SSMB's very own (Badges Included) Super Cool, Absolutely Awesome, Positively Amazing, Stupendos, Super Smash Brothers Brawl Ladder/Tournament.

[King Frosty]

Hey Guys. How are you all this fine merrily evening.

Well, it's time for a tournament.

A tournament of Fighting.

There may be lag. There may be rage.

But we're the SSMB. WE OWN THAT.

So to get to the point.

This......is the thread.....for the SSMB SUPER SMASH BROS BRAWL TOURNAMENT/LADDER!

Registration for the Tournament will last for 1-2 weeks.

To participate, post saying you're up for participating in the Tournament along with your friend code for Brawl. the Match ups for each person will be Random. So when they're set, You must add the person you're facing for each match. (Don't worry you don't have to add everybody here, you can remove them after the tournament if ya want. =P) You must also take a pic of the end of a match, stream and or record a match for proof that ya won or it won't count.

Judges with Biggest Hats for the tournament are:

Vizard Jeffhog

Lord High Kamicciolo of the Mighty Puffball Alliance

El Presidente General Super Commander Nintendo 64 Mr. NinjaShark

thebluehedgehog

EX-Gear

Professor Westwood V

Contestants:

Professor Westwood V - 3094-1282-9792

FlameKoetsu - 0431-0016-9412

Krazystitch- 3566-1301-7028

BlueChaos- 0174-3133-4899

Cero- 0088-8497-8364

Mike Dawson- 4639-8624-1354

Chaos Warp- 0991-6296-7922

Rawpowered- 2277-8242-2701

Lbyrd2- 0173-2818-9227

Swift- 1075-0509-5258

Chibinuva/Spider-Man 2099- 1292-2868-9888

Strickerx5- 4425-1149-1646

SonHOG- 4685-3113-4856

Strange Hedgehog/The Scarlet Spider- 0732-7876-3558

Chris Redfield/Monkey D. Eddy- 2364-1876-6565

Wooly-U- 5241-1588-5862

Blue Wisp/Vinyl Scratch- 3696 8791 7577

Soniman032/ Grooseinator032- 2578-3848-0340

MeteorSmash- 1591-9718-5262

Chris Redfield/Monkey D. Eddy- 2364-1876-6565

Hamdude- 2099- 1292-2868-9888

Cola- 1719-4789-6483

Ultimate Spidey/Xenos- 0175-1590-4221

Nicollette- 2107-5013-6625

Lord High Kamicciolo of the Mighty Puffball Alliance - 0990-2556-0687

So here are the rules for the tournament.

General Rules for Matches:

1. 3 stocks

2. 10-minute timer

3. Best-of-3 rounds (WF, LF, and GF will be Best-of-5)

4. Double elimination

5. "Items set to Off and None

6. No Mods, Skins or any other modifications.

7. the Judges shall have the Biggest Hats

Limiting Rules/Bans:

1. No using infinites for stalling purposes

2. No bugs/glitches of any kind

3. No Infinite Dimensional Cape (incidental use of IDC is tolerable)

4. Both participants will be required to take Pictures of their Match results

Set Format:

Timeouts:

In the event that a match goes to time, the victor will be decided by the following steps, in order:

1. Number of remaining stocks

2. Amount of damage percent

3. If stocks and damage percent identical, the match will be replayed on the same stage, with each player at one stock.

These are the starter stages (first 3 fights between people)

Battlefield

Yoshi's Island

Smashville

Final Destination

Castle Siege

Delfino Plaza

Lylat Cruise

Pokémon Stadium (Melee)

Counterpick

Frigate Orpheon

Brinstar

Halberd

Pictochat

Rainbow Cruise

Pokémon Stadium 2

Jungle Japes

Norfair

Green Greens

Distant Planet

Luigi's Mansion

Pirate Ship

Port Town Aero Dive

Yoshi's Island (Melee)

Banned

75m

Big Blue (Melee)

Bridge of Eldin

Corneria (Melee)

Flat Zone 2

Green Hill Zone

Hanenbow

Mario Bros.

Mario Circuit

Mushroomy Kingdom (1-1 and 1-2)

New Pork City

Onett (Melee)

Rumble Falls

Shadow Moses Island

Skyworld

Spear Pillar

Summit

Temple (Melee)

WarioWare, Inc.

That's all for now, if you need help with anything, ask me or the judges.

HAVE FUN~! =D

(Also Kami and Ninja came up with the title because I'm not a hog :v)

Edited February 29, 2012 by Chris Redfield

[Cola]

I'm in. Toss me onto the roster, Ed.

[Soniman]

Count me in.

[-Robin-]

Yeah, count me in for this. Friend Code is 3094-1282-9792

Wait, do we really need to provide picture evidence for this? I have no Photobucket or Imageshack account and don't really want to set one up. Wouldn't each player's word be enough?

I could save the replay of the match (it's the only hack I have on Brawl, aside from music and stage color hacks) and send the file to any of the judges if that would could work.

Edited February 10, 2012 by Professor Westwood V

[FlameKoetsu]

You can put pictures on Tinypic without making an account. Count me in also, 0431-0016-9412

[Jix Hedgehog]

Sounds fun

Please clarify rules 4 & 7 and Limiting rules/bans 3

Also - stages random?

[-Robin-]

You can put pictures on Tinypic without making an account.

Ah. OK. No issue then.

You may want to elaborate that "All Items Off" rule, and change it to "Items set to Off and None." Otherwise, King Dedede would have a chance to throw capsules and acquire Dragoon Pieces every time he uses his Waddle Dee Toss.

[Winston]

I'm in, and my FC is on meh profile.

[Kamicciolo]

Sounds fun

Please clarify rules 4 & 7 and Limiting rules/bans 3

Also - stages random?

While I'm not entirely sure what Double Elimination is (so I'm just move onto the next and pretend you don't notice :V), Rule #7 Guarantees that the esteemed judges of this fine tournament (with me being the most estemeed~) will be given free hats to wear that signafies their judge rank and estemeed-ness~.

Limiting/Banned Rule #3 refers to the glitch with Meta Knight's Dimensional Cape move, where if the C-stick is held when the move is used Meta Knight will remain invisible (and essentially untouchable). It tends to be used as a stalling tactic, drawing the fight out far longer (more use in a Time Match honestly, but still would effect things here).

Also you're free to pick stages randomly from the list of Starters and Counterpicks if you like, but no stages from the Banned list (they are listed as Banned for a reason after all :V).

[-Robin-]

While I'm not entirely sure what Double Elimination is (so I'm just move onto the next and pretend you don't notice :V),

Double elimination is a method of bracket construction. Every player is given another chance to play a match if he or she loses a match; he or she is simply put into the "Loser's Bracket" instead of being eliminated outright, not being able to play again. It allows for a better way to determine who are the top players in the tournament; a person who loses the first round could possibly advance all the way through the bracket and win anyway, instead of being eliminated immediately due to the "random" seeding.

Example of a double elimination bracket:

In the example, Gabe lost his first match, but he was able to advance through the losers bracket, beating out someone who won his first match, Champ. It demonstrates that Gabe is better than Champ, something that would not have been able to be proved if Gabe was not allowed to play again if he lost.

Edited February 10, 2012 by Professor Westwood V

[Chaos Warp]

I would like to join, what do I need to do? BTW I'm going to be gone for a week (Vacation), when does this start?

[#EndyGate]

I'll hop in too, though I can't give you my fc yet

[King Frosty]

I would like to join, what do I need to do? BTW I'm going to be gone for a week (Vacation), when does this start?

Edited February 10, 2012 by Chris Redfield

[Sega DogTagz]

I want to join in.... but Brawl's lag usually gives me fits. (I have a really good connection, and every other game works fine).

I'll have to think about it, but I'll probably cave in and join. Looks like fun.

[Autosaver]

I guess I could join, I'll post my FC tomorrow.

[Xenos]

Count me in, but could you add me as Ultimate Spidey/Xenos? Just to avoid confusion.

And I'm pretty sure you already know my FC too.

[Agent York]

I'll get on my friendcode as well, but count me in. These things are always fun.

[Big Boss (legendsneverdie)]

I haven't played in a while, but I'll enter.

[Syntax Speedway]

I'm thinking about joining, but what time of the day will the matches take place?

[Vemus]

Hopefully the tournament will take place at a reasonable time of day for everyone. The reasoning behind the the picture/stream form of proof is to get rid of the possibility of "So-and-so's lying about his win, Mrs. KamiShark really won the match" complaints and just makes it a lot easier on the judges.

As for Eddy's question, that's Tio Tournament Organizer, I'll be using that to keep track of wins/losses as they come, if you want it, let me know and I can link you. Also if the tournament is forced to take longer than a day, I'll take a screencap of the current standings so they can be posted if desired.

[krazystitch]

Sure, I'll join!

3566-1301-7028

Looks like I'll have to get back into practice with this game for the next two weeks, I can't even remember the last time I played it. Good luck to you all, though, I'm looking forward to it

[Lady Soniko]

any more than 2 people fighting in a LAN match causes unbearable Lag, the only way this will work if is you only pit 2 people against each other, and scrap the double elimination all together.

unless you're going to be doing the double elimination at the same time, in 2 different matches?

don't want to be losing out due to Lag and slow down, its the worst.

otherwise i'm in, put me down as Samus i'll get my friendcode later.

[-Robin-]

any more than 2 people fighting in a LAN match causes unbearable Lag, the only way this will work if is you only pit 2 people against each other,

The matches are singles, not doubles/teams, so unless there is a 3rd party in the match and is streaming it, there is only 2 people in it.

scrap the double elimination all together.

I would much prefer having lag in one match and losing, then having another chance in lag to try to adapt and win, than lose one match and be "too bad so sad" because I was eliminated with no second chance to try again due to lag screw-up. And this is assuming that lag will be as detrimental as possible, which from my experience, is quite rare.

[Lady Soniko]

The matches are singles, not doubles/teams, so unless there is a 3rd party in the match and is streaming it, there is only 2 people in it.

I would much prefer having lag in one match and losing, then having another chance in lag to try to adapt and win, than lose one match and be "too bad so sad" because I was eliminated with no second chance to try again due to lag screw-up. And this is assuming that lag will be as detrimental as possible, which from my experience, is quite rare.

i was actually on about the matches themselves, any more than 2 people per LAN match then Lag comes into it, and leaves for some pretty unfair results due to controller hiccups and character reaction time slow down.

i'm saying the best way to do this is 1 VS 1 then the victor goes on for the next scheduled battle and so on.

if we're not going to have a complete P1 VS P2 VS P3 VS P4 then thats ok

me and Xenos took part in a 4 way brawl via Wooly's stream and the lag was unbearable, when Wooly & Blue Wisp left me and Xenos had smooth frame rate and no lag.

just sayin' if we do double eliminations in the same match then prepare for some ugly slow down and frustrated players.

[-Robin-]

I think that you're thinking "Double Elimination" means "two singles matches played at the same time in the same room." which is not the case. "Double Elimination" means "eliminated twice;" you have to lose two matches - in this case, two 1v1 matches - in order to be eliminated completely from the tournament. We each have our own Wii to play our wifi matches on, so there's no need to have more than two people be cluttered up in a particular room. There shouldn't be any issue concerning that.