Bring their PC? You're really reaching at this point.
Because Skype/Mumble/TS/Vent were suggested for having a voice chat during LANs, Splatoon not having any ingame voice chat option right now.
You wouldn't use this stuff for LANs, these are online options for online play. You don't need these applications to have team's communicate with each other via headsets at LAN events.
There are several game modes that haven't been released, so I'm sure there will be longer modes. Splat Zone also can be extremely short or possibly very long, and your argument is based off of turf war atm. But then again, that's all we have to base things off of until next week. But yeah for right now, it seems like no matter how long the modes take(assuming 1-10 minutes), I agree that Bo3 would be too short.
And let us first off remember the benefits of having a smash local tourney over online play. First off, there is a much higher amount of lag in smash than in splatoon(clearly, but may change when nintendo's server fills up). Second of all, it is a heck of a lot easier to have 1 console per match rather than 8. Third of all, smash tournaments originated in games that didn't have online play, and happened to continue throughout SSBB and SSBU, mostly for tradition/convenience. This just makes me view Splatoon as more of an online game, which is also what the developers mostly likely intended as well considering that 1v1 Dojo is the only offline multiplayer mode available.
Splat zones has a 5 minute timer, which is also very short. The only other gametypes which have been announced are tower control and rainmaker and those come post-launch.
I'd imagine d/cs will always just be a negative the person who suffers from a d/c has to deal with. there's no other really fair way of doing it, because otherwise people could easily feign d/cs for whatever they wanted. It's the player's responsibility to make sure their connection and everything else is stable, or risk costing their team game(s). This is assuming the d/c happens during gameplay and not in the setup area beforehand, in which situation he could just reconnect or they could get a sub on, with catastrophic consequences for them if neither can happen (forfeit).
maybe if it only happens once. 30 seconds is also a fair amount of time too. I'd say 20 at most. Of course only once, no multiple infractions. It really is on the player to make sure everything is in order though, and too much mercy will be a bad thing.
