Rules:

• Tournament platform: PC (Steam)
• Download Region: UK - Manchester
  
• Match: First to 7 wins
• Rounds: First to 2 wins (2/3)
• Round timer: Standard
• After a set the loser can switch characters. The winner must keep playing the same character!
• Two match postponements per player for the whole season. (Exceptions: Stream match + Final week)
• In case of a disconnect, the disconnecting player loses the current round. If this does not end the current match, recreate the super meter gauges as identical to the round the disconnected happened as possible.
• DLC Characters are banned for 14 days after release.
• In case of a an update there may be a deadline for matches to be played.
  

The tournament is open to the following countries:

Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus (Republic of Cyprus), Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Ireland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City

In addition players living in European parts of these trans-continental countries are also permitted to play in the tournament:

• Kazakhstan (cut-off point is along A-28 National Highway from Uralsk to Atyrau, everything west of it is considered to be in Europe)

• Russia (cut-off point is along the Ural mountain chain, everything west of it is considered to be in Europe)

• Turkey (cut-off point is Istanbul/the Bosporus strait, everything to the north-west of Istanbul is considered to be in Europe)