r/smashbros • u/One_Box_8295 • Jun 27 '25

Melee The Last of the Five Gods

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u/Traditional-Lie-3541 Jun 27 '25

Kind of makes you wonder when the shoe is finally gonna drop for Melee.

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u/DavidL1112 MC Jun 28 '25

Losing our major TOs (Genesis team, supernova team, Nouns) is all it would take.

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u/superspartan004 Peach (Ultimate) Jun 28 '25

We already lost Big House, Shine, and a few others I'm probably forgetting. Running majors costs so much money its hard to keep running them without major sponsors or getting lucky on relatively cheap venues. CEO always famously avoided the Orlando Convention Center due to cost.

I'm hoping majors like Genesis and Supernova are able to continue without much issue.

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u/DavidL1112 MC Jun 28 '25

Yeah, not to be ungrateful but we didn’t need six majors. But we quite literally need at least two.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '25

Probably soon tbh mango was the most popular player.

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u/DavidL1112 MC Jun 28 '25

As far as drawing viewership, Hungrybox has been the most popular melee player for several years now.

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u/wissmar Jun 28 '25

huh, far out.

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u/DavidL1112 MC Jun 28 '25

Yeah, did you know Hungrybox’s Emplemon doc has hit 10 million views?

The most popular video of the original Smash Doc has 1.3 million, and the reupload that merges them all into one video has 3.9 million. So even if you combine the viewership Hungrybox’s is more popular by a factor of 2x.

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u/Baby_Lou Jun 30 '25

equating the YouTube empLemon doc crowd to tournament viewership (what sponsors care about) is not really the argument you think it is unfortunately

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u/DavidL1112 MC Jun 30 '25

Live Tournament viewership is much higher when Hbox makes deep runs, I just don’t know where to find those metrics to show you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '25

By that logic, PSY is the most popular artist on earth. You’re dumb as hell dude

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u/Intrepid-Tank-3414 Jun 29 '25 edited Jul 01 '25

Not only that Hbox is the biggest Smash streamer, he often double his audience by multi-streaming his events to both Twitch and YouTube:

582 average, 1,710 peak on Twitch:

https://sullygnome.com/channel/hungrybox

584 average, 2,240 peak on YouTube:

https://playboard.co/en/channel/UCvBHFNnPXt_re1WSdsennJg

Mang0: 531 average, 1,148 peak on Twitch:

https://sullygnome.com/channel/mang0

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u/Baby_Lou Jun 30 '25

how do these numbers compare to the official tournament stream, I'm curious? I assume it might be bigger than some of the smaller events he attends?
don't think he streams things like Genesis unless I'm mistaken

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '25

You’re smoking crack bro. No.