The Rivals of Aether Season Four NA Rankings have rated the top 50 players in North America. Reveals came from the News section of the official Rivals of Aether website from March 16 – 20.
For this list, panelists evaluated tournaments from March 2019 – January 2020. Panelists did take online results into account, although they weighed offline results more heavily. Previously, Rivals of Aether’s rankings only included events in the Rivals Championship Series. This was the first season to incorporate results from other grassroots events in the rankings.
The Rivals of Aether Season Four NA Rankings list is as follows:
- Alex “CakeAssault” Strobel
- Ethan “Penguin” Drake
- Joshua “Windows” R.
- Isaac “DolphinBrick” L.
- Josh “Xaro” Nye
- Justin “MSB” Miller
- Zachary “ZeeBee” Benson
- Stephen “SBS” Sobansky
- Connor “Sparx21” Stephenson
- Matthew “MattyIce” Yarbrough
- Forrest Griffin
- Jesier Santiago
- Andrew “Backpack” Roque
- Julian “Guard” Roque
- Mathew “Bagel” Lapierre
- Elijah Tapscott
- William “LBO” Dunmire III
- Tylor “Protagify” Kong
- Joshua “FullStream” Thompson
- Sanam “Lattim” Mittal
- Ahmet “Seggo” Kurter
- Daniel “Dam Danny” Marquez
- Matthew “Chompers” Sandoval
- Kobe “Kobra” Bracey
- Nicholas “PrimeTime” R.
- Justin “Akashi” Roth
- Zach “Bullets” Di Giovanni
- Walker “O-Gazm” Petrie
- Blair “Yesdefinitely” Cartiel
- Michael “Giga Bowser” Steele
- Michael “Starbos” Rumfelt
- Andrew “Kruz” Kruszynski
- Guillermo “Stroder” Martinez Jr.
- Josiah “TurtleBox” A.
- Noah “Plastic Dinos” Brown
- “CheesyPotato”
- Landon “Levin” Raph
- Jason “Lucius” R. Vargas
- Andrew “Nevereatcars” Robinson
- Eli “Dunk” Stein
- Chris “Marx” Alter
- Marcus “Kaaeru” V.
- Nathan “AZCards” Bloeman
- Hector “Proux.EXE” Sanchez
- Destry “Spook” Crockett
- Daniel “Danzello” Zamilatskiy
- Jonah “Junuh” Grimm
- Bryant “Dos Rogers” Rogers
- Alexander “Nexplosion” Morgan
- Nathan “Jorane” Weir
Rivals of Aether Season Four NA Rankings
CakeAssault returned as the No. 1 player on the Rivals of Aether rankings for the second season in a row. His player blurb noted that he has been ranked top 5 in the world every season thus far. Throughout this season, CakeAssault placed 1st at a plethora of stacked tournaments. Among them were Genesis 7, Super Smash Con 2019, EVO 2019, The Big House 9, and DreamHack Atlanta 2019.
Notably, a pair of brothers appeared back to back on the Rivals of Aether Season Four NA Rankings: Backpack and Guard. Hailing from Florida, both players made meteoric rises over the course of the season. Backpack boasts wins over Windows, Forrest, and Guard. Meanwhile, Guard has beaten the likes of Windows, MattyIce, and Tapscott.
A pair of players in this top 50 list are notable for their performances outside of Rivals of Aether, Forrest and Stroder. Forrest is ranked No. 68 in the world for Super Smash Bros. Melee. He has beaten Edgard “n0ne” Sheleby and Kurtis “moky” Pratt. Stroder was formerly ranked No. 29 in the world for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. He has beaten Gavin “Tweek” Dempsey, Ezra Samsora Morris, and Enrique “Maister” Hernández Solís.
