Eggz
Smash Hero
First off, I've never been to Florida. I know me and Otto are probably going to try to go, and with that DJ Combo will probably want to go as well. This is the first officially announced national scale tournament to my knowledge, and I want WC to dominate the brawl scene at the first oppertunity. So, let's go **** the East Coast at both Melee and Brawl. Everyone go! We can do that one thing where we all stay at the same hotel and it can be a giant smashfest.
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With the recent announcement of the cancellation of FC this summer, I have decided to work on hosting a large scale tournament which will hopefully meet the size and scope of other large out -of-state tournaments, here in Central Florida. The tournament will run a course of 4 days, during which time, we hope to offer several different events in both Melee and Brawl. Here are the details that I am looking at right now:
Dates: Friday, July 18th to Monday July 21 (pretty much the same weekend as FC would have been, but starts on friday instead of thursday).
Location: The North/South Concourse of the Orange County Convention Center, in one of the meeting rooms on the 3rd floor (Rooms have yet to be finalized, but I will be contacting the center within the next few days to finish booking the venue). If you've ever been to Megacon, or any type of function here, you already know how awesome this place is.
The OCCC offers tons of space, plenty of televisions, they have food courts, and full amenities. They offer airport check-in, so the day people have to leave to come back they can check in for their flight at the convention center thanks to BAGS services. This venue is awesome, and will be perfect for mad smash, yo.
Address:The tournament will be held in rooms on the 3rd floor of either the North or South building (depends on what's open), even though there are different addresses, its essentially the same building.
- The North Concourse, located inside the OCCC's North Building, faces Universal Boulevard. The street address for the North Concourse is 9400 Universal Boulevard, Orlando, FL 32819.
- The South Concourse, located inside the OCCC's South Building, faces International Drive. The street address for the South Concourse is 9899 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32819.
Directions:
From Orlando International Airport (EAST)
From Daytona Beach or Downtown Orlando (NORTHEAST)
From Gainesville, Florida (NORTHWEST)
From Tampa, Florida (SOUTHWEST)
From Miami, Florida (SOUTHEAST) Via Florida’s Turnpike
These links will take you to the OCCC website, which will give directions from each of these locations. Anything else, you're gonna have to mapquest.
**Possible schedule of events!** (NOTE: ALL EVENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY TIME)
Day 1: Friday July 18th, 2008
11:00 AM - Registration/Check In, Online Confirmation
1:00 PM - Super Smash Bros. Melee Doubles tournament
When Doubles ends, either 1st round of singles pools will begin or Crew battles, depends on how much time doubles takes.
Day 2: Saturday July 19, 2008 **Note: Hot Import Nights will happen today in the main building, so if you are not entering singles, go check it out!**
11:00 AM - Check In for Singles (Check in will only happen if singles did not start the day before)
1:00 PM - Super Smash Bros. Melee Singles Tournament (If pools start the day before, we will continue pools during this time, then progress into brackets). At the end of the tournament, people can play until the venue closes for the day.
Day 3: Sunday July 20, 2008
11:00 AM - Check in registration for Doubles (are you seeing a pattern in the schedules yet??)
1:00 PM - Super Smash Bros. Brawl Doubles Tournament (again, we can start singles early if time permits, otherwise we can do Brawl crew battles).
Day 4: Monday July 21, 2008
11:00 AM - Check in for Singles (again this will only be if singles did not start the day before, although we will do fast check ins to make sure people did not mysteriously disappear between rounds).
1:00 PM - Super Smash Bros. Brawl Singles Tournament
**If there is any spare time at all during the tournament, we will host random/low tier tournaments provided there is enough interest**
ALSO, let me know if you guys want 64, we can find setups, its just about whether or not people want it.
End of Tournament
RULES:
Super Smash Bros. Melee
•4 stock
•2/3 sets
•3/5 finals
•8 minute time limit
•Items off
•Ties broken by lives, then %
•First stage agreed upon or random
•Dave’s Stupid Rule (DSR): No stage may be used twice in a single set if the counter-picking player has already won on that stage.
•Double Blind character pick can be called at anytime.
•Stage Knock Out: Each person may choose one stage to be disabled for the entire set, it must be chosen at the beginning of the set, after initial characters are chosen.
•Advanced Slob Picks: Loser may choose the next stage or select to go random. The winner may then change their character, followed by the loser.
•Bring your own controller
•Controller Mods, Glitches (IC Freeze Glitch, Mewtwo Soul Stunner, etc), and tactics used to stall a match (wall-bombing, rising pound), are banned.
•Team Attack will be ON
•Life stealing allowed
Wobbling is banned.
The Mages DQ Rule is applicable when a player is late for a match and it goes as follows:
2 Minutes Late – Warning
4 Minutes Late – Loss of first match of set
6 Minutes Late – Loss of set
(i <3 the mages rule)
- Singles Stages on random – Final Destination, Dream Land 64, Fountain of Dreams, Battlefield, Yoshi’s Story And Pokemon Stadium.
- Singles Stages Banned - Hyrule Temple, Yoshi 64, Fourside, Icicle Mountain, Flatzone, Venom, Brinstar Depths, Big Blue, Great Bay, onnett Princess Peach's Castle, Great bay, Yoshi's island (pipes), Mushroom Kingdom 1/2
All other levels open for counterpicks.
Regional crews rules
10 players per region
40 stock
stadium, fd, dreamland=randoms
yoshis/battlefield/FOD=counterpicks
if you pick a specific level, the opponent has the opportunity to switch chars. otherwise each crew will have everyone write down predetermined characters and who goes first.
The first stage is random or agreed on.
all crews will play each other in a round robin. best record of wins and losses win. If two crews die, aka go 4-1 or something, whoever won the head to head wins. If somehow the head to heads off set in a 3 way tie, winner will be determined by # of stock.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Rules= Stock
Stock = 3
Handicap = Off
Damage Ratio = 1.0
Friendly Fire = On
Self-destruct = -1
Items = Off
Best 2/3
Finals best 3/5
Neutrals:
Battlefield
Final Destination
Yoshi's Island
Lylat Cruise
Smashville
Counterpicks:
Pokemon Stadium 1
Luigi's Mansion
Delfino Plaza
Castle Siege
Pirate Ship
Frigate Orpheon
Halberd
Rainbow Cruise
Brinstar
Banned:
Pipes (Yoshi's Island - Melee)
Distant Planet
Pictochat
Onett
Green Greens
Corneria
Green Hill Zone
Norfair
Jungle Japes
Pokemon Stadium 2
Bridge of Eldin
Big Blue
Mario Circuit
Shadow Moses Island
Port Town
Skyworld
Mushroomy Kingdom
Rumble Falls
New Pork City
Summit
75M
Mario Bros. Old
Flat Zone 2
Hanenbow
Hyrule Temple
WarioWare
Spear Pillar
Regional crews rules (there haven't been any real crew battles yet, so there's not real specific rules, but i'll just use the melee rules with changes in stages.
10 players per region
30 stock
fd, battlefield, smashville = randoms
yoshis/lylat/PS1 = counterpicks
if you pick a specific level, the opponent has the opportunity to switch chars. otherwise each crew will have everyone write down predetermined characters and who goes first.
The first stage is random or agreed on.
all crews will play each other in a round robin. best record of wins and losses win. If two crews die, aka go 4-1 or something, whoever won the head to head wins. If somehow the head to heads off set in a 3 way tie, winner will be determined by # of stock.
Prizes
All prizes are going to be some form of currency, most likely it will be a percent of the pot to be determined later, or a fixed prize, but we hopefully want to give out at least 10 thousand in prizes. Also, I want to pay to a lot of places also, sooooo yea, the more people show up, the more money, ya dig?
Other stuff/Misc. crap
Registration/Fees
**The following packages and offers may change at any moment, especially individual registration, we may later abandon it for a full package in order to minimize loss of expenses**
You may have noticed in the schedule, that there are 2 hour check-in periods for all 4 days. That may change depending on whether or not we can have online registration, but irregardless, there will be seperate fees and regisrations for each event. Even though brawl is new, we have to accept the fact that some people will come just to play melee (in fact we're counting on that to bring in lots of OOS'ers), and also that some people won't want to play melee, but instead will come to play brawl, since they know they would just get ***** in melee. So, we're gonna set up things like this:
Fees:
Melee/Brawl events
$25 for singles
$30 per doubles team ($15 per person)Buying each event separately will therefore cost $70 altogether. This will cover the events, and will not cover food or incidentals. Although if you were going to buy all 4 events anyway, you would just use the separate option. This is for those people who for some reason or another cannot make all 4 days, and want to play sporatically. Food won't be covered, so you'll have to fend for yourself in the harsh urban jungle.
Alternative package
$60 SUPER-MEGA-VALUE-PACK
This covers the following:
Brawl singles
Brawl doubles
Melee singles
Melee doubles
Also, there may be food included (we still have to talk with the venue about some food vouchers).
ALL CREW BATTLES ARE SEPARATE FEES!
Food/Housing
OCCC has several food courts, and with courts comes food vouchers. I want to offer free food with the purchase of the tickets, this will most likely happen after i discuss this with the venue on friday. Being that the OCCC is on I-drive, there are many many, MANY places to eat.
The real issue is housing, we have no special rates from neighboring hotels yet, we will contact and try and set things up, but it's gonna be hard, OCCC won't let people just sleep overnight, so we have to figure it out. If you'd like to possibly house people, post or something and i'll talk to you as the date gets closer. We will figure out housing and I will update frequently when local rates and places develop.
This tournament is still in early stages, but it will happen, don't be fooled, this is gonna be the biggest tournament ever, tell all your friends, tell everyone you've ever met to come, I don't care how bad they are at smash, they need to be here!!!
Right now, I want opinions people, ideas, suggestions, I'm open to anything, hit me with your best shot, I want this tournament to be run exactly as people want, no screw ups, aight!?
