Game Settings:

• Tournament Mode is Enabled
  • Default Settings: 3 Stocks, 8:00 Timer

Character Selection:

• If requested, characters for the first game may be chosen double-blind (both teams picking their characters at the same time, with neither knowing the others' selection beforehand).
• For all games after the first game in a set, the winners of the previous game choose their characters first, and then the losers choose their characters. 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 teams delegate one member to play rock-paper-scissors to determine the order of striking, which is then carried out as follows:
  • The winner of RPS strikes one starter stage.
  • The loser of RPS strikes two starter stages.
  • The winner of RPS selects a stage for Game 1 from the remaining starter stages.

Counterpick Procedures:

• For all games in a set after Game 1, the winning team of the previous game will strike 2 stages from the full set of Starter and Counterpick stages, after which the losing team will select from the remaining available stages.
• When choosing stages, a team cannot select any stage they have previously won on at an earlier point in the set without the consent of their opponent (modified Dave’s Stupid Rule).
  • Playing a match on a stage where this rule applies without immediately stopping and notifying your opponent that you wish to invoke this rule implies that you have agreed to play on it.

Other:

• TBA