Kongo Falls (SSS)

Kongo Falls is a retired stage on Super Smash Stadium. It debuted on the Season 23 premiere and is the 77th stage to debut overall. It saw 125 appearances in the slightly-over-14 years it was active.
It was originally called Kongo Jungle 2 (with Kongo Jungle naturally being renamed "Kongo Jungle 1"); it assumed the name "Kongo Falls" starting late in Season 35.
==Stage overview==
The stage took place on wooden planks at the edge of a vicious waterfall. The main platform reacted to characters' weights. There were four soft platforms above this one, arranged in a 2×2 formation and with the top left one being smaller than the others. As with Kongo Jungle, there was a Barrel Cannon at the bottom of the stage that could potentially save a fighter who was about to die. A rock also existed in the lower right corner.
A plank would sometimes wash up between the rock and the main battlefield, acting as an extra platform. There was also a hazard on this stage in the form of (an inexplicably orange until Season 36) Klaptrap, who skipped across the water like a stone and, as on Jungle Japes, viciously spiked anyone who got bitten. It could even get stuck in the Barrel Cannon for 15 seconds!
==Changes==
The stage was given a graphical update on or by May 23, 2007; this was also when the stage began to be called "Kongo Falls". It was further changed to use a sunset background on its first Season 36 playing, on February 21, 2008.
The first few taped playings of this stage used a stormy background (à la Ropey Rampage) and the Battlefield Format. The rock and planks were also missing at this time. Later Season 23 playings (as well as the debut playing on the season premiere) added the rock and switched to a sunny daytime background, but kept the original appearance. After one of the hosts complained on-air, "ANOTHER Battlefield ripoff!?! How many of those do we HAVE now!?!", the stage was finally changed, on March 24, 1995.
==Why it was retired==
The stage had a "king of the hill" challenge where if the contestant were the only one to be on the rock for an entire match AND won, they'd win an extra $500. Well, on the stage's sole playing in Season 37, Alex flubbed the rules explanation slightly, claiming that the contestant would get the $500 win or lose. With St. Clair Publications going through a tumultuous period at the time due to multiple legal troubles with DeviantArt (including a doxing controversy), the other staff was apparently scared to tell Alex that he'd messed up, so they let his flub be the "new rules" and then retired the stage afterward.
==In its own universe==
This stage appears to be completely original.