Editing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (section)

=== As an eSport ===
The Super Smash Bros. series has long been a popular and professional eSport target, and Ultimate is no exception. While stymied by the COVID-19 pandemic during Ultimate's formative years, it still sees a healthy amount of lasting attendance in both minor and major tournaments.

In higher-level play, this game is about identifying and exploiting your opponent's weaknesses, psychologically misleading or conditioning your opponent into vulnerable scenarios (also known as mindgaming), and using your own dexterity and mental aptitude to apply your character's signature toolkit to your advantage in the form of combos, frame-traps, and other methods to overcome your opponent. There may be tens of inputs a second in frantic play, and split-second reaction times are essential to survival. Local tournaments may be managed by a local community which may or may not report matches to a larger repository, but regional and major tournaments are usually recognised and seen by the wider eSports community at large. These tournaments may happen weekly, quarterly, or annually, and may be separated as local, regional, semi-major, and major, based on the amount of applicants, frequency, and source of applicants.