Ranking the Best In-Person Melee Tournaments w/ Vish | The Pantheon 

Summit is a professional smash fest is the most accurate thing I've ever heard

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy There's vomit on his sweater already, boat spaghetti

I feel like a Vish Radio Melee appearance is long overdue

You should invite Vish again ❤

Once again asking Zeke to make a game centered around Giant and/or Tiny Melee

Vish Pog. I have so much respect for Vish. I've heard a ton of stuff (and seen some to and extent) about how he's taken lessons to improve his commentary qnd studies player information before commentating (major) sets. Plus he brings the hype and he's nasty at the game. I sound like I'm writing a copypasta lmao but seriously huge ups for all of that.

Would love to see a part 2 where they add onto this list with majors like MLG, Mainstage, or Battle of BC.

As someone who has gone to very few in-person events, this was an amazing primer on the stuff I'm missing out on

Would love a part 2 where it's individual tournaments like Shine 2012, Genesis 6, apex 2015, ect. I think it would be cool because then tourney results and sets would be more taken into account of.

Thanks for not cutting out the n0ne's part about shine

- Smash n Splash I remember there was this photographer that complain and make a blog on "I will never go to a Smash Tournament to work ever again" cuz she was forced to take pictures , edit , film for over 12 hours + for hype moments , couldn't even go for food , and was very mistreated by the person who hire her. Props to her friends that stand up for her and bring her food and water. - Shine I remember there was a day where the manager was trying to kick out the players on Day 2 , he was yelling "YOUR TIME IS UP , YOU GUYS HAVE TO GO" , this was when the stream shut down , and players have to play games off stream. Also this was the birth of S2J holding a chair and almost blinding Ice LOOL - The Big House 5 was the very first tournament to put the format of region vs region on every Friday , so Day 1 did not seem dead or like "nothing to do". Probably the second most anticipated tournament of the year (just behind Genesis), and If I recall it's highest peak was Big House 9 on Mang0 vs Zain grand finals. - Pound as it self has a lot of stories. One of the stories that Scar mention on the META game documentary was that they have to move all the equipment (TVs , set ups , etc) , and walk for like 20 minutes , to a basement close to a campus , and set up again and finish the tournament there. Yeah Mang0 won that tournament - RoM is a lot of memories. Mew2king comeback , SilentSpectre beating Armada and to this day the only player with a positive record against Armada , Mang0 losing to Kage , PPMD beating Mew2king with that Falco combo at Rainbow Cruise , and for it's time it was a VERY big tournament - Apex 2015 has to go down in history as the "most beautiful mess". Crunching 3 days into 2 days , the tournament last until 3:00am Eastern time SUNDAY, and it was a mess that people learned for future events. By the way , this is the last tournament where the 5 Gods + Leffen were together in a tournament , the last time we saw PPMD winning a major after his 6 months hiatus (he was 5th seed and won against all odds) , a very hype salty suite , and Mang0 losing 1000$ - Genesis is like the most international ever for Smash. You have people from Japan , Mexico , Canada , Peru , etc. All from the world traveling to play 64 , Melee , Ultimate , Rivals of Aether and more. Alongside with pound , the only grass root tournament that are still running. Also the first tournament to have the whole EU crew travelling to america. - EVO , there is so many things about this. Lots of best of 3s , so you see upsets everywhere, very weird ruleset , super bad schedule ...... I remember Smash 4 on Saturday have to play their Top 64 at 8:30-9:00am so they could make it in time. The Smash 4 grand finals drama on 2018 , Hungrybox getting screw up on the best of 3 on freaking winner finals on 2013 and so on.

New rule: whenever someone eats on cam, they have to show their dish

Love everything about GOML except where the venue is. It's near Pearson airport which is convenient for people travelling but once you're at the venue it's in the middle of nowhere. There's nothing around really.

Heir and Smash Con being missing is striking cause they’d def be up there, probably could’ve also added LTC or Kings of Cali considering regionals like Revival of Melee’s on there

The chair thing was johnny vs ice

None's shine trauma is a vibe

Tophs Boston accent lmao not even close my guy

I’m so excited to watch this. Best GG series IMO EDIT: great video. Gotta love Vish

Day 54 of asking GG Melee to make a compilation of every time n0ne says “Zain…” like a disappointed parent

Toph scraping that bowl destroyed my ears during the big house talk lol

Here early to chant for Heir like the damn European Scrub i am

Genesis truly is the Superbowl of Smash Bros

I still don't know what an Arduino is and at this point I only care because of the tea

Vish!

As a spectator from home summit is reality my #1 but I agree with the genesis pick as well

NO SMASH CON??

The fact Heir/Fête aren't on the list makes the whole thing invalid and toph would agree with me

im gonna be honest i'm from massachusetts and i've never known anyone to actually order a lobster roll from mcdonalds

Surprised Smash Con wasn’t mentioned… would be an S btw, Smash Con is everything smash is and deserves.

You should do one about the best comebacks in melee

man i love league of legends

The thing that Genesis has gotten right ever since the beginning is the presentation of day 3. It's basically Evo but A. Not in Vegas in the middle of summer (you can walk outside without your face melting off a la Raiders of the Lost Ark) and B. Actual good set format (not Bo3 until WF). You miss out on a small amount of prestige relatively and the exposure to the FGC and more of the general public, but those trade offs are well worth it (not that it's mattered since 2018 anyway, just for comparison's sake).

Apex 2015 S++++++++ Bizzaro Flame salty suite. Leffen Salty sweet. PPMD winning it all. Amazing tourny.

I'm curious about Super Smash Con. Also Armada's last tourney and win

Genesis is the alpha male of tournaments while Summit is the sigma male

This was entertaining, but I wish it looked at specific tournaments and not the tournament series as a whole. I think that would have been better idea imo.

Haven't watched it yet, but my predictions are: Genesis S tier Apex F tier (hopefully Apex 2022 can fix that) Really curious to see where they rank Evo because on the one hand it's Evo, but on the other hand bo3 up until top 3 kinda sucks.

Heir is probably the most important omission. Heir’s probably the best!

S for spaghetti 🍝

Shame Heir wasn't in there cause I know Toph is putting Heir at like S+++

toph's boston accent

tophs volume is 2x everyone elses

no smashcon?

No smash con ?

HEIR IS NOTABLY MISSING! TOPH!!!

Honestly Riptide was dogshit compared to SnS3-5. There's so much to do in the Wisconsin Dells. Zip lines, escape rooms, arcades, restaurants and like 6 water parks.

Big House is S tier come on

How the hell does apex get a B!? Even before 2015 (which on top of the roof collapsing TOs that run other tournament series had to step in and save it IIRC because the main TOs did not have their shit together) the tournament was not run well and had a lot of issues. Definitely deserving of a C or a D IMO.

Can you blame us for being gambling addicts there's nothing to do in Michigan

Apex is a Z

why the fuck is toph eating during the show

Toph wtf bro, dont be clanging shit together next to the mic.