Tournament:The Big House 3
| The Big House 3 | |
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| The Big House 3 logo.jpg | |
| Dates | October 12th-13th, 2013 |
| Venue | Hilton Garden Inn Ann Arbor |
| Address/City | 1404 Briarwood Circle Ann Arbor, Michigan 
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| Attendance | 240+ |
| Entry fees | Melee singles: $15 Melee doubles: $10 per person Project M singles: $15 Project M doubles: $10 per person Venue: $25-30 |
| Results | |
 winners
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Mew2King 1v1 Mew2King & Hungrybox 2v2
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 winners
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Kirk 1v1
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The Big House 3 was a Super Smash Bros. Melee and Project M national tournament held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on October 12-13th, 2013, hosted by Juggleguy and Strong Bad. It is the most recent in the Big House series of tournament events, following The Big House 2.
Schedule
Friday, October 11th
9:00 PM: Doors open
11:00 PM: Melee It On Me live from The Big House 3 featuring The Smash Brothers documentary premiere
1:00 AM: Doors close
Saturday, October 12th
9:00 AM: Doors open
10:00 AM: Melee singles pools, Project M singles pools
4:00 PM: Food break
5:00 PM: Melee doubles, Project M doubles
8:00 PM: Melee singles pools (2nd round)
11:00 PM: Doors close
Sunday, October 13th
9:00 AM: Doors open
10:00 AM: Project M singles bracket
2:00 PM: Finish Melee doubles, finish Project M doubles
4:00 PM: Food break
5:00 PM: Melee singles bracket
9:00 PM: Tournament ends
Melee ruleset
- 4 stock, 8:00 time limit
- 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 used against the wall repeatedly is banned.
- Glitches such as the Ice Climbers' freeze glitch and Mewtwo's soul stunner are banned.
- Dave's Stupid Rule: A stage that a player has won on in a set cannot be counterpicked unless the opponent agrees.
- Stage strike from neutrals for the first match of the set in "1221" fashion:
- First player strikes one stage.
- Second player strikes the next two stages.
- First player strikes one stage.
- After each match:
- Winner announces stage ban (except in best-of-5 sets)
- Loser chooses counterpick stage
- Winner chooses their character
- Loser chooses their character
Stage list
Singles
Starters:
Counterpicks:
Doubles
Starters:
Counterpicks:
Project M ruleset
- 4 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: A stage that a player has won on in a set cannot be counterpicked unless the opponent agrees.
- Stage strike from starters for the first match of the set in "122112" fashion:
- First player strikes one stage.
- Second player strikes the next two stages.
- First player strikes the next two stages.
- Second player strikes one stage.
- After each match:
- Winner announces two (2) stage bans
- Loser chooses counterpick stage
- Winner chooses their character
- Loser chooses their character
Stage list
Singles
Starters:
- Battlefield
- Dream Land
- Final Destination
- Pokémon Stadium 2
- Smashville
- Yoshi's Story
Counterpicks:
- Dracula's Castle
- Green Hill Zone
- Lylat Cruise
- WarioWare, Inc.
- Yoshi's Island (Brawl)
Doubles
Starters:
- Battlefield
- Dream Land
- Final Destination
- Pokémon Stadium 2
- Smashville
- SSE Jungle
- Yoshi's Island (Brawl)
Counterpicks:
- Dracula's Castle
- Fountain of Dreams
- Green Hill Zone
- Lylat Cruise
- WarioWare, Inc.
Results
Melee Singles
Entrants were split into 16 round robin pools of 10-11 players each. The top four players from each pool advanced to the next round of pools, in which the top four players advanced again to a final bracket of 32 players.
- Bracket
- (172 entrants)
- 1.
Mew2King 
$960 - 2. Hungrybox
$480 - 3. Dr. PeePee
$360 - 4. SFAT $240
- 5. Hax
$120 - 5. Nintendude
$120 - 7. Darkatma $60
- 7. PewPewU $60
- 9. Scar
- 9. PikaChad
- 9.
Kage 
- 9. Idea
- 13. Trail
- 13. Kels
- 13. Yakal
- 13. Prince Abu
- 17. Wife
- 17. Duck
- 17. Moose
- 17. Frootloop
- 17. Hanky Panky
- 17. Shaeden
- 17. Kalamazhu
- 17. Europhoria
- 25. j00t
- 25. VaNz (forfeited)
- 25. Zoso
- 25. KJH
- 25. Wake
- 25. Christian
- 25. Slayer
- 25. Carroll
Melee Doubles
- Bracket
- (48 teams)
- 1: Hungrybox + Mew2King ($480)
- 2: SFAT + PewPewU ($240)
- 3: Dr. PeePee + Hax ($144)
- 4: Kage + VaNz ($96)
- 5: Scar + HyugaRicdeau
- 5: Kels + Darkatma
- 7: Duck + Moose
- 7: Frootloop + ORLY
- 9: Hanky Panky + Prince Abu
- 9: Shaeden + HIV+
- 9: Kalamazhu + Toph
- 9: Nakamaru + The Lake
- 13: Idea + Ripple
- 13: Wife + Nintendude
- 13: Gibby + Violence
- 13: Max Berger + Wake
- 17: BlackPanther + Gooeybanana
- 17: Anther + Bowyer
- 17: Cort + ZoSo
- 17: Bernal + HammerTime
- 17: Cheato + The Good Doctor
- 17: MB-Smash + Super Lous
- 17: Asylum + Gravy
- 17: BigWenz + CTL
- 25: Dope + Juggleguy
- 25: Dio Brando + MattDotZeb
- 25: Arty + Scythe
- 25: Spife + Slartibartfast42
- 25: Slayer + Professor Chromeagay
- 25: Trail + KishPrime
- 25: Coffeeblack + Europhoria
- 25: Artificial Flavor + Blake
- 33: .Dempt + Captain Cleveland
- 33: Lanceinthepants + Little England
- 33: Green Ranger + Sweet
- 33: moogle + TheCrimsonBlur
- 33: mordicon + Mundungu
- 33: Chase + Noah
- 33: Goose + OnionChild
- 33: Formal + Game
- 33: Carroll + Housewife
- 33: Kanye Rest + Butt Zone
- 33: KELLYK + Luigigo-shard
- 33: Alco + Butch G
- 33: Acro + Shibbypod
- 33: DFU + Quaz
- 33: 0Prz + Rusty Shacklefurd
- 33: luigi master tae + Skighwalker
Project M Singles
Entrants were split into 8 round robin pools of 5-6 players each. The top three players from each pool advanced to a final bracket of 48 players.
- (90 entrants)
- 1. Kirk
$594 - 2. Chad
$264 - 3. Vanz
$198 - 4. Mew2King
$132 - 5. Rat
$66 - 5. Oracle
$66 - 7. Hungrybox
- 7. Scythe
- 9. SFAT
- 9. Yakal
- 9. Shaeden
- 9. Oro?!
- 13. Strong Bad
- 13. Ripple
- 13. MattDotZeb
- 13. Hammertime
- 17. Trail
- 17. Arty
- 17. Gravy
- 17. Heysuess
- 17. Rizer
- 17. JCaesar
- 17. Kappy
- 17. Metroid
- 25. Asylum
- 25. HyugaRicdeau
- 25. Rusty Shacklefurd
- 25. Dope
- 25. Mudkyp
- 25. OnionChild
- 25. KishPrime
- 25. j00t
- 33. Calabrel
- 33. Lordy
- 33. JStm
- 33. Moogle
- 33. Zwarm
- 33. Chase
- 33. Susan
- 33. Green Ranger
- 33. ORLY
- 33. PewPewU (DQ'ed)
- 33. Sweet
- 33. Flan~
- 33. Storm
- 33. GooeyBanana
- 33. Frootloop (DQ'ed)
- 33. Anther
Trivia
- The Big House 3 marks the first time a Project M character was made available to play before its official release (the character being Roy).
- Mewtwo was also announced to join the Project M roster at the event, following the Project M top eight matches.
- The Big House 3 partnered with VGBootCamp, East Point Pictures, and Melee It On Me to present the "The Smash Brothers" documentary premiere.
- Episodes of the documentary were released concurrently with the tournament after the premiere.
- With 172 Melee entrants, The Big House 3 became the biggest Midwest Melee tournament since MELEE-FC Diamond in 2007.
- The Big House 3 is the fourth-biggest Project M tournament of all time with 90 entrants, behind Apex 2014's 382 entrants, Shuffle V's 154 entrants, and MELEE-FC10R Legacy's 105 entrants.
