[Mar 21, 2015] The Official SFC1: Smash Fight Club! 1v1, 2v2, AND CREW BATTLES

[Krebs]

Welcome to Smash Fight Club! This is SFC1!

Trailer here:
http://youtu.be/nY1jonw-wu0

Featuring
Houston - GrimTurtle, Trela, Fliphop and the FULL FORCE of Houston!
Dallas - Aerolink, and more!
San Antonio - Megafox and more!
This is an event for the BEST PLAYERS of Texas to duke it out in Smash Bros for Wii U! This tournament will feature Smash 4 1v1, 2v2, with a designated time at the end of the night for Intercity AND Interstate Crew Battles. With TWO Smash 4 exclusive streams fully operated by Team GreenSleeves, (the team behind recording matches at TGC1) and GameGuys

As of March 18th, 2015. We have decided to add an AMIIBO tournament!

Venue:
Pasadena GameGuys
2111 Pasadena Boulevard, Pasadena, TX 77506
They are a SMASH DEDICATED venue, and will stay open until even 3 a.m. if need be for us Smashers to play, money match, and have a generally good time. They have a combination of around 50 Monitors and CRTs, and will let us bring our setups for these TVs.

Also they have amazing internet service, so the streams will be fully operational without any internet worries.

Date and Schedule:

Saturday, March 21st

The schedule is as follows:

9:00 a.m. Team GreenSleeves arrives and begins setting up.
(Doing whatever was not done the night before)

10:00 a.m. Registration and friendlies open up

11:45 a.m. Doubles registration CLOSES

12:00 p.m. Doubles bracket begins

2:45 p.m. Singles registration CLOSES

3:00 p.m. Singles "bracket pools" begins

4:20 p.m. Amiibo registration CLOSES

4:30 p.m. Amiibo bracket begins

7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
MANDATORY Dinner break
This break will happen NO MATTER WHAT
During this break, players are also welcome to play MMs, DDR, and friendlies. Also players welcome to head to any nearby food places.

8:00 p.m. Top 32 singles bracket begins

After the Singles bracket ends, we will be running
CREW BATTLES
More on this in the Crew Battle section


FOOD AND DRINK OPTIONS

We understand the smasher struggle, so ALL outside food and drink is allowed! We ask that you clean up after yourselves, and make sure any trash is disposed of, or else this rule will be revoked at future events.

There is also a vending machine with AZ Tea, Water, Gatorade and more available at the venue. All between $1-$2

Event Fees

$5 venue
(waived for bringing a Wii U+ GC Adapter with everything needed unlocked)
$10 singles
$10 doubles (per player)
$3 Per amiibo for the amiibo tourney (capped at 3 per person)

PAYOUT

Smash 4 1v1

1st - 50%
2nd - 25%
3rd - 12%
4th - 8%

5th - 2.5%
5th - 2.5%

Smash 4 1v1 (128 players or more)

1st - 45%
2nd - 25%
3rd - 12%
4th - 8%

5th - 3%
5th - 3%

7th - 2%
7th - 2%
Smash 4 2v2

1st - 55%
2nd - 25%
3rd - 12%
4th - 8%

Smash 4 2v2 (48 teams or more)

1st - 50%
2nd - 23%
3rd - 10%
4th - 7%

5th - 5%
5th - 5%

SINGLES RULESET
Stage List
Neutrals:

• BattleField
• Smashville
• Town and City
• Lylat Cruise
• Final Destination
• (Top 8 only) Pokemon Stadium 2 without hazards

Counterpicks:

• Wuhu Island
• Delfino Plaza
• Skyloft
• Duck Hunt
• Halberd
• Castle Siege
• Kongo Jungle 64
• Any omega stage (banning this also bans FD)
• (Top 8 only) Hazardless Norfair

Stage Striking order:
1-2-pick for starters and TWO bans for the winner after that for every game

1-3-pick ban order for top 8 and THREE bans for the winner in top 8 matches

3 Stocks
8 minute time limit
Items set to "Off" and "None"
Equipment is banned
Custom moves are banned
Pausing results in a stock loss, unless it is for the opposing player's controller malfunction.
DSR - Can't pick a stage you have already won on

For info on why Norfair and PS2 are only legal in Top 8, it is due to this process:
http://youtu.be/S9Dxb_IJpV0

Top 8 is referring to Winner's semi's, loser's quarterfinal's, and up.

Also if either of those stages are picked, the players must change the time to 9 minutes. If it is forgotten, and a timeout occurs, then the match result will be decided by that timeout result. The players in Top 8 must remember this rule for their own sake, just in case a TO isn't there to remind them of it.

DOUBLES RULESET
Stage List
Neutrals:

• BattleField
• Smashville
• Town and City
• Lylat Cruise
• Final Destination
• (Top 3 only) Pokemon Stadium 2 without hazards

Counterpicks:

• Big BattleField
• Wuhu Island
• Delfino Plaza
• Skyloft
• Duck Hunt
• Halberd
• Castle Siege
• Kongo Jungle 64
• Any omega stage (banning this also bans FD)
• (Top 3 only) Hazardless Norfair
• (Top 3 only) Hazardless Pyrosphere

Stage Striking order:
1-2-pick for starters and TWO bans for the winner after that for every game

1-3-pick ban order for top 8 and THREE bans for the winner in top 3 matches

3 Stocks
8 minute time limit
Items set to "Off" and "None"
Equipment is banned
Custom moves are banned
Team Attack set to "ON"
Pausing results in a stock loss, unless it is for the opposing player's controller malfunction.
DSR - Can't pick a stage you have already won on
For info on why Norfair, Pyrosphere, and Pokemon Stadium 2 are only legal in Top 3, it is due to this process:
http://youtu.be/S9Dxb_IJpV0

Top 3 is referring to Winner's, Loser's, and Grand Finals.

Also if either of those stages are picked, the players must change the time to 9 minutes. If it is forgotten, and a timeout occurs, then the match result will be decided by that timeout result. The players in Top 3 must remember this rule for their own sake, just in case a TO isn't there to remind them of it.

AMIIBO Tournament
This event will be hosted by the community smasher Mawlerz

We will have 2 setups dedicated to running the amiibo tourney, with the cap at 48 total amiibos.

You simply leave your amiibo with the TO, and we run the bracket ourselves. Come back and check how your amiibo does!

Amiibo tourney is 3 stock 7 mins. Best of 1.

This is a tourney for CUSTOM AND FED amiibos! Try to make your amiibo as insane as possible!

Winner's, loser's, and grand finals are best 2 out of 3.

Payout 12 and less
1st - 75%
2nd - 25%

Payout 13-32
1st - 55%
2nd - 25%
3rd - 12%
4th - 8%

Payout 33-48
1st - 50%
2nd - 20%
3rd - 12%
4th - 8%

5th - 5%
5th - 5%

CREW BATTLES

CYPRESS vs KATY 5v5 CONFIRMED
From Cypress:
Krebs
NK
BC
ToT
Weegee

From Katy:
Karna
CH12
JewMuffin
Knife
Nidak

(More as SFC1 date approaches)

Crew battles added to this list is at the TO Krebs' discretion.
Crew battles will happen after Singles, and we can run 2 crew battles simultaneously due to the 2 stream setups.

Since it ought to be late when Crew Battles can begin (11:00p.m. perhaps) ALL CREW BATTLE competitors get FREE energy drinks.
(Sponsored by GS Krebs)

Crew Battle Stagelist is the same as Top 8 of Singles. The player that eliminates an opposing crew battle member bans 3 stages out of the list, and then the opposing player coming in counterpicks.

ADDITIONAL INFO
SETUPS WILL BE NEEDED
Between Team GreenSleeves and GameGuys, we have 9 total COMPLETE setups, but more will be needed from the community.

THIS EVENT HAS A SINGLES CAP OF SETUPS x 6

So for example if we have 30 full setups, the cap is 180 so that the single's tournament can reach its conclusion in a timely manner.
However regardless of setups, the hard cap of 216 must be placed.

No Doubles cap

Bring AV cables (from the wii) in case your Wii U needs to be hooked up to a CRT.

Conversely, feel free to bring your HD TV so your setup does not need to be put on a CRT. Any TV brought to the venue MUST have MINIMAL display lag, otherwise a CRT will be used in its place.

Also: NO FRIENDLIES OR MMs ARE ALLOWED DURING BRACKET

There is a designated hour for this, and the TO's will remove setup #s from setups as they open up after singles.

All registration will be day of and will be operated by GameGuys staff as well as Team GreenSleeves

All information in this post is tentative, and edit notes will be included in the comment below.

 

[Krebs]

EDIT: 3/16/2015

Cypress vs Katy crew list added.
Hard cap of 216 (regardless of setups) placed

EDIT: 3/18/2015

Amiibo side tourney added

4 bracket method revealed.

Description of the 4 bracket method:

Say we have a turnout of 200. We will split it into 4 brackets of 50 people, with 8-10 setups for each bracket.

There are 2 designated TOs for each mini bracket. Players themselves can even step in to help at any time, call their own matches, etc..

Each bracket gets narrowed down to the top 8 and DOES NOT get played out.

Once each bracket gets their top 8, players are free to go on break. Once the last bracket finds its top 8, the official hour break begins.

After that hour break, we run the top 32 of singles.

 

[RT]

Fair warning regarding stages only available with 8-player Smash, if a Lucario gets involved, you'll have to take extra steps to make it fair.

 

[Krebs]

Fair warning regarding stages only available with 8-player Smash, if a Lucario gets involved, you'll have to take extra steps to make it fair.

True, and I remembered that. We need to start with 12 stocks correct? We will do exactly that for those players. Fortunately it is only top 8 in singles and top 3 in doubles.

 

[RT]

Yes, you just need to set-up an extra Lvl 1 CPU Jiggs with a 300% handcap with the four stocks, kill the Jiggs, then everyone SD's a stock and goes back to their starting positions. It obviously will not come up often, but just be aware this is how it has to be handled if it does.

 

[Turquoiseblastoise]

The legendary SS | TurqNotes will be attending.

 

[Krebs]

Yes, you just need to set-up an extra Lvl 1 CPU Jiggs with a 300% handcap with the four stocks, kill the Jiggs, then everyone SD's a stock and goes back to their starting positions. It obviously will not come up often, but just be aware this is how it has to be handled if it does.

Ok thanks for the tip. I was made aware of it when I uploaded that PS2 video, but not the absolute solution.

I'll add that stipulation to the ruleset when I get on a computer later.

 

[RageToast]

Yes, you just need to set-up an extra Lvl 1 CPU Jiggs with a 300% handcap with the four stocks, kill the Jiggs, then everyone SD's a stock and goes back to their starting positions. It obviously will not come up often, but just be aware this is how it has to be handled if it does.

Could you explain how that works? I'm curious.

Also just how many monitors will there be? I could still bring one or two just in case.

 

[RT]

Just like in Brawl, Lucario's Aura is affected by stock counts. It's not as strong as it was in Brawl, but the effect is still there. If you have 5 players (for the 8-player version of a stage) and one player SDs three stocks, the game considers Lucario to be ahead two stocks and penalizes his Aura accordingly.

CPUs do not effect Aura. So setting the 5th person as a Lvl 1 CPU Jiggs at 300% handicap solves this problem. Starting with four stocks so that in case the Jiggs hits anyone and to get rid of any potential stale move effects. You must also set the timer to 9 minutes (maybe 10 min in case it takes too long to reset the situation).

It's a lot of extra work for just a few extra stages but hey...if you want to complicate things...a TO must make it fair for everyone.

 

[Krebs]

Could you explain how that works? I'm curious.

Also just how many monitors will there be? I could still bring one or two just in case.

There will be ~20 monitors. More would be appreciated so we can avoid running Wii Us on CRTs, but its not an issue since we'll just open up the CRT setups for friendlies ASAP.

 

[RageToast]

There will be ~20 monitors. More would be appreciated so we can avoid running Wii Us on CRTs, but its not an issue since we'll just open up the CRT setups for friendlies ASAP.

Alright cool. Also I'll probably bring my full setup and a monitor since I got an extra cord back for it so you can use it for stream if you like. I know it was kind of awkward at TGC having to share the monitor with the stream manager.

 

[Benno]

Will there be an amiibo vs. amiibo tournament.

 

[Krebs]

Will there be an amiibo vs. amiibo tournament.

Yes! I need to edit it in tomorrow but I got confirmation from a friend that is willing to run it entirely. With 2 setups dedicated to it and a 48 amiibo cap.

 

[Frockett]

So quick question. Is this monthly taking over for the 4 glory series? Haven't seen info on the next one so I just assumed.

 

[Krebs]

So quick question. Is this monthly taking over for the 4 glory series? Haven't seen info on the next one so I just assumed.

This monthly series is mainly part of the Houston Monthlies overall.
There won't be another SFC until July, because of TGC, TX Showdown, and ComicPalooza.

And Alex (the host of the FG series) is taking a break from hosting Sm4sh while he is in school. He is however, hosting PM/Melee every month.

 

[Xyro77]

Attention all:

Krebs has called out the LEGENDARY Xyro77 aka best Samus in the southwest aka best TO in TX for a $20 MM.

So during the MM hour we are gonna do it on stream. Villager vs Samus, 2/3, $20.

 

[RT]

Can an Amiibo be substituted if a dubs partner has to leave early, assuming no equips or custom moves on the Amiibo? Just curious.

 

[gamma1]

Should be fun seeing the crew battle. I'm biased and am rooting for Cypress.

 

[Krebs]

Can an Amiibo be substituted if a dubs partner has to leave early, assuming no equips or custom moves on the Amiibo? Just curious.

Sorry but can't. Amiibos are artificially stronger than players. Even without being fed.

 

[RT]

Ah well, had to ask.