Stage legality

Banned stages are stages that are banned from most mainstream tournaments. Stages can be banned for several reasons, including:

• Providing a rather extreme advantage for certain characters (such as allowing excessive camping or chain grabs, as in the case of Fox in Temple, or King Dedede in Shadow Moses Island).
• Allowing players to abuse glitches in the game.
• Completely altering the strategies needed to win (such as Icicle Mountain and Rumble Falls).
• Having a significant amount of slowdown during a match.

Major differences in communities

There are many community preferences in terms of stage choices. For example, when Luigi's Mansion was banned on the East Coast, it was allowed on the West Coast. This is usually due to the characters used most often in the community. The East Coast is also well known for much smaller allowable stage lists than the West.

Banned stages in SSB

Stage	Banned in		Reason for Banning
	Singles	Doubles
Mushroom Kingdom	XX	XX	Pipe camping; stalling
Planet Zebes	X	X	Lava disrupts normal combat
Sector Z	XX	XX	Run-away camping; stalling
Yoshi's Island	XX	XX	Cloud camping; stalling

Banned stages in SSBM

In the current Smash Back Room rule set, certain stages are left up to the tournament organizer to decide on banning versus counter-pick. Stages marked with a single X are left up to the tournament organizer, whereas those marked with XX are always banned.

Stage	Banned in		Reason for Banning
	Singles	Doubles
Big Blue	XX	XX	Circle and run-away camping/stalling
Brinstar Depths	XX	XX	Various, un-reasonably strong camping and stalling positions
Flat Zone	XX	XX	Walk-off camping
Fountain of Dreams		XX	Significant slowdown during doubles play
Fourside	XX	XX	Large amount of walls promote camping and Wall-Jump camping; run-away stalling
Great Bay	XX	XX	Circle camping and stalling
Green Greens	XX	XX	Over-centralizes game-play on camping, bomb blocks disturb normal game-play
Icicle Mountain	XX	XX	Over-centralizes game-play on keeping up with the stage's scrolling
Kongo Jungle	XX	XX	Camping the rock platform on the bottom-right of the stage
Mushroom Kingdom I	XX	XX	Minor "caves of life", Walk-off camping
Mushroom Kingdom II	X	X	Walk-off camping
Mute City	X	XX	Lack of ledges on main platform, too small to accommodate doubles play as well as significant slowdown during doubles play
Onett	XX	XX	Permanent walls promote camping, walk-off camping
Poke Floats	X	X	Circle and run-away camping/stalling
Princess Peach's Castle	XX	XX	Permanent walls promote camping
Hyrule: Temple	XX	XX	"Cave of life" over-centralizes game-play on teching, multiple circles for camping; run-away stalling
Venom	XX	XX	Several, un-reasonably strong camping positions
Yoshi's Island N64	XX	XX	Camping on clouds to the stage's right and left hand sides, run-away stalling
Yoshi's Island	XX	XX	Walk-off camping, marginalizes off-stage skills

Banned Stages in SSBB

In the current Smash Back Room rule set, a few stages are left up to the tournament organizer to decide on banning versus counter-pick. Stages marked with a single X are left up to the tournament organizer, whereas those marked with XX are always banned.

Stage	Banned in		Reason for Banning
	Singles	Doubles
75m	XX	XX	Too large, stalling, random obstacles, fighting centers around top-right corner, difficult to move about stage
Big Blue (Melee)	XX	XX	Random terrain, scrolling stage, ground too close to the cars, gives a large advantage to faster moving characters, stage moves too fast
Bridge of Eldin	XX	XX	Potential for game-breaking camping/stalling, walk-off edges, bomb in center of stage
Corneria (Melee)	XX	XX	Extremely close blast lines, gives a big advantage for those with good vertical KO attacks, excessive camping/stalling behind the big fin, wall infinites
Flat Zone 2	XX	XX	Randomness of falling materials, extremely small, variety of damaging stage hazards, no lower blast line
Green Hill Zone	XX	XX	Excessive camping near checkpoints, walk-off edges, blast lines are slightly close to the stage in which it makes it a little too small
Hanenbow	XX	X	Highly irregular design, stalling potential, Sonic spin glitch
Mario Bros.	XX	XX	Gameplay is vastly altered by stage enemies, ceilings, walk-off edges, no lower blast line
Mario Circuit	XX	XX	Potential for game-breaking camping, walk-off edges, damaging karts, no lower blast line
Mushroomy Kingdom (1-1 and 1-2)	XX	XX	Side-scrolling, stage moves too fast, underground's ceiling, ledges are not grabbable
New Pork City	XX	XX	Overly large, stalling potential, camera refuses to zoom in, Ultimate Chimera
Onett (Melee)	XX	XX	Cars, walls interrupt attacks, very small size, no lower blast line
Pirate Ship	X	X	Easy to stall in the water or under the ship's rudder
Port Town Aero Dive	X	X	Randomly moving stage, cars KO at low percentages, cars difficult to see coming due to the colors
Rumble Falls	XX	XX	Gives overly large advantage to characters with large or multiple jumps, hurts those who rely on Tether Recoveries, first spike has One-hit KO potential, centers more on moving in the stage than fighting
Shadow Moses Island	XX	XX	Removes lower blast line, walls can block access to side blast lines, over-reliance on teching, walls allow infinites
Skyworld	XX	XX	No passable platforms; over-reliance on stage spikes; significant lag in doubles
Spear Pillar	XX	XX	Randomness of Pokémon attacks, excessive stalling potential, tunnel under stage similar to Temple's underground
Summit	XX	XX	Terrain is slippery, The Fish, ledges are not grabbable, Tether recoveries do not work
Temple (Melee)	XX	XX	Too large, stalling potential, over-reliance on teching, lower area with ceiling
WarioWare, Inc.	XX	XX	Over-reliance on random bonuses from Microgames
Yoshi's Island (Melee)	X	X	Blocks interrupt KOs, central pit blocks certain recoveries, blast lines very close to stage

See also

• Tournament legal