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There’s been a lot of discussion recently about Ice Climbers’ place within Super Smash Bros. Melee. After Daniel “ChuDat” Rodriguez’s meteoric rise to 11th place on the 2017 SSBMRank and a similar climb from Bananas this year to 19th, Ice Climbers have rarely in Melee’s history been more prominent in the metagame. But with this prominence comes community discussion. Here’s what you need to know about the current wobbling ban discussion.

The Evolution Championship Series, or EVO, announced its main lineup for its 2019 tournament in Las Vegas occuring this August.

Frostbite 2019, the latest of the now three year old series, was a great showcase of where the current meta of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is headed. While Genesis was the first major to feature Ultimate, Frostbite is a whole patch removed, and players are more intimate with the game than before. In other words, Genesis was a good chance for high-level play to be explored, while Frostbite was a good look at how high-level play has adapted and will adapt. Beyond that, its high quality production was a delight to behold, and its Top 8 was a rollercoaster of close calls, flashy finishes and brilliant strategy. Here, we will look over the Top 8 finalists, and the journeys they took through Top 48.

2019’s Frostbite will take place in Detroit, Michigan, beginning on February 22nd and continuing to the 24th, and will feature singles and doubles brackets for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Rivals of Aether as the main events.

Hello everyone, Pikmon here! PMRank 2018 has been released in full, so we want to take a step back and peruse some fun facts and statistics. Today we'll be analyzing the character diversity and regional representation of the top 50 players from this year. And at the end, we have a special treat to share with you all.

The first Nintendo Direct of 2019 is set to air tomorrow evening.

Now that Piranha Plant is in players' hands and the community has had a chance to get a feel for the character, we're starting to see more and more content focused on the character. As with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's previous newcomers, Delzethin has put together a breakdown of Piranha Plant's moveset.

After putting the series on hiatus for over a year, RelaxAlax has returned with a new installment of Know Your Moves, this time focusing on Ridley. Unlike previous episodes, this one was produced in collaboration with Source Gaming, who will also be helping RelaxAlax with future videos in the series.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have arrived. Today's article concludes PMRank 2018 with the top 3 Project M players in the world. We hope to do each of their stories justice.

Our journey to the top approaches its climax. PMRank 2018 ranks 6-4 are here, and each of them are highly impressive for very distinct reasons.

PMRank 2018's top 10 begins to take shape! We're going up to rank #7 today, and at this point, it's astonishing when any of these players don't make it to top 8 of even the most stacked tournaments.

Ranks 20-11 are here! Today's batch of competitors is a truly awe-inspiring group, with heavy representation from NorCal and the East Coast.

Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. Ultimate North America Open is right around the corner. Here’s what you need to know if you want to compete in it!

PMRank 2018 crosses the halfway mark with ranks 30-21! These ten players pilot a whopping fourteen different characters!

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate may be out already, there's still speculation to be had with its lineup of DLC characters, and as with the base roster, Delzethin is continuing to offer up his predictions for likely picks, starting off with potential first-party characters.

PMRank 2018 continues with ranks 40-31! Many players in this section have seen quite a bit of movement up and down the rankings since last year.

A new patch for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate just went live, containing the long-awaited playable character, Piranha Plant!

At long last, the main course! PMRank 2018 begins it top 50 today with ten elite players ranked 50-41.

Welcome one and all to the beginning of PMRank 2018! For the third year running, we will be releasing our rankings of the top 50 Project M players in the world based on tournament performances from the previous year. But before we dig into the main course, we have an appetizer to share with you all.

On January 25th, 2019, Nintendo announced that the patch 2.0.0 update for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will be distributed sometime within a week from now.