Nintendo shuts down Smash World Tour ‘without any warning’
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Smash World Tour organizers claim sabotage could be partially responsible for Nintendo's decision to shut down the third-party tournament. | Image: Nintendo The Smash World Tour has announced that both the upcoming championship tournament and the 2023 Smash World Tour have been canceled after Nintendo demanded the event organizers cease operations without any warning."
As reported by Kotaku, the third-party event was one of the largest fighting game competitions in the esports scene. In 2022 alone, we connected over 6,400 live events worldwide, with over 325,000 in-person entrants, making the Smash World Tour (SWT, or the Tour) the largest esports tour in history, for any game title," said Smash World Tour in a statement addressing the shutdown. The Championships would also have had the largest prize pool in Smash history at over $250,000."
The upcoming Smash World Tour Championships...