X Tournament Series: The End of Flash 2 9b

X Tournament Series: The End of Flash 2 9b is a pair of tournaments and the very last events, numbered or unnumbered, in the X Tournament Series. Lakota Norberg organized these events as "sendoff" tournaments for Super Smash Flash 2 v0.9b. The two events, named the Hope Arc and Despair Arc, were run drastically different from each other in both ruleset and seedings; the former opting for Season 3 of the Flash Collective Rankings and the latter using Season 2. The two events ran on Veterans Day weekend, 11 and 12 November 2016; and was streamed and casted live by a crew of commentators in Lakota's stream. This event is unique among multi-tournament events in that one player won both tournaments.
== Hope Arc ==
The Hope Arc was more or less a standard tournament format, as well as containing conservative rules such as banning the Charge Shot Glitch and using the Vanilla Stage List (X Version) as the stage list.
=== Results ===
12 entrants. 4 DQs.
Place	Country	Clan	Name 	Character(s)
1st 	USA 	 	MonteCri$to 	
2nd 	USA 	 	SoldierSunday 	
3rd 	CAN 	 	Incinerate 	
4th 	 	 	TheBestG 	
5th 	 	 	FoxxTV 	
5th 	USA 	 	KingPawn 	
7th 	 	 	Framez 	
7th 	USA 	 	Turnabout 	
9th 	USA 	 	Lakota Norberg	
9th 	 	 	Mariomario345 	
9th 	 	 	TheFelt 	
9th 	 	 	Elop798 	
== Despair Arc ==
The Despair Arc ran similarly to X10: Satori as a Swiss to top cut event with a much more liberal ruleset compared to Hope Arc. It had rules about lag and speed tests and used the latest official Back Room stage list.
=== Results ===
16 entrants. 2 DQs, 3 top 8 substitutes.
Swiss Place	Top 8 Place	Country	Clan	Name 	Character(s)
 	1st 	USA 	 	MonteCri$to 	
3rd 	2nd 	CAN 	 	Oreocakcesters 	
4th 	3rd 	AUS 	 	Corvid 	
6th 	4th 	USA 	 	TyranitarLord 	
 	5th 	USA 	 	Marvin 	
9th 	5th 	GBR 	 	Jammy 	
5th 	7th 	USA 	 	Bombermanfan681	
7th 	7th 	USA 	 	KingPawn 	
1st 	 	USA 	 	SoldierSunday 	
2nd 	 	CAN 	 	ZaiR 	
8th 	 	CAN 	 	Chaos0 	
10th 	 	 	 	TheBestG 	
11th 	 	CAN 	 	HEROofTIME13 	
12th 	 	USA 	 	DatSanicFan 	
13th 	 	USA 	 	DivineYakushi 	
14th 	 	USA 	 	Lakota Norberg 	
15th 	 	 	 	Framez 	
16th 	 	 	 	ZenithSSB 	
== Notes ==
== External links ==
*Hope Arc bracket link
*Despair Arc bracket link
*Despair Arc Top 8
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