General Info and Rules

For any questions or problems coming up during the event, please refer to the registration counter. All AUTplayed staff will be recognizable by the warning vests they wear.

Rules for participation/Code of Conduct

• Bring your best behavior towards players, spectators and staff. Sportsmanship and fairness are valued highly. Do not try to distract your opponent or an opponent of a friend you’re spectating, for example by screaming while standing close to them, loudly complaining about gameplay situations etc. Crowd hype in general is of course allowed, use common sense. Aggressive behavior, violence etc. will not be tolerated.

• You are allowed to bring food and drinks into the venue, but you are not allowed to eat in the gaming room. You can eat food and drink alcoholic beverages (drink responsibly) in the hotel lobby. Non-alcoholic beverages in gaming rooms are allowed.

• Drug abuse or extreme intoxication with alcohol may lead to disqualification and removal from the venue.

• Bring your own controller (and converter if needed). Cronus Max converters are banned. Brook converters are allowed. Leverless controllers are allowed, adhere to the SOCD cleaning rules relevant to the game of your choice.

Tournament platforms

PlayStation 5:

• Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising

• Street Fighter 6

• Tekken 8

PlayStation 4:

• BlazBlue: Central Fiction

• BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle

• Guilty Gear -STRIVE-

• Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2

• Melty Blood -TYPE LUMINA-

• Under Night In-Birth 2 Sys:Celes

• Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike

• Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3

PC:

• E’s Laf++

• Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R

• Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code

Default game rules

Default rules for all games. Game specific rules take priority over any of these.

• All matches are to be played with the default timer settings, BO3 rounds, BO3 games, BO5 games for Winner‘s Final, Loser‘s Final and Grand Final.

• The loser of a game may switch characters. The winner of a match has to keep their character. In case of a reset in Grand Final, both players may change characters as it‘s considered to be a new match.

• If a player chooses "Random" on character select and wins the game, that player must go to character select and choose "Random" again.

• If you pause during a match, you forfeit the ongoing round. You may ignore this rule if the opponent agrees to it.

• Inevitable death rule: If you pause the match during the cutscene of a super or similar and that super kills, you don‘t forfeit that round.

• If your input device breaks during the match, you must pause and find a replacement in a timely manner. You then forfeit the ongoing round. If you cannot find a replacement device in a timely manner, you forfeit the ongoing match.

• Both players are responsible for removing all Bluetooth devices before playing their match. If a third party causes a pause due to a non-desynced wireless input device, the ongoing round is to be continued normally with no penalty for either player or the third party.

Game specific rules!

BlazBlue: Central Fiction

• Random stage selection is heavily discouraged.

• ENDGAZER BGM is banned on stream (copyright reasons).

Guilty Gear -STRIVE-

• All matches are to be played BO5.

Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising

• All matches are to be played BO5.

• Official AWT2024 GBVSR Ruleset https://www.arcsystemworks.jp/awt2024/assets/pdf/AWT2024rules_ENG.pdf

E's Laf++

• The tournament will be played in the version that was released on February 1st, 2025 (CET)*

  *Since small patches for full access are released regularly on Saturday, the tournament will be conducted using the most recent full version patch up until February 1st, 2025.
  Should a patch be released on the weekend of the event, that patch will not be relevant to the tournament.