Welcome to the 2026 RU Winter Seasonal! This Type A tournament is the opening tournament of the 2026 RU circuit, therefore a great opportunity to start gaining a consistent amount of points in the race to the 2026 RU Ribbon. This tour is hosted by seed.
Specific Rules:
- This is a standard SV RU tournament.
- Matches are to be played on PS!, preferably on the Smogtours server.
- The format for this tournament is best of three, double elimination.
- Any tier changes that occur during a round will not be in effect until the following round.
- Replays are required, so be sure to properly save and post them for proof of your victory.
- Changing teams between games is allowed.
Activity Win Rules:
Activity Decisions / Coin Flips: In the event that there is an uncompleted match at the deadline, it will be coin flipped unless one or both of the players involved in the match specifically request an activity win and explain sufficiently why they deserve to win over their opponent, or if hosts determine an activity win was earned based on public contact. Attempting to schedule a battle is required in order to receive the win by activity. To make it clear that you are requesting an activity win when you post, it is recommended that you open your post with "Activity Win Request" in bold and provide a link to the evidence of an activity win.
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 one 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 (https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/tournament-rules-and-general-guidelines.3642760/) 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 (https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/tournament-rules-and-general-guidelines.3642760/) 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.
Activity Decisions / Coin Flips: In the event that there is an uncompleted match at the deadline, it will be coin flipped unless one or both of the players involved in the match specifically request an activity win and explain sufficiently why they deserve to win over their opponent, or if hosts determine an activity win was earned based on public contact. Attempting to schedule a battle is required in order to receive the win by activity. To make it clear that you are requesting an activity win when you post, it is recommended that you open your post with "Activity Win Request" in bold and provide a link to the evidence of an activity win.
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 one 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 (https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/tournament-rules-and-general-guidelines.3642760/) 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 (https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/tournament-rules-and-general-guidelines.3642760/) 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.
Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on their 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, draws will be enforced after 1000 turns
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, draws will be enforced after 1000 turns
Round 4:
Winners bracket (proof):
EntryHazardous vs Firebro
Hoops vs Amomeupaieminhamae
DeMarvelous vs MachJacob
Squeeby vs jrm-gray_
EviGaro vs hoyssxo
Corvikafka vs DKM
jyusaan vs PokemonCestDur
gfredu18 vs Fifty eyes
LittEleven vs Django
Nael222 vs RealMenix
Mindnight vs Cloudznn
12Ike vs FastCarVroom!!!
AnglersDream vs Soul King0
Quinn vs pan de lag
4tup vs StreetBoom
Oathkeeper vs Ktütverde
Terracotta vs lealleallegal
ThauanXBB vs Jojen
fghhrdnj vs DugZa
Lux2821 vs Simuxxie
hxmo vs Zerotwo.
leo568 vs TheFranklin
Tbp24 vs LBN
OranBerryBlissey10 vs GoldCat
Canard vs Regiboob
Hairoll vs Cold07
Leroipolux vs ChessAddict_
Kits vs Noaa
LuizgamerXD vs Sk3no
vwnz vs L Lawliet
Nichalho vs Sneakyplanner
Daharan vs Ming549
Xiri vs Sussaix
Mik3y vs Cielau
Medasus vs krwozen
Roaring Moonlight vs Akotelette
SvelteSnake vs THE_CHUNGLER
liliou vs TheBulletInMyHead
PTKmoekyuun vs Kev
JesusGP vs TyCarter
ishan023 vs eifo
koopa003 vs hi.naming is hard
Betticus IV vs bApe
mclagno vs Sulfura28
etern vs Indulge in dreams
IMMAAXX vs Dead by Daylight
Electry vs huuh
8truc vs Showl
July vs Fraaxn
bricknermon vs Rybak
glowbrogang vs LpZ
t.t vs cicepece11
staplepopcorn47 vs treeshhhh
Flareblitzkreig vs Bernardo
angolano06 vs udhhfd12345
icyicyisee vs mipc
trickmasterz vs EPM
Career Ended vs Maxisc23
wssi vs Heatranator
Lilo vs feen
HSK7 vs Kingler
Stories vs Nashrock
Failbor vs MemphisDepay
Korinthe7 vs Aries Dragons
Losers bracket (proof):
giove97 vs Hildi Thryth
cute vn vs benladil
ambi_ vs DD Joe
GhostlyPlanets vs StFirezim
Legofakatsuki vs UltraX
about15gals vs Gentai_Kaijo
heelkey vs VaporeonUser
GC vs RADU
coconut1234 vs Mzmarcos1
db vs Remake
God Koro vs BlackU-turn
asssnatcher67 vs SpyOP
djistivi vs Airi
Acrididae vs Sussyzao
Ampha vs robjr
musashi109 vs eeriespell
DeCurry vs Calmmind75
BlazingDark vs KeshBa54
JuliTukJ vs skopergmamer
frogfrend5 vs Dabman1069
Txunt! vs Charcoal13
LeBomboclats vs seraphz
The Hisui Region vs kiru
qualityblu vs Yttoshirib
ewitslou vs Mok3s
SilverKnight3716 vs Aariceus
MrPioupiou vs seed
Tomja95 vs Falancies
Rubyblood vs couchlaserparty
paralelo vs Gymleadernyash
EliteGamerCheezo vs sra99
Lacks vs akxhdwy
[Winner of Nemosse vs NinjaCaro] vs lavpatatas
melonnoodle vs [Winner of Slikkles vs Rats220]
kokomybeloved vs Staxi
What should by name be? vs OtaviioZx
MCOBSOK vs Vxltarktimi
Ellie<3 vs SHRAIDER
lcalvexx vs zause
Piriko vs lighthouses
Don Bork vs Wadley
flamefix vs zAllonso
Dutchum vs milliongatejumpguy
JuninxZ9 vs DustPlasma24
Guille vs xGinesect
Peum vs AnotherSlobro
Zong200 vs killua_
entrocefalo vs agenS
Shaak15 vs zmath
yatanxz vs JacintoElGrande
Ea-Nasir vs Irene
des121 vs Jerm175
TheOGDragon1 vs Hyperium1233
JoelXLeaf vs Bastien_
RuanK1o vs MatLaTomate
Winterbub vs renxø_pl
pheonixxed vs Scarf Kricketune
Heni-san vs Ryuuji Kuroiwa
Durk27 vs Sagazinha
Metallica126 vs Frishjoejgf
Nakoruru_XD vs Fernanch
colorednaem vs Sabella
ruidoceus vs ZombieEyeZ
Cyrakii vs riXtro
The deadline for this round is <t:1770613140:F>. Good luck!
The deadline to complete Round 3 games granted extension is <t:1770267540:F>.
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