Forum:Invitational Tournament Predictions

So what do you expect for the upcoming invitational tourney? Who do you think the 16 "highly skilled" players will be? Which characters do you think will be playable? What rules do you think will be used? ect.

Personally, I'm kinda worried the invitees will purposely sandbag or make a mockery of the tournament to spite Nintendo because smash 4 isn't melee >_>. A lot of the pros seem to dislike smash 4, so I really wonder who they plan to get. ♡FirstaLasto♥ 23:59, 29 April 2014 (EDT)

Considering that the tournament is primarily to promote the game as intended to be played, and it's probably desirable for it to take a predictable amount of time, I suspect it'll be using the ingame tournament mode (a single-elimination bracket) of 2-minute matches with all items on normal and all stages available (and possibly on Random).

I think there's an outside chance that Nintendo will invite actual competitive players, but I don't think it'll happen. If indeed they don't like the game, that's not something you want to be broadcasted to the public. In fact, I hope they don't go for it, mostly for a real pessimistic reason I don't feel like going into right now. Toomai Glittershine The Pan-Galactic 00:29, 30 April 2014 (EDT)