1. Scarletspider - Warpath - Booster Gold - Firebird
2. Adam Warlock - Warbird - Capt. Britain - Crimson Crusader - Turbo
3. dman2008 - Wonder Girl - Cyborg - Artemis - Steel (John Henry Irons)
4. illadelph12 - Vertigo - Karate Kid - Gamora - Living Monolith
5. Ethereal - Spartan - Winter - Wildcard - Adapt
6. Khellendros - Venom - Grail - Frostbite - Dazzler
7. Blair Wind - Duplicate Boy - Powerhouse- Wendigo (Earth X)-Crystal
8. roughrider -Thialfi - Ultimate Iron Man - The Ray - Horus
9. Dark Urizen - Evil Mimic - Flashfire - Colossus - Gambit
10. grey fox - Ultimate Captain America - Dragon man - Deathstroke - Synch
11. K Von Doom - Dark Hawk - Firestar - Namorita - Predator
12. Darkcrawler - Agent Zero - Karnak - Blitzkrieg - Thing
13. Scoobless - Iron Man - Thunderstrike - Hermod - Miss America
14. stormfront - Exiles Mimic - Vindicator - Krystalin
15. Long Pig - Speedfreek - Animal Man - Radio active Man - Iron monger
16. Deadpool909 - Scarlet Spider - Marrow - Hawkeye - Rhino
(dammit, who were ScarletSpider's and Stormfront's last characters?)
1. Long Pig vs Blair Wind
2. Dark Crawler vs illadelph12
3. K Von Doom vs Khellendros
4. GreyFox vs Ethereal
5. Deadpool909 vs roughrider
6. stormfront vs Scarletspider
7. Dark Urizen vs dman2008
8. Scoobless vs Adam Warlock
Teams don't have information on the other teams until they meet them. Prep is solely for them to either boost each other (keeping within the limits, of course) or prepare stuff like shields. No flying to pick up extra equipment, no building weapons.
Oh, and starting with shields up is legal. No one's going to be able to pull a speedblitz anyhow.