THE SUBSCRIBE GRAND PRIX

The thumbnail for Ultimate Level 9 CPU Invitational, featuring Ridley and Luigi.

### Air date

January 27th, 2019

**THE SUBSCRIBE GRAND PRIX** is the 5th and final tournament of Season 1 of the CPUCS, airing on January 27th, 2019. The tournament episode on YouTube is titled "Ultimate Level 9 CPU Invitational" and was hosted by Alpharad, JoSniffy and Turvis. The episode was titled as "THE INVITATIONAL" in the recap episode, "THE VINCENT SAGA: Ultimate Level 9 CPU Highlights".

True to its episode name, it includes all of the Top 4 finishers from the other Season 1 tournaments, with Vincent making an additional surprise appearance. Kirby won the tournament, defeating Incineroar to become the first Grand Champion of the CPUCS.

## Notable Moments

* In Round 1, Kirby, who was playing carefully like his opponent Shulk for most of the match, decided to go on the offensive with his Final Smash at the last minute and won with 5 seconds left in the match.
* King K. Rool unexpectedly footstools Vincent and taunts him by failing gimping him with neutral aerial.
* Snake uses his back air against Dark Samus, quickly and effectively taking the fourth stock. Alpharad then questions *"Can Dark Samus die at zero"* just before Snake uses his Final Smash.
* In their Round 1 match, Ridley edge guards Link with his neutral special as Link tries to recover using Remote Bomb. However, Plasma Breath made contact with the bomb, blowing it up and sending Link into the blast zone.
	+ In another explosive moment during the match, Link nairs Ridley, who bounces off the wall and whiffs his side special. Link then combos the boomerang's return hit into a backair and follows up with a Final Smash to snipe Ridley's fourth stock.
* In the Finals match between Kirby and Incineroar, just as the latter was about to lose one of his stocks to a failed recovery, Kirby dashdanced right in front of him.
	+ In that same match, rather than wait to use his Final Smash at the right moment to take Incineroar's last stock, Kirby decides to use it as soon as he got it, with Alpharad saying that Kirby was so confident that he didn't even need his Final Smash to win.

## Trivia

* THE SUBSCRIBE GRAND PRIX was the first tournament to have a highlight reel for its intro.
* It is the first and so far only tournament to feature an uneven number of matches.
	+ The total number of competitors is 17, as compared to the usual 16 or even the enlarged roster of 32 of ENDGAME.
* THE SUBSCRIBE GRAND PRIX was the first and only tournament to have a play-in match.
	+ The play-in match in question was between Zero Suit Samus and Shulk, though it was technically unintentional, and was the accidental result of Vincent making a surprise appearance, bumping the number of competitors to an uneven 17. This resulted in all fighters except Zero Suit Samus and Shulk receiving a bye into the "second" round.
* Despite appearing on the video thumbnail in his default costume, Ridley participates in this tournament in his Meta Ridley alternate costume.
	+ Similarly, the battle depicted between Ridley and Luigi never occurs, with both fighters striking out in Round 2.
* It is the first tournament to not feature a Thug Finals.
* THE SUBSCRIBE GRAND PRIX featured no new fighters, thus the total number of fighters who had participated in the CPUCS remained at 47.