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*Irish Open Tournament* - Celtic Throwdown & Road 2 Celtic Throwdown series

TheMikenyan

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Hi everyone,

The purpose of this thread is to spread awareness and interest in an open tournament series taking place around Ireland between the months of May and September, Celtic Throwdown.

This event is the successor to the Irish Open Fighting Games Tournament, our biggest to date, attended by many players from outside the country, including some notable top players from the UK in particular. The hosts of the event, RandomSelect.ie and AsOne Productions, have invited Smash Ireland to be a part of the event this year, with Super Smash Bros. for Wii U being one of the main featured games in the tournament, alongside Ultra Street Fighter IV, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, and Mortal Kombat X; Project M will also feature as a side tournament at the main event. Like the Irish Open before it, all are welcome to come and compete, from Ireland and beyond.

In the run-up to Celtic Throwdown, the Road 2 Celtic Throwdown qualifier series will be held around the country, one in each of the four provinces of Ireland. Players who place high in the brackets at these events will earn seeding points for the main event, which will take place in the ballroom of the Ashling Hotel in Dublin on the 5th and 6th of September. It promises to be the biggest Smash event we've ever had in the history of the Irish Smash scene and the Irish Fighting Games Community, with official sponsorship from both Nintendo and Capcom, and high level players such as Jmiller and Izaw have expressed interested in attending, along with a host of strong players from the UK and Ireland.

You can find additional information on each tournament in the series through their respective event pages via the following links:

May 30th - Road 2 Celtic Throwdown (Galway Qualifier)

June 20th - Road 2 Celtic Throwdown (Cork Qualifier)

July 25th - Road 2 Celtic Throwdown (Dublin Qualifier)

August 22nd - Road 2 Celtic Throwdown (Belfast Qualifier)

September 5th/6th - Celtic Throwdown, Dublin

If you have any questions at all about any aspect of the events, please ask by all means!

EDIT: Trailer for the event:


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Seed point allocation from qualifiers for each game is as follows:
1st - 10 points
2nd - 6 points
3rd - 3 points

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Rules
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U will feature the standard ruleset currently in use throughout the UK and Ireland. Rules for Project M will be determined nearer to the time of the main event, as Version 3.6 is currently incoming.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
2 Stock
6 Minutes
Best of 3 (Best of 5 for Winners, Losers and Grand Finals)
Custom moves disabled
Default Mii Fighters allowed

Starter Stages
Battlefield
Final Destination
Smashville

Counterpick Stages
Lylat Cruise
Duck Hunt
Town and City
Omega Stages

- Winners of the previous game in a set ban one stage.
- DSR (Dave's Stupid Rule): a player may not choose a stage that they have already won a game on in the same set.
- Final Destination and Omega are both banned if a player strikes either stage during the counterpick phase.
 
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TheMikenyan

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Any venue set for Cork yet?
Not yet. The Galway FGC are handling the Cork event as well as the Galway event. I imagine there'll be more concrete info available once the Galway event is over and done with, but I'll check with their T.O. and will update you as soon as there's an answer.
 

SonicvMario

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Not yet. The Galway FGC are handling the Cork event as well as the Galway event. I imagine there'll be more concrete info available once the Galway event is over and done with, but I'll check with their T.O. and will update you as soon as there's an answer.
Thanks
 
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