Ken, Azen, ChuDat, Isai, PC Chris, and KoreanDJ competed with a rising star in the form of Mew2King for the top spots at MLG tournaments in 20 Ken was notably dubbed the "King of Smash" for his incredibly consistent level of dominance at these events.
Following large public interest in these early events, MLG began expanding its presence in the Melee scene, featuring the Nintendo game at more and more of its big events.
Melee kicked off with Major League Gaming's addition of the game to its largest tournaments, such as MLG New York 2004. PC Chris after winning MLG Las Vegas 2006. This initial surge of tournament activity paved the way for increased support from large video game organizations, such as Major League Gaming, into the young Melee scene. Meanwhile, other large nationals such as MELEE-FC and Game Over sprung up in different regions of the country. By the time the tournament series concluded with Tournament Go 6 in 2004, Matt Deezie had hosted the first 100-man tournament with the best players from all corners of the United States, such as Ken, Azen, and ChuDat, in attendance. Tournament Go helped bring to attention a standard, unified ruleset of legal stages and tournament procedures, and generate increased competitive interest in NorCal and across the United States. However, Matt Deezie is credited as the founder of the competitive Smash scene, when he began hosting the Tournament Go series in Northern California, in April 2002. As players began perfecting newly discovered techniques such as wavedashing, dashdancing, and L-canceling, many smashers began hosting small tournaments for the first time these tournaments were usually held among small groups of friends in basements or video game stores. Following Melee's release in 2001, avid players started to utilize the game's unique physics engine to generate fast movement unexpected for a game like Smash.
has been viewed as a "casual party game" by Nintendo, Masahiro Sakurai (the series' main developer), and the general public, this did not stop fans from playing the game at a competitive level.
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