Tournament:The Big House 4

The Big House 4
Dates	October 4-5th, 2014
Venue	Sheraton DTW Hotel
Address/City	8000 S Merriman Romulus, Michigan
Attendance	709
Entry fees	Melee singles: $10 Melee doubles: $10 per person Project M singles: $10 Project M doubles: $10 per person Venue: $30-35
Results
winners	1v1  Armada &  Mew2King 2v2
winners	ZeRo 1v1  Mew2King &  ZeRo 2v2

The Big House 4 is an ongoing Super Smash Bros. Melee and Project M national tournament held in Romulus, Michigan, on October 4-5th, 2014, hosted primarily by Juggleguy and Strong Bad. It is the most recent in The Big House series of tournament events, following The Big House 3. In addition to featuring professional smashers from the Midwest region such as Duck, Anther, Kels, VaNz, and Darkrain, the tournament also features powerful out-of-region talent such as Mango, Mew2King, Hungrybox, Axe, Hax, Westballz, KirbyKaze, Plup, Colbol, SFAT, Lucky, Shroomed, MacD, Zhu, Bladewise, The Moon, Darrell, HugS, and Wizzrobe, as well as international talent such as Armada, Leffen, and Professor Pro.

The Big House 4 is the fourth-largest Melee tournament of all time and the second-largest Project M tournament of all time; additionally, the event will be the largest Midwest Melee tournament in history, surpassing the previous record set by MELEE-FC Diamond in 2007, and the tournament is also both the largest two-day Smash tournament of all time, as well as the largest to run round-robin pools.

The Big House 4 also marks an important ruleset update for Project M; amid growing concerns over average gameplay time in version 3.02, it will be the first major tournament to use three stocks in Project M games instead of the previous standard of four.

Schedule

Friday, October 3rd

TBD

Saturday, October 4th

TBD

Sunday, October 5th

TBD

Melee Ruleset

• 4 stock, 8:00 minute timer.
• Items off.
• Ties after the time limit are determined by stocks, then by percentage.
• Master Hand is banned.
• Wobbling is banned.
• Stalling with Jigglypuff's Rising Pound or Peach's Peach Bomber is banned.
• Glitches such as Ice Climbers' freeze glitch and Mewtwo's Soul Breaker are banned.
• Dave's Stupid Rule is in effect.
• Life stealing is allowed in doubles.
• Friendly Fire is turned on in doubles.
• Pause is turned off.

Stage striking for neutral stages for the first match of the set is done in a "1221" fashion:

1. First player strikes one stage.
2. Second player strikes two stages.
3. First player strikes one stage.

Stagelist

Neutral (Singles)

• Final Destination
• Yoshi’s Story
• Dream Land
• Battlefield
• Fountain of Dreams

Counterpick (Singles)

• Pokemon Stadium

Neutral (Doubles)

• Final Destination
• Yoshi’s Story
• Dream Land
• Battlefield
• Pokémon Stadium

Counterpick (Doubles)

• Kongo Jungle 64

Stage procedure

After each match:

1. Winner announces stage ban (except in best-of-5 sets)
2. Loser chooses counterpick stage
3. Winner chooses their character
4. Loser chooses their character

Project M Ruleset

• 3 stock, 8:00 minute timer.
• All items set to off and item frequency set to NONE.
• Input Assist set to off.
• Ties after the time limit are determined by stocks, then by percentage.
• Dave's Stupid Rule is in effect.
• Life stealing is allowed in doubles.
• Friendly Fire is turned on in doubles.
• Pause is turned off.

Stage Strike from Starters for the first match of the set in "1221" fashion:

1. First player strikes one stage.
2. Second player strikes two stages.
3. First player strikes one stage

Stagelist

Starter

• Battlefield
• Dreamland
• Green Hill Zone
• Pokémon Stadium 2
• Smashville

Counterpick

• Final Destination
• Fountain of Dreams
• Lylat Cruise
• Skyworld
• Wario Ware, Inc.
• Yoshi’s Island: Brawl

Stage procedure

After each match:

1. Winner announces two (2) stage bans
2. Loser chooses counterpick stage
3. Winner chooses their character
4. Loser chooses their character

Results

Melee doubles

(113 teams)
Top 16 bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Armada		Mew2King
2nd	Hungrybox		Plup
3rd	Leffen		Hax
4th	MacD		VaNz
5th	Colbol		DoH
5th	Axe		SFAT
7th	Shroomed		HomeMadeWaffles
7th	Wizzrobe		Gahtzu
9th	DJ Nintendo		The Moon
9th	Mango		Scar
9th	Zhu		Cactuar
9th	Darkrain		Westballz
13th	Zanguzen		Kalamazhu
13th	Kels		Vro
13th	Tafokints		Redd
13th	Lucky		HugS

Project M doubles

(54 teams)
Top 8 bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Mew2King		ZeRo
2nd	Wizzrobe		Plup
3rd	Junebug		Pink Fresh
4th	Oro?!		Ripple
5th	Armada		Professor Pro
5th	Abate		KO Kingpin
7th	VaNz		Drephen
7th	Nintendude		Oracle

External links

• Original thread
• Facebook event
• Website
• Challonge page
• TBH4 Teaser Trailer
• TBH4 Trailer #2
• TBH4 Trailer #3