Quick Custom Stages: A Possible Side Event

[b2jammer]

With how favorably custom stages are looked at for competitive play as an idea (not necessarily in practice), I thought I'd throw out an idea for a side event. In this event, participants create a custom stage to add to the list of stages.

Each participant is given 3-5 minutes (not sure of an exact time limit) to build 1 custom stage, starting from pressing the "Create" button and ending on pressing the "Save" button at the naming screen. Afterwards, a standard tournament follows, but the only legal stages are the custom stages built at the event.

I imagine these events are going to be extremely small due to the time involved building stages, and some problems may arise with No KO's, caves of life, unfinished stages that can't be saved, etc, so there may be a period where a few people evaluate the stages to make sure they are fit as legal stages.

Thoughts?

 

[Raijinken]

I think it's a fun idea, but like you said, it's gotta have some rules set in place to prevent things like un-KO-able scenarios (caves of life are probably okay), basically have a ref judge it as it's being made.

It'd also require a different stage selection process, perhaps going to a coin-toss for the stage made by each participant in a match. Standard selection rules probably wouldn't work well there.

Perhaps a simpler option would be to have someone (TO, pre-alerted player, skilled stage designer) make some competitively-designed stages ahead of time to use. There's been a lot of discussion on that sort of idea already.

 

[b2jammer]

Perhaps a simpler option would be to have someone (TO, pre-alerted player, skilled stage designer) make some competitively-designed stages ahead of time to use. There's been a lot of discussion on that sort of idea already.

I can agree with that; I've joined in those discussions a bit myself.

 

[Radical Larry]

All I would honestly need to say is if you look at my stage, The Pentagon, it will be pretty damn hectic with all the magma.
I'd love to see hazard-based stages as side-events in terms of custom stages, and I'd love to also see balanced custom stages in as well. Creativity and good ideas spawn countless great stages, you know.