Tournament:Smash Summit 9

Smash Summit 9
Dates	February 13th-16th, 2020
Venue	Summit Gaming House
Address/City	unknown Los Angeles, California
Attendance	18
Entry fees	N/A
Pot size(s)	$61,334
Results
winners	Hungrybox 1v1

Smash Summit 9 was a national Super Smash Bros. Melee invitational tournament. It was the ninth installment of the Smash Summit series for Melee, and was held on February 13th-16th, 2020. Like previous Smash Summits, it was held at the Summit Gaming House, a private residence in Los Angeles, California, and was closed to the general public.

Players invited/qualified

The following 8 players were invited by Beyond The Summit:

•  aMSa
•  Axe
•  Hungrybox
•  Leffen
•  Mango
•  Plup
•  Wizzrobe
•  Zain

The top 4 non-invited players at GENESIS 7 all qualified:

•  Fiction
•  Hax$
•  n0ne
•  Shroomed

The highest-placing non-invited player at Saving Mr. Lombardi 2 was given the last qualifying spot.

•  iBDW

Players voted in

•  Spark (February 2nd)

•  Magi,  Ryobeat (February 4th)

•  bobby big ballz,  Pricent (February 6th)

Players eliminated

These players were eliminated in voting:

•  100 Grand,  Albert,  ChuDat,  Jah Ridin' (January 30th)

•  Blassy,  Ginger,  Voo (January 31st)

•  A Rookie,  LSD (February 2nd)
  •  bambi was initially eliminated, but was re-added after iBDW qualified through Saving Mr. Lombardi 2, as bambi was the most-voted eliminated player.

•  bambi,  Soonsay,  Westballz (February 4th)

•  Chillindude,  Moky (February 6th)

These players were eliminated in the nomination phase:

•  Amida
•  Ringler
•  2Framez
•  Kalvar
•  KoDoRiN

Eligible players

Players were eligible if they met the following requirements:

• Top 100 on the 2019 MPGR
• Placing top 8 at Awakening 5, SUPERBOU 3, Syndicate 2019, The MMOM Memorial, Canada Cup 2019, and Battle Arena Melbourne 11
• Placing top 16 at Smash Factor 8, Smash Camp: End of Summer, Fête, GENESIS: BLACK, and Valhalla III
• Placing top 32 at Low Tier City 7 and Mainstage
• Placing top 64 at The Big House 9, Super Smash Con 2019, and Shine 2019
• Placing top 128 at GENESIS 7

Results

Singles

(18 entrants)
Final Singles Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Hungrybox
2nd	Plup
3rd	Mango
4th	Zain
5th	iBDW
5th	Axe
7th	Hax$
7th	Fiction
9th	Leffen
9th	n0ne
9th	aMSa
9th	Wizzrobe
13th	Pricent
13th	Spark
13th	bobby big ballz
13th	Magi
17th	Shroomed
17th	Ryobeat

Side events

Sami Singles

(18 entrants)
Sami Singles Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	aMSa
2nd	n0ne
3rd	Hungrybox
3rd	Zain
5th	Shroomed
5th	Fiction
5th	iBDW
5th	Leffen
9th	Hax$
9th	Plup
9th	Magi
9th	bobby big ballz
9th	Mango
9th	Axe
9th	Spark
9th	Wizzrobe
17th	Ryobeat
17th	Pricent

Swag Bracket

(24 entrants)
Swag Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Axe		$500
2nd	bobby big ballz		$300
3rd	n0ne		$100
3rd	Plup		$100
5th	Pricent
5th	Wizzrobe
5th	Mango
5th	Leffen
9th	Scar
9th	Hax$
9th	Vish
9th	Lovage
9th	Toph
9th	Zain
9th	aMSa
9th	Magi
17th	Fiction
17th	iBDW
17th	Webs
17th	Hungrybox
17th	Shroomed
17th	Ryobeat
17th	HugS
17th	Spark

VIP Bracket

(14 entrants)
Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Gooms
2nd	UUAA
3rd	Younger
4th	DarkGenex
5th	epengu
5th	ChefQ
7th	SuperMrJMT
7th	Dright
9th	Ringler
9th	Chu12ch
9th*	null
9th*	Mova
13th	Bob Thunder
13th	Floppy Tuesday

• DQ'd

Trivia

• This is the first Smash Summit tournament where players can be eliminated by a Swiss pools format instead of the standard double-elimination format.
  • As a direct result of this, since more singles sets were played overall, this is also the first Melee Smash Summit tournament to forgo having a Doubles tournament.
• This is the first Smash Summit where 18 players are competing instead of 16.
• This marks the first Summit where a player did not drop a game during the Pools stage, with Hungrybox going 15-0 in games (6-0 in sets) against the rest of his pool.
• This is the first tournament Leffen did not secure a Top 8 placing since GameTyrant Expo 2017.

External links

• smash.gg page