Attention all Brawlers,
Over the past few weeks a number of high profile Tournament Directors have been working together in order to finally begin the process of a standard ruleset for Brawl. These Tournament Directors will be coming together in unity to form the initial membership group for the BBR Ruleset Committee. The ultimate goal of the group will be to see every tournament come together and use the same rules.
How can this be accomplished? Well, for starters, it is my pleasure to announce that Whobo 3, COT 5, Ultimate NO KOAST 3, and Genesis 2 have all agreed to use the same stagelist for their tournaments:
These tournaments have all given up a little bit in order to meet in the middle and lead the way. They have sacrificed individually in order for the sake of having unity, a more consistent tournament environment, and a higher level of professionalism in the community.
In addition to the nationals in 2011 and beyond, JV, the rest of the Smashboards Administration team, along with Neal from AllisBrawl, have agreed to the following in order to encourage the acceptance of the rules created by the BBR Ruleset Committee:
With the creation of the BBR Ruleset Committee, SWF and the BBR will be retiring the BBR Recommended Ruleset initiative. While the work done by the BBR-at-large over the years never received the universal acceptance we were shooting for, there were many notable innovations to come out of the room. This includes stage striking, the rulesets themselves, and the accompanying discussion that helped stimulate debate throughout the community--forcing people to weigh the merits of each decision. We know some of these new policies may seem constricting to what has, up to this point, been a relatively free/non-restrictive policy on stickies and coverage. We all hope that most Tournament Directors and members of the community will see the validity and importance of uniting behind a ruleset. We encourage others to be open to making similar sacrifices in order to finally unite this community. All current stickies will be unaffected by this change in policy.
Finally, the BBR Ruleset Committee will be expanding membership over the next few months to include more Tournament Directors. To be admitted you must pledge that your tournament will run with the rules agreed upon by the group (exceptions for experimental tournaments can be made). The BBR Ruleset Committee will be looking for the best, most experienced Tournament Directors, but also those who are willing to compromise and come together.
The members of the BBR Ruleset Committee are:
AlphaZealot (Ohio): Runs the Delta Upsilon series, which will be having its 6th event on January 15th, 2011. In 2010 he was the Tournament Director for Major League Gaming's 5 national events, the Dallas Championship event having just completed November 5th-7th, 2010.
Bizkit (Connecticut):
Chibo (Pennsylvania): Runs multiple tournaments, spanning back to the Melee days. He will be running the upcoming national tournament Clash of the Titans 5 on June 25th-26th, 2011.
ESAM (Florida): Runs ESAM's ZP monthlies, his next tournament ESAM's January ZP Monthly coming on January 8th, 2011.
Havok (California): Runs multiple tournaments, his most recent being the Socal Halloween Tournament on October 31st, 2010.
Keitaro (New Jersey): Runs the KTAR series which will be having its next event KTAR 4: One More Time! on January 15th, 2011.
Radium (Missouri):
T1mmy (Oregon): Runs a series of local tournaments.
The Real Inferno (Kansas): Runs multiple tournaments, including the Wichita Bi-Weekly Series and the No Koast Series. His next tournament will be Midwest Ultimate No Koast 3 on January 22nd-23rd, 2011.
Xyro (Texas): Runs the Hobo series, which is having it's 29th event on December 11th, 2010. He will also be running the national tournament World Hobo 3 March 18th-20th, 2011.
These Tournament Directors alone will host roughly 60 tournaments in 2011 under the same ruleset, including every national tournament for the year. With these tournaments as a base, in addition to the sticky incentives from Smashboards GM JV, and the coverage incentive from AllisBrawl Co-Founder Neal, this will be the best shot at getting every tournament to run using the same rules. Never before have so many successful and established members of the community come to work together to see a dream realized. Brawl will soon reach its 3 year anniversary, and when that time comes hopefully most tournament will be using the same rules.
*Notes*: This will initially be a US effort and as such sticky and coverage policies will only apply to US tournaments. However, this does not mean we do not have our sights set on a more global scale. We felt the differences in various international communities, along with the challenge of getting representation into the BBRC from those areas, was too much for this first push. We do want to be able to add international support into the fold in the future, uniting globally across the entire Smash Smash Bros. Brawl community. To this end, having the support of tournament directors and players everywhere is going to help turn this dream into a reality.
It's time to take our community to the next level together.
Over the past few weeks a number of high profile Tournament Directors have been working together in order to finally begin the process of a standard ruleset for Brawl. These Tournament Directors will be coming together in unity to form the initial membership group for the BBR Ruleset Committee. The ultimate goal of the group will be to see every tournament come together and use the same rules.
How can this be accomplished? Well, for starters, it is my pleasure to announce that Whobo 3, COT 5, Ultimate NO KOAST 3, and Genesis 2 have all agreed to use the same stagelist for their tournaments:
Stagelist
- Battlefield
- Battleship Halberd
- Brinstar
- Castle Siege
- Delfino Plaza
- Final Destination
- Lylat Cruise
- Pokemon Stadium 1
- Pokémon Stadium 2
- Frigate Orpheon
- Picto Chat
- Rainbow Cruise
- Smashville
- Yoshi's Island
*One stage ban per player
In addition to the nationals in 2011 and beyond, JV, the rest of the Smashboards Administration team, along with Neal from AllisBrawl, have agreed to the following in order to encourage the acceptance of the rules created by the BBR Ruleset Committee:
- Stickies on Smashboards will be limited only to tournaments using this ruleset, effective January 1st.
- Coverage on AllisBrawl will be limited only to tournaments using this ruleset, effective January 1st.
With the creation of the BBR Ruleset Committee, SWF and the BBR will be retiring the BBR Recommended Ruleset initiative. While the work done by the BBR-at-large over the years never received the universal acceptance we were shooting for, there were many notable innovations to come out of the room. This includes stage striking, the rulesets themselves, and the accompanying discussion that helped stimulate debate throughout the community--forcing people to weigh the merits of each decision. We know some of these new policies may seem constricting to what has, up to this point, been a relatively free/non-restrictive policy on stickies and coverage. We all hope that most Tournament Directors and members of the community will see the validity and importance of uniting behind a ruleset. We encourage others to be open to making similar sacrifices in order to finally unite this community. All current stickies will be unaffected by this change in policy.
Finally, the BBR Ruleset Committee will be expanding membership over the next few months to include more Tournament Directors. To be admitted you must pledge that your tournament will run with the rules agreed upon by the group (exceptions for experimental tournaments can be made). The BBR Ruleset Committee will be looking for the best, most experienced Tournament Directors, but also those who are willing to compromise and come together.
The members of the BBR Ruleset Committee are:
AlphaZealot (Ohio): Runs the Delta Upsilon series, which will be having its 6th event on January 15th, 2011. In 2010 he was the Tournament Director for Major League Gaming's 5 national events, the Dallas Championship event having just completed November 5th-7th, 2010.
Brawl Tournaments AlphaZealot has Run
MLG Orlando 2010 (183 Entrants)
MLG Columbus 2010 (250 Entrants)
MLG Raleigh 2010 (148 Entrants)
MLG DC 2010 (174 Entrants)
MLG Dallas 2010 National Championship (182 Entrants)
Seasons Beatings III (63 Entrants)
Seasons Beatings IV (40 Entrants)
Delta Upsilon I (33 Entrants)
Delta Upsilon II (30 Entrants)
Delta Upsilon III (22 Entrants)
Delta Upsilon IV (21 Entrants)
Delta Upsilon V (32 Entrants)
Wings & Brew I (24 Entrants)
Wings & Brew II (26 Entrants)
Wings & Brew III (32 Entrants)
Wings & Brew IV (24 Entrants)
Wings & Brew V (20 Entrants)
MLG Orlando 2010 (183 Entrants)
MLG Columbus 2010 (250 Entrants)
MLG Raleigh 2010 (148 Entrants)
MLG DC 2010 (174 Entrants)
MLG Dallas 2010 National Championship (182 Entrants)
Seasons Beatings III (63 Entrants)
Seasons Beatings IV (40 Entrants)
Delta Upsilon I (33 Entrants)
Delta Upsilon II (30 Entrants)
Delta Upsilon III (22 Entrants)
Delta Upsilon IV (21 Entrants)
Delta Upsilon V (32 Entrants)
Wings & Brew I (24 Entrants)
Wings & Brew II (26 Entrants)
Wings & Brew III (32 Entrants)
Wings & Brew IV (24 Entrants)
Wings & Brew V (20 Entrants)
Bizkit (Connecticut):
Brawl Tournaments Bizkit has Run
Coming soon!
Coming soon!
Chibo (Pennsylvania): Runs multiple tournaments, spanning back to the Melee days. He will be running the upcoming national tournament Clash of the Titans 5 on June 25th-26th, 2011.
Brawl Tournaments Chibo has Run
VGXPO 2008 Friday (32 Entrants)
VGXPO 2008 Saturday (64 Entrants)
VGXPO 2008 Sunday (32 Entrants)
VGXPO 2009 Friday (11 Entrants)
VGXPO 2009 Saturday (32 Entrants)
VGXPO 2009 Sunday (14 Entrants)
Clash of the Titans 3 (41 Entrants)
Clash of the Titans 4 (249 Entrants)
Smashtality 4 (26 Entrants)
Smash at the Shore (48 Entrants)
Smash at the Shore 2 (11 Entrants)
Beyond the Limit (41 Entrants)
Beyond the Limit 2 (37 Entrants)
BLIZZARD! (14 Entrants)
Chibo's We Need a Tourney (15 Entrants)
Chibo's We Need Another Tourney... Tourney (15 Entrants)
DSO 2 (30 Entrants)
DSO 4 (30 Entrants)
DSO 5 (20 Entrants)
DSO 6 (24 Entrants)
DSO 7 (15 Entrants)
DSO 9 (34 Entrants)
DSO 10 (28 Entrants)
Super DSO aka DSO 11 (29 Entrants)
Super DSO 2 aka DSO 12 (41 Entrants)
DSO 13 (13 Entrants)
Super DSO 3 aka DSO 14 (26 Entrants)
Super DSO 4 aka DSO 15 (18 Entrants)
Fusion 0.5 (17 Entrants)
Fusion 1 (19 Entrants)
Mega-ish Fusion aka Fusion 2 (17 Entrants)
VGXPO 2008 Friday (32 Entrants)
VGXPO 2008 Saturday (64 Entrants)
VGXPO 2008 Sunday (32 Entrants)
VGXPO 2009 Friday (11 Entrants)
VGXPO 2009 Saturday (32 Entrants)
VGXPO 2009 Sunday (14 Entrants)
Clash of the Titans 3 (41 Entrants)
Clash of the Titans 4 (249 Entrants)
Smashtality 4 (26 Entrants)
Smash at the Shore (48 Entrants)
Smash at the Shore 2 (11 Entrants)
Beyond the Limit (41 Entrants)
Beyond the Limit 2 (37 Entrants)
BLIZZARD! (14 Entrants)
Chibo's We Need a Tourney (15 Entrants)
Chibo's We Need Another Tourney... Tourney (15 Entrants)
DSO 2 (30 Entrants)
DSO 4 (30 Entrants)
DSO 5 (20 Entrants)
DSO 6 (24 Entrants)
DSO 7 (15 Entrants)
DSO 9 (34 Entrants)
DSO 10 (28 Entrants)
Super DSO aka DSO 11 (29 Entrants)
Super DSO 2 aka DSO 12 (41 Entrants)
DSO 13 (13 Entrants)
Super DSO 3 aka DSO 14 (26 Entrants)
Super DSO 4 aka DSO 15 (18 Entrants)
Fusion 0.5 (17 Entrants)
Fusion 1 (19 Entrants)
Mega-ish Fusion aka Fusion 2 (17 Entrants)
ESAM (Florida): Runs ESAM's ZP monthlies, his next tournament ESAM's January ZP Monthly coming on January 8th, 2011.
Brawl Tournaments ESAM has Run
ESAM's ZP April Monthly (13 Entrants)
ESAM's ZP May Monthly (28 Entrants)
ESAM's ZP June Monthly (24 Entrants)
ESAM's ZP July Monthly (26 Entrants)
ESAM's ZP August Monthly (28 Entrants)
ESAM's ZP September Monthly (30 Entrants)
ESAM's ZP October Monthly (29 Entrants)
ESAM's ZP April Monthly (13 Entrants)
ESAM's ZP May Monthly (28 Entrants)
ESAM's ZP June Monthly (24 Entrants)
ESAM's ZP July Monthly (26 Entrants)
ESAM's ZP August Monthly (28 Entrants)
ESAM's ZP September Monthly (30 Entrants)
ESAM's ZP October Monthly (29 Entrants)
Havok (California): Runs multiple tournaments, his most recent being the Socal Halloween Tournament on October 31st, 2010.
Brawl Tournaments Havok has Run
Halloween Havoc (51 Entrants)
San Diego 12 (26 Entrants)
*More information on Havok's tournaments coming soon!
Halloween Havoc (51 Entrants)
San Diego 12 (26 Entrants)
*More information on Havok's tournaments coming soon!
Keitaro (New Jersey): Runs the KTAR series which will be having its next event KTAR 4: One More Time! on January 15th, 2011.
Brawl Tournaments Keitaro has Run
KTAR (45 Entrants)
KTAR 2 (65 Entrants)
KTAR 3 (74 Entrants)
KTAR (45 Entrants)
KTAR 2 (65 Entrants)
KTAR 3 (74 Entrants)
Radium (Missouri):
Brawl Tournaments Radium has Run
Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!
T1mmy (Oregon): Runs a series of local tournaments.
Brawl Tournaments the T1mmy has Run
Emerald City Brawl #1 (21 Entrants)
Emerald City Brawl #2 (18 Entrants)
Emerald City Brawl #3 (12 Entrants)
Emerald City Brawl #4 (?)
Emerald City Brawl #5 (12 Entrants)
Emerald City Brawl #6 (12 Entrants)
Emerald City Brawl #7 (11 Entrants)
OMG - Oregon Mega Games (37 Entrants)
P.R.I. Smash! (18 Entrants)
Best in the West (34 Entrants)
Emerald City Brawl #1 (21 Entrants)
Emerald City Brawl #2 (18 Entrants)
Emerald City Brawl #3 (12 Entrants)
Emerald City Brawl #4 (?)
Emerald City Brawl #5 (12 Entrants)
Emerald City Brawl #6 (12 Entrants)
Emerald City Brawl #7 (11 Entrants)
OMG - Oregon Mega Games (37 Entrants)
P.R.I. Smash! (18 Entrants)
Best in the West (34 Entrants)
The Real Inferno (Kansas): Runs multiple tournaments, including the Wichita Bi-Weekly Series and the No Koast Series. His next tournament will be Midwest Ultimate No Koast 3 on January 22nd-23rd, 2011.
Brawl Tournaments The Real Inferno has Run
No Koast v1 (87 Entrants)
No Koast v2 (110 Entrants)
No Koast v3 (46 Entrants)
Anime Festival Wichita CON (42 Entrants)
Wichita Biweekly (24 Entrants)
Wichita Biweekly 3 (20 Entrants)
Wichita Biweekly 4 (20 Entrants)
Wichita Biweekly 5 (19 Entrants)
Wichita Biweekly Season 2 (22 Entrants)
No Koast v1 (87 Entrants)
No Koast v2 (110 Entrants)
No Koast v3 (46 Entrants)
Anime Festival Wichita CON (42 Entrants)
Wichita Biweekly (24 Entrants)
Wichita Biweekly 3 (20 Entrants)
Wichita Biweekly 4 (20 Entrants)
Wichita Biweekly 5 (19 Entrants)
Wichita Biweekly Season 2 (22 Entrants)
Xyro (Texas): Runs the Hobo series, which is having it's 29th event on December 11th, 2010. He will also be running the national tournament World Hobo 3 March 18th-20th, 2011.
Brawl Tournaments Xyro has Run
HOBO 1 (41 entrants)
HOBO 2 (63 entrants)
HOBO 3 (43 entrants)
HOBO 4 (81 entrants)
HOBO 5 (83 entrants)
HOBO 6 (27 entrants)
HOBO 7 (36 entrants)
HOBO 8 (88 entrants)
HOBO 9 (45 entrants)
HOBO 10 (118 entrants)
HOBO 11 (113 entrants)
HOBO 12 (59 entrants)
HOBO 13 (36 entrants)
HOBO 14 (54 entrants)
HOBO 15 (51 entrants)
HOBO 16 (73 entrants)
HOBO 17 (100 entrants)
HOBO 18 (80 entrants)
HOBO 19 (71 entrants)
HOBO 20 (40 entrants)
HOBO 21 (47 entrants)
HOBO 22 (41 entrants)
HOBO 23 (38 entrants)
HOBO 24 (40 entrants)
HOBO 25 (62 entrants)
HOBO 26 (43 entrants)
HOBO 27 (49 entrants)
HOBO 28 (64 entrants)
QuakeCon 2010 (123 entrants)
World HOBO 1 (140 entrants)
World HOBO 2 (107 entrants)
HOBO 1 (41 entrants)
HOBO 2 (63 entrants)
HOBO 3 (43 entrants)
HOBO 4 (81 entrants)
HOBO 5 (83 entrants)
HOBO 6 (27 entrants)
HOBO 7 (36 entrants)
HOBO 8 (88 entrants)
HOBO 9 (45 entrants)
HOBO 10 (118 entrants)
HOBO 11 (113 entrants)
HOBO 12 (59 entrants)
HOBO 13 (36 entrants)
HOBO 14 (54 entrants)
HOBO 15 (51 entrants)
HOBO 16 (73 entrants)
HOBO 17 (100 entrants)
HOBO 18 (80 entrants)
HOBO 19 (71 entrants)
HOBO 20 (40 entrants)
HOBO 21 (47 entrants)
HOBO 22 (41 entrants)
HOBO 23 (38 entrants)
HOBO 24 (40 entrants)
HOBO 25 (62 entrants)
HOBO 26 (43 entrants)
HOBO 27 (49 entrants)
HOBO 28 (64 entrants)
QuakeCon 2010 (123 entrants)
World HOBO 1 (140 entrants)
World HOBO 2 (107 entrants)
These Tournament Directors alone will host roughly 60 tournaments in 2011 under the same ruleset, including every national tournament for the year. With these tournaments as a base, in addition to the sticky incentives from Smashboards GM JV, and the coverage incentive from AllisBrawl Co-Founder Neal, this will be the best shot at getting every tournament to run using the same rules. Never before have so many successful and established members of the community come to work together to see a dream realized. Brawl will soon reach its 3 year anniversary, and when that time comes hopefully most tournament will be using the same rules.
*Notes*: This will initially be a US effort and as such sticky and coverage policies will only apply to US tournaments. However, this does not mean we do not have our sights set on a more global scale. We felt the differences in various international communities, along with the challenge of getting representation into the BBRC from those areas, was too much for this first push. We do want to be able to add international support into the fold in the future, uniting globally across the entire Smash Smash Bros. Brawl community. To this end, having the support of tournament directors and players everywhere is going to help turn this dream into a reality.
It's time to take our community to the next level together.