Nuts! I forgot to start the betting game yesterday. Alright. If anyone is interested, post in the thread or pm me and I'll make a list for the prediction contest. We'll see who knows their Sakurai best. We'll start the game with the update for the 22nd of August.
How it works. You get two points for a general guess. I.e. what section will be updated. Those general sections are:
Character Profile
Character Move/Action
How to Play
Game Modes
Stages
Items
Music
Notices
After that, there is the specific guess. Elaborate further on what is going to be updated in that section. Specific guesses would be for:
Character Profile - Name of character
Character Move/Action - Name of character and what moveset - Final smash, special moves, regular moves.
How To Play - What technique, rule or lesson would be given
Game Modes - Single Player, Arcade, Classic, Sticker, Trophy, Multiplayer, etc.
Stages - What franchise it comes from or character and the game. Mario Kart would be a Mario stage from Mario Kart. Pokemon stadium would be a Pokemon stage or Pikachu stage from Pokemon Red/Blue.
Items - What type of item - normal, assist trophy or pokeball and the item or character it would be. I.E. Normal item - Ray Gun. Assist Trophy - Toad. Pokeball - Psyduck.
Music - The franchise that will be represented by the music. I.E. Animal Crossing Music. Star Fox music.
Notices - What the notice will be. Announcement. Video. Audio. I'm just throwing it in for the heck of it.
Of course, extra bonus points of 6 could be awarded to people who are even more daring in their prediction. I.E., correctly guessing which composer was responsible for arranging the music, predicting a feature of a stage like Bridge of Eldin collapsing, Nintendogs assist trophy blocks screen, etc.
In some case, half points may be given. I.E. chose the right franchise or character for stage but not the game it came from, choose pokeball but not the right pokemon, choose the right character but not the right move update.
Anyways, you can look that over and tell me what you think so we can hammer out the rules for tomorrow and go from there. In the meantime, I say it's time we had an update for:
Items.
I will go with Normal Items and the Party Balls. Look! Food is back.