2025 ACT 2
POWER RANKINGS

Boom, y'all. Pleeba makes his debut as Chicagoland Melee’s # 1 player in Act 2 of 2025.

After a hotly contested battle for rank 1, voters determined that his high attendance, and high overall bracket win rate, were enough to warrant awarding him the top spot. Over the course of the season, Pleeba attended 30 in-region events, tied for second most of any player, only one less than the top attender, Yolk. Throughout those 30 events, Pleeba won 18 brackets, netting him a 58% tournament win rate. Over the course of those brackets, Pleeba had a positive win rate against almost every PR eligible player, including a notably dominant pair of records against dz (13-0), and Arpy (10-1). The only person in Chicago consistently giving Pleeba a headache ended up being the new rank 2, Ober, who he would split sets with throughout the season (5-9).

If you were going to a tournament in Chicago this season, there was a high chance that Pleeba would be in attendance, and a high chance he would be there to leave the rest of his competitors defeated in his wake. Despite being a scary sight in any bracket path, he is anything but when seen off the setup; a friendly face in the venue, and an aptly named chilling addict. If he was in attendance, there would be a 100% chance of him greeting you warmly and offering up a crisp fist bump, before continuing his surefire warpath in bracket.

Now as Chicago’s rank 1, Pleeba has his eyes set on a spot in Melee’s top 100 this year. With a group of fans growing in the windy city, and crowds growing to watch his sets, both in and out of region, Pleeba won the hearts and votes of Chicago in Act 2, and is sure to continue strongly on his quest to show what the city’s best can do.

This season in Chicago, it was all love for our new rank one☝️.