{"id":10049,"date":"2020-11-19T21:54:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T21:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/smash-community-furious-after-nintendo-cease-and-desist-cancels-the-big-house"},"modified":"2024-07-20T00:56:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T00:56:29","slug":"smash-community-furious-after-nintendo-cease-and-desist-cancels-the-big-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/super-smash-bros-melee\/smash-community-furious-after-nintendo-cease-and-desist-cancels-the-big-house","title":{"rendered":"The Big House cancelled after Nintendo cease and desist, Smash community left furious"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Smash and fighting game communities have been hit hard during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the cancellation of almost every major tournament across different scenes and the lack of solid online infrastructure within the most played games has virtually killed any interest in maintaining a semblance of competitiveness at the top level.<\/p>\n

Efforts have been made, for example, Street Fighter V is continuing its Capcom Cup qualifiers by splitting them into regional tournaments<\/a> and Bandai Namco has created the Dragon Ball FighterZ National Championships<\/a> — perhaps the scene that could’ve potentially thrived during the ongoing pandemic was the Smash Melee one, sadly, Nintendo has gotten in the way once again.<\/p>\n

With the introduction of Slippi, a third-party tool which essentially rekindled interest in Melee by introducing rollback netcode and integrated matchmaking<\/a> that makes finding, and more crucially, playing matches online much smoother than before, tournament organisers took the opportunity to start setting up events to close out the year.<\/p>\n

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One of those was The Big House<\/a>, a benchmark within the Smash community, which announced its 2020 online edition set to happen this upcoming December (4-6), with Melee enthusiasts particularly excited as Slippi was going to be utilised.<\/p>\n

Red flags started to pop up when users found out that VODs for Slippi’s Champions League tournament was removed from the BTSSmash YouTube channel<\/a>. Eventually, The Big House announced the cancellation of the event.<\/p>\n

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— The Big House (@TheBigHouseSSB) November 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The reason? Nintendo issued a cease and desist letter preventing the tournament from running as the usage of Slippi and any other third-party tool that tampers with the integrity of the game is forbidden. <\/p>\n

Nintendo sponsored events such as Genesis are forced to run vanilla Melee, without tools that help the game feel more responsive like the Universal Controller Fix, so it seemed like a natural, yet frustrating development that they’d step in and prevent the event from going as planned.<\/p>\n