r/smashbros • u/ESPORTS_HotBid • Oct 09 '17

All We're BTS, organizers of Smash Summit 5, AMA!

We're BTS, organizers of Smash Summit 5, AMA!

Hello r/smashbros !

It's that time of year again... our compendium opens at 2:00 pm PDT (about 4 hours from this post)!!

I'm Ken (@Hot_Bid) and I'm here with Grace (@graceleecho) to answer your questions about Smash Summit 5.

Picture of us: https://i.imgur.com/lPSYRe6.jpg

Here are a few of the major changes we're making:

  • One of the compendium goals is an extra stream day
  • We'll be bringing back the group selection and RR groups
  • BIG JENGA
  • Super Smash Bros: Animelee

I'm Ken (aka Hot_Bid) and the creative lead on Smash Summit 5. The last Summit was my first event for BTS and I'm super excited to work on this one too. In the past, I've worked on StarCraft and Dota events as well as with Team Liquid. I main Falco and I'm a netplay friendlies warrior.

Grace works as a project manager / smash mom on all the Summits so far. She'll also be here to answer questions like which player doesn't check their email enough and who she plans on yelling at the most.

We'll be here answering your questions about Smash Summit 5 for the next few hours, but mostly let's talk about memes.

Check out the compendium at https://smash.gg/summit

More links:

Smash Summit 5 trailer

Invited Players videos

Old Smash Summit 4 content playlist

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u/BTS_Grace Oct 09 '17

We've considered it. We even let the viewers pick it between low tier iron man last Summit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '17

low tier iron man was boring as shit what's wrong with us

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u/mrmahoganyjimbles Oct 09 '17

It could've been better, it just needed tweeking. From what I can remember you could afford 3 top tiers with the points given, but the problem is in most iron mans your 3 best characters are the ones that decide the winner. They really should've made it in a way that limited it to only 1 top tier.

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u/Overdue_bills Path of Radiance Ike (Ultimate) Oct 09 '17

It needs to be an actual low tier iron man, I don't even like the idea of having a single top tier.

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u/Minerali fuck dis Oct 10 '17

nah, low tiers are only fun to watch when they fuck up some top tiers

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '17

Amen. More Bowser, more Kirby, more Pichu, more GnW, more Zelda.

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u/Abomm Oct 10 '17

Still got to see some exciting performances from characters with diverse characters (plup) while also seeing how good the gods are with the likes of kirby.

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u/HandOfYawgmoth Oct 10 '17

Whaat? It was the best event outside of singles! The points system could use some re-balancing but the concept is phenomenal.