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Half of this shamelessly copied from the National Dex RU Opening Tournament
Gen 3 Hoenn Gaiden Tournament
Hosts: Yoshiblaze and Paulluxx
Welcome to the first ever Hoenn Gaiden tournament on the Smogon Forums! While we patiently wait for Hoenn Gaiden to be coded on the main Pokémon Showdown server as Pet Mod of the Season, we figured that in the meantime, we should celebrate with a forum tournament!
What is Hoenn Gaiden?Half of this shamelessly copied from the National Dex RU Opening Tournament
Gen 3 Hoenn Gaiden Tournament
Hosts: Yoshiblaze and Paulluxx
Welcome to the first ever Hoenn Gaiden tournament on the Smogon Forums! While we patiently wait for Hoenn Gaiden to be coded on the main Pokémon Showdown server as Pet Mod of the Season, we figured that in the meantime, we should celebrate with a forum tournament!
Hoenn Gaiden is a Pet Mod based on the Gen 3 Overused metagame that adds Pokémon, Moves, Items, and Abilities from future generations and buffs already existing Pokémon in the metagame, with the goal of making almost any Pokémon a viable option in the metagame while maintaining the unique feel of Gen 3 OU.
Resources for Hoenn Gaiden:
- Forum Thread
- Hoenn Gaiden Discord
- Spreadsheet
- Changelogs - Created by The Damned
- Viability Rankings (as of July 20th)
Tournament Specific Rules
- All general rules apply. Click here for guidelines about scheduling matches.
- Matches are Best of 3, which means that the first person to win two games wins the set and moves on in the tournament.
- Matches are to be played in the Dragon Heaven Showdown Server. It is very highly recommended that you use the Dragon Heaven client, which makes teambuilding and battling much easier. Said client is linked above.
- Replays are mandatory. It's highly recommended that you both upload AND download the replay, to ensure that if the replay gets overwritten, we still have it for the purposes of usage stats.
- This is a single elimination tournament.
Identity
About playing on alts: It is entirely allowed to play on an alt other than your own main forum name, though if your opponent wishes to confirm your identity, you must log on to your main alt to show them you are who you claim to be. This is to prevent people from pretending to be who they're not.
Scouting
On scouting opponents: Going through your opponents replays of tournament and ladder games is entirely allowed, as long as a game is public there is nothing preventing you from watching it. An exception to this is abusing powers granted to you by being staff on Smogon or PS! to gain access to information a normal user wouldn't have access to, which is strictly forbidden.
On leaking teams: 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 Clause / Disconnections
On Timeout losses: A player that loses by having all his time run out loses the game. This is only not the case if the player that received the timeout loss can be verified to have suffered a True Disconnection. Rematches are only allowed if there was a True Disconnection.
On True Disconnection: The TD team has a secret threshold of seconds that your timer must be at or above, from the moment you disconnect, for a timeout loss to be considered a True disconnection.
About playing on alts: It is entirely allowed to play on an alt other than your own main forum name, though if your opponent wishes to confirm your identity, you must log on to your main alt to show them you are who you claim to be. This is to prevent people from pretending to be who they're not.
Scouting
On scouting opponents: Going through your opponents replays of tournament and ladder games is entirely allowed, as long as a game is public there is nothing preventing you from watching it. An exception to this is abusing powers granted to you by being staff on Smogon or PS! to gain access to information a normal user wouldn't have access to, which is strictly forbidden.
On leaking teams: 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 Clause / Disconnections
On Timeout losses: A player that loses by having all his time run out loses the game. This is only not the case if the player that received the timeout loss can be verified to have suffered a True Disconnection. Rematches are only allowed if there was a True Disconnection.
On True Disconnection: The TD team has a secret threshold of seconds that your timer must be at or above, from the moment you disconnect, for a timeout loss to be considered a True disconnection.
Sign-Ups will be open for about a week, then the tournament will start. You can join by simply replying to this thread with "in" or some variation. Have fun everyone!
Sign-Ups
ViZar
Iceblazer
NEON_Voyager
Sticky Fingaaa
JosJet
Moretto
Rezzo
Regic Boat
Paulluxx
Magmajudis
kalifguest22
YeetYolk07
EeveeGirl1380
Ema Skye
DuoM2
BreakthrU89
Eggs
Yak Attack
447323a
Gravity Monkey
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