TheTantalus
Smash Hero
PRESENTING:
(I promise the logo will look better next month, graphics folks are away this week!)
Hey Everybody! TheTantalus here and I'm proud to announce that going forward, I'll be the T.O for Xanadu games! And we've already got a very exciting event coming up for the first week of May. This should hopefully be before your finals weekends and if not make sure you study hard before and come on out to enjoy a great day of SMASH BROS. Let's take a moment to explain the name of the event:
Each Xanadu for the upcoming months will have an absolutely FREE controller giveaway! The event will match the color, so this month's giveaway is emerald.
Here is how it works: By paying the Xanadu venue fee, you will get 1 raffle ticket towards winning this controller. Keep in mind- this emerald controller is worth over 100 US dollars, so this deal is incredibly good. Let's add in also that by paying an extra $1 you can purchase additional tickets towards the raffle. So if you pay venue and by 20 raffle tickets, you'll have 21 entries in the pot. So you could have 21 chances to win a controller for a 1/5th of a price...what a deal! Let's get to the details of the event...
Location: Xanadu Games (thread has the address info! If Baltimore doesn't work as the city address, try using Halethorpe or Arbutus. This really isn't within "Baltimore" per se.)
So i'll be your wondering what "Singles ONLY?" means. Well It really couldn't be more clear. There will be no 2v2 at this event. I know that disappoints the 6 of your that enter doubles on a regular basis but for the other 76 of you who don't care for it we've removed it. It is mostly just a time consumer and causes issues. By moving this out of the way, we have more time to devote to singles and less reason for people to spend all day at Xanadu waiting for an opponent if they don't have to. This also lightens the load on everyone's wallet- you can just focus on singles.
Games: We'll be featuring Project:M, Brawl, and Melee (in that order.) Let's get to the schedule...
Schedule:
10:30am Venue Opens
11:00am Project M Signups begin
12:00pm Project M Pools begin
1:00pm Brawl Signups begin
2:00pm Project M Bracket/Brawl Pools begin
3:00pm Melee Signups begin
4:00pm EMERALD controller drawing/Brawl Bracket/Melee Pools begins
6:00pm Melee Bracket begins/Brawl Pro/Am Doubles Bracket
8:00pm Melee Pro/Am Doubles Bracket
If you feel so inclines, you're welcome to start up 2v2 after singles is over if you can find interest. But I will not be there past the end of Melee Singles.
This gives everybody plenty of time to break for lunch/dinner etc. and also have a boat load of time for friendlies. Also, Project:M having pools will also depend on setups, since they are usually scarce. As long as we have 4 setups I think we're OK. What's the cost?
Prices:
$10 Venue fee (First 10 setups are $5 off venue)
$10 Entry fee per tournament
$5 for Pro/Am Doubles
$1 Raffle entry for controller
Rules: These rules apply to Brawl and Melee...specific rules to follow. If you have any questions about the rules, please ask up front rather than waiting till after a match to ask. It could be too late!
General Gameplay:
- Items are set to "off" and "none"
- If the timer runs out, the victor is determined first by stock and then by percentage. If there is a tie, see the tiebreaker section to follow.
- All sets in bracket with the exception of winner's finals, loser's finals, and grand finals will be best of 3 matches. The finals matches will be a best of 5.
- Controller ports will be decided by players. If there is a conflict, we prefer using the G&W Hammer method to determine who gets to choose.
- You may switch ports on your counterpick. If you do not do this on your counter pick, you may not do it on game 3.
- BYOC (Bring your own controller). I recommend having a spare, just in case. If you don't have one, I might have a few for sale.
- Any controller malfunction mid match is on you. If you need to reset, your opponent will have to agree to a reset as doing so will require you to pause the match. (if pause is on).
- Stalling is banned. You know what this is, ask if you're unsure.
- If you freeze the game on an action initiated by your character, you lose. You are expected to know the boundaries of your character. (This rarely, if ever, happens.)
- Pause is recommended to be turned on for quick resets, but players can request it be turned off for the duration of their match.
- If a player pauses the match mid game (accidentally or intentionally), it is a stock loss to the player who pressed it.
- A match ending in simultaneous death does not go to the initiator. If the result is sudden death from this, use the normal tiebreaking rules (to follow) to determine the winner. Otherwise use who the game declared the winner.
- Coaching mid-match is banned. Don't do it.
- Round Robin will be used for all 3 events to determine a final bracket. While bracket sizes will differ based on attendance, but at a minimum half or more than half of the entrants will not advance to the final bracket.
- You cannot re-select a stage you have won on as a Counterpick in a set.
- Any and all infinites (basically, where someone can control the opponent without them being able to do anything about it) must end at 300%, otherwise it becomes stalling. All infinites are entirely legal.
Set Procedure:
1. Character selection
2. Stage strike 1-2-1 (higher seed starts)
3. Play Game 1
4. Winning player announces ban stage for the set
5. Loser of previous match announces next match's stage
6. Winner of previous match chooses characters
7. Loser of previous match chooses characters
8. Play next game
9. Rinse and repeat 4-8 if set goes to a third game.
Tie Breaking:
Note: Tiebreaking is only initiated if the game started a sudden death round upon completion. Otherwise, the game declared winner is the winner of the match.
1. Winner is determined by highest stock count then lowest percent.
2. In Brawl, verify the LGL was not violated. If both players violated said LGL or neither player did, proceed to step 3.
3. 1 stock, 3 minute match is played as a tiebreaker match. The winner of this match wins the game. If there is a tie in this match, proceed to step 4.
4. A second 1 stock, no time limit match is played. If a simultaneous death is initiated (such as swallocide) in this match, the initiator loses the match. There is no tie for this match, it is play until you win.
Round Robin Tie Breaking:
1. Set wins
2. Head to Head
3. Win/Loss Ratio (in %)
4. Head to Head (this applies to if two ratios are tied)
5. 1 game replay between the tied players in question
Conduct Rules:
- BYOC (already mentioned this)
- No intrusive Cosmetic hacks permitted (no altering characters to look like master chief, no reversing the ice climbers colors, etc.)
- Drugs/Alcohol is banned from Xanadu. Don't let me see any, smell any, etc. We'll send you home packing.
- Intentionally disrupting someone mid-match intentionally or accidentally is not acceptable. Please do your best to make sure you are not disrupting a match.
- Don't lose anything you're bringing to the event please, we are not liable for lost/stolen etc.
Melee ONLY rules:
- 4 stock
- 8 minute timer
- Starter Stages:
Yoshi's Story
Fountain of Dreams
Battlefield
Final Destination
Dream Land
- Counterpick stages
Pokemon Stadium
- Doubles stage changes
Pokemon Stadium is a Starter
Kongo Jungle 64 is a CP
Fountain of Dreams is banned
Brawl ONLY rules:
- 3 Stocks
- 8 minute timer
- Infinite Dimensional Cape is banned
- All Wii's are required to have the no tripping code enabled. If you do not have access to this, we will supply it for you. If your wii is not hacked- you must delete all your custom stages so that we can use the Gecko loader from the stage selector.
- 40 LGL for all characters. Only applies in a match that ends in time.
- Starter Stages:
Battlefield
Final Destination
Smashville
- Counterpick Stages:
Yoshi's Island
Frigate Orpheon
Lylat Cruise
Pokemon Stadium 1
Castle Siege
Delfino Plaza
Doubles ONLY rules:
- Team attack is set to ON
- Stock sharing is permitted
Prize Payouts:
1st: 55%
2nd: 25%
3rd: 10%
4th: 5%
5th/5th: 2.5%
Much bigger prize pool since singles is the main focus. Also, if there is a 16 man bracket, almost half of them will get money!
Pro/Am Payouts:
1st: 60%
2nd: 30%
3rd: 10%
Food Nearby:
All within close proximity is Chick-fil-A, McDonalds, Burger King, and Wendy's. There is also a pizza place that delivers that everyone is extremely fond off, as well as Chinese take out. Xanadu should have the chinese and pizza place order list right there at the counter if you want something.
Livestream:
VGBootcamp should be providing the stream unless otherwise noted. They've done all the past Xanadu's, and are a fantastic group!
You can view the stream at www.twitch.tv/VGBootcamp
Hope EVERYONE can make it out! This event will be one to remember. I'm already gathering OoS support for this so be ready! I look forward to seeing YOU there. Remember to check out the following pages:
www.twitch.tv.com/vgbootcamp- your Xanadu stream source and will be streaming Kings of Cali 2!
www.facebook.com/tantscontrollerstore- providing the emerald controller for this event! Check it out!
www.twitter.com/xanadugames- follow them as they are our gracious hosts!
www.twitter.com/thetantalus- ask me if you have any questions
www.twitter.com/thephenomenalee- so phenomenal he moved his date so we could have this one, he'll be running the no tripping at his event in May also! Make sure you check out his next tournament EEVolution 2!
Oh yeah, and everyone make sure to use the new RSVP system within the new smashboards/smash4u forum system, it's really helpful. If you reply at AiB, please do the same. It makes it easier for the bracket.
