Tournament:Smash Summit Spring 2017

Smash Summit Spring 2017
Dates	March 2nd-5th, 2017
Venue	Summit Gaming House
Address/City	unknown Los Angeles, California
Pot size(s)	Singles: $51,444 Doubles: $12,500
Results
winners	Armada 1v1  Armada &  Mew2King 2v2

Smash Summit Spring 2017 was a national Super Smash Bros. Melee invitational tournament and the fourth installment of the Smash Summit 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:

•  Armada
•  Hungrybox
•  Mango
•  Mew2King
•  Leffen
•  Plup
•  SFAT
•  Westballz
•  Axe
•  PewPewU

Players voted in

•  HugS &  InfiniteNumbers (February 15th)
•  Lucky &  S2J (February 16th)
•  ChuDat &  Ice (February 17th)

Players eliminated

These players were eliminated in the voting phase:

•  Druggedfox &  Professor Pro (February 13th)
•  Duck &  Captain Faceroll (February 14th)
•  Syrox &  The Moon (February 15th)
•  Rudolph &  Android (February 16th)
•  KirbyKaze &  Shroomed (February 17th)

These players were eliminated in the nomination phase:

•  Redd
•  SmashG0D

Eligible players

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

Abate	aMSa	Amsah	Android	Azusa	Bladewise	Cactuar	Captain Faceroll	Captain Smuckers	CDK
Chillin	ChuDat	Colbol	Crush	dizzkidboogie	DJ Nintendo	Druggedfox	Duck	Eddy Mexico	ESAM
Gahtzu	Gravy	HugS	Ice	InfiniteNumbers	JAVI	Kage	Kels	KirbyKaze	KJH
Laudandus	lloD	MacD	Mafia	Mike Haze	Nintendude	n0ne	Overtriforce	Prince Abu	Professor Pro
Redd	Rudolph	Ryan Ford	Santiago	Silent Wolf	SmashG0D	Swedish Delight	S2J	Shroomed	Slox
Squid	Syrox	The Moon	Trif	Wizzrobe	Wobbles	Zain	Zgetto	Zhu

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.

Crew	Captain	Players
Team Beer	Mango	S2J,  PewPewU,  Lucky,  Lovage
The Armadas	Armada	SFAT,  Axe,  InfiniteNumbers,  HomeMadeWaffles
L O S L E F F O S 2 . 0	Leffen	Hungrybox,  Ice,  HugS,  Vish
Meme Teme	Mew2King	Plup,  Westballz,  ChuDat,  Toph

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.

Group	Group Captain	Player	Player	Player
Group A	Armada	InfiniteNumbers	Lucky	Westballz
Group B	Hungrybox	S2J	PewPewU	Leffen
Group C	Mango	Ice	SFAT	Plup
Group D	Mew2King	HugS	ChuDat	Axe

Results

Singles

(16 entrants)

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Armada		$18,005.40
2nd	Hungrybox		$9,259.92
3rd	Leffen		$6,430.50
4th	Mew2King		$3,858.30
5th	Axe		$2,314.98
5th	Plup		$2,314.98
7th	SFAT		$1,543.32
7th	ChuDat		$1,543.32
9th	Ice		$1,028.88
9th	PewPewU		$1,028.88
9th	S2J		$1,028.88
9th	Mango		$1,028.88
13th	Lucky		$514.44
13th	Westballz		$514.44
13th	InfiniteNumbers		$514.44
13th	HugS		$514.44

Doubles

(8 teams)

Place	Team	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	turnipking	Armada		Mew2King		$6,250.00 ($3,125.00 each)
2nd	Muffen	Leffen		Ice		$4,375.00 ($2,187.50 each)
3rd	4 Leaf Mango	Mango		Lucky		$1,875.00 ($937.50 each)
4th	CLG PewFat	SFAT		PewPewU
5th	Plupballz	Plup		Westballz
5th	Poké Pals	Hungrybox		Axe
7th	ChugS	HugS		ChuDat
7th	S∞J	InfiniteNumbers		S2J

Side events

Draft crew battle

(4 crews, single elimination bracket)

Place	Crew	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character	Earnings
1st	L O S L E F F O S 2 . 0	Leffen		Hungrybox		Ice		HugS		Vish		$1,250.00 ($250.00 each)
2nd	Meme Teme	Mew2King		Plup		Westballz		ChuDat		Toph
3rd	The Armadas	Armada		SFAT		Axe		InfiniteNumbers		HomeMadeWaffles
3rd	Team Beer	Mango		S2J		PewPewU		Lucky		Lovage

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.

Cost	Character
5
4
3
2
1
0

Place	Player	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Mango		$250.00
2nd	Armada
3rd	Mew2King	*
3rd	Plup
5th	Ice
5th	S2J		$250.00*
5th	Leffen
5th	Axe

• 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.

VIP doubles

Winners	Character(s)	Losers	Character(s)	Score
Armada &  Floppy Tuesday	&	Westballz &  Ringler	&	3-1

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 Smash Summit 5, returning to being numbered.
• Leffen'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 MLG Dallas 2010's $35,000.

External links

• Start.gg page
• Smash Summit Spring 2017 webpage
• Trailer