"I had arrived in the middle of the Random **** Brothers
Melee tournament. Since it in essence is a randomized form
of the Nintendo Gamecube game Super Smash Bros. Melee,
commonly known as just Smash, I will from here on refer to
it as Random Smash. It will take the remainder of this paper
to attempt to explain what this is all about but for now, let
me give the short description. All participants write their
name (these are of course their nicknames rather than their
actual names) on a piece of paper and put them in a hat. The
tournament leader pulls four names from the hat. These
players sit down by a Nintendo Gamecube to play Smash.
The leader rolls a pair of dice to determine the rule-set and
the winning conditions for the match. The players then roll
a die each to determine which team they will belong to.
Sometimes three out of the four players end up on the same
team. To further decrease the balancing of the game, the
characters and items in the game are randomized. I will get
back to what this means but while there are constant
arguments around which the best characters are, there is
consensus within the smash community that some
characters are inherently better than others. After the match
the members of the winning team get their names put back
into the hat, the losers once again roll a die. If they roll a six
they too go back in the hat, otherwise they are out."
This should happen at Sherman's.