Battlefield (SSS)

:This article is strictly about how Battlefield appears in Super Smash Stadium. For information about it in general, see its article on SmashWiki.
Battlefield is an active stage on Super Smash Stadium, billed as the most popular one on the show. It debuted halfway through Season 11 and was the 53th stage to debut.
From Seasons 14 to 46, Metal Smashes always happened here. Previously, it was the "home stage" of whoever Player 1 was unless they elected to "pass" to Player 2, and while that mechanic has since returned to SSS, Metal Smashes still happen on "Battlefield forms" of stages, if only so that mechanic can actually be implemented in SSS (there are no Omega forms).
==Stage overview==
It's pretty much the stereotype of the Smash Bros. series, so much so that any other stage that has its form is said to have the "Battlefield Layout". There's one big, hard platform at the bottom, and three soft platforms at the top, arranged in a triangle fashion, with the middle one being higher than the left and right ones. All blast zones are accessible, the side ones aren't walk-offs, and there are no hazards or obstacles to contend with, so this is the second closest SSS comes to a true "neutral" stage, after Final Destination.
The way the cash payout is determined for winning contestants is unique: during the commercial break afterward, the contestant does a variant on 100-Man Smash, winning $500 ($250 prior to October 15, 1998) for every Mii knocked out. The Fighting Miis are slightly harder than they would be in a canon Smash Bros. game. The last 15 seconds of these matches are shown coming back from the break.
==Changes==
The last major change to this stage happened on its first playing in Season 39, when it was updated to what would become its Smash 4 appearance, but with a variant of its Mêlée background. Prior to this, it used the Mêlée appearance outright, and prior to February 1991, the stage had its Smash 64 "Duel Zone" appearance.
==Notable playings?==
December 5, 2008's episode of SSS, which featured the first taped playing of Battlefield for Season 37, also featured a somewhat nightmarish outtake involving the 100-Man Smash minigame. The show had been on a taping hiatus for the summer, and during the hiatus, a promo was done for Super Smash Bros. Brawl on Battlefield where the then-Fighting Alloys were apparently rigged to die a lot easier than usual. Whoever rigged that game apparently forgot to un-rig it before tapings resumed, as the contestant in that playing wound up getting 60 kills in just 30 seconds before the mistake was finally caught. He was ultimately allowed to keep the "dirty" $30,000 he got in addition to the $5,241 he'd won legitimately, off just six kills.
On September 27, 2013, all six main-game matches were done on Battlefield, allegedly in honor of its "30th anniversary", which had actually happened nearly nine months prior. Considered one of the worst SSS episodes ever, it showed the dangers of "too much of a good thing". This has never been done again with any other stage, and all subsequent anniversary celebrations of this stage have happened on or close to January 3rd.
==In its own universe==
Battlefield has been a staple of the entire Smash Bros. series since the beginning. It did not start becoming a playable stage until Mêlée, and even then, you had to unlock it. Since Brawl, it's been a default stage and is usually the first one listed.