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Combating recreation followers with nothing to do on Valentine’s Day weekend can look ahead to GENESIS X3, a long-time Tremendous Smash Bros. Main with loads of tournaments and fan activations from February thirteenth to the fifteenth.

Going down on the San Jose McEnery Conference Heart, GENESIS X3 options over 200,000 sq. ft of preventing recreation tradition, from aggressive brackets to an Artist Alley. In case you are unable to attend, you possibly can nonetheless watch the motion unfold on Twitch. Esports Insider offers you all the pieces avid gamers must tune in and have a good time Valentine’s Day with the FGC.

The primary occasion at GENESIS X3 is the Tremendous Smash Bros. Melee and Final tournaments. Regardless of many setbacks from Nintendo heading into 2026, GENESIS X3 managed to maintain Smash within the lineup, making it much more significant than previous GENESIS occasions. It will embody Melee Doubles, Melee Singles, Final Doubles and Final Singles.

There are additionally Tremendous Smash Bros. 64 and Tremendous Smash Bros. Brawl tournaments, bringing traditional titles into the fray.

As well as, GENESIS X3 is a Masters II-tier occasion on the SNK World Championship 2026 circuit for Deadly Fury: Metropolis of the Wolves, that means this may even be a stacked event. GENESIS X3 can also be internet hosting a Challenger occasion for Season 1 of the 2XKO Aggressive Collection.

“These formally acknowledged brackets solidify the occasion as a must-attend event for skilled gamers seeking to safe their qualifying seats and construct a presence on the world stage,” GENESIS acknowledged in a press launch.

Whereas these are the highlights of the weekend, GENESIS X3 may even function Avenue Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Responsible Gear -Attempt-, Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising and extra. There’ll even be tournaments for DanceDanceRevolution and Pump It Up within the “Rhythm Zone.”

Co-founder Sheridan Zalewski acknowledged: “Our objective for each GENESIS occasion is to create probably the most cohesive and high-energy surroundings potential. Yearly, we study a bit bit about what programming actually sticks with our attendees and what we will change with new concepts.

“This 12 months wasn’t nearly sifting by way of that programming, although. It was actually about seeing how far we will push these nice concepts. Getting to place all that underneath one roof on the McEnery Conference Heart means I believe we’re actually providing a degree of immersion and connection that’s powerful to return by elsewhere.”

Issues get a bit overwhelming when gamers attempt to slim down who to look at at an occasion as large as GENESIS X3. Nevertheless, it’s simple to say that the Smash tournaments ought to get many of the FGC’s consideration. The brackets are stacked, with one of the best gamers on the earth coming to GENESIS X3 to show themselves as increasingly more Majors disappear from the circuit.

In Melee, Zain Naghmi is at present on the prime of the SSBMRank, shifting up from second place in August 2025. His consistency at Majors makes him a particular competitor to look at. Nevertheless, Cody Schwab (second) and Juan ‘Hungrybox’ DeBiedma may even be competing at GENESIS X3, doubtless seeking to get that prime spot. It’s powerful to say who shall be dominant on the occasion, however there is no such thing as a query that the salt ranges, depth and expertise displayed throughout these matches shall be an unbeatable expertise.

Justin ‘Wizzrobe’ Hallett, Kurtis ‘moky’ Pratt, Jake ‘Jmook’ DiRado and Joshua ‘Joshman’ Lyras may even doubtless shake up the Melee bracket. Mentioned Wizzy after getting ninth within the SSBMRank: “There’s much more work left to do, let’s maintain it going and attain NEW peaks in 2026 and past.”

Over in Final, Mexico’s Leonardo ‘MkLeo’ Lopez and Edgar ‘Sparg0’ Valdez shall be thrilling to look at, particularly in the event that they face each other. MkLeo, previously one of the best Final participant on the earth, has fallen to seventeenth place within the LumiRank however is seeking to have a redemption arc in 2026 after being a bit MIA.

Paris ‘Gentle’ Ramirez, Gavin ‘Tweek’ Dempsey and Tyler ‘Marss’ Martinez shall be representing North American Final gamers. Tweek just lately returned to Final after a brief retirement, making his storyline fairly fascinating.

Nevertheless, the competitors from abroad is tremendous powerful at GENESIS X3. Shuto ‘Shuton’ Moriya from Japan and France’s William ‘Glutonny’ Belaid shall be seeking to climb the ranks at this Main. I’m personally rooting for Takuma ‘Tea’ Hirooka, along with his extremely excessive IQ Pac-Man and Kazuya performs. He’s at all times extraordinarily entertaining to look at.

Steve ‘Supernoon’ Carbajal is right here to get a W after dropping in Frosty Fausting’s Grand Finals to 16-year-old prodigy bleed. He is without doubt one of the most outstanding 2XKO fighters within the bracket, though it’s nonetheless a really new scene. Anticipate to see a whole lot of newcomers and upsets as 2XKO’s esports circuit continues in 2026.

The Deadly Fury bracket goes to be insane. I count on pure chaos as prime preventing recreation execs from a variety of titles conflict on this comparatively new scene with large cash on the road from SNK.

Final professional Michael ‘Riddles’ Kim has turned a whole lot of his consideration to Avenue Fighter 6. Will probably be fascinating to see how he fares in opposition to different SF6 opponents, together with GO1, Punk and Nemoto ‘Nemo’ Naoki.

As at all times, these bigger preventing recreation occasions have a fairly complicated schedule. There could also be occasions when followers have to decide on which recreation to look at over one other on account of overlapping schedules.

Sadly, the schedule for GENESIS X3 has not been revealed simply but, however we now have a fairly good thought of the way it could look based mostly on final 12 months’s event schedule. Nevertheless, 2XKO and Deadly Fury: Metropolis of the Wolves are lacking from GENESIS X2, so there could also be some adjustments.

We are going to replace when the schedule is revealed, however right here is the doubtless Smash schedule:

Since there are overlapping tournaments taking place all through the weekend, GENESIS X3 could have a number of Twitch channels. These haven’t been confirmed for 2026 simply but, however it could be the identical as GENESIS X2 final 12 months.

If that’s the case, listed below are the channels to look at:

There may even be channels for Tekken 8, Avenue Fighter 6, 2XKO, Deadly Fury: Metropolis of the Wolves and the entire different tournaments. Final 12 months, GENESIS had six streams going without delay, so count on one thing related this time round.

Every stream will function commentary from two hosts. These commentators will change out all through the weekend.