Nintendo to restrict tournament sizes

[Alolan_Apples]

https://gamerant.com/nintendo-strict-guidelines-community-tournaments/

You can now only have up to 200 players per offline tournaments and 300 players per online tournaments, and if your tournament size is that small, you can’t charge spectators to go to the tournament.

If you want to host a much larger tournament, you will need an official Nintendo license.

 

[Belle T]

"If you enjoy our games, we hate you!"

 

[ShinyDungeoneer]

Nintendo a few years back: We hate fan made Melee tourneys, no more of them!

Nintendo now: NO PROFITS

 

[Alolan_Apples]

I’m hoping it doesn’t have much impact on TBT’s future Smash tournaments and Pokémon tournaments. After all, you don’t get charged to enter a TBT-hosted tournament. No money, no TBT Bells, no cowrie shells, nothing.

 

[Belle T]

I’m hoping it doesn’t have much impact on TBT’s future Smash tournaments and Pokémon tournaments. After all, you don’t get charged to enter a TBT-hosted tournament. No money, no TBT Bells, no cowrie shells, nothing.

That is something to consider, but I'm presuming this targeted more towards much larger scale operations like EVO and Super Smash Con. Nintendo probably won't particularly like Bell Tree doing it, but I don't picture them actually doing anything about it.

EDIT: Apparently, Nintendo even has in their Q&A that if you have a tournament that exceeds the maximum number of people, you should host a separate tournament for those people, which makes the "200 people in person; 300 people online" limit both arbitrary and self-demonstrably pointless. It is really quite silly.

 

[LambdaDelta]

tbh, after certain recentish not-suitable-for-tbt happenings wrt competitive smash, I'm honestly not surprised that they're setting up restrictions, to try to wrestle control of their ip(s) in the competitive scene back