Format: Winner's bracket games are Bo3 until winner's bracket finals, which is Bo5.
Loser's bracket games are Bo1 until loser's bracket quarterfinals, which are Bo3. Loser's bracket finals are Bo5.
Grand finals are Bo7. Team coming from winner's bracket has a 1-0 game advantage in the grand finals.

Creating Games: Check-ins begin at 11:00 AM EST. Join channel PSISTM2v2 on Battle.net. Remain in the channel for the entire tournament. No barcode or smurf accounts, please.

Rules

Vetoes:  ABAB format. Higher seed vetoes first. Each team vetoes one map until there is one map remaining, which will be the starting map. From then on, loser picks map.
Map Pool: Current 2v2 ladder map pool
Misc:

• If you cannot contact your opponents for 10 minutes, please notify an admin.
• Breaks in between games (in a series) may last no longer than 5 minutes.
• If a player drops, the game must be recovered 10 seconds before the drop.
• If a player pauses, they must state the reason, and approximate time table for the pause (no longer than 3 minutes). The person must ask if all players are ready and receive responses from all players before resuming.
• Please report your scores on challonge after the match. For any conflicts, please contact an admin.
• Race switching between games IS ALLOWED. However, you must announce any race switches to the other team before the start of the game.
  
• Default server is NA. If both teams agree, games can be played on other servers (example: EU).

Laddering during the tournament: Teams are allowed to ladder during the tournament in order to practice and warm up, but if the opposing team is ready to play, they must leave the game immediately in order to expedite the tournament process. Players who fail to return within 3 minutes of being messaged in a match will be disqualified. Should players decide to ladder, please set your status to online.

Cheating/Mannerisms: No stream cheating or hacking is allowed. If players are caught cheating, they will be immediately disqualified from the tournament and forever shunned and ostracized from the starcraft community! Please be mannered in your play. The only typing that may go on during the game (aside from ally chat), is GLHF at the start, or GG (WP, etc) at the end.