Three numbers from Mang0's historic losers run

By Jack "Jackie Peanuts" Moore | 07/19/21

Mang0

won seven consecutive sets in losers at Smash Summit 11, his longest run at any offline tournament in the PGstats database, which dates back to September 2015. In the PGstats era, Mang0 has made a losers run of five or more sets seven times, winning three times: DreamHack Austin 2016, Royal Flush, and The Big House 9:

Mang0's losers run at DreamHack Austin 2016. Click to expand.

Mang0's losers run at Royal Flush (2017). Click to expand.

Mang0's losers run at The Big House 9 (2019). Click to expand.

Mang0 accomplished a seven-set losers run to win a tournament at least a couple of times in the pre-PGstats era. At Evo 2013, Wobbles sent Mang0 to losers in Winners Quarterfinals. Mang0 would go on to defeat

SFAT

,

Ice

,

PPMD

,

Armada

and

Hungrybox

in losers before decimating Wobbles 6-1 in Grand Finals to take the tournament. Mang0's most historic losers run came 13 years ago at Pound 3. After falling to

SilentWolf

in Winners Top 48, Mang0 won 10 straight sets, defeating Mathos, Sliq,

Cactuar

,

Forward

, Azen,

ChuDat

, Cort and PC Chris before double eliminating

Mew2King

3-2 and 3-1 in Grand Finals. What we saw on Sunday night was truly vintage Losers Bracket Mang0.

As the above section so well illustrates, Losers Bracket Mang0 can be a terror. Not so much at Smash Summit, until yesterday. In nine previous trips to losers bracket at offline Smash Summit main events, Mang0 was averaging 1.1 wins, sitting with a 10-9 set record. Only twice, at the bookends, Smash Summit 1 and Smash Summit 9, had Mang0 even managed multiple wins in losers bracket.

Prior to Smash Summit 11, Mang0 had only won multiple sets in losers bracket at a Summit main event twice: the first one, and the last offline one prior to this weekend. Click to expand.

Twice (Summits 7 and 8) he came up completely empty; the other five times, Summits 2 through 6, he was one-and-done. Mang0's 7-0 run through losers at Summit 11 increases his career losers bracket record at Summit 11 to 17-9 (65%), with 41 percent of those wins coming last night.

With a seven-set losers run at Smash Summit 11, Mang0 accomplished something that had never occurred in the illustrious history of the series.

In the 10 offline Smash Summits, there has never been a losers run to the championship from such an early winners side loss. In fact, the previous seven Summit champions all did so from winners side, with only the Summit 8 and 9 champions,

Axe

and Hungrybox, even taking a loss in Grand Finals. The only other player to win Summit from losers side is Armada, all the way back at Summit 2, when he defeated

Shroomed

, Mang0, Mew2King, and Hungrybox twice to win it all after falling to Mew2King in Winners Semis.

Armada's five-set losers run to the championship at Smash Summit 2. Click to expand.

See the full list of winners and their paths below:

Smash Summit 11 - Mang0, from Losers Round 2 (Losers Top 12) (7 losers sets)

Smash Summit 9 - Hungrybox, from Grands Reset (1 losers set)

Smash Summit 8 - Axe, from Grands Reset (1 losers set)

Smash Summit 7 - Hungrybox, from Winners

Smash Summit 6 - Mew2King, from Winners

Smash Summit 5 - Hungrybox, from Winners

Smash Summit 4 - Armada, from Winners

Smash Summit 3 - Armada, from Winners

Smash Summit 2 - Armada, from Losers Quarters (5 losers sets)

Smash Summit 1 - Armada, from Winners

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