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Draft Draft - Autumn Seasonal Round 1!

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The Draft League subforum is launching its next tournament, Autumn Seasonal 2026, our flagship SV individual tour! This is a Type A tour for the 2026 Draft League Circuit and will provide points toward this year's Draft League Championship. Games will take place in the [Gen 9] Draft tier on Pokémon Showdown with the Tera Type Preview rule enabled! This tour will use a Swiss schedule bracket, where all players with an X-2 or better record will progress to a single elimination bracket. The tournament's hosts are Happygate, kKimi, and Ultrxviolet

The following spoilers will cover signup information and rules for the tournament.
Tournament sizes are dependent on number of total valid signups (individuals who signup, join the Discord server and are verified in ⁠the Discord #verification channel). The first 62.5% of competitors that signup are guaranteed entry, while the remaining 37.5% are randomly chosen from the remaining player pool.
Example: 350 players signup, leading to a 320 person tour. The first 219 signups are guaranteed to be in the tour and the remaining 101 spots are randomly picked from the 131 remaining signups. Substitutes are picked on a first come first serve basis from the remaining signups. Once signups are sorted, the tour will follow the structure.

  1. Players will be placed in draft pools sorted by their time zones. They will be tagged in ⁠announcements when the draft begins, along with the sheet for their draft pool. It's advised to read the pinned message in your pool chat to further understand rules specific to the draft (as well as the Draft Rules and Battle Rules sections of this post for bans). Lying about your timezone during drafting is prohibited. Any player found to be trying to game timezone based drafting pools to get a more favorable draft pool will face punitive action. If a different timezone is better suited towards your current situation, please reach out to the hosts to notify them.
  2. Once the draft ends, the hosts will release the round 1 matchups via Smogon. These will be posted to the Discord in ⁠announcements. Each round will always last one week, with no extensions being available until the single elimination stage.
  • For the first round, there is a 12 hour timer. After the first round ends, there will be a continuous 6 hour timer within which you must pick, or you will be skipped, and will be required to make-up your pick when you are next online. All timers are off between 10pm-7am local time (check your pool's pinned message for local time).
  • In order to help speed up the first few rounds of the draft for everybody, tournament staff will impose a 24 hour check in. What that means is this:
    • From the commencement of the draft until 24 hours after, every single competitor will need to reach out to their pool mod (either in drafting channel discussion thread, or Discord DM)
    • This message can be simple "I'm here for pool X and ready to draft", no need to be elaborate
    • Any competitor who has already made a pick does not need to check in.
    • Any competitor who has not checked in with their pool mod by the time check-in is over in 24 hours will be replaced.
  • Your timer will halve every time you are skipped. It is recommended to leave picks (with backups) with your pool moderator to avoid this.
    • It is the responsibility of the player to inform the other members of the pool if they have left a pick with the pool mod so the players can properly notify the pool mod it is your turn to pick. The pool mods are not responsible for watching every pick at every hour of the day waiting to input your pick.
    • If you are skipped by the other players when you left a pick but did not inform them that you did, the skip is justified.
    • If the pool mod does not respond in a timely manner, notify an online Moderator for further assistance.
  • You have up to 90 points with which to draft 8 Pokémon. Costs are listed on your pool’s tab on the drafting spreadsheet.
  • You have up to 28 points with which to draft 2-3 Pokémon as Tera Captains. The Tera cost of a Pokémon is listed to the right of its name and the Tera cost takes away from both your Tera budget and overall budget.
  • If a Pokémon is picked by someone else, you may not pick it.
  • The following complex bans are in place:
    • No Pokémon may use the move Last Respects.
    • No Pokémon may use the move Shed Tail.
    • No Pokémon may use directly sleep-inducing moves EXCEPT for Yawn. This includes Dark Void, Hypnosis, Sing, Sleep Powder, and Spore.
    • The ability Shadow Tag is banned
  • The following Tera bans are in place:
    - :baxcalibur: Baxcalibur
    - :darkrai: Darkrai
    - :deoxys-speed: Deoxys-Speed
    - :dragonite: Dragonite
    - :garchomp: Garchomp
    - :gouging fire: Gouging Fire
    - :iron bundle: Iron Bundle
    - :iron valiant: Iron Valiant
    - :kyurem: Kyurem
    - :latias: Latias
    - :latios: Latios
    - :ogerpon-hearthflame: Ogerpon-Hearthflame
    - :palafin: Palafin
    - :regieleki: Regieleki
    - :roaring moon: Roaring Moon
    - :sneasler: Sneasler
    - :terapagos: Terapagos
    - :ursaluna-bloodmoon: Ursaluna-Bloodmoon
    - :volcarona: Volcarona
  • - :zarude: Zarude
  • The following Pokémon have access to all of their forms (although you may only bring up to 1 to each battle):
    - :basculin-blue-striped: Basculin
    - :meowstic-f: Meowstic
    - :oricorio: Oricorio
    - :toxtricity-low-key: Toxtricity
    - :indeedee-f: Indeedee
    - :basculegion-f: Basculegion
    - :oinkologne: Oinkologne
    - :maushold: Maushold
    - :squawkabilly: Squawkabilly
    - :tatsugiri: Tatsugiri
    - :dudunsparce: Dudunsparce
  • If a Pokémon that is available in Scarlet and Violet is untiered, please ask a host.
  • Smogon’s Species Clause applies to your draft.
  • All games must be played in the [Gen 9] Draft tier on smogtours.psim.us or psim.us with the Tera Type Preview rule enabled. Be aware that each game on smogtours starts a timer automatically and cannot be turned off.
  • General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
  • SV cartridge win conditions are in place; there are no ties.
  • Each set is a best-of-one set.
  • The following clauses apply:
    - Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokémon with the same National Pokédex number on a team.
    - Sleep Clause: If a player has already put a Pokémon on their opponent's side to sleep and it is still sleeping, another one can't be put to sleep. Please note that most sleep-inducing moves are complex banned (see Draft Rules)
    - Evasion Clause: A Pokémon may not hold an item, use a move or possess an ability that can increase their evasion stat. This includes the move Acupressure.
    - OHKO Clause: A Pokémon may not have the moves Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill, or Sheer Cold in its moveset.
    - Moody Clause: A team cannot have a Pokémon with the ability Moody.
    - Endless Battle Clause: Players cannot intentionally prevent an opponent from being able to end the game without forfeiting.
    - Dynamax Clause: Pokémon cannot Dynamax or Gigantamax.
    - Baton Pass Clause: A Pokémon may not have Baton Pass in its moveset.
  • Quick Claw, King's Rock and Razor Claw are banned.
  • Any items unreleased in SV are banned.
  • Replays must be posted to the round thread.
About Activity Decisions

Activity Decisions / Coin Flips: In the event that there is an uncompleted match at the deadline, and an extension has not been requested, 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. 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.

Please note that all extension requests and activity claims must be posted to the thread, and that all of these will be judged on a case by case basis.

[Credit to the Official Smogon Tournament hosting team for the base form of this rule.]
Contact your opponent as soon as possible upon the round going up. Activity cases are going to be handled in a very strict manner.

When scheduling, offer as wide a swathe of time when you are available to play. 1 hour of activity on one or two weeknights is unlikely to be considered acceptable.

Schedule specifically - do not schedule for "Friday afternoon" or "Sunday morning", pick a date, a time and note the time zone, ideally as GMT offset.

If either host catches news of ghosting or some other sort of nefarious play, we reserve the right to investigate to the full limits of our ability.

This seasonal will feature NO REDRAFT. You will be using your team for the entirety of Swiss + Top Cut!

MATCH-UP DOC

Fraise vs Shiif
Firechicken1 vs Sy1h
noellepy vs Slyish
Steven Stone 007 vs t clock
WhiteRaven vs Dwagon
thunderbug vs AlphaQ
Happygate vs Munchie2ff
Rexalis vs mayoouran2
snorlaxisuno vs Ayø
xGinesect vs Zenom
Sharky King vs Xev
gottrem vs TrappTea
DukeOfKings vs Lizardu
umbreoffxd vs scald spamm
lunrist vs berna-
okokj0 vs Larrea_0
children game pro vs Kizuhime
LychLovesStall vs The K Tank
SageSpike vs King Dream
ParmesanBruh vs s1lveryo
ogalbina vs QuaxLink
lendog8983 vs Portrait or Ruin
frankjosh vs Fraolain
An Agent of Chaos vs quentinw9281
MachJacob vs bobbiswas
Lou2697 vs LiRip
Scarcity2K vs Xyjen
King Choco vs Bowas
Bad Player vs scoothawk
Xenzibar vs poly love
Babyhuey vs WreckItMike
AAAspot vs Khaz
HarrisIsAwesome vs Phantom0rion
J-Sauce vs aaga
kaminjaw vs Clb7
Dddddsf vs SIrKill
Fuzz05 vs schwipper
Blazene vs blast406
Maansibmac vs Tamamo
Pioguni vs GoldenCyber
SmolTunaCan vs Tempered
pheal vs Arkaes
PokeFan4125 vs RamzaB
Jurassicpig44 vs mayo
Dunes vs P2gyorg
Uranium233 vs Tjb145
unit97 vs Axelraid2828
Gengar_Mask vs Treyunt
majaco vs Loomiboy2
TheRam7 vs Ninja Mob
DabiHimself vs VALCON
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paddyd121 vs Eager99
Lord Ninjax vs Lin
Taye101 vs MysticNyan
Mokratha vs ThunderOBolt
toastrgophr vs burstslinky
Vaami vs lxlicybulletlxl
a12qsd too vs Jag7723
Shmeckle vs jecotto03
Jamieon vs ALG Spies
hovicaa vs Graydrag
allo111435 vs TheCrispyPanda
MizuriKip vs BagelJohn
Silver64 (Real) vs Nozzermat
Princess Autumn vs Sizzlipede & Snom
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Ryan&Ditto vs Lucid Coffee
KD Burner Account vs zastra
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Sibwind vs EspiCFH
NotTheZodiac vs Jiggypoo
LeBomboclats vs Gohns
bronzo vs CyndaKill-SH
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choptch vs hysterikally
desi vs Danslerr
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gengariza vs hattorivt
joshcudi vs DinoTheGoat
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pop5isaac vs Felomm
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lokerlad vs Dustbin Lexi
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dawnmidst vs LawfulGoodPalafin
Teriso179 vs HazyNoir
benjaboynl vs ontario oshawott
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kirby6728 vs DamnDaTa
iCharlly vs Palkia62
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hex vs Baddy
cross streets vs Astroo Silver
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SinOfWrath vs softlock
DeeColon vs Azcelerator
sablolol vs P McGee
Skyhops vs Zetchupman
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PrettyMan vs Radox786
Tsuki vs subzero_slammer
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Shemages vs Tanji
Minissou vs Haildras
C3rrot vs John_mei
eliminathan vs Cheeseguy-43
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reconjack vs DenyInDenial
Thootjuh vs CarnivineGamin
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SlickPanther vs B_P-Z
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aeth vs scarletRoyal
JCMShadow vs wughead
JinF vs Kai_Kitt
~Undead~ vs yerdunc
Down By VI vs klyze
moo236 vs Littu
35b vs UnknownPingu
brodiewhat vs SpringLucina
OriginalOwnerOfAce vs rylon
VeeeKay vs bx4x
bigredblue vs Murp3
guigoun vs Sk1tt3n
Shazboy vs dgrgrnd
WarSpirals vs Stefaan
Goatles vs Sir.dee
crucify vs Klini
Genhui vs not mishmesh
chimechoo vs Dr. Geo
OhioGengar vs Atropo
BigBadKii vs aascee
Shellymonic vs happysh
krono101 vs Eliisa
DJS vs churrojr
Rémi2512 vs TPH
cardinals29 vs Lapse
Ryusco vs Hadesofender
kaxhi vs vmnunes
Fierce Flamethrower vs poker210
rarh2 vs Laperers
Auk vs Almighty Rye
Clak vs Quin4949
JCaps vs AlephSubZero
BugCatcherGriffith vs IMCOOKiNG
CFMathMaster vs RainChillin
connnn vs Armenius
VoidOfDarknesss vs Boonty88
doogalhh vs urban
8nodnarb8 vs Mok3s
40kultra vs Furyy
Celeste vs tzarii
urameshii vs chi yu later
Vazquez 2.0 vs Caffine._.addict
Mister McLovin vs babble
ACExDiscostu93 vs ejorange
JRoberts vs AgencyIsOwn
Xiero vs watashi
Shengineer vs kurse
SpicySauceBottle vs Coconut | 椰果
Offset Product vs kyrogeniz
PikachuRTM vs Crysite
Lux vs Addison
daddydaveslidinintourdms vs Baws381
Raphmon vs kKimi
tsuki11 vs mrrrmonkeee
Song of Fallen vs Neil445
Srn vs EcHoDood
Hycrox vs pfizer lord ozai
aquafgc vs Flow_2028
stupstup1 vs 1yr
bluefox08 vs Martiniman64
YetAnotherDodo vs 0glaceon0
Mentality vs Abocado24
Gwynderace vs Psiauu ツ
entrocefalo vs OrnLatios
muk fan vs hunpoko
Bibleman9 vs Big Pharma
kerbecs vs Daharan
uPounDzZ vs Donnel
lcalvexx vs Bouff
Oopsie Peach vs Sandanlp
Ghoul in PJs vs CannedJuice
Tidal vs thebeardydragon
Lupla vs Paying Attenton
SoggyDoggySage vs DiamondScyther
DeMarvelous vs Sneeky Sky
Saaaaakill vs simpleton
oohboi vs Moron5
Seebbii vs MightyBarb
ScorpioN07❤ vs TigerQuasar
emonia vs hecorter3
olivia vs Castelia
ragnarokrebirth vs Roaring Moonlight
logical vs Professor Shuckle
LeftoverHotdish vs Rats220
Crystal Methyd vs Unavixx
Crayscent vs Antares
Minhquan vs Freeday
zark vs iiFWM
Pampey vs PTKmoekyuun
lavaskull100 vs Bubl


This Round will end <t:1788746400:f>. The next Round will begin shortly after, whenever the hosts are available

This thread and all future Autumn Seasonal 2026 threads should be considered the final ruling in case of discrepancy between threads, Discord announcements, and Google spreadsheets. Contact a host if you have any questions or spot an error. We are human, after all.​
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round one bible man wins vs big pharma https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9draft-2676325979
 
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