Although many professional players are able to maintain the laser focus during their games, some may be distracted from time to time. If this is the case, the player has the potential to recover and avoid a defeat, but for other players like this Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament participant this leads to an embarrassing loss.
During the DAT BlastZone 28 Grand Finals for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Plastic Poptart (Lucina) faced Severe Calamari (Wolf). At the time of the clip, Calamari is at an advantage, with two suggestions over Poptart. However, Poptart quickly damages Calamari and lets him fly off the board, essentially balancing the game with one share at a time.
Unfortunately, the impressive game by Poptart triggers one of the Super Smash Bros. . Friends of the player to come out of the audience and hug him. He tries to wipe it, but jumps off the stage and performs a downwards attack, which helps Calamari to victory. It is an embarrassing moment for both Poptart and the friend who apologizes in the clip.
We have seen tournament clips where one of the participants celebrates too early and loses in the end. However, this is the first time someone has lost someone because a friend has celebrated too soon. Poptart was distracted and did not know what he was doing at the time.
The good news is that Severe Calamari allowed Plastic Poptart to repeat the game with each player with 1 share. Since none of the two fighters had done any harm to the other, it was easy to keep things fair and re-run the final showdown. And as it turned out, Poptart could win this round, win the winning game and defeat Severe Calamari a second time in the loser class. It is impressive that Poptart was able to recover from the incident and then win a few more games, but Calamari also has something to thank for having easily won the round.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is now available for Nintendo Switch.