GENERAL RULES
- Game Settings: 4 Stocks, 8 Minute Time Limit
Items are disabled.
- Stalling with moves such as Jigglypuff's Rising Pound or Peach's Wall Bomber is banned
- Glitches such as Ice Climbers’s Freeze Glitch and Mewtwo’s Soul Stunner are banned.
- Pause option is disabled in the game menu. If left on, accidental pausing mid match forfeits a stock.
- You may not choose any stage you have won on during a set, unless agreed by both players.
- A tie is determined by most stocks, and then if still tied, by percentage. If percentage is tied, the match is fully replayed.
STAGE LIST
Neutral Stages
- Final Destination
- Battlefield
- Yoshi’s Story
- Dream Land
- Fountain of Dreams
Counter-Pick Stages
- Pokemon Stadium
MATCH PROCEDURE
- Players select their characters.
- Players play Rock-Paper-Scissors. Winner chooses between selecting controller port or first Stage Strike
- Players take turns removing stages from the Neutral Stages list above based upon the results of the previous rule. The first player to strike removes one(1) stage from the list, the second player removes two(2), and the first player then chooses from the remaining two(2) stages.
- On 20XX press (Y) in stage select to remove non-legal stages. Press (X) to ban stages. Press (Z) to reset stages.
- If you don't agree to gentleman to a particular stage and it gets struck to that stage I hope the next penny you find is tails-up.
- The players play the first match of the set
- Winning player of the preceding match bans a stage from the full list of stages, both Neutral and Counter-Pick. Does not apply to Best of 5 sets.
- The Losing player of the preceding match picks a stage for the next match. Cannot choose the stage banned in the previous step, nor a stage they've already won on during this set, unless agreed.
- The winning player of the preceding match may choose to change characters.
- The losing player of the preceding match may choose to change characters.
- The losing player of the preceding match may change their controller port.
- The next match is played
SWISS FORMAT tl;dr
Pools
- Matches are designed to pair players with the same or similar records without rematches occurring.
- There will be 3, potentially 4 depending on time, rounds in this format.
- All Pools matches are best of 3.
- No one is eliminated in pools.
Bracket
- Standard double-elimination bracket
- All of bracket will be best of 5.