Mega League Monday

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The logo for Mega League Monday.

Mega League Monday was a weekly ARMS tournament series organized and streamed by Schkrimps. The series ran from late 2017 to early 2019 consistently, but laid dormant for most of 2019 and 2020. In late 2020, Schkrimps announced the series would return in 2021, holding a single event that December and fulfilling his promise the following month. The series is widely known as one of the most successful weekly ARMS tournaments.

Format

Mega League Monday, unlike most other tournaments at the time, did not run a traditional double elimination bracket. Instead, participants were put into four player round robin pools in which the top two players of each pool moved on to a single elimination bracket. The group stage pools were unseeded which allowed for players of all skill levels to play more sets compared to if the tournament was double elimination. Players utilized Schkrimps' Discord server to communicate with their opponents as the bracket was ran on Challonge, a site that lacks player-to-player chat functions.

The bracket format was met with mixed reception from players as while it allowed newer players a chance to play more sets, it could also inconvenience higher level players who are put into a pool with other highly skilled players. The stage procedure was also met with some criticism as stages were chosen at random (from a legal stage list) instead of using stage striking.

Despite these criticisms, Mega League Monday managed to encourage players of all skill levels and locations to join. In its peak, the weekly managed to garner 50+ entrants.

Tournaments

Bracket Date Winner Character(s) used
Mega League 1 September 11, 2017 Tuturoopa Icon-Byte & Barq.png
Mega League 2 September 18, 2017 reeseTHEninja Icon-Ninjara.png
Mega League Monday 3 September 25, 2017 VerticalHunger Icon-Spring Man.png
Mega League Monday 4 October 2, 2017 Resolve Icon-Spring Man.png
Mega League 5 October 9, 2017 Gryffical Icon-Master Mummy.png Icon-Byte & Barq.png
Mega League 6 October 16, 2017 Resolve Icon-Spring Man.png
Mega League 7 October 23, 2017 Mileve Icon-Mechanica.png
Mega League 8 October 30, 2017 VerticalHunger Icon-Spring Man.png
Mega League 9 November 6, 2017 JMCANADA Icon-Kid Cobra.png
Mega League X November 13, 2017 Mileve Icon-Mechanica.png
Mega League 11 November 20, 2017 JMCANADA Icon-Kid Cobra.png
Mega League 12 November 27, 2017 JMCANADA Icon-Kid Cobra.png
Mega League Monday 13 December 4, 2017 M30W Icon-Spring Man.png Icon-Master Mummy.png Icon-Max Brass.png Icon-Twintelle.png
Mega League 14 December 11, 2017 Ripha Icon-Ninjara.png
Mega League Monday 15 December 18, 2017 JMCANADA Icon-Kid Cobra.png
Mega League Monday 16 January 1, 2018 JMCANADA Icon-Kid Cobra.png
Mega League Monday 17 January 8, 2018 Mileve Icon-Mechanica.png
Mega League Monday 18 January 15, 2018 Gryffical Icon-Dr. Coyle.png
Mega League Monday 19 January 22, 2018 Ripha Icon-Ninjara.png
Mega League Monday 20 January 29, 2018 FrankTank Icon-Spring Man.png
Mega League Monday 21 February 5, 2018 JMCANADA Icon-Kid Cobra.png
Mega League Monday 22 February 12, 2018 JMCANADA Icon-Kid Cobra.png
Mega League 23 February 19, 2018 SirRosalina Icon-random.png
Mega League Monday 24! February 26, 2018 JMCANADA Icon-Kid Cobra.png
Mega League Monday 25 March 5, 2018 river_reverb Icon-Misango.png
Mega League Monday 26 March 12, 2018 Redingard Icon-Max Brass.png
Mega League Monday 27 March 19, 2018 JMCANADA Icon-Kid Cobra.png
Mega League Monday 28 March 26, 2018 M30W Icon-Ninjara.png Icon-Kid Cobra.png Icon-Max Brass.png Icon-Spring Man.png Icon-Byte & Barq.png
Mega League Monday 29 April 2, 2018 GoreMagala Icon-Helix.png
Mega League Monday 30 April 9, 2018 JMCANADA Icon-Kid Cobra.png
Mega League Monday 31 April 16, 2018 Twinfive0 Icon-Lola Pop.png
Mega League Monday 32 April 23, 2018 Para Icon-Spring Man.png
Mega League Monday 33 April 30, 2018 FrankTank Icon-Spring Man.png
Mega League Monday 34 May 7, 2018 Serperiorfan Icon-Max Brass.png
Mega League Monday 35 May 14, 2018 Twinfive0 Icon-Lola Pop.png
Mega League Monday 36 May 21, 2018 Minimonstr Icon-Dr. Coyle.png Icon-Lola Pop.png Icon-Twintelle.png
Mega League Monday 37 June 11, 2018 Nobi Icon-Twintelle.png
Mega League Monday 38 June 18, 2018 Dastardly Icon-Dr. Coyle.png
Mega League Monday 39 June 25, 2018 JMCANADA Icon-Kid Cobra.png
Mega League Monday 40 July 2, 2018 Ripha Icon-Ninjara.png
Mega League Monday 41 July 9, 2018 river_reverb Icon-Misango.png
Mega League Monday 42 July 16, 2018 Raffa Icon-Max Brass.png Icon-Twintelle.png Icon-Lola Pop.png
Mega League Monday 43! July 23, 2018 SirRosalina Icon-Twintelle.png Icon-Kid Cobra.png Icon-Master Mummy.png
Mega League Monday 44 July 30, 2018 Dastardly Icon-Dr. Coyle.png
Mega League Monday 45 August 6, 2018 SirRosalina Icon-random.png
Mega League Monday 46 August 13, 2018 Twinfive0 Icon-Lola Pop.png
Mega League Monday 47 August 20, 2018 Serperiorfan Icon-Max Brass.png
Mega League Monday 48 August 27, 2018 Serperiorfan Icon-Max Brass.png
Mega League Monday 49 September 10, 2018 Para Icon-Spring Man.png
Mega League Monday 50 September 17, 2018 SirRosalina Icon-random.png
Mega League Monday 51 September 24, 2018 Nobi Icon-Twintelle.png
Mega League Monday 52 October 1, 2018 Ripha Icon-Ninjara.png
Mega League Monday 53 October 8, 2018 SlosherWailord Icon-Master Mummy.png
Mega League Monday 54 October 15, 2018 Replicant Icon-Lola Pop.png
Mega League Monday 55 October 22, 2018 SirRosalina Icon-random.png
Mega League Monday 56 October 29, 2018 Serperiorfan Icon-Max Brass.png
Mega League Monday 57 November 5, 2018 Twinfive0 Icon-Lola Pop.png
Mega League Monday 58 November 12, 2018 Serperiorfan Icon-Max Brass.png
Mega League Monday 59 November 19, 2018 SirRosalina Icon-random.png
Mega League Monday 60 January 7, 2019 SlosherWailord Icon-Master Mummy.png
Mega League Monday 61 January 14, 2019 Dartremix Icon-Dr. Coyle.png
Mega League Monday 62 January 21, 2019 Asqew Icon-Min Min.png
Mega League Monday 63 February 4, 2019 Dartremix Icon-Dr. Coyle.png
Mega League Monday 65 December 14, 2020 AstroNinja Icon-Misango.png Icon-Dr. Coyle.png
MLM 66 January 4, 2021 Hebirote Icon-Kid Cobra.png
Mega League Monday 67 January 11, 2021 Iceman92 Icon-Ribbon Girl.png Icon-Min Min.png
Mega League Monday 68 January 18, 2021 Luna-Gabs Icon-Dr. Coyle.png Icon-Twintelle.png
Mega League Monday 69 January 25, 2021 Luna-Gabs Icon-Twintelle.png Icon-Dr. Coyle.png Icon-Ribbon Girl.png
Mega League Monday 70 February 1, 2021 Luis21 Icon-Helix.png
Mega League Monday 71 February 8, 2021 Luna-Gabs Icon-Dr. Coyle.png Icon-Spring Man.png Icon-Kid Cobra.png

Trivia

  • With 11 wins, JMCANADA has the most Mega League Monday wins out of all 30 unique victors.
  • The Mega League Monday logo was made by Gryffical.
    • Said logo's stars are actually hovering slightly above the belt itself rather than actually being a part of it.[1]

Gameplay Videos

ARMS - Mega League Monday 4!

References