Tournament:MELEE-FC1

MELEE-FC1 was a Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament that occurred from July 9th-10th, 2004. It had 98 entrants in singles, which was a record at the time. It was the first of the tournaments in South Bend, Indiana. It established a base ruleset which would be adapted for the MLG tournaments, with stage neutrals, bans and counterpicking and the use of four stocks per game. As a compromise between the different regions, the round robin pools had items on but the final bracket had items off.

Ruleset

 * 4 stocks, 10 minutes.
 * In at least round robin pools, items were on low.
 * At least the Heart Container, Maxim Tomato, Super Star, Hammer, Cloaking Device, Party Ball, Super Mushroom, Poison Mushroom, Metal Box, and Red Shell were off.
 * In at least singles bracket, items were off.
 * Starter stages (9): Final Destination, Battlefield, Yoshi's Story, Fountain of Dreams, Dream Land, Pokémon Stadium, Mute City, Rainbow Cruise, Poké Floats. The starter stage was chosen at random.
 * Counterpick stages (15): Icicle Mountain, Princess Peach's Castle, Kongo Jungle, Jungle Japes,, Green Greens, Corneria, Venom, Flat Zone, Brinstar, Onett, Big Blue, Mushroom Kingdom, Mushroom Kingdom II, Kongo Jungle N64
 * Banned stages (5): Hyrule Temple, Fourside, Brinstar Depths, Great Bay, Yoshi's Island N64
 * Prior to selecting the starter stage, each side could ban one stage for the whole set.
 * Dave's Stupid Rule variant: The same stage could not be played more than once per set.

Two different versions of the ruleset appeared on the official site, with one version using the above item rules and stating that items were on in doubles bracket, and the other version stating that Bob-ombs were also off and that items were off in doubles bracket. It is not confirmed which version of the ruleset was actually used.

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles
(98 entrants)

Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles
(44 teams)