So at X8 I publicly announced I would be playing as only Lloyd to prove that Lloyd is a broken character. I said specifically that if I got top 8 then Lloyd is broken.

I subsequently got 0-4'd at X8. So here's what I have to say:

Lloyd is not a broken character, and I am just salty.

There, I said it.

With X8 concluding I feel the need to announce a lot of things regarding the series and anything related to it.

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I'll start off by reannouncing X Scoring System v2.2 as the standard from the month of X9 onward. This makes it a lot easier and makes more sense for ranking players. As always, v3.x will still be used for the 2016 season.

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So I've not been keeping up with maintaining the viewer aspect of the series, so as an addition to the Code of Conduct, failing to save Top 8 replays will result in a ban for the losing player for the next month. I'm sick and tired of incomplete replay collections. It's ruining the experience. erod and Arsenec have been banned for the August month because of this.

Additionally, ditching the tournament without informing a TO will also result in a month ban. This doesn't apply if you have already been eliminated, but it will apply if you are in a Salty Suite or other event that happens after Grand Finals.

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The X Summer Bash was a complete disaster and that alone makes me feel like I shouldn't be running these things. You players need to be better people. Be cool, don't be a douchebag. Yes, I just said that.

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I'm also ready to announce a spinoff of the X Tournament Series. Introducing the

The Q Tournament Series is a ranked doubles series. Most of the logistics are prepared, but it's not 100% complete. Q Monthlies will run on the Friday before the corresponding X Monthly. Q1 is slated to run on 28 August, before X9.

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And one more thing... XSS v2.1 will still be archived and the Elite 4 (against my own will) will be scheduled for after Grand Finals of whatever tournament runs on the 8th.

Enjoy yourselves, and see you all at X9.

This s*** about replays again.

Here you go. Remastered Score Sheet. With XSSv2.2 in flight, a lot of players are now Unranked and even more are not even in the system entirely because of the now irrelevancy of all tournaments except X Monthlies and the current month's events.

http://gg.gg/XSSv2point2 (Links goes to a OneDrive Excel document)

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Super Smash Thursdays 5 will not be scored because the Dropout/DQ percentage is above the threshold (16.6667% > 10%).

It's time to talk again.

I go to score tournaments for the XSS roughly every week. It's a pretty tedious process but it's gotta be done. Except this month. Can anybody guess how many tournaments I have scored this month? ERRRRRRRNT! Time's up.

None. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Zippo. Nichts. Nada. No tournament this month has qualified to be X scored. But why?

The XSS has a policy regarding which tournaments are scored. It's two points. They are:

• The tournament has 8 players or more in it.
• The Disqualification/Dropout percent is less than 10%.

For every tournament this month, the second point has not been fulfilled. Of course dropouts are inevitable; someone's gotta go somewhere at some point in their lives and it may be during an event. But if you even suspect you'll be leaving early from a tournament, just don't join. A 10-entrant tournament is only allowed to have one DQ/DO. That has to be shown in the entrants participating that they are dedicated and committed to not only starting, but finishing a tournament.

What I'm trying to say basically is if you even think you have to drop out mid-tournament, don't sign up.

why dont we punish players instead of to's for players dropping out

: O !!!!!!

That's what I'm trying to say. If you the player think you're not going to be there the whole event then don't bother signing up.

: O !!!!!!
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In other news: Starting with Q1/X9, the Charge Shot Glitch is banned.

that's not punishing the players though : /

the to who put the work in on the tournament and the people who ended up placing high are punished for other peoples' negligence. maybe you could say "if you drop out we deduct blah blah points" from your personal score

This^

Also we need way better commentating, not what you did in Smash Island. We need TSON to commentate with his smooth voice.

i definitely do not have a smooth voice lmfao

That's the thing. When I log scores, DQ/DO are marked as 0, no matter their potential outcome (except if it's negative, then it's negative). That's why Kyoz has only 8 or so points instead of 15.

I'm basically saying "if lots of people drop out mid tournament, there's probably something wrong". In the 8 X Series and 13 Smash Island events, only X7 had more than 10% DQ/DO. A tournament is only as successful as it's players.