The Shine series has grown a lot since it launched in 2016. The New England event series has become a major in the line-up for Super Smash Bros, but this year is going to be its final round. Shine 2023 is going to be a big tournament for quite some of the biggest fighting games this year.

The tournament is taking place over August 25-27. It’s going to be a huge tournament in person, but players can follow along at home on the official stream too. The whole tournament has a lot going on. If you want to know how it’ll work, and who the top players in each game are, this is what’s happening.

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Shine 2023

There are other games this year, but Smash Bros is still the main event for Shine 2023. This is going to be a few tournaments. There are doubles and singles for both games. Although, there’s a bigger focus on Melee rather than Ultimate.

Melee

The Melee event at Shine 2023 is the biggest tournament, which isn’t often the case with more recent tournaments. Melee has the biggest prize pool at $10,230. It’s fittingly got some of the best Smash Bros players attending. There’s Zain, Cosy Schwab, Jmook, Mang0, aMSa, and KoDoRiN all attending.

Ultimate

Smash Ultimate will be the other major event at Shine 2023. It’s got a prize pool of $5,745 at stake, so about half of what’s here for Melee. Some of the major players like Light, Zomba, Dabuz, and Jakal are all going to be attending. It isn’t quite as big as Melee but this should still be a fun event at Shine.

Future of Shine

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Shine 2023 is unfortunately going to be the final tournament for the series. Because of financial problems, this will be a finale for the event in its current form. Hopefully, the tournament is one to remember.