Official BBR Recommended Rule List 3.0
Super Smash Brothers: Brawl
Recommended Stage List:
The below Starter/Counter list has a list of three stages, followed by three sections of two stages each. In order to use this, start with the top three stages in the list, and adjust the starter list between 3 and 9 stages by going down the list and adding the next two stages until the desired number of stages is reached. Keep in mind that "Battlefield, Yoshi's Island, Smashville, Lylat Cruise, Pokémon Stadium" is a correct use of this, but "Battlefield, Yoshi's Island, Smashville, Lylat Cruise, Final Destination" is not. Go down the list; do not mix and match. Any remaining stages not used in the Starter list will be moved to the tournament's Counter list.
The Counterpick list is a list of stages that should be universally allowed as legal Counterpick stages.
The Counter/Banned list is a list of stages that may be allowed as a legal Counterpick stage or banned from tournament play based on the tournament organizer's discretion.
The Banned list is a list of stages that should be universally banned from tournament play.
Starter/Counter
- Battlefield
- Yoshi's Island
- Smashville
- Lylat Cruise
![Confused :confused: :confused:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
- Pokémon Stadium
- Final Destination
![Confused :confused: :confused:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
- Castle Siege
- Delfino Plaza
- Halberd
Counterpick
- Luigi's Mansion
![Oh Well :ohwell: :ohwell:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
- Norfair
![Bee :bee: :bee:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
- Frigate Orpheon
- Pokémon Stadium 2
![Confused :confused: :confused:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
- Port Town Aero Dive
![Urg :urg: :urg:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
- Distant Planet
![Confused :confused: :confused:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
- Pictochat
- Jungle Japes
- Rainbow Cruise
- Green Greens
![Frown :( :(](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
- Brinstar
Counter/Banned
- Yoshi's Island (Melee)
- Pirate Ship
Banned
- Mushroomy Kingdom 1
- Mushroomy Kingdom 2
- Mario Circuit
- Rumble Falls
- Bridge of Eldin
- Spear Pillar
- Wario Ware
- New Pork City
- Summit
- Skyworld
- 75m
- Mario Bros.
- Flat Zone 2
- Hanenbow
- Shadow Moses Island
- Green Hill Zone
- Temple
- Onett
- Corneria
- Big Blue
Notes
This ruleset is the recommendation of the Brawl Back Room for how to run competitive Super Smash Brothers: Brawl tournaments.
We do not condemn TOs for holding tournaments with alternative or even noncompetitive rulesets. It was through experimentation and open but critical thinking that we reached these recommendations, and
we encourage TOs to continue the search for improvements and novelties.
However, there are rules which, after debate,
we do not recommend for competitive tournaments:
- Except as noted in the definition of stalling, the BBR is opposed to the banning or restriction of any character's infinites.
- The Bowser suicide klaw rule present in the SBR Ruleset 2.0 has been removed.
The BBR now recommends that the game's verdict should always be honored; a victory screen should decide the winner. Any Sudden Death (excluding time-outs) should be treated as a tie; which are resolved with a 1 stock, 3 minute, same characters, same stage rematch.