Official Summer of Smash: Week #4 - CEO, Karisuma 8, Xanadu

[sedrf]

Any notable japanese players visiting ceo.

Smash at Xanadu 155 (June 21st) (MD/VA) (156 Entrants) (Category 1)
1st: Nietono , ,
2nd: Angel Cortes
3rd: Puppeh
4th: Wadi ,
5th: Sova Unknown
5th: BlazingPasta ,
7th: Pink Fresh
7th: Dexter
9th: Mister Eric
9th: Seagull Joe
9th: ZD
9th: Umeki
13th: Zephyr
13th: Logic
13th: JeBB
13th: INC Snow

DAT BlastZone 12, 78 entrants - London, UK

1) Ixis
2) Khanage
3) Elexiao
4) Homika
5) Smashbound
5) Matsu
7) C.R.Z.
7) SilentDoom

Dream Match 2, 92 entrants - Chile

1) Harlonga
2) Phantom
3) Firehao
4) Keen
5) Fast!
5) Merci
7) LinkEa
7) Dertolo

*Characters are based off Chilean power rankings, I didn't watch this tournament*

 

[Illuminose]

Any notable japanese players visiting ceo.

Nietono
Rain
Abadango?? (who knows what character Aba will go for Diddy, he's talked Rosa or Pac but idk)
Umeki

So basically, 3 people who could definitely make top 8 (Nietono/Abadango/Rain) are coming and then there's Umeki, a wild card that could potentially end up doing quite well depending on how his bracket and everything works out.

 

[juddy96]

ANTi, Trevonte, and Cosmos are late withdrawals from CEO

 

[|RK|]

Das Koopa Xanadu today has Umeki, RAIN, and Nietono. There are also a lot of people here lol.

Might count in your system?

 

[TDK]

Das Koopa Xanadu today has Umeki, RAIN, and Nietono. There are also a lot of people here lol.

Might count in your system?

Please let this count Das Koopa

 

[Das Koopa]

148 participants so absolutely yes

 

[Illuminose]

This Xanadu has a lot of people going. In addition to Umeki/Rain/Nietono, it's featuring Angel Cortes + MDVA's best (Seagull/Pink Fresh/Boss) as well as most of MDVA's PR + Max Ketchum/BlazingPasta/Snakeee. Unlike most Xanadus, this is an event to watch.

 

[Game7a1]

Just reading up on Xanadu's Smash 4 history, S@X 155 (156 entrants) is their biggest weekly since S@X 100 (146 entrants).
Really wondering how they're pulling monthly-number entrants.

 

[Nidtendofreak]

ANTi, Trevonte, and Cosmos are late withdrawals from CEO

Pity. I actually really wanted to see what Shulk and Corrin could do outside of their region. Particularly since apparently one of Corrin's major results last weekend was due to them managing to only fight locals the whole way through so it kinda dilutes things? And Anti is always entertaining to watch.

 

[Das Koopa]

Disgaea came extremely close to 2-1ing Rain, last stock last hit. He used Game & Watch.

 

[Kofu]

Disgaea came extremely close to 2-1ing Rain, last stock last hit. He used Game & Watch.

And no 9s? I mean, 9s are great (and super satisfying to land) but they can skew individual matchup analyses.

Rain still uses Sheik right?

 

[Game7a1]

And no 9s? I mean, 9s are great (and super satisfying to land) but they can skew individual matchup analyses.

Rain still uses Sheik right?

Rain went Cloud for the first game (lost), then went Diddy for the last 2.

 

[Aaron1997]

Puppeh just 2-0 Rain

 

[Y2Kay]

Rain just lost to Puppeh 2 - 0

Puppeh is only thirteen years old.

T H I R T E E N.

 

[Djent]

Rain always underperforms stateside. For all the times he's come here, IIRC he only has one top 8 singles finish to show for it. That was at Apex 2010 when he still played Falco. I'm not sure what it is, but it's a consistent trend.

EDIT: Seagull Joe lost as well. So now we have Puppeh vs. BlazingPasta to get into top 8 winners side. lmao

 

[Shady Shaymin]

This kid puppeh is straight up a prodigy

 

[|RK|]

SoVa is coming out in force. Also, Link looking like a good character.

 

[AnEventHorizon]

Sova Unknown (Link) 2-0s Umeki (Peach) in Winner's Quater's at Xanadu. No SDs, super rage kills, or anything here. Projectiles/ threat of zair really seemed to prevent free floats for movement or otherwise. I know Rain is often talked of having troubles stateside, but I haven't ever heard the same for Umeki.

Umeki was scarily good at catching bombs though. Every time he caught a bomb I became afraid of what he might do with it, but Link's rather short fuse (compared to TL) didn't let much come of it.

 

[Djent]

Sova Unknown just beat Umeki 2-0 with #RadicalLarryWasRight

 

[Aaron1997]

Another Upset Sova over Umeki >

This is Huge for Link
Another thing is in his Bracket Run Sova beat C3PO and Vanity who btw also beat Ally Recently

 

[blackghost]

not really peach hates disjoints of any kind. and one of the wins was a dbz split peach just died first. i cant believe umeki let game one go to lylat

 

[Djent]

Can you believe that 2 out of Rain, Seagull Joe, and Pink Fresh won't finish top 8? And that winners semis is Puppeh vs. a Link? What a Xanadu.

 

[sedrf]

zephyr knocks RAIN out of xanadu

 

[juddy96]

Rain placed higher at Apex than Xanadu. And people say Xanadu isn't a major. /s

 

[Aaron1997]

Umeki is out lost to Dexter

 

[CodeBlue_]

Umeki got read like a book offstage. I don't know why he tried to go for so many fairs off the edge when Dexter respected his range each time and punished with fair/bair.

Dexter eliminates Umeki 2-0 with

Do we know anything about this Corrin though? Is he MD/VA?

 

[Aaron1997]

CodeBlue_ Yes He's MD/VA. He gets Top 8 pretty much every week. He also plays

 

[sedrf]

Spoiler: Upsets

http://i.imgur.com/sXY3cop.png

So from rain and umeki bustering out leads to new debate about 3 stocks.
Frankly it's just mdva over performing and japan being inconsistent as usual.

 

[Djent]

Spoiler: Top 8 Chars @ Xanadu

x2
x1
x1
x1
x1 /
x1
x1

 

[juddy96]

All 3 of the Japanese players thought it would be a single elim fun tourney with no prize money. They are very tired and were shocked when they heard they had to play in losers. Not joking. Straight off of their twitters

 

[Y2Kay]

Wadi beat Prink fresh 2-0

 

[JustSomeScrub]

Weirdly enough some top players were discussing just this on twitter recently and Mr R is apparently the only other one they agreed on with his worst loss being DKWill at smashcon right after the big Dk buffs

Is he coming to CEO? There is still time Kappa.

But nah congrats to him as well then.

The hardest thing about Smash 4 definitely seems to be consistency. It's getting a little ridiculous now. How anyone can lose to anyone these days.

A well designed competitive game should not have so much variance. The better player should almost always win.

Some argue it's it being 2 stocks. Idk if that's true. A lot of these upsets are 2-0s, 3-0s etc.

 

[Jehtt]

All 3 of the Japanese players thought it would be a single elim fun tourney with no prize money. They are very tired and were shocked when they heard they had to play in losers. Not joking. Straight off of their twitters

Any idea how this confusion came about? Were they told this would be the case? Are single elim fun tourneys common in Japan?

 

[Mario766]

All 3 of the Japanese players thought it would be a single elim fun tourney with no prize money. They are very tired and were shocked when they heard they had to play in losers. Not joking. Straight off of their twitters

I've heard this 2 times now.

Please source this, I've checked all 3 of their twitters and heard none of the first section.

 

[JustSomeScrub]

I've heard this 2 times now.

Please source this, I've checked all 3 of their twitters and heard none of the first section.

I'm having trouble believing this as well.

Nietono and Rain have been travelling to the US since Brawl. Are you seriously telling me all those times they never realized the standard overseas is double elimination? Why would they assume it was single when no major tourny over here in NA does this?

 

[Mario766]

They did say they were tired though, so the second part checks out.

 

[Jucchan]

I'm having trouble believing this as well.

Nietono and Rain have been travelling to the US since Brawl. Are you seriously telling me all those times they never realized the standard overseas is double elimination? Why would they assume it was single when no major tourny over here in NA does this?

I've heard this 2 times now.

Please source this, I've checked all 3 of their twitters and heard none of the first section.

え…敗者側あんの…

— DFM|Nietono / にえとの💀 (@Ueji1123) June 22, 2016

"what... there's a loser's bracket?"

急に敗者側あるっていわれたけど普通に負けて終わり

— RAIN／レイン☔️ (@Rain_SSB) June 22, 2016

"Suddenly got told that there was a loser's bracket, lost anyways and now I'm done"

 

[Mario766]

I find it hard to believe they would think that a Xanadu, one of the most known weeklies out there, was a single elimination fun tournament.

 

[Floppeh]

Spoiler: Top 8 Chars @ Xanadu

x2
x1
x1
x1
x1 /
x1
x1

WaDi played along with his (he has a too, but I'm not sure if he ever brought her out).

 

[Jucchan]

I find it hard to believe they would think that a Xanadu, one of the most known weeklies out there, was a single elimination fun tournament.

The concept of weeklies doesn't even exist in Japan. If it's not a regional/national, it's for fun.