Juice Gaming is here to bring you the sequel to the largest Meta Knight-free tournament this region has ever seen, complete with the most beautiful livestream in Smash history. We are proud to announce that Local Battles will be hosting us again!



Fort Lee is right next to New York City--in fact, the George Washington Bridge is located in this town. There's a bus stop right across the street, and this is one of the easiest venues to access! There is also plenty of food easily within walking distance.

Local Battles has only been open for a little under a year, but has already broken out in the fighting game community, making a huge splash in Mortal Kombat, SSF4, and MvC3. Now, by partnering with Juice, they've been bringing you the next level of gaming in Smash!

The place is mostly a lan center, with a few used games, but they're all ready to make our event a huge success! We'll have roughly 50% of the store dedicated to this event, and a professional level stream coming your way!

Air conditioned, tons of seating, and it's run by a group of really fantastic people!


Being able to host at this venue is undoubtedly a great opportunity for the community, and we need to take advantage of that.




Venue opens: 11:00 A.M.
Singles starts (ideally): 12:30 P.M.
Venue closes: 8:00 P.M.

Venue Fee: $10
Singles Entry: $10

PLEASE do not be late. We were very lenient with start times at the last event, and will not be doing so this time around. If you are going to be entering, MAKE SURE YOU ARE HERE BEFORE 12.




Yes, you read correctly.

This tournament is SINGLES ONLY. Simply put, our tournaments run too long. Concentrate II took until 12:30 A.M. with 7 TVs, 22 teams and 57 singles entrants. This severely cuts into Local Battles' ability to make profit because we close half of the store for most of the day, and we need to be faster. I am going to be starting the event ON TIME, and we are going to be very strict. I know a lot of you guys love doubles, myself included, but this is a move we have to make in order to keep the venue.

We are trying to be out by 8 P.M. at the LATEST.





Jaxelrod will be streaming this tournament at:
http://www.twitch.tv/8wayrun/

Only approved commentators will be allowed on the microphone. We are going to enforce a very strict conduct code while on the microphone. In the interest of upholding a professional image, using profanity on the stream is absolutely not okay. Whether you want to have a professional image or not is up to you, but our crew and this store do, and we ask you to please respect that. Anything said on the stream is a reflection on the individual, the community, Juice Gaming, Jaxelrod, and Local Battles.

In addition to "cuss words" that would be censored on this site, any usage of the words "gay" and "rape" in a negative or derogatory manner is also strictly prohibited. You're speaking to the entire Internet, including potential newcomers to the scene--be sensible with what you say. A truly capable commentator can communicate what he or she means without these words.





We hope to see everyone here and have a great, successful event!

Rules
The Unity Ruleset
-Version 2.0-

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The following ruleset was created by the Unity Ruleset Committee, which is made up by active, respected Tournament Organizers from around the United States and Canada. This will be considered the standard, universal ruleset for Brawl tournaments across the US and Canada. Any tournaments that do not follow this ruleset will not be eligible for stickies on SWF or featured coverage on AllisBrawl.

Changes to this ruleset can be made at any time and without warning, for which we will update the version based on the significance of the change. The Ruleset Committee will pay close attention to tournament trends, and if a persistent problem presents itself, the Ruleset Committee will address the issue and adapt the ruleset as necessary. If you are interested in being admitted to the URC, send your tournament resume to AlphaZealot (or any Unity Ruleset Member) - you must however, have run 1 tournament with the Unity Ruleset in order to be eligible for admission.

If you wish to run a slightly modified version of the Unity Ruleset at your event for the purposes of testing while keeping all benefits of using the Unity Ruleset - you may now take advantage of the Experimental Ruleset System! You can find full details of this system in this thread here, at this post.

General Gameplay Rules
3 Stocks
8 Minute Time Limit
Items set to "Off" and "None"
Pause set to "Off"
Meta Knight is banned in both Singles and Doubles (optional until January 9th, 2012, after which is mandatory)
All infinites and chain grabs are legal.
There is a 50 Ledge Grab Limit for all characters. If a game goes to time and one player goes over the Ledge Grab Limit for their character, they will automatically lose the game. If both players exceed their Ledge Grab Limit, then this rule is ignored.
The act of stalling is banned: stalling is intentionally making the game unplayable: Such as becoming invisible, continuing infinites, chain grabs, or uninterruptible moves past 300%, and reaching a position that your opponent can never reach you.
Any action that can prevent the game from continuing (i.e., freezing, disappearing characters, game reset, etc.) will result in a forfeit of that match for the player that initiated the action. You are responsible for knowing your own character, and must be wary about accidentally triggering one of these effects.
If the Ledge Grab Limit does not declare one player the winner, the winner will be declared by what the game says in all situations, except for when players are presented with sudden death:
In the event of a match going to time, the winner will be determined by who has less percent (stock difference still takes priority but will be shown in the results screen).
If the match ends with both players dying at the same time (either coincidentally or via suicide move) or if time ran out with both players at equal percent, a one stock three minute rematch will be played on the same stage. For a tie-breaker match, a Ledge Grab Limit of 18 is used for all characters.
In the event of running a Meta Knight Legal event, the following must be used:
Meta Knight's Infinite Cape Glitch and Extended Cape Glitch are banned.
There is a Ledge Grab Limit of 35 for Meta Knight.
For a tie-breaker match, a Ledge Grab Limit of 13 is used for Meta Knight.

Modified Rules for Doubles
Team Attack set to "On"
Life stealing is allowed.
In the event of a game reaching the time limit, if a single player on a team exceeds their Ledge Grab Limit, that team loses. If one or more players on both teams exceed their Ledge Grab Limit, then the Ledge Grab Limit rule is ignored.
In the event of a game going to time and the Ledge Grab Limit can not determine a winner and both teams have an equal amount of combined stocks, then whichever team has a lower combined percent is declared the winner.
If a player is using the character Pokemon Trainer, Lucario, or Sonic, either