Art by Bummer
Welcome to the first RU Seasonal! This seasonal will be part of the RU Circuit. Entering in this seasonal earns you points for an overall RU leaderboard. After a number of seasonals (depending on activity), the top 16 players of this leaderboard will enter a seeded playoffs, where the winner of the tournament will become the RU champion with a banner to match! There may also be other prizes in store, which are still being discussed.
Specific Rules:
- This is a standard ORAS RU tournament.
- Matches are to be played on PS!
- All rounds will be a best of three in this double elimination tournament, and you are free to switch teams during your series.
- If you drop out of the tournament immediately after losing in the winner's bracket or just drop out of the winner's bracket, you will be banned from future RU circuit tournaments and are subject to a possible infraction.
- Replays must be saved and posted when confirming your win/loss. If neither the winning nor losing party posts replays, the match will be coin-flipped regardless of confirmation of result from either party. This is to ensure that everyone is on an even playing field, and in general, access to a library of quality replays is a good tool to track the development of the metagame that will possibly be used to fuel several other resources.
- In the case that a ban is made or a Pokemon moves up from RU to another tier or down to RU from another tier through usage during the middle of a round, the tier change(s) will not be taken into effect until the proceeding round begins.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on his team.
- Sleep Clause: You cannot inflict sleep upon more than one member of the opposing team.
- Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize are banned.
- OHKO Clause: The moves Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, and Fissure are banned.
- Endless Battle Clause: Anything capable of intentionally creating an endless battle is banned.
- Identity: I expect many battles to be completed under alts. This can be bad for tournament security, and thus I will make this clear: If I hear any whispers of identity theft (battling as someone you are not) or proxy battling (helping someone else battle through pm) I will not be pleased and I will take severe actions.
- Scouting: Next, I do not want to hear anything about counterteaming, at all. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any blatant scouting. There is a difference between "[user] is known for using stall" and "let me follow [user] around all day to watch all his battles since I am his opponent". I expect a lot of the former and none of the latter. I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. Everyone will have access to your replays from earlier rounds though.
- Timer Clause: As for taking long between moves, if your opponent asks you to hurry up, please oblige. If you are doing a damage calc for a key turn that is one thing, but prolonging every move is suspicious and annoying. Don't do it. Furthermore, Battle Timeout is a rule for a reason. If you run out of time, you lose, simple as that. It does not matter what your opponent says. Do not battle if you think you will have to leave mid battle, and instead reschedule for a better time.
- Disconnections: Finally, in the case of a disconnect, the decision is in the hands of the player who did not disconnect. The options are: redo the battle move for move, redo the battle with the same teams but different moves, or redo the battle with completely different teams. If the battle was without a doubt over, they may also take the win. Any suspicion that a disconnect was committed on purpose to redo a match may be appealed to me, and if I feel this happened there will be severe consequences, don't do it.
- Use VMs to schedule with your opponent to make it easier for me to track activity calls when needed. If you use other methods to contact your opponent outside of VMs, then post in this thread confirming you're in contact with your opponent; otherwise, it's not necessary. Extensions for those with time conflicts will only be given when proof is provided of scheduling with their opponent in the beginning of the round (first 2-3 days). Do not schedule last minute expecting to be compensated in case of timezone conflicts or be given an activity win over your opponent.
- Round 3 will end on July 27th at 11:59 PM EST
Ajna vs.
Dominatio
sand1234 vs.
soTsoT vs.
AM vs.
359 Pepeduce vs. FlamingVictini @
360 Umbra Soul vs. truedrew @
YABO vs.
362
364 RawMelon vs. slurmz @
365 Robert Alfons vs. Senpai D.M @
366 Bionic Puppy vs. Nintendi @
367 ryan vs. Gatorboy @
369 Hairy Toenail vs. Jethalal @
370 Rodriblutar vs. fran17 @
Sacri' vs.
373 darrell1297 vs. Cherub Agent @
DennisEG vs.
Jarii
atomicllamas vs. Lord Esche
TTFTW vs.
all falls down
Solgaleo vs.
Camilas vs.
Dundies
Loser's Match Ups:
Andrew M vs.
Laurens vs.
324 Kiyo vs. Lorda Floterchai @
325 Coverride vs. Akashi @
Confluxx vs.
328 DTC vs. Aurora @
Gastrik vs.
Marcop9923 vs.
Syncrasy
334 patron vs. qsns @
335 Drangonn. vs. Der Schweinsteiger @
336 NaCl vs.
337 Swagnezone vs. Alice Kazumi @
338 miltankmilk vs. passion @
339 Littlelucario vs. MegaStarUniverse @
340 Endal vs. Cheryl. @
Pohjis vs.
Hyogafodex vs.
Eternal Spirit vs.
Andromeda. vs.
345 Psynergy vs. Infinity Goat @
Lord Booty Milk vs.
The50mph vs.
Accelgor
349 lighthouses vs. Chras @
350 Kableye vs. Sanjay. @
351 White Lion18 vs. Trade
(winner of
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