Best Cornelia
Worst Brinstar Depths

Best: Corneria

Worst: Final Destination, just to make tourneyfags mad.

I'd love to be original but I can't.

Favorite: Hyrule Temple, not only does it have some of the best stage music but I've had so many epic matches there. And for those who keep running away just punch the guy with the controller, it'll solve your problems.

Least: definitely Icicle mountain. one of the few stages I turn off.

What's with all the flat zone hate. Turn pokeballs on very high in that level and manic fun is to be had

Big Blu all the way for my favorite.

And Icicle Mountain for the worst.

Poke Floats is awesome.... yar.

Loved: Pokemon stadium for the reasons everyone else has been giving

Hated: Ice climbers because of the same reasons as everyone else who hated it

pretty straightforward

Honestly, my favourite stage is probably Dream Land (the Past Stage). The wind element is fun but mild enough not to fuck anyone over randomly, and the music is quick and bouncy and . . . appropriate? It just feels right. I generally like large stages so I don't know why I appreciate the tight quarters in this case.

Runners up (in alphabetical order) are:
Corneria (but damn off-screen Arwing shots), Final Destination, Fourside (though my hookshot doesn't work on some surfaces), Green Greens, Pokémon Stadium, and Hyrule Temple (epic!).

Any walk-off stage absolutely sucks and I never pick them (Mushroom Kingdom I/II, Flat Zone, et cetera). I also hate both F-Zero stages (Big Blue is better than Mute City, though), both Metroid stages, Icicle Mountain (it'd be fine if you fell and jumped relative to the level and not the screen), and while I like Termina, my brother always kills me with one throw into the underside of the main platform, no matter what my damage is.

Brinstar Depths is probably the worst stage, in my opinion, closely followed by Venom which is just no fun under any circumstances.

Wow, Corneria wasn't even in the top 3? I love that level. It's so open and unobstructed.

PokeFloats was the shittiest level ever.

Hyrule Temple sucks for timed matches (actually, timed matches just suck), but for stock matches, no stage is more epic. You can run, but you can't run forever. Sooner or later you must fight and die. Muh-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Least favorite would have to be a close tie between Icicle Mountain and Flat Zone.

Favorite: Brinstar Depths. I like the level shifting around like that, watching people fall to their deaths through no doing of my own.

Worst: Final Destination. Just flat nothingness. Very boring.

Corneria.

Least fav? Definitely Brinstar. Cool idea but lame stage deaths.

Best: Pokefloats, by far, it's freaking fun, and actively encourages agreesive play

worst? hytule. way too fucking huge, way too fucking boring.

Best: Hyrule Temple
Worst: Brinstar Depths

@ AnotherCastle

Time matches do suck.

First off, it's only "fair" if you set the suicide penalty to -2 (not -1 . . . do the math). Hopefully the default setting has been fixed for Brawl because I don't think most casual gamers mess with the settings, and even if they do, you have to be at least somewhat nerdy or pedantic to figure out the problem with the default suicide penalty.

Secondly, the only way to get rid of the random "who hit you last" factor is to play 1v1.

Thirdly, even if you do play 1v1, the fact that the last "match" doesn't count, even if one player is at 300%+ and the other guy is at 0% . . . that's just lame.

The settings we use in my house, whether it's 1v1 or 4-player free-for-all, is:

STOCK: 3
TIME LIMIT: 7 minutes
(we probably get to sudden death in less than 1 in 100 matches, but it's nice as an every-once-in-a-while tie-breaker)
ITEMS: LOW and no health items (but everything else is fair game)
FRIENDLY FIRE: on (but we never play team games anyway)

We start with Battlefield, and after that winner chooses, but Final Destination gets saved for the last round.

Hyrule Temple by far was the best. Jungle Japes sucked cuz I could never see what was going on.

Best: N64 Dreamland. While some people may say that it isn't eligible, I dissagree. The characters were smaller in SSBM and movement was different, making the level feel bigger than in the original. In fact, I'd say, just the right size.

Worst: Fourside. Unbalanced.

Dishonorable mention: I reserve a special hatred for Brinstar Depths. My Bowser once passed straight thru the floor in some freak accident. I was pretty much at the top of the level, and then poof! I slide thru the floor and after a second or two, I find him falling from behind the bottom end of the level. I'll accept the random bomb spawning in front of you while you're charging a smash attack, but that sort of death is uncalled for.

I loved onette. Maybe it's cuz I'm such a huge Earthbound nerd.

Great Bay (Termina) for sure

i can't believe hyrule won

worst level in the game, imo

too big, matches take too long, and hanging out in the bottom removes a lot of the skill involved in ko-ing peopl

er Temple even. Hyrule Temple. Still sucks.

Hyrule Castle is a good level, it just gets a bit confusing when it zooms out to far to see whats going on.

Hyrule temple

Least favorite? Icicle FUCKING Mountain.

Hyrule Castle is the best, hands down.

And fuck Icicle Mountain. What a bastard stage. I'm so focused on staying on the the screen that I usually miss someone coming full-blast at me. That's my least favorite.