Last weekend saw the Big House 11 take place, a major for Smash Bros Melee and Ultimate. This is one of our bigger events for Melee this Autumn and one player definitely shined in the results. Cody Schwab.

Cody Schwab is a Melee player who has had a crazy year. He’s had the loss of another team, health problems, the danger of having to leave Melee behind, and eventually a rise to the very top of the game. At the Big House 11 Cody Schwab has taken yet another major win to cement one of his biggest years in the fighting game’s esports events.

Cody Schwab Beats the Big House 11

After a great run through the Big House 11’s pools round, Cody Schwab entered the singles bracket on the winner’s side before dropping his first round and moving down to the losers. Here things picked up for him though, he beat Chango, TheRealThing, Faust, Polish, then None to secure his spot in the Final bracket.

While on a good run at this point, Cody Schwab was entering the final bracket in the losers here. His round might have been one of the toughest too, against Zain. That player has been dominating the rankings of Melee for years now, but Cody Schwab just coming out on top winning 3-2. He had a smoother run against Mang0 winning 3-2 to find his place in the Grand Finals.

Cody Schwab had a strong run, but the Grand Finals from the losers’ side had some extra challenges. The player needed to force a bracket reset to win again to get through. Thankfully, that’s just what happened.

The first three sets saw the two players trade wins, before Cody Schwab came back to clinch two consecutive wins and lock in the reset. After this, things went a bit smoother as Cody won the next three sets in a row. With another major win under his belt, Cody Schwab is set up to be one of the most. Impressive Smash players of 2023.

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Big House 11 Preview

There are a few major fighting game events taking place this weekend, including East Coast Throwdown. One of the highlights though is going to be the Big House 11. The Detroit-based Smash series is making a return over October 20-22. It’s one of the biggest events on the calendar for Super Smash Bros and we’ll see fighting game esports events for both the major games.

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The Big House is organized by Juggleguy, and takes place over one weekend. It’s an offline tournament that’s representing both Melee and Ultimate. We’ve got singles and doubles events both taking place, with over £20,000 in total prize money here. This is how the tournament will work and the events that are happening.

Smash Melee

The bigger tournament at the Big House 11 is Smash Melee. As an event for one of the best fighting games of all time, it’s got a prize pool to match. There’s $4,420 for doubles but the big event is the singles which has $10,110 on offer. More than 1,000 players have signed up for the singles.

Included in the roster of players are some of the top competitors. There’s Zain, Cody Schwab, Jmook, Mang0, aMSa, Hungrybox and more all showing up. This is an event which is attracting all of the best Smash Bros players.
Ultimate

While Melee is the bigger pull, the more recent Smash game is represented here too. It’s a smaller event but there are still more than 500 players signed up for the singles. There’s a doubles prize pool of $1,720 and singles are getting $5,170. Some of the bigger names for this tournament are going to be Dabuz, Chase, and more.

Both Melee and Ultimate at the Big House 11 are going to be a lot of fun. These are all available on the official stream over the weekend. We should see some of the top Smash players competing in head-to-head clashes.