World Tournament Stage

The World Tournament is a fighting tournament that occurs every 3 years. It has hundreds of fighters enter every season, but several early preliminary rounds eventually reduce this to either 16 or 8 fighters that duke it out later in front of a massive crowd of spectators on the World Tournament Stage. There's a few other rules for the tournament but they change basically every time they host the fucking thing so why bother writing any of them down.

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The World Tournament stage is unique amongst the stages in BT3 as it has a unique "Ring-out" rule that instantly grants a loss to any fighter that touches either the stone barrier around the arena, the grass outside the square stone ring, or (in what we can only hope is a bug) the umbrellas near the entrance to the arena. This means that no fight in this arena is ever a guarantee, and the BT3 AI being what it is, fighters have and will regularly fly straight into the barrier and grass. This stage is also notable for being particularly cramped, putting characters that prefer to stay at range (such as beam/ki based fighters) at a notable disadvantage. Characters with grabs that slam their opponent down into the ground(i.e. Recoome and Zarbon) will instead let go of their opponent inches above the ground if they initiate their move on the grassy area, preventing both a ring out and the additional damage the ground slam does, but leaves both fighter extremely close to a ring out, making the next few moves after the grab pivotal.

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The World Tournament stage is quite frankly where coins go to die. AIs will happily charge off or get in the way of attacks that will ring them out and cost them the match, sometimes doing so within literally seconds of a match starting. This also means most very large upsets occur on this stage, and characters that have no right advancing in the tournament get past a particularly tough opponent. The chances of this stage popping up for any match mean only the desperate, stupid, or indifferent go all in on any match, no matter how much it seems like a "sure thing." Umbrella touching ringouts are particularly infamous as they're probably the result of an oversight or bug but still count. The World Tournament Stage occurring twice or even three times in a row is perfectly possible according to statistics but will regularly get met with cries of rigging and that Teach has some way of ensuring it pops up on his command, but such claims are foolish and unfounded and assuredly not true probably.