Amiibo Tournaments

A longstanding series on the Pringleson Youtube channel. The series began with the inaugural tournament on September 1st, 2018. The basis is simple, Amiibos and their human owners battling in Super Smash Bros in a tournament form, with the last player standing winning. The series is recognized as Tyler's longest still continuing series, and is one of his most unique and popular.

The inaugural Amiibo Tournament was held on September 1st, 2018. The original plan was to have the Amiibo Tournament be in the same video as Tyler's Amiibo collection video, but technical issues caused them to be separate. It featured Tyler, Cole, Dan Snake, and Eli, as well as Tyler's Amiibos at the time. Recorded using Tyler's old iPad on TV format, the tournament was the shortest of any to be held at the time, and faced a lot of issues due to recording interruptions and conflicts. Pikachu won the tournament, still his only tournament win to date.

The second Amiibo Tournament was held in February of 2019. Everyone from the first tournament returned, with the addition of Andrew and Scott, no new Amiibos were introduced at this tournament. Lasting slightly longer than the first, there was lots of distractions during the tournament that made it hard to watch. Dr. Mario won the tournament, still his only win to date.

The 3rd Amiibo Tournament was held on September 1st, 2019. Andrew and Scott don't return to this one, and it is the first that Brian is featured on, along with Dan Snake and Cole's Amiibos making their debuts. Like the first tournament there were many hinderances during this tournament, and it was significantly longer than the previous 2. Cloud won the tournament, his first and only win to this day. This was also the last Amiibo Tournament to be held on Super Smash Bros for Wii U.

Amiibo Tournament 4 was held in June of 2020. Several new human and Amiibo characters make their debut in this one, including Jaxon and Lucas, as well as Eli's, Jaxon's and Lucas's Amiibos and new ones bought by Tyler. This was the first tournament held on Smash Ultimate for Nintendo Switch. The tournament is regarded as a disaster, as even in the age of the capture card, technical problems forced the tournament to be held back and be recorded in the old format. Eli's Bowser won the tournament, the last Amiibo to win a tournament. However, controversy soon brewed as it was found out that Eli's Amiibos, which included that Bowser and Snake, were equipped with spirits, this had never been a problem in the past since spirits weren't in Smash for Wii U. A rule was then put into place that all competing Amiibos couldn't have spirits and needed to be base level to equalize competition. Both Eli's Bowser and Snake have not been in an Amiibo Tournament since.

Amiibo Tournament 5 was held in July 2020. Featuring many of the same characters, the technical problems were fixed and the old way of recording was finally filtered out, though it still didn't look perfect it looked better. Lucas won the tournament, becoming the first human to win an Amiibo Tournament.

Amiibo Tournament 6 was held in August 2020. Once again featuring a mainly same crew, the recording ran much more smoothly. An exciting finish included a 3 way tie in the quarterfinals causing a sudden death battle. Lucas repeated as champion, becoming the first ever to do so for either human or Amiibo.

Amiibo Tournament 7 was held in June of 2021. Yet again featuring a lot of recurring characters, the tournament had a lot of behind the scenes problems. Lucas repeated as champion yet again, his 3rd win in a row. Due to all the behind the scenes problems resulting from this tournament, a decision was made to host the next Amiibo Tournament at another location, which has yet to be determined.

All 7 tournaments are still viewable on the Pringleson Youtube channel.