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Monotype The 2025 Monotype Circuit Playoffs [Round 1]

Rio Vidal

Rio Vidal

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Welcome to the 2025 Monotype Circuit Playoffs! This is what the entire year's Monotype tournament circuit has been leading up to, we now finally have our 16 playoff contestants. The whole tournament will be hosted in this thread. The winner of this tournament will receive the Monotype ribbon they've been playing to qualify for over the past year!

SPECIFIC RULES
  • This is a standard Gen 9 Monotype tournament
  • This tournament will be SINGLE Elimination
  • All rounds will be Best of Five. You may switch teams in between battles of the same set.
  • Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown! You must play on either smogtours or the main server. All other servers will not count even if you win!
  • 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 or at least saves replays of the match, the game will be coin flipped regardless of whoever won.
  • MAKE SURE TO POST YOUR REPLAYS. ALL REPLAYS MUST BE POSTED IN THE THREAD FOR IT TO COUNT!
Standard Rules and Clauses
  • Sleep Clause Mod: Limit one foe put to sleep
  • Species Clause: Limit one of each Pokémon
  • OHKO Clause: OHKO moves are banned
  • Evasion Items Clause: Evasion items are banned
  • Evasion Moves Clause: Evasion moves are banned
  • Endless Battle Clause: Forcing endless battles is banned
  • HP Percentage Mod: HP is shown in percentages
  • Evasion Abilities Clause: Evasion abilities are banned
  • Same Type Clause: Pokémon in a team must share a type
  • Terastal Clause: You cannot Terastallize
  1. 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.
  2. 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 Fire-type" 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
1. Azick
2. Ethereal Sword
3. Dieu Amphibien
4. MemphisDepay
5. Dj Breloominati♬
6. Shucklegigas
7. Tenebricite
8. cpt.kraken
9. Rio Vidal
10. adjustments
11. Trichotomy
12. King Choco
13. TheMaverrick
14. Gelbel3c
15. ImprobableBlob
16. Rinda

Jojo8868 & Juleocesar have dropped out of the tournament, ImprobableBlob and Rinda will take their place as the last seeds.

Round 1
1. Azick vs 16. Rinda
2. Ethereal Sword vs 15. ImprobableBlob
3. Dieu Amphibien vs 14. Gelbel3c
4. MemphisDepay vs 13. TheMaverrick
5. Dj Breloominati♬ vs 12. King Choco
6. Shucklegigas vs 11. Trichotomy
7. Tenebricite vs 10. adjustments
8. cpt.kraken vs 9. Rio Vidal

All rounds will be in the SV Monotype Format and will be a Best of Five!
ALL REPLAYS NEED TO BE POSTED IN THE THREAD.
The deadline for this round is January 4th @ 11:59 GMT-5​
 
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