Tournament:The Big House 4

The Big House 4
Dates	October 4th-5th, 2014
Venue	Sheraton DTW Hotel
Address/City	8000 South Merriman Romulus, Michigan
Attendance	709
Entry fees	Melee singles: $10 Melee doubles: $10 per person Project M singles: $10 Project M doubles: $10 per person Venue: $30-35
Pot size(s)	Melee singles: $5,740 Melee doubles: $2,280 Project M singles: $3,330 Project M doubles: $1,040
Results
winners	Mango 1v1  Armada &  Mew2King 2v2
winners	ZeRo 1v1  Mew2King &  ZeRo 2v2
Staff
Organizer(s)	Juggleguy, Strong Bad, SonuvaBeach, 2Shadez

The Big House 4 was a Super Smash Bros. Melee and Project M national tournament held in Romulus, Michigan, on October 4th-5th, 2014, hosted primarily by Juggleguy and Strong Bad. In addition to featuring professional smashers from the Midwest region such as Duck, Anther, Kels, VaNz, and Darkrain, the tournament also featured powerful out-of-region talent such as Mango, Mew2King, Hungrybox, Axe, Hax, Westballz, KirbyKaze, Plup, Colbol, SFAT, Lucky, Shroomed, MacD, Zhu, Bladewise, The Moon, Darrell, HugS, and Wizzrobe, as well as international talent such as Armada, Leffen, ZeRo, and Professor Pro.

The Big House 4 currently stands as one of the largest Project M tournaments to date, with 333 entrants for Project M; additionally, the event was the largest Midwest Melee tournament at the time, surpassing the previous record set by MELEE-FC Diamond in 2007, and the tournament was also the largest to run round-robin pools.

Amid growing concerns over average gameplay time in version 3.02, The Big House 4 was the first major tournament to use three stocks in Project M games instead of the previous standard of four.

In the Melee singles bracket, after losing to Mew2King's Sheik 0-3 in winners' semifinals, Mango swept through losers' bracket, defeating Lucky 3-2 in losers' quarterfinals, Armada 3-1 in losers' semifinals, and Leffen 3-1 in losers' finals, finally beating Mew2King in two consecutive 3-1 sets of grand finals to win the tournament. Leffen reached winners' finals for the first time in a major American tournament, defeating top professional players such as Hungrybox and Armada; his performance solidified his position among the best players of Melee. Hungrybox lost to Leffen 2-3 in winners' quarters, as well as to Lucky 1-3 in losers' bracket, unexpectedly finishing at 9th place, his worst tournament placing since 2007. A large amount of other upsets occurred in Melee singles, with Kels eliminating Axe 3-1 in losers' bracket to make it to top 8, and Kalamazhu making a long run through losers' bracket to secure 9th place, defeating KirbyKaze and MacD, before losing in an extremely close set 2-3 against Hax.

Schedule

Friday, October 3rd

9:00 PM: Venue opens
10:00 PM: Melee It On Me podcast
12:00 AM: Venue closes

Saturday, October 4th

9:00 AM: Venue opens
11:00 AM: Melee singles pools, Melee doubles pools, Project M singles pools
3:00 PM: Project M doubles pools
8:00 PM: Melee singles pools (2nd round), Project M singles pools (2nd round)
12:00 AM: Venue closes

Sunday, October 5th

9:00 AM: Venue opens
10:00 AM: Melee doubles bracket top 16, Project M singles bracket top 32
1:00 PM: Melee singles bracket top 32, Project M doubles bracket top 8
4:00 PM: Project M singles bracket top 8
7:00 PM: Melee singles bracket top 8
10:00 PM: Tournament ends

Melee Ruleset

• 4 stock, 8:00 minute timer.
• Items off.
• Ties after the time limit are determined by stocks, then by percentage.
• Master Hand is banned.
• Wobbling is banned.
• Stalling with Jigglypuff's Rising Pound or Peach's Peach Bomber is banned.
• Glitches such as Ice Climbers' freeze glitch and Mewtwo's Soul Breaker are banned.
• Dave's Stupid Rule is in effect.
• Life stealing is allowed in doubles.
• Friendly Fire is turned on in doubles.
• Pause is turned off.

Stage striking for neutral stages for the first match of the set is done in a "1221" fashion:

1. First player strikes one stage.
2. Second player strikes two stages.
3. First player strikes one stage.

Stagelist

Neutral (Singles)

• Final Destination
• Yoshi’s Story
• Dream Land
• Battlefield
• Fountain of Dreams

Counterpick (Singles)

• Pokémon Stadium

Neutral (Doubles)

• Final Destination
• Yoshi’s Story
• Dream Land
• Battlefield
• Pokémon Stadium

Counterpick (Doubles)

• Kongo Jungle 64

Stage procedure

After each match:

1. Winner announces stage ban (except in best-of-5 sets)
2. Loser chooses counterpick stage
3. Winner chooses their character
4. Loser chooses their character

Project M Ruleset

• 3 stock, 8:00 minute timer.
• All items set to off and item frequency set to NONE.
• Input Assist set to off.
• Ties after the time limit are determined by stocks, then by percentage.
• Dave's Stupid Rule is in effect.
• Life stealing is allowed in doubles.
• Friendly Fire is turned on in doubles.
• Pause is turned off.

Stage Strike from Starters for the first match of the set in "1221" fashion:

1. First player strikes one stage.
2. Second player strikes two stages.
3. First player strikes one stage

Stagelist

Starter

• Battlefield
• Dreamland
• Green Hill Zone
• Pokémon Stadium 2
• Smashville

Counterpick

• Final Destination
• Fountain of Dreams
• Lylat Cruise
• Skyworld
• Wario Ware, Inc.
• Yoshi’s Island: Brawl

Stage procedure

After each match:

1. Winner announces two (2) stage bans
2. Loser chooses counterpick stage
3. Winner chooses their character
4. Loser chooses their character

Results

Melee singles

(574 entrants)
Top 32 bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Mango		$2,280
2nd	Mew2King		$1,140
3rd	Leffen		$855
4th	Armada		$570
5th	Hax		$285
5th	Lucky		$285
7th	Kels		$143
7th	Westballz		$143
9th	Axe
9th	Kalamazhu
9th	Hungrybox
9th	Plup
13th	Wizzrobe
13th	MacD
13th	Colbol
13th	The Moon
17th	Shroomed
17th	Nintendude
17th	KirbyKaze
17th	SFAT
17th	Abate
17th	DJ Nintendo
17th	Hanky Panky
17th	Gravy
25th	RaynEX
25th	Bladewise
25th	Porkchops
25th	Dart!
25th	Darkrain
25th	Zanguzen
25th	Zhu
25th	Duck
33rd	Plank
33rd	Laudandus
33rd	Gahtzu
33rd	Milkman
33rd	Bizzarro Flame
33rd	Cactuar
33rd	HugS
33rd	Phish-It
33rd	Tai
33rd	Professor Pro
33rd	VaNz
33rd	Redd
33rd	Moose
33rd	Drephen
33rd	Trail
33rd	Slayer

Melee doubles

(114 teams)
Top 16 bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Armada		Mew2King		$1,026 ($513 each)
2nd	Hungrybox		Plup		$456 ($228 each)
3rd	Leffen		Hax		$342 ($171 each)
4th	MacD		VaNz		$228 ($114 each)
5th	Colbol		DoH		$114 ($57 each)
5th	Axe		SFAT		$114 ($57 each)
7th	Shroomed		HomeMadeWaffles
7th	Wizzrobe		Gahtzu
9th	DJ Nintendo		The Moon
9th	Mango		Scar
9th	Zhu		Cactuar
9th	Darkrain		Westballz
13th	Zanguzen		Kalamazhu
13th	Kels		Vro
13th	Tafokints		Redd
13th	Lucky		HugS

Project M singles

(333 entrants)
Top 32 bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	ZeRo		$1,332
2nd	Professor Pro		$666
3rd	Mew2King		$444
4th	Junebug		$333
5th	Pink Fresh		$166.50
5th	Wizzrobe		$166.50
7th	Armada		$83.25
7th	Ripple		$83.25
9th	Coney
9th	Oracle
9th	Seibrik
9th	Oro?!
13th	Hungrybox
13th	DLA
13th	SFAT
13th	Axe
17th	Plup
17th	Fumbles
17th	ORLY
17th	Westballz
17th	Plasma
17th	VaNz
17th	Nick Riddle
17th	Carls493
25th	Frootloop
25th	DJ Nintendo
25th	Tagless Kyle
25th	Jolteon
25th	DMX
25th	Kappy
25th	Porkchops
25th	Solharath

Project M doubles

(52 teams)
Top 8 bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Mew2King		ZeRo		$520 ($260 each)
2nd	Wizzrobe		Plup		$260 ($130 each)
3rd	Junebug		Pink Fresh		$156 ($78 each)
4th	Oro?!		Ripple		$104 ($52 each)
5th	Armada		Professor Pro
5th	Abate		KOKingpin
7th	VaNz		Drephen
7th	Nintendude		Oracle

External links

• Original thread
• Results thread
• Facebook event
• Website
• Challonge page
• TBH4 Teaser Trailer
• TBH4 Trailer #2
• TBH4 Trailer #3