are there streams and videos of these tournaments? it would be interesting to see how the game is played in such big tournaments over in japan.
If you look at the bottom tabs of this
spreadsheet, I've been keeping tabs of various tournaments when I have a chance. 3rd iOS tournament just finished, so I'll probably look into that more within the week. There's still a few more tournaments I haven't been able to look into as much, like Mix Cup and YKR.
Some people do stream on twitch/niconico. The winners of 3rd iOS had a niconico streamer, so I'm hoping they upload videos to niconico/youtube.
I'd check out the Krak-on Splat Roller from the winners of 2nd iOS since they usually squad with their clan members ― and they even win a majority of their 3v4 games!
So rules for iOS are TOs roulette what each game mode is for each round/game between SZ, TC, and yes, turf wars. Map is set to random, so you can't sub in a player knowing it'll be a certain map. SyCup is all splat zones and I think they do the random map thing, too. iOS is single elim bo3 until grand finals where it's a bo5. SyCup is bo3 pools, where top 2 advance. Then it's bo3 single elim until a bo5 grand finals.
Single elimination is sadface, but the 3rd iOS tournament had 290 teams for a 1 day tournament. :B