Zephyr’s Internal Ranking Q4 & Final Ranking 2024-2025
Zephyr’s yearly internal ranking has finally concluded with the internal ranking Q4 having been the last opportunity to alter the rankings. But before we go to the rankings, we also have to cover the tournament itself. So let’s start with that. The tournament this time had 11 competitors, with two new competitors entering the fray. You might be wondering who could be joining this late in the year, but actually they are somewhat familiar faces to Zephyr’s smash community because they also joined the casual smash 2v2 tournament and helped during Dynamash we had earlier this year. Indeed, they were Robin (Berd) & Oscar (memvis) who have officially entered the Zephyr smash ranking and even though were not the favorites to win, had fun.
The favorite to win this tournament, however, was a more difficult question than it would seem. Since the return of Mattie, a deadlock had been created among the top smash players at Zephyr where Mattie would usually beat Tino, Tino would usually beat Tanglad and Tanglad would usually beat Mattie. Combined with the fact that for them the tournament was extra intense because the top 3 spots were highly contested this year according to the points. The difference in points between rank 2 Tino and rank 1 Tanglad was only two points before the tournament and similarly for third place between rank 3 Unique and rank 4 Mattie differing only 1 point. Unique had to outplace Mattie in order to secure his third place spot, however unfortunately lost to Tino and Vincentg. Eventually, with only the aforementioned top 3 players left, Tanglad had to face off against Tino whom the winner of would have to fight Mattie in grand finals. Tino eventually took the win over Tanglad and Mattie won the tournament beating Tino.
The points gained during this final tournament are as followed:
1. Mattie (Rosalina & Luma, Zelda) – 12 points
2. Tino (Cloud, Mr. Game and Watch, Luigi) – 10 points
3. Tanglad (Cloud, Captain Falcon) – 7 points
4. Vincentg (Byleth) – 5 points
5. Unique (Falco, Wolf, Fox) – 3 points
5. AkBob (Yoshi) – 3 points
7. DVoid (King Dedede, Sephiroth) – 2 points
7. Muurverf (Inkling) – 2 points
9. I have a snail btw (Kirby) – 1 point
9. Berd (Random) – 1 point
9. memvis (Incineroar) – 1 point
Thus, the top 3 consists of Tino in first place getting his revenge from just missing top 3 last year. Tanglad at second place barely losing to Tino for first place by just one point and Mattie at third place who despite a huge disadvantage by having missed the first two tournaments, fought his way back to the top.
The final ranking of this year and a nice graphic of the top 8 of the Q4 tournament can be found below. The final bracket can be found here, and the VOD of the tournament can be found on the esevzephyr YouTube channel here. We wish the returning players next year good luck with improving their results and hopefully taking home the victory.
1. Tino (Mr. Game and Watch, Cloud, Luigi) – 30 points
2. Tanglad (Kazuya, Cloud, Captain Falcon, Donkey Kong, Fox) – 29 points
3. Mattie (Rosalina & Luma, Zelda) – 25 points
4. Unique (Falco, Wolf, Fox, Banjo & Kazooie) – 17 points
5. Vincentg (Byleth) – 14 points
6. DVoid (King Dedede, Sephiroth) – 8 points
7. Akbob (Yoshi) – 7 points
8. Muurverf (Inkling, Pyra & Mythra) – 6 points
9. I have a snail btw (Kirby, Dark Pit, Dark Samus) – 1 point
9. Maximiliaan (King K. Rool, Steve) – 1 point
9. future2025 (Mii swordfighter) – 1 point
9. Berd (Random) – 1 point
9. memvis (Incineroar) – 1 point
14. Irregular (Yoshi, Bowser) – 0 points
