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Some have been singles, some have been teams. They've been primarily small tournaments on my dorm floor though. I just ran another number crunch, assuming 16 teams and 4 systems, with 3-stock 6 minutes best of 5, it would take 5 hours. 2-stock 4 minutes best of 5 would take 3 hours 20 minutes...

I've run some tournaments, but I have yet to run into overtime coming up really. Even with temple being selected it hasn't really come up. I just did the math and assuming 32 entrants, 30 minutes a set, and 8 systems, double elim would add up to 6.5 hours. That said, I doubt we're getting 32...

So far I've been running it 3-stock best of 5 6 minutes. It's been best of 5 so that even if one player has an obnoxious counterpick stage that turns the matchup into an impossible one, that player/team still has to have another one. Circle Camping in my book counts as stalling. And...

That's kind of funny but that doesn't answer my question. I'm trying to come up with a way to make sure a tournament I'm gonna be running doesn't take too long.

This is an interesting idea, but then again, a whole region doesn't necessarily have its own ruleset. The regions aren't all unified within themselves. Also, I have a problem with forcing people to adopt rulesets period. Why do we even NEED a "single standard"? The only reason other games...

So the tournaments I run are all-stages legal, with items set to high, though many are off. I'm planning on running 3 big tournaments later this month, and time constraints are a major issue. To reduce them I may have to decide between reducing the number of games in a set or reducing the...

Unfortunately, I do not have any vids of the previous tournaments. I can recite by memory who using which characters won the tournaments. First tournament was during summer semseter, teams, 7 teams entered. Team that won was Ganondorf Falco, "2nd" (nobody showed up for loser's bracket, so it...

I personally get the smash ball almost every time, and my main is zelda, NOT sheik, and my secondary is Bowser, then my tertiary is Pit. I break them in the order Zelda most, bowser mid, and pit last, while of the 3 bowser's the slowest and pit's the fastest. (That said, Zelda DOES have Din's...

I've been testing around with this, running tournaments in my dorm recently. It's been actually, 3-stock 6 minutes best of 5. So far I have not really seen any matches legitimately go to the time limit I used to consider smart bomb a ban-worthy item, but from what I've seen, it almost always...

Of course it's advantageous to use the tactic that got the stage banned if you're allowed to! The problem is that more advantageous position is just a stallout. As far as physical position of characters goes, you already passed it. Stalling out a whole minute is definitely stalling.

After running 2 complete laps away from the enemy in a row, I'd say the better position clearly would have been passed. At some point, if it is for a better position, then you'd stop and camp there engage the enemy when he or she comes to you, or turn around and engage the enemy from your...

Sorry, I should have been more specific. Uninterpretable circle camping to stall the clock out. Like the trick on Temple.

I think too many stages are banned. Also, final destination IS balanced among the top, but between the top and bottom of the tier list, it can create so many unwinnable match-ups, making it probably not a starter in my opinion. The main problem is that almost all of Bowser's good CP's and...

Stages should not be banned because of circle camping, circle camping should be banned instead. Circle Camping is stalling and broken, running to get a better position does not involve running in circles because if you were really running to get a better position, then you would have already...

I'm really just trying to prove that walls and walk-offs should not be considered reasons to ban a stage by themselves. But the fact that matches on bridge of eldin reach the time limit the vast majority of the time is probably a decent reason to ban it. I was never for bridge of eldin being...