Smash Ultimate at Genesis 8 Was Pure Chaos

[@TonyPajama]

0:54 Leo is really emotionally intelligent, he wins grand finals and instead of immediately popping off, he looked over at how upset gluttony was calmly gets up and waits for him to register the loss before going up and giving him a hug. Super glad someone like him is number 1

[@user-jc2jp7rd9f]

glutto and leo are homies as far as I know

[@shawnkeo2817]

@@user-jc2jp7rd9f they grinded a lot together

[@RampioreRegis]

@@user-jc2jp7rd9f he does this with almost everyone though

[@MitchBison]

true, he did something similar when he beat tweek at Kong Saga. what a considerate guy

[@questionsayer]

That’s why I love him

[@hashbrownakram6844]

Gluto rlly shined for me. He beat his demon in Kola and then went on to beat everyone without a single game 5. Props to him 🇫🇷🇫🇷

[@Scythra]

I like how 🇫🇷🇫🇷 (france abbreviation) sounds like "for real for real". But for real though, Glutonny was in top condition.

[@VictouffeVideos]

to me, his real demon is tweek. Gluto seems to struggle against his diddy, while tweek knows his wario very well And I wonder what would happen if tweek does not get eliminated so early. Would glutonny be able to conquer him in his impressive run? Or would tweek cut his run short once again? Hopefully we might see this match at Pound!

[@GamerBoO]

The man had to go through Cosmos, Kola, Zomba, Light & Sparg0 to make Grand Finals. That run is INSANE!

[@patoa3481]

What suprised me the most is how comvincingly he 3-0d Zomba and Light who usually made him give a run for his money

[@greedo194]

@@VictouffeVideos yeah, tweek is probably the player most knowledgable about wario after gluto, and gluto is his fav player I think.

[@MP4PartyStar]

“WILL WE SEE ANOTHER EIGHT ROBS IN TOP 64” shit had me DYING OML

[@Cashmoneez]

Narrator: "GENESIS WAS CHAOS!" Mkleo: "Genesis was a sunday"

[@MeowModeFGC]

I knew marss was gonna do well. Honestly expected him to do even better given I’m sure he’d want genesis 8 after his genesis 7 title, but I’m sure he’s happy with his performance.

[@musicdev]

I didn’t think Marss was going to do well but man, I’m so glad he did. I haven’t seen him play like that in a while

[@shepardice3775]

when Marss is on, he is ON. he has some magical ability to win every insane gamble i swear. the problem is it's hard to be consistent with it especially when you're playing a nerfed zss. had he not gotten tilted by Olimar and his Joker was more practiced, i think he would've gotten 4th (i don't think anybody in losers was beating gluto lol)

[@houstonwelch4253]

I don’t think he was happy with his placement (by his demeanor on the stage at the end), but has to be happy with how he performed up until then. He had most of the most hype games/plays for the entire tournament. I think he just burned out, there was a clear difference in how he was playing and how he played in his last game. He just needs to build back that mental stamina.

[@gunslinger9786]

@@shepardice3775 honestly I think he would have shitted on gluttony, he already had a good record on him and that would be the first arguably winning mu he got to face

[@Spidey-Mo]

I think he wasn't happy with his placement but I think he was happy about his actual performance. His zss was great but I think his joker needs just a bit more work

[@reccosevil]

Its Shocking how Mkleo being #1 for a long time seem so normal that everyone forgets how hard it is to stay up there and keep winning and proving his intelligence in this game is superior to anyone else who has touched the game for now, and that is absolutely brilliant. A generous Genius who doesn’t get the respect he deserves.

[@AviorGloria]

"Doesn't get the respect he deserves"? Yes he does, he gets compliments even when losing.

[@SRM13]

everyone respects him tweeker

[@rafaelbordoni516]

A little exaggerated considering a lot of people were starting to doubt his crown after the couple of majors he lost to Sparg0, but still no one lost respect to him, he gets way more respect than "doesn't get the respect he deserves".

[@lloydaran]

Every single commentator ever always reminds the spectator he is the best player to play this game to date, everyone in the community knows he's AT WORST top 2, so I don't know what you're talking about

[@MotivatedStudent2000]

@@lloydaran MKLeo is not even close to being the second best player, stop the low quality

[@skyblade7438]

It's called Genesis 8 for the number of ROBs that showed up.

[@pgstats]

The year is 2078, there are 64 ROBs in Ultimate Genesis 64 Top 64. Chaos still reigns.

[@kasmeer9676]

No word on Oryon's run? :( He did amazing by taking fellow french Raflow, Uncivil Ninja in a clutch game 5, Gackt with the Mario switch game 5, Skittles, and even taking a game off Kola with Dr. Mario !!! Him placing 13th (seed 76) and Sisqui placing 9th (seed 27) is definitely showing that EU is catching up with time !

[@ohjonny95]

Thanks for those nice words. To be honest all those years we were just represented by Gluto. Oryon and Sisqui were always that good, and we have other amazing players that would just have to travel like Mezcaul and Meru (best Peach EU), but yeah, finally Gluto managed to encourage Europe to travel more, cause it hurts if the talent is there but they won't go overseas to represent us

[@JB-fd8jy]

@@ohjonny95 definitely especially the best european player that never travels even outside of their own country Bloom4Eva or insane players from Dutch like Istudying. We need either more European majors or more European players travelling to international events

[@salvador6182]

Tweek getting 33rd is genuinely terrifying

[@trueheroluka2668]

Marss paradox strikes again

[@luxxtcg]

pgstats is becoming my go-to source for keeping up with the scene when i don’t have the time to watch every set. keep up the great work!

[@eighto3346]

the rise of the pnw i feel like deserves its own video. we’ve stayed so under the radar for so long and i feel like this is the first big sign that we’re a big deal

[@Inukitsoq]

For me, the higlights of this tournament were Gluto, Marss, Aaron and Ikan. Really impressive runs from all players.

[@ONLY_RR7]

7:12 that technically wasn’t an upset, Skyjay was seeded above MVD

[@SuperSilver7591]

I think it's based off pgr rating no?

[@lyrics2challenged]

@@SuperSilver7591 even so, eye test showed Sky has lately been better than MVD. I'd rather even call it an upset because of character differences, but I have no clue about that MU.

[@codystork3008]

@@lyrics2challenged Day one Incin main here. I would say even or plus one Incinaroar you revenge grenades and Snakes like to shield too much. Plus most edgegaurding options blow up Cipher and high recovery leads to up air juggles. Nikitia edgegaurding is the one thing that keeps it on the fence of even or plus one in my opinion.

[@lucasmenuet5982]

Great vid, i still don't know how you summed up that big of a tournament in such a good way ! I just wanted to notice that when talking about Mario's performances you didn't mention Oryon (13th place wolf main) that got crucial wins with his mario in top 64 matches. It was on the french stream mostly so i can't blame you for that. Got my subscribe !

[@pabscoello]

"Dark Wizzy finally beat his biggest bracket demon, DQ" LMAOOOOOO

[@theimpersonator7086]

The most interesting thing about Genesis 8 was def the resurgence of SoCal. That region took a hard hit in the transition from 4 to Ult, and is prob not even a Top 3 region in Ult(Tristate, New England, and Sunbelt are better imo). Also Pound is going to be hype. Hope to see Ken vs Leo, as Ken has a 2-0 record vs Leo in Ult.

[@voodooedits785]

It’s unlikely that they will meet in bracket

[@theimpersonator7086]

@@voodooedits785 They are literally projected by seeding to meet in Winners so it is more likely than not. It is not like if Leo loses in Winners Semis and Ken is in Losers, then they meet sort of thing.

[@voodooedits785]

@@theimpersonator7086 nvm I forgot that Ken is seeded 13

[@MotivatedStudent2000]

Ken usually underperforms abroad

[@N-cubed]

@@MotivatedStudent2000 Ken just needs a plane full of Japanese people waving flags to cheer him on

[@kidneystones3578]

I really appreciate this video, and all of your content, but it's really nice having the massive tournament explained in an easily digestible way. Thanks

[@sevenpink21]

Both games were INSANE at this tournament, it has me so excited for the future of both of them! Thanks as always for reporting, and I'd love to see a Melee video in my notifications soon

[@devoncampbell3607]

Ultimate was madness. Melee was a psychedelic hellscape.

[@CharlieGreasby]

Jmook is god

[@spuart3308]

we out here fizzwigglin'

[@Gr8Monst3r]

Ultimate IS the Multiverse of Madness ;)

[@mkale1749]

So happy that Marss is back, I’ve been a believer all along and it’s paying off

[@AndreasSaag]

These videos are amazing and for me they’re the piece of the puzzle that’s been missing. I don’t have time to watch the entire streams but between the VODs and these videos I can have a full understanding of the current competitive smash circuit. Thank you ❤️

[@nathontrimberger7961]

Keep up the great content

[@codyrichards6153]

This was a very well made video. Took an extremely large tournament where a lot happened and condensed it excellently, covering a bunch of different happenings. Kudos PGstats.

[@l.a.rodriguez9581]

0:35 Bruh no way anyone predicted Myran in top 8. I predicted Gluto at #3 since he lost to Spargo 0-3 in loser’s finals at Reta (although he did beat him 3-2 in winner's semis). I also had Tweek and Marss top 5, Kola, Light and Riddles round out my list.

[@user-id3uk5zs1n]

we already knew top 8 contenders when this guy posted his prediction that's why

[@HenryZhoupokemon]

@@user-id3uk5zs1n tbh his prediction wasn’t crazy either, I literally had the same predications as him lmao

[@JROCK50054]

I feel like Cosmos would have beaten Myran if he didn't SD himself to an L vs Ikan

[@HenryZhoupokemon]

@@JROCK50054 bruh that’s chokemos for u lmao

[@JROCK50054]

@@HenryZhoupokemon Stop it, ppl give him that name but he's still one of the top players in reverse 3-0's

[@Sagolel4797]

The most heartbreaking set i watched was definetly zomba vs sparg0 in winners semis. such a crushing choke in game 4

[@JROCK50054]

Good thing they didn't stream Cosmos misinputs vs Ikan. I actually wanted to stop watching after seeing it on Nairo's stream. Someone was streaming and pointed their camera at the Cosmos vs Ikan set. Cosmos had the most soul crushing rapid sd's of all time. He lost game 4 by doing it, then did it twice in game 5. Mythra side b sd.

[@trevorlorah4992]

@@JROCK50054 ya hate to see it

[@RockManSSB]

Genesis 8 was super fun as my first major and I’m really hoping to travel to more like these

[@AroundWayOther]

I love all the hype and fantastic (up)sets we got at Genesis 8.

[@theblueavian]

This makes me really happy that the smash scene is alive and thriving. Who knew we would see Incineroar out here, making top 48. It’s incredible

[@jukes4499]

You make great content man. Nobody makes these highlight reel + "storylines you need to know" from recent events like you do.

[@jackolson4160]

Outstanding video

[@Sancnea]

0:35 I'm pretty sure they only predicted the placements. The top 8 was already known at that time iirc. Still impressive as hell.

[@Mugiwaravic]

Tweet at beginning was on Top 8 Sunday. He just got the placements right, players were already in place

[@XC11301991]

It was insane, viewership was ~180,000 if including all restreamers from our international guys, moist, and Nairo. Such a shame so many good matches weren't streamed.

[@godhand416]

I see a lot of props given to a lot of players (which is deserved) but everyone seems to take mkleos reign for granted, his consistency is something that I'm constantly in awe of. Props to the humble king.

[@AndresAndr95]

Vendetta and Andresfn fighting for best shoto while ikan is just going crazy in the background lol he’s probably the best considering who he’s beat and the “upsets” he’s made

[@ferny4k]

The quality of these videos is going up so fast, love the content!

[@thegrimoutlaw4732]

Shout out to Ikan!!! I swear the fg characters in smash are so hype!!! His Ryu was amazing!!! Hope to see more from Ikan!

[@karanveersehra6336]

Ikan is the goat

[@JROCK50054]

Ikan is a god, but only reason he beat Cosmos was because of some very very VERY sad sd's. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5azeK2qgs-kgdk

[@Nico-iu5ev]

Your videos are awesome, how do you not have more subscribers? Your cadence is perfect!

[@MeowModeFGC]

That one guy on twitter is a time traveler

[@DavionLane]

I saw a guy who got it all wrong

[@parcanshy73]

@@DavionLane who was first on that guy's list?

[@arnausg350]

@@parcanshy73 he predicted the results of all the top 8 matches. He guessed them all wrong

[@kris0375]

@@DavionLane Yeah everyone was mocking him after the tournament 🤣

[@Justinbyleth]

Lol hey that’s me 7:13 Why were there 8 robs 😭

[@thesnorlaxagenda]

ROB supremacy!!!!

[@yosma6]

Not a single word about europeans other than Gluto, when France was litteraly the 2nd most representes region of the tourney, and such good placements like oryon or sisqui. Since it’s so rare for them to be able to travel for those tourneys, it would have been nice to at least talk about their runs. Great video overall still

[@michaelh5772]

8 ROBs in top 64 and Zomba clearly stands out as the best, so crazy to me. Making such huge waves even with a “easy” character to play is truly astounding. First time seeing a ROB that I think is just as fun to watch as when Zackray played ROB. After outplacing Dabuz twice in their last two majors, I think the new King of New York is here 🙌

[@jeff-1738]

Can we all agree that Leo’s pop off was non existent? How do you win a stacked supermajor and have no reaction afterwards??

[@thegrimoutlaw4732]

He's used to it lol. My boy Leo is chill!!!

[@kaneggi6216]

At this point hes just defending his title, mans the literal final Boss of ultimate

[@Jackaljkljkl]

It might be becase Glut is one of his best friends? Not sure.

[@thegrimoutlaw4732]

@@Jackaljkljkl that's true, but also Leo almost never pops off.

[@KevSB07]

I think he noticed Gluto’s reaction

[@Doobie_AdamsSSB]

Another awesome video! Please never stop making this post-tourney breakdowns lol I can’t get enough of them!

[@Abbaschand]

11:18 Don't forget that Maesuma TOP 7, a big tournament in Osaka, Japan, is happening on the same week with Low Tide City, and Kagaribi 7, the premier Japanese major, is being held just a few days later. Smash is truly back.

[@NathanRW]

Hell yeah, great recap! I don't have time to watch all of the matches, so this gives me enough to look up specific matches :)

[@Probasaur]

Welcome back is right. What a homecoming! The fans are absolutely coming out on top, especially if you enjoy both ultimate and melee.

[@datavoyt]

I’ll be honest I was a doubter of Marss. But MY GOD HE AWOKEN HIS INNER BEAST AGAIN!!!

[@jalucaru]

I appreciate the quality of these videos so much!!

[@andrewfuerst9192]

This vid amps me up for the future of smash so much. I want to enter a tourney soon

[@Snicky-D]

Also worth mentioning about the steve segment is that Jake won the genesis pre-local that had a bunch of top players from genesis in attendance

[@guillermocamacho8054]

The biggest story of G8 it´s Gluto run. He beat a lot of players who used to beat him and made some sick plays

[@ipsum2224]

As a PNW Shulk main, this tournament made me happy in so many ways

[@Toonie]

PGStats videos are soo good!

[@2FadeMusic]

Great rundown

[@KevSB07]

Great video, I love the narrator, but come on I needed to hear about Oryon

[@marvymelody]

I’m still so miffed that we didn’t see any of Ikan’s losers run or crazy upsets. None of them were on stream :(

[@pgstats]

BTS will be uploading VODs of every Top 64 match in the next week or so! :)

[@marvymelody]

@@pgstats thats amazing! Thank you sm for the info!!

[@thomasdelafilolie2779]

Not talking about Oryon's crazy loser run is criminal, with win over Raflow, Uncivil Ninja, Gact and Skittles

[@raghavarun9275]

imo most surprising run: ikan, HM: glutonny best losers run: aaron, HM: ikan, yonni most hype run: glutonny, HM: marss

[@drakejoshofficialyoutubech5569]

Personally I found Aaron's run pretty surprising since he was struggling to get solid results at the start of the year (49th at LMBM and 65th at Glitch Infinite). Glad to see him doing well again because he showed lots of promise at Summit 3 and Lowtide.

[@untyprandom9740]

I'd add Glutonny also in best losers run (5 loser bracket wins) and as a french I'd add in best losers run Oryon (5 losers wins), Enki (6 losers wins) and Leon (7 losers wins) Who is HM btw?

[@crazybokoblin8638]

@@untyprandom9740 Hm; Honorable mention

[@untyprandom9740]

@@crazybokoblin8638 ah yes of course

[@Jackaljkljkl]

@@drakejoshofficialyoutubech5569 He might be the best Diddy again

[@ihartcrackers]

Fantastic video ! Great work guys

[@nathanlevesque7812]

'Winning' the title of best shoto only to immediately get outplaced by another shoto at the same tournament must be deflating.

[@samshapira8295]

I don't think anything can top that Faze Spargo reveal during top 8. Faze Clan entering the smash scene is probably the biggest upset of the tournament.

[@louie2]

very well done stat video

[@kuno0009]

I was there and my god the set were insane and was a great thing to intend cant wait for the next one

[@NickyG_vz]

I'm a melee head, but this content gets me excited to watch some ult. Not gonna lie

[@Marcelobernart]

Plz...never stop doing this kind of video 🥰

[@jonathanlgill]

Dang, I wish some of those upsets had been streamed, like Fizzmint beating Elegant.

[@MrBobxxl]

i really love these summaries

[@adamisdracora2091]

Pgstats: with the nex mayor well know what was a fluke and what wasnt Marss: i donk think soooooo *(goes to kawaii con instead)*

[@celrokproduction]

You should have talked about the Darl room from the Solary stream that was the Shadow Realm incarnated

[@alexlol2428]

Honestly seeing Gluto’s fellow french piers cheering him on was so wholesome

[@am3thyst817]

I was waiting for this video

[@ImikoMxHun]

This is the exact content i need for smash just a review of a tournament

[@alexandre526]

Let's not forget Oryon 😌

[@austinroccaro2219]

The King never left.

[@ImLuna_az]

5:55 Only five months have passed since Jake and Yonni were the two main contenders for best Steve in the world. Feels like so long ago…

[@5inistermm_109]

holy fuck ikan’s ryu is amazing… im from northern IL too so i been known bout this person but i always thought he was just the “ZD” (dominates locals but meh at majors)of the region but mannn i was wrong. bro took out 4 top players and a top eu player… 2 of them which have beaten Leo… crazy

[@sprimatestudios3059]

I wonder what the blanked out word at 3:09 says

[@zacharyalford8185]

The shadow realm was actually the bear part of the tournament

[@Gabriel64468]

7:18 What is said doesn't match with what is shown? Aegis (1) + Pikachu (2) > Incineror (2)

[@StructuredAnarchy]

Stoked BC reps performed as well as they did. I need to get to tourneys and play with these guys.

[@myst6673]

The fact that 3rd seeded Tweek placing 33d barely made it into the video just shows how crazy Genesis 8 was. Dang. Can't wait for the Melee counterpart to this video. (Jmook! Jmook! Jmook!)

[@dbgr9875]

5:01 The Myran pop off lmaooooo that boy hyped as hell

[@taillord4644]

One thing thing that really saddened me was the amount of EU team kills with like 4 or 5 of em

[@weaponleonX]

Great work

[@jesusneuquen]

I'm really sad for tweek since he's my favorite player but I'm glad gluttony got that far

[@alicon852]

LET'S FUCKING GO PNW THIS WAS OUR TOURNAMENT FUCK YEAH

[@dent5672]

Really great video

[@jackn2457]

you guys make amazing content

[@fullduck97]

I like how mentioning there was so many rob's was the only part he was really upset about

[@thatguyscrub8480]

Genesis was incredible and im so grateful its held in my home city

[@Saeohh]

Wild that you can do this exact video about melee too. Crazy tournament.

[@Im0nJupiter]

LET'S FUCKING GO PNW

[@megaman7799]

I honestly think we need to make a #0 on the rankings for Leo. He's inevitably gonna be the best for his entire career. He's just on another level entirely.

[@CheeseburgerOW]

Miss this channel

[@manzenshaaegis8783]

I did not have a chance to watch genesis live but saw the top 8 bracket and immediately thought, huh, this tourney must be full of crazy upsets based on the names I am seeing here. Guess I was right!

[@leoc7232]

was there no riddles appearance this tourney??

[@stephenduncan3551]

Just want to shout out the narration by Comona! They do such a great job with these!

[@pgstats]

We agree! They do a great job on our pieces! 💙

[@stephenduncan3551]

@@pgstats Sorry about using the wrong pronouns for Comona - edited! What a fantastic commentator! Keep up these great videos PG!

[@saiki3603]

This tourney was brutal holy shit

[@Zeus-jj9ey]

BIGGYMOUTH IS AN OREGON PLAYER

[@Winterminty]

Oregon ranked, but on smash gg as Washington, so maybe just Vancouver area?