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GENESIS 6 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Seeding Controversy

GENESIS 6 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Seeding Controversy

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GENESIS 6 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Seeding Controversy refers to the controversial seeding, the preliminary ranking of players in a tournament bracket, for the 2019 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate major tournament "GENESIS 6" in case of the bias towards the European SSBU scene by having European players being overall seeded lower than Japanese players.

Background

On January 25th, 2019, tournament staff of GENESIS 6 unveiled the seeding for the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate portion of the tournament.[1] The next day, top Super Smash Bros. Melee player and prominent SSBU streamer William "Leffen" Hjelte called out the seeders of the tournament for their bias against European players, comparing the results of top French player "Gluttony" versus top Japanese player "zackray," both players dominating their regions' tournaments, yet the former was ranked 35th while the latter 4th. After addressing his complaints to the seeding staff of the tournament, one of the staff members presented the hypothetical that if they defeated 500 penguins in Antarctica, should they be top seeded? The question implied that Europe's region holds less skill than that of Japan (shown below).


Leffen @TSM_Leffen Follow g6 seeders just compared EU top players to penguins JESUS FUCKIGN CHRIST ALT Today at 5:11 AM so if 500 penguins entered a tournament in antarctica and i won it should i be a top 10 seed? 12:13 AM 27 Jan 2019 from Stockholm, Sweden

Leffen's Antarctica Scene Tweet

On January 26th, 2019, Leffen made a tweet sarcastically stating that he competed amongst the highly skilled penguins within the scene, stating that "You mess with the waddle, you mess with all of us."[2] The tweet garnered over 15,000 likes and over 2,000 retweets as of February 1st, 2019. Leffen's call out would be covered by Dot eSports.[4]


Leffen @TSM_Leffen Following Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a Switch to boot up when it's -135 degrees outside? Out here in Antarctica, we have a small but dedicated scene. I'm the only human among us, but we have some high level penguins as well. You mess with the waddle, you mess with all of us 9:15 PM- 26 Jan 2019 from Stockholm, Sweden 2,362 Retweets 15,309 Likes

Soon after Leffen's tweet, the Smash Twitter community posted multiple jokes about penguin Smash players. Popular examples including a tweet from Nintendo UK VS wishing the European players good luck at the tournament, with a picture of four King Dedede's on a Battlefield version of the Ice Climber's stage Summit.[3] Twitter user @MikeHazeGaming made a joke referencing Salem's Years of Research tweet, gaining over 290 retweets and 2,400 likes (shown below, right).


Nintendo UK VS Follow @NintendoUKVS Best of luck to all the European Super #SmashBrosUltimate players at @Genesis Smash this weekend! mikehaze @MikeHazeGaming Follow Leffen youre nothing but a stupid one trick penguin and I'm tired of seeing you even try to be compete in a Smash game you joke. Money match me and I'Il show you that all your years of research were in vain. eHyperCam

The European players at GENESIS 6 would often be referred to as "penguins" by the commentators at the event in reference to Leffen's tweet.

Various Examples


EUPLAYERSWHEN THEYRE SEEDEDTOO LOW AT GENESIS ALEFFEN ANALYSIS imgflip.com yugioh content creator @TheLazyLee Follow Replying to @TSM_Leffen me heading to genesis 12:52 AM-27 Jan 2019 Samuroleon (Stu) @samuroleon -9h Replying to @NintendoUKVS @Genesis_Smash EU players on their way to genesis GIF の。 Little Penguin Boi BaaKi @SMASHBaaKi Follow ) 、 Glutonny EU EU MESS WITH THEL AND OD っMIT

[1] r/smashbros – GENESIS 6 Seeding

[2] Twitter – Leffen's Tweet

[3] Twitter – Nintendo UK VS Tweet

[4] Dot Esports – TSM Leffen calls out Genesis 6 seeders for European bias

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in reply to ShanePd00

The genesis 6 is a world famous garden. Each year, top smash players get turned into pots, and seeded, with the best ones getting extra rare plants. So, japanese must protect their seeds from birbs, while Europeans fight penguins, and because penguins eat fish their pots aren't as hard, so they instead must lift 500 penguins to show their manhood.

That's what i understood atleast.

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