oh, sweet. i request this, OP. pasting in case others don't wanna go search for the other thread to find it:
Raijinken said:
For a standard technical description, please refer to APEX's Project M ruleset.
Due to the impact stage selection has on characters' performance, a standard Smash Bros tournament utilizes stage picking and banning during a match set. There are three types of stages: Starter (also called Neutral),Counter-Pick, and Banned.
For this tournament, the stage list is as follows:
Starter:
- Final Destination
- Battlefield
- Yoshi's Island (Brawl)
Counter-Pick:
- Jungle Japes
- Mute City
- Prism Tower
- Rainbow Road
- Paper Mario
- Tomodachi Life
- Tortimer's Island
- Arena Ferox
Banned:
- All other stages, and Omega forms of all stages.
After selecting characters, each player chooses (starting with the player with the "highest" player number, with 1 being highest and 4 being lowest)
one stage to strike from the Starter list. These stricken stages
cannot be played on during this match of the tournament. As each player gets one strike of the three Starter stages, the remaining Starter is chosen for play.
Example: Characters are chosen, we will use

and

for our example.

strikes Battlefield.

strikes Yoshi's Island. Final Destination is selected for Round 1 of the set.

wins Round 1 using his dominance on flat terrain.
Round 2 begins. Characters are locked in for this tournament, so we proceed on to stage selection for Round 2.

gets to choose the stage from any Starter or Counter-Pick stage, with the exception of the three stages that

chooses to ban.

can ban ANY THREE starter or Counter-Pick stages he chooses. In this case, we will say he bans Battlefield, Mute City, and Arena Ferox.

can now pick from any legal stageEXCEPT those three. For our example,

picks Paper Mario for its third mode, which would be very difficult for

to handle.
Round 2's match starts, and

wins due to

's poor aerial play in the third form of Paper Mario. It is now

's turn to ban three stages.
However, this is where another restriction comes in. Known as "Dave's Stupid Rule", the restriction states that you can not pick a stage on which you have already won a game in the current set (unless your opponent agrees to allow you to do so).
Thus, after

bans three stages,

can
NOT pick to Final Destination, as he won Round 1 there. The result of this is that, if

doesn't want to fight on Final Destination, he does
NOT have to use up a banremoving it from selection.
This process repeats until either player has won the set, whether that is best 2/3 or best 3/5.[/spoiler]
Hope that helps. Feel free to tweak things as you see fit or clarify where you