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SMASHTASTROPHE 2: Pittsburgh Melee Tourney in the Books, Result Thread up!

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SMASHTASTROPHE 1

SMASHTASTROPHE 2

Location:
Center Community and Youth Center
125 Center Grange Rd.
Monaca PA 15061

Mapquest and Google Maps might send you to the wrong place along this road, but just keep your eye out for this sign:

and you'll be fine. Call me if you have trouble.

Event Fees:
SSBM Low Tiers: $5/person
SSBM Doubles: $20/team
SSBM Singles: $10/person
SSBM Crews: $20/crew
SSBB Doubles: $10/team
SSBB Singles: $10/person

Payout:
TBD based on size of the tourney. In general, I like to pay out to more places so that people who make 3rd-5th will get their money back, but a lot depends on how many we expect to show up.

The payout will be 80% of the entrance fees, the other 20% goes towards the venue fee.

Rules:
General Rules
  • Bring your own controller.
  • Four stocks.
  • 7 Minute Time Limit.
  • Items are off.
  • All non-finals matches are best out of 3.
  • Winner's Finals, Loser's Finals, and Grand Finals are all best out of 5.
  • For the first game of a match, characters are to be selected double blind. That means that each player whispers their character selection to a neutral party who then announces each player's selection. If you wish to save time, you can revoke your right to a double blind pick by simply choosing your character first, but if tell your opponent that you are selecting a character for game 1, you may not change this selection after they select their character.
  • For the first game of a match the stage is random unless both players agree to a particular stage. Rules for stage legality and stage banning are listed below.
  • For subsequent games of a match, the following order must be followed for determining characters and stage:
    1. Loser of the previous match chooses stage from all non-banned, legal stages.
    2. Winner of the previous match selects character.
    3. Loser of the previous match selects character.
  • In event of a tie at the end of 7 minutes, do not play sudden death. If one player has more stocks than the other, the player with more stocks has won the game. If both players have the same number of stocks, the player with lower percentage wins the game. If both players have the same number of stocks and the same percentage, then the tie is resolved by a 1 stock match on the same stage.
  • In the event of an equipment malfunction, the match will be restart from the last known position or from any point in the match that is agreed upon by the players.
  • Glitches used to stop your opponent from controlling their character or indefinitely freezing them (Mewtwo's Soul Stunner, the Ice Climber freeze glitch), or any glitch or trick that freezes the match or makes it in any way unfinishable are banned. Using them will result in the immediate forfeit of the match.
  • Tactics such as Peach's Wallbombing and Jiggly's Rising Pound are allowed as methods of recovery or to maneuver around the stage. Using them (or any similar tactics) to excessively stall a match, such as dropping below levels intentionally and stalling underneath, is banned.
  • Wobbling is banned.
  • Nintendo Standard controllers only (any type of programmable controller must be inspected by a store official/TSA member). Likewise, controller modifications are banned. If you are caught using a modded controller you will be disqualified from the tournament.
  • BRING WAVEBIRDS AT YOUR OWN RISK. It will be your responsibility to find others with Wavebirds and sort out the frequency issues. If you bring a wavebird it is highly suggested to bring a normal Gamecube controller in case your Wavebird malfunctions. I highly recommend using a wired controller.

Singles Bracket
  • Singles will begin with a single round of pools. I will attempt to seed pools by location and to a certain extent by skill level so that they are fairly even and no one has to play the people they came with. NO ONE WILL BE ELIMINATED IN POOLS. They will only be used to seed the bracket. That means that no matter how badly you do in pools, you still make it into the bracket.
  • After Pools are completed, we will create the singles bracket using the pools for seeding. The bracket will be double elimination, if you don't know what that means, feel free to ask me. At that time, players will be given 15 minutes to examine the bracket to make sure that they were given the correct seed and that they are appropriately spaced from other players in their crew. Once the bracket has started playing out, no changes will be made.

Doubles Bracket
  • Doubles will be run with just a double elimination bracket that is seeded by skill and location to the best of our abilities. If the number of teams exceeds 16, we will do pools for seeding just as singles will, but if we are under 16, there will only be a bracket

Stage Rules
  • Stage Ban: At the beginning of each match, after the double blind character selection, you may ban 1 stage for the duration of the match. That stage may not be played under any circumstances, so if it comes up on random, simply reset the match and let random select a new stage.
  • DAVE'S STUPID RULE: A player may not select the last stage they won on in a match unless the opponent allows it. That means that if you win game 1 on FD and then lose game 2, you cannot select FD for game 3 unless your opponent allows it. If you need any clarification, ask me.
  • Singles Random Select: Yoshi's Story, Fountain of Dreams, Pokemon Stadium, Battlefield, Final Destination, Dreamland 64.
  • Singles Counterpick: Corneria, Rainbow Cruise, Jungle Japes, Green Greens, Brinstar, Mute City, Pokefloats, and DK64
  • Doubles Random Select: Yoshi's Story, Pokemon Stadium, Battlefield, Final Destination, Dreamland 64, DK64
  • Doubles Counterpick: Termina Bay, Corneria, Rainbow Cruise, Jungle Japes, Green Greens, Brinstar, and Pokefloats

Food:
There is food available at the venue. It is very cheap and is essentially Hot Dogs, Burgers, Cookies, Chips, and Soda. I got a full meal with drink for $4 last time, seriously, it's f'in' cheap.

Housing:
The venue has graciously offered housing for Saturday night. There are couches to crash on, but you should still bring a sleeping bag, toothbrush, and deodorant if you intend to stay the night.

Since turnout is looking good, there will not be enough couches for everyone. Priority on the couches will go to people who need to drive over an hour, as it's most critical for them to get a good night's sleep.

Contact Information:
If you have any questions about the tournament, feel free to let me know:
AIM: WWRDude
Email: twr@cmu.edu
Cell Phone: 267-566-9182
 
Mogwai

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teh_spamerer said:
I have midterm johns. My Comp Sci midterm is on sunday 3/2.
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That's a reasonable john. You NJ guys are further than Philly anyway, so distance johns are understandable for yall, escpecially on a Sunday tourney. The no distance johns comment is more directed at the people in the like, 2 hour drive range, like Eastern Ohio and Western PA and West Virginia.
 
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Is $10 a team right? I'm cool with that.

I'll be there, and can probably bring at least one more person, and I can bring a T.V and a gamecube.
 
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Im definatly going. I may be a little late though and is there a entering fee like last time?

Just making sure i bring enough dough yo!

And that banner....O_O i want one now

Ill post details about my friends later when i talk to em so...yeah
 
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TheLake said:
Im definatly going. I may be a little late though and is there a entering fee like last time?

Just making sure i bring enough dough yo!

And that banner....O_O i want one now

Ill post details about my friends later when i talk to em so...yeah
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All the info about entrance fees and such is in the first post. Good to hear you'll be there, lemme know when you know how many of your buddies can make it and what time you guys will be able to make.

GOTM said:
i wish i could come :( ill be busy all weekend..
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FAWK! I miss you man! See you at the next SPOC.
 
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Can't wait to see everyone here. Wes, I'd love to come Thursday but the Scar Car leaves on Friday at like 2:00. Eggm, if you want to ask Wes if he can house you since he's so graciously housing Pakman and I, then you can come with me, but idk your schedule, you might not be up for an all-weekend thing.

Also I hope to bring 3 TVs and setups just for the Pittsburgh guys.
 
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Groolness

My crew can make it, so that makes 2 more pepole (three man crew..whoot!). The three of us are butlers finest but i think two more of my friends are interested in going. Oh and the two kids that can come now are Mike (Lyme is his tag) and Jacob (Smash name Vudujin)

Ill give details on the others later.
 
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Here is a list of CMU smashers that probably either do not know about this tournament that i think would possibly be wanting to go:

heY ****
Wiseley
Phil (Anon)
Jay
Neal (Ichigeki)
Garrick
Boney
The OGS smashers (Mike/Travis etc.)
Scott (Bamf)
Joey
Dave Sun
Eugene

@ Wes: I can give you phone numbers for just about everyone of them
if you're motivated enough, you can try n convince them to go : D
 
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xyt said:
Here is a list of CMU smashers that probably either do not know about this tournament that i think would possibly be wanting to go:

heY ****
Wiseley
Phil (Anon)
Jay
Neal (Ichigeki)
Garrick
Boney
The OGS smashers (Mike/Travis etc.)
Scott (Bamf)
Joey
Dave Sun
Eugene

@ Wes: I can give you phone numbers for just about everyone of them
if you're motivated enough, you can try n convince them to go : D
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Good **** Sheik. Also Taki, color MMs are only for color, not money.
 
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xyt said:
Here is a list of CMU smashers that probably either do not know about this tournament that i think would possibly be wanting to go:

Garrick
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He doesn't go to tournaments because he doesn't think he'll win money and therefore thinks its a waste of money to enter. :(
 
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so yeah theres like a 99.9% chance im going to this, but everytime someone says that, the 0.1% chance is like HUGE.

but yeah, i should be going, and i need a teammate.

IDEK
 
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Scar I work till 9 Fridays, if you wait until then, I can come with you and stay till however late Sunday night. If you plan to stay longer than Sunday night, I can't go, which is ok as long as i can go to chu's with you <3.
 
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teh_spamerer said:
He doesn't go to tournaments because he doesn't think he'll win money and therefore thinks its a waste of money to enter. :(
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I'm pretty sure I'm not goin to win money but I'm still going for the fun of the game. plus, there is always that off chance that I get lucky.......really really lucky
 
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GOTM said:
so yeah theres like a 99.9% chance im going to this, but everytime someone says that, the 0.1% chance is like HUGE.

but yeah, i should be going, and i need a teammate.

IDEK
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OMG, amazing. <3 GOTM, don't get my hopes up for nothing!

Also, I really need to figure out who I'm teaming with. Swift, are we teaming or are you still up in the air about it?
 
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