3 stocks, DSR, top 8 bo5. Players pick their opponent's character for each game. Detailed rules below.

For game 1, you pick the character you want your opponent to play in the character select screen, then both players SD, start a new lobby, and swap to the character the other player used to play game 1. (Or you can just do it in chat, if your opponent agrees to it.) For any additional games, the winner of the previous game picks the loser's character first, then the loser picks the winner's character second. Stage banning happens after the character selection process.

We will be running this out of the Rivals of Aether Academy: discord.me/mentor