Quote Originally Posted by Blademaster View Post
Also, whose moronic idea was it to ban New Pork City? That stage is awesome to fight on. Unless you spend all your time running from the enemy, in which case you're a fucking hack and you shouldn't be playing the game in the first place if you can only win by exploiting the game's design.
It's not about running away to make the time last longer; it's about how it takes freaking forever to KO somebody on that stage. The physical space the arena takes up is about 1.5 times the space that Melee: Temple takes up, and people used to hate playing on Temple for its sheer size. Even if you're both right up in each others' faces the entire time, it will still take you twice as long to KO someone on that stage compared to just about any other stage. Not to mention that the always-zoomed-out camera makes it hard to focus on your character, especially if you and your opponent pick the same character.

Anyway, I agree it should be more than just 4 Stock if we're doing Best of 3. This isn't a standard sit-in tournament where they have a limited time to have the competition finish, especially if you say we'll have 5-7 days to arrange a time and battle. I like the idea of a Timed Stock battle, so you'll never waste time if someone delays, but if you're good enough you can also end the battle quickly. I think 10 Stock, 8-10 minutes should be good. Plus, if you have that many stock and that much time, that can allow Smash Balls to be used at the same rate without it being a huge upset. (Actually, can you even change the rate of certain items but not all of them? I thought you could only change the frequency of all items.)

Oh, and Big Blue is the one where you're riding on the racing cars the entire time. There is a single platform that's always there, but many times it's halfway off the screen anyway. Plus, if you get knocked down to the track, there's a 80-100% chance you'll get pulled off the screen to an instant-KO. Port Town: Aero Dive is the one that's perpendicular to the track that has the (small but) stationary platform that zips around the track, stopping at 5 or so different spots.