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Kurama's run was absolutely insane. Man is going to jump up the leaderboards with this performance-- being the ONLY ONE to take a game off of Leo is a huge accomplishment.

Mkleo really said "You guys have had enough fun", and proceeded to destroy everyone.

The twist reveal during the tournament that Kurama was a main character the whole time was masterfully done. The Ultimate scriptwriters really outdid themselves this weekend.

Congrats to Big D for showing how underrated characters like icies are. Man went insane during the tournament.

Surprisingly good Ludwig impression at the start there

To give some perspective on how dominant MkLeo has been over this game, here are the total number of (offline) major wins from each player since the beginning of Ultimate: MkLeo - 24 Tweek - 7 zackray - 7 Tea - 5 ProtoBanham - 5 acola - 5 Marss - 4 Glutonny - 4 Sparg0 - 3 Shuton - 3 Light - 2 Kameme - 2 ESAM - 2 Nairo - 2 Onin - 2 Riddles - 1 Bloom4Eva - 1 Miya - 1 Sonix - 1 Yoshidora - 1 KEN - 1 Cosmos - 1 Quidd - 1 Kola - 1 Peli - 1 Kuro - 1 Samsora - 1 Nietono - 1 Abadango - 1 Ally - 1

Leo is undeniably the true goat of Ultimate. Proving that he can not only learn the steve matchup but he decimated the best one in the world and arguably the #2 player in the world. Leo will always be Leo. “People really thought I wasn’t the best anymore.” Haters quiet rn

This tournament FUCKING RULED The Swiss Pools format was a much needed breath of fresh air for the Smash scene (remember the full hour of tiebreaker sets at Ultimate Summit 5?) The Quad broadcasts on the secondary channels made for a fuller, more consistently engaging viewing experience (as did the lack of 19647 Twitch ads) The runs from the LCQ were as thrilling as Leo’s dominant reassertion of his throne was awe-inspiring Just a blast to watch from start to finish

Leo proving he's the best yet again

Can we just say that Kurama was pixels off from taking game 3 from Leo and potentially turning the tide of the set

Seriously, everyone go watch that Kola v. Riddles game. It's relatively short and is the most powerful example of Kola's fury making him a better player. The man was literally shaking with rage lmfao it's amazing.

Big D had an insane run. I was honestly hoping he would win the entire thing. That would have been absolutely insane and too good to be true.

I find it crazy how much people slept on Leo for experimenting with agis. He liked the character and tried to make it work for three tournaments solo agis (except last game vs tweek on summit). Too many people forget how bad he did on his first tournament with joker in Japan. This is what happens when the undisputed goat of ultimate decides to experiment with characters he has fun with. Both times in the last 6-8 months when Leo said he was try Harding he stomped the bracket. This is very scary. The fact that someone can say “fuck it I’ll be serious” and run over the best players in the world like it’s a hot knife on butter is nuts Goat

I'm strapped in, about to watch now! Certainly was the all-time best Ultimate tournament EVER, by a long shot!

Thanks again to PGstats for another top-quality video at a record-setting pace. This tournament was a blast to watch and I'm glad you could do it justice.

I hope we get more of these feature length recaps. Appreciate the entirety of the event covered in detail

I'm outraged. How could they do that to Quandale Dinglelingleton?

void financially outperforming 90% of the players by gambling is the most void shit i've ever heard

Leo was not lying when he said byleth joker would be prime leo

Big D and Kurama have cemented themselves as some of my favorite players to watch. I'm having flashbacks to the first majors back last year when we suddenly started seeing Kola and Light level up. So hyped for the future of this game.

Don’t forget to mention that Leo won with 2 stocks in all of his Swiss pool games which is insane. (I might be slightly wrong if I’m misremembering)

"just know you are a massive DORK for skipping over our hard work!" BROOO I DIED! XD

I love watching good ult and there was so much this event! Leo played insane and I can't wait to see more of this Byleth/Joker final form! Also when he's usually so humble, the "people really thought I wasn't the best" got me

15:54 is such a good edit. Literally makes it look like the two fought against each other.

I appreciate the hard work of PGStats! :)

I really hope Big D keeps up and counters any upcoming counterplay love watching him

We're in the best timeline: Leo dominating, Joker returning, Mario and icies destroying top players... Oh, and Steve got dunked like he was low tier trash multiple times. Major props to Ludwig (and the PG crew on this video), this was HYPE.

This honestly deserves to be called the hypest Smash Ultimate event so far. It was Smash Summit on crack. More players yet every single set was a top level must watch. No one was bought in, everyone got there by their own skill. Annnd the format wasn't complete assssss. Change it up a little Summit!!

@1:23 I just want to say, I love the respect shown to competitive players that take a physical/mental/emotional break to take care of themselves.

Another GLOSSY top tier entry from PGstats. Better coverage than main stream sports channels. Love to see the work and watched every second

MKLeo said it in his post-game interview: "People really thought I wasn't the best, so I had to win."

top 3 pgstats video of all time

I love you so much PGStats! Never stop 🙏🏽

My man MKLEO!!! Lo voy a decir en español pues porque #ProudOfHim no sólo es un chingón, es lo más humilde. Cuando saluda a quien acaba de perder ante él siempre lo hace como diciendo "lo siento, hermano". THE One and Only Mexa Champ

Superb tournament. Many entertaining sets. Appreciate the recap video, enjoyed it 👍

I love how melee and ultimate mirrored each other here. A new #1 seed who's been fighting for it all year, but they got upset super early to the terrifying ice climbers mains who took names this event. The eventual winner has been in a bit of a slump recently despite past dominance over the scene. This tournament solidifying their stance as #1 at least for now. They beat their main rival, who people had reason to belive they would lose to. Zain beating Ibdw who won their last 3 sets and Mkleo beating acola, a great top level Steve, a character who infamously 3-0 3 stocked him. Some differences to contrast them were that Leo stomped whilst zain clutched, and the fortune of lcq players. Kurama getting 3rd and joshman having a broken arm and losing heartbreakers, Shroomed pulling the classic of losing after qualifying, and Trif who walked from the airport to go out in the last round of the lcq

MKLeo was an absolute unstoppable force. This whole tournament was hype with how it went. You just don’t touch touch him when he’s on his body bag spree. Kola victory vs Riddles was hype, sparg0 vs Kurama was mad hype, Riddles vs Zomba was hype and Leo vs Dabuz for the joker gameplay was worth the watch.

Truly an incredible tournament! I hope we get a break down of Kurama and how he was able to live to insane percentages as Mario against the world's best! His mix of aggressive pressure/combos and defensive movement were unmatched besides Leo

Marss kinda went out sad in this tournament. Were any of his matches streamed? He lost to Dabuz, Tea and Scend. He lost his last encounters with all three so it's pretty rough, would've liked to see how he did against the Steves

Greatest video you guys have made, love the content so much, honestly.

Cutting away to the script for the Large Dawson bit was comedy gold. Keep up the great work, BOYS!

The prize pool ended up being $52k for each game, so over $100k

This was a very palatable review of this tournament. Thank you!!

Still don't get why Kola took Kurama to Battlefield, TWICE 💀💀

Didn't even mention Leo was battling health problems as well as top players to still only drop 1 game. Amazing video thanks for the longer format to do the event proper justice.

Hell yea! Loving the longer video! Karama was absolutely amazing!

Love the videos and I didn’t even notice the length!!

Awesome video, thanks for the great recap

Awesome coverage as always ! What an event

This tournament was the best one imo. So many great things. Ignoring the run and the characters, the production was amazing. - We could watch every single game - Swiss system - Coach casting (idc what you say, I love that format of having people goofing around) - No ads. I repeat, NO ADS (aside from the sponsors) - Generous prize pool - Great music - Beautiful UI - No problems in the production (for me)

Man, so much has changed since this video. Acola firing back with his own 3-0 against Leo, Tweek making a massive comeback after meh results at Ludwig and for several months before, Leo's throne being threatened by nothing less than 3 different players, Big D continuing to have success with a low mid-tier and joined by Skyjay doing the same...

That intro was hilarious, great job Comona

And pgstats... why didnt you mention that look zomba gave acola when they shook hands? That was GOLD!

Acola and regular Kola. I’m dying 😂

This was one of my favourite tournaments to watch. Every match was sick. The Mkleo run was insane, but watching all the stacked players vs each other was also super good to watch. This also sounds silly, but I didn’t realise Kurama was Prodigy.

The skill gap between Leo and any other player is a chilling thought.

Big D is my current favorite, even before this video. So happy he did so well!

Rip skyjay Eliminated by 9th and 3rd on day 1

Going to miss these videos so much

amazing vid. loved the tournament.

Great writing and delivery!

Void getting 17th in qualifiers and then winning more money than second by gambling is so funny

WAIT SKYJAY LOST TO BIG D AND KURAMA AND THATS WHY HE DIDNT MAKE IT!?!?! thats so tragic, skyjay deserved to be in the real bracket but he had the misfortune of going against the 2 people playing OUT OF THEIR SKIN that weekend

As a EU viewer, we don't get to shine on this tournament. But I'm glad that Sisqui gets more opportunity to train with top 10 players. Gluto beats Ddog and Sisqui beats Tweek, I think they can both be proud of their runs. I'm sure they will surpass their MU demons someday. Also, I can't wait to see Bloom on the US again. Anyways, it's a really fine recap as always ^^

17:11 i love that this dude called him regular Kola lmfao

Side note, I loved the Swiss execution. Probably only really viable at smaller tournaments but we got to see soooo much awesome smash because of it. I hope we see more Swiss in the future

Overal great video but the one part that I think was a little disingenuous was selling the rest of the Leo vs Kurama set as a cakewalk, as kurama was litteraly 1 frame off winning game 3 twice. I still think Leo would have won, but he'd have to do it through a game 5

Was waiting on this!

Great recap!

20:09 "...possibly because of the POLAR-izing nature of the Ice Climbers." The puns hurt me more than a fully-charged F-smash from the Canadian Club-Wielding Children.

I've been waiting for this video

that "boys" was a spot on impression

11:00 "...you have to understand that seeding has higher priorities than simply stating where players should finish." Such an important thing to say to the laypeople. People complaining about Big House seeding not realizing things like this was quite annoying.

As the title of the video suggests: The Ludwig Invitational was one of the tournaments of all time

OKAY?? THAT LUDWIG IMPRESSION WAS ACTUALLY GOOD HUH???

I still can’t believe that a Mario player beat the best cloud player in the world. That was just incredible. What an amazing major.

Big D came hard and went deep inside everyone's bracket.

Just wanted to lyk that ur content that covers tournaments is good that I was refreshing your KZfaq page every day to check if you had uploaded the vid for this tourney

Please more longer videos like thisss!!!

So mkleo playing as byleth gave a grade on every competitor on This invitational. All But Kurama got an F rating grade (3-0). Kurama was the only one that got a C grade for beating him once and activates His Divine Pulse gift (Game 4 Leo power up). Fun but wow. Truly living the Professor turned Bishop status all the way.

Mustache Mishima was putting in gods work just for a drop of MkLeo's blood lol

This format is amazing~~~

GREAT VIDEO I LOVED IT

Between this and summit 5 fall has been amazing for competitive smash.

Kurama taking the only game off of Leo is insane.

Definitely watching all this

31 minutes! Good job team

i love the foreshadowing for kurama at 15:00

Dabuz has to win one. The king of New York is crazy and I need to see him win

More feature length recaps please thank you

Leo, Big D, Kurama and Sparg0 were so good to watch this tourney, such a goated tourney, if Proto and Bloom were there literally every top player would be there

Best video for the best tournament

LEGENDARY gd video!

true, amazing tournament.

Amazing recap! The pronounciation of "l'Odyssée" is closer to "low-dee-sey" though 😅

Great video!,!!!

Kurama is so cool i heard a guy told him "hold my water for a seg pls" and Kurama gave him a bunch of ice cubes afterwards

Regular Kola lol. This video was amazing.

I really like the Swiss bracket especially for invitationals and tournaments with few participants