[The Eight Years' Brawl] Reborn Smash Bros Tournament Hub

[Another Felix]

I'll try to join the next one.

[Shanco]

EDIT 8/19 @ 4:44 AM ET: The tournament has been pushed back a week. Still same time. In addition it is now WII U ONLY.

It's time for the next tournament! Well, announcing it anyways.

I originally promised an all new format called the World Warrior Challenge. However, due to some difficulties, that format is no longer possible. Instead, we'll have it at a later date. But enough about what happens in the future. Let's instead turn our attention to the past.

Over eight years has passed since the release of the Smash Bros. series' third installment, Super Smash Bros. Brawl. While remaining without question the best game in the series from a casual standpoint, there's very little question about the...questionability of the competitive metagame. Hitstun cancelling, chaingrabs, infinites, and the resulting 90-10 matchups, all when combined with some very questionable stages, really made the game not stand out to the Melee-accustomed competitive masses.

Fast forward eight years later. We're pushing two years since the 3DS release of Super Smash Bros. 4. A lot of things have been changed since those dark days of Brawl. Longer combos are reinstated, chaingrabs are gone, as are the infinites that plagued the game (well, if you wanna be stingy about it, Mewtwo and Lucina have infinites, but we don't talk about them.) With rebalances across the board both before and after Smash 4's release and a much more stable competitive meta, let's revisit the time of Brawl and live the good ol' days of complete jank.

The Eight Years' Brawl

A Smash 4 Wii U Tournament

Saturday, August 27 @ 6 PM ET

Yep. As you could probably guess, only characters and stages that appeared in Brawl will be legal.

Rules
The rules are pretty much the standard except they have been geared a little bit to closer resemble competitive Brawl. The more intricate rules, however, are consistent with the past couple of tournaments that we've held.

Reborn Power Rankings will be updated post-event, so here's a shot to get in on it!

General Stuff

• 3 Stock, 8 Minutes
• Double Elimination Bracket
• All sets including Grand Finals are best 2-out-of-3
• All items, custom moves and equipment are banned

Stage Selection

• For the first game in a set, the lower seed will strike two of the three starter stages. From there, the higher seed chooses the stage of play from the remaining two.
• For each game after the first, the winner of the previous game will strike one stage between the starter and counterpick stages. The loser will then pick the stage of play from the remaining six.
• Dave's Stupid Rule is in effect - You may not pick a stage that you have previously won on in the same set without your opponent's consent.

Stage Availability

Wii U Starter Stages:

• Battlefield
• Final Destination
• Smashville

Wii U Counterpick Stages:

• Lylat Cruise
• Castle Siege
• Halberd
• Port Town Aero Dive

Special Victory Conditions

• If the time limit is reached in a match, or if both players are KO'd in such a way that Sudden Death is forced, the winner is determined by whoever had the highest stock count when the match ended or reached time; failing that method, the lowest accumulated percentage between the two players will break the tie. If that fails, a 1-stock, 3-minute tiebreaker will be played. Sudden Death is not to be played out and counted towards set scores under any circumstances.
• If Bowser uses Flying Slam as a means of sacrificial KO, and in doing so forces Sudden Death, he will be declared the loser. This rule is in place for the sake of consistency.
• In all other cases, the winner of a game is whoever is determined by the results screen to have won the match.
• A judge is not required to be present in each match, as this will inevitably cause lag issues. However, judges will be on hand to take replays in the event of any dispute over the winner of a match or set.

Click here to sign up for the Wii U Bracket

Alternately, just post in this thread after this post and I'll get you in.

GLHF!

[Shadow Tack]

>corneria

[Shanco]

>corneria

It was either that or Mushroomy Kingdom

[Omega_Ra1der]

BUMP. We need more people to come out to either to the 3DS or Wii U. We have a fair share of strong opponents in both ends, most notably DD in the 3ds and Pyrrhon in the Wii U. Other notables is the 3rd place on the power ranking, Shanco (A.K.A Abbey Street) and your truly, HM whose Ganondorf is on a tear, Omega Raider. (Also really need some 3ds players)

[Shadow Tack]

BUMP. We need more people to come out to either to the 3DS or Wii U. We have a fair share of strong opponents in both ends, most notably DD in the 3ds and Pyrrhon in the Wii U. Other notables is the 3rd place on the power ranking, Shanco (A.K.A Abbey Street) and your truly, HM whose Ganondorf is on a tear, Omega Raider. (Also really need some 3ds players)

all the counterpicks are garbage, i refuse to play in this. Jungle japes is nice and balanced indeed.

[Guzam]

All your counter picking problems would be solved if you just played instead of complained or, even better, bought the superior version :Kappa:

[Another Felix]

I can't seem to get my game to connect any more, otherwise I'd join.

[Shadow Tack]

All your counter picking problems would be solved if you just played instead of complained or, even better, bought the superior version :Kappa:

no they wouldn't lol

[Godot]

A. Not a fan of Online.

B. This takes place on the same day as a local tourney that I plan to attend.

[Shanco]

Sorry about the lack of communication, folks. It's been a long week.

After some deliberation, there are two forthcoming changes to the event.

• The date has been changed to Saturday the 27th - that's a delay of a week. More people are available then - this was a pretty difficult weekend to do even for myself. So we'll have it then.
• The 3DS tournament has been cancelled, so it's Wii U only. Unfortunately signups are lacking on both sides, but especially the 3DS side, since a lot of people are struggling with the network bug that prevents players from getting online with the 3DS version.

I'll edit the appropriate posts. Please stay tuned for more info!

[Godot]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. Fighting game tournaments/talk has it's own channel. I made it ages ago and forgot to make it public. It is called the Reborn Fight Club. I would suggest using it for tournies and whatnot. It is also for when people whine and complain about the main chat being flooded with Smash talk or w/e.

[Guzam]

nvm