East Coast Canada Smash League 2009-2010
GENERAL INFORMATION
Contact Info:
Swordgard -Aim: Swordgard -Msn: driztd at hotmail dot com
Ustream: ECCSmashLeague
Google Calendar: ECCSmashLeague
GENERAL INFORMATION
Tournament Organizers
Swordgard
Holynightmare
Ally
Kev!
And more(GTA people)!
We will probably asking for help to run melee tournaments and side events. Swordgard
Holynightmare
Ally
Kev!
And more(GTA people)!
Canada's finest players are proud to present to you the opening event of the East Coast Canada Smash league. This league was created in an hope to unify the Eastern Canada region's smashing community together, whether it is brawl, melee (and maybe 64) and to expand our skill set. This is why in order to encourage participation, we will be using a ranking system based on tournaments placings. There will be multiple tournaments during the year to ensure constant skill and ranking progression . It is also done in the hope that more smashers will go to events in order to expand the range of our community scene. Most if not all of these events should be 2 days event, with the final being hopefully a 3 day event. Side events will be held in each tournaments, ranging from crews and low tiers to Brawl+ and street fighter events. In order to guarantee a successful year finale, we will be taking a certain amount of money from the pot of each tournament to serve as a base pot for the final event. The top 8 12 in the league's rankings will get direct access to the 32 man brackets of the league's closing event. They will also get first seeds.
The opening event will be conducted as a test for the new rule set being developed by the Montreal players to balance the meta game. These include the unbanning of stages that were banned either only because of general distaste or because of apparent problems which could have been solved simply. More bans were also allowed in order to compensate for the lack of any good counterpick stages other than neutrals for ground based characters . In order to compensate for the higher number of stages, 2 bans will however be allowed per set. We will also be introducing the 56 ledge grab rules in order to be proactive against planking even if it is not a problem in Canada currently. We will also be making slight modifications to the counterpick system in order to make character counterpicking more viable and akin to the system in melee. This is also done in order to balance for the fact that some characters have counterpicks which are very powerful while others don't. CP system was dropped due to popular demand.
Schedule:
Exhibition event:Almost as Cool as Genesis, June 6th, Ontario
Opening Event:It's A trap! June 20th-21st, Quebec
ECCSL Event #2 :Only in Niagara: , July 25th-26th, Ontario
TBA
Closing Event: June 2010
The Pownz-ECCSL Ladder : In order to give a whole new dimension to this project, ECCSL has contacted Pownz, who has accepted to create a common ladder with ECCSL. This will mean that a decent amount of Pownz tourneys will directly contribute to this ladder. The details have yet to be confirmed, but be prepared for some hype for the biggest Canadian Ladder as of to date. More details on this soon.Dropped by popular demand. Is replaced by normal ladder.
The ECCSL Ladder : This ladder was created as an incentive to get people to go to more tournaments and is based on the rankings of the people in the ECCSL events. The ranking system is explained at the bottom of the post.
Exhibition Events: These events, while not being held by ECCSL hosts themselves, will still count towards the ladder. These events may be held either during the official League or before it starts and may have slightly different rules from the one of ECCSL tournaments. These events will also not take 10% out of their pot to go towards the League's year finale. Due to these lowered requirements, these tourneys will only count for 50% of their original worth in points for the ladder.
Streaming and recording : The current location for the first event has no streaming available, we will be looking into a solution shortly to find a way around this. All of the bracket matches from winner semi-finals will be recorded either using an hacked wii or a recording device. These will then be uploaded to the youtube account of the circuit which shall be up shortly. The circuit will also be innovating by being the first circuit to allow HD replays of the matches recorded using replays transferred to an emulated wii when the new version with SD possibilities is out.
Prizes:
- Singles and Doubles: 55%/25%/10%/15$ split for 1st, 2nd 3rd and 4th.
-10%-15$ will go into the pot for the league's championship event.
The opening event will be conducted as a test for the new rule set being developed by the Montreal players to balance the meta game. These include the unbanning of stages that were banned either only because of general distaste or because of apparent problems which could have been solved simply. More bans were also allowed in order to compensate for the lack of any good counterpick stages other than neutrals for ground based characters . In order to compensate for the higher number of stages, 2 bans will however be allowed per set. We will also be introducing the 56 ledge grab rules in order to be proactive against planking even if it is not a problem in Canada currently
Schedule:
Exhibition event:Almost as Cool as Genesis, June 6th, Ontario
Opening Event:It's A trap! June 20th-21st, Quebec
ECCSL Event #2 :Only in Niagara: , July 25th-26th, Ontario
TBA
Closing Event: June 2010
The ECCSL Ladder : This ladder was created as an incentive to get people to go to more tournaments and is based on the rankings of the people in the ECCSL events. The ranking system is explained at the bottom of the post.
Exhibition Events: These events, while not being held by ECCSL hosts themselves, will still count towards the ladder. These events may be held either during the official League or before it starts and may have slightly different rules from the one of ECCSL tournaments. These events will also not take 10% out of their pot to go towards the League's year finale. Due to these lowered requirements, these tourneys will only count for 50% of their original worth in points for the ladder.
Streaming and recording : The current location for the first event has no streaming available, we will be looking into a solution shortly to find a way around this. All of the bracket matches from winner semi-finals will be recorded either using an hacked wii or a recording device. These will then be uploaded to the youtube account of the circuit which shall be up shortly. The circuit will also be innovating by being the first circuit to allow HD replays of the matches recorded using replays transferred to an emulated wii when the new version with SD possibilities is out.
Prizes:
- Singles and Doubles: 55%/25%/10%/15$ split for 1st, 2nd 3rd and 4th.
-10%-15$ will go into the pot for the league's championship event.
The ranking system:
Due to the flawed nature of static scale ranking, we have opted to use a dynamic scale ranking. This means that not every event will be worth the same amount of points depending on the attendance. This is mainly due to the fact that some tournament's average skill level is considerably higher due to the large amount of people being present. The total amount of points available in each event for each tournament will be 10 times the amount of people that attended. This means that for singles, if 30 people showed up, the total amount of points being distributed will be equal to 300. These points will be then distributed using a percentage system in order to make this new system viable. This system also makes it so that the difference between the 1st and 2nd place is a gap which is large enough to be worth placing first, but small enough so that it allows you to make a comeback if you are getting 2nd often enough while rewarding consistency. In order to reward players doing good in both singles and doubles, even if each ranking is separate, you will be gaining 20% of the points you gained in an event from another ranking. This means that for example, placing third in a singles event with 10 people will give you 15 points in the singles ranking, with an additional 3 points in the doubles ranking.
Points awards:
1st place: 40%
2nd place: 25%
3rd place: 15%
4th place: 7.5%
5th place: 3.75% each
7th place: 2.5 % each
Crews will also be held at tourneys whenever possible, and appropriate rewards in points will be given depending on attendance. These points will be added to your singles ranking.
Current standings
First is the rank, then the tag followed by the number of points accumulated.
Brawl Singles:
Position Tag Number of points
1st Holynightmare 176
2nd Kingace 123
3rd Swordgard 85
4th Ally 78
5th Chester 32
6th Doc 23
7th Buenob 16
8th Ambrose 14
8th Nickcam 14
10th Joe 13
11th Thatguy 11
12th Dom 8
13th Stroumbert 8
14th Steb 6
Melee Singles:
Melee Doubles:
Due to the flawed nature of static scale ranking, we have opted to use a dynamic scale ranking. This means that not every event will be worth the same amount of points depending on the attendance. This is mainly due to the fact that some tournament's average skill level is considerably higher due to the large amount of people being present. The total amount of points available in each event for each tournament will be 10 times the amount of people that attended. This means that for singles, if 30 people showed up, the total amount of points being distributed will be equal to 300. These points will be then distributed using a percentage system in order to make this new system viable. This system also makes it so that the difference between the 1st and 2nd place is a gap which is large enough to be worth placing first, but small enough so that it allows you to make a comeback if you are getting 2nd often enough while rewarding consistency. In order to reward players doing good in both singles and doubles, even if each ranking is separate, you will be gaining 20% of the points you gained in an event from another ranking. This means that for example, placing third in a singles event with 10 people will give you 15 points in the singles ranking, with an additional 3 points in the doubles ranking.
Points awards:
1st place: 40%
2nd place: 25%
3rd place: 15%
4th place: 7.5%
5th place: 3.75% each
7th place: 2.5 % each
Crews will also be held at tourneys whenever possible, and appropriate rewards in points will be given depending on attendance. These points will be added to your singles ranking.
Current standings
First is the rank, then the tag followed by the number of points accumulated.
Brawl Singles:
Position Tag Number of points
1st Holynightmare 176
2nd Kingace 123
3rd Swordgard 85
4th Ally 78
5th Chester 32
6th Doc 23
7th Buenob 16
8th Ambrose 14
8th Nickcam 14
10th Joe 13
11th Thatguy 11
12th Dom 8
13th Stroumbert 8
14th Steb 6
Melee Singles:
Melee Doubles:
Contact Info:
Swordgard -Aim: Swordgard -Msn: driztd at hotmail dot com
Youtube: ECCSmashLeague
Gmail: ECCSmashLeague at gmail dot com
Gmail: ECCSmashLeague at gmail dot com
Ustream: ECCSmashLeague
Google Calendar: ECCSmashLeague