Tournament:Riptide 2023

Riptide 2023
Dates	September 8th-10th, 2023
Venue	Kalahari Resort
Address/City	7000 Kalahari Drive Sandusky, Ohio
Attendance	1,167
Results
winners	Plup 1v1  aMSa &  Axe 2v2
winners	MuteAce 1v1  MuteAce &  Scend 2v2

Riptide 2023 was a Super Smash Bros. Melee major and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate superregional held in Sandusky, Ohio, from September 8th-10th, 2023.

Tournament summary[edit]

Super Smash Bros. Melee[edit]

At Riptide, both Plup and Wizzrobe were able to advance through the bracket to meet in grand finals, despite each rarely entering tournaments throughout the year (Wizzrobe was unranked on the SSBMRank Summer 2023 due to inactivity); this was repeat of the grand finals for CEO 2023 earlier that year, with Plup again emerging victorious in a ten game grand finals. lloD also made an impressive losers' run; after falling to Gahtzu in winners', he defeated Wens, Grab, Flash, Polish, KoDoRiN, aMSa, Axe, and moky, before falling to Wizzrobe 2-3 in losers' finals, placing 3rd overall.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]

In a similar vein to its previous iteration, Ultimate singles had a large entrants count but only a handful of top 100 players, with only four of the most recent ranking's top 50 players in attendance and only one -- MuteAce -- being in the top 20. However due to the restructuring of the LumiRank 2023's methodology, the tournament was only ranked as a national on the LumiRank's TTS. This ranking stirred up controversy on Twitter; some players believed the high entrants count was suffice to consider the tournament a major, while other players pointed out how the entrants number was misleading due to the lack of top-level talent in attendance.

Several notable upsets took place on the first day of singles, including three players seeded in the top 8: #18 seed ATATA upset #2 seed ApolloKage 3-1 (upset factor 7), #36 seed Sonido upset #4 seed Chase 3-2 (upset factor 7), and #74 seed HammerBro upset #7 seed Goblin 3-2 (upset factor 7). In addition, #20 seed Skar fell to #109 seed Lagiakai 2-1 (upset factor 5) and #212 seed ADDICT 2-0 (upset factor 7) to place 129th.

The second day of singles saw strong runs from both #16 seed Doorstop and #19 seed omega. After falling to MuteAce, Doorstop defeated Chase 3-2 (upset factor 4) and #6 seed Lima 3-2 (upset factor 3) to place 5th. Similarly, omega defeated Lima 3-1 (upset factor 3) and #10 seed 3-1 IcyMist before falling to #5 seed Aaron 1-3 and #1 seed MuteAce 0-3 to place 3rd. Conversely, ApolloKage fell to #8 seed LeoN 1-3 (upset factor 4) to place 9th.

Top 8 saw MuteAce fall to Aaron 2-3 (upset factor 4). However in Loser's bracket MuteAce won every single game he played, including 3-0ing Aaron in both sets of Grand Finals, to win the event.

Results[edit]

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles[edit]

(477 entrants)
Top 16 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Plup
2nd	Wizzrobe
3rd	lloD
4th	moky
5th	Axe
5th	Ben
7th	aMSa
7th	Bbatts
9th	n0ne
9th	KoDoRiN
9th	Aklo
9th	Zuppy
13th	Justus
13th	Magi
13th	Polish
13th	Ossify
17th	Ginger
17th	Michael
17th	Khryke
17th	Khalid
17th	Spark
17th	essy
17th	Flash
17th	Gahtzu
25th	Lowercase hero
25th	Panda
25th	Slowking
25th	Ober
25th	Chango
25th	shabo
25th	Grab2Win
25th	Grab
33rd	JCAM
33rd	Free Palestine
33rd	lexor
33rd	Peanutphobia
33rd	Freezus
33rd	KJH
33rd	Preeminent
33rd	Ringler
33rd	Sirmeris
33rd	TheRealThing
33rd	TheSWOOPER
33rd*	Zamu
33rd	OG Swaglord
33rd	Drephen
33rd	Wens
33rd	Faust

*DQ'd in Losers.

Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles[edit]

(101 teams)
Top 24 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	aMSa		Axe
2nd	Wizzrobe		Gahtzu
3rd	Chango		Panda
4th	Spark		Zamu
5th	Free Palestine		Polish
5th	Preeminent		essy
7th	DannyPhantom		Drephen
7th	Sirmeris		Justus
9th	Ben		Slowking
9th	Aklo		Maher
9th	Wens		Reeve
9th	Negat!ve		Ossify
13th	JCAM		Zuppy
13th	Joeycrzl		Holiday
13th	Mantis		OG Swaglord
13th	Zaza		Khalid

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles[edit]

(716 entrants)
Top 16 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	MuteAce
2nd	Aaron
3rd	omega
4th	IcyMist
5th	Zinoto
5th	Doorstop
7th	Lima
7th	LeoN
9th	ApolloKage
9th	Scend
9th	ATATA
9th	IceKnight
13th	HammerBro
13th	Chase
13th	Peanut
13th	Kobe
17th	Phirb
17th	Goblin
17th	Geist
17th	Suspect
17th	Candle
17th	Sonido
17th	Atomic
17th	AnthonyIsntCool
25th	SoGoodPop
25th	Dawn
25th	Scoops
25th	loaf
25th	Yoda Cage
25th	JeJaJeJa
25th	Zie
25th	LOE1
33rd	sammm
33rd	CrowZ
33rd	Kyle
33rd	Styx
33rd	ChunkyKong
33rd	Frostbyte
33rd	Lucky
33rd	Sytonix
33rd	PsyKoD
33rd	Sir Dank
33rd	Colorondo8
33rd	HENRY LUMA
33rd	Amaryllis
33rd	AndrewT
33rd	ven
33rd	Beast
49th	Draxsel
49th	Zeed
49th	Resident Fraud
49th	Infiknight
49th	Pneuma
49th	Sweshi
49th	Rob.
49th	NOODLE
49th	Squidplumber
49th	colinies
49th	Crash101
49th	Kurshaun
49th	Butter
49th	Joshathan Gamer
49th	Dice
49th	Deathspade

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate doubles[edit]

(129 teams)
Top 16 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Scend		MuteAce
2nd	Lucky		loaf
3rd	Chase		Lima
4th	ATATA		ApolloKage
5th	AnthonyIsntCool		Rob.
5th	Suspect		Dice
7th	Linus		Hawk
7th	Skar		WelfarePickles
9th	Kobe		Goblin
9th	IcyMist		sammm
9th	Fortune		Sytonix
9th	Zefty		Emdy
13th	Kople		SoGoodPop
13th	RadiantDawn57		mits
13th	IceKnight		Sir Dank
13th	Nad79		triscuit

External links[edit]

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