Tournament:The Big House 3
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Dates | October 12th-13th, 2013 |
Venue | Hilton Garden Inn Ann Arbor |
Address/City | 1404 Briarwood Circle Ann Arbor, Michigan |
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The Big House 3 was a Super Smash Bros. Melee and Project M national tournament held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on October 12th-13th, 2013, hosted by Juggleguy. It is the most recent in the Big House series of tournament events, following The Big House 2.
Schedule
Friday, October 11th
9:00 PM: Doors open
11:00 PM: Melee It On Me live from The Big House 3 featuring The Smash Brothers documentary premiere
1:00 AM: Doors close
Saturday, October 12th
9:00 AM: Doors open
10:00 AM: Melee singles pools, Project M singles pools
4:00 PM: Food break
5:00 PM: Melee doubles, Project M doubles
8:00 PM: Melee singles pools (2nd round)
11:00 PM: Doors close
Sunday, October 13th
9:00 AM: Doors open
10:00 AM: Project M singles bracket
2:00 PM: Finish Melee doubles, finish Project M doubles
4:00 PM: Food break
5:00 PM: Melee singles bracket
9:00 PM: Tournament ends
Melee ruleset
- 4 stock, 8:00 time limit
- 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 used against the wall repeatedly is banned.
- Glitches such as the Ice Climbers' freeze glitch and Mewtwo's soul stunner are banned.
- Dave's Stupid Rule: A stage that a player has won on in a set cannot be counterpicked unless the opponent agrees.
- Stage strike from neutrals for the first match of the set in "1221" fashion:
- First player strikes one stage.
- Second player strikes the next two stages.
- First player strikes one stage.
- After each match:
- Winner announces stage ban (except in best-of-5 sets)
- Loser chooses counterpick stage
- Winner chooses their character
- Loser chooses their character
Stage list
Singles
Starters:
Counterpicks:
Doubles
Starters:
Counterpicks:
Project M ruleset
- 4 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: A stage that a player has won on in a set cannot be counterpicked unless the opponent agrees.
- Stage strike from starters for the first match of the set in "122112" fashion:
- First player strikes one stage.
- Second player strikes the next two stages.
- First player strikes the next two stages.
- Second player strikes one stage.
- After each match:
- Winner announces two (2) stage bans
- Loser chooses counterpick stage
- Winner chooses their character
- Loser chooses their character
Stage list
Singles
Starters:
- Battlefield
- Dream Land
- Final Destination
- Pokémon Stadium 2
- Smashville
- Yoshi's Story
Counterpicks:
- Dracula's Castle
- Green Hill Zone
- Lylat Cruise
- WarioWare, Inc.
- Yoshi's Island (Brawl)
Doubles
Starters:
- Battlefield
- Dream Land
- Final Destination
- Pokémon Stadium 2
- Smashville
- SSE Jungle
- Yoshi's Island (Brawl)
Counterpicks:
- Dracula's Castle
- Fountain of Dreams
- Green Hill Zone
- Lylat Cruise
- WarioWare, Inc.
Results
Melee Singles
- Bracket
- (172 entrants)
- 1.
Mew2King
$960
- 2.
Hungrybox
$480
- 3.
Dr. PeePee
$360
- 4.
SFAT
$240
- 5.
Hax
$120
- 5.
Nintendude
$120
- 7.
Darkatma
$60
- 7.
PewPewU
$60
- 9.
Scar
- 9.
PikaChad
- 9.
Kage
- 9.
Idea
- 13.
Trail
- 13.
Kels
- 13.
Yakal
- 13.
Prince Abu
- 17.
Wife
- 17.
Duck
- 17.
Moose
- 17.
Frootloop
- 17.
Hanky Panky
- 17.
Shaeden
- 17.
Kalamazhu
- 17.
Europhoria
- 25.
j00t
- 25.
VaNz
(forfeited)
- 25.
Zoso
- 25.
KJH
- 25.
Wake
- 25.
Christian
- 25.
Slayer
- 25.
Carroll
Melee Doubles
- Bracket
- (48 teams)
- 1:
Hungrybox
+
Mew2King
($480)
- 2:
SFAT
+
PewPewU
($240)
- 3:
Dr. PeePee
+
Hax
($144)
- 4:
Kage
+
VaNz
($96)
- 5:
Scar
+
Hyuga
- 5:
Kels
+
Darkatma
- 7:
Duck
+
Moose
- 7:
Frootloop
+
ORLY
- 9:
Hanky Panky
+
Prince Abu
- 9:
Shaeden
+
HIV+
- 9:
Kalamazhu
+
Toph
- 9:
Nakamaru
+
The Lake
- 13: Idea + Ripple
- 13: Wife + Nintendude
- 13: Gibby + Violence
- 13: Max Berger + Wake
- 17: BlackPanther + Gooeybanana
- 17: Anther + Bowyer
- 17: Cort + ZoSo
- 17: Bernal + HammerTime
- 17: Cheato + The Good Doctor
- 17: MB-Smash + Super Lous
- 17: Asylum + Gravy
- 17: BigWenz + CTL
- 25: Dope + Juggleguy
- 25: Dio Brando + MDZ | MattDotZeb
- 25: Arty + Scythe
- 25: Spife + Slartibartfast42
- 25: Slayer + Professor Chromeagay
- 25: Trail + KishPrime
- 25: Coffeeblack + Europhoria
- 25: Artificial Flavor + Blake
- 33: .Dempt + Captain Cleveland
- 33: Lanceinthepants + Little England
- 33: Green Ranger + Sweet
- 33: moogle + OXY | TheCrimsonBlur
- 33: mordicon + Mundungu
- 33: Chase + Noah
- 33: Goose + OnionChild
- 33: Formal + Game
- 33: PGH Carroll + PGH Housewife
- 33: Kanye Rest + Butt Zone
- 33: KELLYK + Luigigo-shard
- 33: Alco + Butch G
- 33: Acro + Shibbypod
- 33: DFU + Quaz
- 33: 0Prz + Rusty Shacklefurd
- 33: luigi master tae + Skighwalker
Project M Singles
- (90 entrants)
- 1.
Kirk
$594
- 2.
Chad
$264
- 3.
Vanz
$198
- 4.
Mew2King
$132
- 5.
Rat
$66
- 5.
Oracle
$66
- 7.
Hungrybox
- 7.
Scythe
- 9.
SFAT
- 9.
Yakal
- 9.
Shaeden
- 9.
Oro?!
- 13.
Strong Bad
- 13.
Ripple
- 13.
MattDotZeb
- 13.
Hammertime
- 17.
Trail
- 17.
Arty
- 17.
Gravy
- 17.
Heysuess
- 17.
Rizer
- 17.
JCaesar
- 17.
Kappy
- 17.
Metroid
- 25.
Asylum
- 25.
Hyuga
- 25.
Rusty Shacklefurd
- 25.
Dope
- 25.
Mudkyp
- 25.
OnionChild
- 25.
KishPrime
- 25.
j00t
- 33.
Calabrel
- 33.
Lordy
- 33.
JStm
- 33.
Moogle
- 33.
Zwarm
- 33.
Chase
- 33.
Susan
- 33.
Green Ranger
- 33.
ORLY
- 33.
PewPewU
(DQ'ed)
- 33.
Sweet
- 33.
Flan~
- 33.
Storm
- 33.
GooeyBanana
- 33.
Frootloop (DQ'ed)
- 33.
Anther
Trivia
- The Big House 3 marks the first time a Project M character was made available to play before its official release (the character being Roy).
- Mewtwo was also announced to join the Project M roster at the event, following the Project M top eight matches.
- The Big House 3 partnered with VGBootCamp, East Point Pictures, and Melee It On Me to present the "The Smash Brothers" documentary premiere.
- Episodes of the documentary were released concurrently with the tournament after the premiere.
- With 172 Melee entrants, The Big House 3 became the biggest Midwest Melee tournament since MELEE-FC Diamond in 2007.
- With 90 Project M entrants, The Big House 3 became the second-biggest Project M tournament of all-time, behind MELEE-FC10R's 105 entrants in 2012.