Here are some numbers based on the top 64 placings of APEX 2014 SSBM Singles Bracket
Regions
| Top 64 | Top 16 | |
| Atl South | 9 | 5 |
| East Coast | 19 | 1 |
| Midwest | 1 | 0 |
| International | 10 | 3 |
| West Coast | 21 | 6 |
| Southwest | 4 | 1 |
These are roughly the numbers that are expected in a top 64 distribution. EC and WC had the most of any region representing the top 64, but the South and International scenes had great representation in both the Top 64 and Top 16. Although the east and west coasts had great representation in the top 64, the slight fall off in the Top 16 indicates that the elite tier players under-performed
Area
| Top 64 | Top 16 | |
| Arizona | 3 | 1 |
| Canada | 1 | 0 |
| Florida | 7 | 3 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1 |
| Germany | 1 | 1 |
| Japan | 3 | 1 |
| MD/VA | 6 | 0 |
| Missouri | 1 | 0 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 0 |
| New England | 5 | 0 |
| NorCal | 8 | 2 |
| North Carolina | 1 | 1 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 0 |
| SoCal | 11 | 3 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1 |
| Texas | 1 | 0 |
| Tri-State | 8 | 1 |
| UK | 1 | 0 |
| Washington | 2 | 1 |
All the strong regions (Socal ,Norcal, Tri-state, MD/VA, Florida) had great representation in the Top 64. Florida remained strong in the Top 16 as well.
Characters
| Top 64 | Top 16 | |
| Fox | 20 | 8 |
| Falco | 11 | 2 |
| Sheik | 7 | 2 |
| Marth | 7 | 3 |
| Peach | 6 | 1 |
| Falcon | 6 | 0 |
| Puff | 5 | 3 |
| Samus | 5 | 1 |
| Ice Climbers | 3 | 0 |
| Yoshi | 2 | 1 |
| Pikachu | 1 | 1 |
| Dr.Mario | 1 | 1 |
| Ganondorf | 1 | 0 |
| Luigi | 1 | 0 |
| Young Link | 1 | 1 |
| Bowser | 1 | 0 |
(Note: the total will exceed 64 because of players using multiple characters)
To no surprise, the top tier (Fox, Falco, Sheik, Marth) had great representation in the Top 64 bracket. It may be appear that we are trending towards “20xx” with 20 Fox players in the top 64 and 8 of them advancing to the top 16! We had some representation of mid-tiers and low-tiers with an overall total of 16 different characters played out of a possible 26.
-MIOM | Tafokints
Fox’s dominance is legitimately disturbing.
aMSa, save us…
Fox’s “dominance” would be more disturbing if he wasn’t BY FAR the most popular character at every level of play, not just the top…
ya, when the community is so saturated with Fox and Falcos it’s not really surprising that they are also the most seen at the Top 16.
Fucking Falcon. 7th place at tier list, and no Falcons in top 16 hahahaha.