Today at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern, the Seasonal Amiibo League Team Invitational starts on twitch.tv/splicestream. It’s an Amiibo League format you might not have seen before so I want to give a quick rundown of how the League works. For general rules, just scroll to the bottom but I want to explain how things work in a little more detail.
First, we don’t have equipment in this League. I personally like the IDEA of equipment but in practice it has lead to the need to grind in order to be competitve. With Amiibos already having a money and availability barrier-to-entry, I find adding equipment on top of that to be a bit onerous. We do however allow for custom moves as those are more easily attained than specific equipment types and you don’t HAVE to have certain custom moves to be competitive.
Secondly, the word Seasonal isn’t here to say this is happening in Summer. It is to say that there is a full season of matches, the likes you’d see in in a regular sports league. That means the season has two parts to it:
The Regular season will consist of each team playing every other team in their division. Each division has 16 teams. That means each team will play 15 games before anyone gets eliminated.
The reason for the divisions is because 32 teams is a lot. If everyone played everyone else in a full 32 team division this regular season would need to take almost 4 months. That’s too long in my mind. So instead we have broken everyone up into the Mushroom Kingdom Divison (Known as MKD from hereon out) and the Koopa Kingdom Division (known as KKD from hereon out). Which division a team was put in was assigned randomly.
During the regular season the map pool is randomly assigned with a random number generator from the list of the 31 accepted stages in the pre-season polls (Plus one slot for an Omega stage so we can get some flavor of the banned stages without the poor level designs)
After each team has played 15 games, the top 8 teams from each division will advance to the 2nd half of the season:
The playoffs are double-elimination-best of 3 series. How well you finished in your Division will determine your seeding. #1 of the MKD will face off against #8 of the KKD. #2 of MKD will face off against #7 of KKD. This pattern repeats until it ends with #8 of the MKD faces off against #1 of the KKD.
Levels are no longer random in the playoffs. In the sign-up sheet the players selected what they thought to be the 7 best stages to play on. They are….
Within the same round, everyone will play on the same 3 maps. So, in the first round of the playoffs everyone would play Battlefield, Midgar, & Smashville but in the second round everyone would play Dreamland 64, Umbra Clock Tower, & Final Destination. This will help us to still have a variety of stages but omitting the most egregious stages.
The Finals will be slightly different form the rest of the playoffs as they will be a best of 5 and will be decided on the 5 maps that received the most votes: Battlefield, Midgar, Smashville, Dreamland 64 & Umbra Clock Tower. I can’t decide if we should go in that order or reverse order. Either way, those 5 maps to determine who is the champion and who gets the trophy.
What trophy you ask? Why, it’s only the coolest trophy ever! Designed by thread_speaker (owner of team Bad Match-up) the trophy will be designed to look like a golden salt-shaker but also be an Amiibo! That’s right! Since this is season 01 and Mario is smasher 01, the first season will be a Mario Amiibo. It’s why the Divisions are named mushroom Kindom and Koopa Kingdom. Those were the only real “worlds” in the first Mario game. In future seasons of SALTI the divisions will always be named after levels or worlds in the universe of whatever Amiibo is the trophy (so next season is DK, season 3 is Link, etc)
Some of the fun of training Amiibos is watching them learn and grow. But if my experience in my other tournament, SLAP, has taught me anything is that the other half of watching Amiibos is seeing them do dumb crap and wonder “Why?” To this end there will also be an Anti-Playoffs. All the teams that were eliminated in the regular season will participate in a single-elimination, best-of-1 tournament to determine who the worst team is. The rules on levels will be exactly the same except LOSERS are the one who advance. This is to determine which team was truly the worst and win the Golden Dunce Cap! What is the Golden Dunce Cap? Well… it… it’s really not a real thing but a title. Maybe I’ll mail out a sticker you can shame your Amiibos with to spur them on to do better. I don’t know. The point is we WILL know who the worst was!
So, what teams are participating in Season 1 of SALTI? Click here to see the full roster and click here to see the schedule for Day 1. All times listed on the schedule are Mountain time zone.
There is one more aspect of SALTI you need to know and that’s the stats. I keep close track of the statistics Amiibos earn and will report them at the end of each week. Big thanks to Mythril Zenith who helps me aggregate the data. So what are all the stats we keep track of?
Whew! That was a long one! I’m super excited to get this league started and hope to see you all live on stream tonight!
Alternatively, two people can team up to submit one Amiibo each but one person must act as the contact
You may not submit the same Amiibo character twice (example, a team cannot consist of two Donkey Kongs)
The league will be seasonal in nature with a regular season followed by playoffs. The playoffs will be double-elimination, Best of 3 sets until we get to the finals. The finals will be determined by a Best of 5. Seed 1 through 8 of the first division will be pitted against seeds 8 through 1 of the second division in the first round
Matches will be broadcast Tuesday & Thursday on twitch.tv/splicestream at 5pm Pacific time. Matches start July 10th
Team and Amiibo names may not be vulgar, sexual, or in any other way offensive in nature. Splice gets to be the one who determines what crosses those lines.
If you watch the matches on stream you’re expected to behave yourself and follow the rules of the Splicestream chat. Show good sportsmanship. Failure to follow the rules could result in suspension or even bans from future SALTI tournaments. The rules aren’t hard to follow. Basically don’t be a jerk and you’ll be fine.
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If you haven’t noticed, my second semester away from home has come to an end, giving me more time to help bake which is something I love to do. These cookies, that I’ve titled this post after, have been passed down through generations and this season it was my turn to learn it. Along with traditions, there are usually stories told with them. For these cookies, the legend is…there has to be sun or they just will not work!
Have two small bowls, one with the egg whites, and one with the sugar and sprinkle mixture ready to go!
4. Criss-cross one side over the other. (this is called a pretzel but it looks more like an awareness ribbon if that helps your forming.)
It’s easier to bake each set one by one, instead of two pans at a time. You’re also meant to wait until the pan cools off as they’re very finicky (it’s not only the sun that has to be right about them).
Luckily for us, the legend didn’t hold out to be true for this batch and they turned out great! Maybe it really was our sunny personalities and just the feeling of Christmas cheer that made them turn out so well!
I hope you’re brave enough to try these cookies, after all sometimes it works and sometimes it just doesn’t! I think it’s fun just to say “it has to be sunny”. It makes them even more special, and I’m glad I got to learn how to make them! ( I posted this photo on instagram if you missed it!)
Did you try any new recipes this holiday season? Or even this year? Did you have any major flops or really great ones? Let me know in the comments!
See you next time! (Tomorrow is Officially the real Christmas! I hope you all have a GREAT holiday!! 🙂 )
Yea!! I am so happy to have this tradition passed on. I am confident you will do it justice. Grammie
These look amazing!! I'm gonna try to bake them for sure and it's been so sunny lately so that won't be a problem hahah
After getting a response from Dubai-based big boy, Hushpuppi whom he asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate the source of his wealth, Deji Adeyanju has now challenged him to a debate.
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Hushpuppi then reacted on his social media page yesterday as he said all those asking EFCC to investigate him will be killed by Ogun.
A video of him where he said he would soon denounce his citizenship as a Nigerian then began to make rounds online.
Deji Adeyanju and Hushpuppi After getting a response from Dubai-based big boy, Hushpuppi whom he asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate the source of his wealth, Deji Adeyanju has now challenged him to a debate. Deji Adeyanju has dared Dubai-based big boy, Hushpuppi to debate him in front...
It seemed more important to me to take a home, take an extra job, prepare dinner, or be able to read when I went out with children to the playground. It was very, very difficult for me to be with them “here and now”. What worked then? Descent to the ground floor, setting yourself on the floor, signaling readiness to play.
The easiest way was to read to them and watch books with them – we had a lot of them, some became beloved and still stand in the rooms of teenagers. Evening reading has become our family ritual for many years. I also liked board games – together we collected a lot of mushroom baskets and bred many sheep.
If you also find it difficult to play with your child, firstly, remember that the time when the child expects us to play together is not long. Today, this may seem like a distant prospect, but soon the child will prefer to spend time with his peers or in front of the screen.
Second, treat the time spent playing with the child as an investment (and with a high rate of return!). Fun is a way to establish a closer relationship with the child, get to know him better. In play, the child reveals his feelings, shows his way of thinking, his world. You can learn about his temperament, find out what is difficult for him, what he is living, what is happening at the kindergarten or when he stays at home under the care of his grandmother or nanny.
Thirdly, the game is a real support for the child. Playing with the doctor, the toddler has a chance to relieve the stressful moment of vaccination. Older children can overtrain various difficult situations, gain dexterity (eg learn to play football), get used to losing and waiting for their turn.
Even if you have not done so before, now take care of a good time spent together with your child. Do not plan too many activities – give yourself time to roll over the floor and watch the child’s reaction.
Remember not to “throw” at the toddler right after returning from work. A child longing after a long absence can pretend that he can not see or react with rejection. You need a gentle transition from long absence to intense fun together. Sit next to the child on the floor, look at what he’s doing, say hello to him. And then just invite you to play.
Movement games, such as “fighters”, about which we write about, should end with hugs or nails of five.
Expecting an infant or small child to play alone is unrealistic. In the first years of life, your child really needs adults to interact and play.
You do not know how to start playing with an infant? Move to the ground floor! Sit with the child on the floor, take a ball or a book with drawings. Do you have a large exercise ball at home? Carefully place the child on it, hold it and gently rock it.
Do you remember having fun in “A ku ku”? Specialists say that it is very developing for babies! Or start with fingersticks (you probably know this one: “Cooked sour porridge”). An older baby will be eager to put blocks into the sorter or stack the tower with you.
Various difficult, conflicting situations can be “disarmed”, using jokes and tomfoolery instead of preaching. In our house, we sometimes speak in the name of our dog – the dog comments on reality, shares with us his observations and can sometimes express things that would be difficult to tell us directly.
You spend long hours battling together on battles, conquering a balloon, and swordfights (plastic and wooden). Sometimes these games seemed too crazy to me. Well, please – it turns out that they are very valuable!
‘Psychologist Lawrence Cohen wrote together with Anthony T. DeBenedet, an athlete and a doctor, the entire book on the subject. They encourage children to play in which there is an element of physical contact. Some of the suggestions may seem crazy to you, but … it’s also about it – about freeing energy, carefree fun, fooling, and not about arduous education of the child. You will add a lot of exaggerated reactions, fools, playing different characters and roles to the game.
There are ideas that resemble our old, somewhat forgotten movement games – “airplane”, whirling with a child held by the arm or under the armpits, climbing on the legs of an adult completed with a roll over, pillow battle.
I think each of us remembers the times of our childhood. Sometimes images from an early age get us unexpectedly because we got a characteristic odor characteristic for our childhood. Or maybe saw the toy on the exhibition exactly the one we had, is not it usually a wooden toy? It initiates ideas of a toddler, triggers cognitive activity, which he then sustains and directs. A wooden toy modifies the ways of playing, and each time it improves and enriches it, it is it that can free the child in the unlimited amounts of energy and strength, arouses in him the need and willingness to explore the world. Wooden toys, especially important, play in the case of children with disabilities. Deliberately and functionally designed wooden toys can guide the work of a disabled child. Toys are an incentive for children to continue learning and further efforts, which is why they should be safe and should encourage the child to constantly discover them. Functional wooden toys encourage not only to play, but above all to search for new ways of using them, facilitate contact with the environment, allow you to create specific, long-term relationships with your child.
A wooden toy, in order to fulfill its task, must be appropriately selected, adapted to the child’s mobility and locomotion, age and interests, and we must not forget that eventually our son or daughter will decide whether he wants such a toy and whether he will like it, we only we can, and even should, make the first selection – between “disposable” toys and those that survive the greatest symptoms of tenderness and interest of our little explorer.
· Music boxes, musical toys, puzzles, books, coloring materials, toys put into one another and for pyramid laying,
· Costumes for changing, sets of a small doctor, shopkeeper, mechanic, etc., construction toys, paints, colored paper, first scissors
For those of you that like forward-thinking fitness kit with advanced technology, then the S-Drive has the answers.
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