Information
SmashIceland.com
This web application/site was primarly created to give an overview over the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate scene in Iceland and to provide a tournament organizer (TO) a simple tool to manage their tournaments.
It shall also present an entry point for new players to find their respective local smash community.
Calendar
With the help of the start.gg API and with self written web crawler programs, that runs once every night, SmashIceland is able to find and list all the SSBU tournaments in Iceland that were added to either one of the following sites:
The calendar shows all found SSBU tournaments in Iceland from two weeks ago and four months into the future. It distinguishes between the following tournament types:
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Weekly -> On smashiceland.com created weekly tournament
Internal -> On smashiceland.com created tournament
External -> On an external site created tournament
Power Ranking (PR)
A tournament will be considered an official SmashIceland tournament and will count to the PR when the following requirements are met:
- Announced at least 2 weeks before its start date on smashiceland.com or on the SmashIceland Discord tournaments channel
- A minimum of 16 attendees
- Reasonable seeding
- Enough lagless setups with decent sitting opportunities
- Must be held on a weekend and with reasonable start and end times
- Weeklies do not count to the PR
Tournament organiser
SmashIceland.ch contains a web application for the simple creation and administration of smash tournaments.
It is particularly suitable for weeklies, as it allows the generation of several tournaments in a defined period of time.
Are you organising tournaments yourself and would like to use the SmashIceland Tournament Manager? Just add the TO role to your profile!
Bracket tool
Because of its free, lagless and easy to use brackets and API, the SmashIceland tournament manager uses Challonge.
Bracket seeding
The initial seeding is done by generating a player list sorted by skill from all the data on SmashIceland.com:
The final seeding is done manually by a TO.
Results
Besides the results (match scores and rankings) of the SmashIceland Tournament Manager internal tournaments, smashiceland.com is also able to get the results from all other tournaments in Iceland. The only condition is, that the tournament was imported on braacket.com in the SSBU IS PRs league.
Scoring system
Regardless of the number of participants per tournament, the players rank at the end of a tournament decides the received amount of points.
| Rank | Points |
|---|---|
| 1st | 300 |
| 2nd | 250 |
| 3rd | 200 |
| 4th | 150 |
| 5th-6th | 100 |
| 7th-8th | 75 |
| 9th-12th | 50 |
| 13th-16th | 25 |
| 17th-24th | 15 |
| 25th-32nd | 10 |
| >32nd | 5 |
