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
Game	Super Smash Bros.
Location	San Francisco Bay Area
Established	2009
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 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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External links

• Official website