Welcome to this SM PU Circuit Seasonal! Entering in this seasonal earns you points for an overall PU leaderboard and will go towards your chances to win the coveted PU Circuit Ribbon!
Specific Rules:
- This is a standard SM 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. If you wish for your replays to stay hidden, you may PM them to me instead.
- 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 banned from PU which are not in NU or a higher tier; aka BL4.
- 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
Winners Bracket:
Drud vs.
Many vs.
MJ vs.
Taskr vs.
Akir vs.
robjr vs.
tcr vs.
Sixes vs.
Chloe vs.
Teddeh vs.
Mart vs.
RaJ.Shoot vs.
Shaneghoul vs.
Jmash324 vs.
Carmin06 vs.
Youngster_Bill vs.
lockjaw vs.
Misterioussaint vs. neomon
Reaper200 vs.
Bad Luck Leo vs.
Arifeen vs.
Ktütverde vs.
Rexus vs.
SergioRules vs. JackedBomber
HJAD vs.
Thiago Nunes vs.
jonago vs. Plas
lkapkd1 vs.
Sas0 vs.
OminousDraco vs.
Kink vs. Pepeduce
Blue YM vs. @Bye1
Losers Bracket:
Cam vs.
Sam I Yam vs. Reje
rob. vs. So Noisy
CKW vs. Lost Soul
Ho3nConfirm3d vs. Grunkulous
Marination vs.
Raichy vs. missangelic
dibs vs.
SANJAY vs.
Yoshi vs. Drangonn.
3xsquadd vs. Patty
Supradash vs. cielbakasan
Aaronboyer vs.
Ganso vs. bdov
Funbot28 vs. Xau Maicus
DurzaOffTopic vs. Xiri
Mirbro vs. Finchinator
Dollainthewoods vs.
Pohjis vs.
LordKira00 vs. Hijasu
Robino2 vs. Sageau
Go0d vs. Chinese food lover
Borrower vs. GustavoYAY
Mikaav vs.
trc vs.
5gen vs.
Royal1604 vs. Darkfire47
Kyuss vs.
TSR vs. Randomnick
Yui vs. allstarapology
Kingofcrimea @Bye1
Subs: Randomnick
Scizorphobic
Coin flips: Dj Breloominati♬ vs Yoshi
Activity Wins from last round:
Youngster_Bill vs NylaTheWolf
Ernestofp13 vs 3xsquadd
lkapkd1 vs Robino2
Akashi vs Magearna8000
LaBalladeDesCieux vs rob.
Taskr vs allstarapology
yedla vs Grunkulous
Akir vs Chinese Food Lover
I granted Extensions to the people who asked for them, and for the people who hadn't played their games yet and didn't call activity. The deadline for the Extensions is 7pm Gmt -5 On January the 18'th, but please try to get them done as soon as possible.
The Deadline for the round is at 7pm GMT -5 on January the 21'st
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