Overall Rules:

All participants who win must be over the age of 18 with ID, or have a parent or guardian present at time of collection of prizes. Prizes will not be given out if this criteria is not met.

Contestant player times will be assigned at the convention. All participants are responsible for knowing what times they are playing after they are assigned. If you are late or not present when your match is starting, you will be disqualified.

If you are disqualified from any game, you are not entitled to a refund of any kind. Be on time and in the right place. 

Collusion of any kind with your competitors is considered cheating. If the Tournament Director determines that any competitor is colluding to manipulate the results or intentionally underperforming, the collaborating players may be immediately disqualified. This determination is to be made at the sole discretion of the Tournament Director. Anyone disqualified in this manner forfeits all rights to any titles or prizes they might have otherwise earned for that tournament.

Cheering and jeering from the crowd is perfectly fine, but once trash talk stops being playful and starts being malicious, you have crossed the line and will be thrown out of the venue. You will not be warned! Control yourself and treat others with respect.

All controllers, even those only used in casual play, must be wired to the console. Wireless controllers are prohibited at the event. If you use a wireless controller connected to a console via USB, you must have gutted the battery and must be able to prove to a judge that the controller will not function when it is not plugged into a system. Failure to do so will result in your disqualification and/or the confiscation of your control device until the end of the event. Please do not be selfish or lazy. Pausing someone else’s tournament match because you didn’t want to follow the rules can ruin their game, their attitude, and their weekend. It is completely unacceptable behavior.

Turbo and program functions on controllers are banned. If you are caught using them, you will be disqualified on the spot and ejected from the tournament.

In any game, purposely triggering a bug or glitch that stops the game from being played will award the player who triggered it a loss. If this happens, it will be at the judge’s discretion how to handle the situation. Call a judge over to your game right away for a resolution.

Hygiene is a big thing with us. Please smell nice. If you are offensive at all, you may be asked to leave and rectify it. If you miss your match because of it, you will be disqualified. So, please shower, brush your teeth, wear clean clothes, and so on. Honestly, we should not have to ask this or make it a rule. This is common sense.
 

Individual Game Rules:

Terminology:

• Round - A unit of play time measured within a Game. Once a player wins X number of rounds, he wins a Game. 
• Game - When the player wins X number of rounds, the game declares a player the winner. In a tournament, players must win X number of games to win the Set. 
• Set - A number of Games that must be won to advance to the next round.