~~NOTICE! THE SCHEDULE HAS BEEN SHUFFLED! PLEASE READ BELOW FOR CHANGES!~~
With a little over two weeks to go, Gaming is finally ready to unveil the details of this year's tournaments.
Before I detail everything please pay attention to the following:
1. Read the posted information thoroughly before asking any questions...
2. There are no Early-Bird signups for tournaments as there are no entry fees and belated follow-up for such events has been deemed too cumbersome
3. All sponsored tournament signups will be available in a clear location at Con (Most likely on a wall near the Gaming Check-Out Desk)
4. Kumoricon does not sponsor or endorse Money Matches or Tourney Payouts so please refrain from asking for or about them.
5. All tournaments unless otherwise specified are Double Elimination, Best 2 of 3, with Best of 3 of 5 for the Finals.
6. If a tournament you feel should be held is not listed below, ask yourself the following questions:
A. Is there a large enough following to warrant an officially ajudicated tournament at Con?
B. Are you positive that you can acquire the necessary hardware/software needed to run the aforementioned tournament?
(If the answer to both of these questions is Yes, then please PM me so Gaming can work with you to make your tournament happen.)
7. NO FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ALLOWED IN TOURNAMENT ZONES!
Alright... Enough with the lectures and down to business...
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A BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOURNAMENTS FOR KUMORICON '09
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Saturday, September 05, 2009
2:00PM - 4:00PM ~~~ Soul Calibur IV
4:00PM - 11:00PM ~~~ Rock Band 2
5:00PM - 11:00PM ~~~ Super Smash Brothers Brawl
6:00PM - 11:00PM ~~~ Halo 3
Sunday, September 06, 2009
11:00AM - 1:00PM ~~~ Pokemon Battle Revolution
1:00PM - 3:00PM ~~~ Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +
2:30PM - 4:00PM ~~~ Rock Band 2 (Final in Main Events)
3:00PM - 7:00PM ~~~ Super Smash Brothers Melee
4:00PM - 7:00PM ~~~ Street Fighter IV
6:00PM - 11:00PM ~~~ Dance Dance Revolution
8:00PM - 10:00PM ~~~ BlazBlue
Monday, September 07, 2009
10:00AM - 12:00PM ~~~ Mario Kart Wii
1:00PM - 3:00PM ~~~ Marvel vs Capcom 2
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A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF TOURNAMENTS FOR KUMORICON '09
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SOUL CALIBUR IV (PS3 Edition) 2:00PM - 4:00PM Saturday
(Rules adapted from NVGA)
-You may use your own controller / stick (standard PS3 controllers only)
-Pausing forfeits the ROUND
-Soft-Reset forfeits the MATCH
-60 Second Rounds
-Button Binding allowed
-Weapon Select [OFF]
-Handicap [OFF]
-Neutral Guard [ON]
-Stage Select [OFF]
-Soul Gauge default
-Life Bar default
-Characters Banned: Algol, yoda, All custom characters, bonus characters
-Winner of the first match must keep their character
-Color Edit characters allowed but only during finals
-All infinties banned
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ROCK BAND 2 4:00PM - 11:00PM Saturday, 2:30PM - 4:00PM Sunday
This year we are pleased to announce that Dustin, who volunteers for free-play events at Ground Kontrol, has agreed to run our tournament.
Questions and comments should be posted to this thread:
http://www.kumoricon.org/forums/index.php?topic=10736.0---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUPER SMASH BROTHERS BRAWL 5:00PM - 11:00PM Saturday
PLEASE NOTE: SSBB had the largest turnout last year and we expect and even bigger showing this year. Sign up early to avoid being locked out!
General
• All matches will be survival mode with 3 stock.
• Items will be turned off.
• If the match is a tie, Sudden Death will be played out.
• Truancy for your match will result in an immediate forfeit. If you are in the Pro bracket and this would result in your first loss, you will be dropped into the losers bracket.
Pool brackets
• Each Pool will be a bracket consisting of a maximum of 32 players.
• The Pool brackets will be single elimination.
• Pool matches will be best out of 3, including finals.
• The top two players of each Pool will advance to the Pro bracket.
Pro bracket
• The Pro bracket will consist of a maximum of 32 players that have advanced from the Pools brackets. No exceptions!
• The Pro bracket will be double elimination.
• Pro matches will be best out of 3.
• All Pro final matches (Winners, Losers, and Grand) will be best of 5.
Match order and Counterpicking
1) Players choose characters for first match. Double-blind can be called. See a referee for this.
2) First match will be random select from the neutral stages.
-Counterpicking-
3) Loser of the previous match picks the stage for the next match. This can be a Neutral of Counterpick stage.
4) Winner of the previous match picks their character.
5) Loser of the previous match picks their character.
6) Repeat steps 3-5 for all proceeding matches.
Stage list
Neutral:
Battlefield
Final Destination
Smashville
Yoshi's Island
Counterpicks:
Halberd
Lylat Cruise
Delfino
Frigate Orpheon
Pictochat
Pirate Ship
Pokemon Stadium 2
Miscellaneous
• Corded Gamecube controllers will be the only controller allowed. Wiimotes, Wii classic controller, and Wavebirds controllers are all banned.
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HALO 3 6:00PM - 11:00PM
Rules TBA
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POKEMON BATTLE REVOLUTION (Incorrectly listed in the Pocket Program as POKEMON BATTLE COLISEUM) 11:00AM - 1:00PM Sunday
(Rules reposted with courtesy to xcthulhux)
-No Ubers: Mewtwo, Mew, Lugia, Ho-oh, Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza, Latios, Garchomp, Deoxys (all forms), Wynaut, and Wobbuffet are banned. You may not use them.
-Species Clause: No using more than one of any species of Pokemon. Sorry, no two Metagross.
-Sleep Clause: No two Pokemon on the same team may be asleep at the same time by the opponents effects.
-No OHKOs: Sheer Cold, Horn Drill, Guillotine and Fissure are banned.
-No Evasion and Accuracy Modifiers: Double Team, Minimize, Sand Attack, etc are banned.
-Self KO Clause: You may not use Explosion, Selfdestruct, or Destiny Bond with your last Pokemon. This is to stop people from using these moves to force the battle in a draw.
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GUILTY GEAR ACCENT CORE + 1:00PM - 3:00PM Sunday
(Rules adapted from Evo2K9)
-Gold, Shadow, EX Characters are not allowed in tournament play.
-Kliff and Justice are not allowed in tournament play.
-If the players do not agree on a stage within 15 seconds, the match will be random stage select.
-If Final Boss Stage comes up on random select, players may opt to re-select another stage.
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SUPER SMASH BROTHERS MELEE 3:00PM - 7:00PM Sunday
Rules TBA
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STREET FIGHTER IV (PS3 Edition) 4:00PM - 7:00PM Sunday
No special bans or rules...
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DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION 6:00PM - 11:00PM Sunday
For basic tournament details:
http://dancingtofu.org/kum2009.htmlFor more in-depth information on terminology and etiquette:
http://dancingtofu.org/rules.html---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BLAZBLUE (PS3 Edition) 8:00PM - 10:00PM Sunday
-No Easy Specials
-No Extra Astral Heats
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MARIO KART WII 10:00AM - 12:00PM Monday
For basic tournament details:
http://dancingtofu.org/kum2009.htmlFor more in-depth information on terminology and etiquette:
http://dancingtofu.org/rules.html--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 (X360 Edition) 1:00PM - 3:00PM Monday
(Rules adapted from Evo2K9)
-Deadbody infinites are allowed to gain a positional advantage, but not to delay the game.
-Winner must keep same starting character, but can switch the order of assists.
-Winner may not use the “Switch Glitch” to have a different starting character.
-You may not use the same character twice on one team.
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POSSIBLE UNSPONSORED TOURNAMENTS:
SUPER STREET FIGHTER II TURBO HD REMIX
SUPER PUZZLE FIGHTER II TURBO
GEARS OF WAR 2
MARIO KART DOUBLE DASH
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Whew... so that is just about everything...
I now humbly request that everyone please keep posts on topic and to the point, so as to keep the dialogue meaningful.