Recent content by Neil2TheKing

Most Smash Bros stages are balanced around a 4 Player 5:00 Minute Timed Free For All with items on Normal. Ties get handled with in game sudden death. First player to win 3 games wins. With that ruleset all of the degenerate layouts you mentioned stop being degenerate. You try to camp a walkoff...

I’m speaking for myself. When this pandemic is over I want a place to play Smash Bros and meet new people. I don’t want to play on 9 static stages the whole time. That’s not how I play Smash Bros. That’s not how most people play Smash Bros, and when you take out all of the dynamic stages you...

When I told my friend there were pedophilia cases in the smash community, he looked at me and said “Saw that one coming”. We are playing a kids game. I daresay the environment naturally attracts and retains those kind of predators

Rizen , Thinkaman is right. Systems shape people. if you do what you’ve always done you’ll end up where you’ve already been. If you don’t change the way you run tournaments, if Smash Esports countinues as a niche hyper competitive community, ya’ll are going to have amother wave of sexual assault...

From the stages you listed I like the following for a hazards off stagelist: Final Destination Battlefield Pokemon Stadium 2 Yoshi’s Island Brawl Town & City Lylat Cruise Yggdrasil Altar Wario Ware Castle Siege Every stage has a different layout and you represent 8 different series with this...

I would be very surprised if that was true for all matchups

I personally don't like the counterpick system. IMO the counterpick stagelist is often used to lessen the importance of unique stages. If a stage is viable games 2-5 it should be viable game 1 as well. The arguments to make Lylat and Kalos Counterpicks are very arbitrary. You could just as...

You discovered how the Smash Stagelist got so conservative in the first place. There isn’t anything inherently wrong with unique stages, but when you become one of your community’s best players, you stop liking the unique stages because they impact your consistency. Let’s suppose for a moment...

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A lot of sexual assault allegations have come to light in recent weeks. In this post I want to propose some ideas to make tournaments safer for children. My focus is on logistics of tournaments rather than community behavior. Both are important, but in general I understand systems better than...

Last time I came with nothing. This time I brought data. The Smash community likes data. Ya’ll have data on stage sizes, platform heights, character frame data, etc. However, there is surprisingly little data on Smash Viewership. There is no repository of information to help the community...

Hi ya’ll, I have played Smash Ultimate for about 300 hours. I do not play competitively. I spectate. I would like to propose some rule changes for competitive Smash Bros to make it more fun to watch. Right now Smash Esports seems designed with the competitor in mind rather than the spectator...