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After one month, the Smash World Tour has reached one of the biggest regions in the world. After a nearly 2000 player bracket cut to just 32, the upcoming sets on Sunday morning promise to be some of the most unexpected yet. Tonight, we'll analyze those upcoming sets, as well as some interesting stats on Europe at this event!

Things heat up in the Smash World Tour. At over 500 attendees, the South American Qualifier is the biggest stop yet, and it features some of the best hidden talent Smash has to offer. Today, we'll take a look at South America.

April Fools Day has come and gone, and with it came the third Rivals Direct, this time eschewing the typical Nintendo Direct parody in favor of a Visual Novel-inspired framing device set in the Lovers of Aether universe, mixed with audience participation the style of streams like Twitch Plays Pokemon. Just like Rivals Direct 2, despite the timing and odd presentation, these announcements are all real.

Beloved gaming icon Mario Mario tragically passed away yesterday, March 31st, 2021. Thankfully though, his brother Luigi “Player2” Mario managed to painstakingly collect the seven Dragon Balls to summon Shenron and wish him back to life!

As part of a collaborative effort, several fighting game content creators have released videos about character archetypes in their favorite games. At the time of writing, three content creators have released videos as part of this collab: Novril, TheoryFighter and Leon Massey

Super Smash Bros. Melee just received its first official NTSC Tier List since 2015!

Two weeks after the Mexican Qualifier, the Smash World Tour is now holding the other half of its Central American Qualifier event. With eight spots on the line, who will make it? Today, we take a look at one of Smash's most significant pools of hidden bosses.

Nintendo didn't tell us everything about the recent patch! What did they hide?

In his latest video for SSBMTutorials, David "Kira" Kim asks viewers to put their knowledge of various Melee characters' optimal conversions to the test. The format is simple: Kira shows a clip of a possible scenario in Melee, then lists several possible options you could take in that situation, before revealing the most optimal one and explaining why.

As part of his long-running Smash moveset concept series and spurred on by a recent uptick in interest in the character, Delzethin has taken a crack at how Dr. Eggman might play in Smash.

The team behind hit indie platform fighter Rivals of Aether, has announced Twitch Plays Rivals Direct 3, the third in their series of Nintendo Direct-inspired announcement streams. As with the past two, the direct is scheduled for April 1st.

With the Smash World Tour's qualifiers in full swing, we come to Oceania - one of the fastest growing talent pools in the world. The event has already cut down to its Top 32, so today, we'll look at who made it, the regions at play, and what's at stake.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that they, alongside esports venture RTS, have acquired Evolution Championship Series, alongside its parent company Shoryuken. Evo co-founders Tom and Tony Cannon will still be involved in an advisory capacity.

Amiibo Doctor teaches you how to train the Banjo, Terry and Byleth amiibo using the competitive amiibo scene's findings! This information extends to Raid Boss amiibo too!

After one year, the Smash World Tour has returned - this time, starting online in Mexico. With Mexico as one of the most competitive regions in the world, we'll take a look at some of their regions and analyze how the event might go down!

There’s something peculiar about Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s Ver. 11.0.0 patch that wasn’t listed in the official notes. Projectiles now have a chance of going through character heads without harming them at all.

72 days since the presentation and release of Sephiroth as a fighter, Sakurai has showcased the upcoming fighting duo of Pyra and Mythra from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 as the next downloadable fighter for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Up-and-coming indie studio Springroll Games has just released a public beta for their Platform Fighter Engine, an open source platform fighter template for Game Maker Studio 2. This template is available under the MIT license, meaning it is free to use for commercial products, so long as proper credit to its developers is provided.

In just a very short amount of time, the Pokemon series will be 25 years old! What better way to celebrate it than with a new video presentation (as well as a Post Malone concert of course). Learn more about what will be unfolding in the Pokemon world tomorrow here!

To those fearing that we'd have to wait until March 31st to get news on Pyra/Mythra, fear no more. We now have confirmation that we'll be learning more about Pyra/Mythra as early as next Thursday!