SC3 Character Eligibility Rules

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The following characters are eligible for Second Chances versions:

• Any character from Main who is dead and who did not win or escape and did not feature in a past version of SC. Characters who are rolled may not be submitted before their deaths are completed on Main.
• Any character from a Mini or AU focused on an elimination-based death game who died in that game without winning and did not feature in a past version of SC, except BRAU characters or characters from AUs whose hosts specifically disallowed SC use at the start of the version. Note that this includes characters from versions without rolls, profiles, etc. so long as they are recognizable.
• Any character from a Main, Mini, or AU focused on an elimination-based death game who was approved for the game but ultimately did not enter the game and was left as a Pregame-only character. If this character was otherwise eligible for resubmission on Mini, they retain this eligibility even if used, but will not be eligible for use a second time in some future SC version.

The following characters are ineligible for Second Chances versions:

• Any character who won their version, regardless of whether or not they subsequently died or what form their victory took (ten-kill winners from TV and any sort of co-winner are thus out).
• Any character who escaped their home version or otherwise survived the game.
• Any BRAU character.
• Any character from an AU which is not an elimination-based death game. Note that featuring death and eliminations does not alone qualify a game as an elimination-based death game. To qualify, a game must be primarily focused on death achieved through the elimination of the cast as a core mechanic. In unclear cases, Mini staff (not AU staff) will serve as the final arbiter.
• Any character from an AU whose host requested at the time of launch that characters from it not be eligible for SC.
• Any character from RPs not officially hosted by Main or Mini (ex: Mercy Street, Arena, REvo, anything in Other RPing)
• Any character who featured in a past version of SC and had in-character posts interacting with other characters, even if they did not enter the game proper (characters who were submitted but never posted with may be used for later iterations of SC), except as allowed by special circumstances.

In the event of conflict (a character who somehow meets criteria for both eligibility and ineligibility), ties break to ineligibility. Eligibility for Second Chances is determined at the moment of character approval. It is fairly common for characters to become eligible as time passes (if they die). It is unlikely but theoretically possible for a character to somehow become ineligible after the fact (a Pregame-only character with no posts being recycled into some other version, then surviving). Should this happen, it will neither retroactively make them ineligible nor open the door for adjusting the eligibility of survivors otherwise.

As always, we reserve the right to adjust eligibility for future versions of SC, including tightening it back up. Even should this occur, no characters approved under the current scheme will be affected.