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What's A Tourney?
A bunch of people submit characters. They get paired up for matches and eliminated on loss. Repeat until there's a Champion.Instead of giving stat ranges, arbitrarily listing hax that isn't allowed, or trying to eyeball which profiles to disqualify, I'll aim to make matches fair by listing a character which each submission has to have a chance of losing to. If a character is initially argued as risking a loss to the tiersetter, but is later reasoned to be stronger in a way that'd have them consistently beat the tiersetter, they will be disqualified from the tournament.
The tiersetter for this tournament will be Shiro Hinomoto, he starts off at 12.48 Megatons and can double that in Re-Baking.
- Entries must have at least a small chance of losing to the tiersetter, Shiro. One could envision this as roughly a 5% chance of losing, at minimum.
- This match against Shiro will take place under SBA. If issues pop up, I may add exceptions before the tourney starts. And yes, this means that they will start at least 3km apart.
- The small chance of losing can not be solely attributable to an unlikely interpretation of a character. An ability which is heavily implied to inflict instant death, but could plausibly be interpreted as a coincidence, would not be considered a small chance of the tiersetter winning. The prevailing interpretation has to be that they would at least occasionally lose to the tiersetter, if the match was run many times.
- The small chance of losing can not be solely attributable to an ability, or other source of aid which intrinsically has a 50% or lower chance of failing. This applies to cases such as "wild magic where 80% of the options instantly kill the opponent, and 20% instantly kill the user", and cases such as "rolls a dice, on anything other than a 1 the setting's god smites the opponent".
- Characters can be submitted in any form permitted by our ordinary Versus Thread Rules.
- Characters should not be submitted that are undergoing revisions that have a non-negligible chance of impacting their matches.
- If there are enough submissions, I will give priority to those that are from different users and/or verses than submissions which preceded them.
- Matches within the tourney will operate under SBA, with speed equalized. If issues pop up, or a certain submission needs a change, I may add exceptions before the tourney starts.
- I am allowed to decree the outcome of a match for the sake of the tourney. This doesn't mean it can be added to profiles, but it does determine the tourney structure. I'll only use this in the case of disqualifications, or matches which are clearly leaning one way but are struggling to muster up the 7 votes needed for an official conclusion.
- If a match is determined to be inconclusive, both characters will move into the next round. Depending on the exact circumstances of that inconclusive outcome, the next combatant may start the next round joining in after the previous round's combatants have been fighting inconclusively for a while.
- Can my entry lose really really hard to the tiersetter?
- Yes. But if that entry doesn't lead to interesting interactions with other contestants, I may give priority to a submission that will contribute more seriously.
- Will speed be equalized?
- It will go case by case depending on match ups. Say character A has 3x to 6x speed difference or amp, but character B has ways around it such as AD, passives, or higher durability (at least 4x), I won't equalize.
- How would Shiro act in battle?
- Utilizes his ice abilities and Superluminova in cqc to long range battles. Given his opponent's strength he may enter Re-Baking soon.
- What if my submission always has an inconclusive result with the tiersetter?
- If it's a tie, then that ain't a loss, so they won't qualify. If it's an equal chance of winning or losing, that meets the requirements.
- What will happen if a character gets disqualified?
- It's up to my discretion. In the first round, I'll replace that character with the submitter's backup, unless they've submitted multiple backups that have been disqualified. Outside of that case, I'll replace with another user's backup, giving priority to users without a pick still in the tourney. From the second round onward, I may replace disqualified characters with the character they beat in the previous round. If there aren't any backups left, or if too many replacements occur in quick succession, it will be treated as a loss.
- Can I only propose 7-B characters? No. I will allow High 7-C if they have amps that put them close or up to anything near 12 Megatons, e.i, 4 megatons. This can be through tech, weapons, or special attacks.
- Tanned Cirno
- Deathmaster Snikch
- Kadabra
- Xiao (Could be removed)
- Raiden (Might be changed)
- 1982 Hulk
- The Human Race
- Metalder
- Post-Timeskip Futaba
- Mori Dan's GoH finals key
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