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They’re doing the same thing they did with the Nintendo World Championships and the last Smash Invitational. The invitational will take place after the E3 Nintendo Direct. Meaning a lot of the news from the Direct will be shown off in the tournament.
To be fair, to get people to actually watch the tournament, it might be a good idea to at least show off at least the veterans and let people even know this is a new game, as there is still quite a bit of confusion. It would be such short notice to have the e3 announcement and then a tournament. Especially because this e3 is going to be huge with or without Nintendo. Last year was an "off" year, and that usually means the following year is huge. With Microsoft hinting at massive changes to their formula, Betheseda mounting up early and most of Sony's stuff that they have been showing for 2 years coming out this year, Beyond Good and Evil 2 game-play and Kingdom Hearts 3 finally moving with the possible Avengers announcement on the Square side; you have to imagine it is going to be crazy. Beyond that, the potential for leaks is high as they will invite players to play the game.
In a way, that could be the title of the game: "Smash It's a Port! No, it's a New Game! for Switch."
And the one before that. I feel as though it is safe to assume we are getting three.
Unless the amount of newcomers are significantly less than in Brawl and Smash 4 I think there's a decent chance we'll get more than three newcomers revealed throughout the entirety of E3 (Direct, Invitational, Treehouse), otherwise they'll have to rush character reveals for both veterans and newcomers quite a bit as there'll be at most half a year between the E3 reveal and release. I really wouldn't be surprised to see a ton of veterans revealed at E3 either, especially as a lot of them will have to be available for the tournament.
Historically, Nintendo’s E3 directs have been basically the last presentation of the show.
True. But with the invitational will be a playable build.
I feel like ZeRo (Won last invitational, most well known Smash 4 player), Nairo (Most active Smash 4 streamer, with a huge community), Abadango (International representation, very popular Japanese player), MKLeo (International representation, very popular Mexican player) and Hungrybox (Last invitational runner-up, plays Melee and Smash 4) are shoo-ins. As well as D1 and VikkiKitty for commentary (Both have worked with Nintendo multiple times).
No Mew2King?
M2K is gonna be there for sure, hes gonna have to drop Melee I think if he wants to go to 5mash, two games are too much to juggle IMO.
I thought M2K was a lock for the first Smash Invitational and I was wrong. He was the face of Smash at the time. Maybe Nintendo didn't feel he was a good fit for some reason.
What does that even mean?
It means that Nintendo would love to invite women and other PC culture groups for the sake of it, not because they merit invitation, yet they stop short of inviting someone who actually represents a different audience than literally everyone else they will offer. Rolex's girlfriend for instance. Lmfao. They did not want to even list that she was a Project M player FFS.
Unfortunately, it didn't work quite like that last time. Nintendo employees had the 3DS version chained to their bodies (not joking) and let people in line test out Smash Run. Once you got up to the main Wii U setup, you got to play one (maybe two) 4-player match with items on. Trying to pay attention to anything going on at all was really difficult.
Rapture is a white guy and he's a tournament organizer. Was he invited for the sake of diversity? Because he sure as heck wasn't invited for his Smash skills. I don't think merit had much to do with who Nintendo invited, they just invited a bunch of people from the Smash community. Yeah, the female players were mostly added to keep it from being a sausage fest, but it's not even a legit tournament. It's just a way to show off the game, and the players they invite are just there so the audience (consisting mostly of people that don't even know who any of the players are) have someone to latch on to and cheer for.
They're not trying to represent any audience other than the Smash community, going by the players invited last time. I mean, there was a celebrity side event, but the main tourney only had people from the Smash community. Even if some of the players weren't among the best of whatever Smash game they played, they still all played Smash competitively to a certain degree and represented the community (even the Voldemort community).
