The Greatest Losers Run in Melee History | The Pantheon 

A video about Pound 3 on my birthday? THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT

Mang0's Summit 11 run changed my life

Love when pp and toph talk about early historical tournaments

Toph is one of the most well articulated kind folks and has some of the best stories to go along with being such a legendary orator.

This would’ve been a great one to have HMW on

It brings me a special kind of joy to see PC's 0C3 run talked about so fondly in 2023. MLG, post-MLG and Brawl era Melee really hits diff.

A note about 0C3 is that it used MLG rules for second sets. M2K beat PC 2-1. MLG rules states that if two players meet in bracket twice, if the first set was a Best of 3 and second set is a Best of 5, the score from Set 1 is carried over into the second set, and it become a Best of 9. Then in PC won the set in Grands on Game 6, beating him in just that set 4-2, beating him overall 5-4 in that Best of 9, and if PC dropped Game 5 or 6, M2K beats him 3-2 or 3-3. So PC didn't beat M2K twice, because of the MLG rules that this tournament used, but he did win a set in which he had to win one more game than M2K did to win the tournament

"Everyone loves it the longer they are, right?" - n0ne

n0ne's logic is truly next level.

Underrated runs are Leffen at Smash’n’splash 3, and also M2K at UGC. neither of them won but they both won about 10 sets in loser’s AND each reset the bracket in grand finals

I think another run that could have been on the list was LTC 2019 where Hbox won 12 straight sets after losing to Albert sort of the magnum opus of his strenght to win from losers like Summit 11 for mang0. Didn't have every top 10 member on the kill count but still a very impressive run that sort of got forgotten.

15:09 is incredible editing timing for the "yay" lmao

"He's crouch-cancelling! He's crouch-cancelling, and then he tanks it!" LMAO

The best recent loser runs that almost were: - DontTestMe at East Park Rollback: After "losing" his first match against ZeldaFool, he beat Blues Clues, NOOT, Aklo, Tai, Kuyashi, Bones, Magi, KJH, Albert, Ginger and Axe's Young Link before falling to his Pikachu. - moky at The Function 2: After losing to Jflex he beat eve, Brad, Foxy Grandpa, iBDW, Skerzo, Zamu, Pipsqueak and SluG only to be defeated by Ginger in Grand Final.

Plup at The Big House 8 had a really nice losers run. He didn't win the tournament though, got 2nd to Hbox, but he was in losers for a good while, it was pretty impressive.

mang0s pressed start run needs an honorable mention

"If Mang0 beat up the CEO of Nintendo, this would be number 1" I'm dying lol

Everything for lore about the scene makes me so happy. Being involved for 10 years now with the scene and still having more stories to be heard and more sets to be played at a crazy level... I love this stuff, man. Thank you guys

Abate is very good player. Invite him to the show

hbox's ltc7 is his best imo

Never heard of that PC Chris tourney! Awesome to learn some history

🥭🥭🥭 time

Wish u guys would’ve included press start and low tier city 7, those runs were MONSTROUS

I have to give it to EVO 2013 since I was physically there. You can see me in a green shirt in the crowd in Grands

So thankful for GG

I really liked the teir list format better, less pressure to rank them in order as you go, just having to choose the best at the end

Really thought this episode was awesome. Great stuff!

n0ne has such a way with words, a true modern renaissance man

love this channel

Pantheon videos are my favorite!

"everyone loves it the longer they are" - n0ne

Some good memories in here. Honestly 100% valid list.

The best part about most of The Pantheon videos is when there is talk about the old era since I also was not (internationally) competitive in Melee before 2012, love it. Especially getting context for tournaments is always interesting.

great to watch people that live and breathe melee talk about it, thanks gg

Wobbles: “Why’d you have to take a shot at my ICs?”

this is a nice video im surprised it wasnt recommended to me before now

Yall GOTTA tell Toph to talk into the mic or up the audio compression on this or something. The volume is so inconsistent it goes from like inaudible to blowing up my ears. Sick content as usually, just like, audio stuff

Mango's run at Summit 11 still gets me emotional BUT i would have to give the #2 nod to his run at EVO 2013. Just think about how different the scene would be today if he didn't make that run

Damn this is some good content

Great video!!!

It's a shame this only includes runs that ended up winning the whole event. I think Armada's run at EVO 2018 might be the most underrated run, despite not winning. He was knocked into LOSERS ROUND 3 by Swedish Delight. He then proceeded to beat Gahtzu, Mew2King, Zain, S2J, Mango, Hungrybox, and then Plup before falling to Leffen in grands. Hell of a run.

m2k @ugc was my favorite, even if he didn't win, he went at least even with everyone and beat every single top player who was at the tournament. Duck, to Mang0, to Ice, to n0ne, to Leffen, to Hbox, to Armada. If only his mentality didn't crumble in the bracket reset.

"the longer they are, the longer it is."

Respect

In the MLG days (pre 2010s), I believe Ken is the only player to have won a major from losers aside from PC Chris. (Evo 2007) Not a major, but Ken also won his first tournament against the east coast from losers as well (Game Over in 2004) I am glad they hyped up PC Chris for n0ne. He was a really great player and I think even Falco mains now could learn a lot from watching his old games.

Pre-2010s Melee is so funny nowadays just because there was a lot more stuff people were experimenting with. The meta was advancing way faster and people are just playing funnier than nowadays

To me it's more about the girth of the run

The Press Start erasure is mind boggling, yet consistent

Yall should add chapters to the videos, especially pantheons

Not mentioning M2K at UGC or Armada at Evo 2028 as honorable mentions is criminal, BUT great list and g8 vid

The longer and harder the losers run, the more I enjoy it 😏

god damn i love mang0

Summit 11 should’ve easily been number 1

I’m sorry. HOW is Hbox Low Tier City 7 not here. He lost to Albert and then won 11 straight sets. That’s a disgrace.

Where's press start?

Low Tier City in 2019 with Hbox is Top 5 Dude loses to unranked Albert, proceeds to beat Morsecode, None, and Fiction to make Top 8. Goes on to beat S2J, squash Albert in their rematch, beat Mango, and knock out SFAT to make Grand Finals. Then he wins a grueling Game 10 set over Zain Getting upset that hard by an unknown (BO5 no less, they didn't know it was BO3 and Albert still won) and maintaining focus/endurance that long in the modern era is crazy

Surprised Mang0's run at press start didn't make the list. DQ'd in the first round and he beat Jace, Westballz, Hax, Leffen, Shroomed, Lucky, Hungrybox, Axe, and Fly Amanita twice.

I agree with n0ne about Summit 11 but I also wasn't around for Pound 3

name a more flexible shoulder than PPMD's right shoulder

y'all did hbox dirty by not mentioning his low tier city 7 run lol

bro gtx2017's ending was CRAZY

I'm surprised Ken's run at Gane Over wasn't in this list

Mango at press start needs to be on here. My man got DQ'd from winners round 1 and proceeded to beat Jace, Westballz, Hax, Leffen, Shroomed, Lucky, Hbox, Axe, and Fly twice while going 30-3 in games. Arguably 6 top 10 players at the time, and he dumpstered them

biggest possible honorable mention: M2K at UGC, right?

armada's summit 2 popoff almost looked like he wanted to punch hbox lol

Press start tho

4:41 he was literally just behind him idk

The longer they are... The longer they are 😏🤔

Cactuars strongest form is HTC 2015 he went god mode

Yall didn't bring up Paragon Los Angeles 2015. I don't remember who he beat, but I remember it was a hype ass losers run

Thumbnail looks like toph died his hair green

Not gonna lie, I think it’s kind of screwy to put GTX 2017 here to rank instead of Low Tier City 7, a much better loser run from Hbox than gtx2017. Just saying. Where would you (person reading this) rank Low Tier City 7?

WHERE THE GG MELEE DISCORD AT HUH??

The longer they are, the longer they are.

Mang0s career is a loser's run (jk love you mang)

hbox is laughing because of how similar the moment is to evo.

Anybody have the link to the 62bit hero video they reference?

Now there is a new best

There are impactful losers runs as far as melee history/storylines go and then there are losers runs where the wins are the most impressive. Mango certainly has the most impactful losers runs on lock, but I think the most impressive losers run in terms of wins is Hungrybox at TBH7. Hbox beat M2K, Armada, Leffen, Plup x 2 to win the tournament. Insane.

Did I miss Hungrybox’ low tide city run? Or wasn’t it included?

the longer they are the harder they fall

*proceeds to mention brawl in the comments*

4 of the top 5 for mango, that's ya boi :')))

The Evo losers runs are less impressive since almost all the sets are best of 3

Big house 9? Press start?

The longer they are... thats gotta be 1st

no low tier city 7?

Gamer

Honestly GTX 2017 should have been replaced with Low Tier City 2019, if you're going to have 2 hbox losers runs on here.

More like--what's the second best loser's run of all time?

ace attorney ost lfg

Yo

does big house 9 not count? not long enough?

What can I say man lol...Mang0 is THE Goat. Hbox and Armada right there and better than Mang0 at certain times too.

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Wasn't EGLX Hbox's most impressive run of all time?

No hbox ltc7 is a big miss

I think Toph needs to stop lying we all know Borp jv5d him

Summit 11>Pound 3

I think Toph needs to stop lying we all know Borp jv5d him