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Welcome all to the 5th edition of VGC Draft League's premier team tour, SITRUS Team Circuit! This tour will consist of 8 teams which will play 8 games per week in a round robin style tour. The top 4 teams will then battle it out in a playoffs bracket to crown our STC V champions. This year's hosts are LogIce , Knull , and Addison .
The 8 slots for this tour will be as follows:
:floette-mega:3x Champions Reg M-C VGC Draft:raichu-mega-y:
:Flutter Mane: 2x SV Reg F VGC Draft:Roaring Moon:
:diancie:1x SV DOU Draft:volcanion:
:spectrier:1x SS VGC 2021 Draft:glastrier:
:tapu-koko:1x USUM VGC 2018 Draft:tapu fini:
Draft boards are still being finalized and will be shared once they're ready.
Up to two managers will be allowed to self-buy prior to the start of the auction at a cost of 14k per manager. There will be a minimum of 11 players per team and a budget of 110k for the auction.
Your teams and managers this year are:
:kommo-o: Kommo-oh Gods RauSakura & Radio Free C-Side
:ogerpon-hearthflame: Red Mask Gang Piranha Plant & Feyy
:snorlax: Metronome Mosslaxs repeat & th3nd_vg
:cetoddle: Odd Cetoddlers EGAHydreigons & tzarii
:beldum: Big Ten Beldums SpadesHS & TheHelixFossil1
:Appletun: Appletun Bucks krwozen & thebusinesspiggy
:jumpluff: Pollen Puff Jumpluff Roaring Moonlight & Minissou
:ting-lu: The Ruinous Brigade Illyakko & OrnLatios
The following spoilers outlines the rules for the draft phase, battles, standings and midseason. These may change up until 24 hours prior to the auction:
Teams will draft the following teams: 4x Champions, 3x SV, 2x SS, 2x USUM, 2x DOU.
Each team will have up to 90 points with which to draft 8 Pokémon per draft. Costs are listed on each pool’s tab on the drafting spreadsheet.
Pokémon drafted as a Mega must always hold their Mega Stone. The non-Mega variants of Pokémon may not Mega Evolve.
In USUM and Champions, there is no limit on the number of Mega Evolutions per draft.
If a Pokémon is picked by another team, it may not be picked.
The timer will be 8h long for all rounds and active non-stop once it begins at 12pm GMT-4 on Monday. A team's timer will halve every time they are skipped. This halving will only apply to the pool they were skipped in.
If a legal Pokémon is untiered, please contact a host and they will determine the Pokémon’s cost.
Smogon’s Species Clause applies to all drafts.
Each team will have up to 90 points with which to draft 8 Pokémon per draft. Costs are listed on each pool’s tab on the drafting spreadsheet.
Pokémon drafted as a Mega must always hold their Mega Stone. The non-Mega variants of Pokémon may not Mega Evolve.
In USUM and Champions, there is no limit on the number of Mega Evolutions per draft.
If a Pokémon is picked by another team, it may not be picked.
The timer will be 8h long for all rounds and active non-stop once it begins at 12pm GMT-4 on Monday. A team's timer will halve every time they are skipped. This halving will only apply to the pool they were skipped in.
If a legal Pokémon is untiered, please contact a host and they will determine the Pokémon’s cost.
Smogon’s Species Clause applies to all drafts.
Played in the [Champions] 4v4 Doubles Draft tier on smogtours.psim.us or play.pokemonshowdown.com.
The following Pokémon have access to all of their non-Mega forms (although you may only bring up to 1 to each battle):
- Meowstic
- Gourgeist
- Basculegion
- Maushold
The Pokémon/item ban list will follow that of Regulation Set M-C. Anything added to Champions after the initial drafting week is illegal.
The following Pokémon have access to all of their non-Mega forms (although you may only bring up to 1 to each battle):
- Meowstic
- Gourgeist
- Basculegion
- Maushold
The Pokémon/item ban list will follow that of Regulation Set M-C. Anything added to Champions after the initial drafting week is illegal.
Played in the [Gen 9] 4v4 Doubles Draft tier with Tera Preview enabled on smogtours.psim.us or play.pokemonshowdown.com.
The following Pokémon have access to all of their forms (although you may only bring up to 1 to each battle):
- Pikachu
- Basculin
- Oricorio
- Toxtricity
- Basculegion
- Oinkologne
- Maushold
- Squawkabilly
- Tatsugiri
- Dudunsparce
The Pokémon/item ban list will follow that of Regulation Set F.
The following Pokémon have access to all of their forms (although you may only bring up to 1 to each battle):
- Pikachu
- Basculin
- Oricorio
- Toxtricity
- Basculegion
- Oinkologne
- Maushold
- Squawkabilly
- Tatsugiri
- Dudunsparce
The Pokémon/item ban list will follow that of Regulation Set F.
Played in the [Gen 9] 6v6 Doubles Draft tier with Tera Preview enabled on smogtours.psim.us or play.pokemonshowdown.com.
The following complex bans are in place:
- No Pokémon may use the move Last Respects.
The following Pokémon have access to all of their forms (although you may only bring up to 1 to each battle):
- Pikachu
- Basculin
- Oricorio
- Toxtricity
- Basculegion
- Oinkologne
- Maushold
- Squawkabilly
- Tatsugiri
- Dudunsparce
The following complex bans are in place:
- No Pokémon may use the move Last Respects.
The following Pokémon have access to all of their forms (although you may only bring up to 1 to each battle):
- Pikachu
- Basculin
- Oricorio
- Toxtricity
- Basculegion
- Oinkologne
- Maushold
- Squawkabilly
- Tatsugiri
- Dudunsparce
Played in the [Gen 8] VGC 2021 tier on smogtours.psim.us or play.pokemonshowdown.com.
No Complex Bans, Dynamax and Gigantamax Legal.
The Pokémon/item ban list will follow that of Regulation Set VGC 2021.
No Complex Bans, Dynamax and Gigantamax Legal.
The Pokémon/item ban list will follow that of Regulation Set VGC 2021.
Played in the [Gen 7] VGC 2018 tier on smogtours.psim.us or play.pokemonshowdown.com.
No Complex Bans, all Pokemon may use Z-Moves
The Pokémon/item ban list will follow that of Regulation Set VGC 2018.
No Complex Bans, all Pokemon may use Z-Moves
The Pokémon/item ban list will follow that of Regulation Set VGC 2018.
We will be adapting rules from this thread for the majority of our decisions. Please read them and familiarise yourself with them.
When you sign up, you are not only committing to being active, but also to being a positive presence on any team you are drafted to.
All Drafting and discussion will be in the STC Discord Server
Major decisions and announcements will be posted to this thread.