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Barnard's Loop

1 year

The UltRank 2023 TTS is public! Stuff will be released over the weekend and some features missing now will be there on Monday the 30th.

LumiRank 2023 TTS (Public)

TTS by Value Tournaments,Region,Date,Tier,Value,Upcoming Tournaments,Date,Tier,Value Super Smash Con 2023,MD/VA,2023-08-13,P,12347,End of Season,2023-12-18

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Barnard's Loop

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2 years

OrionRank Ultimate: Eclipse, 25-1.

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OrionRank 2022 Mid-Year/Halfway: 50-1. @EazyFreezie created the graphic and has refined the algorithm. So far, things are a bit different from last year - but there's plenty of majors ahead this year to change things. Congrats to the Top 150!

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Regardless of what happens from here, MuteAce has beaten the top ranked players in Japan (acola,) Europe (Glutonny,) The USA (Light,) and MKLeo (Mexico) at GENESIS 9, per OrionRank '22. Historic run

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this is just lmaobox, ult online is now tf2 online. it's so over folks

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yeah im never playing elite again bro

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2 years

New minecraft update dropped

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1 year

amended tier list

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@LoopBarnard

2 years

OrionRank Ultimate: Eclipse, 50-26.

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2 years

Top 8 composition at BoBC 4; Gluto 🇫🇷 vs Tea 🇯🇵 Shuton 🇯🇵 vs KEN 🇯🇵 and Ouch!? 🇨🇦vs Kome 🇯🇵 Riddles 🇨🇦vs Sisqui 🇪🇸 First NA major in Smash history with no US/MX players.

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2 years

Region ranking + EU Honorable Mentions will be done Monday-Tuesday! Want time for both to be good. OrionRank Ultimate: Eclipse, Japan 1-50.

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3 years

Introducing: OrionRank Ultimate: Japan Top 150! Covering Jan. 2019 to June 2021! Courtesy of @EazyFreezie

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@LoopBarnard

1 year

We need to force a PR response from Nintendo. Worked with EVO 2013, hopefully it can work again; the fact some players are already in the USA for the cup makes Nintendo's actions especially petty. This directly personally affects tons of people

Smash World Tour 2022

@SmashWorldTour

1 year

The upcoming Smash World Tour Championships and the entirety of the 2023 Smash World Tour must be cancelled. Full Story:

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Barnard's Loop

@LoopBarnard

5 years

oh no

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@LoopBarnard

2 years

Every Fighters Pass 1 & 2 character has won a set in the Top 8 of a major. Additionally, every main or co-main of a FP1/FP2 character has at least made it to the Top 4 of a major. Except Banjo

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2 years

OrionRank 2022 Mid-Year/Halfway: 100-51. @EazyFreezie created the graphic and has refined the algorithm. 50-1 will be released tomorrow at 12 PM CST!

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Barnard's Loop

@LoopBarnard

3 years

On the subject of #UnBanNairo Nairo will no longer be omitted from future OrionRank submissions, nor will he be tagged as a "banned" player on TTS sheets. I have removed his "Banned" tag from the Orionrank 2015 sheet.

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1 year

Some examples of individual damages done: Many players spent a lot of money to travel widely during the year. Given no resistance to the SWT early on, it seemed as though this was a safe bet and they wouldn't can it last minute. This screws over a lot of people.

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@LoopBarnard

5 years

Fun times: a comparison between Ultimate's early meta and Smash 4's early meta. (re my meta report) The difference in character balance is pretty staggering. Diddy Kong comprised more than 27% of results during his pre-nerf reign of terror in 4.

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2 years

OrionRank: Eclipse, North America - 100-1.

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2 years

Peak character results for 2022, from January through June; a bit more condensed that unusual.

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@LoopBarnard

4 years

Alright! OrionRank Pre-Qurantine is here. The period used is brief - December 27th to March 15th. 3 images - 1-50, 51-100, HMs.

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@LoopBarnard

1 year

Zackray casually put up one of the best ever Pit runs in any Smash game. By far the best in Ultimate history - hard to say why he's going for it, but he got 3rd at Kagaribi 9 with solo Pit. Wins over Kameme, Yoshidora, Umeki, KEN, Rizeasu, & Eim.

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@LoopBarnard

1 year

This was (apparently) the first time MKLeo has lost a Grand Finals from winners side at a major in Ultimate.

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@LoopBarnard

2 years

Slight delay in the region ranking, so here's the EU ranking early! OrionRank Ultimate: Eclipse, Europe. 1-50

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@LoopBarnard

2 years

Image form; OrionRank Eclipse, 100-76. 75-51 tomorrow!

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4 years

EVO staff is incompetent: How they exploited and mistreated seeding teams. Read:

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@LoopBarnard

5 years

Smash Ultimate has more character diversity in the last 7-8 months than Smash 4 had in two years. Major list included (super-regional list is too long to screencap for either title), major definitions based on database I ran for Sm4sh and the OrionStats TTS.

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@LoopBarnard

9 months

Ly (Corrin) 3-2 Sparg0 (Cloud) in the biggest upset of the event so far

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@LoopBarnard

2 years

Zackray has now won back-to-back majors. Despite an 8 month gap, his last major (and non-weekly) was actually Kagaribi 6. With Ultimate WANTED 4, he has now won three non-Invitational majors in a row!

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@LoopBarnard

2 years

OrionRank Ultimate: Eclipse, 76-51.

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@LoopBarnard

3 years

ProtoBanham literally implementing wavedashing in neutral oh my god

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@LoopBarnard

1 year

Kameme has a wife and child and he's placed top 4 at one of Ultimate's most important events

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1 year

Did a quick analysis of the h2h stuff here from the last year, Category 3+ or higher events. Worth noting Jordan does have 2 Lima (62nd) wins at a regional

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4 years

i mean honestly, just look at how easy it is to farm japa-

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2 years

Character achievements - Late 2020 to early 2022. All 2019-early 2020 results are not considered for this list.

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@LoopBarnard

3 months

It gets crazier: Gackt 3-1 MkLeo (25th) and Zackray 3-0 Miya (17th)

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2 years

!!!!! Alice (Roy) 3-1 Acola for 4th at Maesuma in Shikoku! Crazy result

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@LoopBarnard

2 years

OrionRank Ultimate 2022, Mid-Year Update: Honorable Mentions. Players who would be formally ranked, but lack the attendance numbers.

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@LoopBarnard

2 years

MKLeo has now won three Category 6 (S++ Tier) events!

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@LoopBarnard

3 months

As a viewer one thing I do think is unfortunate about GENESIS X: Zackray didn't get streamtime in Top 64. Dabuz/Zackray, Zackray/Miya, Zackray/Sonix, and Zackray/Neo were all offstream despite all being pretty good sets.

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Barnard's Loop

@LoopBarnard

4 years

It's been a while since I've done a peak results post. While I'm working on the larger tier list project, I'll throw another one out. Going by the OrionStats TTS, here are single character peaks from March last year to March this year.

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@LoopBarnard

4 years

Characters statistics from 251 power rankings across 5 continents, dozens of countries, and over 3000 players. First, here is a shorthand of percentage stats of characters used worldwide among ranked players, as up to date as possible.

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@LoopBarnard

2 years

2022's fifth supermajor is wrapped up. Fun fact: Each one has been won by a different player. Genesis 8: MKLeo Kagaribi #7 : acola MomoCon 2022: Light Pound 2022: Glutonny Collision 2022: Spargo

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@LoopBarnard

1 year

Toriguri, Japan's best Banjo, defeats MuteAce 2-0. Huge upset and probably the best lifeline for Banjo's metagame to date

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@LoopBarnard

4 years

OrionRank 2019 Day 4 and the revealing of #25 - #1 is here. I'll be splitting this into three tweets. Here, we have the full algorithmic ranking for 2019.

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@LoopBarnard

3 years

After just today, Pyra/Luigi/Byleth all got onto the Top 4 Supermajor section! Up to 44 top 4 appearances from characters at majors.

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@LoopBarnard

9 months

Some key takeaways from Smash Con 2023; -Dabuz has bounced back since Kagaribi, now adding 2 Miya wins to his collection. -Acola has extended his consistency lead over the competition. -Zomba is an underrated top 10 contender -Miya now has positive set records on 2 top NA

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Barnard's Loop

@LoopBarnard

2 years

Wifi ZSS player Meido just 3-0'd acola at Sumabato SP 29 (!!!!!!!)

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@LoopBarnard

5 years

In addition, here is a shorthand image of the OrionRank Top 100 made by @MattyDarkDN . The IntheLoop article has details, but here's the base image covering the whole top 100!

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@LoopBarnard

1 year

Steve Legality Map (05/04/2023.) Contacted players/TOs all over to collect this info.

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@LoopBarnard

2 years

Ult sitting at nearly 130k views right now during Summit;

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2 years

First supermajor won by ProtoBanham in North America, third supermajor won by Japan in Ultimate, with the last being Zackray's win at TBH9. Another huge, historic event across the board!

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@LoopBarnard

2 years

Today, Big D made Winners Quarters of a supermajor going all Ice Climbers, defeating Light, Riddles, Jakal, and Tweek. His sole loss - Shuton - is active in JP Wifi, where Ice Climbers have top 10 results. They fight again tomorrow!

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@LoopBarnard

10 months

Bigduckhuntfan7000 3-1 tweek, one of the biggest upsets of the year!

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2 years

Kurama's wins so far: Tea, Glutonny, Zackray, Sparg0, Kola, Shuton. Arguably 5 top ten wins in one event and he's STILL in.

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@LoopBarnard

4 years

Average placements (weighted) among top 5 mains of each character. This took a while, but this shows how well characters do the more player results you count for each character! Some characters are backed heavily by one main, others do very well even with all five mains.

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Akakikusu is in top 24 despite needing to use an English menu. Just beat Dabuz 3-0, only loss so far was to Sonix. He had some close shaves against Longo and Colorondo8 but this is a successful international debut despite the language barrier w/ Hero menu.

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@LoopBarnard

1 year

HIKARU's run at UFA is unexpected for a number of reasons, but the biggest is that he's gone DK the vast majority of games, making this a bonafide Donkey Kong major run to top 3 at minimum of a major. First time this has happened since Smash 4

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@LoopBarnard

9 months

8 out of the top 10 attended SSC 2023. So far: Shuton (lost to AndresFn) Riddles (llost to Acola) Light (lost to Marss) Tweek (lost to Neo) Sonix (25th, IcyMist/DDee) Miya (ilost to Dabuz) Sparg0 (49th, Ly/Aaron) Acola (In winners side top 8)

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@LoopBarnard

2 years

Two last things on Steve until I drop a Steve paper; 1: Antagonism and mockery of Steve mains will result in a ban movement failing because it will create a loud, vocal resistance and make the movement appear petty/personal.

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@LoopBarnard

1 year

Yaura 3-0 Sparg0. By far the best Samus play ever recorded

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2 years

Kameme has placed top 8 at JP majors this year with Sora, but Sora is usually just a component mixed with Sheik/Mega Man. At Glitch Regen, Kameme has made top 8 with what appears to be solo Sora - a first since Zackray's one-time run with the character in late 2021.

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@LoopBarnard

2 years

Zackray goes from sweeping UW4 to placing 49th (!!!) at Maesuma TOP 10, losing to Kuroponzu (ROB) (1-3) in pools and shori (Wolf) (2-3) in losers. Crazy event so far!

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@LoopBarnard

1 year

@robwalt1964 @TierZoo @elonmusk do you unironically believe color gradients weren't invented until the 1960s

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2 years

Battle of BC 4 Seeding! I wasn't involved, but I haven't seen typical image seeding posts around so I thought I'd post it. Credit to @battleofbc and their seeders;

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@LoopBarnard

1 year

Worth noting that this is likely one of many consequences of the FTX debacle since TSM also is dipping from Rainbow Six. Really sad but not unexpected w/ esports in the spot it is ☹️

TSM

@TSM

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Today we part ways with @TweekSSB We can't thank you enough for everything you've done these past 3 years. A champion, a fighter, the embodiment of what it means to don the black-and-white. You're a TSM legend and we wish you the best in your future. Keep tearing it up, Tweek.

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4 years

Here is the Hidden Boss list as it has been constructed so far; features players from the USA, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Europe, Oceania, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.

Hidden Boss Construction

Hidden Bosses Region Color Key,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 United States,Mario,Super Dan,Yoomoo,Teb,ChillyChilli,Ninja,Necro,Stronghold,Nao,Tatsutsuyo,Aluf,Vitch,Yatta,Perkinips,Duwang,M...

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@LoopBarnard

2 years

OrionRank, Mid-Year 2022; 150-101. 100-51 will be released in roughly 2 hours. 50-1 will be released at noon CST tomorrow.

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@LoopBarnard

1 year

With BoBC5 maintaining Premier Tier status, we have probably the highest stakes WQs sets so far this year; Acola 🇯🇵 vs Sisqui 🇪🇸 Zomba 🇺🇸vs Miya 🇯🇵 Sparg0 🇲🇽vs Armadillo 🇨🇦 Maister 🇲🇽vs Glutonny 🇫🇷 Very international winners side!

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@LoopBarnard

11 months

Zomba DOES IT! After a lot of close calls post-quarantine, he has won his first major event at Crown III (S-Tier), with wins over Sonix, MkLeo, Tweek, Shuton, & Jakal.

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@LoopBarnard

3 years

Bad Things is a good tournament because it's the only Smash tournament where you can gentleman to Pokemon Showdown and lose gen 8 randoms. Based

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@LoopBarnard

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Also worth noting: This was a pretty good event for Europe. Probably their best to date at an S/P tier, despite lacking their arguable #1 in Bloom4Eva. Top 24: Sisqui 🇪🇸 Glutonny 🇫🇷 Tarik 🇩🇪 25th: Luugi 🇬🇧 AndresFn 🇪🇸 33rd: Dmitrii 🇮🇪 quiK 🇩🇪 65th: Mr. R 🇳🇱

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@LoopBarnard

2 years

Acola's unprecedented rise peaks with back-to-back major wins at Maesuma TOP 7 and Kagaribi 7; the former is a major (A-Tier) while the latter is a supermajor (S-Tier.) He is one of the youngest major winners of all time after dominating the Smashmate bracket in historic fashion.

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@LoopBarnard

1 year

The end of OrionRank and the future with @UltRankSSB Read:

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@LoopBarnard

1 year

Doramigi, a 14 year old Min Min who has defeated Mr. R and Cosmos this last month, adds Dabuz to his wins; he defeated Dabuz 2-1 in pools at Maesuma TOP 12. Really crazy event; Cosmos, Riddles, and Scend are the only international players to make it out in winners so far.

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@LoopBarnard

1 year

ApolloKage becomes the second Snake to defeat MKLeo, around 4 years after Salem won 3-1 at Pound 2019.

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@LoopBarnard

2 months

I regret to inform the public that Miya now has contributed a minimum of 2.5 points to the Mii Swordfighter score using the worst loadout ive ever seen. Actually no this rules

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@LoopBarnard

2 years

Character usage on recent power rankings, aggregated from an abridged list of 107 PRs spanning most notable regions. Source data will be released later, but this is what things look like in terms of pickrates region-to-region right now;

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@LoopBarnard

1 year

This screws over Australian players who are currently in the USA for Mainstage and staying for SWT. This screws over players like Yoshidora who could only set aside time for SWT because he otherwise has a wife & job and rarely attends OOR even in Japan.

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@LoopBarnard

2 years

Ferps is the first South American player to be voted into a modern Summit-style event! Huge accomplishment for Brazil & the wider continent

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@LoopBarnard

1 year

Fun fact: 7/8 of players in Battle of BC 5's Top 8 were at Kagaribi 10. Maister was the only one in this top 8 absent from that one.

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@LoopBarnard

1 year

Mainstage has been a complete trainwreck for top seeds; 5/8 (Light, Kola, Riddles, Tea, Shuton) all in losers; Riddles out, KEN/Tea for 33rd. Other high seeds like Zomba, Gackt, and KEN were all upset. Winner of KEN/Tea fights Zomba, generally just a mess right now lol

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@LoopBarnard

9 months

Character representation at SSC 2023! Olimar leads the way.

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@LoopBarnard

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Dabuz has fought for his life this event: 3-2 Chase, 3-2 Miya, 3-2 Marss, 3-2 KEN to make WFs.

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@LoopBarnard

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Side note but the top 4 in the world are the two best NA wifi and 2 best JP wifi players during the Quarantine Era. No matter how you shuffle it up, dominating online was a clear indicator of success. Same applies to Bloom w/ EU.

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@LoopBarnard

10 months

Next step in the meta balance paper; Averaging the success of characters when the average performances of their five best players! This is 2021-June 2023. Not all players per character are final, I have a good number of alternates I'll check to make sure I'm getting the best 5.

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@LoopBarnard

1 year

No shade towards Sonix! This tweet mostly is regarding comments in the thread. Two things; -This did not include LMBM. -This was an algorithm, not a panel vote. The idea that me or my colleagues would rank Sonix purposefully low because he mained Sonic is absurd.

LG Sonix

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LOOOOOOOL

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2 years

Little Mac player bt.yamato has returned to Ultimate; was known for one of Mac's best achievements in Smash 4 where he beat Sinji, Falln, 8BitMan, and AC to place 5th in 2018 at SoCal Regionals. Today he got 4th at HEROES #2 , a B-Tier equivalent

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@LoopBarnard

2 years

Not currently producing a piece on this subject, but I think MKLeo is probably the best post-Melee player of all time. He gives off serious Mango vibes being able to dominate in wildly different eras.

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@LoopBarnard

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Raarchyor, Morocco's best player who has resided in France for a while - wins Cora Smash Cup with Sora, beating Glutonny twice, Leon, Ogey, and Raflow.

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1 year

Not sure if it's been stated yet, but Miya's 13 set win streak at Seibugeki 12 (A-Tier) is the longest loser's run in Ultimate history.

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@LoopBarnard

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Kaninabe 3-2 MkLeo and KEN 3-2 Sparg0 within twenty seconds of each other. Huge, huge upsets; KEN winning his first set vs. Sparg0 after three game 5 losses and Kaninabe continuing a cinderella run.

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With that, Acola is (probably) #1 worldwide right now. Biggest marks against him: Losing records to Sparg0/MuteAce. Sparg0's 13th at Summit gives him a big valley Acola lacks, though. There's 3 months ahead though.

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9 months

The difference between 50th (Cosmos 51st, Atelier 50th) was 0.0002

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2 years

OrionStats character update for July! Steve starts Phase 6 off with a clean lead, while Snake re-emerges in the top 3 and Min Min accelerates to near-top 10 status. G&W has also had a very good month, with Miya, Maister, & regional data boosting the character.

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5 years

So - here we are! Notable Feats, Event Wins Only, and National & Regional Scores for the characters from December 7th-December 31st. Most of the cast appears somewhat viable, but a few top contenders have emerged.

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11 months

In more Smash history; Doramigi, a 13-14 year old Min Min player who has beaten a host of good players before (including Acola, Dabuz, & Cosmos) is sitting in winners finals of MaesumaTOP #13 . If he wins it, he'll be the youngest major winner of all time, if I'm not mistaken.

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1 year

Global character frequency, weighted by area competitiveness. This is one of many factors that will be used in a large tiering project.