167,000 members - adding about 150-200 new members daily

16,300,000 post database - top 10 largest forum on Xenforo forum software, the second largest gaming-oriented behind only IGN

Current record for posts in a day: 17,476 (about 1 post every 5 seconds)

Smashboards Facebook: 46,000 Likes

Smashboards Twitter: 24,000 Followers

Smashboards Twitch: 100 Followers (just getting started...)

Smashboards Rankings and Listings

The listing is streamlined, it only take about 10 minutes to create a good listing thread, once the thread is created, it is part of the listing forum and part of the event tab in the navigation header.

Each listing is tweeted about at least once to the Smashboards Twitter account (24k followers) and some are selected for additional tweets. That's free advertising.

Smashboards is currently an Alexa Top 20,000 global website, top 5,000 US, and sees hundreds of thousands of unique visitors every month. The bulk of these visitors are coming from Google and are new players simply interested in Smash. A tournament doesn't tap into this traffic unless the event is posted to Smashboards.

Lastly, the listings are a historical, searchable record - Smashboards is the database and history of the Smash community - all in one, single, place.

Total Events: 3,242*

Total Events (2014): 2,762*



Total Results: 92,953

Unique Usernames: 33,766

Unique (Claimed) Results: 7,789



Entry Fee Events (>$0): 2,678

Entry Fee Events (Ranked): 2,472

Entry Fee 2014 (Ranked) : 2,057



Total Prize Money: $873,650

Total Prize Money 2014: $525,618

*Data pulled early December, 2014

**Not complete, and events = tournaments, an event could have 3 tournaments (Brawl, Melee, Wii U)​

more than $3,500,000 in cash prizes

Read the "how to" on rankings and results If your an organizer, submit your event, or a past event, to the ranking system If you are a player, make sure your organizer does #1, and also look through and claim results that are your own

Smashboards Sponsorships

In 2014, Smashboards provided more than $5,000 in sponsorships

2014 Sponsorships

Apex 2014

CEO 2014

Smash the Record

The Big House 4

PAX Prime 2014 Panel: The Smash Community - Past, Present, and Future with Alphazealot, Samox, Hungrybox, and D1

Even Match Up Gaming (video content)

Clash Tournaments (video content)

Video Game Bootcamp (video content)

In 2015, we have already announced two sponsorships:

BEAST 5 (first European venture)

Apex 2015

Forum Improvements

Launched forum frontpage

Launched activity widget to easily see where activity is occuring

Launched ranking system

Launched guide system with a guide contest

Improved Smashboards Premium - including adding raffles for awesome prizes like Super Smash Brothers for Wii U

Improved forum up-time (>99% uptime in 2014)

Adjusted the forum interface to make it more easily navigable

Adjusted look and feel of the forums to make it more "Smash-like"

Final Thoughts