ThaJakester
Valatunda! Valatunda!
Tournaments are organized by Tha Jakester
Contact cell: 903-331-9323
Contact cell: 903-331-9323
Introduction:
Could it be? The long dead, the long forgotten, the old high school club that was the best of them all!?...Has it truly returned?...While Melee Club had it’s day at Longview High School in little ole Longview, Texas; that is a chapter that I along with many others, sadly, had to leave behind…however...even with the club long gone now...THE SPIRIT LIVES ON...and now it has been REVIVED. It has been a while since I have hosted tournaments…it feels so good to be back :’D Whether you decide to compete in the tournament, or if you would rather just play friendly games or “friendlies,” by all means come on by!
...Now some may ask...will this become a series? Revival of Melee Club!? Will it TRULY be REVIVED!? Only time will tell. Just gotta wait and see.
Important Information:
Along with Melee returning to Longview, now Project M is rising into fruition! Expect both Melee and Project M singles events to happen on Saturday, October 11th, whereas Melee and Project M doubles events will be held on Saturday, October 25th!
Events Calendar:
10/11- Melee & Project M singles (fb event link!)
10/25- Melee & Project M doubles (fb event link!)
Tournament Location: The Sovereign Love Building
Address: 108 W Pirate Ave Longview, TX 75604
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Food Options: The venue owner will be selling various food items, candy, and drinks. If you do not bring your own food this could be your alternative! If you’re not satisfied with that you can always find our local restaurants! Information for finding those is posted below. I also recommend using both a GPS in conjunction with a phone app called “Yelp.” You can get this app for free off of your phone’s app store. Yelp is an amazing tool for finding local restaurants in any area!
Specific Restaurant Directions: On Pinetree Road(the main road that intersects with Pirate Street, the home street of our venue!) there’s not many food options aside from a few corner markets here and there. However, if you head East to Gilmer Road(the sister parallel road to Pinetree Road), you can find a plethora of different restaurants and fast food joints along that road! There’s also a Taco Bell and Chick fil A on Loop 281(major road that intersects both Gilmer and Pinetree roads, you can’t miss it!) near the intersection of Gilmer Road and the Loop itself!
Tournament Entry and Fees:
Upon entering the building, you’ll find me at my desk with my laptop. Again, it’s free to come inside the venue to spectate and play friendlies, but if you wish to join the tournament and compete for the prize then you will need to come to me and make some payments! These payments include:
$5 venue fee (each person who plans to enter an event in the tournament makes one single payment toward the venue owner so that these two tournaments are made possible to happen!)
$5 entry fee (each person makes a payment toward the the prize pool of each event that they decide to enter!)
The Prize money of each event is distributed from their respective prize pools to the winners as follows:
If less than 10 entrants in an event;
1st place gets 70% of the prize pool
2nd place gets 30% of the prize pool
If between 10 and 32 entrants in an event;
1st place gets 50% of the prize pool
2nd place gets 25% of the prize pool
3rd place gets 15% of the prize pool
4th place gets 10% of the prize pool
If 32+ entrants in an event;
1st place gets 45% of the prize pool
2nd place gets 20% of the prize pool
3rd place gets 15% of the prize pool
4th place gets 10% of the prize pool
5th place gets 5% of the prize pool
As I take your payments for the tournament, I’ll ask you for your tag, name, region, and cellphone number! After collecting that information I will then register you into the events that you wish to join! The cell phone number will be used solely by me in the case that I might need to contact you if I can’t find you whenever you have a match waiting! Any contact information that you give me will remain confidential!
I strongly recommend that you pre-register here! Then the registration process the day of the tournament can be simple and quick!
Tournament Schedule:
***Registration for each game event will end 20 minutes prior to the said event***
1:00pm: Doors open!
1:30pm: Registration begins.
2:40pm: Melee registration ends.
3:00pm: Melee begins.
4:10pm: Project M registration ends.
4:30pm: Project M begins.
Important: Lunch Break for those who want one will happen shortly after the first round of the Project M Bracket! If you plan to leave the venue for food, now is the time! We will still continue to call bracket matches for people who remain in the venue but know that lunch is only an hour after I call for it...so be back on time or risk getting penalized or even disqualified!
9:20pm: Pack everything up to get of the venue!
9:45pm: Be out of the venue BY THIS TIME!
Game Rulesets:[collapse="Melee"]
General Rules:
- Game Settings: 4 Stocks, 8 Minute Time Limit, best of 3 Games. Finals are Best of 5.
- Items are disabled.
- Stalling with moves such as Jigglypuff's Rising Pound or Peach's Wall Bomber is banned
- Glitches such as Ice Climbers’s Freeze Glitch and Mewtwo’s Soul Stunner are banned.
- Any accidental pausing mid match forfeits a stock.
- You may not choose any stage you have won on during a set, unless agreed by both players.
- A tie is determined by most stocks, and then if still tied, by percentage. If percentage is tied, the match is fully replayed.
- Playing as Master Hand is banned.
Doubles Rules:
- Friendly Fire enabled
- Life stealing stocks from a teammate is allowed
Stage List:
Neutral Stages:
- Final Destination
- Battlefield
- Yoshi’s Story
- Dream Land
- Fountain of Dreams [singles only]
- Pokemon Stadium [doubles only]
Counter-Pick Stages:
- Pokemon Stadium [singles only]
- Kongo Jungle 64 [doubles only]
Match Procedure:
1. Players select their characters. Either player may choose to Blind Pick. In this case, each player secretly tells a third player their character before picking with the third player verifying their selections.
2. Players play Rock-Paper-Scissors. Winner chooses between selecting controller port or first Stage Strike
3. Players take turns removing stages from the Neutral Stages list above based upon the results of the previous rule. The first player to strike removes one(1) stage from the list, the second player removes two(2), and the first player then chooses from the remaining two(2) stages.
4. The players play the first match of the set
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5. Winning player of the preceding match bans a stage from the full list of stages, both Neutral and Counter-Pick. Does not apply to Best of 5 sets.
6. The Losing player of the preceding match picks a stage for the next match. Cannot choose the stage banned in the previous step, nor a stage they've already won on during this set, unless agreed.
7. The winning player of the preceding match may choose to change characters.
8. The losing player of the preceding match may choose to change characters.
9. The losing player of the preceding match may change their controller port.
10. The next match is played
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11. Repeat Steps 5 through 10 for all subsequent matches until the set is complete.
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General Rules:
- Game Settings: 4 Stocks, 8 Minute Time Limit, Best of 3 Games. Finals are Best of 5.
- Items are disabled.
- Input buffer is disabled
- All chain grabs and infinites are legal
- Any accidental pausing mid match forfeits a stock.
- You may not choose the last stage you have won on during a set, unless agreed by both players.
- If time runs outs, the tie is determined by most stocks, and then if still tied, by percentage. If percentage is tied, a 1 stock, 3 minute match is played.
- Playing as Giga Bowser is banned
Doubles Rules:
- Team Attack enabled
- Sharing stocks is allowed
Stage List:
Neutral Stages:
- Battlefield
- Dreamland
- Green Hill Zone
- Pokémon Stadium 2
- Smashville
Counter-Pick Stages:
- Final Destination
- Fountain of Dreams
- Lylat Cruise
- Skyworld
- Wario Ware, Inc.
- Yoshi's Island: Brawl
- Yoshi's Story
- Skyloft
- Dracula's Castle
- Fountain of Dreams [singles only]
- Distant Planet [doubles only]
Match Procedure:
1. Players select their characters. Either player may choose to Blind Pick. In this case, each player secretly tells a third player their character before picking with the third player verifying their selections.
2. Players play Rock-Paper-Scissors. Winner chooses between selecting controller port or second Stage Strike
3. Players take turns removing stages from the Neutral Stages list above based upon the results of the previous rule. The first player to strike removes one(1) stage from the list, the second player removes two(2), the first player then chooses from the remaining two(2) stages.
4. The players play the first match of the set 5. Winning player of the preceding match bans three stages from the full list of stages, both Neutral and Counter-Pick. Does not apply to Best of 5 sets.
6. The Losing player of the preceding match picks a stage for the next match. Cannot choose the stage banned in the previous step, nor a stage they've already won on during this set, unless agreed.
7. The winning player of the preceding match may choose to change characters.
8. The losing player of the preceding match may choose to change characters.
9. The losing player of the preceding match may change their controller port.
10. The next match is played
11. Repeat Steps 5 through 10 for all subsequent matches until the set is complete.
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Additional Rules:
- BYOC (Bring your own controller): Players are expected to bring their own controller and be prepared for every tournament set.
- MikeHaze rule: No intentionally disrupting players, whether physically or vocally. This applies to EVERYONE, players and spectators. Simply talking to the players (and Hype moments) are exempt.
- Gentleman's Clause: Any change to the rules is permitted if agreed upon by both players, except for the 8 minute time limit and anything else that drags on too much time over the tournament.
- Dave's Stupid Rule: players cannot counterpick back to a stage that they have already won on in a set.
- Textures are Cool Clause: We're usually pretty lenient with textures/custom music. You're welcome to bring your set up to the tournament with them, but please do not have any disruptive music, hard to see textures, or dramatically altered character models. If you have a problem with the set up you're playing on, notify the TO and we'll get it resolved ASAP.
- The Tournament Organizer is the arbiter of all disputes.
Code of Conduct:
- No intrusive Cosmetic hacks permitted (no altering characters to look like master chief, no reversing the ice climbers colors, etc.)
- Drugs/Alcohol are banned from The Sovereign Love Building! Don't let me see any, smell any, etc. I’ll have to unfortunately send you home packing.
- Intentionally disrupting someone mid-match intentionally or accidentally is not acceptable. Please do your best to make sure you are not disrupting a match. This can result in a penalty at T.O.'s discretion.
- Don't lose anything you're bringing to the event please, we are not liable for lost/stolen etc.
- Collusion of any kind (asking, intentionally throwing matches yourself, "agreeing to split", etc.) is subject to instant disqualification from all events, forfeiture of all prizes, banning of said players from stream matches and a potential 1 event suspension at the T.O's discretion.
- All ejections or disqualifications due to violations of the Code of Conduct or individual game rules will be without refund.
- No fighting or weaponry inside the venue. Throwing controllers or acting in a way that could pose a danger to other players will result in disqualification from the event and eviction from the venue.
- No refusal to play on certain setups barring extreme circumstances. All players agree to have their matches recorded if requested by the TO.
- No coaching in-game or between games of a set. The TO reserves the right to disqualify players for either coaching or receiving in-game coaching during a set.
- The TO is granted license to use any and all types of video that you may be present in at the event, including camera recordings, livestream broadcasts, and captured gameplay footage.
- The TO is granted license to photograph your image, likeness, or depiction at the event, and you waive any claim for compensation for the event’s use or publication of photographs taken of you.
- The TO reserves the right to deny entry into the tournament to any player suspected of committing anything considered a crime or acting in a manner that is detrimental to the integrity of the tournament.
- The TO reserves the right to deny payout from event winnings to any player suspected of intentionally throwing a match, splitting a payout, or committing any other form of bracket manipulation.
- The TO reserves the right to settle any unforeseen situations that may occur, and his judgment is final. In extreme situations, rules may be altered between phases of a tournament in the best interests of the event.
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