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Welcome back to the SS Ubers UU Seasonal! This will be a single elimination tournament in the [Gen 8] Ubers UU format. This will be a single elimination best of three tournament held in the SS Ubers format on Pokemon Showdown using the supplied challenge code. All replays must be posted to the round's thread for a win to count, and each round will take one week.
Here are some useful SS Ubers UU Resources:
- Viability Rankings
- Discord Server (Contains Sample Teams and Sample Movesets)
Here are some Smogon tournament resources:
- Tournament Rules
- Tournament Scheduling Guidelines
- Smogtours (will automatically save replays)
Standard Rules and Clauses
- Viability Rankings
- Discord Server (Contains Sample Teams and Sample Movesets)
Here are some Smogon tournament resources:
- Tournament Rules
- Tournament Scheduling Guidelines
- Smogtours (will automatically save replays)
Standard Rules and Clauses
- SS Ubers UU Banlist: Found here, Pokémon under the "Banlist" category are not allowed to be used.
- Sleep Clause: A player cannot put two or more different opposing Pokémon to sleep using attacks that induce sleep to opposing Pokémon.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two of the same Pokémon on their team. For example, a player cannot have two Koffing on his or her team.
- Evasion Clause: A player cannot use the moves Double Team or Minimize in their Pokémon's movesets.
- OHKO Clause: Players cannot use Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, or Fissure in any of their Pokémon's movesets.
- Timer Clause: If a player exhausts the timer, he/she loses.
- Endless Battle Clause: Any moveset on any Pokémon that is capable of intentionally causing an endless battle is banned from competitive play.
- Baton Pass Clause: The move Baton Pass is banned outright.
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, you must open your post with "Activity Win Request" in bold.
For example, if you believe your opponent is making an unfair request and that they don't deserve the activity win over you, you can either make your own request or quote their post and explain why they don't deserve it. You should try to make your activity win request posts at least 24 hours before the deadline to give your opponent a reasonable opportunity to contest it with their own activity win request.
Host discretion will be applied for all unplayed games. This means that an activity win will not be automatically granted if you post, and a lack of post does not automatically result in a coinflip.
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, you must open your post with "Activity Win Request" in bold.
For example, if you believe your opponent is making an unfair request and that they don't deserve the activity win over you, you can either make your own request or quote their post and explain why they don't deserve it. You should try to make your activity win request posts at least 24 hours before the deadline to give your opponent a reasonable opportunity to contest it with their own activity win request.
Host discretion will be applied for all unplayed games. This means that an activity win will not be automatically granted if you post, and a lack of post does not automatically result in a coinflip.
/challenge gen8ubers @@@-Yveltal, -eternatus, -calyrex-shadow, -necrozma-dusk-mane, -xerneas, -kyogre, -marshadow, -zekrom, -blissey, -groudon, -ho-oh, -darmanitan-galar, -dracovish, -ferrothorn, -landorus-therian, -weavile, -shuckle, -zamazenta-crowned, -ditto, -cinderace, -calyrex-ice, -rayquaza, -landorus, -slurpuff, -lunala, -power construct, -moody, -pheromosa, -mewtwo, -zygarde
Challonge: https://challonge.com/gen8ubersuuseasonal1
Matchups!
termnal vs TubeKnight
A fight between the ORAS Ubers UU council member, and one of the longest standing SS Ubers UU players. Both highly respected players in their own rights. Termnal has had to fight both against incredibly talented players, but also massive scheduling issues, fighting his way to make it here. Tubeknight has yet to fight any single battle in this tournament (due to scheduling and such), but make no mistake, he is an incredible builder and has proven himself to be an established player in this format.
Incognition vs Celeste
A battle of champions, I'm sure. Incognition hasn't played many games yet, but was able to defeat hxmo last week. With an entire library of formats under his belt, he's sure to have the experience to give his opponent a run for her money. But his opponent isn't just anyone. Ubers UU very own tier leader, a council member of Natdex UUbers, an astonishing and incredible builder, Celeste. Her experience both in the builder and playing should send a shiver down any of her opponents spines. Am I laying it on too thick that I think Celeste is the goat? Maybe, but she did get me my shiny badge.
(Don't worry, I take my tour host duties very seriously, and I'll be making sure that there's no bias in my decisions.)
The deadline for this week shall be is 3/1/26 11:59 GMT -5
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