Genesis (tournament)

Genesis, stylized as GENESIS, is a series of Super Smash Bros. tournaments occurring in the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States state of California. The first Genesis tournament took place in 2009 in Antioch at the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds.

Genesis
GENESIS 6 logo
Tournament information
GameSuper Smash Bros.
LocationSan Francisco Bay Area
Established2009
Number of
tournaments
Seven
Current champion
Melee: Zain
Ultimate: Marss
Smash 64: Shihman
Final champion
Brawl: Mew2King (GENESIS 2)
Project M: Kage (GENESIS 2)
Wii U: MKLeo (GENESIS 5)

Alongside EVO, The Big House, and Pound, the GENESIS series is considered to be one of the most prestigious Super Smash Bros. tournament series.

History

The first tournament, GENESIS, started in Antioch, California, and began on July 10, 2009. The tournament was organized by Boback Vakili and the Concord-based DBR crew, which had Smash players such as SilentSpectre and G$. At the time, it was the largest Melee tournament in history and the fifth largest Brawl tournament.[1] The tournament featured players from around the world, including the US, Sweden, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. This tournament was significant in that it was Armada's first tournament in the US and started the Mango - Armada rivalry, not only at the GENESIS series, but also Melee.

GENESIS 2 took place two years later on July 15, 2011. The tournament was hosted by Boback and DBR and was again held in Antioch, California. The tournament decided to add the original Super Smash Bros. and Project M, in addition to Melee and Brawl. The tournament was also sponsored by Red Bull and SABERGAMING. The tournament was notorious in that Robert "Zelgadis" Scherer stole prize money that was accidentally left behind and reportedly lied. After police investigation, Zelgadis confessed and gave back the money. This incident damaged the reputations of Zelgadis, DBR, GENESIS, and the Smash community as a whole.[2]

GENESIS was planning to make a comeback in 2013 and 2014. However, Boback could not commit to planning since many other tournaments were taking place. Thus, the revival was stalled.[3] Nearly five years after the incident, Boback and the DBR group announced GENESIS 3, which took place on January 15, 2016. Brawl and Project M were dropped from the tournament and Super Smash Bros for Wii U was brought up. Another change is that the tournament moved from Antioch and moved to San Jose, California, with the top 8 of each game taking place at the San Jose Convention Center. The tournament stands as the third largest tournament in Smash tournament, behind EVO 2015 and EVO 2016. In addition, GENESIS announced its partnership with Nintendo.[4] Additional sponsors included HTC, ASUS, and Skillz. With over $20,000 in prize pool money for Melee and over $10,000 in prize pool money for Wii U, this was the biggest community-funded tournament in Smash history. This tournament features Mango and Armada in the grand finals for the third GENESIS tournament in a row.

GENESIS 4 was announced to be on January 20, 2017. This tournament was organized by Boback, Dr. Z, and Germ from DBR. The tournament kept the same lineup of games as it did in GENESIS 3 and was hosted at the same venues.

GENESIS

The first GENESIS tournament was held on July 10–12, 2009, in Antioch. Melee singles was won by Joseph "Mango" Marquez. This would mark Adam "Armada" Lindgren's first time playing in the United States and would spark a historic rivalry between Mango and Armada.[5][6] Melee doubles was won by the duo of Mew2King and Jman, Brawl singles was won by Ally, and Brawl doubles was won by Mew2King and Fiction. In Melee Crew Battles of East Coast and West Coast, East Coast won.

GENESIS results
Super Smash Bros. Melee (290 entrants)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st Mango Jigglypuff, Falco US$2,280
2nd Armada Peach, Fox US$1,425
3rd Hungrybox Jigglypuff US$855
4th Zhu Falco US$570
5th Mew2King Sheik, Marth US$228
5th Scar Captain Falcon US$171
7th Darkrain Captain Falcon US$114
8th Hax Captain Falcon US$57
Super Smash Bros. Melee Doubles (103 teams)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st Mew2King
Jman
Sheik
Fox
US$1,370
2nd Scar
Darc
Captain Falcon
Jigglypuff
US$761
3rd Mango
Lucky
Jigglypuff, Falco
Fox
US$456
4th Darkrain
Cactuar
Captain Falcon
Fox
US$304
5th Xelic
Linguini
Peach
Ganondorf
US$152
6th Shroomed
Julian
Dr. Mario
Fox
7th Armada
Aniolas
Peach
Sheik
7th DaShizWiz
RockCrock
Falco
Ganondorf
Super Smash Bros. Melee Crew Battle
East Coast Player Character Stocks Taken West Coast Player Character Stocks Taken
G$ Marth 4 Falcomist Falco 3
Pakman Luigi 2 SilentSpectre Captain Falcon 8
Hax Captain Falcon 3 Axe Pikachu 3
Tope Sheik 6 LunInSpectra Fox 3
Scar Captain Falcon 2 Pink Shinobi Peach 4
Mew2King Marth, Fox 7 Mango Falco 2
Darc Jigglypuff 4 Zhu Falco, Fox 4
DJ Nintendo Bowser 2 Lucky Fox 7
Cactuar Fox 6 HomeMadeWaffles Dr. Mario 1
Jman Fox 4 Taj Marth 3
Total 40 38
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (292 entrants)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st Ally Snake US$2,336
2nd Mew2King Meta Knight US$1,460
3rd Tyrant Meta Knight US$876
4th Dojo Meta Knight US$584
5th ADHD Diddy Kong US$233
6th DEHF Falco US$175
7th Fiction Wario US$118
8th SK92 Falco US$59
Super Smash Bros. Brawl Doubles (108 teams)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st Mew2King
Fiction
Meta Knight
Wario
US$1,444
2nd Ally
Sean
Snake
Meta Knight
US$802
3rd Dojo
UTDZac
Meta Knight
Mr. Game and Watch
US$481
4th Havok
Mike Haze
Marth, Meta Knight
Marth
US$231
5th Inui
Atomsk
Meta Knight
King Dedede
US$160
6th Ling Ling
Excel_Zero
King Dedede
Peach
7th BoA
Teba
Marth
King Dedede
7th Ajax
Futile
Snake
Wario

GENESIS 2

GENESIS 2 was held two years later on July 15–17, 2011 again in Antioch and at the county fairgrounds. Melee was won by Adam "Armada" Lindgren in a rematch of Joseph "Mango" Marquez in grand finals; doubles was won by Lucky and Mango. Brawl was won by Jason "Mew2King" Zimmerman over Elliot "Ally" Bastien Carroza Oyarce; doubles was won by the two Grand Finals participants. Smash 64 was won by SuPeRbOoMfAn of Canada and Project M was won by Kage. In Melee and Brawl crew battles, both were won by the West coast.

GENESIS 2 tournament results
Super Smash Bros. Melee (228 entrants)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st Armada Peach, Young Link US$3,396.25
2nd Mango Falco, Fox US$1,698.13
3rd Taj Marth, Mewtwo US$915.63
4th Hungrybox Jigglypuff US$526
5th Mew2King Sheik, Marth US$316.25
6th Shroomed Dr. Mario US$209.75
7th Dr. PeePee Falco US$158.13
8th S2J Captain Falcon US$104.88
Super Smash Bros. Melee Doubles (74 teams)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st Mango
Lucky
Jigglypuff
Fox
US$1,830
2nd Mew2King
Dr. PeePee
Sheik
Falco
US$732
3rd Hax
Hungrybox
Captain Falcon
Jigglypuff
US$732
4th Armada
Aniolas
Peach
Sheik
US$366
5th Axe
Taj
Pikachu
Marth, Mewtwo
US$80
5th Lovage
Silent Wolf
Fox
Fox
US$80
7th Baka4moe
Westballz
Peach
Falco
US$40
7th MacD
G$
Peach
Falco
US$40
Super Smash Bros. Melee Crew Battle
East Coast Player Character Stocks Taken West Coast Player Character Stocks Taken
G$ Marth 1 Wobbles Ice Climbers 9
ihavespaceballs Samus 2 HugS Samus 3
Cyrain Fox 4 Lucky Fox 1
Hungrybox Jigglypuff 8 Shroomed Dr. Mario 3
Hax Captain Falcon 7 Axe Pikachu 3
Mew2King Marth 3 Lucien Sheik 2
DoH Peach 2 Fly Amanita Ice Climbers 7
Tope Sheik 7 Silent Wolf Fox 2
Dart! Marth 2 Lovage Fox 4
Dr. PeePee Falco 2 Mango Falco 6
Total 38 Total 40
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (197 entrants)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st Mew2King Meta Knight US$3,148.75
2nd Ally Snake, Wario, Ice Climbers, Meta Knight, Falco US$2,574.38
3rd ADHD Diddy Kong US$846.88
4th Gnes Diddy Kong US$482
5th Tyrant Meta Knight US$288.75
6th Zex Meta Knight, Marth US$193.25
7th Tearbear Meta Knight US$144.38
8th Rich Brown Olimar US$96.63
Super Smash Bros. Brawl Doubles (64 teams)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st Mew2King
Ally
Meta Knight
Wario, Snake
US$1,650
2nd UltimateRazer
Gnes
Snake
Diddy Kong
US$825
3rd Seibrik
ADHD
Meta Knight
Diddy Kong
US$495
4th ESAM
MVD
Pikachu
Snake
US$330
5th Trela
Zori
Lucario
Olimar
US$80
5th Havok
Tearbear
Meta Knight
Meta Knight
US$80
7th Itakio
Valdens
Meta Knight
Mr. Game and Watch
US$40
7th Zex
Z
Marth, Meta Knight
Pikachu
US$40
Super Smash Bros. Brawl Crew Battle
East Coast Player Character Stocks Taken West Coast Player Character Stocks Taken
Mew2King Meta Knight 4 DEHF Falco 2
Nick Riddle Zero Suit Samus 3 Tyrant Meta Knight 3
Poltergust Yoshi 2 Havok Meta Knight 3
Anti Meta Knight 3 Rich Brown Olimar 3
ADHD Diddy Kong 2 Mike Haze Marth 5
Seibrik Meta Knight 2 X Sonic 2
Ally Wario 5 UltimateRazer Snake 2
MVD Snake 2 Tearbear Meta Knight 4
ESAM Pikachu 3 Trela Lucario 4
Atomsk Meta Knight 3 Gnes Diddy Kong 2
Total 29 30
Super Smash Bros. (22 entrants)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st SuPeRbOoMfAn Captain Falcon, Fox, Pikachu US$198
2nd Isai Kirby, Yoshi, Luigi US$99
3rd JaimeHR Fox, Captain Falcon US$33
4th Kefit Pikachu
5th Tigerbombz Pikachu, Fox
5th B-Rex Fox, Captain Falcon
7th Bladewise Fox
7th dookdigity Pikachu, Kirby
Project M (52 entrants)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st Kage Ganondorf US$132
2nd JCaesar Wario, R.O.B., Ganondorf US$66
3rd Leffen Fox, Captain Falcon, Falco US$22
4th Trahh Falco US$5
5th Gunblade Ganondorf, Marth
5th rubyiris
7th ishyguy
7th CrYos

GENESIS 3

A third tournament was not announced until 2013, but that effort was eventually cancelled because of scheduling conflicts with other tournaments, particularly Apex in New Jersey. In August 2015 GENESIS 3 was again announced and eventually occurred from January 15–18, 2016 in San Jose at the San Jose Convention Center and City National Civic Amphitheater. The tournament was sponsored by Nintendo.[7] Tournament organizers initially planned to allow top ranked players to automatically advance to the top bracket, but backed off after backlash from social media and community figures.[8] Eventually, tournament organizers went along with floating the Melee players to the second round, but made the Smash 4 players play in the first round. This event is the second largest Smash event ever (behind EVO 2015) and the largest community run event.

It was again won by Adam "Armada" Lindgren over Joseph "Mango" Marquez, with the grand finals being a repeat of the previous two tournaments.[9][10] Wii U was won by Gonzalo "ZeRo" Barrios over Samuel "Dabuz" Buzby.[11] Smash 64 was won by Japanese player wario, who was able to attend the tournament from a crowd fund.

Also through a fundraiser, a $500 "Bobby Scar Award" was awarded to fifth place; it was named after the Smasher and commentator Scar, who made a run at the first GENESIS, placing 6th. It was given to SFAT after PPMD said he didn't have motivation playing more.

In crew battles, team Hungrybox won the Smash Draft crew battles and Japan beat SoCal to take the regional crew battles.

In the 4th installment of the Melee Games, UC Irvine took the title, beating Georgia Tech.

A documentary about the Smash 64 scene called The 64 Story: Genesis 3 was shot at G3.[12]

GENESIS 3 tournament results
Super Smash Bros. Melee (1,828 entrants)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st [A] Armada Peach, Fox US$10,940
2nd C9 | Mango Falco, Fox US$4,376
3rd Liquid`Hungrybox Jigglypuff US$2,188
4th Tempo | Axe Pikachu US$1,312.80
5th CLG | SFAT Fox US$1,156.40
6th EG | PPMD Falco, Marth US$656.40
7th mYi | Ice Fox US$437.60
7th SPY | Nintendude Ice Climbers US$437.60
Super Smash Bros. Melee Doubles (397 teams)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st COG MVG | Mew2King
[A] Armada
Sheik
Peach
US$3,970
2nd CLG | PewPewU
CLG | SFAT
Marth
Fox
US$1,588
3rd BERT | Swedish Delight
Slox
Sheik
Fox
US$794
4th Liquid`Hungrybox
Tempo | Axe
Jigglypuff
Pikachu
US$555.80
5th Darkatma
Frootloop
Sheik
Falco
US$317.60
5th WFX | Shroomed
Alan
Sheik
Peach
US$317.60
7th SF | Javi
SF | Twin
Fox
Falco
US$198.50
7th TGL | DruggedFox
Baka4moe
Sheik
Peach
US$198.50
Super Smash Bros. Melee Smash Draft Crew Battle
Place Crew Name Character Name Character Name Character Name Character Name Character Amount
1st Team Hbox Hungrybox Jigglypuff PPMD Marth MacD Peach The Moon Marth Swedish Delight Sheik US$4,000
2nd Team SFAT SFAT Fox Plup Sheik Nintendude Ice Climbers Wizzrobe Captain Falcon KJH Fox US$1,000
3rd Team Ken Ken Marth Armada Peach Ice Fox Prince Abu Jigglypuff Fiction Fox
3rd Team PPU PewPewU Marth Mew2King Sheik DruggedFox Falco Santiago Fox Ryan Ford Fox
5th Team Axe Axe Pikachu Wobbles Ice Climbers KirbyKaze Sheik Javi Fox Zhu Falco
5th Team Westballz Westballz Falco Silent Wolf Fox S2J Captain Falcon Abate Luigi Bladewise Peach
5th Team HugS HugS Samus Lucky Fox Shroomed Sheik Eddy Mexico Luigi Cactuar Fox
5th Team Scar Scar Captain Falcon Mango Falco Duck Samus Colbol Fox Alex19 Fox
The Melee Games 4 Finals
Place Crew Name Character Name Character Name Character Name Character Name Character
1st UC Irvine Santiago Fox Connorthekid Fox Matt/Captain Faceroll Fox/Sheik Squid Falco Sherigami Sheik
2nd Georgia Tech DruggedFox Falco Baka4moe Peach Bravo Link Kpan Falco Austintacious Sheik
3rd University of Arizona GamerGuitarist7 Captain Falcon Janet Zelda ForteFreak Sheik Yee Man Fox Faketaxiluchi Falco
3rd York University KirbyKaze Sheik Toronto Joe Fox Chrim Foish Falco Coffeeblack Captain Falcon Slush Sheik
5th University of Washington Silent Wolf Fox Wasabi Captain Falcon Gus Jigglypuff Dempsey Sheik Power Up Falco
5th Stony Brook University Fitz Falco Minty Samus Sol Fox Equal Zelda Vortex Sheik
Super Smash Bros. Melee Salty Suite
Winner Character(s) Loser Character(s) Score Amount
S2J Captain Falcon Abate Luigi 4-2
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (1,096 entrants)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st TSM | ZeRo Sheik, Diddy Kong US$5,365
2nd Dabuz Rosalina and Luma US$2,146
3rd Ranai Villager US$1,073
4th 2GG | VoiD Sheik US$643.80
5th Liquid`Nairo Zero Suit Samus US$321.90
5th GW | FOW Ness US$321.90
7th Marss Zero Suit Samus US$214.60
7th #THE FAD | Larry Lurr Fox, Sheik, Donkey Kong US$214.60
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Doubles (272 teams)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st Ranai
Komorikiri
Villager
Cloud
US$2,720
2nd TSM | ZeRo
Liquid`Nairo
Sheik, Diddy Kong
Zero Suit Samus
US$1,088
3rd LLL | Mr. R
Abadango
Sheik
Meta Knight
US$544
4th RAIN
Nietono
Cloud
Cloud
US$380.80
5th SU | Trela
Boreal | Ally
Ryu
Mario
US$217.60
5th Marss
Pugwest
Zero Suit Samus
Marth
US$217.60
7th SF | Hyuga
Dabuz
Toon Link
Rosalina and Luma
US$136
7th TTN | MJG
GW | FOW
Villager
Ness
US$136
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Regional Crew Battle
Place Crew Name Character Name Character Name Character Name Character Name Character Amount
1st Japan Abdango Meta Knight Ranai Villager Komorikiri Cloud, Sonic Nietono/RAIN Diddy Kong/Sheik 9B/Earth Ryu/Pit US$1,200
2nd SoCal ZeRo Sheik Larry Lurr Fox Mr. ConCon/falln Luigi/Rosalina and Luma VoiD Sheik Tyrant/SlayerZ Meta Knight/Peach US$400
3rd Tristate Nairo Zero Suit Samus DKwill Donkey Kong NAKAT Ness Dabuz/False Rosalina and Luma/Ryu 6WX/Tweek Sonic/Bowser Jr. US$200
3rd Mexico Hyuga Toon Link IC Diddy Kong Regi Mr. Game and Watch Manzano Villager Waymas Wario US$200
5th Texas Karna Sheik Trela Ryu Fliphoop/Denti Diddy Kong/Sheik The Wall Yoshi Espy Sonic
5th Midwest MJG Villager Ally Mario Ryuga Ike JJROCKETS/Zinoto Diddy Kong/Diddy Kong Akiro Sheik
5th NorCal Shaky Ness Zex Sheik Trevonte Sheik Ito Meta Knight Teb Mario
5th Florida Nick Riddle Zero Suit Samus Ryo Ike ESAM Pikachu 8BitMan/Heero R.O.B./Sonic MVD/Day Diddy Kong/Lucario
9th MD/VA Seagull Joe Sonic Logic Olimar Pink Fresh Lucas Remzi/Mister Eric Zero Suit Samus/R.O.B. Acid/GimR Captain Falcon/Mr. Game and Watch
9th Southwest Z Pikachu FOW Ness Lycan Diddy Kong SS Villager K9 Sheik
Super Smash Bros. (238 entrants)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st wario Pikachu US$1,190
2nd SuPeRbOoMfAn Pikachu, Captain Falcon US$476
3rd wangera Jigglypuff US$238
4th Isai Pikachu, Fox, Captain Falcon, Mario US$166.60
5th KeroKeroppi Pikachu, Captain Falcon US$95.20
5th Mariguas Pikachu, Captain Falcon US$95.20
7th COG | Wizzrobe Yoshi US$59.50
7th tacos Captain Falcon, Yoshi US$59.50
Super Smash Bros. Doubles (47 teams)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st JaimeHR
SuPeRbOoMfAn
Mario, Samus, Kirby
Pikachu, Fox
US$470
2nd tacos
The Z
Kirby, Captain Falcon
Pikachu, Captain Falcon
US$235
3rd Isai
Rith
Pikachu
Pikachu
US$141
4th wario
wangera
Pikachu
Jigglypuff
US$94
5th SPY | Nintendude
Fireblaster
Mario
Pikachu
5th Dext3r
Pete
Pikachu, Kirby
Captain Falcon
7th Banze
Cort
Pikachu
Kirby
7th YBOMBB
Snorlax
Jigglypuff
Kirby
Super Smash Bros. Salty Suite: 12 Pikachu v 12 characters
Mariguas's Character Stocks Taken Isai's Character Stocks Taken
Pikachu 6 Link 3
Pikachu 2 Captain Falcon 4
Pikachu 2 Pikachu 10
Pikachu 1 Fox 3
Pikachu 4 Jigglypuff 5
Pikachu 4 Kirby 7
Pikachu 2 Donkey Kong 3
Pikachu 2 Mario 5
Pikachu 5 Ness 3
Pikachu 2 Luigi 5
Pikachu 6
Pikachu 3
Total 39 48
Super Smash Bros. Exhibition/Money Matches
Winner Character(s) Loser Character(s) Score Amount
Fireblaster Yoshi Bark Sanchez Pikachu 3-2 US$20
Kort Link Hero Pie Link 3-1
Darkhorse Captain Falcon Lorenzo Captain Falcon 2-1
Madrush21 Captain Falcon Eggmode Pikachu, Yoshi 3-0 US$100
Wookiee Pikachu Studstill Kirby 1-0

GENESIS 4

GENESIS 4 took place on January 20 to January 22, 2017 in San Jose, California and used the same venues as GENESIS 3. Nintendo was once again a sponsor of the tournament, along with HTC, Nvidia, Controller Chaos, Twitch, Red Bull, and many other sponsors.[13] Like last year, tournament organizers announced the top 64 Melee players at the event would automatically be in the second round of the tournament, sparking backlash from top players such as Leffen and Armada.

In crews, team Silent Wolf defeated Team Hungrybox in Melee Draft Crews and Team USA defeated Team Japan in Wii U World Crews.

Melee doubles was won by brothers Armada and Android over Leffen and Ice. Wii U doubles was won by Ally and MKLeo over the Japanese duo Ranai and Komorikiri. Lastly, Smash 64 doubles won by defending champions JaimeHR and SuPeRbOoMfAn over last year's runners-up tacos and The Z.

In Wii U singles, Mexican Smash player MKLeo defeated Ally to win GENESIS 4 and Peruvian Alvin defeated favorite SuPeRbOoMfAn in Smash 64 singles.

For the fourth time in four GENESIS series, the Grand Finals pitted Armada and Mango. Armada defeated Mango in Winner's Semifinals and Mew2King in Winner's Finals to get to Grand Finals. Mango defeated Leffen in what some consider to be one of the greatest sets played, and subsequently defeated Hungrybox, and Mew2King after being sent to the loser's bracket by Armada. Prior to top 8, Armada nearly lost to Johnny" S2J" Kim in a close five game series; had S2J won, S2J would have been the first player outside of the "Five Gods" and Leffen to defeat Armada in a tournament set since Pound 4 in 2010, where Amsah "Amsah" Augustuszoon, a Sheik player from the Netherlands, beat Armada 3-1, knocking him out with a 4th-place finish.

The grand finals set was a convincing 3-0 victory for Armada over Mango, winning his third GENESIS title in a row.

Genesis 4 was subject to a controversial anomaly which was discovered during the Super Smash Bros. 4 match between Komorikiri and Captain Zack. As per the recommended ruleset for Smash, the "launch rate", which determines how much, if at all, the knockback dealt by moves will be modified,[14] was supposed to be set to the default of 1.0, however at the end of the match it was discovered to have been set to 0.9 for the entire set, and testing from dataminers proved that this was also the case for the previous set between ZeRo and Dabuz.[15] Despite this, the tournament organizers decided that instead of replaying the whole set, a single game would be played to decide the winner of that set, which triggered criticism from viewers and members of the community alike.

GENESIS 4 tournament results
Super Smash Bros. Melee (1,704 entrants)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st [A] Armada Peach US$8,520.00
2nd C9 | Mango Falco, Fox US$3,408.00
3rd FOX MVG | Mew2King Sheik, Marth US$1,704.00
4th Liquid`Hungrybox Jigglypuff US$1,022.40
5th TSM | Leffen Fox US$511.20
5th PG | Plup Sheik US$511.20
7th Tempo | Axe Pikachu US$340.80
7th G2 | Westballz Falco US$340.80
Super Smash Bros. Melee Doubles (379 teams)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st [A] | Armada
[A] | Android
Peach, Fox
Sheik
US$3,810.00
2nd TSM | Leffen
LG | Ice
Fox
Fox
US$1,524.00
3rd CLG | PewPewU
CLG | SFAT
Marth
Fox
US$762.00
4th Tempo | Axe
PG | Plup
Pikachu
Fox, Samus
US$533.40
5th FOX MVG | Mew2King
Liquid`Hungrybox
Sheik
Jigglypuff
US$304.80
5th IMT | Shroomed
Alan
Sheik
Peach
US$304.80
7th SPY | MacD
DruggedFox
Peach
Fox
US$190.50
7th Liquid`Ken
Santiago
Marth
Falco
US$190.50
Super Smash Bros. Melee Smash Draft Crew Battle
Place Crew Name Character Name Character Name Character Name Character Name Character Amount
1st Team Silent Wolf Secret | Silent Wolf Fox C9 | Mango Fox Misfits | The Moon Marth Selfless | HugS Samus Bladewise Peach $1,500.00 ($300.00 each)
2nd Team Hungrybox Liquid`Hungrybox Jigglypuff Tempo | Axe Pikachu BCW | Abate Luigi Wizzrobe Captain Falcon SS | Colbol Fox
3rd Team SFAT CLG | SFAT Fox CLG | PewPewU Marth IMT | Shroomed Sheik Syrox Fox CDK Fox
3rd Team Nintendude SPY | Nintendude Ice Climbers PG | Plup Sheik Tempo | S2J Captain Falcon OBEY | Mike Haze Fox Professor Pro Fox
5th Team ChuDat VGBC | ChuDat Ice Climbers Selfless | Lucky Fox Slox Fox Laudandus Sheik Gahtzu Captain Falcon
5th Team Chillin Liquid`Chillin Fox MIOM | KirbyKaze Sheik ALG EMG | n0ne Captain Falcon Rudolph Marth Ryan Ford Fox
5th Team Zhu BOXR | Zhu Falco FOX MVG | Mew2King Sheik DruggedFox Fox SPY | MacD Peach Santiago Falco
5th Team Duck Duck Samus G2| | Westballz Falco LG | Ice Fox KJH Fox Prince Abu Jigglypuff

- Crews were redrafted because RNG | Swedish Delight was unable to attend. In addition, TSM | Leffen, [A] Armada, and Cactuar opted out of the crew battle, so Ryan Ford, Slox, and Gahtzu took their spots, respectively.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (1,012 entrants)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st FOX MVG | MKLeo Marth, Cloud US$5,060.00
2nd C9 | Ally Mario US$2,024.00
3rd TSM | ZeRo Diddy Kong, Cloud US$1,012.00
4th Captain Zack Bayonetta US$607.20
5th eLevate | Mr. R Sheik US$303.60
5th LG | Abagando Mewtwo US$303.60
7th RNG | Dabuz Rosalina and Luma US$202.40
7th 2GG | Komorikiri Sonic, Cloud US$202.40
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Doubles (236 teams)
Place Players Character(s) Earnings
1st C9 | Ally
FOX | MKLeo
Mario
Cloud
US$2,360.00
2nd Ranai
Komorikiri
Villager
Cloud
US$944.00
3rd IMT | ANTi
MVG | Salem
Mario
Bayonetta
US$472.00
4th TSM | ZeRo
NRG | Nairo
Diddy Kong
Zero Suit Samus
US$330.40
5th LG | Abadango
Kameme
Bayonetta, Meta Knight
Sheik, Cloud
US$188.80
5th Elegant
Aarvark
Luigi
Villager
US$188.80
7th PG | ESAM
PG | MVD
Pikachu
Cloud
US$118.00
7th VGBC | Pink Fresh
DMG NLM | Captain Zack
Bayonetta
Bayonetta
US$118.00
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U World Crew Battle
Place Crew Name Character Name Character Name Character Name Character Amount
1st Team USA TSM|ZeRo Diddy Kong NRG|Nairo Bowser Misfits|Larry Lurr Fox RNG|Dabuz Rosalina and Luma
CLG|VoiD Sheik IMT|ANTi Mario Samsora Peach SS|Mr. E Marth
MVG|Salem Bayonetta DMG|Tweek Cloud Denial|Marss Zero Suit Samus Ito Meta Knight
2nd Team Japan Ranai Villager LG|Abadango Mewtwo Kameme Mega Man 9B Bayonetta
2GG|Komorikiri Cloud, Sonic Earth Pit Umeki Peach Nietono Diddy Kong
Ri-ma Toon Link You3 Duck Hunt RAIN Cloud OCEAN R.O.B.
3rd Team MexCanEU FOX|MKLeo Marth C9|Ally Mario Chag Bayonetta Locus Ryu
eL|Mr. R Sheik Javi Cloud BYOC|S1 Ness SF|Regi Mr. Game and Watch
Captain K Pikachu Bedgar Sheik IC Diddy Kong Big D King Dedede
Super Smash Bros. (185 entrants)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st Alvin Pikachu US$925.00
2nd PG | SuPeRbOoMfAn Pikachu US$370.00
3rd kysk Kirby US$185.00
4th Dext3r Pikachu US$129.50
5th Wizzrobe Yoshi US$74.00
5th KeroKeroppi Pikachu US$74.00
7th Mariguas Pikachu US$46.25
7th tacos Yoshi US$46.25
Super Smash Bros. Doubles (43 teams)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st JaimeHR
PG | SuPeRbOoMfAn
Mario, Samus, Kirby
Pikachu, Fox
US$430.00
2nd tacos
The Z
Kirby, Captain Falcon
Pikachu, Captain Falcon
US$215.00
3rd Mariguas
Dext3r
Pikachu
Pikachu
US$129.00
4th Taimai
kysk
Pikachu, Kirby
Pikachu, Kirby
US$86.00
5th Alvin
Shalaka
Pikachu, Captain Falcon
Pikachu
5th Zero
Strandead
Pikachu
Pikachu
7th Bark Sanchez
EMG | Darkhorse
Pikachu
Captain Falcon
7th SPY | Nintendude
Joshi
Mario
Pikachu

GENESIS 5

GENESIS 5 was announced on July 16, 2017. It was held from January 19, 2018 to January 21, 2018. After two events in San Jose, the tournament organizers moved to Oakland and the event was held at the Oakland Convention Center, which is attached to the Oakland City Center Marriott hotel. Sunday matches were held in the Paramount Theater.

SuPeRbOoMfAn placed himself at the top once again in Smash 64 after defeating the defending champion Alvin in a close grand finals after Alvin dominated the Canadian in the first set of grand finals. MKLeo defeated the dark horse Mistake from Canada to defend his GENESIS title.

The Melee singles for GENESIS was a historical one for the Smash scene. HugS became the first ever Samus main to reach top eight at a super major. In addition, Plup won GENESIS 5 after defeating Hungrybox in the grand finals, making him just the second non-God to defeat all five Gods and win a super major. This meant that the GENESIS saga between Armada and Mango in the grand finals came to an end, after Armada placed 4th and Mango placed 5th.

GENESIS 5 tournament results
Super Smash Bros. Melee (1,365 entrants)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st PG | Plup Sheik, Fox, Zelda US$6,815.00
2nd Liquid`Hungrybox Jigglypuff US$2,726.00
3rd TSM RB | Leffen Fox US$1,363.00
4th [A] Armada Peach, Fox US$817.80
5th C9 | Mango Fox, Falco US$408.90
5th Dig | Lucky Fox US$408.90
7th Tempo | Axe Pikachu US$272.60
7th Dig | HugS Samus US$272.60
Super Smash Bros. Melee Doubles (315 teams)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st MVG FOX | Mew2King
PG | Plup
Marth, Sheik
Fox
US$
2nd Liquid`Hungrybox
Liquid`ChuDat
Jigglypuff
Ice Climbers
US$
3rd [A] Armada
[A] | Android
Fox, Peach
Sheik
US$
4th CLG | PewPewU
CLG | SFAT
Marth
Fox
US$
5th Tempo | S2J
IMT | Shroomed
Captain Falcon
Sheik
US$
5th Dig | Lucky
MSF | La Luna
Fox
Marth
US$
7th Tempo | Axe
INC | Medz
Pikachu
Fox
US$
7th ERG | Ryan Ford
Bladewise
Fox
Peach
US$
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U singles (674 entrants)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st FOX MVG | MKLeo Marth, Cloud, Meta Knight US$3,370.00
2nd EMG | Mistake Bayonetta, Zero Suit Samus US$1,348.00
3rd MVG | Salem Bayonetta US$674.00
4th NRG | Nairo Zero Suit Samus US$404.40
5th Dabuz Rosalina and Luma US$202.20
5th PG | MVD Diddy Kong US$202.20
7th falln Rosalina and Luma US$134.80
7th PG | ESAM Pikachu US$134.80
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Doubles (148 teams)
Place Players Character(s) Earnings
1st FOX | MKLeo
Javi
Cloud
Sheik
US$
2nd PG | MVD
PG | ESAM
Diddy Kong
Pikachu
US$
3rd NRG | Nairo
EMG | Mistake
Zero Suit Samus
Bayonetta
US$
4th C9 | Ally
E2C | tyroy
Mario
Bayonetta
US$
5th Elegant
SAK | Stroder
Luigi
Greninja
US$
5th YP | Fatality
DMG | WaDi
Captain Falcon
Mewtwo
US$
7th P4K | Captain L
Konga
Pikachu
Donkey Kong
US$
7th Dabuz
IMT | ANTi
Rosalina and Luma
Mario
US$
Super Smash Bros. singles (124 entrants)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st PG | SuPeRbOoMfAn Pikachu, Kirby, Captain Falcon US$620.00
2nd Alvin Pikachu, Captain Falcon US$248.00
3rd Fukurou Kirby US$124.00
4th KeroKeroppi Pikachu US$86.80
5th Fry's | Wizzrobe Yoshi US$49.60
5th kysk Kirby, Pikachu US$49.60
7th JaimeHR Captain Falcon, Samus, Kirby US$31.00
7th tacos Yoshi, Kirby, Pikachu US$31.00
Super Smash Bros. Doubles (43 teams)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st Alvin
tacos
Pikachu
Pikachu, Kirby
US$
2nd Taimai
kysk
Pikachu
Pikachu, Kirby
US$
3rd PG | SuPeRbOoMfAn
JaimeHR
Pikachu, Fox, Captain Falcon
Kirby, Pikachu, Mario
US$
4th Brody
Darkhorse
Pikachu, Fox
Kirby, Donkey Kong, Captain Falcon
US$
5th cobr
KeroKeroppi
Kirby, Pikachu
Pikachu
US$
5th Hydra
Kimimaru
Mario
Mario
US$
7th Onski
Pizza
Kirby
Pikachu
US$
7th Shiman
LETSGO
Mario
Pikachu
US$

GENESIS 6

Genesis 6 (stylized as GENESI6 or GENESIX) was revealed shortly after Genesis 5 on their Twitter page's bio but didn't receive a proper reveal until June 12, releasing a trailer on Twitter and YouTube and the smash.gg page.[16] The tournament took place on February 1–3, 2019 in Oakland, California. Pools took place at the Oakland Convention Center and top eight took place at the Paramount Theatre. This tournament also featured Splatoon 2, Slap City, Dance Dance Revolution, Magical Drop 3, Windjammers, and Rivals of Aether tournaments.

Ever since Smash 64's Genesis debut at Genesis 2, no American had won the singles event and that trend continued as k y s k defeated Josh Brody in a close series that went all five games. k y s k would also go on to win the doubles event with his partner Prince.

For the first time in Genesis history, Melee was not the featured event due to the newly released Super Smash Bros. Ultimate exploding in popularity. With three time Genesis champion Adam "Armada" Lindgren retiring from playing singles in 2018, this meant that his and Mango's historic rivalry came to an end; in addition, William "Leffen" Hjelte dropped out from Melee singles to focus on his Ultimate tournament. This paved the way for many potential players to be in the grand finals against the favorite Hungrybox. Many placed Plup and Mango to be the favorites to go to the grand finals, with S2J and aMSa as dark horse candidates. However, Mango was upset heavily in pools against the 97th ranked Sasha "Magi" Sullivan, but managed to fight his way through the loser's bracket before he fell to aMSa at 5th. S2J had a strong run, but he unluckily ran into two Gods in Hungrybox and Mango. aMSa and Plup had very strong runs as well as they both managed to face off against each other in the winner's quarterfinals, but aMSa fell to Plup and then Plup fell to Hungrybox in winner's finals. In a turn of events many did not expect to see, Axe had made his way to the grand finals, as he had struggled prior against players ranked much lower than him, but he managed to make his first ever super major grand finals. In the grand finals, Axe and Hungrybox were virtually neck and neck, even though Axe had only defeated Hungrybox once in his career back in 2014 and had been dominated by Hungrybox. In the end, the top ranked player in the world edged out Axe for his first Genesis title.

Genesis 6 was the first super major for Ultimate and the top two seeded players, Gavin "Tweek" Dempsey and Nairoby "Nairo" Quezada were upset in the top 64 bracket and failed to qualify for the top eight. The grand final featured the eighth seeded VoiD against the third seeded MkLeo, who both defeated the seventh seeded Samsora, VoiD from the winner's side and MKLeo from the loser's. MKLeo had a couple of comebacks to take a set and reset the bracket. In the second set, VoiD had some comebacks of his own, but MKLeo was able to take home another Genesis title for the three-peat.

GENESIS 6 tournament results
Super Smash Bros. Melee (1,104 entrants)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st Liquid | Hungrybox Jigglypuff US$
2nd Tempo | Axe Pikachu US$
3rd PG | Plup Sheik, Fox US$
4th VGBC RB | aMSa Yoshi US$
5th C9 | Mango Falco US$
5th CLG | PewPewU Marth US$
7th BAL | Ginger Falco US$
7th HLCG | S2J Captain Falcon US$
Super Smash Bros. Melee Doubles (220 teams)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st CLG | PewPewU
CLG | SFAT
Marth
Fox
US$
2nd Liquid`Hungrybox
Liquid`ChuDat
Jigglypuff
Ice Climbers
US$
3rd PG | Plup
MVG FOX | Mew2King
Fox
Marth, Fox
US$
4th HLCG | S2J
Shroomed
Captain Falcon
Marth
US$
5th [A] Armada
[A] Android
Fox
Sheik
US$
5th Darktooth
Prince Abu
Fox
Jigglypuff
US$
7th OG | Swedish Delight
MnT | iBDW
Sheik
Fox
US$
7th SFOP
Uncle Mojo
Fox
Fox
US$
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2,106 entrants)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st MVG FOX | MkLeo Lucina, Ike US$
2nd CLG | VoiD Pichu, Wolf US$
3rd eU | Samsora Peach US$
4th GRV | Dabuz Olimar, Palutena US$
5th zackray Wolf US$
5th Light Fox US$
7th PG | Cosmos Inkling US$
7th PG | ESAM Pikachu US$
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Doubles (392 teams)
Place Players Character(s) Earnings
1st MVG | Dark Wizzy
MVG Liquid`Salem
Mario
Lucina, Ganondorf
US$
2nd Light
Marss
Fox
Ike, Zero Suit Samus
US$
3rd PG | ESAM
WBG | MVD
Pikachu
Snake
US$
4th FOX | MKLeo
Anahuac | Javi
Ike, Lucina, Cloud
Roy, Sheik
US$
5th eU | Samsora
SlayerZ
Peach, Daisy
Peach
US$
5th CaptainZack
Ally
Bayonetta, Peach, Wii Fit Trainer
Snake
US$
7th Mikee
Lui$
Mega Man
Dr. Mario
US$
7th yeti
AMG | 8BitMan
Mega Man
R.O.B., Inkling
US$
Super Smash Bros. singles (99 entrants)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st k y s k Pikachu, Kirby, Donkey Kong US$495.00
2nd Josh Brody Pikachu US$198.00
3rd Prince Yoshi US$99.00
4th CTG Jigglypuff, Captain Falcon US$69.30
5th VGBC | Darkhorse Jigglypuff, Captain Falcon US$39.30
5th Shihman Yoshi, Captain Falcon US$39.30
7th Shalaka Pikachu, Kirby US$24.75
7th Dogs_Johnson Captain Falcon, Pikachu, Yoshi US$24.75
Super Smash Bros. Doubles (25 teams)
Place Player Character(s) Earnings
1st k y s k
Prince
Pikachu
Yoshi
US$
2nd Josh Brody
VGBC | Darkhorse
Pikachu
Kirby, Captain Falcon
US$
3rd JimmyJoe
Shalaka
Pikachu
Pikachu
US$
4th Shihman
LETSGO
Luigi, Pikachu
Pikachu
US$
5th Onski
CTG
Kirby
Jigglypuff
US$
5th YoLeo
M-Angry
Kirby
Pikachu
US$
7th Dankey Kang
ReefyBeefy
Kirby
Pikachu
US$
7th Madrush
Shredder
Pikachu
Pikachu
US$

GENESIS 7

Genesis 7 took place in Oakland, California on January 24-26, 2020. Marth player Zain, who was sponsored by Twitch streamer Ludwig Ahgren to wear his Mogul Moves line of clothing while competing at the event,[17] won Melee singles without dropping a single set. Zain defeated top-seeded Hungrybox in grand finals.[18] In a similar fashion as Zain, Zero Suit Samus player Marss won Ultimate without dropping a set, defeating top-seeded MkLeo in grand finals.[19]

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