Tournament Rules (Melee) about New Glitches?

[Super Mallow]

I don't post here at Smash Boards very often (I lurk a lot though), so I hope this is in the right place. Had a quick question regarding the tournament ruleset as it pertains to rules about glitches. I know that things like Ness' YoYo glitch is allowed, but what happens when someone has found a new glitch? How does the ruleset adapt to that, and can a match/set be stopped or altered because someone has used a glitch that was previously unknown?

Some other Smashers and I recently found a character-specific glitch (Captain Falcon) that theoretically would improve tournament viability. We Google'd the hell out of it, checked here, checked several other Smash-centric sites for it, but have yet to find anything describing what we found. So we are wondering if we went to a tournament and used this glitch if it would be fair game or if some sort of penalty would be invoked or something.It's not a game-breaking glitch by any means, of course. It's similar to Ness' YoYo glitch in the sense that it gives the character another tool but it's nothing guaranteed to result in a KO or anything. The difference is, it doesn't require nearly the set up and for the most part can be used repeatedly - though we're still figuring out how.

Any feedback's appreciated!

 

[WHA?]

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if i remember correctly, when wobbles first found out wobbling he was able to win some tourneys using it (dont know exact details if ppl argued about it at the time)

Yes, it depends how much of an impact the glitch makes. I would say you can use it, but if the TO sees or someone sees that it is overpowered then you MAY be asked to stop it and thats that.

As far as the match/set being stopped. I doubt it would happen unless you totally glitch stuff and mess with an opponents character or do game winning glitches.

Just try it out in tournament. If it is deemed as too game changing then you may be called out on it and it will be decided on it. Worst case scenario is you being asked to not do it during the rest of tournament bracket.

I assume you are keeping this a bit of a secret. GO BUST IT OUT AT A TOURNAMENT, I WANNA SEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

 

[Signia]

It has to be worse than wobbling to get banned but you said it's not guaranteed to result in a KO? And this is with Falcon, who already can create guaranteed KO situations? Anything at all that Falcon gets would be huge, actually. Kinda like how the difference between 75% chance to KO and 95% chance is far greater than 15% and 35%. The small chance of getting away would get even smaller, falcon will become top tier and everyone's dream will come true: the metagame will evolve into Falcon dittos.

Oh and if you tell people about it, you'll definitely figure out how it's done. (just tell us)