When you hear that Leonardo "MKLeo" López Pérez, Tyler "Marss" Martins, and other top Super Smash Bros. Ultimate players are in a tournament together, you would probably assume it's a pretty intense and serious tournament. 

But not if it's the Portal Smash tournament. 

YouTuber Alpharad held the tournament at Smash Summit 3, giving players a break from the intense main event. The Portal Smash tournament featured classic stages recreated in Stage Builder "but with a twist." Basically, each stage featured an abundance of portals and lava blocks.

In more serious Smash tournaments, hazards are turned off. But in the Portal Smash tournament, hazards were turned up. 

MKLeo, Marss, Void, Kola, Charliedaking, Cosmos, Aaron, and Riddles all took part in the zany tournament. Most of the pros preferred to play on Alpharad's reimagining of Pokemon Stadium (there were no hazards aside from the portals). In fact, the talented players basically attempted to pretend the portals were not there. 

But the crowd favorite to watch was Portalfield. 

This was a demented version of Super Smash Bros. Melee's Battlefield. While it had the same shape as the classic stage, Portalfield had a central portal that was supposed to teleport players beneath the stage. From there, players were meant to bounce off the roof over and over thanks to a lava block, eventually re-entering the stage when the portal opened once again. Instead, players were teleported right into the lava and shot below the stage, instantly dying. 

This is where the semi-finals took place. Yep. MKLeo and Cosmos jumped into the portal at the same time, seeing who would die first. Fate was on Cosmos' side. 

Then Cosmos had to face Void in the finals. They competed on Portalville, another horrendous map with hazards everywhere. The portals didn't work in Cosmos' favor this time. Void threw Cosmos' Mythra into the air and directly into a portal, teleporting him below the stage. He died. 

And that's how the tournament ended. 

While Alpharad admitted that the tournament was made for "content," nobody was too mad about it. It was seen as a creative bit of fun between matches during one of the most intense Smash tournaments of 2021 to date. And, let's be honest, Sakurai probably would have preferred this tournament to Smash Summit 3 anyway.