The Balance Tournament(Sunday July the 13th)

[Flok]

Introduction​

Greetings, fellow smashers. I am your host for this new tournament, which can be found in the future.

At last, the European release date has been known for a while. In the mean time, I have discussed, arranged, scheduled and set up the Balance Tournament together with DR GAMES,(http://www.drgames.nl/index2.php) where the tournament will take place.

Now, because the previous attendant list was like 2 years old, I have decided to start a series of new lists, so that we can all be sure as to who will definitely be coming.

A few things to read about before checking out the lists:

/20 people can sign up through these forums, while 10 people are reserved for customers of DR GAMES. If 10 customers cannot be found for the tournament, then people on the reserve list will be able to attend.

/Veteran smashers from the Ede Dutch Tournaments will be given a slot when they have asked me for this, even when the regular list is full already. You cannot break nostalgia that easily.

/When signing up, you will be acquired to have a team partner ready as well, if not, we will randomly decide who your partner will be.
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Regular List​

-Flok

2.Niets
3.Peter
4.Jeffz0r
5.Utto
6.Sisey
7.Empy
8.Gaki
9.Ryuker
10.Shadow
11.Gmoney_
12.Marius
13.Jw1zzman
14.ssj5goten
15.Foshu
16.Captain McCloud
17.Biscuit-sama
18.Coen
19.Johnnyboy
20.Omixo
21.Kamako
22.Kiewirevo
23.Rebaz
24.Tenzo
25.DarkRenji
26.Boku
27.Roel
28.Eresir
29.Tonydevil
30.Robert Pont
31.Mr Prince
32.Emo

Customer List​

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Reserve List​

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Duo List​

1.Niets & Peter
2.Kamako & Kiewirevo
3.Boku & Gaki
4.Utto & Johnnyboy
5.Eresir & Tonydevil
6.Gmoney_ & Tenzo
7.Jeffz0r & Captain McCloud
8.Coen & Biscuit-sama
9.Shadow & Ryuker
10.Mr Prince & Sisey
11.Ssj5goten & Roel
12.Foshu & Marius
13.Flok & Jwizzman
14.Rabaz & Simonnn(?)
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Rules, Equipment and Date​

The date set for the tournament shall be July the 13th, on a sunday. From 12 o'clock, people will be able to enter the DR GAMES shop. Starting at 1 o'clock will be the 2vs2 matches. From 15:30 till 16:00 there will be a break. Starting at 4 o'clock will be the 1vs1 matches. The tournament ends around 6 o'clock unless we will need more time. People can stay until 8 o'clock.

That concludes a short summary. I will present to you now the rules of not only the tournament, but of DR GAMES itself as well. First up are the DR GAMES rules made by both the owner and me. They are only typed out in Dutch at the moment. If necessary, an English translation will follow:

"De DR GAMES regels voor het toernooi zijn in ieder geval:

* Minimum leeftijd is 16 jaar.

* Geen introducees of gasten toegestaan vanwege ruimte.

* De contributie van 5 euro per toernooi (Deelname aan beide word op prijs gesteld) is in totaal 10 euro.

* De contributie moet gepast of met pin betaald worden bij aankomst. Dit bevestigd ook je deelname.

* Wie na 13 uur (Begin toernooi) aankomt kan helaas niet meer meedoen.

* Elke speler dient zijn eigen controller mee te nemen. Elke controller is toegestaan. Probeer tijdens synchronisaties niet tegelijk te syncen, want daardoor kan de Wii soms in de war komen.

Eventuele extra regels (Denk dat we ze allemaal hebben) zullen later worden toegevoegd.

De prijzen zijn:

1vs1 toernooi

1. Samus Statue en een cadeaubon van 50 euro.
2. Een cadeaubon van 30 euro.
3. Een cadeaubon van 20 euro.

2vs2 toernooi

1. 2 x een Wii-game naar keuze (voor elke speler 1) uit huidige voorraad met maximale waarde van 60 euro.
2. Een cadeaubon van 30 euro.
3. Een cadeaubon van 20 euro.

Samus Statue​

De toernooidag (Nu gepland op zondag 13 juli) zal er als volgt uitzien:
11:00 : Aanvang organisatie (Roy, Michael, Flok)
12:00 : Aanvang spelers
13:00 - 15:30 : 2vs2 toernooi inclusief finale
15:30 - 16:00 : Pauze (Gelegenheid te eten bij verschillende locaties zoals snackbarren)
16:00 - 18:00 : 1vs1 toernooi inclusief finale
18:00 : Prijsuitreiking beide toernooien

Eventuele uitloop is mogelijk.

DR GAMES laat posters maken op A0 formaat voor de Double Elimination brackets. Deze zullen gebruikt worden voor het toernooi verloop en zijn in full colour met SSBB thema. Verder komt er een banner voor drgames.nl. 20 spelers zullen worden geplaatst door Flok vanaf zijn forum, 10 worden geselecteerd door DR GAMES. Eventueel niet ingevulde plaatsen door DRGAMES kunnen ingevuld worden door Flok vanaf een reservelijst. Flok zal tevens ook degene zijn die de DE brackets gedurende het toernooi zal bijhouden.

REISINFO VANAF WEBSITE:

OPENBAAR VERVOER​

Vanaf Centraal Station Utrecht neem je de stadsbus, lijn 3 richting Zuilen (let op, er zijn 2 lijnen 3). De vijfde halte stap je uit; halte Watertoren. Loop nog circa 50 meter terug richting stadscentrum en je treft ons aan de linkerkant, tegenover de Blokker. Dit busreisje kost 2 strippen.

MET DE AUTO VANUIT UTRECHT NOORD OF MAARSSEN​

Rijd richting centrum via de Amsterdamsestraatweg. Bij de watertoren (rechterkant van de weg) ga je linksaf; Dit is de zijstraat grenzend aan onze winkel.

MET DE AUTO VANUIT UTRECHT CENTRUM​

Rijd vanuit het centrum richting Maarssen over de Amsterdamsestraatweg. Na het treinviaduct komen drie stoplichten, na het derde stoplicht kun je een parkeerplek zoeken, je ziet DR GAMES al tegenover de Blokker.

MET DE AUTO VANAF DE SNELWEG​

Snelweg A2/E35 is het makkelijkst om richting DR GAMES te komen. Kom je vanaf een andere snelweg (bijvoorbeeld A12/E30) zoek dan de ring Utrecht West op in de richting van Amsterdam. Neem afslag 7 (Oog in Al) en volg deze ook richting Oog in Al. Na het overbruggen van het Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal neem je de bocht mee naar rechts. De eerstvolgende stoplichten sla je linksaf de straat in met de "Gerardus Kerk". Rijd onder de 2 treinviaducten door je kruist de Amsterdamsestraatweg, je slaat hier rechts af. Volg de Amsterdamsestraatweg richting de stad. Vlak na de watertoren zie je Blokker (rechterkant van de weg), op deze kruising ga je linksaf; Dit is de zijstraat grenzend aan onze winkel.
PARKEREN

In de zijstraten en parallelstraten kun je gratis parkeren. Je **** ook op de Amsterdamsestraatweg zelf parkeren. Betaald parkeren tot 18:00 (donderdagen 21:00).

ETEN EN DRINKEN​

Eten is goed mogelijk bij de snackbar om de hoek en (restaurant en afhaal) ’t Dikkertje (broodjes, pizza etc). In DR GAMES is een Coca Cola machine aanwezig met flesjes drinken voor 1 euro met onder andere Coca Cola (gewoon, cherry en Zero), Fanta, Water en andere dranken. Eigen eten en drinken is uiteraard gewoon toegestaan, wel word verzocht met respect om te gaan met de winkelruimte en afval in de daarvoor bestemde afvalbak te deponeren.''

Those were the DR GAMES RULES, and the Balance Tournament rules will now follow:

General rules:

-Smashers will have to report the result of every match they play on a paper, so that the brackets will be updated frequently.

-Smashers are NEVER allowed to pause during gameplay(Even when the pause option is already off in the rules). I would like to see concentrated matches without interference from outside. That means that you should eat/drink/piss/anything else before or after your own matches! On a side note, you cannot **** inside DR GAMES.



1VS1 rules:

-1 match in every round unless time allows for some best of 3 matches later on in the bracket.
-Time: 5 minutes per match.
-Stock: Three.
-Handicap: None.
-Pause: Off.
-Stages will be chosen randomly unless both smashers agree on a particular stage.
-After the first match, if it is possible before the final and also during the final, the loser will have to choose the next stage.
-Final match will be best of 5.

2VS2 rules:

-Best of 3 in every round except for the final.
-Time: 6 minutes per match.
-Stock: Three
-Handicap: None.
-Team Attack: On.
-Pause: Off.
-Stages will be chosen randomly unless both teams agree on a particular stage.
-After the first match, the loser's team will have to choose the next stage.
-Final match will be best of 5.

Stage rules:

Open:

Castle Siege
Halberd
Smashville
Battlefield
Final Destination
Yoshi's Island(Brawl)
Corneria
Lylat Cruise
Delfino Plaza
Brinstar
Luigi's Mansion
Pokémon Stadium


Exiled:

Wario Ware Inc.
New Pork City
PictoChat
Norfair
Mushroomy Kingdom
Summit
SkyWorld
75 M
Mario Bros
Mario Circuit
Frigate Orpheon
Port Town Aero Dive
Rumble Falls
Spear Pillar
Green Hill Zone
Green Greens
Bridge of Eldin
Temple
Onett
Rainbow Cruise
Flat Zone 2
Big Blue
Shadow Moses Island
Distant Planet
Yoshi's Island (Melee)
Pokémon Stadium 2
Hanenbow
Jungle Japes
Great Sea

I think that's about all of the stages, but I could be wrong. If so, please point the missing stages out for me.
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Results

I looked on the brackets from top to bottom, so some people actually have the same placement in the end, but still, typing it out like this is more easy for me.

1vs1:

1.Gaki
2.Coen
3.Boku
4.Biscuit-sama
5.DarkRenji
6.ssj5goten
7.Tenzo
8.Mr.Prince
9.Rebaz
10.Flok
11.Ryuker
12.Utto
13.Kiewirevo
14.Marius
15.Emo
16.Empy
17.Peter
18.Jw1zzman
19.Niets
20.Shadow
21.Captain McCloud
22.Kamako
23.Sisey
24.Tonydevil
25.Stylez
26.Gmoney_
27.Eresir
28.Roel
29.Foshu
30.JohnnyBoy
31.Feb
32.Jeffz0r

2vs2:

1.Coen & Biscuit-sama
2.Boku & Gaki
3.Utto & Johnnyboy
4.DarkRenji & Emo
5.Gmoney_ & Tenzo
6.Shadow & Ryuker
7.Flok & Jw1zzman
8.ssj5goten & Roel
9.Kamako & Kiewierevo
10.Jeffz0r & Captain McCloud
11.Niets & Peter
12.Foshu & Marius
13.Eresir & Tonydevil
14.Rebaz & Empy
15.Mr.Prince & Sisey
16.Feb & Stylez

 

[The_Doug]

Sweeeet. I'd like to attend this. Return of Flokadoug in SSB3 teams? muhaha. Mario (Flok) and Wario (The_Doug) the ultimate team??

Also since smash won't be out on release maybe you'll have a few games by then and we can play Battletoads finally! and lotta other rather nostalgic NES games, hehe.

E3 happening = so much excitement.

 

[Jw1zzman]

I'm in! Would be fun seeing all of the old vets again...and of course Doug too

 

[Utto]

I'm interested, obviously, so I might as well sign up!

By the way, Snake rocks.

 

[shoe]

Sounds cool, I will probably be there and the rest of soft-G unit as well (sparkie009, greenmachine and down-a). And Doug, maining Wario is a must for you

 

[Kirby Squad]

I'm in... but isn't it a bit too early to make this thread??

Ow goat, Linkje and TiRune are in aswell

 

[Thomaat]

Count me in, Aaaahhrg as well.

It's good to have something to look forward to ^^

 

[Ryuker]

K I'll come but I can't confirm for sure obviously. Just put me on the list ^^

 

[Thomaz]

I'll come too. =P

Put me on the list. ^.^

 

[Johnnyboy]

Sign me up!
Oh and sign NGCXX and Bf.com up too.

 

[Marc]

Remen en ik zullen er ook wel zijn neem ik aan, maar het is nog wel erg vroeg hiervoor. :S

 

[Kirby Squad]

zoals ik al zei

 

[(Prince) Shadow]

zet me dr bij :D

 

[Scamp]

Okay I don't know what the last two posts said but isn't this game supposed to come out next year?

And I know games come out even later in Europe. Are you going to import the system?

And new avatars are sweet.

I'm probably going to use Pit, but I wouldn't rule out Birdo or Daisy either. Yes, I'm guessing on those.

 

[Flok]

Everyone knew allready from my first post that I said that the tournament is still very far away, so it's pointless to point out that it's too early to make this topic.

Scamp, the last two posts said:

Kirby Squad: "As I said before"
(Prince) Shadow: "Put me next to it :D"

I am not going to import the system or the game itself, I would maybe only do such a thing if the system was region free and/or the Europe release date for Super Smash Bros. Brawl is ridicilously far away again, like with SSBM, we had to wait 6 more months after it got released in the USA.

And the rest of your post is useless for this tournament topic.

 

[Helios]

I wanna go
Last night I posted well before Arrgghh, but my **** browser signed me off >_<

Anyway, ironically you call it the "balance" tournament, but unless you wait for quite a while after the release, that name isn't near correct. Rather, we prolly won't have found out what's balanced or not for half a year or so, and that's when things start to level out. Remember, new things will probably be invented years after the release, things that are going to revolutionise the way we will play this game. Thus, we won't have a clue what's actually balanced or not

 

[Thomaat]

It's not like he called it 'The Balanced Tournament'. The tournament is to start analyzing the balance in the game and, well, you gotta start sómewhere.

Anyway, I can't wait to kick *** with Pit or Zero Suit Samus B)
(you know, early trash talk)

 

[Helios]

My Wario is gonna **** ur shiny ***!!

 

[shoe]

I am starting early as well, I'm already accepting beermatches, the first beermatches will be metaknight ditto's.

 

[Marc]

Me and Snake are gonna take this. 8)

 

[Thomaz]

Suitless Samus ftw. 8D

 

[beunhaas]

WTF why am I for every tournament that's hosted to late :S

 

[beunhaas]

WTF why am I for every tournament that's hosted to late :S

P.S but put me on the reserve list anyway ^^

WTF I tought I pressed EDIT :/

 

[ivootjes(nr18)]

I'm in! Would be fun seeing all of the old vets again...and of course Doug too

Hey, long time no see Still best mewtwo in the netherlands huh

Flok, you told me about this tourney at DT10 already, so add me too please, and add reffie and rens too

 

[Flok]

The reason this is called the Balance Tournament is because like Thomaat said, we will try to find the unbalanced things in the tournament itself. And if there are no unbalanced things I could still call the next tournament Balance Tournament 2. Ironic indeed.

Oh, that reminds me Marc, Remen is a big fan of Metal Gear Solid right? I bet he's happy to see Solid Snake in SSBB. ; )

Ivo, good to see you. Where's reffie? I want to see a reply of his in here. ; )

And where are Mr.Silver and Rune?

 

[Kirby Squad]

you've been out way too long Flok Rune stopped playing, Silver rarely comes to the boards anymore, Reffie only posts when no one expects it

 

[MrSilver]

Seems you beat me to it. I was thinking about having a tournament very shortly after the release. Wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, may have been something small like this or it might have been something more along the lines of a DT. I was even considering multi day tournaments to really put the new game through it's paces. But I guess I'll have to settle for a slightly later date if Flok has already called the first weekend.

And who says Rune doesn't play Smash? He might not go to tournaments much, but we still play a bit. Besides, for a new game that'll all change. We certainly intend to get our hands on it as early as we can, which will probably mean importing. And we will be playing the **** out of it and come kick all your ***** at the first tournament. All will change when Brawl is released. Let's just hope it'll change for the better.

 

[Marc]

You're alive. o_o

Oh, that reminds me Marc, Remen is a big fan of Metal Gear Solid right? I bet he's happy to see Solid Snake in SSBB. ; )

Yeah, we both are. I'm hoping there's a Big Boss costume as well.

 

[Nihonjin]

F*ck every dutchie who didn't tell me about this...EAT CAT POOP *****EESSS!!!!!!!

Anyway, signs up Nihonjin, Zeta & Nnja for this...if I don't get to make it to this tourney I hope your SSB:B copy is damaged...

 

[Piisuke]

I am in. isn't this to...nah kidding =P

 

[Thomaat]

Looking forward to Pit ditto's as well as Zero Suit Samus ditto's!

 

[Jeffz0r]

OMFG how did I miss this? Put me on the list!

*note: I was at DT10 in Ede too, so I hope to fall under that category

 

[Flok]

The tournament is starting to get big with more people signing up. I bring an update about letting the tournament happen at my house:

My parents do not at the moment want to have a tournament in the living room. I guessed that they are too afraid that someone might steal something, or other nasty stuff might happen. I told them it would be easy to have this much people in the living room and the back garden with the maximum of 4 tv's, but so far they need to think more about it. I was pissed for a second because on parties 50 people can easily fit in the living room and the back garden together, but like I said, something nasty might happen. And not to mention that a friend of mine recently crashed literally into the glass door connecting the living room and the back garden, and now we must call someone to come fix it...(This is actually a Smash story, ask me if you want to know more). The glass didn't broke, but the door cannot be locked anymore and my friend got a bleeding nose in the end, and he did not notice the glass door at night.

Furthermore, 15 minutes after the conversation with my parents, I got an idea: why not use the gym of my Kenpo Karate sport as a big room to let us all play inside of it? If we could hire that room for 1 day(Afternoon and evening), then a big problem would be solved. I really hope my teacher and the school's gym itself agree to let me use the big room, so that we can bring some tables and tv's to it, and anything else of importance. I will ask my teacher this on thursday.

Well that's about the tournament happening. But now I want to know where The_Doug and Helios will sleep if they decide to come all the way to the Netherlands? Unfortunately, my parents usually only allow 1 person to sleep over at my house, but the bed that we use for guests is big enough for 2 persons, so it's not certain yet.

And Mr.Silver, are you planning to attend this tournament together with Rune? I would make special room for you two guys, since after all you guys started the Dutch Tournament series.

Lastly, if anyone wants to help me out on the tournament itself i.e. taking care of the brackets, making announcements, tell me about it in this topic.

EDIT: What do you guys mean with character ditto's? Is it their alternative costumes, is it for example two Pits fighting each other or is it something else?

 

[shoe]

Yes, ditto's are 2 of the same characters fighting each other.

 

[Joanna Dark]

I don't know if I can attend this one, since in France we also plan to hold a tournament on the day it comes out, or the day after (if it comes out on friday, we will hold the tourney on saturday). it will be in Paris.

 

[Wulp]

Put me on the Reserve List...

 

[Jeffz0r]

Lastly, if anyone wants to help me out on the tournament itself i.e. taking care of the brackets, making announcements, tell me about it in this topic.

Sure, I'll help out

 

[The_Doug]

Just a cheap bump really so show off my new avatar - the main man from the 80's. Autobots, roll out! Although I have no idea what episode he's wielding the transformed Megatron in, I orginally thought it was The Return of Optimus Prime, but that's Galvatron who allies with Optimus.

Soooo many good choices there now including Juggernaut and a couple other Wario poses. Solid Snake is cool too. Been a while since the NES Metal Gear, which sadly is the only game I've played him on, hehe.

By the way I call yellow Wario suit Heli! My Wario history goes back a while to Wario Land on the Gameboy and the fact I've never played another character in Mario Party or Wario Ware

 

[Joanna Dark]

I hope for you Wario is top tier in SSBB ^^.

 

[Helios]

Flok - I appreciate the extra concern! I don't really mind where I'll be staying, so if you've got limited space, I'll crash with someone else. That's no problem at all

Doug - Let's Wario ditto for the colour, then! But you can have him for now