TheTantalus
Smash Hero
Hey everybody. If you're looking for a way to start off the new year, well you should come to Alexandria, VA and celebrate with us at MAGfest!
http://magfest.org
MAGfest is the Music and Games Festival, held once a year somewhere in NoVA. This year it is in Alexandria VA and it will be a blast. In years past, the Melee competition has been a joke, and the tournaments were run with strange rule sets. But this year, I have the pleasure of hosting both tournaments!
For all the big pro's- MAGfest is a big casual gamer fest with SOME hard core players. There is no entry fee for the tournament itself- only the entry fee to the convention, which is 40 bucks. The prizes will be minimal, but hey it will be a great time and there is plenty else to do besides Smash down there.
So here are some details:
MAGFEST (magfest.org)
5000 Seminary Road
Alexandria, VA 22311
Jan 1st - Jan 4th, 2009
Smash 64 Singles/Doubles- 12am, Friday, Jan. 2
Melee Singles- 12pm-6pm Friday, Jan. 2
Melee Doubles- 12am-2am, Sat, Jan. 3
Brawl Singles- 12pm-6pm, Sat, Jan. 3
Brawl Doubles- 12am-2am, Sat, Jan 4
Brawl Draft Crew Battles- Whenever time allows, maybe sunday afternoon?
This is at a hotel, and a freakin' nice one at that. There is a ton going on all 80-90 or so hours of the convention, and a lot of people stay up for 3 days straight and don't sleep and live off of Bawls and Domino's Pizza. It will be exciting!
Also- if you plan to go to the convention and want to play smash in your rooms, the TVs in the rooms suck, so bring your own setups! We will need setups anyways. Mr. MAGfest has told me he alone has 12 tube TVs to bring to the fest, not including anything else anyone else could bring, which could add up to at least 20 tvs. We will get a share of those.
Hope to see you all there! Plenty of OOS come to this as well.
Brawl Ruleset:
Rules Are SBR Standard, if you have any questions call me, here are a few exceptions though
I have a time limit to run this in- so in opening rounds there may not be a best 2 of 3, but quarter finals and forward will have this for sure.
* 7 minute timer
* Kirby/Dedede/Ganon/Diddy cides will be a one stock run off, should it occur.
* Controllers special rule- MAGfest has controllers, and the wii's may be locked up and hard to plug your controller in. I will do my best to make sure you can use your controller. Wavebirds are ok. Wiimotes and Nunchuks could be tough, but we'll do our best (I'm looking out for you, Lobos).
* Ice Climbers Infinite Grab-to-kill lock is banned. To clarify, you can throw to the pink ice climber, but if you throw back to the blue one after than it becomes violating the rules. You're welcome to do chain grabs that move across the stage that don't have you stand still, but standing infinite is banned.
If you have any questions, let me know.
Stage List (Brawl):
Neutrals
Battlefield
Final Destination
Smashville
Yoshi's Island
Counterpicks
Castle Siege
Delfino Plaza
Halberd
Lylat Cruise
Pokémon Stadium 1
Brinstar
Distant Planet
Frigate Orpheon
Jungle Japes
Norfair
Melee Ruleset, SBR Standard with the following exceptions:
If there are any questions, ask me please, or ask someone not retarted
* 7 minute timer
* Wobbling is banned, if it is in question call a judge
Neutral Stage List
Fountain of Dreams
Pokemon Stadium
Dream Land 64
Final Destination
Battlefield
Yoshi's Story
Counter Stage List
Rainbow Cruise
Kongo Jungle 64
Green Greens
Jungle Japes
Mute City
Poke Floats
Princess Peach's Castle
Mushroom Kingdom II
Brinstar
Smash 64 Rules:
I don't know a whole lot about the competitive Smash 64 world, but it's pretty much standard competitive stuff that applies to all smash games, with 5 stocks. If you have any questions, ask.
Stage List-
Neutrals: Dream Land, Hyrule, Sector X, Kongo Jungle (if we get our hands on a game shark, we can play at battlefield as the neutral)
Counter picks: Princess Peach's Castle, Mushroom Kingdom, Saffron City
Brawl Draft Crews special rules:
Each crew will have 20 stock, stocks must be distributed as evenly as possible, so you can't give your best player 10 stock lol stuff like that, and if possible no one should have more than 3 stock. If you have to distribute out, go to 2 stock for the unevens. We need at least 10 people to do this.
SEEDING: I'll be doing the seeding, and any other people there who are competitive can have say in it as well. But don't worry too much about bad seeding.
ATTENDEES:
TheTantalus
VanillaWaffle
Kornn
CK
Warchamp7
Hidden MachineS
SypherPhoenix
theSage
http://magfest.org
MAGfest is the Music and Games Festival, held once a year somewhere in NoVA. This year it is in Alexandria VA and it will be a blast. In years past, the Melee competition has been a joke, and the tournaments were run with strange rule sets. But this year, I have the pleasure of hosting both tournaments!
For all the big pro's- MAGfest is a big casual gamer fest with SOME hard core players. There is no entry fee for the tournament itself- only the entry fee to the convention, which is 40 bucks. The prizes will be minimal, but hey it will be a great time and there is plenty else to do besides Smash down there.
So here are some details:
MAGFEST (magfest.org)
5000 Seminary Road
Alexandria, VA 22311
Jan 1st - Jan 4th, 2009
Smash 64 Singles/Doubles- 12am, Friday, Jan. 2
Melee Singles- 12pm-6pm Friday, Jan. 2
Melee Doubles- 12am-2am, Sat, Jan. 3
Brawl Singles- 12pm-6pm, Sat, Jan. 3
Brawl Doubles- 12am-2am, Sat, Jan 4
Brawl Draft Crew Battles- Whenever time allows, maybe sunday afternoon?
This is at a hotel, and a freakin' nice one at that. There is a ton going on all 80-90 or so hours of the convention, and a lot of people stay up for 3 days straight and don't sleep and live off of Bawls and Domino's Pizza. It will be exciting!
Also- if you plan to go to the convention and want to play smash in your rooms, the TVs in the rooms suck, so bring your own setups! We will need setups anyways. Mr. MAGfest has told me he alone has 12 tube TVs to bring to the fest, not including anything else anyone else could bring, which could add up to at least 20 tvs. We will get a share of those.
Hope to see you all there! Plenty of OOS come to this as well.
Brawl Ruleset:
Rules Are SBR Standard, if you have any questions call me, here are a few exceptions though
I have a time limit to run this in- so in opening rounds there may not be a best 2 of 3, but quarter finals and forward will have this for sure.
* 7 minute timer
* Kirby/Dedede/Ganon/Diddy cides will be a one stock run off, should it occur.
* Controllers special rule- MAGfest has controllers, and the wii's may be locked up and hard to plug your controller in. I will do my best to make sure you can use your controller. Wavebirds are ok. Wiimotes and Nunchuks could be tough, but we'll do our best (I'm looking out for you, Lobos).
* Ice Climbers Infinite Grab-to-kill lock is banned. To clarify, you can throw to the pink ice climber, but if you throw back to the blue one after than it becomes violating the rules. You're welcome to do chain grabs that move across the stage that don't have you stand still, but standing infinite is banned.
If you have any questions, let me know.
Stage List (Brawl):
Neutrals
Battlefield
Final Destination
Smashville
Yoshi's Island
Counterpicks
Castle Siege
Delfino Plaza
Halberd
Lylat Cruise
Pokémon Stadium 1
Brinstar
Distant Planet
Frigate Orpheon
Jungle Japes
Norfair
Melee Ruleset, SBR Standard with the following exceptions:
If there are any questions, ask me please, or ask someone not retarted
* 7 minute timer
* Wobbling is banned, if it is in question call a judge
Neutral Stage List
Fountain of Dreams
Pokemon Stadium
Dream Land 64
Final Destination
Battlefield
Yoshi's Story
Counter Stage List
Rainbow Cruise
Kongo Jungle 64
Green Greens
Jungle Japes
Mute City
Poke Floats
Princess Peach's Castle
Mushroom Kingdom II
Brinstar
Smash 64 Rules:
I don't know a whole lot about the competitive Smash 64 world, but it's pretty much standard competitive stuff that applies to all smash games, with 5 stocks. If you have any questions, ask.
Stage List-
Neutrals: Dream Land, Hyrule, Sector X, Kongo Jungle (if we get our hands on a game shark, we can play at battlefield as the neutral)
Counter picks: Princess Peach's Castle, Mushroom Kingdom, Saffron City
Brawl Draft Crews special rules:
Each crew will have 20 stock, stocks must be distributed as evenly as possible, so you can't give your best player 10 stock lol stuff like that, and if possible no one should have more than 3 stock. If you have to distribute out, go to 2 stock for the unevens. We need at least 10 people to do this.
SEEDING: I'll be doing the seeding, and any other people there who are competitive can have say in it as well. But don't worry too much about bad seeding.
ATTENDEES:
TheTantalus
VanillaWaffle
Kornn
CK
Warchamp7
Hidden MachineS
SypherPhoenix
theSage
