

Players invited/qualified
The following players were invited:

The top 2 players of were also invited:

Players voted in

 * & (June 4th)
 * & (June 5th)
 * ,, & * (June 7th)

* Replaced.

Declined players
was originally invited, but was unable to attend due to health issues. He was replaced by loaf, who had the highest amount of votes out of the players eliminated on the final day of voting.

Players eliminated
These players were eliminated in voting:
 * ,, , (June 1st)
 * ,, , (June 3rd)
 * & (June 4th)
 * & (June 5th)
 * (June 7th)

Skyjay was invited as a VIP.

These players were eliminated in the nomination phase:

Eligible players
Players were eligible if they met the following requirements:
 * Placed top 64 at and
 * Placed top 32 at, , , , , , , , and
 * Placed top 16 at, , , , , , , , , , and
 * Placed top 6 at any Smash World Tour Silver 4 event
 * Placed top 3 at any Smash World Tour Silver 3 event
 * Won any Smash World Tour Silver 2 event

Singles

 * Best of 5 all tournament
 * Phase 1 - Research and Development: 4 round robin groups of 4 players, 1st in each group advances to Phase 3 bracket Winners' side, 2nd-4th advance to Phase 2
 * Phase 2 - Clinical Trials: Gauntlet stage of 8 sets across 4 groups of 3 players
 * Phase 3 - Final Review: Double-elimination bracket stage with 8 players starting Winners’ side and 8 players starting Losers’ side

Singles stage list

 * Winner of the previous game gets 3 bans in counterpick stages
 * Banning one stage in a row on the table bans both stages

* Hazards on

Draft quads

 * 4 teams playing 4v4s in 8-Player Smash
 * Team captains picked by viewers:, , , , teams drafted live
 * Standard team rules with Final Smash Meter on
 * Stage list, all with hazards on: Hyrule Castle, Jungle Japes, Temple, WarioWare, Inc., Mario Bros.
 * Sudden Death is played out
 * Game 1's stage is selected at random, losing team of the previous game counterpicks stages
 * No bans, no stage can be repeated in the same set
 * Each team gets two character bans, all characters on screen must be unique, players take turns choosing characters

Random singles

 * Best of 3, 1 stock, single elimination

Boomers vs. Zoomers

 * 8v8 crew battle; originally 9v9 including and, but  dropped out, so loaf did not participate
 * Players born before the year 2000 are on the Boomers team
 * Players born in or after the year 2000 are on the Zoomers team

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles
(16 entrants) Final Bracket

Draft quads
(4 teams)

Random singles
(16 entrants) Bracket

Chaos Tournament
(16 entrants) Bracket

Trivia

 * ,, , , and participated in both The Gimvitational and  in December 2017, which were both 16-player invitationals held by VGBootCamp.
 * , who was in The Gimvitational but dropped out due to health issues, was a player at Smash 4 Boot Camp too. Coincidentally, he was sick for part of that event.
 * This marked the first offline singles tournament since where Sparg0 did not place in the top three, instead placing 7th.