Smashboards

Smashboards

The Smashboards homepage, as of 2014.
Web address www.smashboards.com
Slogan Home of the Smash Community
Commercial? Yes
Type of site
 Forum / Gaming Community
Registration Open to everyone ages 13+ (Parental permission required for new users under the age of 13)
Available in English
Owner AlphaZealot
Launched 2002
Alexa rank
 Increase 17,849
Current status Online

Smashboards (originally known as Smash World Forums) is an online forum centered on games from the Super Smash Bros. series. The community hosts discussions of techniques, news, and professional competition of the Super Smash Bros. games of all generations. They are also a service used to announce Smash tournaments. Users on the website also discuss tournament rules and create tier lists that rank playable characters in all five games of the Super Smash Bros. series.

According to Alexa, most of the users of this website are between the ages of 18 and 24. Additionally, users typically spend an average of 3 minutes per visit.[1]

Since its creation, SmashBoards has made two an off-shoot websites called SquidBoards (for Splatoon).

History

Smashboards started off in 2002, as a site named Smash World that Ricky "Gideon" Tilton[2][3] in Pennsylvania created in dedication of his favorite game, not realizing that his site was to become one of the largest independent competitive gaming communities in the world.[4] At September 28, 2008 Major League Gaming acquired Smashboards.com.[5] On November 27, 2012, moderator Chris "AlphaZealot" Brown purchased Smashboards from Major League Gaming.[6]

Smashboards has also introduced SmashWiki and Smash World Podcast on March 5, 2007.[7] SmashBoard has created the wiki as a compilation of any helpful information about Smash that has been either officially announced or has been mentioned in the forums of Smashboards as well as recording the development of Smashboards. The podcast was created to "broadcast news about Brawl, tournaments, the boards themselves, and just about everything in between".

Between August 25, 2013[8] and September 17, 2013 the site was targeted by a distributed denial of service attack from an unknown source.[9][10][11][12]

Tournaments

Smashboards has been cited as an independent "scene" for Smash tournaments.[13] Members of the site's "Brawl Backroom Committee" organize tournaments throughout the world. Navigating to the site's tournament listings, it is possible to find tournaments by region in the United States, and by general region internationally, such as Europe, Australia, Canada, Central & South America, as well as "Other International Countries." It is also possible to browse online tournament listings, for tournaments being held over Nintendo Wi-Fi.

The Smashboards Brawl Backroom Committee oversees and regulates these tournaments, enforcing rules and regulations. On certain occasions, they have punished participants for breaking tournament rules, one recent occasion being the KTAR5 tournament. Three players were given "yellow cards" for splitting the tournament prize money. One of the players forfeited twice, once from the winner's bracket, and then from the rest of the tournament, possibly resulting in the advancement of the other two players. If players receive several yellow cards, they may be banned from participating in future tournaments organized by the Brawl Backroom Committee.[14]

Community

Forum discussions range from in-game techniques to collaboration projects such as the user-made PC version of Super Smash Bros. entitled "Super Smash Land." This is a free demake that is supposed to play on your PC as a Game Boy game and was discussed among members of the SWF community resulting in the addition of several features.[15] Additionally, players frequently discuss the rankings (or "Tiers") of each playable character and the administrators release forum posts that officially list them. These lists are generally accepted among community members and can be found at Smashboards.com, for each game in the series.[16]

References

  1. ↑ "Smashboards.com Site Info". Alexa.com. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
  2. ↑ "Gideon". Smashboards. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
  3. ↑ Smash Planet, Myers, Andy, Nintendo Power, Vol. 195, September 2005, http://imgur.com/a/ijOxG
  4. ↑ "Why Smash Rocks Part 2". Majorleaguegaming.com. May 10, 2005. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Major League Gaming Acquires Smashboards.com". Majorleaguegaming.com. September 28, 2008. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
  6. ↑ "Smashboards Under New Management". Smashboards.com. November 27, 2012. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Smash World Forums: Announcement of SmashWiki and Smash World Podcast". Smashboards.com. March 5, 2007. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Twitter / smashboards: We are still working on a". Twitter.com. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
  9. ↑ "Smashboards - As many have noticed, we are still under a...". Facebook. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
  10. ↑ "The Great Smash DDoS of 2013 : smashbros". Reddit.com. 2013-08-27. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
  11. ↑ "Top Smash Bros. Fan Sites Knocked Offline, Hackers Blamed". Kotaku.com. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
  12. ↑ "is Back". Smashboards. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
  13. ↑ Myers, Andy (September 2005). "Smash Planet". Nintendo Power 195: 76–79.
  14. ↑ "Smashboards committee punishes three for splitting prize money". Gytnews.com. May 24, 2011. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
  15. ↑ Pereira, Chris (2011-09-14). "Play Super Smash Bros. on Your PC as if it's a Game Boy Game". 1up.com. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
  16. ↑ Playing with the script: Super Smash Bros. Melee. From a casual game to a competitive game., Taelman, J.G.G., Utrecht University, Master thesis, http://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/311112
  17. ↑ "The New Tier List". Smashboards. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
  18. ↑ "Official MBR 2010 NTSC Tier List". Smashboards. Retrieved 2013-10-27.
  19. ↑ "Official BBR Tier List v6". Smashboards. Retrieved 2013-10-27.

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