Tournament:GENESIS 4

GENESIS 4 was the fourth edition of the tournament series. It took place in San Jose, California, from January 20th to 22nd, 2017. The event featured singles and doubles tournaments for Super Smash Bros., Super Smash Bros. Melee, and, as well as side events for ', ', ', and '.

It is currently the fourth-largest Melee tournament of all time and the ninth-largest Smash 4 tournament to date.

Super Smash Bros. singles
(185 entrants) Top 64 Bracket Top 6 Bracket

Super Smash Bros. doubles
(43 teams) Top 16 Bracket

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles
(1,704 entrants) Top 64 Bracket Top 8 Bracket


 * Santiago entered under the tag "El Fuego".

Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles
(381 teams) Top 16 Bracket Top 4 Bracket

singles
(1,012 entrants) Top 32 Bracket Top 8 Bracket

doubles
(236 teams) Top 48 Bracket

Super Smash Bros. combo contest
(12 entrants)

Super Smash Bros. Melee Smash Draft crew battle
(8 crews, single elimination bracket) Bracket Names in bold indicate crew captains.


 * CDK, Kalamazhu, Slox, Gahtzu, and Ryan Ford respectively replaced, , , , and who chose not to participate.

World Crews
(3 crews) Rules Round Robin Three crews participated in the World Crews event: Team USA, Team Japan and Team MexiCanEU (a crew of top players from Mexico, Canada, and Europe). Names in bold indicate crew captains, and names in italics indicate substitutes.


 * MkLeo did not play.

Controversy
The event has received criticism for its numerous complications. Before the start of the Melee event, was reseeded from 2nd to 5th due to a finger injury sustained prior to the event, resulting in the three best players at the event - him,, and  - being placed on the same side of the bracket, leading to heavy controversy. In addition, the start of the Melee Smash Draft was delayed for several hours, while many players such as Armada,, and decided to drop out of the side event, lowering its overall level of competition. At one point, power was cut off for the area of the venue designated for Smash 4, while Melee players continued playing. The venue suffered from a frequent loss of Wi-Fi greatly affecting the stream and the other two days of the tournament had their own delayed schedules as well. Unlike many supermajors of 2016, GENESIS 4 was criticized for lacking a side stream for both games, leaving many losers' bracket sets unrecorded.

Another controversy was in regard to the round 2 singles pools, in which the tournament organizers made mistakes concerning some matches, such as  being pitted against  instead of  and  against  instead of.

Perhaps most notably, it was discovered that the losers' eighths set between and, as well as the set between  and , were both played with a launch rate of 0.9. While it remains unclear how the launch rate was changed, many players argue that the competitive integrity of the event has been ruined due to the unusual circumstances of the matches. The tournament organizers have faced criticism for failing to check the setups earlier to ensure the proper ruleset, and for forcing komorikiri and CaptainZack to only replay the final game of the set, instead of replaying the entirety of both sets. Furthermore, disgruntled viewers of the tournament would later go on to express their anger about the incident by referring to the tournament as "GENESIS 3.9", and making numerous attacks towards the TOs. In addition to this, viewers also aimed their attacks towards 's upload of the match between komorikiri and CaptainZack, resulting in a comment response from GimR, in which he requested that users "not spam dislike the video", as it negatively affected their channel. justified that by stating that, by starting a game, the player accepted the result of the previous one. The TOs also claimed that the set between Dabuz and ZeRo was played with the correct settings, but it was later proven that it was not the case. Dabuz later made a TwitLonger asking for the reimbursement of his and komorikiri's travel fees. This request was satisfied as the TOs promised to allow Dabuz and komorikiri to attend a future major tournament of their choice with all expenses covered.

Trivia

 * This was the last time the Melee Grand Finals of a tournament pit, coming from winner's bracket, against , coming from loser's, which had happened in all previous entries.
 * All of the Smash 64, Melee, and Smash 4 medals were misprinted to read "Super Mario Bros. 64", "Super Mario Bros. Melee" and "Super Mario Bros. WiiU Singles", respectively.
 * Despite winning numerous major tournaments before primarily using Peach, this was actually the first time Armada (and any player for that matter,) won a major tournament with solo Peach.