Brawl Tourney - 6/14/08 (Items! And I adress some issues)

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.

Yup, we're playing with items on. I know there are people who prefer it that way, and changing the formula now and then can't hurt, right? Don't fret, however, if you're one of those Brawlers who, like me, prefer fighting without items; this isn't a permanent rule change or anything of the sort. At the most, we may alternate between items and no items, but there are other experimental things I want to try in the future as well.

As for the rules beyond "Items are on," I'm still in deliberation on specifics. (Again.) Feel free to lend your opinions here on what, if any, items should be kept out, and whether or not some or all of the banned stages should be lifted as well in the spirit of the more random nature of items.

Beyond that, the basic structure is the same. Double elimination, 3 stock, best of 3 (5 in the finals.) I'm too lazy to type out the current stage rules, go look in the last thread.

Now, the aforementioned issues.

ISSUE THE FIRST: JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT HOST DOESN'T MEAN YOUR ITEM/STAGE SETTINGS WON'T GET PICKED.
The game randomly picks one. BOTH players need to have item rules and stage selection according to the rules.

ISSUE THE SECOND: LET US KNOW IF YOU'LL BE LATE OR ABSENT.
If you've signed up and haven't said otherwise, I'm going to assume you'll be present at the usual time of 9 PM Eastern. This includes Saturday AND Sunday, as these have so far been two-day affairs. THIS DOES NOT MEAN YOU SHOULDN'T SIGN UP IF YOU CAN'T MAKE 9 PM EST ON EITHER DAY. HOWEVER, I and whoever you're going to fight against need to know so an alternate plan can be found. If something unexpected comes up for you, you can always message me, or Cartographer, or whoever it is you're scheduled to fight, or just post right here on the forums. It helps tremendously when I don't have to wonder where you are.

ISSUE THE THIRD: Taco grabs too much.

Well this turned into a rant, didn't it?

Anyways, sign up here if you're in.

Also, if you lead me to suspect you didn't read the above because it was too long, I'm sending you to Hell.

I'll try to make it out for this; I think it should be pretty interesting. I will say that there should be some items not used period due to the fact that there are some that can become totally broken:
Smash Balls
Stopwatch
Spicy Curry
Smart Bomb/other explosives
Golden Hammer (normal hammer doesn't seem as bad IMO)
AT's/Pokeballs?

I can agree with Vegeta's list with 2 addendum's:  No healing items, and explosives are ok.

I knew I omitted something (heals), but I wasn't quite sure what it was; I kinda took a look at a list someone else posted with the inaugural tourney had we used items. There really isn't much else that I can think of that NEEDS to be banned.

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Oh come on Squid Boy someone needs to tick you off.

I agree with Majin's set of banned items, especially the smash ball. For the most part this sounds like it could be a pretty good time.

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Yes.  Also, I'm in for this again, should be tons of fun as always   Sadly though, there's a very big chance that I won't make it til the 15th, because I have to leave for Maryland for a few days.  Also sad is that this will be my last tourny up until the tail end of July, because I have a summer program I'm going to, so don't make Stauffenberg invoke his powers

Can't show up for this one, Stauffy.

I'm also in. The only items that really need to be disallowed are the Smash Ball, Stopwatch, Dragoon, Golden Hammer, Spicy Curry, AT's, and probably the explosives too.

Shiiiiiit. I'm really sorry, guys, but some incredibly unexpected shit's come up for me, and I don't think I'll be able to show up to this, let alone officiate it.