Well... I herreby announce the fifth Teams Tournament. WOOOOO!

At least I would be hyped... Just a small "recap": HYPE! 1 was a success, HYPE! 2 still was good... HYPE! 3 was a mistake (from my side, I admit) and I really dont want to talk about HYPE! 4 atm... That brings us to HYPE! 5 - This one. I tried to make the series bigger via the All-Stars scoreboard and All-Stars Battles, but it backfired hard. That brings me to the question... Keep it, change it, or remove it? Im also thinking about something special for this little anniversary, but I dunno if that will do something. So... your choice: Should I keep the series alive, redo it completely or go bury it under a pile of salt? Or do you have any other ideas you can tell me? Anyway, here comes the standart generic text:

Go sign up here: http://challonge.com/SSF2_HYPE_Team_Tournament5

SSF2 HYPE! Teams Tournament 1: http://challonge.com/kgvuq3g3
SSF2 HYPE! Teams Tournament 2: http://challonge.com/SSF2_HYPE_Team_Tournament2
SSF2 HYPE! Teams Tournament 3: http://challonge.com/SSF2_HYPE_Team_Tournament3
SSF2 HYPE! Teams Tournament 4: http://challonge.com/SSF2_HYPE_TEAM_TOURNAMENT_4_REDUX

The HYPE! All-Stars System:

Each team that participates in at least one HYPE! event gets into the scoreboard below. The higher you rank, the more points you get! (Obviously.) Score is adjusted to the amount of teams participating. That means if you win a 6 team tournament you´ll get 5 points, but if you win a 16 Teams big HYPE! Tourney, you will earn 15 points! Players collect points only for their team. This requires that teams actually have both members listed, and if you enter as the same team in several events, please choose the same orders. I don´t wanna see Team A|B for one day and the next tourney it is Team B|A. This score tracking is hard enough, no need to compicate it further! Additionally, starting with HYPE! 3 (THIS ONE), the two best teams will duke it out in an epic 2vs2, Bo1 to see who is the best team out there! Winning an All-Stars Battle gives the team +1 point for the scoreboard. If one team doesn´t attend, the other wins via forfeit. If one player doesn´t attend for the tourney, you can go either 1vs2 or quit out. For the rare case that one player is in the best two teams, the other two team mates will duel in an 1v1 Bo1 Battle.


The HYPE! All-Stars System:

Each team that participates in at least one HYPE! event gets into the scoreboard below. The higher you rank, the more points you get! (Obviously.) Score is adjusted to the amount of teams participating. That means if you win a 6 team tournament you´ll get 5 points, but if you win a 16 Teams big HYPE! Tourney, you will earn 15 points! Players collect points only for their team. This requires that teams actually have both members listed, and if you enter as the same team in several events, please choose the same orders. I don´t wanna see Team A|B for one day and the next tourney it is Team B|A. This score tracking is hard enough, no need to complicate it further! Additionally, starting with HYPE! 3 (THIS ONE), the two best teams will duke it out in an epic 2vs2, Bo1 to see who is the best team out there! Winning an All-Stars Battle gives the team +1 point for the scoreboard. If one team doesn´t attend, the other wins via forfeit. If one player doesn´t attend for the tourney, you can go either 1vs2 or quit out. For the rare case that one player is in the best two teams, the other two team mates will duel in an 1v1 Bo1 Battle.

HYPE! 4 IS NOT COUNTED FOR THE SCOREBOARD. This is due to the sad fact that no matches were played according to the bracket, so I can´t put them into the scoreboard.



Upcoming HYPE! All-Stars Battle at HYPE! 5

Cancelled for now. If it happens, Team BAW! vs. The Eclipse. Please let me know if you attend and are intereseted in this!

Tournament starts on Sunday, April 19th at 10:30 PM CEST, check in opens 30 minutes earlier. And get a time calculator if you need one.

IMPORTANT NOTE AHEAD:

Save the replay of your matches and put them as attachments at the results screen. Save the replay of your matches and put them as attachments at the results screen. I plan on uploading the most entertaining sets to YouTube, so make sure you dont miss your hyped matches!

IMPORTANT NOTE AHEAD:

Dont complain about the bracket until I SAY that it is final. Once I announce the final bracket, reload the site to see if your matches changed.

This tourney will be done as a Teams Tournnament, hecne the name. To register, you have to enter your name and your partner´s name in a fashion like this: Skailler/Partner. Only one team member has to register. You can have two substitution partner if your partner can´t go on/can´t attend at all. If your substitution partners can´t play as well, you can decide wheter or not you want to continue 2v1 or quit. Keep in mind that you can´t enter alone, this is a TEAM TOURNAMENT. In addition to check in, teams have to appear in the SSF2 IRC channel: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net/#supersmashflash Any teams not in the IRC will be kicked. If only one Team member shows up, the other has 10 minutes to appear before he gets kicked. Keep in mind that you still have to check in on this site!

RULESET:

- 3 stocks, 7 minutes; matches that are played under different circumstances WON´T BE COUNTED!

- Team damage is ON

- Seeding is determined by how well you did in the previous HYPE! events. Winning an HYPE! All-Star Battle gives you 1 point for the All-Stars scoreboard, meaning you can get higher seeds!

- Each round has a set time limit of 50 minutes each (70 for Bo5). The timer starts right at the beginning of the set, and NOT with Game 1. So, once the previous Round is over, the timer starts right away. If some matches arent decided yet, the team with the higher score so far. If no match has been played in that set/the current score is tied, the team with the higher score difference from this tourney (4 wins/2 losses=2points for that) wins. If this is equal as well, the team with the higher seed number is declared the winner (Seeding No. 2 beats Seeding No. 5 in this case).

- Starter Stages: Final Destination/Nintendo 3DS (both stages can be stricken at once), Battlefield, Smashville, Pokémon Stadium 3, Dreamland

- Counterpicks: Tower of Salvation (cannot be played on if FD/3DS is stricken), Yoshi´s Story, Castle Siege (Hazards off/on), Sky Sanctuary Zone, Dracula´s Castle, Jungle Hijinx, Wario Ware.

- Stage striking: Teams use the 1-2-2-1 stage striking system to decide which stage to play on. After the first match, the winning team strikes 3 stages from the list above, and the other team can choose which stage to play on. You cannot choose the stage you last won on (Dave´s Stupid Rule).

- After each match, the winning team has to declare wether or not one of them/both players switch characters. After that, the losing team can switch if they want, but have to state that as well. Ignoring this once results in a stock loss for both players, and a second time costs the match. If this should happen three times, the set is lost. Breaking this rule a fouth times resuls in a ban for the rest of the Tournament. Breaking his rule carries over through the whole Tourney, so doing it once in Round 1, 2 and 3 each counts as 3 faults in total with the according consequnces.

- If the game lags too much, the game ends with a tie. If the problem keeps occuring, console me and I will have to personally determine the winning team based off the replays off the previous matches.

- No whining about team colour. You agree on your colours yourself. If someone is partially colourblind or stuff like that, I highly recommend one team to pick blue to avoid any Johns and/or use tags.

- Regular matches are Bo3, Winners/Losers/Grand Finals are Bo5.

- Items are off of course. Same goes for hazards, with the possible exception of Castle Siege.

- No excessive stalling. You can play safe/defensive if you are 1vs2 behind, but dont just go camp under the stage for all eternity. Each player is allowed to go under the stage once per stock. If he does that more than once, both Team members lose a stock. If the concerning player is alone, he forfeits two stocks instead.

- If one player uses the moves that kills both him and one opponent, the player who used the move claims the stock/ the win if both were on their last stock.

-If someone accuses a Team of cheating, give me the replay of said match. If the accusation turns out to be true, the concerened team will get punished via the rules above. If that happens after a HYPE! event, all points earned from that will get deleted. However, if the accusation is wrong, the accusing team will be kicked from this/the next entire tourney and all collected points so far will be deleted. I dont want to see people claiming stuff that isn´t true.

- Stock sharing allowed.

- Gentleman´s Clause is in affect. All of the rules can be altered/ignored if all four players agree to it.

- Most important of all: Have fun! I don´t want people to rage about things, unless they get Wombo Combo´ed or stuff like that.


If you still have any questions, you can ask either me or TheCodeSamurai. Have fun and good luck!


So... thats all. I hope we can get some actual stuff happening this time.

Why don't you move the tournament back by a week to give us more time to hype people for it?

Because it was too simple Is propably sensible, gonna change that.

anybody wanna be my new teammate??????

Ok, forget the last post... I still had April 11st in my head for some reason. Now we only need teams... #GETHYPED

ATTENTION PLOX! HYPE! 5 is gonna be delayed by 24 hours becasue Doq decided to put X5 on that day... Ignorant prick...Aaanyway, I hope everyone can still attend!

Ok, Im done... 2 teams. None of them were in their original form. Im just gonna put the results here...

1st: Chaunch|Boomanter (Jiggs Climbers)
2nd: RemPrower|Skailler

Welp, Im done wwith the series. I honestlyhave enough of seeing this go downhill moer and moer... The fist 2 were nice, and the rest was just utter crap. Time to move on and bury it under a pile of salt... If anyone wants to take over HYPE!, do so. Im done with it.

Well I like the idea of teams tourneys. It's sad that you don't want to run it again.

I'll probably try to revive it or something.

I think I will go for it again after Betas release. I think the main issues were me being a bad TO half of tbe time, the time itself, the fact that ther isnt really a doubles scene atm or a mixture of tbat. I made that post at the peak of my salt, so dont take it too seriohsly. HYPE will come back one day, but lrolly with new name and new everything.