Tag: Tournament

The latest in a series of Milwaukee Super Smash Bros tournaments at, you guessed it, Romine’s High Pockets! No outside food or beverages.
Credit to mawwwk for the banner image.

Masks will be doubly enforced throughout the winter — players may not remove facemasks anytime while indoors, including during tournament sets.

18+ unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

All attendees must have a completed vaccine round, with a most recent dose on or after Jul 1 2021. Card/photo proof or WI database entry must be provided.

Games:

• Super Smash Bros. Melee
• Project+
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Events/Schedule

11:00am – Venue opens
12:00pm – Melee doubles ($10 per team)
1:00pm – Melee singles ($5 entry)
2:00pm – Ultimate doubles ($10 per team)
3:00pm – Project+ singles ($5 entry)
4:00pm – Ultimate singles ($5 entry)

• $5 venue fee (waived if you bring a full setup)
• Bring your own controller
• Show up at least 10 minutes before an event begins to register for it

Venue rules

• Excessive behavior such as throwing a controller, kicking chairs, hitting a table/TV, etc. is not allowed, and will result in a ban or other penalty.
• Outside food or drink is not allowed. Food and drink bought at the venue must be placed AWAY from setups at all times, on a nearby shelf or held onto.
• Vaccination & proof is required for each attendee. For players’ own health and for the safety of others, facemasks are required at all times. If you feel sick, stay home.

Event rules

All brackets are double elimination. Specific game rulesets are listed below. During tournament sets, changing a setup’s ruleset from the specified settings is not allowed, and may result in DQs or other penalty.
Payout is split among the top placing players 60/30/10, except in the following cases:

• At <6 entrants, 2nd gets $6 back, with 1st taking the rest.
• At 6-9 entrants, payout split is 70/30.
• At 16 or more entrants, payout split is 55/25/15/5, with 4th getting a minimum $5 back.
• Top 6 or 8 payout determined based on high entrant numbers.

Doubles bo5 starts at top 3 (winners finals, losers finals, grands). Singles bo5 starts at top 6 (winners semis, losers quarters)

Melee Ruleset

Standard rules (Link), with the following changes:

• Stadium is a starter stage, and FD is a counterpick.
• Within the game launcher, the following settings must be configured:

— Controller Fix: UCF
— Convenience: Tournament
— Lag Reduction: PD (Polling drift fix)
— Frozen Stages: Stadium only
— Gameplay: Both (LGL enabled + Wobbling disabled)

In order to enforce the above settings, all Melee setups should use Slippi Nintendont (Wii) or MultiMod Launcher (Gamecube).

Project+ Ruleset

Standard rules (Link), with the following changes:

• Starter stages: Castle Siege, Smashville, Battlefield, PS2, Delfino’s Secret
• Counterpick stages: Green Hill Zone, Fountain, Metal Cavern, Golden Temple, Dream Land
• Tilt stick clause: Players may not set C-stick controls to Tilt or Attack. Read more
• Melee LGL rule: In the event of a game ending due to timeout, a player with more than 45 ledge grabs (per the results screen stats) will be treated as the loser for that game.
• Pause to Hold may be enabled by any player at any time, if not already enabled. Any player who otherwise changes the default ruleset (timer, stagelist, ALC, etc.) may be subject to DQ or other penalty.

All P+ setups must be running version 2.29 (optional: Wisconsin P+ build download)

Ultimate ruleset

Between 2 Lakes ruleset (Link).

• Games are 3 Stocks, 7 Minutes.
• Starters: Battlefield, Final Destination, Pokemon Stadium 2, Smashville, & Small Battlefield.
• Counterpicks: Kalos Pokemon League, Hollow Bastion, Yoshi’s Story, & Town and City.
• 3 bans in between games. No DSR / mDSR. Double Blind for first character selection. Pause is OFF. Hazards are OFF.