San Marcos Melee and Texas Gamers Lounge team up again to bring you back Melee at TGL with its seventh iteration! Back from the summer hiatus, we plan to continue to be one of the biggest and best tournaments you can find in Texas. Texas Gamers Lounge has been gracious enough to again offer a $150 pot bonus for this event, and the venue fee also gives you access to all you can play arcade and console games for the duration of the night.

TGL has a good supply of CRTs in their venue, so a full setup consists of ONLY a console, so don’t worry about bringing a TV. Bringing a setup gets you half off venue, but only while setups are needed. And reminder, this is a UCF tournament, so bring your setups with UCF already put on.

Also, everyone who comes gets two free slices of pizza, also courtesy of TGL!

SCHEDULE:
6:30 – Doors open
7:00 – Doubles bracket begins
8:00 – Singles bracket begins
11:59 – Venue closes, if the tourney has completed

FEES:
Venue Fee – $10, card accepted
Singles – $5 per entrant, cash only
Doubles – $10 per team, cash only

PAYOUT:
1-12 entrants
1st – 70%
2nd – 30%
13-31 entrants
1st – 60%
2nd – 30%
3rd – 10%
32-63 entrants
1st – 55%
2nd – 30%
3rd – 10%
4th – 5%
64 or more entrants
1st – 50%
2nd – 30%
3rd – 10%
4th – 5%
5th – 2.5% each

RULESET:
– Game Settings: 4 Stocks, 8 Minute Time Limit
– Universal Control Fix turned on (http://www.20xx.me/ucf.html)
– Items are disabled.
– Excessive stalling with moves such as Jigglypuff’s Rising Pound or Peach’s Wall Bomber are banned
– Glitches such as Ice Climbers’s Freeze Glitch and Mewtwo’s Soul Stunner are banned.
– Pause option is disabled in the game menu. If left on, accidental pausing mid match forfeits a stock.
– You may not choose any stage you have won on during a set, unless agreed by both players.
– In the event of a time out, the winner is determined by most remaining stocks, and then if still tied, by percentage. If percentage is tied, the match is fully replayed.
– Playing as Master Hand is banned
– Friendly Fire enabled [Doubles]
– Life stealing stocks from a teammate is allowed [Doubles]

STAGELIST:
Neutral Stages;
– Final Destination
– Battlefield
– Yoshi’s Story
– Dream Land
– Fountain of Dreams [Singles Only]
– Pokemon Stadium [Doubles Only]
Counter-Pick Stages;
– Pokemon Stadium [Singles Only]

MATCH PROCEDURE:
1) Players select their characters. Either player may choose to Blind Pick. In this case, each player secretly tells a third player their character before picking with the third player verifying their selections.
2) Players play Rock-Paper-Scissors. Winner chooses the first stage strike.
3) Players take turns removing stages from the Neutral Stages list above based on the results of the previous rule. The first player to strike removes one(1) stage from the list, the second player removes two(2), and the first player then chooses from the remaining two(2) stages.
4) The players play the first match of the set
5) Winning player of the preceding match bans a stage from the full list of stages, both Neutral and Counter-Pick. Does not apply to Best of 5 sets.
6) The Losing player of the preceding match picks a stage for the next match. Cannot choose the stage banned in the previous step, nor a stage they’ve already won on during this set, unless agreed.
7) The winning player of the preceding match may choose to change characters.
8) The losing player of the preceding match may choose to change characters.
9) The next match is played
10) Repeat Steps 5 through 9 for all subsequent matches until the set is complete