• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 11:04
CEST 17:04
KST 00:04
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Serral wins EWC 202539Tournament Spotlight: FEL Cracow 202510Power Rank - Esports World Cup 202580RSL Season 1 - Final Week9[ASL19] Finals Recap: Standing Tall15
Community News
Weekly Cups (Jul 28-Aug 3): herO doubles up5LiuLi Cup - August 2025 Tournaments3[BSL 2025] H2 - Team Wars, Weeklies & SB Ladder10EWC 2025 - Replay Pack4Google Play ASL (Season 20) Announced55
StarCraft 2
General
Serral wins EWC 2025 Would you prefer the game to be balanced around top-tier pro level or average pro level? Crypto Bitcoin Recovery Specialist Hire iFORCE Weekly Cups (Jul 28-Aug 3): herO doubles up How to leave Master league - bug fix?
Tourneys
WardiTV Mondays $5,000 WardiTV Summer Championship 2025 Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament LiuLi Cup - August 2025 Tournaments Sea Duckling Open (Global, Bronze-Diamond)
Strategy
Custom Maps
External Content
Mutation # 485 Death from Below Mutation # 484 Magnetic Pull Mutation #239 Bad Weather Mutation # 483 Kill Bot Wars
Brood War
General
Nobody gona talk about this year crazy qualifiers? Help, I can't log into staredit.net How do the new Battle.net ranks translate? BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ BW General Discussion
Tourneys
[ASL20] Online Qualifiers Day 2 [Megathread] Daily Proleagues Cosmonarchy Pro Showmatches [ASL20] Online Qualifiers Day 1
Strategy
Simple Questions, Simple Answers [G] Mineral Boosting Muta micro map competition Does 1 second matter in StarCraft?
Other Games
General Games
THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION TO CRYPTO RECOVERY WITH PRO Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Total Annihilation Server - TAForever Nintendo Switch Thread Beyond All Reason
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread Vanilla Mini Mafia
Community
General
European Politico-economics QA Mega-thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine US Politics Mega-thread 9/11 Anniversary Possible Al Qaeda Attack on 9/11
Fan Clubs
INnoVation Fan Club SKT1 Classic Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
Movie Discussion! [Manga] One Piece Anime Discussion Thread [\m/] Heavy Metal Thread Korean Music Discussion
Sports
Formula 1 Discussion 2024 - 2025 Football Thread TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Gtx660 graphics card replacement Installation of Windows 10 suck at "just a moment" Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
TeamLiquid Team Shirt On Sale The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Sharpening the Filtration…
frozenclaw
ASL S20 English Commentary…
namkraft
The Link Between Fitness and…
TrAiDoS
momentary artworks from des…
tankgirl
from making sc maps to makin…
Husyelt
StarCraft improvement
iopq
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 715 users

Nintendo Announces Smash Bros Invitational Tourney

Forum Index > General Games
Post a Reply
1 2 3 4 5 20 21 22 Next All
Yergidy
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2107 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-11 04:16:18
April 29 2014 19:06 GMT
#1
The tourney is over! If you missed it, the whole thing can be seen here. It starts around 7:36:30
Here's youtube if you'd rather watch it there.
UPDATE:

Who Actually will be attending:
On May 30 2014 03:47 ]343[ wrote:
Bump!

Players: Milktea, Hugs, Liquid`Ken, Liquid`KDJ, Lilo, CTRL | DJ Nintendo, MIOM | Toph, PeachyHime, Crs.HBox, MIOM | PewPewU, EG.PPMD, TheRapture, VGBC | AMSA, Crs.MacD, CT Zero, Crismas

Commentators: Prog, D1, Scar

First 3 rounds: 4-player free-for-all, 4 stocks, 5 minutes, items on. Top 2 advance.
Grand Finals: 1v1 on Battlefield, items off.

Players are character-locked via some sort of "draft picking" process. (I wonder if they'll get the chance to try out the characters beforehand, lol.)

ALSO: Gamecube controller adapters for the Wii U announced!!


More Information:
On May 30 2014 03:57 Sufinsil wrote:

Announcement video


Also
Host: Geoff Keighley

Playable Characters:
Little Mac, Zero Suit Samus, Bowser, Wii Fit Trainer, Marth, Mega Man, Pit, Villager, Pikachu, Mario, Link, Kirby, Samus, Rosalina&Luma, Sonic, Donkey Kong, Greninja, Pikmin&Olimar, Zelda, Fox,




I wonder if the GC controller will work with other, older Wii U games.

Thanks for the updates guys!

Gaze upon the sexiness!
[image loading]

First Announcement:
+ Show Spoiler +



Looks like Nintendo has taken a page out of Valve's book and announced its first ever Super Smash Bros. Invitational tournament. The event takes place during E3 in LA, where 16 players will battle it out at the Nokia theater, where thousands of smash fans can see the new game in action, in the hands of the best!

Also in the video Nintendo announced that the new Smash Bros. game will be able to be played at Best Buys across the country.

If you haven't seen the video yet, I suggest it. It's pretty funny and has some other Nintendo E3 goodies announced in it.
One bright day in the middle of the night, Two dead boys got up to fight; Back to back they faced each other, Drew their swords and shot each other.
Lucumo
Profile Joined January 2010
6850 Posts
April 29 2014 19:27 GMT
#2
On April 30 2014 04:06 Yergidy wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghEhI4CJjAM

Looks like Nintendo has taken a page out of Valve's book and announced its first ever Super Smash Bros. International tournament.

Do you have a list of the invited players since you say it's an international tournament?
Shai
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada806 Posts
April 29 2014 19:29 GMT
#3
On April 30 2014 04:27 Lucumo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 30 2014 04:06 Yergidy wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghEhI4CJjAM

Looks like Nintendo has taken a page out of Valve's book and announced its first ever Super Smash Bros. International tournament.

Do you have a list of the invited players since you say it's an international tournament?


Pretty sure he meant invitational. That video is all we know.
Eagerly awaiting Techies.
Yergidy
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2107 Posts
April 29 2014 19:37 GMT
#4
On April 30 2014 04:29 Shai wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 30 2014 04:27 Lucumo wrote:
On April 30 2014 04:06 Yergidy wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghEhI4CJjAM

Looks like Nintendo has taken a page out of Valve's book and announced its first ever Super Smash Bros. International tournament.

Do you have a list of the invited players since you say it's an international tournament?


Pretty sure he meant invitational. That video is all we know.

Yes Invitational, Sorry got TI4 on the brain. lol. Fixed.
One bright day in the middle of the night, Two dead boys got up to fight; Back to back they faced each other, Drew their swords and shot each other.
kuresuti
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
1393 Posts
April 29 2014 20:37 GMT
#5
Did Nintendo drop the anti-competitive act? Might not be a supercompetitive tournament, but a tournament none the less.
Count9
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
China10928 Posts
April 29 2014 21:14 GMT
#6
nintendo, competitive gaming? What world am I in right now?
rabidch
Profile Joined January 2010
United States20289 Posts
April 29 2014 21:18 GMT
#7
On April 30 2014 05:37 kuresuti wrote:
Did Nintendo drop the anti-competitive act? Might not be a supercompetitive tournament, but a tournament none the less.

probably. i think they're realizing how popular competitive gaming is and is getting
LiquidDota StaffOnly a true king can play the King.
WilliamDonaldLewis
Profile Joined April 2014
United States22 Posts
April 29 2014 22:06 GMT
#8
they need the good ingredients from diablo 2 plus the good ingredients from soul caliber with a promise of continued benefit something from previous games. imagine a character that could take part in all genres of games then the tournament would get attention from gamers from all genres. smash bros wont attract attention of questors or hack and slashers or rts players or first person shooters but it could. it could potentially add another level of strategy of rts which to level raynor or kerrigan. and it would add another level of team work. why they aint doing that? it would be greater chance to play with friends of different tastes imagine terran with whirlwind start against necro zerglings and fire golem. a place to level and rts. d2 chars would need size upgrade or ride upgrade, sonszilla !!! ultralisk or supersized barbarian!! and imagine bonus quests where the questor would benefit with the help of a rts captain that has the ability to go to the native questors game. what would you expect the tournament attention would be. I can imagine barcrafters and arcades with ultralisk ride options similar to mechanical bull!!
9 charcoal pencils and pencil box to push a keyboard key down
ahw
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada1099 Posts
April 29 2014 23:24 GMT
#9
On April 30 2014 07:06 WilliamDonaldLewis wrote:
they need the good ingredients from diablo 2 plus the good ingredients from soul caliber with a promise of continued benefit something from previous games. imagine a character that could take part in all genres of games then the tournament would get attention from gamers from all genres. smash bros wont attract attention of questors or hack and slashers or rts players or first person shooters but it could. it could potentially add another level of strategy of rts which to level raynor or kerrigan. and it would add another level of team work. why they aint doing that? it would be greater chance to play with friends of different tastes imagine terran with whirlwind start against necro zerglings and fire golem. a place to level and rts. d2 chars would need size upgrade or ride upgrade, sonszilla !!! ultralisk or supersized barbarian!! and imagine bonus quests where the questor would benefit with the help of a rts captain that has the ability to go to the native questors game. what would you expect the tournament attention would be. I can imagine barcrafters and arcades with ultralisk ride options similar to mechanical bull!!



what?




I like how they didn't actually say which game will be played
soon.Cloak
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States983 Posts
April 29 2014 23:47 GMT
#10
On April 30 2014 08:24 ahw wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 30 2014 07:06 WilliamDonaldLewis wrote:
they need the good ingredients from diablo 2 plus the good ingredients from soul caliber with a promise of continued benefit something from previous games. imagine a character that could take part in all genres of games then the tournament would get attention from gamers from all genres. smash bros wont attract attention of questors or hack and slashers or rts players or first person shooters but it could. it could potentially add another level of strategy of rts which to level raynor or kerrigan. and it would add another level of team work. why they aint doing that? it would be greater chance to play with friends of different tastes imagine terran with whirlwind start against necro zerglings and fire golem. a place to level and rts. d2 chars would need size upgrade or ride upgrade, sonszilla !!! ultralisk or supersized barbarian!! and imagine bonus quests where the questor would benefit with the help of a rts captain that has the ability to go to the native questors game. what would you expect the tournament attention would be. I can imagine barcrafters and arcades with ultralisk ride options similar to mechanical bull!!



what?




I like how they didn't actually say which game will be played

Ya, this is the big question. PM would be way too much to ask, I think, but Melee instead of (or in addition to, I guess is more likely) Brawl...
Yorkie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States12612 Posts
April 30 2014 00:06 GMT
#11
Nintendo finally realizing that no matter what they do, SSB will be a competitive game. Hopefully they invite awesome people!
Hwang Kang Hooooooooooo. Follow mah boy Shellshock @Shellshock1122
[Phantom]
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
Mexico2170 Posts
April 30 2014 00:16 GMT
#12
i hope is smash 4

supousedly the 3ds versión will be out in the summer, but i hope they also have the wii u version as a demo or in the tournament (obiously as a beta or something not finished).
WriterTeamLiquid Staff writer since 2014 @Mortal_Phantom
synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
April 30 2014 00:22 GMT
#13
On April 30 2014 08:24 ahw wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 30 2014 07:06 WilliamDonaldLewis wrote:
they need the good ingredients from diablo 2 plus the good ingredients from soul caliber with a promise of continued benefit something from previous games. imagine a character that could take part in all genres of games then the tournament would get attention from gamers from all genres. smash bros wont attract attention of questors or hack and slashers or rts players or first person shooters but it could. it could potentially add another level of strategy of rts which to level raynor or kerrigan. and it would add another level of team work. why they aint doing that? it would be greater chance to play with friends of different tastes imagine terran with whirlwind start against necro zerglings and fire golem. a place to level and rts. d2 chars would need size upgrade or ride upgrade, sonszilla !!! ultralisk or supersized barbarian!! and imagine bonus quests where the questor would benefit with the help of a rts captain that has the ability to go to the native questors game. what would you expect the tournament attention would be. I can imagine barcrafters and arcades with ultralisk ride options similar to mechanical bull!!



what?




I like how they didn't actually say which game will be played

logically, if they want to show off smash4 there then it'll be smash4. otherwise, hoping for melee :3
:)
Yergidy
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2107 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-30 00:29:04
April 30 2014 00:26 GMT
#14
Smash 4 is going to be the game played.

he tournament will see sixteen highly-skilled Smashers converge to compete in the Wii U version of the new title, streamed live for the world to see it in the hands of these dedicated competitors for the first time.

Source: http://shoryuken.com/2014/04/29/nintendo-holding-invitational-for-upcoming-super-smash-bros-at-e3-2014/
One bright day in the middle of the night, Two dead boys got up to fight; Back to back they faced each other, Drew their swords and shot each other.
soon.Cloak
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States983 Posts
April 30 2014 04:44 GMT
#15
On April 30 2014 09:26 Yergidy wrote:
Smash 4 is going to be the game played.

Show nested quote +
he tournament will see sixteen highly-skilled Smashers converge to compete in the Wii U version of the new title, streamed live for the world to see it in the hands of these dedicated competitors for the first time.

Source: http://shoryuken.com/2014/04/29/nintendo-holding-invitational-for-upcoming-super-smash-bros-at-e3-2014/

Thanks for that! Now all we have to do is wait to see who's invited... I have no idea what the scene looks like now-Any chance liquid will be represented?
synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
April 30 2014 05:37 GMT
#16
On April 30 2014 13:44 soon.Cloak wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 30 2014 09:26 Yergidy wrote:
Smash 4 is going to be the game played.

he tournament will see sixteen highly-skilled Smashers converge to compete in the Wii U version of the new title, streamed live for the world to see it in the hands of these dedicated competitors for the first time.

Source: http://shoryuken.com/2014/04/29/nintendo-holding-invitational-for-upcoming-super-smash-bros-at-e3-2014/

Thanks for that! Now all we have to do is wait to see who's invited... I have no idea what the scene looks like now-Any chance liquid will be represented?

i would say ken is probably going. they probably want to invite big names to get more attention, even if they're not the best right now.
:)
chipmonklord17
Profile Joined February 2011
United States11944 Posts
April 30 2014 05:45 GMT
#17
On April 30 2014 14:37 synapse wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 30 2014 13:44 soon.Cloak wrote:
On April 30 2014 09:26 Yergidy wrote:
Smash 4 is going to be the game played.

he tournament will see sixteen highly-skilled Smashers converge to compete in the Wii U version of the new title, streamed live for the world to see it in the hands of these dedicated competitors for the first time.

Source: http://shoryuken.com/2014/04/29/nintendo-holding-invitational-for-upcoming-super-smash-bros-at-e3-2014/

Thanks for that! Now all we have to do is wait to see who's invited... I have no idea what the scene looks like now-Any chance liquid will be represented?

i would say ken is probably going. they probably want to invite big names to get more attention, even if they're not the best right now.


Especially because it will be a new game, so no one should be that much more skilled than anyone else. He'd definitely draw in the viewers
Orcasgt24
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada3238 Posts
April 30 2014 06:58 GMT
#18
I'm going to assume they will try and invite as many different players as they can that player different characters. So I doubt the 3 best foxes are gonna make the tourney or multiple Marth guys.
In Hearthstone we pray to RNGesus. When Yogg-Saron hits the field, RNGod gets to work
Liquid`Nazgul
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
22427 Posts
April 30 2014 11:14 GMT
#19
this is awesome
Administrator
Alakaslam
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
United States17336 Posts
April 30 2014 15:15 GMT
#20
Hello Nazgul. I agree.
If you think Elon Musk is a Nazi, it is because YOU radicalized him!
1 2 3 4 5 20 21 22 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 56m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
Lowko758
Rex 107
Codebar 66
ProTech54
ForJumy 14
StarCraft: Brood War
Britney 33555
Calm 7091
Shuttle 3997
Sea 3562
Horang2 3333
Flash 2639
ggaemo 1191
Barracks 783
EffOrt 757
Soulkey 677
[ Show more ]
sorry 579
Mini 571
hero 513
actioN 458
firebathero 451
ZerO 392
Soma 368
Larva 360
Snow 330
BeSt 319
Hyuk 219
Nal_rA 137
Pusan 127
Mong 115
Mind 102
TY 95
Rush 65
Movie 62
Sharp 54
Sea.KH 39
soO 38
[sc1f]eonzerg 37
sSak 35
sas.Sziky 31
scan(afreeca) 19
Terrorterran 16
JulyZerg 13
Rock 11
NaDa 11
IntoTheRainbow 9
Bale 6
HiyA 4
Dota 2
Gorgc6372
qojqva3198
Dendi1911
syndereN418
XcaliburYe285
KheZu188
League of Legends
Reynor97
Counter-Strike
flusha498
markeloff209
Other Games
singsing2249
hiko1194
crisheroes409
Hui .326
Fuzer 225
oskar194
ArmadaUGS110
KnowMe99
QueenE52
Trikslyr50
rGuardiaN31
FunKaTv 26
ZerO(Twitch)23
Organizations
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 15 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• StrangeGG 92
• davetesta24
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
Dota 2
• WagamamaTV512
League of Legends
• Nemesis3381
• Jankos1177
Upcoming Events
RotterdaM Event
56m
OSC
8h 56m
WardiTV Summer Champion…
19h 56m
WardiTV Summer Champion…
23h 56m
PiGosaur Monday
1d 8h
WardiTV Summer Champion…
1d 19h
Stormgate Nexus
1d 22h
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
2 days
The PondCast
2 days
WardiTV Summer Champion…
2 days
[ Show More ]
Replay Cast
3 days
LiuLi Cup
3 days
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
3 days
RSL Revival
4 days
RSL Revival
4 days
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
4 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
5 days
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
5 days
Wardi Open
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

ASL Season 20: Qualifier #2
FEL Cracow 2025
CC Div. A S7

Ongoing

Copa Latinoamericana 4
Jiahua Invitational
BSL 20 Team Wars
KCM Race Survival 2025 Season 3
BSL 21 Qualifiers
HCC Europe
IEM Cologne 2025
FISSURE Playground #1
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 7
IEM Dallas 2025

Upcoming

ASL Season 20
CSLPRO Chat StarLAN 3
BSL Season 21
BSL 21 Team A
RSL Revival: Season 2
Maestros of the Game
SEL Season 2 Championship
WardiTV Summer 2025
uThermal 2v2 Main Event
Thunderpick World Champ.
MESA Nomadic Masters Fall
CS Asia Championships 2025
Roobet Cup 2025
ESL Pro League S22
StarSeries Fall 2025
FISSURE Playground #2
BLAST Open Fall 2025
BLAST Open Fall Qual
Esports World Cup 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall Qual
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.