Tournament:Supernova 2024
| Supernova 2024 | |
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| Dates | August 8th-11th, 2024 |
| Venue | Dulles Expo Center |
| Address/City | 4320 Chantilly Shopping Center Chantilly,Virginia |
| Attendance | 3,204 |
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| Organizer(s) | VGBootCamp |
Supernova 2024 was aSuper Smash Bros. event held in Chantilly,Virginia from August 8th-11th, 2024, and was the eighth edition in theSupernova series. It was the first tournament to take place after the series' rebranding from Super Smash Con, and as such, was initially announced later than when previous iterations were relative to the tournament's starting date.
Tournament summary[edit]
Super Smash Bros.[edit]
At 241 entrants, Supernova 2024 ranks as one of thelargest Smash 64 tournaments of all time, although it ranks slightly lower than past Supernova events. In terms of top players, this was the first North American tournament thatwario attended sinceSuper Smash Con 2022. Notably, wario facedSuPeRbOoMfAn during winners side of top 8. This marked the first time both players met in bracket since grand finals ofGENESIS 3 eight years prior, which wario won. SuPeRbOoMfAn would be victor in this runback, defeating wario 3-1 and knocking him into losers bracket.
During winners top 32, SuPeRbOoMfAn made a notable upset over first seedKurabba, winning 3-1 in their set. This marks the first time SuPeRbOoMfAn has ever beaten Kurabba in a tournament set. Despite this, Kurabba went through his losers run without much issue, eliminatingWizzrobe,Robert, wario, andKeroKeroppi, allowing him to rematch SuPeRbOoMfAn in grand finals. Kurabba and SuPeRbOoMfAn went back and forth in games, but Kurabba reset the bracket and took the tournament, both in a tense 3-2 fashion. This would mark Kurabba's return as champion in the Supernova series, previously winning Super Smash Con 2022.
In terms of other players, SuPeRbOoMfAn's run was quite notable as he solely usedCaptain Falcon, marking his 2nd place finish as the character's best supermajor run in recent years.Robert most notably outperformed his projected 15th seed, upsettingHAMMERHEART andLowww to qualify for winners side of top 8. He ended his tournament run at 5th place. This was also the first Supernova event forSmash 64 to lack anyKirby players or secondaries present in top 8, with the highest placing Kirby player being HAMMERHEART, who was eliminated at 9th place.
Super Smash Bros. Melee[edit]
TheMelee tournament saw an abundance of mid-tier players outside ofAxe (who placed 9th) andaMSa (who did not attend) placing in top 64, with breakout performances fromglock in my toyota playingMr. Game & Watch,Daniel playingYoshi, andJChu playingPikachu, whileVirginia hidden bossRapMonster placed 25th withLuigi, losing to Axe in winners andnull in losers in two close game 5 sets.
The most notable placements from non-top tier characters were fromPlup, who played solo Samus the entirety of the tournament, andDonkey Kong playersJunebug andckyulmiqnudaetr. Plup expressed onTwitter before the event that he was interested playing Samus for the tournament, just like he had donein Super Smash Con 2019. Following through with his statement, he easily broke into top 64 and defeatedKhryke before being knocked into losers side bySpark. Afterward, he defeatedMot$ and upsetJmook, marking Jmook's second upset loss to a Samus player afterMorsecode762 atGet On My Level 2023 the previous year, before he was finally stopped byHungrybox for 9th, marking one of the best runs for a solo Samus player at a major in the post-Netplay era.
After losing to Joshman in winners side top 64, ckyulmiqnudaetr placed 13th notably defeatingKevin Maples andmoky and ultimately falling toKrudo in losers, tying his run atGet On My Level X as his best major placement with Donkey Kong. However, his run would be overshadowed by Junebug, who went on the best run of his career, easily making his way into top 64 where he notably defeatedZamu andAxe to make winners side of top 8, forcing the commentators to switch their top 8 lineup as Junebug was originally slated to commentate. He would then defeatJoshman 3-0 to advance to Winners Finals before losing toMang0 3-1 andCody Schwab 3-0 to place 3rd. This not only marked the best performance of Junebug'sMelee career, but the first-ever top 3 for a Donkey Kong player as well as the character's all-time best performance, surpassingBum's 4th place finish atMLG Long Island 2007 and solidifying Donkey Kong's status as an effective choice in top-level play. Shortly after the tournament concluded, Bum congratulated Junebug on the feat.[1]
This tournament also served as the breakout event for Connecticut Falco mainKacey. After losing to Joshman in a winners side top 64 qualifier, Kacey went on a monstrous losers run, where she defeatedZamu,Dawson, andPanda before falling toKoDoRiN for 13th, her best placement at a major.
This event marked the second time Jmook and moky failed to make a major top 8 in 2024, with both being upset by non-top tiers in losers. moky was defeated byMagi in winners before being eliminated by ckyulmiqnudaetr, while Jmook was defeated by Joshman in winners before being eliminated by Plup's Samus.
Supernova 2024 notably marked the final tournament inHungrybox's "Ultimate detox", where he dropped the game for 90 days to focus on improving inMelee. Despite his "detox", he was double-eliminated byCody Schwab for 4th, leading him to announce his return to playingUltimate.
In a similar vein tothe previousMelee major, Winner's Finals and Grand Finals saw Cody Schwab lose twice toMang0, cementing Mang0 as Cody Schwab's biggest bracket demon in 2024. Additionally, Mang0's victory marks his second major win of the year and tying Cody Schwab's total number of major wins that year. This marked Mang0's fourth Supernova tournament win as well, as well as finally getting a confetti celebration afterasking where his confetti was when winning in 2017.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl[edit]
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Despite featuring fewer entrants than itsprevious iteration, theBrawl event at Supernova 2024 became the second-largestBrawl event in the post-Brawl competitive scene and featured 8 of the2023 SSBBRank's top 10, with onlyHoenn andBike being absent.
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U[edit]
At 296 entrants, this is the firstSmash 4 singles event at Supernova to feature less than 300 entrants, and as such, is also the smallestSmash 4 event in the series. In addition,Mistake,Dabuz, andTyroy, the three bestSmash 4 players in the post-Ultimate metagame, did not sign up for the event. With many other former topSmash 4 players not in attendance, Supernova 2024 became the firstSmash 4 Supernova event to not reach major status, making this event the secondSmash 4 superregional in the post-Ultimate metagame, afterKyojin Dojo.
On the other hand, this event was notable for being the largestSmash 4 tournament won by aNess player, withMarcus taking the tournament over aCloud and twoBayonetta players, including a reverse 3-0 onShadow_PR in Grand Finals. His win also marked the first Supernova event that was not won by a player who was ranked on thePGR. It was the first Supernova event sinceSuper Smash Con 2019 that was not won by a Bayonetta player, or had at least half of top 8 be Bayonetta players.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]
Although it is the smallestUltimate singles event in the series, Supernova 2024 is currently the largestUltimate tournament of the year by entrants and the second-largestUltimate tournament of the year by top player attendance behindKagaribi 12, with all of the top 10 from theLumiRank 2024.1 season attending as well as the vast majority of the top 20, aside fromDoramigi,Yaura (who was on hiatus),Zackray andShinyMark, who planned to attend but had to DQ due to exams. In addition, the event featured many other international talent, including several Japanese players who were outside the top 20 such asGackt,Yoshidora andKEN, as well as Europe's new ranked #1 player on theEuropean Ultimate Power Rankings,crêpe salée.
Several notable upsets took place during Phase 1, most notably #62 seedCandle losing to #574 seedLemonShark 1-2 (upset factor 7), #46 seedMFA losing to #467 seedSwag Master 1-2 (upset factor 7), and #92 seedDark Wizzy losing to #421 seedNaytro 1-2 (upset factor 5). Phase 2 saw the biggest upset of the early rounds, with the biggest being #242 seedIzaiah defeating #15 seedMuteAce 2-0 (upset factor 8). In addition, #40 seedKurama, in his first event back from his short hiatus, lost to #89 seedGuyGuy 2-1 and #104 seedParas 1-2 to place 129th, surpassingGENESIS X as his worst offline placement. Additionally, MuteAce became the lowest placing top 20 seed after being eliminated by #39 seedMonte 2-3 for 65th, his worst offline placement of the entire year, andTea had one of his worst offline placements of the entire year, losing to #17 seedOnin 3-0 before being eliminated by #41 seedBeastModePaul in another 3-0, placing 33rd and tyingKowloon 12 with Kagaribi as his worst offline placement.
In Phase 3, the top 3 seeds of the event were upset before top 24: #33 seedMarss defeated #1 seedMiya (upset factor 10), #18 seedYoshidora defeated #2 seedacola (upset factor 7) and #14 seedSnow defeated #3 seedSonix (upset factor 5). In addition, #6 seedShuton lost to #11 seedRaru while #9 seedLight lost to #24 seedKEN after KEN made a game 5 comeback. Finally, #10 seedTamaPDaifuku underperformed at his first international supermajor, losing to #23 seed crêpe salée and #26 seedPeabnut for 25th, the only top 10 player to place outside Top 24. Ultimately, only four top 10 players,Hurt,Tweek,SHADIC andSparg0, entered top 24 on the winner's side. Outside of these upsets, #110 seedJuanpi notably eliminated #24 seedWrath withBanjo & Kazooie, marking one of the best wins from a Banjo player that isn'tToriguri.
Despite falling into Losers early, both acola and Sonix saw strong Losers run to make top 8, with acola notably going game 5 againstMkLeo,Dabuz, andMarss to enter top 8 and Sonix cruising through his bracket, only going game 5 against Miya, to make top 8. On the winner's side, Raru, SHADIC, and Sparg0 had little trouble entering top 8; however, Tweek lost to Hurt before being eliminated by Sonix for 9th. WithAsimo andYoshidora entering the top 8 through the Loser's side, the top 8 saw 5 players from Japan and 3 players from North America.
Despite having a majority in the top 8, Japan ultimately placed lower than all the North American players. While both Hurt and Raru fell into losers by Sparg0 and SHADIC respectively in 3-1s, Sonix did most of the work in his incredible losers run, where he eliminated acola 3-0, Raru 3-0, and Asimo 3-1. In addition, Asimo himself eliminated the other two Japanese players, defeating Yoshidora in a close game 5 set and defeating Hurt 3-1. After both entered Winners Finals, Sparg0 later entered Grand Finals after defeating SHADIC 3-0, before Sonix then defeated SHADIC 3-0 as well to meet Sparg0 in Grand Finals, the first offlineCoinbox Grand Finals of the year. Although Sonix easily defeated Sparg0'sAegis in the first game, Sparg0 surprised audiences by pulling outRoy, and decisively defeated Sonix 3-2, winning his first P-tier of the year and marking his best tournament win of his career up to that point.
With Sparg0's victory, his wins over players who had just defeated him in their most recent sets, and Sparg0 dropping only two games prior to Grand Finals, many players considered this event Sparg0's "revenge tour", especially in-light of his 9th-place ranking on the LumiRank 2024.1 and his underperformance at theprevious Supernova event. In addition, although Sonix's "second-place curse" remained, many players lauded Sonix's run as one of the best losers run inUltimate, as he took out half of the previous season's top 10 as well as two of Japan's best players who were ranked outside the top 10.
Disqualification controversy[edit]
During theSmash 4 events,VaLoR chose to replaceRiskTKR in the singles event as RiskTKR had planned on DQing while VaLoR forgot to sign up. In addition,Ouch!? switched with VaLoR and teamed withTemporaryPlan in the doubles event. Despite allegedly receiving permission to do all of this from the bracket manager and some of the tournament organizers, all of the aforementioned players except TemporaryPlan were ultimately disqualified from the entire Supernova event by a different tournament organizer for bracket manipulation.[2] This disqualification affected theUltimate bracket, as both RiskTKR and Ouch!? were still in the winner's side of bracket prior to their disqualification, with Ouch!? especially being in the top 128. Conversely, TemporaryPlan was not disqualified as he was eliminated from bracket byBroKen before the disqualifications.
RiskTKR later identified said tournament organizer asRoflfox and alleged that Roflfox did not make the decision with the head organizer of Supernova.[3] This claim was corroborated in a now-deleted Tweet from Roflfox, where he disqualified three players on the basis of Rule 3.15, which discussed "alting".[4] Roflfox later responded, saying that he and two other organizers did not approve any swaps at any point during the weekend, and that the pool captains would not have been allowed to do so.[5] Nevertheless, the incident and Roflfox's deleted Tweet were criticized online, especially from theUtah community, with many also questioning why all four players were disqualified from their other non-Smash 4 events despite the incident taking place inSmash 4.
RiskTKR ultimately received a refund on his registration, partial funding for his travels, and free entry toLuminosity Makes Moves Miami 2024; however, it is unknown whether the other three players received any compensation. In addition, Roflfox later apologized for his deleted Tweets and how the situation was handled, but stood by his decision.[6]
After the convention ended, Roflfox addressed and explained in detail the timeline of the events of the weekend,[7] including the alleged claims that the players had permission to make the swaps.
Results[edit]
Super Smash Bros. singles[edit]
(241 entrants)
Top 32 Bracket
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- Mercy DQed without playing a set
Super Smash Bros. doubles[edit]
(53 teams)
Top 32 Bracket
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Super Smash Bros. Melee singles[edit]
(905 entrants)
Top 64 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket
Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles[edit]
(175 teams)
Top 32 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl singles[edit]
(187 entrants)
Top 32 Bracket
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl doubles[edit]
(29 teams)
Top 8 Bracket
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Super Smash Bros. for Wii U singles[edit]
(296 entrants)
Top 32 Bracket
Top 4 Bracket
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Super Smash Bros. for Wii U doubles[edit]
(45 teams)
Top 6 Bracket
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles[edit]
(2,281 entrants)
Top 24 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate doubles[edit]
(497 teams)
Top 32 Bracket
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Side events[edit]
Junebug vsckyulmiqnudaetr exhibition match[edit]
| Player | Character | Set Score | Player | Character |
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Mang0 andSparg0 vsPlup andMkLeo exhibition match[edit]
The teams faced off in best of 5 doubles matches inMelee andUltimate. In the case of a tie, Plup and Mang0 would have done a best of 5 singles match inUltimate, with MkLeo and Sparg0 coaching their respective teammate.
Plup replacedZain, who dropped out of the tournament after getting an ear infection.
| Player | Character | Player | Character | Set Score | Player | Character | Player | Character | Earnings |
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| 0-3 0-3 | $1,000 |
Smash 64 combo contest[edit]
The combo contest featured a different format than previous years. Each contestant went twice, with the top 2 who had the highest total score moving on to the final.(5 entrants)
Judges:Skyjay,Teflon Ron,Hungrybox,Janitor,Fray
| Place | Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | |
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| 1st | 44 | 47 | 44 | |
| 2nd | 40 | 48 | 37* | |
| 3rd | 43 | 43 | — | |
| 4th | 32 | 38 | — | |
| 5th | 37 | 0* | — | |
*Did not complete the combo.
Smashies Awards[edit]
The 6th annual Smashies Awards were hosted byConey on August 9th.
Winners are listed first andbolded.
Trivia[edit]
- TheUltimate tournament introduced a rule that forbids players from manually picking the followingmusic tracks that are infamously picked for the purpose ofgriefing:
- 25m
- All Retro Medleys
- Deluge Dirge
- Electroplankton
- Environmental Noises
- Freakyforms Your Creations, Alive!
- Gamer
- Pac-Man
- Rhythm Boxing
- Additionally,Ring a Ding was barred from stream matches only due to licensing.
References[edit]
- ^https://x.com/bum163/status/1822756754930737414
- ^RiskTKR on his disqualification.
- ^RiskTKR's update.
- ^Deleted Tweet from Roflfox.
- ^Roflfox's response.
- ^Roflfox's later response.
- ^Roflfox on the events that happened at Supernova.
- ^Entered as "bambz"
- ^Entered as "PichuIsMyFavorite"
- ^Replaced RiskTKR
- ^Ouch played in place of VaLoR
- ^Entered as "Skibidi Blockenheimer"
- ^Entered as "oliomarplayer88(olimar)"
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