San Antonio Melee

Other rules & notes

How a set goes: both players choose characters and agree on who bans first. Game 1: the first player bans 1 starter, the other bans 2, the first bans 1 more, and the stage that is left is played. After each game in a best of 3: the winner bans 1 stage, the loser picks the stage, the winner picks a character, then the loser picks a character. Pokémon Stadium can only be picked after game 1. Best of 5 (Top 8): game 1 is the same. After that there are no bans: the winner picks a character, the loser picks a character, then the loser picks the stage. Report your score to the TO after every set. Depending on how many people enter, players who are out may be placed in a redemption bracket. No-shows: 5 minutes after a match is called, a player who isn't there is disqualified. Ledge grab limit: 60. If a player may have gone over it, the results screen after the game is checked, and a player over the limit loses that game whatever the result was. Wobbling is banned (the national standard for counting grabs and hits is used). Timeouts are decided by stocks, then by percent. If both players lose their last stock at once and it goes to sudden death, they play again on the same stage with 1 stock and a 3-minute timer to decide that game. Floaty rule: in a Peach, Jigglypuff or Samus ditto (the same character on both sides), Dream Land can't be picked. Otherwise Dream Land is allowed. No coaching during a set. Don't disrupt your opponent during a game (shouting at them, touching their controller, and the like, at the TO's discretion). Ask a TO if you have a question before, during or after a set. The TO has the last say on any ruling, written here or not.