I want to adress couple of rules here, which I feel have not been thoroughly explained and just pasted here, along with some stages which I feel are inappropriate to be played on as they have been banned on. And as an experienced tournament organizer, I feel it's prudent to address these problems before the tourney as well.
First of all, the whole of the ruleset should be more thoroughly explained as not everyone will know what "advanced slob picks" mean, to be more newb and user friendly.
Secondly, I do think many points here haven't been explained well.
What variation of dave's stupid rule is in place? Is it that same stage cannot be played on the set at all (nu-uh), that the player who has won on that stage cannot play that stage on the set, or that the player cannot play the stage he last won on (this one I approve the most).
Then comes the double blind stageban and stage banning in general.
Is every stage bannable or just counterpicks? And is this blind stagebanning mandatory? It's not easily enforced and most played would opt to ban stages after the other one has, while usually have decided to already ban one stage. If a scenario occurs that someone wants to ban the same stage, both players can decide on banning another stage fairly well and in quite less time than 3 minutes lol.
I'd also like to note that skyworld, according to sbr recommended brawl rule list, is on the counter/banned section and as your list of brawl cp stages feature none of the other stages on that category, it would be reasonable to remove skyworld from that list as well.
Not only skyworld is atrocious as a stage, but you cannot simply take one stage from one category as you see fit and ignore all others which are as good/bad stages when you've neglected to add all of the stages from the foremost counterpick section, but then went and added one stage that's on the werge of being a banned stage instead (and in about every tourney it is). I opt to ban that hideous stage from the list instead of adding more however, as no one wants to play on stage that severely hinders character recovery, easy meteors and kills trough cloud and ceiling spikes.
I also don't see rainbow cruise on that list, when it's borderline neutral stage but less fair stages like luigi's mansion, pirate ship, pictochat and frigate orpheon. That should be remedied.
There is no mention of pools in here, I'm hoping we're gonna have pools though because without those seeding in bracket is gonna be hell and noone can really make that work. Approximate timetable would also be nice, so we'd know when to go to sleep so we can be awake when tourney starts and grab breakfast before that. I'm also interested if there's a kitchen we can use with enough room on refrigerator and ice box, then michrowave. Needs more detailed maps as well.
I'm also been made aware that you are seriously planning on runnign over 150 man (and woman) tourney all by yourself. That wouldn't do. It is most unfortunate to hear that you do not want help from any other more experienced tournament hoster but insist on doing all the stuff by yourself, which is one of the reasons why esa2 failed to work properly. I'm also aware that this is the reason why swedish opt to come here instead of esa3. Do you really want to submit them to the same thing they want to avoid and make german smashers a laughing stock because of a failed tournament? From the opening post I could see you have not dwelled on understanding the principles of the rules in place, nor organizing the tournament and what it entails. It is definitely not a picnic, especially a tournament of this scale but hard and stressful work, especially for a newbie organizer.
You are most fortunate to have people willing to help you organize this big tourney, you should be glad and not push them away because if you do, you will either fail the tourney by not being a good organizer and spending too much time playing while you should organize things or not touching the controller at all if you want things to run smoothly. Spare yourself the stress, swallow your pride and let trustworthy and dependable people aid you. That is my advice to you and you would be wise to heed it.
On last note, peach castle, onett, termina bay and mushroom kingdom 2 have gotten banned from counterpicks used on tourneys ages ago. Only onett is used on sweden anymore. I can live with those, however Battlefield should also belong to the neutral stage list, especially on doubles instead of dk64 with
also bad ledges and a barrel to boot, as the bad ledges is nothing more but a big john for those who cannot grab it and only a mild setback for fox and falco users who gain much more with other stages and especially the campy counterpicks in place. The ledge is same for everyone, deal with it. YS cloud can be ten times worse. This ruleset to me shows favoritism to fox and falco players imo, because what good reason there is to cp battlefield over dk64 when dk64 has more working against it being neutral stage? None, other than giving falco and fox a barrel to work on instead of overrated-crappy-ledges-for-everyone stage.
Noow... when I got that done... about housing me and another finn then.
