• Double Elimination
• Game Settings: Tournament Mode Enabled, 3 Stocks, 8:00 Timer
• 2/3 Games per Set until Winners Finals, Losers Finals & Grand Finals, which will be 3/5 Games per Set.

  Character Selection:

• If requested, characters for the first game may be chosen double-blind (both players picking their character at the same time, with neither knowing the other's selection beforehand).
• For all games after the first game in a set, the winner of the previous game chooses their character first, and then the loser chooses their character. - Characters are chosen before the stage is selected.
• If a player wishes to choose a random character, that character may remain unknown to both players until the game starts only if the random character pool includes ALL characters.

Starters:

• Aetherian Forest
• Julesvale
• Merchant Port
• Godai Delta
• Hodojo

Counterpicks:

• Hyperborean Harbor
• Rock Wall
• Air Armada
• Tempest Peak
• Fire Capital

Starter Striking:

• Both players will do a Best of 1 RPS to determine the order of striking, which is then carried out as follows:
• The winner strikes one starter stage.
• The loser strikes two starter stages.
• The winner selects a stage for Game 1 from the remaining starter stages.
• After Game 1, the winner of the previous game gets TWO STAGE BANS before continuing.