Smash Summit 14 is stacked with a roster of Smash Bros superstars

Smash Summit 14 is quick approaching. It’s set as much as be a climatic match for Melee, coming after one of many recreation’s most enjoyable few months in fairly some time. The match, hosted by Past the Summit, will likely be kicking off over November 3-6^th.

With a prize pool over $30,000 on provide, this occasion is certainly one of Melee’s greater occasions, following up enormous tournaments just like the Ludwig Invitational, and upsets just like the first Yoshi major win.

Past the Summit will function a number of the high Smash Bros gamers. The occasion is sponsored by Papa Johns, Coinbase, and Crimson bull, which ought to keep away from at the least one of many issues from the Ludwig match.

Smash Summit 14 packs a strong roster

Smash Summit 14 goes to have a reasonably lengthy format, with a number of rounds only for the gamers to combat towards one another once more within the bracket on the finish. This can give loads of probabilities to see completely different match-ups between these invited gamers. The match is simply singles for Melee, with three levels to the occasion.

As standard, gamers kick off with a bunch stage. Right here 4 groups of 4 gamers face one another in a round-robin format. All gamers from this stage transfer via to the following, however some will skip to the final stage. Some gamers transfer on to the ultimate bracket, with 1^st place on this stage shifting to the winners’ spherical.

Gauntlet Stage sees gamers shuffled again into new teams, this time in swimming pools of three. Gamers get 1 or 2 units towards one another to filter via. Identical to with the final spherical, 1^st place strikes instantly via to the winners’ bracket. Within the closing bracket, we get double elimination. Seeding within the winners or losers bracket is set by how gamers sat within the earlier rounds.

Gamers at Summit 14 and narratives to observe for

Smash Summit 14 is an invitational so it’s sporting one of many extra stacked rosters for the sport. The entire main gamers are attending, however there are some particular gamers and matchups to be careful for.

Zain might be the favorite heading into the occasion. He’s been on a loopy run this yr, actually solely crushed by what MKLeo is doing in Final. He’s taken 1^st on the Ludwig Invitational, Shine 2022, Pound, Genesis 8, and extra. Whereas he’s dropped to second a number of occasions within the interim, he appears like he’s again on high so it’ll be fascinating to see how he takes the invitational.

Hungrybox and Leffen attending may even be price watching in the event that they face one another. Leffen’s loss to Hungrybox on the Ludwig Invitational result in a lot of drama, after he reacted in the best way he sometimes does. It’ll be price watching to see if he can win again towards Hungrybox, or if he’ll proceed to dominate the controversial participant together with his Jigglypuff expertise.

Additionally invited are iBDW, and aMSa who continues to be on a scorching streak taking part in Yoshi. Every of those has a current historical past which provides followers one thing to observe on the match. These are the entire invited gamers at Melee:

Past the Summit after Smash Summit 14

It’s lately been introduced that Past the Summit are cancelling some DOTA operations, particularly, not hosting DPC next year. Past that, they’re prone to shut down their DOTA operations altogether.

Smash and different occasions wont finish anytime quickly thouh. In reality, it appears like they’ll be switching their focus completely over to the remaining titles, which might imply extra occasions packed nearer collectively, and a fairly wholesome strategy for the sport in the long term! Dota’s disaster and loss from Past the Summit, may be Smash’ achieve.