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Rules

1. The tournament will be 100%, on the English version
2. Timing starts on file select on a Main Deck 00:00 file before talking to Adam and ends when Samus faces forward when beamed by her ship after defeating Omega Metroid
   
3. Safety saves are permitted
4. Streaming is required, and you must keep your stream up until the completion rate and IGT appears at the end of the credits. You may not have anything covering the completion rate or IGT on stream. If the rate cannot be seen, you will be considered as forfeiting your match. If the IGT cannot be seen,  you will be considered to have a 2:30 IGT for purposes of seeding for the bracket.
   
5. For console streaming, you can use the Game Cube with the Game Boy Player attachment (You can either use the official start up disc, or if you can load homebrew, Game Boy Interface is also acceptable, be sure to use the Low-Latency version for best results)
6. If you have a capture modded DS, that will be acceptable as well
7. It is preferred to use an official cart with English text (NTSC/PAL are fine), but a flash cart with the US rom is also acceptable
8. You can also use the Wii U Virtual Console and 3DS Virtual Console versions if you have those with English text, and can stream it
9. Exception: If both racers agree to JP version, that may be raced instead. However, please do not do so if you will be running on emulator if you are otherwise able to run on console, especially if the other racer is still staying on console
10. VBA (All Versions) is banned, use the latest version of BizHawk. If you need help getting it set up, click here. If you need further assistance, let an admin know. The most important settings you need for Bizhawk is (with a GBA rom loaded) GBA -> Core > mGBA and then Config -> Profiles... then select Tool-assisted Speedruns
11. The use of Lua scripts is banned

The tournament will be run in a 5 Round Swiss format through Challonge (Completed), with the top 35-45% advancing to a Single Elimination Bracket.  Byes will be awarded as needed for the first round to the top seeds to fit the players properly.

The seeding of the bracket will be in the following order:

1) Players with a 5-0 record

2) Players with a 4-1 record

3) Players with a 3-2 record

* Players with the same record will be sorted first by Best Tournament IGT, followed by RNG if distinctive placement is not achieved with the first method. EXCEPTION: players involved in a play in race to make it into the bracket will be sorted by the results of that race.

Players will be expected to play 1 game per week. 

All Speed Runs Live (SRL) racing rules apply. All participants must use approved emulators/consoles and stream their races. We recommend that you locally save your race-stream file in the event that your stream is disconnected and you are “proofcalled” on your time. If you are not registered with SRL, please do so now. If you do not know how to set up or use an SRL account, please contact a moderator for assistance. Once the race is completed, please get in contact with a member of the admin team to update the standings and times.

Scheduled matches need to be played before the specified deadline for each round. 

You will be given 7 days to play each match.  We realize that a tournament of this magnitude has a lot of people with a lot of schedules to work around. That being said, if you schedule a match with someone and then bail on the scheduled time without prior notice, you may be removed from the tournament at the organizer's discretion.

Any disputes will be handled by the mod team, who will have final say in all matters.  Should a member of the mod team be involved in the dispute, that member will have no say in the final decision.