Top 3 will take home a percentage of the Registration Fee

• 1st Place: 60%
• 2nd Place: 25%
• 3rd Place: 15%

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• Best of 5 matches

Pricing

• Pay at the door only.
  • Card Only Payment
• $15 Venue Fee
• $5 Entry fee per game.
• Venue Fee free for all WMU students.

Tournament Rules for Competitors

Format

• All Games will be played in default settings unless otherwise noted.

• All Tournament Matches are best 2-out-of-3 matches unless otherwise noted.  Winners, Losers and Grand Finals for all games are best 3-out-of-5!

• All Games are double elimination format.

• Games with larger turnouts will be split up into Pool Play.

• Winners must keep the same characters unless noted.

  • Excluding Super Smash Bros.

Checking In

• You are responsible for checking into your pool before the official start time. If you are called for your match and are not present, you may be put into the loser’s bracket or disqualified at the judge’s discretion.

• If you are entered into multiple tournaments and are required to play in two or more at the same time, whether it be in pools or top 8, please notify the judges running those brackets to avoid any DQs.

Competition

• If players disagree on which side they play on or which stage to use, selection will be determined by playing Rock, Paper, Scissors. Winner may choose.

• If both players cannot agree on a stage within 10 seconds after selecting their characters, stage select is random, unless noted otherwise in specific game rules. If a banned stage is selected randomly, the stage should be selected again until a legal stage is selected.

• Accidentally pausing the game at any time during your match will force you to forfeit the round. In case a pause occurs, notify a judge immediately before resuming play.

• Turbo functions on all controllers are banned.

• Players are responsible for bringing their own arcade sticks/control pads as we cannot provide controllers for competitors. Wireless controllers are banned unless plugged into the console directly. All controllers must be plugged into the console using a wire. If you wish to use converters, you must bring your own. Cronus and Cronus ax Wireless converters are also banned. Disrupting other tournament matches with a wireless controller may result in being disqualified from the entire event.

• Collusion of any kind with your competitors is considered cheating and will result in the collaborating players being immediately disqualified. This determination is to be made at the sole discretion of the Tournament Director. Anyone disqualified in this manner forfeits all rights to any titles or prizes they might have otherwise earned for that tournament.

• Pad players are responsible for desyncing their pads from the PS4 after their matches. Failure to do so, if they accidentally interrupt another match, will result in penalties at the discretion of tournament directors. Pads can be desynced by going to options, devices, blue tooth devices, select controller, hit options button, select forget device.

  Attendees of Bronco Beatdown agree to be bound by the decisions of WMU Esports and anyone acting on its behalf, which shall be final and binding in all respects. WMU Esports reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify or remove any individual it finds to be tampering with the type, process, or operation of the event, or to be acting in violation of event rules or WMU Esports’ code of conduct.