Tournament:Supernova 2025
| Supernova 2025 | |
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| Dates | August 7th-10th, 2025 |
| Venue | Dulles Expo Center |
| Address/City | 4320 Chantilly Shopping Center Chantilly, Virginia |
| Attendance | 3,962 |
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| Organizer(s) | VGBootCamp |
Supernova 2025 was aSuper Smash Bros. tournament held in Chantilly, Virginia from August 7th-10th, 2025, and was the ninth edition in the Supernova series (known as Super Smash Con prior to 2024).
In celebration for the event's 10-year anniversary, the event partnered withLudwig and his company Mogul Moves in hopes of breaking attendance records forMelee,Ultimate, andRivals of Aether II. The entrants fee forMelee singles was notably free to help with the attendance records. Ultimately, both theMelee andRivals of Aether II records were broken, withMelee receiving 2,422 registrations, which made itlargest Melee tournament of all time prior to disqualifications.
Tournament summary[edit]
Super Smash Bros.[edit]
At 246 entrants for the singles event, this tournament continues Super Smash Con/Supernova's streak of running the largestSmash 64 tournaments each year.[1] However, 6th seed andSuper Smash Con 2019 championkysk notably dropped out due to having COVID-19.[2]
This tournament is known forWario's remarkable run through the Losers bracket. After being upset byDogs_Johnson in Winners Round 1, Wario went on a 7-set Losers run to reach Grand Finals, eliminating 5 of the top 11 players on the2024 Smash 64 Power Rankings, includingJosh Brody,Robert,Wizzrobe,KeroKeroppi, andSuPeRbOoMfAn in a last-hit last-stock game 5, in addition to2023's #1 playerIsai in their first tournament set.
Waiting in Grand Finals on the Winners side was Wario's bracket demonKurabba, who, aside from his game-5 sets againstJaimeHR and Wizzrobe, cruised through the tournament, as well as beating Isai 3-1 in the runback fromSuper Smash Con 2023. While Wario managed to take a game, Kurabba ultimately won 3-1 to claim his third Super Smash Con/Supernova victory, making him tied with SuPeRbOoMfAn for having the most Super Smash Con/Supernova wins inSmash 64 singles.
Super Smash Bros. Melee[edit]
While theMelee bracket was expected to have a significant number of DQ's due to many Ultimate and Rivals 2 players entering, there were still a few notableMelee players who dropped from the bracket. 81st seedSinbad, 77th seedHallowy, 51st seedBalloon Day, 36th seedBbatts (who had expressed a desire to focus onRivals of Aether 2)[3], and 31st seedZealot all dropped from theMelee bracket. Conversely, someUltimate andRivals players decided to try dual-competing, the two most notable beingBeastly andCakeAssault, who both advanced to phase 2 and finished a respectable 129th.
Day 1 proceeded with numerous upsets on top 64 seeds, one of the biggest being 100th seedDova defeating 31st seedMaelstrom, who would then lose to 68th seedBoyd for 65th, while 63rd seedAdwan would also exit at 65th losing toGrab2Win. New YorkYoshi player and 76th seedDaniel would eliminate 44th seedGrab at 65th as well.
Day 2 would yield far more substantial upsets as the bracket proceeded into top 64. Mirroring the previous year, top 64 was populated by a large number of mid tiers, as well as an extremely diverse pool of high tier characters. FourPikachu players qualified for top 64, three of whom were on the winners side, the most of anyMelee supermajor, alongside fiveIce Climbers players and twoLuigi players,RapMonster who entered from winners, andM1sf1re, who entered from losers after upsetting 38th seedDarkGenex. Daniel would enter on the losers' side after defeating Grab as the only Yoshi player, while bothJunebug andMorsecode762 would enter on winners side.
Unlike the previous year, which featured almost entirely North American talent, a substantial number of international players would a number of upsets over day 2, with a considerable number qualifying for top 64.Inngenn from Japan would defeatGahtzu before losing toAxe to place 33rd.Irfan would fall toAura at 33rd as well after defeatingChango, whileJamie andRikzz would exit at 49th. The last international competitor would beNicki, who would be eliminated byKevin Maples for 17th. Despite no international competitors making top 16, this tournament provided many of them with the additional major they needed to meet the attendance requirements for the end-of-year ranking.
RapMonster, seeded at 23rd, was able to repeat a championship Sunday appearance from hisGet On My Level: Forever performance, falling tolloD in top 64, but he made a 3-set losers run, capping off Saturday by gaining another 3-1 upset (UF-3) overKrudo. However, on Sunday, he would be defeated 3-1 bySpark, one set off from matching his GOML:F placement, ending his run at 13th.
Top 64 also contained an immense number ofFalco players, totalling at 10, only one less thanFox, who totalled to 11, surprising many viewers and competitors as Falco had been experiencing a decline over the post-pandemic era in top level representation.Magi, the best Falco in the world behindMang0, would place a strong 13th. Just as the last event served as the breakout performance for forKacey, this tournament was the breakout event for Pennsylvanian FalcoFudge. Entering top 64 on the losers side after a loss tolloD, Fudge would plow throughJuicebox,OkayP., andEpoodle before falling toJunebug, ending his run at 17th.
The best Falco run, however, was beyond any doubt that ofGinger's. Following his return to competition at Get on my Level: Forever, Ginger would unexpectedly go on the run of his life. First, he entered top 64 from winners by defeatingGrab in a nail-biting game 5 set, then would upset bothAura andSirmeris 3-1 before losing toMoky 2-3 in a top 8 qualifier. Invigorated from this loss, Ginger would then defeatJmook to qualify for top 8 on the losers side, becoming the first Falco player outside of Mang0 and Magi to place top 8 at a major or supermajor sinceFiction atLuminosity Makes Moves Miami 2024 andThe Big House 10 respectively. Afterward, he would then defeat bothAxe andAklo before falling toHungrybox for 4th, Ginger's best placement at a major.
Similarly,Khryke would also go on a career-defining run. After losing to Aklo in his first set of top 64, Khryke would go on a 5-set losers-run, defeatingJoey Donuts,Frostbyte,Sirmeris,Junebug (using the Ice Climbers), and finallySDJ in a nail-biting 3-2 set to qualify for his first major top 8, as well as becoming the first Marth player outside ofZain andKoDoRiN to place top 8 at a major sinceRishi atSuper Smash Con 2022.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl[edit]
At 192 entrants, this event was only slightly larger than Supernova 2024, also making it the second largestBrawl tournament in the post-Smash 4 metagame, taking 2024's spot, and matching it's top 20 count, with 9 players on the2024 SSBBRank attending the tournament. Despite this, it remained the smallest bracket at the tournament overall, but was nevertheless considered amajor due to a large amount of top talent participating in the tournament. The tournament went smoothly, with little in the way of major upsets, and most players performing at or around their seed.
falln, seeded 21st, was able to make a remarkable run to top 8, sendingMrRyanNess to the Loser's bracket, 2-0, before losing toDeLux in Winner's Quarters, and being eliminated by MrRyanNess in the runback for a 7th place finish.
Vex Kasrani, seeded 3rd, the bestKing Dedede player in the post-Smash 4 metagame, as well as going unranked on the 2024 SSBBRank, was also able to make a solid top 8 run on Winner's side.Player-1 would defeat him in Winners Semi-Finals, before Vex defeatedMrRyanNess in losers, andCody ended his run, placing 4th overall.
The aforementioned Player-1 would finally be able to claim his firstBrawl major, after a long top 8 streak dating back toSuper Smash Con 2017, only dropping a single game toDeLux in Grand Finals. This would also mark the first major won by aDiddy Kong player in the post-Smash 4 metagame, and the first victory sinceADHD's victory atSKTAR 2, almost over 12 years later.
In 2v2,Mikeray4 andCody won their second 2v2 Championship in a row as a team (Mikeray4's third straight 2v2 championship in a row), defeatingVex Kasrani andKyoz 6-0 in Grand Finals after losing to them 3-0 in the Winner's Bracket.
This resulted in Mikeray4 and Cody now having four and three 2v2 SSC/Supernova championship titles, respectively.
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U[edit]
In spite of aBayonetta ban, this event continued the trend ofSmash 4 events shrinking in size with each iteration, with the singles event at Supernova 2025 being the smallestSmash 4 event in the series. With continued absence of the best post-Smash 4 players, this event was once again a superregional, and the third in the post-Ultimate metagame.Smash 4 veteran falln won the event, in his first notable tournament appearance sinceEVO 2019. The runner-up,SuperGirlKels, and thePGR 100's 100th best player, was double-eliminated by falln, both sets going 0-3. She only went to game 5 againstMarcus, the victor of thepreviousSmash 4 event at Supernova.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]
Ultimate singles received 2,432 entrants, making it thefifth-largest tournament in the game's history. However, the singles event was the first SupernovaUltimate event since 2019 where it was not the largest tournament of the year, asKagaribi 13 surpassed its total entrants count by over 100 entrants. In addition, with several top players either missing from the event (such asacola andAsimo) or dropping out (such asSonix,MkLeo, andTamaPDaifuku), this iteration is considered one of the smallestUltimate Supernova events in terms of top-level talent.
This event wasJahzz0's best performance, outperforming his seed by a notable margin. Though Jahzz0 was upset by #226 seedFani 2-3 after leaving pools (upset factor 6), he tore through the Loser's bracket, winning 11 sets in a row and taking outKEN,Raflow,NaetorU, andSHADIC before losing toOnin on Loser's side top 8 in a game 5 scenario for 7th. This performance marks one of the greatestKen performances inUltimate. In addition,Peabnut also saw the best performance of his career, sending bothSparg0 andOnin to the Loser's bracket en route to a top 8 appearance on the Winner's side; the former upset was tied for the second largest upset at the tournament, sitting at upset factor 6. Peabnut eventually lost toMiya in a tense game 5 set before losing the runback against Sparg0 3-1 for 5th. Nevertheless, this marks the greatest performance from aMega Man player at a post-pandemic supermajor.
On the other hand, due to the smaller top-level presence compared to previous Supernova events, there were only a few notable upsets. The two other notable ones being #8 seedShuton, who was double-eliminated by twoSteve players — #9 seedSyrup 1-3 and #46 seedToon 2-3 (upset factor 5) to place 17th, and #20 seedMuteAce, who was double-eliminated by twoKazuya players — #109 seedWheezer 1-3 (upset factor 5) and #164 seedPetayaa 2-3 (upset factor 6) to place 49th. Shuton's placement notably marked the third Supernova event in a row where he placed 17th. In addition, after upsetting MuteAce, Petayaa eliminated #28 seedKurama 2-3 at 33rd (upset factor 5). Meanwhile on the Winner's side, #44 seedBassMage defeated #12 seedTea 3-0 (upset factor 4) and #45 seedChag defeated #13 seedWrath 2-3 (upset factor 3). Outside of those upsets, this event marked a slight return-to-form performance fromSHADIC. After losing toRaru, SHADIC made a decent losers run, which included eliminating #16 seedOuch!? 3-1 (upset factor 3) to place 13th as the 39th seed.
In top 8,Doramigi was upset byHurt's secondarySonic 2-3, sending the #1 seed into Losers bracket early. Though Hurt was able to put up a good fight in Winners Finals, Miya was able to defeat him in a reverse 3-0 to make Grand Finals. In Losers, Doramigi was able to eliminateSparg0, the final non-Japanese player in the tournament, at 4th, before winning the runback against Hurt's Sonic 3-1 to make Grand Finals. Miya then defeated Doramigi 3-0, with Doramigi having to switch toCorrin in the final game, to win the entire event, marking his first international supermajor victory.
Controversy arose when Onin unexpectedly forfeited from their match againstDoramigi, after it was reported that they could not be found at the venue.[4] Onin briefly deactivated their Twitter as well, and upon reactivating revealed that they were going on hiatus, citing discontent regarding how theSmash community was treating them.[5] Though it was not the primary reason for Onin's forfeit and hiatus, their disqualification and statement led to discussion regarding booing in competitiveSmash.
Results[edit]
Super Smash Bros. singles[edit]
(246 entrants)
Top 32 Bracket
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Super Smash Bros. doubles[edit]
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Top 32 Bracket
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Super Smash Bros. Melee singles[edit]
(2,422 entrants)
Top 64 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket
Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles[edit]
(215 teams*)
Top 32 Bracket
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*Due to the number of entrants for the singles event,Melee doubles was moved to Thursday, leading to approximately 74 confirmed full disqualifications (the number of disqualifications in bracket A306 is unknown as the bracket only reported wins and losses). As such, there were approximately 141 teams that actually played in the bracket.
**DQ'd in Losers.
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl singles[edit]
(192 entrants)
Top 32 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl doubles[edit]
(32 teams)
Top 8 Bracket
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Super Smash Bros. for Wii U singles[edit]
(258 entrants)
Top 24 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket
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Super Smash Bros. for Wii U doubles[edit]
(35 teams)
Top 6 Bracket
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles[edit]
(2,432 entrants)
Top 24 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket
*DQ'd in Losers.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate doubles[edit]
(434 teams)
Top 32 Bracket
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Side events[edit]
Smash 64 combo contest[edit]
The combo contest featured a format where each contestant went twice, with the top 2 who had the highest total score moving on to the final.(5 entrants)
Judges:Shears,CTG,Hungrybox,Stango,Janitor
| Place | Name | Round 1 | Round 2 | |
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| 1st | 35* | 50 | 50 | |
| 2nd | 47 | 42 | 34* | |
| 3rd | 38 | 41 | — | |
| 4th | 43 | 35 | — | |
| 5th | 30* | 6* | — | |
*Did not complete the combo.
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS singles[edit]
(11 entrants)
Bracket
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| 1st | $20 | ||
| 2nd | $10 | ||
| 3rd | $5 |
Smashies Awards[edit]
The 7th annual Smashies Awards were hosted byConey on August 7th. As a result of this being the 10th year of Supernova, there were additional categories celebrating the decade.
Winners are listed first andbolded.
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| Melee | Ultimate | ||||
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| Smash 64 | Melee | Ultimate | |||
| Best Commentary Moment | Best Popoff | ||||
| Best Event Photo | Best Content Piece | ||||
| "Tweek's Last Ride" by Rose "Acola and Raru at Kagaribi" by Leny! "Joshman after Getting DK Punched" by Breathlessx22 "Sparg0 wins Supernova 2024" by EllieJellieeee "Sisqui Locks In" by VerdPhoto "Tea Consoling Shuton" by Lix "World's Happiest Wario" by Atheen "Marss" by Alex Wymer "Miya Invades The Sonic Counsel" by sakyo "Zain Feels Nothing But Hatred" by Browningtons "DK CLAP" by Rell "Neo Thanks The Crowd" by Luzord | |||||
| Best Commentary Moment (2015-2025) | Best Popoff (2015-2025) | ||||
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| Smash 64 | Melee | Ultimate | |||
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References[edit]
External links[edit]
| Super Smash Con/Supernova | |
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| Main events | 2015 ·2016 ·2017 ·2018 ·2019 ·2022 ·2023 ·2024 ·2025 |
| Other | Fall Fest |

