Hey, I had a very dull day today, so I started experimenting with some possible stagelists. The one that stood out over the others, possibly due to how radical it is is this one:
Starters:
-Pokemon Stadium 1 (Melee)
-Lylat Cruise
-Yoshi's Island (Brawl)
-Battlefield
-Smashville
Counterpicks
-Final Destination
-Delfino Plaza
-Jungle Japes
-Brinstar
-Frigate Orpheon
-Castle Siege
My reasoning for this is that I want to have a stagelist that doesn't give bias to one style of gameplay over another. There are stages for good aerial mobility, ground game, stage control, and camping. I tried to keep it as fair without having extreme one-sided counterpicks as options. One thing for me that stands out is that Final Destination is a counterpick while stages like Lylat Cruise aren't. I feel that even though Lylat Cruise completely shuts down the space animals, Final Destination is much more polarizing to a larger portion of the cast.
Any questions, comments, hatemail, concerns, and revisions would be appreciated. I just feel like if we are going to be the rebellious state and keep MK legal, we might as well have a varied stagelist as well.