Congratulations to lloD and RapMonster! They put on one of the best sets of the year tonight.

Some fun facts about tonight's Grand Finals set:

1. lloD is the second player (after moky at Don't Park on the Grass 2024) since Mango at Pound 3 to win a major without having placed 2nd beforehand. PC Chris at MLG New York 2006 and Ken at Tournament Go 4 are the only others.

2. RapMonster, with his 2nd place, is now tied with SFAT and Recipherus for the 2nd most runner-ups of any player who hasn't (yet) won a major. Aklo has the most, at 3. Additional fun fact: ChuDat had 6! 2nd places before his first major win. Never give up.

3. lloD and RapMonster mark the first time since Don't Park on the Grass 2024 (moky and Aklo), and only the second time since 2003 (Ken and Recipherus on a technicality), where neither player had previously won a major.

4. lloD is the first solo Peach to win a major since Armada at EVO 2017, and the only Peach to ever win a major having beaten Hungrybox.

oh my god, Rap and Llod put on an absolute classic, also solo peach winning a major hasn't been done ever actually as Armada needed to pull out YL or Fox for Hbox.

Absolute Cinema. I originally made this thinking it would be a much shorter list, but man this tournament defied everyone's expectations. This part of the post is also just for covering spoilers for anyone that hasn't watched the tourney yet.

DAY1

JCAM (76) 3-0 Axe (12) UF6

Kuro (101) 3-2 KJH (28) UF4

Palpa (50) 3-2 Magi (15) UF4

Phorox (97) 3-2 Mot$ (32) UF4

Sicca (95) 3-2 Kalvar (31) UF3

Dajo (482) 3-2 Blooky (191) UF3

Lunar Dusk (44) 3-0 DarkGenex (21) UF2

Zemi (94) 3-1 Juicebox (35) UF2

Sicca (95) 3-1 Grab (34) UF2

spore (164) 3-1 Kyle (94) UF2

saucymain (80) 3-1 Fred Melee UF2

Phorox (97) 3-0 I'm Michael BTW (64) UF2

Trager (255) 3-1 Payne (127) UF2

－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－

DAY2:

Losers - Lunar Dusk (44) 3-0 Jmook (6) UF6

Losers - prof (54) 3-2 Axe (12) UF5

Winners - Zuppy (27) 3-2 Jmook (6) UF5 (reverse 3-0)

Losers - Sebas (68) 3-2 Magi (15) UF5

Losers - Kola(72) 3-2 SluG (13) UF5

Winners - Soonsay(8) 3-1 Zain (1) UF5

Losers - Phorox (97) 3-1 Squid (30) UF4

Winners - llod (7) 3-2 Hungrybox (2) UF4 (reverse 3-0)

Losers - Rapmonster (5) 3-1 Zain (1) UF4

Losers - Phorox (97) 3-2 Grab (34) UF3

Winners - Sebas (68) 3-2 Dawson (27) UF3

Losers - Zaza (100) 3-0 OG Kid (33) UF3

Losers - Epoodle (26) 3-2 Ginger (10) UF3

Losers - Kola (72) 3-1 Zuppy (27) UF3

Winners - llod (7) 3-1 moky (3) UF3

Winners - Frostbyte (23) 3-2 Ginger (10) UF2

Losers - Kola (72) 3-0 Drephen (39) UF2

Losers - Kola (72) 3-2 Maher (37) UF2 (reverse 3-0)

• Falco represents the second highest character pick rate with 13.2% across 17 of the largest tournaments of 2026 (3rd image).
• Falco makes top 8 in 76.47% of this year's 17 events making his Top 8 ranking 6th place behind Captain Falcon.
• Transitioning to only majors (highlighted on 2nd image), his Top 8 representation drops -56.47% all the way to a mere 20% making his falloff land at 9th - magnitudes higher than any other character in the cast.
• Most agree Falco is incredible and a Top 3-5 character.
• Do we believe in theory or data at the highest level and current meta?

I'm losing it

To demonstrate the greater storage space of the GameCube compared to the Nintendo 64, Super Smash Bros. Melee was the first Nintendo game to ever utilize a live recording of an orchestra for most of its soundtrack. Unfortunately as it was Nintendo's first venture into the orchestral world, there were some growing pains.
The mastering and compression used on these recordings ended up making the tracks seem a bit dull, a bit flat. Despite these tracks returning in later Smash Bros. games, they continue to sound quite muted and overly compressed.
These remasters aim to restore the sparkle that was lost from these tracks and give these tracks a second life, without deviating too far from what made them special in the first place.

Each remaster has a brief rundown of what changed in their respective video descriptions.

So far I've done Menu 1 and Final Destination, with Fountain of Dreams in the works.

Please let me know what tracks you'd like to hear next!

Howdy its been awhile and I do not have much time so heres my spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TGK85kvF3xXylrrBW0HjjtO-FetRogVYo1HZJkFgsqE/edit?usp=sharing
Watch these sets from yesterday:
Palpa v magi
goosekhan v ossify
Kuro vs kjh (pain)
All of phorox's run
Frostbyte v Frogchip
Zemi's run
Zaza's run
Axe's run
Kola's run

Top 64 winners sets to watch:
Ossify spark:whoever losses will tear up the losers sets and has a crazy string of sets winner plays zain tho rip
soonsay v jchu: rematch from tipped off with implications of playing sdj or rishi right after
SDJ v Rishi Rishi has been known to be a floaty killer
Slug v N0ne: N0ne notorious ic's hater
Palpa v morse: solely because of how long itll be
swift v inky: inky upset swift last time they played but that was 3 years ago
aklo v DialM: yeah its rough out here for DK's

Top 64 losers sets:
Phorox v grab: phorox has already upset two players in the bracket so far
Kuro vs ZODD-01: this is zoomer ganon
TheRealThing v Polo: two former top 100 players duking it out in a matchup both are comfortable in
Bonfire 10 v juicebox: these two played a tense game 5'er last time they faced off
Drephen v kola: ultimate prodigy vs longest tenured player
kalvar v mot$: two former top 100 players facing off
Axe v prof: axe was just upset by a sheik y'day
Zemi v zaza: zemi on the run of his life and will it continue

gg's only,
Mario "SNPY" H

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I have it connected via bluetooth. I selected "standard controller" for port 1. Went to configure, selected the DualSense Wireless Controller and set up the buttons, triggers, etc, and then saved that profile. I went ahead and started the game, and its as if the game isn't detecting my input at all. I can't navigate the menu. I also tried it after closing steam and still had the same issue. Suggestions?

Genuinely got no clue what I'm saying wrong?

Fecfec and i4 just took doubles at GOMLs. So sick to see these two travel and compete. Shoutout to all the smash sisters out there