Welcome to the Partners in Crime 2v2 Doubles Top Cut Swiss Tournament.
Tier Info:
Partners in Crime is a doubles-based metagame with the twist that you share your ability and moves with your active partner. This means that you are able to use any of the moves available to both of your active Pokemon, i.e. up to 8 moves will appear on the move select screen. Additionally, this means both of your active Pokemon will have each others' ability in addition to their own.
Contextually Important Mechanics for 2v2:
- If a Pokemon selects a shared move and its partner dies before resolution, the move will still successfully resolve.
- A Pokemon encored into a shared move will lose the encored status if its partner dies.
- Tera Shell only functions with Terapagos and therefore does not reduce damage for a partner that shares it.
Sleep Moves are banned in this hybrid format.
Problematic elements in PiC that are staying banned are as follows:
Pokemon: Smeargle
Abilities: Contrary, Dancer, Huge Power, Pure Power, Serene Grace, Stench
Moves: Dragon Cheer
Tournament Rules and Regulations:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Series are played as a best of five.
- This is a Top Cut Swiss tournament. Before playoffs, participants of this tournament will play in swiss rounds until one of two conditions have been met:
- They are one of the top 8 players remaining.
- They have lost two games.
- This is an SV 2v2 tournament that uses the mechanics of Partners in Crime. 2v2 Resources can be found here. PiC Resources can be found here.
- If metagame changes occur during the middle of a round, they will take effect in the subsequent round.
- Battles must take place on the main server or smogtours.
- Replays are required for every round.
- Do not make baseless activity posts; get in contact with your opponent and report missed times/scheduling issues only. Extensions will not be granted during the swiss phase.
- The winner of this tournament will receive 10$ USD via Venmo/Paypal/Cash App/Steam giftcard/potential alternative method from myself.
/chall gen9partnersincrime @@@ Accuracy Moves Clause, Terastal Clause, -Focus Sash, -Perish Song, -Final Gambit, -Commander, -Dark Void, -Hypnosis, -Sing, -Sleep Powder, -Spore, -Yawn, +Annihilape, +Cresselia, +Darkrai, +Flutter Mane, +Kyurem-Black, +Last Respects, +Revival Blessing, +Shadow Tag, +Terapagos, Picked Team Size=2, Max Team Size = 4
Post "in" to join.
Signups will close Sunday, June 13th at 11:59 GMT -4, after which round 1 will be posted.
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