EVO 2013 Melee Info Dump! - FINAL DAY: TOP 8 STARTING AT NOON: http://www.twitch.tv/srkevo1

http://www.twitch.tv/vgbootcamp for the unofficial Melee stream (will be up later)
http://www.twitch.tv/CLASHTournaments for the Clash Suite tonight at 10pm
http://www.twitch.tv/srkevo2 and http://www.twitch.tv/srkevo1 for other games

http://www.multitwitch.tv/srkevo1/srkevo2/srkevo3 All 3 main streams
http://www.multitwitch.tv/srkevo3/vgbootcamp/CLASHTournaments/ All 3 Melee streams

https://twitter.com/vgbc_bionic/evosmash for all Twitter updates

Post anything else you know, chatter, make predictions, all that in here too!


EVO 2013 MELEE POOLS RECAP

THE EXPECTED
A58: Yakal and Swedish collided and Swedish made it out, finishing 1st and Yakal getting 2nd.
A59: In almost a huge upset, Phish-it the DK main barely lost to Swift in WFs, but he won LFs and made it out.
A61: Reno takes it and out of the remaining players, Neon got out with 2nd.
A62: Bladewise vs Lucky was inevitable and in a close set, Bladewise won with Lucky winning 2nd.
B57: While Shroomed beat Summonedfist in round 1 as expected, Summonedfist was the next best player and won 6 straight sets in Losers', being one of only three players that did that today!
B59: Wobbles beat Wizzrobe and Eggz as most predicted, but in LFs, Eggz defeated Wizzrobe!
B60: Lord beat Vist, who then got 2nd.
B61: PP beat Kels in a somewhat close set, and then Kels won LFs against Eclipsing Binary.
B62: Android defeated C!Z in WSFs, but couldn't finish Redd off in WFs! In Losers' C!Z was taken out by "The Mayor", who then lost to Android in LFs.
B64: Fly Amanita beat Stricnyn3 in WFs, who then won LFs defeating CK. CK took out J00t in LSFs.
C57: Vudujin won, with Mr.F taking 2nd.
C59: Hax beat Boback, who then got 2nd.
C61: Kou and Lovage collided where Lovage destroyed him. Kou took an easy LFs though and got 2nd.
C62: S2J beat Aza in a crazy set, and Aza took 2nd.
D58: Darrell bodied, Bacon survived.
D59: SFAT beat J666 and then Toph in WFs in a big Fox ditto, but J666 had the courage to take out Toph and venture to QFs!
D64: Leffen and Jman clashed and Leffen won! Jman took 2nd.
E58: Dart beat Stab, and Stab took 2nd.
E60: Mew2King destroyed and Cyrain got 2nd.
E61: Zoso won, Everlasting Yay took 2nd.
E63: Zhu beat Hugs, and Hugs got 2nd.
F57: Silentspectre and Eddy Mexico met in Winners', and SS won. Duck, the Midwest Samus lost to both and Eddy took 2nd.
F58: Shiz won defeating Icer in WFs, and Icer took out Khepri in LFs.
F59: JTB defeated Aisight, Simna, and Michael Li, but then lost to Silent Wolf. He made it to QFs by winning the second set with Michael Li in LFs.

THE UPSETS
A57: Mango ran through as expected, but Crush beat Noobking and AC beat CrimsonBlur, and in Losers' Noobking took out CrimsonBlur, crush finished off Noobking, and then took out AC, making it to QFs!
A63: IB won ezpz 2-0ing everyone, but the other expected players were taken out! Spife lost to Pikazoo and "Mark Corre", who himself then lost to Pikazoo, while King Funk lost to LK007 and then Davidcue. Davidcue finished off Pikazoo, and then LK007 won LFs! Who are these people???
B58: Fiction, the Brawl player took out Fuzzyness in WFs! The rest was all expected and Fuzzy still finished 2nd.
C58: Armada destroyed Blunted Object and Bimbo, but in Losers' Bimbo beat Blunted Object and advances into QFs!
C63: In Scar vs Tomber, it was 1-1, Scar was up 4-1 stocks and Tomber made the comeback! And then, he also defeated DEHF to win his pool! But further still, Scar was taken out by "Cameron Milani" and then got destroyed by DEHF in LFs! Crazy results!
D57: OkamiBW defeated Darkrain 2-1, and then took out TheLake in WFs! Darkrain then destroyed TheLake and made it to QFs.
D60: G$ beat Germ and won his pool, but it was Isis taking 2nd over Germ in Losers'!
D61: Taj and HMW collided in WFs and Taj won, but in LFs, Azusa who previously lost to HMW defeated him and advances!
D62: Jace defeated both Tai and Hyuga, and defeated a Japanese player to win! Tai ran a train through Losers' including through Hyuga to get 2nd!
E57: PPU won his pool easily, but it was speedrunner and former (and maybe still current!) best Zelda main, Cosmo, that took out Jolteon to advance!
E59: Bob$ won his pool, buy Sybawave got through S0ft and Sung666 to take 2nd!
E62: Although a fellow Yoshi couldn't make it, Amsa not only survived, but he won his pool! Navn and Smashmac, the other two favorites for the pool also were eliminated and it was Flow that won in LFs!
E64: HectoHertz, a Sheik main defeated V3ctorman in round 1, and lost to Ken in WFs, who had beaten Raistlin on his side. In Losers', Raistlin eliminated V3ctorman, but couldn't beat Hecto, who got 2nd place!
F62: Nite defeated Tafokints, but Tafo survived in Losers'!

THE DESTRUCTION
A60: Axe ran through no problem, but between Pi, Moon, ORLY, and Thumbs, Pi survived. He made it to WFs beating Thumbs and again in LFs, while ORLY beat Moon and then lost to Axe and then both lost to Thumbs!
A64: In a very rough pool, L took out everybody; Mogwai, HugQ, and Choknater in WFs! Mogwai was then taken out by Borre from Mexico, followed by elimination by HugQ, and then lost to Choknater in LFs! Choknater survived the Losers' bracket destruction!
B63: JpegImage, MattDotZeb, Merck, DJ Mirror, and Milkman made a really tough bracket for a lot of moderately good players. Matt was the one that won by beating Jpeg and Merck, and Milkman lost to Merck round one, yet ran through Losers' taking out Jpeg and finished off Merck in the rematch! DJ Mirror lost to Jpeg.
C60: Meta beat Nicknyte and then being a Fox slayer took out Tang! Laijin though was able to beat him and got to face Bizzaro on the opposite side of the chaos in WFs. Bizzaro won, and Meta proceeded to defeat Tang again and won his rematch against Laijin to represent Canada in QFs!
C64: Hungrybox ran a train, Rusty was defeated by Pnoy and then Falcomist, Baka beat Mackadotious and Falcomist and lost to HBox in WFs! Falcomist then took out Pnoy and lost the rematch to Baka in LFs, who took 2nd!
D63: Hyprid took out Strong Bad, a Puff main Omgage took out D1, and meeting in WFs, Hyprid won. In Losers', Strong Bad eliminated D1, who then lost to Omgage!
F60: Ice vs Pikachad in first round was by far the hardest match of pools, and Ice won, proceeding to then beat Broly, Trahh, and then Alan. Alan took out Chexr on his way to WFs. In Losers', Chad ran it all the way back taking out Trahh, Chexr, and Alan, taking 2nd! Broly was eliminated by Chexr.
F61: With Lucien, Vish, and Westballz, someone wasn't making it out. Vish took out Westballz in an amazing set, and then in another amazing set, lost to Lucien. In LFs, Vish lost the rematch, and Westballz continues in QFs.

DAY 1 - POOLS! 696 -> 92 PLAYERS

Here is a full list of the Pools with links, good and/or notable players in each, and what Byes those in the Pool will receive when entering Quarter Final Pools on Saturday. Also note not to judge skill between players of different Pools listed here; I made the list based on the best players of each Pool, and since they aren't 100% perfectly balanced, there may be some better players not listed. That said, if you really think there are some players that are going to be doing some damage this tournament, make a post in this thread and I'll edit it in!

For the entirety of the Pools, see here: http://evo2013.s3.amazonaws.com/brackets/index.html

A57: Mango, Crush, Noobking, CrimsonBlur (No Byes)
A58: Yakal, Swedish Delight (No Byes)
A59: Phish-it, Swift (Byes)
A60: Axe, ORLY, Moon (No Byes)
A61: Reno, ??? (No Byes)
A62: Bladewise, Lucky (Byes)
A63: Angelbless (?), IB, Spife, King Funk (No Byes)
A64: HugQ, Mogwai, L, Choknater (No Byes)
B57: Shroomed, Summonedfist (Byes)
B58: Violence, Fiction, Fuzzyness, A Rookie (No Byes)
B59: Wobbles, Wizzrobe, Eggz (No Byes)
B60: Lord, Vist (Byes)
B61: Dr. PeePee, Kels (No Byes)
B62: Android, PB&J, Ciz, Redd, Insane Carzy Guy (No Byes)
B63: Jpegimage, MattDotZeb, DJ Mirror, Merck, Milkman (Byes)
B64: Fly Amanita, J00t, Stricnyn3 (Winners' Bye, LR2 Bye)
C57: Vudujin, Mr. F, Jebailey (LR2 Bye)
C58: Bimbo Mexico, Blunted Object, FoosJr, Armada, Juggleguy (Byes)
C59: Hax, ThePrime, Boback (No Byes)
C60: Bizzaro Flame, Laijin, Tang, Meta, Nicknyte (No Byes)
C61: Kou, Zoap, Lovage (Byes)
C62: S2J, Zeldafreak (Winners' Bye, LR1 Bye)
C63: Scar, Gimpyfish, Tomber, DEHF (Byes)
C64: Hungrybox, Rusty Shacklefurd, Falcomist, Mackadotious, Baka4moe (No Byes)
D57: Darkrain, OkamiBW, TheLake (No Byes)
D58: Darrell, Bacon (Byes)
D59: SFAT, J666, Toph (No Byes)
D60: Germ, G$ (No Byes)
D61: HomeMadeWaffles, Taj (Byes)
D62: Hyuga, GIMR, Tai (No Byes)
D63: D1, Hyprid, Strong Bad (No Byes)
D64: Jman, Leffen (Byes)
E57: PewPewU, Jolteon, Cosmo (No Byes)
E58: Stab, Dart (No Byes)
E59: Bob$, Internet Explorer, S0ft, Sung666 (Byes)
E60: Mew2King, Dmac, Cyrain (No Byes)
E61: Zoso, Everlasting Yay (No Byes)
E62: Amsa, Navn, Smashmac (Byes)
E63: Zhu, Hugs (LR2 Bye)
E64: Raistlin, Ken, V3ctorman (LR2 Bye)
F57: Silentspectre, Duck, Eddy Mexico (Byes)
F58: Dashizwiz, Khepri (No Byes)
F59: Michael Li, Simna, Aisight, Silent Wolf (No Byes)
F60: Alan, Chexr, Ice, Chad, Trahh, Broly (Byes)
F61: Westballz, Vish, Lucien (Winners' Bye, LR1 Bye)
F62: Tafokints, Victra (Byes)

And here are how the Quarter Final Pools are projected to be! Note that this should cover what will most likely happen, but there are bound to be upsets!

http://i.imgur.com/FreCEG6.png


INTRO

This is the thread for all the folks watching EVO from home and by the streams for a place to chat about everything that's happening, post updates, make predictions, and everything else! I'll be updating this thread as the weekend goes so that everything we know about what's going on is in one central place! Please keep everything posted here about Melee, as I'm sure there are many other places to discuss all the other games! And if you happen to be unfamiliar with the community, who certain players are, what advanced techniques are, etc, feel free to ask in this thread!

We started off by dominating a Facebook poll, raising shy of $100k for Breast Cancer, and along the wait, we've had the ruleset updated to almost perfectly match the community's, were given the opportunity to help organize the bracket, and we even convinced Nintendo to allow us to stream reaching publicity all over the internet in various gaming communities including being #1 on Reddit!

Now that we're all set to go, we have in just a couple days the largest Melee tournament in history! In fact, we have DOUBLE the entrants of Pound 4's previous record of 347 at a whopping 696! In fact, when only counting players that only entered Melee and no other games, we still have 409! On top, we have our final top 8 on Sunday with the other big games!

SCHEDULE

The schedule for EVO is that Melee will be played on all 3 days! On Friday, July 12th, Melee Pools will run from 8am to 8pm to completion. On Saturday, July 13th, Melee Quarter Final Pools are from 10am to noon, and then Semi Final Pools are from noon to 2pm to completion. The final top 8 players play on Sunday starting at noon until 2pm. All times are PST (UTC -8), so make sure you've adjusted for that!

The official streaming schedule is here:



As you can see, most of Melee will be at http://www.twitch.tv/srkevo3, with finals on http://www.twitch.tv/srkevo1. Do be aware though that VideoGameBootCamp is also planning on streaming at http://www.twitch.tv/vgbootcamp, but the time for that is not currently known (will be updated later). Additionally, they will be streaming a Socal smashfest on Wednesday at 6:30pm, and the next Melee it on Me episode on Thursday at 10pm, both PST!

Also, Clash Tournaments will be streaming with the Clash Tournaments Clash Suite event on Friday and Saturday nights starting from 10-11pm and lasting well into the night. It's meant to be a way to see various top players competing that may not meet in the bracket, and as bonus footage! Currently, it is including the following players: Axe, Dr. PeePee, Fuzzyness, Hax, Hungrybox, Ice, Ken, Mango, Mew2King, PewPewU, Scar, SFAT, Shroomed, Taj, V3ctorman, Wobbles, Zhu. Possibly more too! Commentary will also be including D1, HomeMadeWaffles, Prog, and Wobbles! There may also be an extra showing on Thursday night before EVO begins! On top, they're taking match requests currently in this thread! See everything on their stream at http://www.twitch.tv/CLASHTournaments!

Currently, matches for the Clash Suite include a multi-character crew battle between Mew2King and Mango (6 characters, possibly 10!), a rematch between Scar and Ken, and more! Matches will be played out mostly randomly as different players come and go, but everything will be updated on their Twitter at: https://twitter.com/CLASHTournament

There are also likely going to be guest appearances by speedrunners Cosmo, Trihex, and Siglemic!

And just as an extra useful link if you're watch Melee alongside other games simultaneously, watch EVO at http://www.multitwitch.tv/srkevo1/srkevo2/srkevo3 which will show all 3 main streams! And if you want to watch Melee and only Melee use this instead: http://www.multitwitch.tv/srkevo3/vgbootcamp/CLASHTournaments/ Don't forget though that finals is on http://www.twitch.tv/srkevo1although no other Melee matches will be on there!

TRAILERS
Many people have made some videos to get everyone hyped up for EVO so if you're still waiting on a Melee craving, check them out!

Melee EVO Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HbLvZpHkYg
Melee EVO Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QurMLcbJib4
EVO is Upon Us: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bux29ufEVuk
Mango Hype Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRLospsK9bw
Clash Suite Trailer (part 1): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qStm6t6nwsc
Clash Suite Trailer (part 2): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5XQKaylOOQ
General EVO Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5SFult5UT8

And if you want to read Penny Arcade's article on Melee coming to EVO with special guest, Prog, check it out here: http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/evo-smash-bros

POOLS
So of course, the most interesting thing is the matches themselves! For the EVO streams, chatting will be disabled except for those that donate $12, which goes to EVO's scholarship fund, but we can post all we want here!

The way EVO is setup for their tournament is that each pool is a double-elimination brackets of at most 16 players. The last player in Winners' bracket and the last player in Losers' bracket move on the the Quarter Final Pools, which are similar except that those that were in Winners' continue in Winners', and those in Losers' continue in Losers'. In total, we go from 696 players to 92 remaining in the QFs Pools. From there, the same thing continues narrowing the players down to 16 in the Semi Final Pools, and then going to 8 for the Finals. Finals will be on Sunday with the top 4 players remaining in Winners' still and the top 4 players remaining in Losers'!

Depending on the number of Byes a player receives throughout the brackets, a player could win in as few as 9 to 11 sets if they were to not lose a set once, yet if a player were to go to Losers' bracket immediately, they would face a gauntlet of at least 17 and at most 20 sets! Since all of the top players from around the world are in attendance, the entire tournament, both Winners' and Losers' is going to be a slaughterfest!

One oddity about EVO's Pools however is that Byes are not all distributed equally. Some starting Pools have none, while other Pools have as many as 3. On top in the Losers' bracket of QFs Pools, some players will be receiving 2 Byes in a row, while others will receive none!!! This means that some players in the top 92 will be receiving 97th place, being outplaced by Byes, and some players that begin in Losers' will automatically be guaranteed 49th! It is what it is, but it is important to note for those making predictions and of course to the players that have to go through that.

Here is the full list of the seeded players:

#1 Mango
#2 Hungrybox
#3 Mew2King
#4 Dr. PeePee
#5 Hax
#6 Dashizwiz
#7 Zoso
#8 Angelbless
* Axe
* Bladewise
* Bolivian Brawler
* Fly Amanita
* HomeMadeWaffles
* PewPewU
* S2J
* Scar
* SFAT
* SilentSpectre
* Sung666
* Tafokints
* Westballz
* Zeldafreak
* Zhu

(Angelbless and Bolivian Brawler were the top placers in the Bolivian tournament that featured Melee, Bolivian Battlegrounds)

And here is a full list of the Pools with links, good and/or notable players in each, and what Byes those in the Pool will receive when entering QFs. Also note not to judge skill between players of different Pools listed here; I made the list based on the best players of each Pool, and since they aren't 100% perfectly balanced, there may be some better players not listed. That said, if you really think there are some players that are going to be doing some damage this tournament, make a post in this thread and I'll edit it in!

For the entirety of the Pools, see here: http://evo2013.s3.amazonaws.com/brackets/index.html

A57: Mango, Crush, Noobking, CrimsonBlur (No Byes)
A58: Yakal, Swedish Delight (No Byes)
A59: Phish-it, Swift (Byes)
A60: Axe, ORLY, Moon (No Byes)
A61: Reno, ??? (No Byes)
A62: Bladewise, Lucky (Byes)
A63: Angelbless (?), IB, Spife, King Funk (No Byes)
A64: HugQ, Mogwai, L, Choknater (No Byes)
B57: Shroomed, Summonedfist (Byes)
B58: Violence, Fiction, Fuzzyness, A Rookie (No Byes)
B59: Wobbles, Wizzrobe, Eggz (No Byes)
B60: Lord, Vist (Byes)
B61: Dr. PeePee, Kels (No Byes)
B62: Android, PB&J, Ciz, Redd, Insane Carzy Guy (No Byes)
B63: Jpegimage, MattDotZeb, DJ Mirror, Merck, Milkman (Byes)
B64: Fly Amanita, J00t, Stricnyn3 (Winners' Bye, LR2 Bye)
C57: Vudujin, Mr. F, Jebailey (LR2 Bye)
C58: Bimbo Mexico, Blunted Object, FoosJr, Armada, Juggleguy (Byes)
C59: Hax, ThePrime, Boback (No Byes)
C60: Bizzaro Flame, Laijin, Tang, Meta, Nicknyte (No Byes)
C61: Kou, Zoap, Lovage (Byes)
C62: S2J, Zeldafreak (Winners' Bye, LR1 Bye)
C63: Scar, Gimpyfish, Tomber, DEHF (Byes)
C64: Hungrybox, Rusty Shacklefurd, Falcomist, Mackadotious, Baka4moe (No Byes)
D57: Darkrain, OkamiBW, TheLake (No Byes)
D58: Darrell, Bacon (Byes)
D59: SFAT, J666, Toph (No Byes)
D60: Germ, G$ (No Byes)
D61: HomeMadeWaffles, Taj (Byes)
D62: Hyuga, GIMR, Tai (No Byes)
D63: D1, Hyprid, Strong Bad (No Byes)
D64: Jman, Leffen (Byes)
E57: PewPewU, Jolteon, Cosmo (No Byes)
E58: Stab, Dart (No Byes)
E59: Bob$, Internet Explorer, S0ft, Sung666 (Byes)
E60: Mew2King, Dmac, Cyrain (No Byes)
E61: Zoso, Everlasting Yay (No Byes)
E62: Amsa, Navn, Smashmac (Byes)
E63: Zhu, Hugs (LR2 Bye)
E64: Raistlin, Ken, V3ctorman (LR2 Bye)
F57: Silentspectre, Duck, Eddy Mexico (Byes)
F58: Dashizwiz, Khepri (No Byes)
F59: Michael Li, Simna, Aisight, Silent Wolf (No Byes)
F60: Alan, Chexr, Ice, Chad, Trahh, Broly (Byes)
F61: Westballz, Vish, Lucien (Winners' Bye, LR1 Bye)
F62: Tafokints, Victra (Byes)

And here are how the QFs Winners' Brackets are (mind the ugly image I made):

http://i.imgur.com/FreCEG6.png

And here's a listing of good and/or notable players not attending EVO:

Abate, Amsah, Azen, Bam, Cactuar, Chillin, Chudat, Colbol, Darc, Dark, Diakonos, DJ Nintendo, DoH, Eggm, Isai, Javi, Kage, Kirbykaze, KoreanDJ, Linguini, Lord HDL, MacD, Overtriforce, PC Chris, Plup, QERB, Raynex, Sion, Strawhat Dahean, Thorn, Tope, Trail, Unknown522, Vanz, Vwins, Weon-X

Likewise with Pools, feel free to ask about other players or post who else you think should be listed here!

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
-Blunted Object, TheLake, and Wobbles are under their names Eric Brown, Aaron Beilstein, and Robert Wright, respectively. Lucien, Yakal, Tang, and Cosmo are as well, but theirs' are more obvious.
-"Cort" as listed in EVO Pools is actually HugQ, a Samus player.
-Wobbling is completely legal at this tournament (Ice Climber infinite)
-All sets are best 2 of 3 except for Winners' Finals, Losers' Finals, and Grand Finals
-Armada and Dr. PeePee are set to play in Winners' Eighths due to Armada not having seeding points. With Mango also on the same side, this means that at least one of these three players is placing 4th or worse. The matches between these players in Winners' will also be best 2 of 3 sets
-Despite other games not allowing a winner of a match to change character, Melee is an exception as it is in our standard ruleset. Thanks to EVO's staff for this!
-Cosmo Wright is indeed the famous Zelda speedrunner. For those that didn't know, he used to (and may still be) the best Zelda main in the world!

Also, I imagine many people will be updating us via Twitter. If anyone knows who we should be following, please post in this thread about it! So far we've got https://twitter.com/gyt and https://twitter.com/CLASHTournament but I'm certain there will be many more! I'll make this much more in view once EVO starts.

Special thanks to Juggleguy, Tarv, and Revven for various information elsewhere that I used in this thread, and of course to Prog, all of the EVO staff, FGC, and all of the Smash community!

Please direct anyone with questions, updates, chatter, etc to this thread!

Also, if you're actually attending the tournament and have important questions about housing, traveling, etc, this is the wrong thread for you! Please make sure to find the help you need elsewhere!