Zephyr’s Internal Ranking Tournament 2024-2025 Q2

As the end of 2024 is almost upon us, it also means that it is again high time for an internal ranking! The second internal ranking tournament was held on Wednesday the 4th of December and was a closed tournament for Zephyr members only. 

Since this is the first closed tournament, the amount of participants was smaller compared to the last tournament, which was open to everybody. Nevertheless, this did not take away from the competitiveness of the tournament, and we even got to welcome one new player who joined the tournament, Jeffrey (Future2025). He joined the Zephyr smash community after the last internal ranking tournament and has now officially entered the Zephyr smash ranking. 

Furthermore, the tournament itself this time was a little different from previous iterations. The whole tournament was all best of 5 sets. Normally this would not be possible because this would take too much time, and we play best of 3 sets until losers semi-finals. However, due to only having 8 competitors (everybody made top 8 !!!), it was possible this time. This was a nice change of pace as in best of 5 sets there is more time to improvise, adapt and overcome your opponent, and of course everybody gets to play more Super Smash Bros., which always is a win. 

Lastly, we got Irregular and Future2025 making their debut in commentating for smash and Tino making his debut as an internal ranking tournament champion. He dethroned Tanglad, who was the runner-up and also the previous tournament winner, in an intense grand final set, which you can watch on the ESEV Zephyr YouTube channel. 

The bracket results can be found here.

Points earned from the Q2 tournament and a nice graphic for the top 8 can be found below:

1. Tino (Mr. Game and Watch, Luigi) – 9 points

2. Tanglad (Kazuya, Cloud) – 7 points

3. Unique (Falco, Fox, Wolf) – 5 points

4. Muurverf (Inkling, Pyra & Mythra) – 4 points

5. Irregular (Yoshi, Bowser, Daisy) – 2 points

5. Vincentg (Byleth, Roy) – 2 points

7. DVoid (King Dedede, Sephiroth) – 1 point

7. Future2025 (Mii swordfighter) – 1 point