General Rules and Regulations

  1. All players must play with the characters available in the arcade version of the game:

    Mitsurugi, Taki, Nightmare, Kilik, Ivy, Yunsung, Talim, Cassandra, Raphael, Xianghua, Maxi, Astaroth, Cervantes, Voldo and Yoshimitsu.

  2. If a player doesn't show up on time for their match, they will be given a 2 minute grace period before it will go down as a forfeit.
  3. In the case of a console/TV/Routing malfunction, the game will be restarted from the beginning, no matter what time it crashed.
  4. Players must conduct themselves in a reasonable manner. Permanent ejection of a player from the tournament is at the staff's discretion.
  5. Spectators may not communicate with a player while he or she is competing (providing tips or heckling and other forms of verbal abuse). Breaking of this rule will result in ejection of the spectator, and in extreme cases, forfeit of the game. Cheering is encouraged, however.
  6. Any intentional forfeiting or conspiring to manipulate the rankings/brackets will result in ejection.
  7. Any other sign of cheating will also result in forfeit of the game.
  8. All stages will be used, and will be selected randomly.
  9. The mode of play will be VS. Battle.
  10. All battles will start at 100% health.
  11. If a player experiences Knock out, Ring out or Time up they will lose the round.
  12. Glitches used to stop your opponent from controlling their character or freezing the game intentionally will result in an automatic disqualification.
  13. All decisions made by tournament officials are final and not subject to debate.

Controllers

We will attempt to provide standard Playstation 2 controllers for everyone. Individual controllers are welcome, but will be subject to approval.

Tournament Rules

  1. The tournament brackets will be single elimination.
  2. Matches will consist of three rounds, with the best of three moving on to the next round.
  3. An additional round will be played if there is a tie due to double KO.

Match Format - VS. Battle consisting of three rounds

Settings:
  1. For each match the health will be set to 100% for both players.
  2. Stages will be selected randomly.
  3. The time limit for each round will be set to 60 seconds.
  4. Neutral Guard will be enabled for the tournament.