A Midyear Compilation of Tournament Data and Character Representation

Hey everyone. I looked at some of the most significant tournaments that have happened this year and I've compiled a lot of data regarding character representation.

 

In order to pull what I consider meaningful data, I corresponded the tournament size with how deep I would look into a bracket. For example, a tournament like The Void, I only looked at Top 8, but a much larger tournament like Smash N Splash, I looked out to top 32. The details are below:

• <50 Entrants: Top 8

• 50, <100 Entrants: Top 16

• 100, <150 Entrants: Top 25

• 150 Entrants: Top 32

 

The followings are the tournaments that I used, and the number of entrants:

• The Void - 37
• Pre Tech Those - 38
• We Tech Those 3 - 194
• Cashed Out - 51
• Downfall 8 - 21
• ASH@WIT Finale - 76
• No Fun Allowed 2 - 102
• House of Lz - 18
• Don't Sleep - 64
• Frozen Phoenix - 101
• Resting Stitch Face - 48
• The Flex Zone 3 - 93
• Project M Showdown 7 - 56
• IAB200 - 13
• Push More Buttons - 72
• SG Revival - 49
• Smash N Splash 4 - 352

 

Additionally, a lot of players are dual mains. However, it can be difficult to know what player used what character in what situation. In order to keep this project manageable, I only assumed the following when it comes to dual maining:

• Lunchables (Marth and Roy)
• Malachi (Peach and Sheik)
• Boringman (Meta Knight and Sonic)
• Sneez (ROB and Diddy Kong)
• Rongunshu (Marth and Lucario)

 

So just to repeat:

I corresponded the tournament size with how deep I would look into a bracket. For example, a tournament like The Void, I only looked at Top 8, but a much larger tournament like Smash N Splash, I looked out to top 32.

 

That being said, here is the number of times each character appears in this dataset:

Character	Appearances
Wolf	19
G&W	18
Fox	16
Meta Knight	13
Diddy	13
Wario	12
Sonic	12
ZSS	11
Charizard	11
Falcon	10
Luigi	9
Peach	9
Tink	8
Sheik	8
Ike	8
Squirtle	8
Lucario	8
Roy	8
Ics	7
Ivysaur	7
Marth	7
Snake	6
Ness	6
Mewtwo	4
Lucas	4
Mario	4
Falco	4
ROB	4
DDD	4
Zelda	4
Donkey Kong	3
Yoshi	2
Bowser	2
Pikachu	1
Jigglypuff	1
Kirby	1
Ganondorf	1

 

• Samus, Link, Pit, and Olimar did not make any appearances, unfortunately.

 

All right, So I went ahead and broke down the data even further. This time I looked at ONLY TOP 8 of every tournament. Results were much more interesting:

Character	Appearances
Wolf	12
Wario	10
G&W	9
Charizard	9
Tink	7
ZSS	7
Ike	7
Marth	7
Meta Knight	6
Diddy	6
Peach	6
Fox	5
Ics	5
Sheik	4
Lucario	4
Roy	4
Ivysaur	4
Mewtwo	4
Falco	4
Sonic	3
Falcon	3
Luigi	3
Squirtle	3
Ness	3
Snake	2
DDD	2
Donkey Kong	2
Lucas	1
Mario	1
Zelda	1
Yoshi	1
Bowser	1
Ganondorf	1

 

Here are some fun notes about this data:

• Fox had 11 fewer appearances between full bracket and top 8. The Fox players who made Top 8s were Silver(2), Arsenals (2), and Hondo (1)
• G&W had 9 fewer appearances between full bracket and top 8. G&W was also the most diverse character with AED (2), Ellipsis (2), Pikmon (1), Lz (1), JJK (1), Drugfreechu (1), and Nyx (1)
• Switch had 10/12 Wolf placings, Ivayne held the other (2).
• Sosa and Twisty each had (4) Wario placings, Dadpool and Morks each held (1).
• Kycse held 8/9 Charizard placings, Dingo was the other (1).
• dvd held 4/7 Tink placings, Kunai had (1), and Zork had (2).
• Malachi held 4/6 Peach placings, Jaden and lloD each had (1).
• Along with the characters mentioned above, ROB, Pikachu, Jigglypuff, and Kirby failed to make top 8.

 

Now, if that wasn't enough, I looked even further, looking at only top 3:

Character	Appearances	Players
Wolf	11	Switch(9), Ivayne(2)
Marth	6	Lunchables(4), Rongunshu(1), dvd(1)
Wario	4	Sosa(4)
Charizard	4	Kycse (3), Dingo (1)
Roy	4	Lunchables(4)
Tink	3	dvd(3)
G&W	3	Ellipsis(1), Pikmon(1), Lz(1)
Ike	3	Envy(3)
Peach	3	Malachi(3)
Sheik	3	Malachi(3)
Mewtwo	3	Fuzz(3)
Squirtle	2	Dirtboy(2)
Snake	2	Flipp(1), MVZY(1)
ZSS	1	Blank(1)
Meta Knight	1	Boiko(1)
Diddy	1	LUCK(1)
Ics	1	techboy(1)
Ivysaur	1	Cala(1)
Falcon	1	ORLY(1)
Lucas	1	HyperFlame(1)
Lucario	1	Rongunshu(1)

 

• In addition to the characters above, Fox, Falco, Sonic, Luigi, Ness, DDD, Donkey Kong, Mario, Zelda, Yoshi, Ganondorf and Bowser never made top 3.

 

In conclusion, as demonstrated by the information provided, the further along in bracket a player is expected to perform, the more Fox sucks.

Thanks, and I hope you enjoy the data!

 

Edit: Someone corrected me that Ganondorf was played in place of Marth, made a slight correction.

Edit2: Fixed more data regarding dvd playing all Marth in top 8 of PMS.