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Tournament:Ludwig Ahgren Championship Series 4

Ludwig Ahgren Championship Series 4
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Dates January 29th-30th, 2022
Attendance 2,422
Pot size(s) $30,001
Results
Super Smash Bros. Melee winners USA Zain 1v1
Staff
Organizer(s) Ludwig, YungWaff

Ludwig Ahgren Championship Series 4 was a Super Smash Bros. Melee online tournament held from January 29th-30th, 2022 by commentator and YouTube streamer Ludwig. It was announced on Ludwig’s Twitter account[1] in response to the postponement of the tournament GENESIS 8, and was held during its original dates. The tournament was the first open tournament in the series. It had proportionate qualifiers from East Coast and West Coast into the top 64, as more people were playing in East Coast pools than West Coast.[2] 36 players qualified from East Coast, and 28 players qualified from West Coast. The tournament had the most entrants for an online Melee tournament, surpassing that of the largest offline Melee tournament, EVO 2016. It had a $30,001 prize pool, the ninth largest for a Melee tournament and the largest for an online Smash Bros. tournament.

The tournament was part of GenAssist, a fundraiser stream to help the GENESIS 8 crew with the six-figure cost of postponing GENESIS 8. The stream ran from January 27th-29th, 2022 and streamed Ludwig Ahgren Championship Series 4 matches on January 29th, with the top 12 taking place on January 30th after the GenAsssist event ended.

Because the tournament was region-locked to North America, Ludwig told his viewers to give subscriptions to Leffen's Twitch so he could fly over from Sweden to attend. He did the same to Sora's Twitch to convince him to stay in the United States to attend the tournament.

ResultsEdit

Super Smash Bros. Melee singlesEdit

(2,422 entrants)
Top 64 Bracket
Top 12 Bracket

Place Name Character(s) Earnings
1st   Zain   $9,001
2nd   Mango    $5,400
3rd   moky   $3,900
4th   Plup     $2,700
5th   Hungrybox   $1,800
5th   iBDW   $1,800
7th   Fiction   $900
7th   Ginger   $900
9th   bobby big ballz   $600
9th   Swift    $600
9th   S2J   $600
9th   lloD   $600
13th   Dawson   $300
13th   Sora     $300
13th   KoDoRiN   $300
13th   Panda   $300
17th   ChuDat  
17th   SFAT  
17th   n0ne  
17th   Faceroll  
17th   Zuppy  
17th   Albert  
17th   Gahtzu  
17th   Jflex  
25th   Kalamazhu  
25th   Lunar Dusk    
25th   Jamrun  
25th   SluG  
25th   Sock  
25th   Soonsay  
25th   Krudo  
25th   Kevin Maples  
33rd   Zamu   
33rd   mvlvchi  
33rd   NoFluxes  
33rd   Lucky  
33rd   Leffen (DQ)  
33rd   Zealot  
33rd   Aklo  
33rd   Ben  
33rd   Spark  
33rd   Axe (DQ)  
33rd   Bimbo  
33rd   Mekk  
33rd*   Smashdaddy  
33rd   KJH  
33rd   Prometheus  
33rd   Dacky  
49th   Zander  
49th   Awesome Video Games  
49th   Stiffff  
49th   TheRealThing  
49th   Stiv  
49th   Azel  
49th   SDJ  
49th   Lotfy  
49th   Espi  
49th   RJ  
49th   PanterA  
49th   TheSWOOPER  
49th   n3zModGod  
49th   Siddward  
49th   Suezo   
49th   Eddy Mexico  

*DQ'd in Losers

TriviaEdit

  • Prior to the tournament, Zain and Leffen's Sheik had an exhibition match for GenAssist, which Leffen won 5-1. The following day, he DQ'd due to food poisoning-induced stomach issues that morning. As Leffen had been staying at Zain's house, this prompted memes that Zain poisoned Leffen's food as retaliation for losing the showmatch.[3][4]
  • Axe and Smashdaddy both had to DQ due to internet issues.

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