San Marcos Melee is officially teaming with Texas Gamers Lounge to bring you Melee on Friday, February 16th. TGL has been gracious enough to offer a $150 pot bonus and free pizza for entrants. Venue fee gets you free arcade games & console play for the whole night!

SCHEDULE:
6:00PM – Doors open for friendlies
7:00PM – Doubles bracket begins
8:15PM – Singles bracket begins

FEES:
Venue fee – $10 ($5 with a setup; limited to the first 15 setups)
Singles – $5 per entrant
Doubles – $10 per team

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.