Winner will be determined by resulting screen.

• In the rare event of a tie, any 1st place winners will advance.

• Before the tournament, a decision must be made on how many will advance. For example:

  • If two advance and there is a tie for 1st, both advance.

  • If two advance and there is no tie, 1st & 2nd places advance.

  • If two advance, and there is a tie for 2nd, 1st and both 2nd places advance (total of 3).

Character Selection: 

• Players will select their character and skin of their choice.

Pausing will be strictly forbidden.

Glitches & Rule Breaking

• In the event of a glitch or broken rule during the match, tournament officials will provide rule and/or clarification for said circumstances.

• In the event of a glitch or system malfunction the match will be replayed pending tournament staff decision.

Stalling

• Intentionally making the game unplayable is banned and at the discretion of tournament staff.

• Stalling will result in a forfeit of the game for the player that initiated the action.

• If all players remain idle, then tournament staff will make a decision.

Modded Controllers:

• A judgment call needs to be made prior to the even on whether controllers with extra features are allowed.

• For Example:

  • Turbo feature, Macros, Extra Buttons, etc.

Elimination:

• The match will be Best of 4 and Single Elimination.

Tardiness

• Anyone who is not present for their set by 5 minutes past the scheduled start time is subject to a match loss.

Etiquette.

• Players are to be competitive and respectful at all times.

• There will be no profanity directed towards another participant and there will be no physical altercations between participants.

• In the event of verbal abuse, the player who initiated the abuse will be disqualified and removed from the tournament.

• In the event of a fight, both players will be disqualified.

Collusion.

• Players suspected of colluding may be immediately disqualified from the tournament.

• This includes intentionally throwing a game, bribing a participant in any way, or committing any other form of bracket manipulation.

Misinterpretation/Misconfiguration.

• Games and matches are not to be replayed due to a misinterpretation of the rules OR misconfiguration of game settings.

• Game settings should be configured according to “GAME SETTINGS” established above.

• It is the players’ responsibility to ask staff for any clarification of the rule set.

• In the event of a disagreement, the outcome of a game, or set, will not be changed after the fact unless under extreme circumstances.

• Judgment reserved for tournament staff.

Final Rulings.

• If any unforeseen situations occur, judgment of Tournament Staff is final. 

• Rules may be altered between phases of a tournament in the best interests of the event.

  • Example:

  • A game breaking glitch is discovered on a stage mid tournament that could be exploited. Thus, the stage may need to be removed from legal play for the remainder of the event.