Europe [July 30-31 2016] LAST VI (Lunel, France)

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TRAILER 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7uQONxV50M
TRAILER 2 THE LAST WEEK : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EP78_aI9_I
TRAILER 3 CONFIRMED PLAYERS : https://youtu.be/qE4LmgdXUTc​

The Smash Tournament Association is proud to present the next iteration of its south tournaments, the long-awaited LAST VI! Including JiM, MetalFox, Meljin and me, the STA really intends to improve itself to offer you even more hype! After a year of waiting, the LAST comes back in the middle of summer in the land of sunlight with its air conditioned room and epic matches! Many surprises will come in the following weeks.

Summary :
- Air-conditioned venue
- Cheap refreshment area
- 22 set-ups
- 80 players
- 1000€ Cash-prize
- Stream by Darx
- EU top players incoming
- Commentaries by Fauster

REGISTRATION LINK : https://smash.gg/tournament/last-6


If you have questions, please look for informations on this topic first.


PLACE AND DATE :

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DATE: The weekend of July 25-26. The venue will not be open except Saturday morning at 9:30am until Sunday evening at 7pm (19h).
Singles Tournament: Saturday 11:00am - ??
Doubles Tournament: Sunday 10:00am - 6:00pm (18h)
LATE ENTRANTS ARE NOT TOLERATED! For each 10 minutes you are late, you will receive a 0-2 loss for a match.


PLACE: Lunel, salle Folquet, rue Pierre Curie, 30 km from Montpellier and Nîmes.
-If you arrive by car: Go straight ahead at the Intermarché round-about (2nd exit);
Take a left at the “Quick” restaurant round-about;
Take the next left after traveling on Leclerc, and you will arrive at rue Pierre Curie;
The venue is on the left on this dead-end road.

-If you arrive by train: Turn left;
At the end, at the traffic light, turn right;
At the end, turn left (towards the traffic);
Follow the main road, you will pass the police station;
You will arrive at a round-about, on the left there is a Quick, resist the temptation to take a right;
Take the next left, along Leclerc, you will arrive at rue Pierre Curie;
The venue is on the dead-end road, on the left.


TRAIN SCHEDULE: It takes 13min, price 5€50 one-way without a discount:
Montpellier-Lunel: -Friday evening: 17h13, 17h34, , 18h13, 18h35, 19h13, 20h13, 21h13, 22h13

-Sunday morning: 6h34, 7h31, 8h13, 9h13, 10h13

Lunel-Montpellier: -Saturday evening: 18h15, 18h31, 19h31, 20h00, 22h31

-Sunday evening: 18h00, 18h31, 19h31, 20h00, 20h31, 22h31

Nîmes-Lunel: -Friday evening: 18h13, 18h54, 19h13, 19h43, 20h13, 20h48, 22h13

-Saturday morning: 6h47, 7h43, 8h13, 8h43, 10h13

Lunel-Nîmes: -Saturday evening: 18h31, 18h49, 19h31, 19h52, 21h31, 22h31

-Sunday evening: 17h31, 18h31, 18h49, 19h31, 19h52, 20h31, 21h31, 22h31

If you have problems, here is JiM's number: 06****79**09***38****09

PROGRAM

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- Tuesday 26 July
6.30 PM: Be at the Meltdown bar in Montpellier
7PM: Beginning of the tournament
1AM: End of the tournament

- Wednesday 27 July
8PM: Bar tour – Smashfest

Thursday 28 July
2PM: Be at the tramway station Occitanie in Montpellier
2PM : Hiking at the Pic Saint-Loup, highest mountain in Herault (1 hour-long hinking)

Friday 29 July
- 6PM: Beginning of the installation
- 8PM: Freeplay with the available set-ups
- 11PM: End of the freeplay
- 11.30PM: Closing time

Saturday 30 July
- 9AM: Opening and registration – freeplay
- 10AM : Welcome discourse – rules explanation – Pools announcement
- 2PM : End of pools – Lunch break
- 3PM : Start of pro bracket
- 4PM : Start of rookie bracket
- 9PM : Top 8
- 11PM : CREWS
- 2AM : Closing time

Sunday 31 July
- 9AM : Opening and registration
- 10AM : Rules explanation – Pools announcement
- 1PM : Lunch break – End of pools
- 2PM : Start of the pro bracket
- 4PM : Top 8
- 6PM : End of the tournament, progressive end of freeplay
- 7PM : Closing time
- 8PM : After party beach/funfair

HOUSING

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On Friday and Saturday, you can sleep on the floor at the venue. Take your sleeping bag, pillow, teddy-bear,… The doors will be closed, and consoles and lights will be turned off at 1AM during Friday night and at 2AM during Saturday night. Only players and staff can sleep at the venue.

For more comfort, you can ask the local smahers, either by private message, or you can ask on the topic or on the Facebook page.

You can also try https://www.airbnb.fr/.
You can find a room for 45-50/4persons/night, so around 12€/person/night.


Or you can try the hotel.
http://www.ambrehotel.fr/chambres.php Le Ambre hôtel, in Lunel (50m from the venue, 30m from Quick), a big pink building, you can’t miss it.
262 av. du Vidourle - 34400 Lunel - Tel : 04 67 818 592
• Single 39 € (39€/person)
• Double 49,90€ (25€/person)
• Triple 55,50€ (19€/person)
• Quadruple 67,50€ (17€/person)
• Quintuple 79,50€ (16€/person)
Tax: 0.20€. This should work well for some of you! Make sure to reserve early!

FOOD

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A refreshment area will be available at the venue, with
- Chocolate bars (60 cents) : Kinder Bueno, Kit-Kat, Ice Snickers, Mr Freeze (30 cents for the last one)
- Drinks (60 cents) : Coca Cola, Oasis, Ice Tea, Red Bull (1.5 for the last one)
- Sandwishs: Hot dog, menu with a drink = 2.50€
There are several fast foods, a bakery, pizza restaurants and a supermarket near the tournament.

FEES

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- Entrance fee : 6€
- Entrance fee after 1st July : 11€
- Singles fee: 12€
- Teams fee : 7€/player

CASPRIZE

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1000€ cashprize this year! Including 200€ from the STA!

Cashprize distribution :
1st 57.5% (550€)
2nd 25% (300€)
3rd 12.5% (100€)
4th 5% (50€)

The team cashprize distribution for teams will depend on the number of teams, and will be distributed to only the top 3 teams.

TOURNAMENT RULES

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Set Rules
- 4 Stocks.
- No items.
- Pause option should be disabled in the game menu. If left on, a player who pauses accidentally or deliberately during a match must forfeit a stock. A player who quits the match with Start and L+R+A+Start loses the match.
- 8 minute time limit. In the event of a timeout, the player who has the most stocks left wins the match. If both players have the same amount of lives, the character with the least damage wins the match. If both characters have equal lives and damage, the match must be replayed. « Sudden Death » is never used.
- Tero's Smart Rule: A player can't counterpick a stage they've already counterpicked and won on during the set. The first stage chosen in the set is not a counterpick stage.
- Pamaro's Stupid Rule: The character and stage selection should be made reasonably quickly.
- Gentleman's clause: If both players agree to it, any stage can be chosen.
- Stalling (avoiding combat in order to reach the end of the timer) is banned. Stalling is not camping; in case of doubt, the TO has the final word.
- Wobbling is allowed up to 300%.
- Yoyo-Glitch is allowed.
- Color glitch is banned.
- Playing as Master Hand is banned.
- Any glitch that can prevent a player from controlling their character is forbidden.
- A player can request to play on neutral ports. For FoD, DF and YS, neutral ports are number 1 and 2. On BF and PS, they are 3 and 4 and on Dreamland, they are 2 and 4.
- A player can request to have a neutral start : both player face each other on each side of the bottom platform.
- If both players want the same controller port, the choice will be settled by Rock-Paper-Scissors.
- Players are allowed a 1 minute warm-up before playing their match.
- Coaching is allowed between matches, but not during a match. If a person is coached during a match, the player (player and coach) get a warning. With 2 warnings, they will be both disqualified.
- A player can take a 5 minute break between 2 consecutive sets.

Set Procedure
1. Opponents choose their characters for the first match. If needed, a Double Blind Pick can be requested with the help of a referee.
2. Opponents start the stage striking procedure.
3. At the end of the first match, the Stage Banning starts in the following way :
- if Best of 3, the winner bans a stage for the next match ;
- if Best of 5, no ban.
4. The loser of the previous match announces the next match's stage (Starters or Counterpick) out of the ones have not been banned.
5. The winner of the previous match chooses their character.
6. The loser of the previous match chooses their character.
7. The next match is played.
8. Repeat steps 4-8 for all proceeding matches until the end of the set.
- If one of these rules isn't respected, matchs must be replayed.

Specific rules for Doubles
- 10-minutes-timer.
- Friendly Fire is ON.
- Life Stealing is allowed.
- Fountain of Dreams is banned because of lag.
- Pokemon Stadium is a Starter.
- No stage banning.
- A player can request to play on neutral ports : on Pokemon Stadium, Battlefield, Yoshi's Story and Dreamland, it should be done this way : ABBA. For Final Destination, it should be done this way : ABAB.

Stage list
Starter stages are :
- Final Destination ;
- Battlefield ;
- Yoshi's Story ;
- Dream Land 64 ;
- Fountain of Dreams (banned in doubles).
Counterpick stages are :
- Pokemon Stadium (starter in doubles).
All other stages are banned.

Tournament format
- Before the tournament, a round robin, Swiss Round or bracket qualification phase will be done.
- Qualification phases are Bo3.
- In case of a tie during the round robin phase, players are settled this way : First, the ratio of won sets will be considered. If both players have the same ratio, the ratio of matches won will be considered. If it is a 2-player tie, only the results between the two of them will be considered. In case of a tie between 3 players, they play their matches again (the number of stocks and the percentage will be taken into account).
- The results of the qualification phase will used in order to seed the tournament.
- The tournament is a double-elimination bracket (with a loser bracket compatible with Challonge). It is divided in 2 parts : The winner and loser bracket. At the end of each Round, winners progress in the winner bracket like in a single-elimination competition. Losers join the loser bracket and play in order to stay in the tournament. A second loss will cause a definitive elimination from the tournament. The Grand Finals opposes the winner of the winner bracket and the winner of the loser bracket. If this last one takes the first set, a second set is played. The number of players must be a power of 2 (8, 16, 32, 64, ...). If not, it is possible to complete this power of 2 with fictive players called « Bye », who will lose all their matches.
- During the tournament, every set will be Bo3. The TO can take the decision to fix a round from which every set will be Bo5.
- The winner must announce the result of the set.
- If after 10 minutes a player does not show up in order to play his set, he loses it. No negotiation possible. In pools, every 10 minutes, the player loses against an opponent, by decreasing seed order.

Equipment rules
- Bring your own controller!
- Modified controllers aren't allowed. Only trigger trick is allowed.
- Freejon's Stupid Rule : It is forbidden to unplug a player's controller during a match or playing in place of your partner.
- To avoid lag, matches will be played on 4/3 CRTs. Flatscreen TVs with lag are forbidden.
- The game is played in 60Hz mode.
- The game is played on the PAL version of the game, with every character and stage unlocked.
- Only Nintendo Wiis and Gamecubes that can play the game with a DVD are allowed. A Wii console that can play an ISO of the original game is tolerated. A player can ask to play on the original DVD version of the game.
- If a match is interrupted because of external causes (alarms, fire, dysfunction of a TV or a console, power cut, ...), there must be a rematch.
- In the event of a rematch caused by a dysfunction, a player can ask to change setups.

LIST OF PLAYERS

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SOON