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)

I doubt they would use all the stages available. Probably they will just use the various FD stages, and possibly the standard battlefield (which is a superior stage imo). And yeah, I also hope they don't use actual competitive scene pros, but the way they worded it is pretty unclear right now. ♡FirstaLasto♥ 01:24, 30 April 2014 (EDT)

If Nintendo are actually taking notice of the competitive scene (like they did with Pokémon I think), then it's probably going to be For Glory rules. Scr7(talk · contribs) 10:47, 30 April 2014 (EDT)

I'm pretty certain it's going to be For Glory rules, I see no way that they will do all stages and items on when the For Glory mode was made. Omega Tyrant 13:49, 30 April 2014 (EDT)