Specific Rules:
- This is a standard ORAS PU tournament.
- This tournament will be a double elimination tournament.
- If you drop out of the tournament immediately after losing in winner's bracket, you will be banned from future PU circuit tournaments, and potentially risk being infracted.
- All rounds will be best of three.
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!.
- To encourage the development of the metagame, and so that everyone is on an even playing field, all matches must have replays recorded. If neither player posts replays of the match, regardless of whether you confirm that your opponent won, your series will be coinflipped unless you can provide replays. We will not disqualify both players, but we will coinflip the series, not because we don't believe that you played, but because the replay rule ensures everyone is on an even playing field, as stated.
- PU is a usage based tier. Essentially you can use anything that is not in a higher tier; NU effectively serves as the PU banlist. However, there are several Pokemon and one move banned from PU which are not in NU or a higher tier; aka BL4. This consists of Carracosta, Exeggutor, Linoone, Throh, Vigoroth, Victreebel, Machoke, and the move Chatter.
- 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.
Winner's Bracket:
Confide vs PD
nonzer0 vs lockjaw
Teddeh vs TonyFlygon (extension granted)
Megazard vs nLTk
5gen vs Solgaleo (extension granted)
cryalot vs The50mph
Memento Ein vs RawMelon
Lord Booty Milk vs amber lamps
Holiano vs Coverride
Toxicroak-a-Cola vs Leru
ManOfMany vs Lord Sample Team
Sharp Ladder UU vs p2
Dundies vs Haund
Laevin vs LaxLapras
HJAD vs Raiza
AM vs Optical Real (extension granted)
Loser's Bracket:
Conor3197 vs Sanjay.
Endal vs Hamhamhamham
(Winner of LSB vs Melle2402) vs OminousDraco
Yoda2798 vs PokemonmasterTj
blinkboy vs Arifeen
Rodriblutar vs False.
VeryPinkPancakes vs astroboy
naruto(sage) vs Mishimono
darksylvion vs Blue YM
Threw vs EnemyJurist
Dibs The Dreamer vs Aramonia
DnB vs SilentMango
Balor vs braveswin11
(Winner of Axel™ vs Crestfall) vs Swagnezone
Midnight Howl vs Miss Kaneda
megaqwer:D vs GustavoYAY
Deadline:
Sunday September 4th, 8 PM gmt-5
General Tournament Rules:
- 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.
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