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Match Making SymbolThe Fall Ladder season is underway and hundreds have already signed up and logged matches. As promised today is the day we reveal the information on what this upcoming season has in store.

The first big announcement is that at the end of the season we will be running a playoff. The top 60 players on the ladder will make it in and the top 4 players will receive first round byes. The exact format of the playoff will be revealed at a later date.

AllisBrawl is also ramping up front page coverage for the Fall Ladder. Each week we will have a ladder update article covering player movement within the top 32. In addition to that we will be periodically releasing interviews with the players from last season's top 8.

Click "Continue Reading" to find out what cash prizes are at stake!



Continue reading Fall Ladder Information, Cash Prizes for Winners!

The guys over at Ghosteo have been busy giving each Brawl character a new change of clothes. By ripping the game code, they have been able to edit the character textures into more diverse costume options -- Fierce Diety Link, Shadow the Hedgehog, Plusle & Minun and an R.O.B. that is covered in blood are just some of the many different costume options that these guys have been working with.

Sadly, the Ghosteo team has not released these edited textures into the public and will not do so until each character has atleast 2 costume options. In the mean time, check out some of their creations after the break!

Continue reading Hackers give Brawl roster a brand new fashion
Did you know that the people who run All is Brawl also develop and release tio tournament organizer, the gold standard in tournament production software that plays a major role in every tournament uploaded to AiB? In fact, All is Brawl started off as nothing more than a simple web server for displaying tio tournament results. We've obviously grown to much more than that, and as the website develops so does every tournament host's best friend, tio.

A few months back we profiled an exciting feature coming to the next release of tio, the Metrics Calculator. We're nearing the release of the next tio version and I'm here to give a few more sneak peeks at other features being added to the program. Without further ado, here's some information on our schedule views!

We've added a "schedule" option to all three of tio's bracket types that gives tournament organizers a powerful new way to look at their brackets. Both schedule views provide a linear vertical list of matches in the bracket; it looks a little like this:

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A detailed explanation of the schedule views lies in the full body of this news post (click "continue reading" below!). For the lazy, schedule views give an alternate, possibly easier way to manage different bracket types. You don't need to know how to navigate a large bracket structure, you simply need to go down a vertical list of matches to fill in winners. It's a good way to filter out unnecessary information and may help some hosts keep a tighter grip on their brackets.


Continue reading tio sneak peek: Bracket Schedules
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Match Making SymbolThe Summer Ladder has finally come to a close and what an exciting season it's been! Three months have passed since the start of the ladder and it's finally time to reward the top finishers for their hard work. As revealed last week, players within the top 64 will be receiving some badges.
  • 1st Place: 2008 Summer Ladder Champion Badge
  • 2nd-4th Place: 2008 Summer Ladder Top 4 Badge
  • 5th-8th Place: 2008 Summer Ladder Top 8 Badge
  • 9th-16th Place: 2008 Summer Ladder Top 16 Badge
  • 17th-32nd Place: 2008 Summer Ladder Top 32 Badge
  • 33rd-64th Place: 2008 Summer Ladder Top 64 Badge

The players who finished in the top 8 have been sent invitations to the AllisBrawl Pro Lounge and the top 3 players will have beach balls made in their name. Overall 2,522 players signed up for the ladder and competed in 25,161 sets, thats approximately 5,000 hours of online Brawl or the equivilent of running sets back to back for over 200 straight days.

Click "Continue Reading" to see who made the cut!

Continue reading Congratulations to our Summer Ladder Champion, Ally!

All is Brawl's Summer Ladder has officially come to a close. We invite everyone to join the new Fall Ladder (which will run through November) and embrace the opportunity to start fresh for the new season. AlphaZealot will have a full writeup about the new ladder in the next day or two, including a recap of the Summer Season and highlights/interviews with some of the top players. Stay tuned!

Enjoy!

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Remember how your preschool or elementary school teacher used to say, “Mistakes are good – that’s how we learn”? Well, I made a pretty big mistake at the last tourney I attended.

Which mistake was this? I used Snake in one of my Losers’ Bracket matches.

Am I saying using Snake is bad? Nope. I’m saying I shouldn’t have changed my character to Snake in the third round when I hadn’t played with Snake in a month. Here’s what happened.

JDM (shoutout to JDM!) and I both happen to play Meta Knight, so we had an interesting MK ditto for our tourney match. I won the first round. Then he two-stocked me in the second round. So I was thinking, “Wow, this is strange.” I didn’t like the fact that I had gotten two-stocked. But instead of reminding myself that I had done well in the first round and that I could adapt my play to what JDM did in the previous round, I somehow conjured up a crazy idea: “What if I used Snake?”

Continue reading I almost failed Snake at my last tournament

AllisBrawl's Summer Ladder season will officially be coming to a close on August 31st at 11:59pm EST. That's 8:59pm for all those California players out there.

The Fall Ladder will officially start on Monday, September 1st, at 12:00am EST.

More updates regarding the Fall and Summer Ladders will come on Monday, including a few surprises.

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by nealdt Aug 28 2008, 7:12PM
"But it's Thursday, not Wednesday!" you say? I don't know what you're talking about.

Every Most Wednesdays our programmers spend some time fixing small issues that bug our users. These Wednesday Updates offer a great opportunity for the administration staff to interact with our users and hopefully make some changes to improve your All is Brawl experience. Each week we pick a theme and ask for suggestions for bug fixes and additions regarding that theme; once we gather your input, our staff pick out five suggestions to work on for the next update and give badges to those whose suggestions were chosen!

This week's focus was on ...stuff. Keep reading for a full list of changes!

Continue reading Wednesday Update #11

Ken "SephirothKen" Hoang is a name that many of our visitors probably already know. Ken Hoang is the Ken, the player who dominated the Super Smash Bros. Melee scene for many years during its prime, the player considered the best world champion at Melee during the height of his dominance from 2003 to 2006. (And yes, "world champion" is deserved: he twice went to Japan and won major tournaments there.)

Ken's been a little quiet in the Brawl era, staying away from most of the Southern California tournament scene before a surprise appearance at Evo World where he placed second. This absence came as a shock to many of us California natives, since Ken was known to be tired of Melee and eagerly anticipating a new game to expand his dominance to. It was only recently revealed why Ken had stayed away from Brawl tournaments, and boy is it a good reason.

Ken will be a participant in this year's Survivor: Gabon reality television series. According to the Wikipedia entry, Hoang was one of 18 contestants selected from over 800 applications to enter the show, which was shot over the summer in Gabon, Africa. The show's already been filmed, of course, and naturally he can't say whether he won... but it should make for an exciting season regardless. After inventing how to play Marth in Melee and winning tens of thousands of dollars in video game tournaments, who's to say Hoang can't mindgame and combo his way to the top?

Survivor: Gabon starts airing September 25 on CBS. You can see Ken's introductory video segment on CBS' site.

School is starting for many, and summer is ending. But that doesn’t mean so are the tournaments! Here’s another installment of Featured Tournaments!

Here at All is Brawl we love our tournaments! We love everything about them, from the intense hardcore matches to meeting new people! And to show our unconditional love we’ve decided to highlight some of these tournaments, ya’know spread the word and maybe get some more people interested in going to these tournaments.

Every week a few tournaments will be featured, coming from all over the world! They will include online tournaments as well as in person tournaments. So we’ve got almost everybody covered!
Keep reading to find out what tournaments got featured this week!



Continue reading Featured Tournaments! #19

Match Making SymbolAllisBrawl’s inaugural ladder season will be ending on August 31st. It's been almost three months since the start of the ladder and now there are just 5 days left for players to solidfy their positions in AllisBrawl history. Players who finish within certain rankings will be receiving the following badges and rewards.

  • 1st Place: 2008 Summer Ladder Champion Badge
  • 2nd-4th Place: 2008 Summer Ladder Top 4 Badge
  • 5th-8th Place: 2008 Summer Ladder Top 8 Badge
  • 9th-16th Place: 2008 Summer Ladder Top 16 Badge
  • 17th-32nd Place: 2008 Summer Ladder Top 32 Badge
  • 33rd-64th Place: 2008 Summer Ladder Top 64 Badge
Click on "Continue Reading" for more!

Continue reading AllisBrawl Summer Ladder Coming to an End!
Tags: Ladder

Another week of fabulous tournaments! Are you prepared for it?

Here at All is Brawl we love our tournaments! We love everything about them, from the intense hardcore matches to meeting new people! And to show our unconditional love we’ve decided to highlight some of these tournaments, ya’know spread the word and maybe get some more people interested in going to these tournaments.
Every week a few tournaments will be featured, one coming from each major region. They will include online tournaments as well as in person tournaments. So we’ve got almost everybody covered!
Keep reading to find out what tournaments got featured this week!



Continue reading Featured Tournaments! #18

Summer is slowly coming to a close, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy another week of featured tournaments!

Here at All is Brawl we love our tournaments! We love everything about them, from the intense hardcore matches to meeting new people! And to show our unconditional love we’ve decided to highlight some of these tournaments, ya’know spread the word and maybe get some more people interested in going to these tournaments.

Every week a few tournaments will be featured, one coming from each major region. They will include online tournaments as well as in person tournaments. So we’ve got almost everybody covered!
Keep reading to find out what tournaments got featured this week!



Continue reading Featured Tournaments! #17

Hey all you avid news-readers on AIB. You may know me, or maybe not. I’m Dr. Mara Phy, here to bring you the latest discussion at All is Brawl. I’m bringing hot topics and sweet interviews to your computer screen every week! Don’t forget to leave a comment, so you can have YOUR voice heard!  

 

Today’s topic is a big one. It’s about America, or more importantly, two parts of America. The East Coast and the West Coast. 

 

On AiB, or on any other Smash community for that matter, when a Smasher is asked where he or she lives, the asker is usually interested in the Coast that he/she resides in. The Smasher might then respond with “West Coast”, “East Coast”, or even “Mid Coast”. 

 

This simple explanation of where one lives is more than meets the eye, however, and registers with many more meanings to a fellow Smasher.

 

"Continue Reading" for more!



Continue reading Weekly AiB Discussion with Dr. Phy: Coast to Coast


In continuation with The Casual Corner series, I have decided to write about something that has been on my mind for the longest time… pink puffy singing balls… Let me explain it a little bit better…

 

Ever since Brawl's release in Japan, Jigglypuff has gotten the boot by many, many players. Players complaining about how much she got nerfed, how her Rest is pointless now and how much she basically just sucks.

 

Yet she has not been the only character that has been called a "bad" character to play as. Ganondorf and Captain Falcon are just some other examples that have also been part of this rotund snowball of hatefulness and prejudice.

 

Click on "Continue Reading" for more!



Continue reading The Casual Corner: Mains, Nerfs and Pink Floating Balls

First off, we apologize for the site being down for a few hours Thursday night. Just basic maintenance and whatnot.

In other news, however, some of the AiB moderators have given up some of their time to make up an F.A.Q. (that's "frequently asked questions", just in case ;) ) for everyone to use when in need of knowledge. It can be found here. It'll be updated periodically as new questions and features pop up, of course. You can find it as the top selection under the Home drop down menu. From now on, be sure to read up on your section before posting topics when you're confused on something.

Also, for anyone interested, we now have a new subforum in Brawl Discussion dedicated to the haxors of the site and this newfangled "Ocarina" thing. You should check it out!



Continue reading Got Questions? We have answers.
"But it's Thursday, not Wednesday!" you say? I don't know what you're talking about.

Every Most Wednesdays our programmers spend some time fixing small issues that bug our users. These Wednesday Updates offer a great opportunity for the administration staff to interact with our users and hopefully make some changes to improve your All is Brawl experience. Each week we pick a theme and ask for suggestions for bug fixes and additions regarding that theme; once we gather your input, our staff pick out five suggestions to work on for the next update and give badges to those whose suggestions were chosen!

This week's focus was on private messages. Keep reading for a full list of changes!

Continue reading Wednesday Update #10

So everyone that ordered a shirt or was due a non-signed one via the spread the word contest has had theres shipped (except Leanne B., please contact me to let me know what size u want). The first batch went out over the weekend and the second went out the other day. Thanks everyone for the support and for all the orders so far! If you need to contact me about your order, just drop me a pm.

 

For those of you that have yet to get in on the hotness that is the AiB shirts get um here!

More tournaments for you, here's this week's Featured Tournaments!

Here at All is Brawl we love our tournaments! We love everything about them, from the intense hardcore matches to meeting new people! And to show our unconditional love we’ve decided to highlight some of these tournaments, ya’know spread the word and maybe get some more people interested in going to these tournaments.
Every week a few tournaments will be featured, one coming from each major region. They will include online tournaments as well as in person tournaments. So we’ve got almost everybody covered!

Keep reading to find out what tournaments got featured this week!



Continue reading Featured Tournaments! #16

I hope you guys remember a little contest we did a few months back; it involved some funny screenshots. If you cannot, do not fear, I am here to give you the facts. You see, some time ago, we had a Screenshot Contest. Receiving lots of positive responses from that contest, we decided to continue it (Aren’t you happy?)! We now have Weekly Screenshot Contests!

Now, we are asking for all your creative screenshot taking skillz! We need you guys to participate so we can keep these contests going. Did I mention, the winner, finalists, and everyone who enters gets a sweet new badge and title? So, what are you waiting for!?

This week's theme is “Over 9000”/“Epic Win”. Do your best to stick with this theme. We welcome your amazing creativity and humor for this week! Show us your best! You have from right now until Friday August 8th 11:59pm PST to submit your entries. To enter, go HERE! Voting will happen next week by a panel of judges and a winner will be announced! Good luck guys and gals! We look forward to all the epic entries.

MasterKoga is the one in charge of this contest, so please direct any questions to him. But before you do that, please check out the rules HERE.



Continue reading Weekly Screenshot Contest!
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