Weekend Headliners
There’s too many smaller events to elevate one above the others. It’s a big weekend, though, folks.
Fri. (2/18)
- Tripoint Smash #131 (Offline)
- Featuring: A bunch of great players chilling out at the one of the best weeklies in the world!
- Stream: Ugsgaming2
- Rollback Rumble: NA West #18 (Online)
- Featuring: Some of the very best from the West Coast!
- Stream: TheWaffle77
- Downtown Melee #1 (Offline)
- Featuring: A brand new local series up in British Columbia! Features players like Amrak, Webwipe and The Weapon (FKA Elliot).
- Stream: Unsure, but I wanted to shoutout a brand new stacked local!
Sat. (2/19)
- BEMI 2022: Black Empowerment Melee Invitational Open Bracket (Online)
- Featuring: Some real Black Excellence on display in a big open bracket fight to join the big boys next weekend! Typhoon, Lowercase hero, GGG, Phil, Yasu, Mike G, SK92, DP, Catnip, Solomon, Darrell, WiLD, Prometheus, WILLS and way more will be featured! BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!
- Stream: TheWaffle77
- Minnesota Monthly Melee #1 (Offline)
- Featuring: Tons of great talent and over 100 entrants! Ginger, Zamu, Slowking, Mekk, Krudo, and all the best talent from Minnesota are facing off!
- Stream: TeamOxy

- BOPME 21 (Offline)
- Featuring: Another 100+ entrant Midwest tourney, with appearances from Drephen, Reeve, Essy, Skerzo, Ober, Kuyashi, Shabo, Frost, and a rare Lanceinthepants sighting.
- Stream: MeleeEveryday
This Saturday is STACKED, with more tourneys to check out. First of all, we got the Winter 2022 Game Underground Melee Invitational, featuring tons of strong New England talent, as well as Lawless Melee #3, a very stacked SoCal tourney with S2J, Fiction, KoDoRiN, Sora and more! Then, in the International Corner, we got Smash In the City with top UK talent, including what seems to be the return of Isdsar, as well as Conce Summer Revival down in Chile. Finally, we have the online ECRC Last Chance Qualifier. Get buckled up this Saturday folks, we’re in for some DAMN good Melee!
Streams:
Game Underground Invitational: GameUnderground (duh)
Lawless Melee: SSBM_Schmoop
Smash in the City: PhoenixSmash
Last Chance does not have a stream I know of, and Conce Summer Revival will sadly not be featuring one.
Sun. (2/20)
- Rollback Rumble: NA East #13 (Online)
- Featuring: Some great East Coast talent!
- Stream: TheWaffle77
- TOP 8s & HEARTBREAK (Offline)
- Featuring: A TOURNAMENT?! IN KENTUCKY?!?!?! Oh also Reeve and Essy are showing up.
- Stream: Unsure, but a tournament in Kentucky is too insane to not show off.
- LGBT S2E10 (Online)
- Featuring: Top tier GAYS doing GAY things. Get used to it, we’re not going anywhere. Long live the gays.
- Stream: MeleeSadPosts
If you know of any streamed events not on here, contact me with the relevant info on Twitter and I’ll do my best to talk about and include it in the future!
This is Melissa “REALLY wanted to do a weekly gay shoutout today but the weekend was just too stacked” Blight, and I can be reached on Twitter @GCH_Pikachu942.
Also, shout-outs to my assistant, Self “Continues to be a legend idk I rarely have interesting things to put for him” Flagellate of the Melee Stats Podcast Discord.