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Welcome to the 2025 circuit championship for Anything Goes! After a year of playing tournaments to qualify, these 16 players will be competing in an SV AG, BO3 single elimination playoffs. The prize will be the AG Circuit Winner banner, as well as your choice of a custom avatar, a name reset, or a name colour change on PS!
Tournament Rules:
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!, preferably on the Smogon tournaments server as it automatically saves replays and it is easier to recreate games if necessary.
- This tournament will be single-elimination, best-of-3. The format is SV AG.
- All replays must be posted, without exceptions. Any win post without replays will not be counted.
Identity
About playing on alts: It is entirely allowed to play on an alt other than your own main forum name, though if your opponent wishes to confirm your identity, you must log on to your main alt to show them you are who you claim to be. This is to prevent people from pretending to be who they're not.
About playing on different servers: The matches must be played on either the Smogtours server or the Main PS! server if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the host(s) and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing on Smogtours.
Scouting
On scouting opponents: Going through your opponents replays of tournament and ladder games is entirely allowed, as long as a game is public there is nothing preventing you from watching it. An exception to this is abusing powers granted to you by being staff on Smogon or PS! to gain access to information a normal user wouldn't have access to, which is strictly forbidden.
On leaking teams: Divulging private information about someone's planned team to their opponent is never allowed, and will be heavily sanctioned. Requesting that such information be divulged is also grounds for punishment. Keep your scouting to publicly available information and you'll be fine.
Timer Clause / Disconnections
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.
Scheduling
Use VMs to schedule with your opponent to make it easier for me to track activity calls when needed, and use this guide to ensure you don't lose via activity or coinflip. 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, so do not schedule last minute expecting to be compensated in case of timezone conflicts or be given an activity win over your opponent.
About playing on alts: It is entirely allowed to play on an alt other than your own main forum name, though if your opponent wishes to confirm your identity, you must log on to your main alt to show them you are who you claim to be. This is to prevent people from pretending to be who they're not.
About playing on different servers: The matches must be played on either the Smogtours server or the Main PS! server if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the host(s) and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing on Smogtours.
Scouting
On scouting opponents: Going through your opponents replays of tournament and ladder games is entirely allowed, as long as a game is public there is nothing preventing you from watching it. An exception to this is abusing powers granted to you by being staff on Smogon or PS! to gain access to information a normal user wouldn't have access to, which is strictly forbidden.
On leaking teams: Divulging private information about someone's planned team to their opponent is never allowed, and will be heavily sanctioned. Requesting that such information be divulged is also grounds for punishment. Keep your scouting to publicly available information and you'll be fine.
Timer Clause / Disconnections
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.
Scheduling
Use VMs to schedule with your opponent to make it easier for me to track activity calls when needed, and use this guide to ensure you don't lose via activity or coinflip. 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, so do not schedule last minute expecting to be compensated in case of timezone conflicts or be given an activity win over your opponent.
1. Geysers - 1267
2. Kunvirgo - 1000
3. Entrocefalo - 917
4. MirrorSama - 914
5. Xinnobu - 702
6. Tocause - 535
7. Cloudu0 - 525
8. Emoxu9 - 488
9. Default0 - 458
10. Swas - 406
11. Gigabytes7 - 383
12. Liliou - 341
13. Lord Rekkuza - 340
14. Jhnfui - 303
15. Dragon_King - 298
16. RL - 295
2. Kunvirgo - 1000
3. Entrocefalo - 917
4. MirrorSama - 914
5. Xinnobu - 702
6. Tocause - 535
7. Cloudu0 - 525
8. Emoxu9 - 488
9. Default0 - 458
10. Swas - 406
11. Gigabytes7 - 383
12. Liliou - 341
13. Lord Rekkuza - 340
14. Jhnfui - 303
15. Dragon_King - 298
16. RL - 295
Round of 8
1. Geysers v 9. default0
4. MirrorSaMa vs 5. xinnobu
2. Kunvirgo vs 10. Swas
3. entrocefalo vs 6. Tocause
The Round deadline is Sunday, December 14th at 11:59 PM GMT-6.
1. Geysers v 9. default0
4. MirrorSaMa vs 5. xinnobu
2. Kunvirgo vs 10. Swas
3. entrocefalo vs 6. Tocause
The Round deadline is Sunday, December 14th at 11:59 PM GMT-6.
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