Stock or Time? Which is the standard competitive mode for tournaments?

[thewiredknight]

Topic is the whole question. With Brawl I'm thinking of entering tournaments and such but I wanted to know which of these modes is considered the standard for most tournamets. Because personally I've always prefered stock matches since Smash64 (partially because kill-stealing isn't a game mechanic). But I wanted to know what I should practice more.

Unfortunately practicing stock will be tough without more friendcodes atm since the other people I play with are FAR worse than me so I don't get any good practice at that and I get real tired of online stock matches real fast.

 

[Fogel]

For Brawl, it's usually 3 stocks.

 

[thewiredknight]

Awsome, that suits me fine since that's how I prefer to play anyway. Now to find some good players to play online with in stock.

Just for kicks: so for Melee it was time matches?

 

[Fogel]

Awsome, that suits me fine since that's how I prefer to play anyway. Now to find some good players to play online with in stock.

Just for kicks: so for Melee it was time matches?

No; Melee was usually 4 stocks with an 8 minute time limit. Most matches never got near the time limit, and only really extreme camping matches ended by time.

 

[SirroMinus1]

Stock and time.
that's pretty obvious.

 

[slartibartfast42]

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