Tournament:Bad Things Happening to Good People

Bad Things Happening to Good People
Dates	September 4th, 2021
Attendance	1,992
Pot size(s)	$500
Results
winners	Hungrybox
Staff
Organizer(s)	WhyDo, Grayola, L4st, Menace13

Bad Things Happening to Good People was a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate online tournament held on September 4th, 2021 by WhyDo. The tournament was single-elimination and all best of one sets. True to its name, it featured an unconventional joke ruleset that took full advantage of Ultimate's notorious online netcode, with no region locks, disqualifications for anyone who requested a lag test, and the option to gentleman to any game. The tournament prided itself as the first online Smash tournament with a vaccine mandate, maintained by the honor system. The Ultimate prize pool was $500 ($300 contributed by Panda), which entirely went to 1st place. A Rivals of Aether bracket with the same rules was held on September 5th, with a $300 prize pool contributed by the game's creator, Dan Fornace.

Results

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles

(1,992 entrants)
Top 64 Bracket
Top 16 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Hungrybox		$500
2nd	naitosharp
3rd	WaDi
3rd	TrtrXIV
5th	Pokelam
5th	Br1 AV
5th	MazeBeans
5th	Justice
9th	Lucretio
9th	Freetox_
9th	nalexander95
9th	Amai7
9th	Viridian
9th	Amari
9th	JX
9th	LMan
17th	Angel
17th	PkChris
17th	ATATA
17th	Brog
17th	Wolfen
17th	Gucki
17th	Mivics
17th	Lyto
17th	Bomus47
17th	Gatsby
17th	AT46
17th	Avenue
17th	spcedst
17th	SPARKLE
17th	Minimaxify
17th	triscuit
33rd	Ataraxia
33rd	jjcat00
33rd	SdN
33rd	The Golden Sorte
33rd	Anthonreee
33rd	Plum
33rd	TJDJ
33rd	piko
33rd	Romeal
33rd	kagexice
33rd	JeJaJeJa
33rd	WonderBread
33rd	Berimbau
33rd	Agera
33rd	Taoudi
33rd	Rebecce
33rd	MayhemsMagic
33rd	Dark Arm
33rd	Boya
33rd	Magnolia
33rd	TooN
33rd	KingNoctis
33rd	Only
33rd	MilkMeme
33rd	The Fan
33rd	bytefive
33rd	MaTA
33rd	PK
33rd	WaterIsWet
33rd	Jam
33rd	Miike3o1
33rd	Malus
65th	Aluf
65th	Echofire
65th	AoS
65th	Middy
65th	BassMage
65th	iamTrigger
65th	Ramen God
65th	Big Mike
65th	ConanK
65th	Crow
65th	MarcusThePerson
65th	Dalax
65th	LumiNavi
65th	NicoOHC
65th	Horse!
65th	tedz_ticklez
65th	Final Mix
65th	Willy
65th	Chief Beef
65th	MN
65th	Perezoso
65th	Ykseew
65th	xylenes
65th	GammaStar
65th	sab_by
65th	Requiem
65th	ThStampStories
65th	Metamayto
65th	Hybrid?
65th	Archmage
65th	Kirb Master
65th	cereal
65th	Peanut
65th	MegsssGaming
65th	Woddo
65th	Bac
65th	Réhann
65th	DoritoBandito
65th	Coolkingz
65th	Hyushi sama
65th	Goon
65th	Chiken2020
65th	vecc
65th	TacTac
65th	John Barrett
65th	awert
65th	Nocta
65th	Butterkix
65th	Zer0.exe
65th	stone
65th	Keulaiment
65th	TheTurtleKing
65th	Geeni
65th	SamuR4y
65th	Tonik
65th	Phobingos
65th	Jonathan G
65th	ClassyDragon
65th	IAN4 Life
65th	ducc
65th	BigToad32
65th	Doolos
65th	AverageGh0st
65th	Greenix

Notable tournament events

• Among the non-Smash games and alternative methods that competitors used via the gentlemen clause to decide the winner of games were
  • Clash Royale
  • Guilty Gear Strive
  • Rock-Paper-Scissors via start.gg chat
  • Letting the moderators vote on the winner
  • Guessing the number the opponent is thinking of
  • Flipping a coin
  • Numerous instances of negotiations, bribing and bartering
• The winner of the tournament, Hungrybox, bribed his way through most of the bracket and only played 3 games. He ultimately won the tournament after accepting:
  • Protou's request to advertise Lancelot's Twitter handle for the duration of his tournament stream.
  • Middy's request to gentleman to one stock, Mr. Game & Watch Judge dittos, taking turns until a player died to a 9.
  • Magnolia's request to gentleman to four stocks with the Beastball item enabled.
  • ATATA's request to have Hungrybox's mother shout him out on Twitter.
  • nalexander95's request for $50.
  • Br1 AV's request for $125 and a Twitter follow.
  • naitosharp's request for $300 and an appearance on Team Liquid's Hot Ones parody "Hot Juans."
• On his way to third place, WaDi played all his matches with six of his fans occupying the spectator stands in his Battle Arena in an attempt to maximize lag. He additionally played without a LAN adapter in and opened so many tabs on his computer to strain his internet connection that he accidentally crashed his PC and stream for a short period of time.

Trivia

• This event was the largest best of one Smash tournament of all time, as well as the first tournament with over 1,000 entrants to have every entrant seeded entirely algorithmically without any human discretion (based on Start.gg winrate).

External links

• Start.gg page
• Trailer