Windjammers/FAQ

What are the Standard Tournament Rules?

Online/Arcade

• Beach Start
• Winner Character locked, loser can counterpick both stage and character
• BO3/FT2 until top 4, top 4 is BO5/FT3
• Sudden Death: Return to the same stage, first one to score wins.
• Played on fightcade2, wi-fi banned.

Variations on the Online/Arcade ruleset

• French Variation on rounds to win:
  • FT2 all the way to and including grand finals.
  • This is done due to the fact that in a high level match between two players, a FT3 with resets can take up to an hour. FT2 all the way through greatly reduces time needed to run the bracket.
• Sudden Death Variations
• Starting Stage Variations
  • TO rolls dice or uses a tool to determine random stage. This makes the experience closer to offline tournaments but adds more overhead to the TO's.
  • A tool has been made for this purpose from Windjammers France team: link
• Counterpick rule variations:
  • Dave's Stupid Rule is often implemented especially in North American tournaments. This means that you are unable to return to a stage you have previously won on in a set. This requires players to have mastery of more stages and is less stacked towards players who really prefer beach.

Offline

• Random Start
• Winner Character locked, loser can counterpick both stage and character
• BO3/FT2 until top 4, top 4 is BO5/FT3
• Sudden Death: Return to the same stage, first one to score wins.

General Questions

Is it possible to score on yourself?

It is possible for Biaggi to score on himself with his super custom under very specific conditions.

I was stuck and unable to catch the disk even though I was right under it! What happened??

This is a rare but known bug which can occur with toss-ups on certain characters, most notably when Steve Miller is trying to catch the disc. These points are honored in tournament as the bug is very hard to reproduce and there is no easy way to discount these points without completely disrupting the match. [TODO: Insert gif here?]

How do you do the cool catch animation?

When characters are hit with the disc with their back turned, they have a chance to either a) get stunned with the disc being tossed up or b) Perform a special animation to catch the disc. The player has no control over which happens and the result is purely random.

What is the tier list for Windjammers?

There is no agreed upon tier list for Windjammers, it is generally considered that all characters are equally viable (or close to it).

Okay, who is a good beginner character?

S. Miller, J. Costa, and L. Biaggi are generally considered the best beginner characters due to having fairly even stats and mobility.

The other characters are not recommended for beginner for the following reasons:

• H. Mita is the lightest character in the game with a terrible dash and a long stun timer.
• G. Scott has the worst mobility in the game and is often reliant on chaining together short dashes to get to where he needs to be.
• K. Wessel has the best dash in the game but is completely reliant on it and struggles to walk places.