How to Watch the Holiday Bash Smash Invitational

In honor of the holiday season, Twitch has invited 14 of Melee's best players to The Holiday Bash, a three-day invitational running from Friday December 15th to Sunday December 17th. This is the last major Melee event of the year, capping off the 2017 MIOM Rankings season.

The players have been split into two groups of seven. Each group will play in a round robin bracket on Friday and Saturday before a double elimination top 10 on Sunday.

Groups & Format for the Holiday Bash Invitational Tomorrow!

Broadcast begins at 11 AM tomorrow on https://t.co/OvTzyTYSlU

Who do you got coming out of each group? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/3iSMNwxRYW

— The Crimson Blur (@OXY_Crimson) December 14, 2017

The lineup consists of some Melee's top talent, including:

Player | Characters | Group
EGtv Crush | | B
P1 Duck | | B
HugS | | A
KJH | | A
MSF La Luna | | B
lloD | | A
Lucky | | A
ALG n0ne | | A
CLG PewPewU | | B
VGBC Rishi | | B
Tempo S2J | | B
CLG SFAT | | A
IMT Shroomed | | A
G2 Westballz | | B

Groups A and B will play on Friday and Saturday, respectively, and top 10 will play on Sunday. Each day's bracket will start at 11:00 AM PST. The full event will be streamed on Twitch by VGBootCamp.

Author's Note: Who are you expecting to make it out of each group? Who do you think will win? Let us know in the comments!

 

My money is on Crush or Duck. Duck looking especially strong from his dominant performance at Pat's House recently.


EDIT: I called it.