super-smash-bros-4 – Ranking System in Smash: An In-depth Look into Super Smash Bros Ranking Strategies

super-smash-bros-4super-smash-bros-brawlsuper-smash-bros-melee

In super smash bros tournaments, do they have a ranking system (for example, Elo)? what is it?

Best Answer

Elo is used for multiplayer(online) to find similar opponents.

What I think you are trying to ask is how are players put into the initial fights in tournaments, if that is your question then the answer is "seeding"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_(sports)

Basically on pools each pool will have at least one or 2 (sometimes 3) top players from previous tournaments. This will ensure that all new players(assuming bad players) to tournaments get weed out quickly and after pools brackets will most likely have all top players from each pool.

What "seed" avoids is having top players in the same pool, and having a pool with all new players, in such scenario new players will get very far without any struggle, and top players would lose very quickly, and the brackets will have new(bad) players vs top players... which would be very boring to watch.