Stage legality

Banned stages are stages that are banned from most main-stream tournaments. These stages can be banned for several reasons, including:

• Providing an unfair advantage for certain characters (such as excessive camping)
• Allowing players to abuse glitches in the game
• Completely re-vamping the strategies needed to win (such as Temple and Icicle Mountain)
• Having a significant amount of slow-down during a match

Banned stages in SSB

Banned in both singles and doubles
Stage	Reason for Banning
Mushroom Kingdom	Pipe camping; stalling
Planet Zebes	Acid
Sector Z	Overly large; Arwing lasers
Yoshi's Island	Not all characters are able to recover from the clouds

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	Randomly moving stage
Brinstar Depths	XX	XX	No ledges to grab; stalling; "caves of life"
Flat Zone	XX	XX	Randomness of falling materials; too small
Fountain of Dreams		XX	Significant slowdown during doubles play
Fourside	XX	XX	Uneven recovery potential; no large platforms for fighting; stalling
Great Bay	XX		Camping, stalling; ceiling spikes many characters easily
Green Greens	X	X	Over-reliance on camping; bomb blocks disturb players; walls allow infinites
Kongo Jungle	XX	XX	Small rock on the right of the map enforces stalling
Icicle Mountain	XX	XX	Randomly moving stage
Mushroom Kingdom I	XX	XX	Completely irregular design
Mushroom Kingdom II	X	X	All fighting centers on small middle platform in singles
Mute City		XX	Significant slowdown during doubles play
Onett	XX	XX	Cars can KO at low percents; walls allow infinites
Princess Peach's Castle	X	X	Banzai Bill is a one-hit KO; walls allow infinites
Temple	XX	XX	Too large; over reliance on teching; see here for more
Venom	XX	XX	Slow-down; game-breaking stalling and camping potential.
Yoshi's Island N64	XX	XX	Camping and stalling on clouds
Yoshi's Island (Pipes)	XX	XX	Fox can waveshine most of the cast off the right side; "caves of life"

Banned Stages in SSBB

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
75m	XX	XX	Highly irregular design; all fighting centers around top-right corner
Big Blue	XX	XX	Randomly moving stage
Bridge of Eldin	XX	XX	Potential for game-breaking camping/stalling
Flat Zone 2	XX	XX	Randomness of falling materials; too small. Only three of the four blast lines
Green Greens	X	X	Bomb blocks are excessively powerful
Hanenbow	XX	X	Highly irregular design
Hyrule Temple	XX	XX	Too large; Over reliance on teching
Mario Bros.	XX	XX	Gameplay is vastly altered by stage enemies
Mario Circuit	X	X	Potential for game-breaking camping
Mushroomy Kingdom (1-1 and 1-2)	XX	XX	Side-scrolling, underground's ceiling
New Pork City	XX	XX	Overly large; camera angle makes the game hard to view on smaller TVs, Ultimate Chimera
Onett	X	X	Cars
Port Town Aero Dive	X	X	Randomly moving stage; cars are hard to see coming due to the colors
Rumble Falls	XX	XX	Overly advantages character's with better jumps
Shadow Moses Island	XX	XX	Removes three of the four blast lines
Skyworld	X	X	No fall through platforms; over-reliance on stage spikes
Spear Pillar	XX	XX	Randomness of Pokémon attacks; tunnel under stage similar to Temple's underground
The Summit	XX	XX	Irregular design; no normal ground; The Fish
WarioWare, Inc.	XX	XX	Over-reliance on bonuses from Microgames

See also

• Tournament legal