Random money matches, asside from having a luck factor (go gamblers) are a good way of seeing which players are good with the most characters, or which players are best at thinking on their feet to figure things out as they go along. It's a good trait to have, either one of these, and the process to determine this is loads of fun, if done properly.
Here is a rule-set that can be used and considered while attempting to have a Random Tourniment or simply do random money matches. All of these rules are a result of trial and error, and have been agreed upon by all those whom participated (most of SFL).
I FULLY encourage players to experiment and fool around with the rules as they please, and let me know of your findings so we can further discuss the fairest possible rule-set for such cases.
Bare in mind, that this is by no means a source of new competative play, this is for FUN.
Without further ado,
Seibrik's Official Rules to Random Tournies and Money Matches
Pre-set
Players A and B declare their mains as accepted by the rest of the community.
My main would be MK, Ally's, snake, NickRiddle's, ZSS, ect....
Both players cannot get the main for the entire set.
We'll call this the
Main Rule.
In the unlikely event that BOTH players get their mains, they may both choose to ignore the
Main Rule, provided both players agree.
Next, Players A and B declare one character of the remaining cast that they want to ban FOR THEMSELVES: that is to say, that at any point during the set, this declared character comes up for themselves, they must restart the set.
I ban Sonic, and Ally banned DK. I cannot get Sonic as a character and Ally cannot get DK as a character.
This rule will be known as the
Screw'm rule.
The Screw'm rule may be repeated up to three times depending on the length of the set, and to the discretion of the players.
Characters such as Zelda/Sheik, Pokemon Trainer, Samus/ZSS each count as one character. You cannot ban Zelda without banning sheik and so on. If you get one feel free to change into the other, (Good luck if you got samus and want ZSS.)
Every match will be played at random on one of the neutrals set for said tournament. My personal preference is to only use BF, FD, and Sville.
During the set, each player is allowed to have one re-do. That is to say, if you do not like the matchup, the character you got, the character your opponent got, or whatever, you may up to redo that match, where you reset out, and start a new match. When a match starts, both players must pause. The previous winner of the last match must be the first to decide weather or not they want to use their re-do at the start of the match, given both players still have their re-do. This rule will be known as the
EFFDAT rule.
The very first match MUST be played out, unless it collides with either the
Main Rule or the
Screw'm Rule. (no mains, no banned characters). No use of the
EFFDAT rule allowed.
A player may NOT be allowed to re-get a character they LAST won with.
This will be known as
Seibrik's Stupid Rule, or
SSR for short.
Other variations of
SSR include
TSR(Tommy's Stupid Rule) where no player can get the same character twice, regardless of win or loss. While this adds more variety, it takes away from the Random factor that is the RANDOM money match. This variation of the rule came up as a result of me getting Zelda/Sheik about 20 times under the course of an hour of doing random Money Matches. I kept losing, but toward the end of the night, my Sheik actually started getting legit. lol
That's all for now.
It's your turn.
Discuss.
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