Snails of Aether Snails of Aether #1

This tournament will start at 6pm EST!
This is a Rivals of Aether tournament!!

Tournament Rules & Format:

• You must be on the Discord server to participate.
• Played through Steam.
• For entrant counts above 16, the bracket will feature Round Robin pools into a top 8 bracket. Under 16 inclusively, it will be a double elimination bracket.
• First to 2 (Bo3) until top 3; top 3 is first to 3 (Bo5).
• Select matches will be streamed before top 8. The entirety of Top 8 matches will be streamed.
• Out-of-region players are allowed, but in the case of connection problems, whichever player has the worst connection to NA East gets disqualified. You may also get disqualified if your connection is unstable in general.

Game Rules:

• Characters for the first game are chosen double-blind (at the same time). For successive matches, the winner chooses their character first, and then the loser chooses their character. Characters are chosen before the stage is selected.
• The first game’s stage is selected using 1-2-1 stage striking. Players should determine fairly
who strikes first through a method like a coin flip or rock-paper-scissors. Subsequent games in
the series use winner-strikes-three.
• When choosing stages, a player cannot return to any stage they have previously won on in the set without the consent of their opponent (grand finals post-reset is a DIFFERENT set). Playing a match on a stage where this rule applies without immediately stopping and notifying your opponent that you wish to invoke this rule implies that you have agreed to play on it.