Sport Super Smash Bros. Established 2009 | Location San Francisco Bay Area Number of tournaments Four | |
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.
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Alongside EVO, The Big House, and Pound, the GENESIS series is considered to be one of the most prestigious Super Smash Bros. tournament series.
History
The first tournament, GENESIS, started in Antioch, California, and began on July 10, 2009. The tournament was organized by Boback Vakili and the Concord-based DBR crew, which had Smash players such as SilentSpectre and G$. At the time, it was the largest Melee tournament in history and the fifth largest Brawl tournament. The tournament featured players from around the world, including the US, Sweden, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. This tournament was significant in that it was Armada's first tournament in the US and started the Mango - Armada rivalry, not only at the GENESIS series, but also Melee.
GENESIS 2 took place two years later on July 15, 2011. The tournament was hosted by Boback and DBR and was again held in Antioch, California. The tournament decided to add the original Super Smash Bros. and Project M, in addition to Melee and Brawl. The tournament was also sponsored by Red Bull and SABERGAMING. The tournament was notorious in that Robert "Zelgadis" Scherer stole prize money that was accidentally left behind and reportedly lied. After police investigation, Zelgadis confessed and gave back the money. This incident damaged the reputations of Zelgadis, DBR, GENESIS, and the Smash community as a whole.
GENESIS was planning to make a comeback in 2013 and 2014. However, Boback could not commit to planning since many other tournaments were taking place. Thus, the revival was stalled. Nearly five years after the incident, Boback and the DBR group announced GENESIS 3, which took place on January 15, 2016. Brawl and Project M was dropped from the tournament and Super Smash Bros for Wii U was brought up. Another change is that the tournament moved from Antioch and moved to San Jose, California, with the top 8 of each game taking place at the San Jose Convention Center. The tournament stands as the third largest tournament in Smash tournament, behind EVO 2015 and EVO 2016. In addition, GENESIS announced its partnership with Nintendo. Additional sponsors included HTC, ASUS, and Skillz. With over $20,000 in prize pool money for Melee and over $10,000 in prize pool money for Wii U, this was the biggest community-funded tournament in Smash history. This tournament features Mango and Armada in the grand finals for the third GENESIS tournament in a row.
GENESIS 4 was announced to be on January 20, 2017. This tournament was organized by Boback, Dr. Z, and Germ from DBR. The tournament will keep the same lineup of games as it did in GENESIS 3 and will be hosted at the same venues.
GENESIS
The first GENESIS tournament was held on July 10–12, 2009, in Antioch. Melee singles was won by Joseph "Mango" Marquez. 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.
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.
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. 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. Eventually, tournament organizers went along with floating the Melee players to the second round, but made the Smash 4 players play in the first round. 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. Wii U was won by Gonzalo "ZeRo" Barrios over Samuel "Dabuz" Buzby. 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.
GENESIS 4
GENESIS 4 took place on January 20 to January 22, 2017 in San Jose, California and used the same venues as GENESIS 3. Nintendo was once again a sponsor of the tournament, along with HTC, Nvidia, Controller Chaos, Twitch, Red Bull, and many other sponsors. Like last year, tournament organizers announced the top 64 Melee players at the event would automatically be in the second round of the tournament, sparking backlash from top players such as Leffen and Armada.
In crews, team Silent Wolf defeated Team Hungrybox in Melee Draft Crews and Team USA defeated Team Japan in Wii U World Crews.
Melee doubles was won by brothers Armada and Android over Leffen and Ice. Wii U doubles was won by Ally and MKLeo over the Japanese duo Ranai and Komorikiri. Lastly, Smash 64 doubles won by defending champions JaimeHR and SuPeRbOoMfAn over last year's runner ups tacos and The Z.
In Wii U singles, Mexican Smash player MKLeo defeated Ally to win GENESIS 4 and Peruvian Alvin defeated favorite SuPeRbOoMfAn in Smash 64 singles.
For the fourth time in four GENESIS series, the Grand Finals pitted Armada and Mango. Armada defeated Mango win Winner's Semifinals and Mew2King in Winner's Finals to get to Grand Finals. Mango defeated Leffen in a close 5 game series, Hungrybox, and Mew2King after losing to Armada. Prior to top 8, Armada nearly lost to S2J in a close five game series; had S2J won, S2J would have been the first non-Big 6 player to take a set off Armada since Amsah at Pound 4 in 2010. In a convincing 3-0 victory, Armada defeated Mango to take his third straight GENESIS title.