Greenstreet: You have really really bad reasoning... "Oh, I'm agreeing with Soth cause he is a Sonic main and a great flamer." What kind of logic is that? Just from that sentence alone, I can tell your an ABSOLUTE MORON! And your join date is PATHETIC, your just a scrub get the **** off my thread. This thread does not apply to the Official Stage Legality thread, because its under a different set of rules. The rules and stages makes this combination work. Don't challenge my debate skills, because YOU WILL LOSE!
I'm supporting old mate because he wasn't lying. Unlike you. You blatantly stated that this was SBR approved blah blah blah and then it was clearly stated by an SBR member that this thread had none of it's endorsement whatsoever. That's pretty much the biggest reason I'm not much of a fan of this thread atm.
Also I have an issue with this statement:
I ask for tournament hosts to please try out the Counter Factor ruleset and you'll see a positive change in the meta game for brawl or just try it out at least and see how you and all the local smashers like it.
A metagame change huh? How can you be sure that a metagame change will occur? Do you have proof? Done tests? Held several subject tournaments under this set? If so, show me the data and explain to me (with examples, no theorycrafting) how the metagame changes when this rule set is applied. Theorycrafting fails. In theory, workers should be able to complete more work with better lighting, in practice, it's not true (Hawthorne Studies...)...
The rules and stages makes this combination work.
Prove it? Stop theorising and give me some hard evidence? Wondering what that looks like? Like I said, tournaments where this set has been used and worked and videos of matches where these stages stop things like camping and CG'ing. I don't want to be told, I want to be shown. I want to see the Tournament listed matches where one of the levels you have allowed has improved a bad recovery or stopped edgehogging. You are telling me that the rules and stages make this combination work...show me.
Also...judging by join date is a bad habit.
P.S. I see no evidence of a time limit section in the OP. This is going to be a big issue with this ruleset as you have allowed ALOT of the large stages to be picked. Tournament organisers are going to be reluctant to use this if each game is taking 10 minutes to complete...which is usually how it is on levels like BoE, New Pork and Temple. One of the biggest issues in running a tournament is getting everyone through and all the games played. It's easy to fall behind at 6-7 minutes a game, let alone 10. And the last thing you want is the timer to stay the same and characters running away from each other for the duration of a match...
Also I see you have banned The Summit? I am assuming this is because of Mr. Fishy and the gravity issues coupled with the icicles maybe? What about Distant Planet? It's very similar, it has a spot in the stage where you can be instantly killed if venturing there and a spot on the left (a large portion of the stage no less) where you get washed off your feet... Aren't these similar properties? Yet one is banned and the other not? As with Pirate Ship...it has bombs thrown at you, gravity changes and a random possible kill point..yet it is allowed when The Summit is not.
Rumble Falls is similar. It's speed changes all the time...but can understand the predictability of the poison things. Nonetheless it distinctly advantages aerial combat characters as there is no real time to stay grounded at all. So what's to stop a person counterpicking this once they see their opponent has picked Ganon?
Pokemon Stadium 2 is allowed. But Flat Zone 2 isn't? Sure Flat Zone 2 has alot of spots where damage can be racked up by the stage. So does Pirate Ship, Halberd, Pictochat, Onett and Port Town. By your reasoning in making this stage list wouldn't allowing Flat Zone 2 'positively change' the metagame... I mean if they can learn to avoid the stage hazards they'll become better adaptive players yeah?
The Banned Stages:
These stages are banned because of a huge luck factor, or easy accidental suicides that can drastically change the tide of battle, or one hit stage assisted KO's which merits a ban.
Pirate Ship or Rumble Falls don't classify as that? Sure you can say, well how is hitting the needle or standing on that part of the ship an accident? Then how is standing on the bottom of The Summit count as accidental or one hit stage assisted KO's when the above 2 do not? Similar to to Distant Planet again too I guess and Bridge of Eldin.... Also Norfair? A giant wave of Lava with the only escape essentially be one capsule...