This is a similar idea to some watch mode series albeit the main difference is going to be rather than AI's duking it out, real players will be controlling said characters in a elimination based gameplay.

Lives/Hearts system
Each player's character gets three lives in total

• Each singles match loss incurred will lose one heart
• Subsequent modes other than bonus game modes will lose only half a heart

Elimination
If one happens to have a character that has zero hearts, that means that character is up for an elimination match

• Eliminations will happen when another team has another character that has zero hearts as well. Then the both duke it out on order for their characters to survive.
• The Loser, loses that character for the rest of the season while the winners hearts for said character(s) are restored to one heart.
• If there is only one team with character(s) up for elimination then they can still use character in a fight since they haven't been eliminated yet

Match Layout
All matches will be best two out of three, excluding the mission/bonus game modes.

• If said third match happens to be a tie, no hearts will be lost for that match.
• Mission/Bonus game modes will be counted on a best score per month basis
• Winning said months bonus game mode rewards said character with half a heart/life

Engine Setup

• 99 time per 60 ticks
• Hard 8 (for bonus game modes that require AI)
• Life %100
• Tag mode has tekken tag rules (team loses on one member KO)

Balancing
Since I am dealing with arguably the hardest scenario to balance in terms of fighting games. An open roster mugen/ikemen environment, I'll be in the best efforts to keep said roster balanced to a degree I see fit.

• I'll be using hitscaleset to add a dampener to characters that deal a ton of damage in a combo
• If a character has an infinite I'll try to mitigate that, no matter if it's source accurate or not
• All of the characters will be looked for what I don't want listed in the sign up rules

 

Do remember that you are going to be playing as these characters so you may want to know a basic understanding upon how your character works before considering signing up for this

Character Submissions
When you do want to participate in this show, there are some ground rules to how your character operates in gameplay. What is being said below does not have to be proven in a "real match". All this stuff below matters period.

• Character MUST not have infinites
• Character MUST have blue hit boxes
• Character MUST not exploit the engine to it's own gain (not that they should be able to since Ikemen GO plus picks up on stuff like that)
• Character MUST be able to be operated by the player
• Character MUST not be a bonus game or gimmicky boss on it's own (E.G. slot machine, apocalypse, etc.)
• Character MUST be able to be downloaded (E.G. no MA links for fairly clear reasons)
• Character MUST have a life value below 1100, a attack value below 100, and a defense value below 110

Team Makeup
As told before, each player to this series gets five characters to work with.

• Players must user their own characters that they submitted to the show
• All teams must consist of different characters (AKA no teams of five KFM)

Considering how Ikemen GO plus works with how online gameplay and it's replays, there will need to be work done by the player in order for this series to work properly. I expect a realistic schedule for each submission to be on a monthly basis, since that should be enough time for people to do their matches given to them.

Replay Submissions
Replays on the future discord server will be submitted on their own separate channel to said players of the series (they'll be given their own role on the server)

• For those that don't know, Ikemen GO plus replays are generated after each online session
• After each match, make sure said replay isn't corrupted. Meaning said replay reflects what was done in match since that can happen

Bonus Game Submissions
Since there is an element of bonus games involved in this series for variety, since it is a local mode rather than online said player will have to record said match since replays are not generated for these modes.

• Bonus game modes are already set up in the mission section
• The minimum acceptable FPS for a video submitted is 30FPS

For the LAN connector I'll be using zerotier since it has the same operating system compatibilities as what Ikemen GO plus has. I haven't tested this out yet so I'm not 100% sure how said connection will be considering Ikemen GO plus.

Wait for ikemen GO plus 0.98 to drop
Test out ikemen GO plus with zerotier
Commission or make screenpack
finish up discord server
Wait for sign ups
Start matches once sufficient amount of signups have been done (was thinking on a min of 8 teams, max of 32)
Record videos of said matches