Photo credit: Verd Photo
The weekend of March 22nd 2025 saw over 200 competitors from all over the UK and Ireland travel to Birmingham for Team Regen’s final event for Super Smash Brothers Ultimate – Gala.
The event also saw a Rivals of Aether 2 tournament and the third Annual Smash UK Awards.
The main bracket for Gala saw 128 entrants for the Smash Ultimate Singles event battling for a prize pool of £1,280. The bracket saw multiple upsets, with only 3 of the Top 8 seeds making it into the top 8 of the bracket. Luugi won the tournament, beating Ascro in both Winners Finals and Grand Finals. Top 8 also saw Peli (seed 13) placing 3rd in his first UK Ultimate Tournament since August 2024, and Snake player ToeJam (seed 21) in 4th after causing multiple upsets.
The other brackets at Gala included a Rivals of Aether 2 Singles bracket and Smash Ultimate Doubles bracket. The 48 person Rivals of Aether 2 bracket had a prize pool of £240 and was won by Caitlyn, with HTSpider placing in second and 10QuidShoes in third. The Doubles bracket was won by the duo of Shaneak and Kirb0, who defeated the team of Luugi and Mondi.
An explosive tournament from start to finish – here is your Gala Top 8!
🥇 @Mario_LuigiBIS
2. @ascro_aary
3. @PeliPenguin
4. @TJandElover83
5. @Azalea_Eternal + @Gigglezz_zz
7. @MrRomanticDK + @AnbilM2Thank you for all attending – maybe we’ll see you again soon? 👀 pic.twitter.com/zFgh9o1uYS
— Team Regen (@TeamRegenGG) March 24, 2025
There was also a Smash UK awards show which highlighted the Best Players, Best Commentators and Best Bracket runs of 2024 alongside other awards such as Best Dressed, Worst Clip and a surprise award of Robbie Clip of the Year. The full presentation of the awards was posted to YouTube.
Team Regen also requested that attendees arrive to the event in their best formal wear, to celebrate the final Ultimate event Team Regen had put together. Team Regen has not made any announcements about future events for other games at this time.
Smash UK – Five Years of Memories
“It’s not just a community, it’s a family.” pic.twitter.com/BqDcJ45C3l
— TR | DAT | Sma 🎙 (@SmaIsHere) March 27, 2025
Full brackets for the event can be found on the Gala 2025 Start GG page, while the VoDs for the games are available on the Team Regen Youtube Channel here.
Smash UK Awards winners announced at Gala 2025
The winners are listed in full below, with clips and photos in the tweet thread below.
- Player of the Year: Luugi
- Commentator of the Year: Kopter
- Most Improved Player: SHIFT1SHIFT1
- Most Improved Commentator: M.R. SLAP
- Best Bracket Run: tecammiv at Avalon 2024
- Worldwide Warrior: Luugi
- Best Event Photo: Verd Photo for the legendary photo of Sisqui vs Ascro at Regen 2024
- Worst Clip of the Year: Munchie with assistance from Big Z
- Biggest Yapper: oasis
- Best Gamer: Spider (plus special award to Dyl for their run at the Pokémon 2025 European International Championships in London)
- Community Legend: Will Savage
- Best Dressed: Raihan
- RobbieAK47 Clip of the Year
Thank you for joining us at the Smash UK Awards 2024! Incase you missed it at Gala, here are your winners – congratulations to everyone who made it, and once again, a massive thank you to everyone who supported the project as always. Without further ado:
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— TR | DAT | Sma 🎙 (@SmaIsHere) March 29, 2025
Wade ‘AggresiveDuck’ White is a tournament and event organiser for Super Smash Brothers Ultimate in London and Essex, with events reaching as many as 250+ attendees.
Wade originally started in esports by entering in amateur Dota 2 leagues before moving into the FGC scene with Smash Ultimate in 2018, competing in offline events in the UK and Europe.
