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==1-on-1== | ==1-on-1== | ||
*Matches are only played on {{SSB|Dream Land}}, the only [[neutral stage]]. Tournaments with [[Smash Remix]] or [[19XXTE]] have alternative versions of this ruleset. | *Matches are only played on {{SSB|Dream Land}}, the only [[neutral stage]]. Tournaments with [[Smash Remix]] or [[19XXTE]] may have alternative versions of this ruleset. | ||
** | **Dreamland clones without wind like Zebes Landing from [[Smash Remix]] can be legal in some tournaments. | ||
**Also some online tournaments in 2021 like {{Trn|Frame Perfect Series 5: ONLINE}} or [https://quarterlyrapport.challonge.com/quar3ssb64ec Quarantined 3] or [https://ssb64eu.challonge.com/wt2021 European Winter Tourney] had new stages from the Remix mod legal, most common choices are [[Smashville]], [[Yoshi's Story]] and [[Pokemon Stadium]]. | |||
*Sets between players are played best 2 out of 3 matches. | *Sets between players are played best 2 out of 3 matches. | ||
:*3 out of 5 matches apply for all (or occasionally most) of Top 8, which is Winner's Semis, Loser's Semis, Winner's Finals, Loser's Finals, and Grand Finals. In most majors, top 32 is also 3/5 as long as time permits. | :*3 out of 5 matches apply for all (or occasionally most) of Top 8, which is Winner's Semis, Loser's Semis, Winner's Finals, Loser's Finals, and Grand Finals. In most majors, top 32 is also 3/5 as long as time permits. | ||
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The Waterfall Bracket (otherwise known as the WTF Bracket) is a bracket style designed to let everyone attending the tournament be able to play a lot of matches against players of similar skill. It was created by {{Sm|Shears}} and {{Sm|Dark Gentleman}} and became popular in 2017 and was used in most majors since then. | The Waterfall Bracket (otherwise known as the WTF Bracket) is a bracket style designed to let everyone attending the tournament be able to play a lot of matches against players of similar skill. It was created by {{Sm|Shears}} and {{Sm|Dark Gentleman}} and became popular in 2017 and was used in most majors since then. | ||
There is the option to start off with a Placement | There is the option to start off with a ''Placement Pools'' where pools of 5 to 8 people play Round Robin style. The pools are designed to contain 1 elite player, a couple well respected players that aren't elite yet and the rest of the players beginner level. After that placement pool - or by seeding if there is no placement pool - the attendees are put into different rounds of round robin pools: The tournament is then separated into multiple ''divisions'' (for example 4 divisions, usually named by numbers 1-4) with multiple round robin pools in each division (for example 4 pools, named 1A-1D for division 1). | ||
The lowest seeded players / worst players in placement pools are put into the pools lowest division (for example division 4), the highest seeded players start in the first division (1). The matches of the lowest divisions are played first then and the best players in each pool make it into the next highest division (for example from division 4 to division 3) and the other players are out of the tournament. Then the next divisions are played one after the other and the best players of division A's pools usually play a top 8/16/24/32/64 double elimination bracket. | The lowest seeded players / worst players in placement pools are put into the pools lowest division (for example division 4), the highest seeded players start in the first division (1). The matches of the lowest divisions are played first then and the best players in each pool make it into the next highest division (for example from division 4 to division 3) and the other players are out of the tournament. Then the next divisions are played one after the other and the best players of division A's pools usually play a top 8/16/24/32/64 double elimination bracket. | ||
More recently, these brackets have been ran '''without''' | More recently, these brackets have been ran '''without''' the ''Placement Pools'' due to players (such as {{Sm|SuPeRbOoMfAn}} and others at [[Shine 2018]]) sandbagging to get extra practice. Players are seeded by conceived skill and advance as per above to the next pool if they do well enough in their division. | ||
==External links/Example stage lists== | ==External links/Example stage lists== | ||