PlayVS Competition Rules

Match Format: Best-of-Five (“Bo5”) Sets

Set Format: Best-of-Three (“Bo3”) Games

Mode: Smash

Team Size: 3 Players

Settings:

• Game Style: Stock

• Stocks: 3

• Time Limit: 7 minutes

• Final Smash Meter: Off

• Damage Handicap: Off

• Items: None (All Off)

• Stage Hazards: Off

• Spirits: Off

Each team will compete in a match of Bo5 Sets, where each player will compete in a set of Bo3 games. The winner of each game will be determined by the player that reduces their opponent's stock count to zero. If the in-game timer expires before either player's stock count reaches zero, the game will trigger Sudden Death immediately (automatically setting both players to one stock with 300%) to determine the winning player.
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The winner of the set will be determined by the player to win two games first. The winner of the match will be determined by the team to win three sets first. If a single team reaches two games wins, or three set wins, first, then the additional games and/or sets will not be played.

Unless otherwise stated, this format applies to all four phases within a PlayVS season: Preseason, Regular Season, Playoffs, and Finals.

Teams will select one of their starting players to compete in each set. For example:

• Set 1: Team A Player 1 vs Team B Player 1

• Set 2: Team A Player 2 vs Team B Player 2

• Set 3: Team A Player 3 vs Team B Player 3

• Set 4: Team A Player 1/2/3 vs Team B Player 1/2/3

• *Set 5: Team A Player 1/2/3 vs Team B Player 1/2/3
  *player competing in Set 5 must not have competed in Set 4