Welcome to the very first seasonal tournament of the 2026 Ubers Tournament Circuit, the eleventh edition of the Ubers Winter Seasonal! This seasonal, like other tournaments that compose this year's circuit, will award points towards a general Ubers leaderboard which will ultimately award the 2026 Ubers Ribbon!
Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations.
- 2025 Ubers Circuit information.
- Best of three, double elimination.
- This tournament will use the standard SV Ubers banlist, which can be found on Smogon's strategy dex.
- If metagame changes occur during the middle of a round, they will take effect in the subsequent round.
- Battles must take place on Pokemon Showdown! or the SmogTours server
- SV cartridge win conditions are in place; there are no ties.
- Replays are recommended to prevent disputes but are not mandatory unless otherwise stated.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on his team.
- Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize are banned. (No other evasion boosting things 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.
- Sleep Clause: Limit one foe put to sleep.
Identity
Users are expected to play on identifiable accounts. They may choose not to, but if asked must comply with identification requests by an opponent, either via switching to an account you are identifiable on, or via a Smogon message. Do not assume an account that you use regularly in other tours or with your friends is "identifiable." Use an account that matches your Smogon username or is in your About page to avoid this problem.
Scouting
Going through publicly posted teams or available replays from other tournaments / rounds / the PS! replays site is understandable and an acceptable play in tournament prep. Using power given on Smogon or PS! to find things unavailable to the regular user, such as deleted posts, PS alt account connections, or hidden rooms, is unacceptable and can result in loss of access.
Do not badger an opponent's friends, teammates, or previous opponents for information, respect their wishes for privacy if asked. 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 and Disconnections
The timer is expected to be on from the start of every game until its conclusion, unless indicated otherwise in a tournament's rules (such as a ghosting tour). Please be respectful of each other's time while in-game, battle timeouts are there for a reason.
If you run out of time, you lose. If you disconnect and run out of time to reconnect, you lose. For particularly high stakes games, under certain conditions, a Tournament Director may be able to recreate a game played on Smogtours, but do not rely on or expect this. It is the responsibility of the player that disconnected to get a TD into the room before it expires (15 minutes), as once a room expires there is no chance of recreation. A game played on Main can never be recreated.
Communication
Schedule your games via public wall/visitor messages (VMs) to make it possible for hosts to track activity claims when needed. Use this guide to ensure that you don't lose via activity or go to a coinflip. If you use other means of contacting your opponent, such as private messages on Smogon, Discord or PS! messages of any sort, or another platform altogether, then provide all scheduling conversations should you need to make an activity claim.
Remember that late contact is not grounds for an activity claim. If extensions are even possible, they will only be provided in circumstances where contact was early enough and you and your opponent were unable to find a time during the standard schedule to play and have already found a time during the standard extension window to play. The further you stray from that ideal, the less likely an extension request is to be granted.
Server
The default server to play tournament matches on is Smogtours. An acceptable alternative, should both players agree to go to it, is the main Pokemon Showdown server. No other server is allowed, even if both users agree to it. If one user requests to play on Main and the other user requests to play on Smogtours, the game must be played on Smogtours.
Bugs
Any battle mechanics not properly implemented in the simulator used for a tournament battle are fair game, unless explicitly banned by that tournament's rules. Illegal movesets that are not restricted by the simulator fall into this category as well. However, this does not include faulty tier scripts; for example, if there was a bug in the BW OU tier script that allowed you to use Drizzle and Swift Swim on the same team, taking advantage of this would result in disqualification in that battle. If a game breaking glitch is discovered, we will make a blanket tournament ban on that glitch via an announcement in the Tournaments forum until it is fixed.
Cheating, Throwing, and Poor Sportsmanship
Respect yourself and your fellow players. The Tournament Rules go into more detail on each of these topics, but the short answer is that players who do any of the above acts risk removal from the tournament, infractions, or worse.
Users are expected to play on identifiable accounts. They may choose not to, but if asked must comply with identification requests by an opponent, either via switching to an account you are identifiable on, or via a Smogon message. Do not assume an account that you use regularly in other tours or with your friends is "identifiable." Use an account that matches your Smogon username or is in your About page to avoid this problem.
Scouting
Going through publicly posted teams or available replays from other tournaments / rounds / the PS! replays site is understandable and an acceptable play in tournament prep. Using power given on Smogon or PS! to find things unavailable to the regular user, such as deleted posts, PS alt account connections, or hidden rooms, is unacceptable and can result in loss of access.
Do not badger an opponent's friends, teammates, or previous opponents for information, respect their wishes for privacy if asked. 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 and Disconnections
The timer is expected to be on from the start of every game until its conclusion, unless indicated otherwise in a tournament's rules (such as a ghosting tour). Please be respectful of each other's time while in-game, battle timeouts are there for a reason.
If you run out of time, you lose. If you disconnect and run out of time to reconnect, you lose. For particularly high stakes games, under certain conditions, a Tournament Director may be able to recreate a game played on Smogtours, but do not rely on or expect this. It is the responsibility of the player that disconnected to get a TD into the room before it expires (15 minutes), as once a room expires there is no chance of recreation. A game played on Main can never be recreated.
Communication
Schedule your games via public wall/visitor messages (VMs) to make it possible for hosts to track activity claims when needed. Use this guide to ensure that you don't lose via activity or go to a coinflip. If you use other means of contacting your opponent, such as private messages on Smogon, Discord or PS! messages of any sort, or another platform altogether, then provide all scheduling conversations should you need to make an activity claim.
Remember that late contact is not grounds for an activity claim. If extensions are even possible, they will only be provided in circumstances where contact was early enough and you and your opponent were unable to find a time during the standard schedule to play and have already found a time during the standard extension window to play. The further you stray from that ideal, the less likely an extension request is to be granted.
Server
The default server to play tournament matches on is Smogtours. An acceptable alternative, should both players agree to go to it, is the main Pokemon Showdown server. No other server is allowed, even if both users agree to it. If one user requests to play on Main and the other user requests to play on Smogtours, the game must be played on Smogtours.
Bugs
Any battle mechanics not properly implemented in the simulator used for a tournament battle are fair game, unless explicitly banned by that tournament's rules. Illegal movesets that are not restricted by the simulator fall into this category as well. However, this does not include faulty tier scripts; for example, if there was a bug in the BW OU tier script that allowed you to use Drizzle and Swift Swim on the same team, taking advantage of this would result in disqualification in that battle. If a game breaking glitch is discovered, we will make a blanket tournament ban on that glitch via an announcement in the Tournaments forum until it is fixed.
Cheating, Throwing, and Poor Sportsmanship
Respect yourself and your fellow players. The Tournament Rules go into more detail on each of these topics, but the short answer is that players who do any of the above acts risk removal from the tournament, infractions, or worse.
You are expected to know and follow all general tournament rules.
VMs are the only thing that matter for activity. Use this guide to ensure you don't lose via activity or coinflip.
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Dwagon vs Shion
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Tal vs Swas
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KeshBa54 vs JuninxZ9
Owany vs TDR
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YouanMingxue vs B1Kharma
Ellie<3 vs Nakoruru_XD
NDK vs zmath
Falancies vs MAT 2012
Cam vs Arcanine1929
rubycandy vs skimmythegod
Irene vs deviously
CryoDrift vs 4tup
SEROO vs King Billu
GhastlyPixie vs Mik3y
LBN vs GigaBytes7
Medeia vs 8truc
Tempo di anguria vs Alpha16
Supraz vs Lord Rekkuza
LityL vs King Choco
thajester vs Regiboob
Hoennseptile vs Call me PK
Cloudznn vs PitizinBR
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Sagazinha vs What should by name be?
Zong200 vs suwuki
Zcarlett vs Yttoshirib
Jojen vs Fraaxn
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xinnobu vs Jpr121315
velvet vs Defolgado
Interlinked vs Incognition
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Raph369 vs MadelinMorningstar
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BlazingDark vs Braga S2
Magician vs Drillacyy
The Strap vs wssi
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Leroipolux vs yunino
Simuxxie vs Lightniong
Forrest23567 vs LORD SAGIS
Squeeby vs Amaske
kiru vs pietrolindo2
Therostheog vs scdssfdm
zIcarus vs Crossia
HATS vs OreoSpeedruns
LightSn0w vs Demongodvgc666
Staxi vs Indulge in dreams
giove97 vs 1Thompson
Calmmind75 vs RoFnA
Horii vs Arpitraj1
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Corvikafka vs Dabman1069
Iride vs sonataism
Elian vs Metallica126
Maarck vs A Daydream
Kunvirgo vs Markis348gamer
Airi vs Sonnet Oublie
byronthewellwell vs Evuelf
Splendid Silver Star vs benladil
shuixin vs Mollymiltoast
NotVeryCake vs Aldrich
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Zachimations vs TheBulletInMyHead
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rylon vs Bye 5
Me Empty vs Bye 6
SouCarlos vs Bye 7
Bernardo vs Bye 8
abreuolindo vs Bye 9
SeaLife vs Bye 10
Claire2525 vs Bye 11
Zerotti vs Bye 12
CloudyEJ vs Bye 13
Sami vs Cielau
hxmo vs Bye 15
LuizgamerXD vs Bye 16
jrm-gray_ vs Mister McLovin
panda2jzn vs The Dovahneer
That_One_Mango vs Bye 19
SBPC vs sychillz
Mok3s vs Bye 21
DeCurry vs Frito
1yr vs Lasen
DripLegend vs jus
CursedByHax vs Bye 25
Terracotta vs Bye 26
Durk27 vs Bye 27
Nemosse vs Envy
MattandMello vs Bye 29
milliongatejumpguy vs Bye 30
Suhayb vs Bye 31
CarTulo vs Hyperium1233
TheShowdownHero vs Bye 33
Playering vs MirrorSaMa
Deadline for substitute entries: <t:1768435140:f>
Deadline for Round 1: <t:1768780740:f>
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