Genesis (tournament)

Genesis

GENESIS 3 logo
Tournament information
Sport	Super Smash Bros
Location	San Francisco Bay Area
Established	2011
Number of tournaments	Three
Current champion
Melee: Adam "Armada" Lindgren Wii U: Gonzalo "ZeRo" Barrios Smash 64: "wario"
Final champion
Brawl: Jason "Mew2King" Zimmerman (GENESIS 2) Project M: Roustane "Kage" Benzeguir (GENESIS 2)

Genesis, stylized as GENESIS, is a series of Super Smash Bros. tournaments occurring in the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States state of California. The first Genesis tournament took place in 2009 in Antioch at the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds. The second incarnation occurred in 2011 in the same location. The third GENESIS occurred in 2016 and moved to San Jose. The fourth rendition of the tournament was announced to be on January 20 – January 22, 2017.^[1] Genesis is considered one of the most prestigious Super Smash Bros. tournaments.

GENESIS

The first GENESIS tournament was held on July 10–12, 2009, in Antioch. Melee singles was won by Joseph "Mango" Marquez.^[2][3] Melee doubles was won by the duo of Mew2King and Jman, Brawl singles was won by Ally, and Brawl doubles was won by Mew2King and Fiction. In Melee Crew Battles of East Coast and West Coast, East Coast won.

Super Smash Bros. Melee (290 entrants)
Place	Player	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Mango	Jigglypuff, Falco	US$2,280
2nd	Armada	Peach, Fox	US$1,425
3rd	Hungrybox	Jigglypuff	US$855
4th	Zhu	Falco	US$570
5th	Mew2King	Sheik, Marth	US$228
6th	Scar	Captain Falcon	US$171
7th	Darkrain	Captain Falcon	US$114
8th	Hax	Captain Falcon	US$57

Super Smash Bros. Melee Doubles (103 teams)
Place	Player	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Mew2King Jman	Sheik Fox	US$1,370
2nd	Scar Darc	Captain Falcon Jigglypuff	US$761
3rd	Mango Lucky	Jigglypuff, Falco Fox	US$456
4th	Darkrain Cactuar	Captain Falcon Fox	US$304
5th	Xelic Linguini	Peach Ganondorf	US$152
6th	Shroomed Julian	Dr. Mario Fox
7th	Armada Aniolas	Peach Sheik
7th	DaShizWiz RockCrock	Falco Ganondorf

Super Smash Bros. Melee Crew Battle
East Coast Player	Character	Stocks Taken	West Coast Player	Character	Stocks Taken
G$	Marth	4	Falcomist	Falco	3
Pakman	Luigi	2	SilentSpectre	Captain Falcon	8
Hax	Captain Falcon	3	Axe	Pikachu	3
Tope	Sheik	6	LunInSpectra	Fox	3
Scar	Captain Falcon	2	Pink Shinobi	Peach	4
Mew2King	Marth, Fox	7	Mango	Falco	2
Darc	Jigglypuff	4	Zhu	Falco, Fox	4
DJ Nintendo	Bowser	2	Lucky	Fox	7
Cactuar	Fox	6	HomeMadeWaffles	Dr. Mario	1
Jman	Fox	4	Taj	Marth	3
Total		40			38

Super Smash Bros. Brawl (292 entrants)
Place	Player	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Ally	Snake	US$2,336
2nd	Mew2King	Meta Knight	US$1,460
3rd	Tyrant	Meta Knight	US$876
4th	Dojo	Meta Knight	US$584
5th	ADHD	Diddy Kong	US$233
6th	DEHF	Falco	US$175
7th	Fiction	Wario	US$118
8th	SK92	Falco	US$59

Super Smash Bros. Brawl Doubles (108 teams)
Place	Player	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Mew2King Fiction	Meta Knight Wario	US$1,444
2nd	Ally Sean	Snake Meta Knight	US$802
3rd	Dojo UTDZac	Meta Knight Mr. Game and Watch	US$481
4th	Havok Mike Haze	Marth, Meta Knight Marth	US$231
5th	Inui Atomsk	Meta Knight King Dedede	US$160
6th	Ling Ling Excel_Zero	King Dedede Peach
7th	BoA Teba	Marth King Dedede
7th	Ajax Futile	Snake Wario

GENESIS 2

GENESIS 2 was held two years later on July 15–17, 2011 again in Antioch and at the county fairgrounds. Melee was won by Adam "Armada" Lindgren in a rematch of Joseph "Mango" Marquez in grand finals; doubles was won by Lucky and Mango. Brawl was won by Jason "Mew2King" Zimmerman over Elliot "Ally" Bastien Carroza Oyarce; doubles was won by the two Grand Finals participants. Smash 64 was won by SuPeRbOoMfAn of Canada and Project M was won by Kage. In Melee and Brawl crew battles, both were won by the West coast.

Super Smash Bros. Melee (228 entrants)
Place	Player	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Armada	Peach, Young Link	US$3,396.25
2nd	Mango	Falco, Fox	US$1,698.13
3rd	Taj	Marth, Mewtwo	US$915.63
4th	Hungrybox	Jigglypuff	US$526
5th	Mew2King	Sheik, Marth	US$316.25
6th	Shroomed	Dr. Mario	US$209.75
7th	Dr. PeePee	Falco	US$158.13
8th	S2J	Captain Falcon	US$104.88

Super Smash Bros. Melee Doubles (74 teams)
Place	Player	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Mango Lucky	Jigglypuff Fox	US$1,830
2nd	Mew2King Dr. PeePee	Sheik Falco	US$732
3rd	Hax Hungrybox	Captain Falcon Jigglypuff	US$732
4th	Armada Aniolas	Peach Sheik	US$366
5th	Axe Taj	Pikachu Marth, Mewtwo	US$80
5th	Lovage Silent Wolf	Fox Fox	US$80
7th	Baka4moe Westballz	Peach Falco	US$40
7th	MacD G$	Peach Falco	US$40

Super Smash Bros. Melee Crew Battle
East Coast Player	Character	Stocks Taken	West Coast Player	Character	Stocks Taken
G$	Marth	1	Wobbles	Ice Climbers	9
ihavespaceballs	Samus	2	HugS	Samus	3
Cyrain	Fox	4	Lucky	Fox	1
Hungrybox	Jigglypuff	8	Shroomed	Dr. Mario	3
Hax	Captain Falcon	7	Axe	Pikachu	3
Mew2King	Marth	3	Lucien	Sheik	2
DoH	Peach	2	Fly Amanita	Ice Climbers	7
Tope	Sheik	7	Silent Wolf	Fox	2
Dart!	Marth	2	Lovage	Fox	4
Dr. PeePee	Falco	2	Mango	Falco	6
Total		38	Total		40

Super Smash Bros. Brawl (197 entrants)
Place	Player	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Mew2King	Meta Knight	US$3,148.75
2nd	Ally	Snake, Wario, Ice Climbers, Meta Knight, Falco	US$2,574.38
3rd	ADHD	Diddy Kong	US$846.88
4th	Gnes	Diddy Kong	US$482
5th	Tyrant	Meta Knight	US$288.75
6th	Zex	Meta Knight, Marth	US$193.25
7th	Tearbear	Meta Knight	US$144.38
8th	Rich Brown	Olimar	US$96.63

Super Smash Bros. Brawl Doubles (64 teams)
Place	Player	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Mew2King Ally	Meta Knight Wario, Snake	US$1,650
2nd	UltimateRazer Gnes	Snake Diddy Kong	US$825
3rd	Seibrik ADHD	Meta Knight Diddy Kong	US$495
4th	ESAM MVD	Pikachu Snake	US$330
5th	Trela Zori	Lucario Olimar	US$80
5th	Havok Tearbear	Meta Knight Meta Knight	US$80
7th	Itakio Valdens	Meta Knight Mr. Game and Watch	US$40
7th	Zex Z	Marth, Meta Knight Pikachu	US$40

Super Smash Bros. Brawl Crew Battle
East Coast Player	Character	Stocks Taken	West Coast Player	Character	Stocks Taken
Mew2King	Meta Knight	4	DEHF	Falco	2
Nick Riddle	Zero Suit Samus	3	Tyrant	Meta Knight	3
Poltergust	Yoshi	2	Havok	Meta Knight	3
Anti	Meta Knight	3	Rich Brown	Olimar	3
ADHD	Diddy Kong	2	Mike Haze	Marth	5
Seibrik	Meta Knight	2	X	Sonic	2
Ally	Wario	5	UltimateRazer	Snake	2
MVD	Snake	2	Tearbear	Meta Knight	4
ESAM	Pikachu	3	Trela	Lucario	4
Atomsk	Meta Knight	3	Gnes	Diddy Kong	2
Total		29			30

Super Smash Bros. (22 entrants)
Place	Player	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	SuPeRbOoMfAn	Captain Falcon, Fox, Pikachu	US$198
2nd	Isai	Kirby, Yoshi, Luigi	US$99
3rd	JaimeHR	Fox, Captain Falcon	US$33
4th	Kefit	Pikachu
5th	Tigerbombz	Pikachu, Fox
5th	B-Rex	Fox, Captain Falcon
7th	Bladewise	Fox
7th	dookdigity	Pikachu, Kirby

Project M (52 entrants)
Place	Player	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Kage	Ganondorf	US$132
2nd	JCaesar	Wario, R.O.B., Ganondorf	US$66
3rd	Leffen	Fox, Captain Falcon, Falco	US$22
4th	Trahh	Falco	US$5
5th	Gunblade	Ganondorf, Marth
5th	rubyiris
7th	ishyguy
7th	CrYos

GENESIS 3

A third tournament was not announced until 2013, but that effort was eventually cancelled because of scheduling conflicts with other tournaments, particularly Apex in New Jersey. In August 2015 GENESIS 3 was again announced and eventually occurred from January 15–18, 2016 in San Jose at the San Jose Convention Center and City National Civic Amphitheater. The tournament was sponsored by Nintendo.^[4] Tournament organizers initially planned to allow top ranked players to automatically advance to the top bracket, but backed off after backlash from social media and community figures.^[5] This event is the second largest Smash event ever (behind EVO 2015) and the largest community run event.

It was again won by Adam "Armada" Lindgren over Joseph "Mango" Marquez, with the grand finals being a repeat of the previous two tournaments.^[6][7] Wii U was won by Gonzalo "ZeRo" Barrios over Samuel "Dabuz" Buzby.^[8] Smash 64 was won by Japanese player wario, who was able to attend the tournament from a crowd fund.

Also through a fundraiser, a $500 "Bobby Scar Award" was awarded to fifth place; it was named after the Smasher and commentator Scar, who made a run at the first GENESIS, placing 6th. It was given to SFAT after PPMD said he didn't have motivation playing more.

In crew battles, team Hungrybox won the Smash Draft crew battles and Japan beat SoCal to take the regional crew battles.

In the 4th installment of the Melee Games, UC Irvine took the title, beating Georgia Tech.

A documentary about the Smash 64 scene called The 64 Story: Genesis 3 was shot at G3.^[9]

Super Smash Bros. Melee (1,828 entrants)
Place	Player	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	[A] Armada	Peach, Fox	US$10,940
2nd	C9 | Mango	Falco, Fox	US$4,376
3rd	Liquid`Hungrybox	Jigglypuff	US$2,188
4th	Tempo | Axe	Pikachu	US$1,312.80
5th	CLG | SFAT	Fox	US$1,156.40
6th	EG | PPMD	Falco, Marth	US$656.40
7th	mYi | Ice	Fox	US$437.60
7th	SPY | Nintendude	Ice Climbers	US$437.60

Super Smash Bros. Melee Doubles (397 teams)
Place	Player	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	COG MVG | Mew2King [A] Armada	Sheik Peach	US$3,970
2nd	CLG | PewPewU CLG | SFAT	Marth Fox	US$1,588
3rd	BERT | Swedish Delight Slox	Sheik Fox	US$794
4th	Liquid`Hungrybox Tempo | Axe	Jigglypuff Pikachu	US$555.80
5th	Darkatma Frootloop	Sheik Falco	US$317.60
5th	WFX | Shroomed Alan	Sheik Peach	US$317.60
7th	SF | Javi SF | Twin	Fox Falco	US$198.50
7th	TGL | DruggedFox Baka4moe	Sheik Peach	US$198.50

Super Smash Bros. Melee Smash Draft Crew Battle
Place	Crew	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character	Amount
1st	Team Hbox	Hungrybox	Jigglypuff	PPMD	Marth	MacD	Peach	The Moon	Marth	Swedish Delight	Sheik	US$4,000
2nd	Team SFAT	SFAT	Fox	Plup	Sheik	Nintendude	Ice Climbers	Wizzrobe	Captain Falcon	KJH	Fox	US$1,000
3rd	Team Ken	Ken	Marth	Armada	Peach	Ice	Fox	Prince Abu	Jigglypuff	Fiction	Fox
3rd	Team PPU	PewPewU	Marth	Mew2King	Sheik	DruggedFox	Falco	Santiago	Fox	Ryan Ford	Fox
5th	Team Axe	Axe	Pikachu	Wobbles	Ice Climbers	KirbyKaze	Sheik	Javi	Fox	Zhu	Falco
5th	Team Westballz	Westballz	Falco	Silent Wolf	Fox	S2J	Captain Falcon	Abate	Luigi	Bladewise	Peach
5th	Team HugS	HugS	Samus	Lucky	Fox	Shroomed	Sheik	Eddy Mexico	Luigi	Cactuar	Fox
5th	Team Scar	Scar	Captain Falcon	Mango	Falco	Duck	Samus	Colbol	Fox	Alex19	Fox

The Melee Games 4 Finals
Place	Crew	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character
1st	UC Irvine	Santiago	Fox	Connorthekid	Fox	Matt/Captain Faceroll	Fox/Sheik	Squid	Falco	Sherigami	Sheik
2nd	Georgia Tech	DruggedFox	Falco	Baka4moe	Peach	Bravo	Link	Kpan	Falco	Austintacious	Sheik
3rd	University of Arizona	GamerGuitarist7	Captain Falcon	Janet	Zelda	ForteFreak	Sheik	Yee Man	Fox	Faketaxiluchi	Falco
3rd	York University	KirbyKaze	Sheik	Toronto Joe	Fox	Chrim Foish	Falco	Coffeeblack	Captain Falcon	Slush	Sheik
5th	University of Washington	Silent Wolf	Fox	Wasabi	Captain Falcon	Gus	Jigglypuff	Dempsey	Sheik	Power Up	Falco
5th	Stony Brook University	Fitz	Falco	Minty	Samus	Sol	Fox	Equal	Zelda	Vortex	Sheik

Super Smash Bros. Melee Salty Suite
Winner	Character(s)	Loser	Character(s)	Score	Amount
S2J	Captain Falcon	Abate	Luigi	4-2

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (1,096 entrants)
Place	Player	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	TSM | ZeRo	Sheik, Diddy Kong	US$5,365
2nd	Dabuz	Rosalina and Luma	US$2,146
3rd	Ranai	Villager	US$1,073
4th	2GG | VoiD	Sheik	US$643.80
5th	Liquid`Nairo	Zero Suit Samus	US$321.90
5th	GW | FOW	Ness	US$321.90
7th	Marss	Zero Suit Samus	US$214.60
7th	#THE FAD | Larry Lurr	Fox, Sheik, Donkey Kong	US$214.60

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Doubles (272 teams)
Place	Player	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Ranai Komorikiri	Villager Cloud	US$2,720
2nd	TSM | ZeRo Liquid`Nairo	Sheik, Diddy Kong Zero Suit Samus	US$1,088
3rd	LLL | Mr. R Abadango	Sheik Meta Knight	US$544
4th	RAIN Nietono	Cloud Cloud	US$380.80
5th	SU | Trela Boreal | Ally	Ryu Mario	US$217.60
5th	Marss Pugwest	Zero Suit Samus Marth	US$217.60
7th	SF | Hyuga Dabuz	Toon Link Rosalina and Luma	US$136
7th	TTN | MJG GW | FOW	Villager Ness	US$136

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Regional Crew Battle
Place	Crew	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character	Name	Character	Amount
1st	Japan	Abdango	Meta Knight	Ranai	Villager	Komorikiri	Cloud, Sonic	Nietono/RAIN	Diddy Kong/Sheik	9B/Earth	Ryu/Pit	US$1,200
2nd	SoCal	ZeRo	Sheik	Larry Lurr	Fox	Mr. ConCon/falln	Luigi/Rosalina and Luma	VoiD	Sheik	Tyrant/SlayerZ	Meta Knight/Peach	US$400
3rd	Tristate	Nairo	Zero Suit Samus	DKwill	Donkey Kong	NAKAT	Ness	Dabuz/False	Rosalina and Luma/Ryu	6WX/Tweek	Sonic/Bowser Jr.	US$200
3rd	Mexico	Hyuga	Toon Link	IC	Diddy Kong	Regi	Mr. Game and Watch	Manzano	Villager	Waymas	Wario	US$200
5th	Texas	Karna	Sheik	Trela	Ryu	Fliphoop/Denti	Diddy Kong/Sheik	The Wall	Yoshi	Espy	Sonic
5th	Midwest	MJG	Villager	Ally	Mario	Ryuga	Ike	JJROCKETS/Zinoto	Diddy Kong/Diddy Kong	Akiro	Sheik
5th	NorCal	Shaky	Ness	Zex	Sheik	Trevonte	Sheik	Ito	Meta Knight	Teb	Mario
5th	Florida	Nick Riddle	Zero Suit Samus	Ryo	Ike	ESAM	Pikachu	8BitMan/Heero	R.O.B./Sonic	MVD/Day	Diddy Kong/Lucario
9th	MD/VA	Seagull Joe	Sonic	Logic	Olimar	Pink Fresh	Lucas	Remzi/Mister Eric	Zero Suit Samus/R.O.B.	Acid/GimR	Captain Falcon/Mr. Game and Watch
9th	Southwest	Z	Pikachu	FOW	Ness	Lycan	Diddy Kong	SS	Villager	K9	Sheik

Super Smash Bros. (238 entrants)
Place	Player	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	wario	Pikachu	US$1,190
2nd	SuPeRbOoMfAn	Pikachu, Captain Falcon	US$476
3rd	wangera	Jigglypuff	US$238
4th	Isai	Pikachu, Fox, Captain Falcon, Mario	US$166.60
5th	KeroKeroppi	Pikachu, Captain Falcon	US$95.20
5th	Mariguas	Pikachu, Captain Falcon	US$95.20
7th	COG | Wizzrobe	Yoshi	US$59.50
7th	tacos	Captain Falcon, Yoshi	US$59.50

Super Smash Bros. Doubles (47 teams)
Place	Player	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	JaimeHR SuPeRbOoMfAn	Mario, Samus, Kirby Pikachu, Fox	US$470
2nd	tacos The Z	Kirby, Captain Falcon Pikachu, Captain Falcon	US$235
3rd	Isai Rith	Pikachu Pikachu	US$141
4th	wario wangera	Pikachu Jigglypuff	US$94
5th	SPY | Nintendude Fireblaster	Mario Pikachu
5th	Dext3r Pete	Pikachu, Kirby Captain Falcon
7th	Banze Cort	Pikachu Kirby
7th	YBOMBB Snorlax	Jigglypuff Kirby

Super Smash Bros. Salty Suite: 12 Pikachu v 12 characters
Mariguas's Character	Stocks Taken	Isai's Character	Stocks Taken
Pikachu	6	Link	3
Pikachu	2	Captain Falcon	4
Pikachu	2	Pikachu	10
Pikachu	1	Fox	3
Pikachu	4	Jigglypuff	5
Pikachu	4	Kirby	7
Pikachu	2	Donkey Kong	3
Pikachu	2	Mario	5
Pikachu	5	Ness	3
Pikachu	2	Luigi	5
Pikachu	6	—	—
Pikachu	3	—	—
Total	39		48

Super Smash Bros. Exhibition/Money Matches
Winner	Character(s)	Loser	Character(s)	Score	Amount
Fireblaster	Yoshi	Bark Sanchez	Pikachu	3-2	US$20
Kort	Link	Hero Pie	Link	3-1
Darkhorse	Captain Falcon	Lorenzo	Captain Falcon	2-1
Madrush21	Captain Falcon	Eggmode	Pikachu, Yoshi	3-0	US$100
Wookiee	Pikachu	Studstill	Kirby	1-0

GENESIS 4

GENESIS 4 will take place on January 20 to January 22, 2017. It will take place at San Jose, California and will use the same venues GENESIS 3 used.

References

1. https://smash.gg/tournament/genesis-4/details
2. "A Look Back at the First Genesis".
3. Smith, Wynton (January 14, 2015). "The genesis of Smash Bros.: From basements to ballrooms". ESPN. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
4. "'Super Smash Bros' Genesis 3 event to be supported by Nintendo America, game wins People's Choice Awards 2016".
5. "Genesis 3 backtracks on controversial seeding plan after online backlash".
6. Jurek, Steven (January 18, 2016). "Armada takes down Mang0 in Genesis 3 Melee grand final".
7. http://espn.go.com/esports/story/_/id/14613564/what-genesis-tells-us-smash-2016
8. Rosen, Daniel (January 18, 2016). "ZeRo retakes his crown, wins Smash 4 at Genesis 3". TheScore eSports.
9. https://pvplive.net/c/why-you-should-enjoy-the-genesis-3-the-64-story