Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl’s First Big-Money Tournament Bans Ninja Turtle Michelangelo - Kotaku

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Super Smash Con partnered with All-Star Brawl publisher GameMill Entertainment and coaching service Metafy to provide $10,000 for the game’s prize pool, resulting in a bracket almost 200 players strong.

Super Smash Con tournament director Michael “Nintendude” Brancato recently released such a ruleset, and while most of it is standard fare—six-minute time limit, three stocks apiece, no abusing overpowered mechanics—the line about Michelangelo’s banning stuck out to those unaware of the terror the pizza-scarfing reptile has been wreaking in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl.

The first, as shown in the video above, involves his ability to stall a match indefinitely by way of his Party Dude special, which can be canceled into a jump even if he’s out of jumps (like in Super Smash Bros., characters in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl can generally jump twice before needing to land and reset).

Brancato told Kotaku, however, that that’s not why Michelangelo is being banned, seeing as Super Smash Con’s general ruleset already prevents players from intentionally delaying or prolonging matches.