Double Elimination Best of 3 games, best of 5 for top 8 Game Settings: 4 Stocks, 8 Minute Time Limit. Items are disabled.

Pause option is turned off. If left on, accidental pausing mid match will result in forfeit of a stock. A tie is determined by most stocks, and then if still tied, by percentage. If percentage is tied, the match is fully replayed.

Starters: Green Hill Zone, Smashville, Battlefield, PS2, Delfino’s Secret

Counterpicks: WarioWare, FoD, FD, Dream Land, Metal Cavern

Match Procedure: Players select their characters. Either player may choose to Blind Pick. In this case, each player secretly tells a third party their character before picking with the third party verifying their selections Players play Rock-Paper-Scissors. Winner chooses between selecting controller port or first Stage Strike. Players take turns removing stages from the Starter. Stages list above based on 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. The players play the first game of the set.

Winning player states what character they will play and bans two stages from the list of stages, both Starter and Counter-Pick. The losing player of the preceding match picks a stage for the next match. Cannot choose the stage banned in the previous step, or a stage that they have previously won on during the set.

The winning player of the preceding match informs and picks what character they will be playing. Then the losing player of the preceding match may choose to change their characters The next game is played.

If Corvus is present you may not play on a stage that is not on the stage list so as to prevent him developing an aneurism.