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
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| Mega League 1 |
September 11, 2017 |
Tuturoopa |
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| Mega League 2 |
September 18, 2017 |
reeseTHEninja |
|
| Mega League Monday 3 |
September 25, 2017 |
VerticalHunger |
|
| Mega League Monday 4 |
October 2, 2017 |
Resolve |
|
| Mega League 5 |
October 9, 2017 |
Gryffical |
|
| Mega League 6 |
October 16, 2017 |
Resolve |
|
| Mega League 7 |
October 23, 2017 |
Mileve |
|
| Mega League 8 |
October 30, 2017 |
VerticalHunger |
|
| Mega League 9 |
November 6, 2017 |
JMCANADA |
|
| Mega League X |
November 13, 2017 |
Mileve |
|
| Mega League 11 |
November 20, 2017 |
JMCANADA |
|
| Mega League 12 |
November 27, 2017 |
JMCANADA |
|
| Mega League Monday 13 |
December 4, 2017 |
M30W |
 
|
| Mega League 14 |
December 11, 2017 |
Ripha |
|
| Mega League Monday 15 |
December 18, 2017 |
JMCANADA |
|
| Mega League Monday 16 |
January 1, 2018 |
JMCANADA |
|
| Mega League Monday 17 |
January 8, 2018 |
Mileve |
|
| Mega League Monday 18 |
January 15, 2018 |
Gryffical |
|
| Mega League Monday 19 |
January 22, 2018 |
Ripha |
|
| Mega League Monday 20 |
January 29, 2018 |
FrankTank |
|
| Mega League Monday 21 |
February 5, 2018 |
JMCANADA |
|
| Mega League Monday 22 |
February 12, 2018 |
JMCANADA |
|
| Mega League 23 |
February 19, 2018 |
SirRosalina |
|
| Mega League Monday 24! |
February 26, 2018 |
JMCANADA |
|
| Mega League Monday 25 |
March 5, 2018 |
river_reverb |
|
| Mega League Monday 26 |
March 12, 2018 |
Redingard |
|
| Mega League Monday 27 |
March 19, 2018 |
JMCANADA |
|
| Mega League Monday 28 |
March 26, 2018 |
M30W |
|
| Mega League Monday 29 |
April 2, 2018 |
GoreMagala |
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| Mega League Monday 30 |
April 9, 2018 |
JMCANADA |
|
| Mega League Monday 31 |
April 16, 2018 |
Twinfive0 |
|
| Mega League Monday 32 |
April 23, 2018 |
Para |
|
| Mega League Monday 33 |
April 30, 2018 |
FrankTank |
|
| Mega League Monday 34 |
May 7, 2018 |
Serperiorfan |
|
| Mega League Monday 35 |
May 14, 2018 |
Twinfive0 |
|
| Mega League Monday 36 |
May 21, 2018 |
Minimonstr |
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| Mega League Monday 37 |
June 11, 2018 |
Nobi |
|
| Mega League Monday 38 |
June 18, 2018 |
Dastardly |
|
| Mega League Monday 39 |
June 25, 2018 |
JMCANADA |
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| Mega League Monday 40 |
July 2, 2018 |
Ripha |
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| Mega League Monday 41 |
July 9, 2018 |
river_reverb |
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| Mega League Monday 42 |
July 16, 2018 |
Raffa |
|
| Mega League Monday 43! |
July 23, 2018 |
SirRosalina |
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| Mega League Monday 44 |
July 30, 2018 |
Dastardly |
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| Mega League Monday 45 |
August 6, 2018 |
SirRosalina |
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| Mega League Monday 46 |
August 13, 2018 |
Twinfive0 |
|
| Mega League Monday 47 |
August 20, 2018 |
Serperiorfan |
|
| Mega League Monday 48 |
August 27, 2018 |
Serperiorfan |
|
| Mega League Monday 49 |
September 10, 2018 |
Para |
|
| Mega League Monday 50 |
September 17, 2018 |
SirRosalina |
|
| Mega League Monday 51 |
September 24, 2018 |
Nobi |
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| Mega League Monday 52 |
October 1, 2018 |
Ripha |
|
| Mega League Monday 53 |
October 8, 2018 |
SlosherWailord |
|
| Mega League Monday 54 |
October 15, 2018 |
Replicant |
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| Mega League Monday 55 |
October 22, 2018 |
SirRosalina |
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| Mega League Monday 56 |
October 29, 2018 |
Serperiorfan |
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| Mega League Monday 57 |
November 5, 2018 |
Twinfive0 |
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| Mega League Monday 58 |
November 12, 2018 |
Serperiorfan |
|
| Mega League Monday 59 |
November 19, 2018 |
SirRosalina |
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| Mega League Monday 60 |
January 7, 2019 |
SlosherWailord |
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| Mega League Monday 61 |
January 14, 2019 |
Dartremix |
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| Mega League Monday 62 |
January 21, 2019 |
Asqew |
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| Mega League Monday 63 |
February 4, 2019 |
Dartremix |
|
| Mega League Monday 65 |
December 14, 2020 |
AstroNinja |
|
| MLM 66 |
January 4, 2021 |
Hebirote |
|
| Mega League Monday 67 |
January 11, 2021 |
Iceman92 |
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| Mega League Monday 68 |
January 18, 2021 |
Luna-Gabs |
|
| Mega League Monday 69 |
January 25, 2021 |
Luna-Gabs |
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| Mega League Monday 70 |
February 1, 2021 |
Luis21 |
|
| Mega League Monday 71 |
February 8, 2021 |
Luna-Gabs |
|
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
