Tournament:University of Iowa Smash Championship Series

From SmashWiki, the Super Smash Bros. wiki
Revision as of 18:47, September 24, 2008 by Clarinet Hawk (talk | contribs) (→‎Rules)
Jump to navigationJump to search

The University of Iowa Smash Championship Series, or UISCS is an upcoming series of tournaments in Iowa City, IA hosted by SLAPAHO. While the name may imply that the tournament is open only to University of Iowa Students, that is not the case. The tournament is open to any Smashers wanting to compete in what will hopefully be the largest tournament series in the state of Iowa. While the exact dates are not yet known, it is planned that the first tournament will be held in the beginning of October, and they will run bi-weekly from then on. It is currently planned that the series will run in both the Fall and the Spring; the Fall will be a singles tournament, the Spring a doubles tournament.

Tournament Format

The series will consist of three tournaments, although any one person may enter no more than three. The first two tournaments, the "Preliminary Tournaments," are open entry, but each player may only enter one.

Tournament Systems

Qualifier Tournaments

  • The tournaments begin with 3-5 (depending on number of entrants) preliminary rounds
  • These rounds are run under the modified swiss system
    • Rounds are best of 3
    • 2-0 receives 4 points
    • 2-1 receives 3 points
    • 1-2 receives 1 point
    • 0-2 receives 0 points
      • If game three becomes a Caveman Game, each player receives an additional half point
  • After the requisite number of rounds, the tournament breaks to an eight person double elimination tournament
  • The Finals and Semi-Finals are best of 5 rounds.

Championship

  • The Championship begins with three rounds of modified swiss system
    • These are scored just like the preliminary tournaments
  • After these three rounds, the tournament breaks to a double elimination bracket
    • All rounds prior to the Semi-Finals are best of 5
    • The Semi-Finals are best of 7
    • The Final round is best of 9
  • If the final round pairs two members of the same crew, they may choose to split the championship title

Rules

  • No items. Period.
  • All characters are legal, and players may switch characters whenever they want.
  • For the first game of the round, characters are chosen double blind (if requested) and a neutral stage is randomly selected
  • After the first round, the loser of the previous game may select character second and select the stage, excluding banned stages
    • This does include stages that are not banned, but are also not neutral.
  • Dave's Stupid Rule is in effect
    • Additionally, the player choosing the stage must choose a stage. No selecting random in the hopes of getting around Dave's Stupid Rule.
  • Modified swiss games are 3-stock, eight minutes
  • Double elimination games are 4-stock, ten minutes
  • In doubles tournaments, Friendly Fire is on

Stages

Neutral Stages

Banned Stages

Qualifying

Originally, the idea was that two qualifiers would be held with a 'Last Chance' tournament to fill the remaining slots. This has since been modified to the following: the final will be a Ro16, with 8 proceeding from both qualifiers.

Of the 8 that make it to the quarter final round, six will advance, with the bottom four playing each other for a qualifying spot. So, the semi final players and the two winners of the losing participants will advance.

For the final two slots, the losers of the above matches will play the winners of a re-entry bracket. Entry to the aforementioned bracket is acquired through a buy-in process after elimination from the preliminary rounds. The top two of this bracket, held in conjunction with the remaining preliminaries, will play the losers of the advancing players for qualifying spots.

Retrieved from "https://www.ssbwiki.com/index.php?title=Tournament:University_of_Iowa_Smash_Championship_Series&oldid=255561"