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Banhammers Cycle 3 Bo3 Tournament
Host: Yoshiblaze
Welcome to the first ever Banhammers Forum Tournament! This tournament will serve as playtesting for Cycle 3 of Banhammers, a fairly new and untested metagame since it was finalized in late June, so this'll be a great chance to see what's is and isn't as good as we currently think, or even what gets the Banhammer next!
Banhammers Cycle 3 Bo3 Tournament
Host: Yoshiblaze
Welcome to the first ever Banhammers Forum Tournament! This tournament will serve as playtesting for Cycle 3 of Banhammers, a fairly new and untested metagame since it was finalized in late June, so this'll be a great chance to see what's is and isn't as good as we currently think, or even what gets the Banhammer next!
What is Banhammers?
Banhammers is a Gen 9 OU-based Pet Mod where a TON of Pokemon, Moves, Items, and Abilities have been banned, decided by players through earning points in roomtours, which they used to ban all these things. Unlike most Pet Mods, there are any crazy custom elements or inherent buffs to any Pokemon, but with so many things banned, Banhammers still offers an extremely different from vanilla OU. Terastalization is also legal in Banhammers, much like in OU.
Resources for Banhammers
- Forum Thread
- Discord
- Resources (Sample Sets, Viability List, & Role Compendium)
- Spreadsheet
- Playable Here (with Teambuilder Support)
/challenge [user], gen9ou @@@ -Barraskewda, -Cinderace, -Clodsire, -Dragapult, -Enamorus-Base, -Gholdengo, -Gliscor, -Hatterene, -Iron Treads, -Kingambit, -Ogerpon-Wellspring, -Pelipper, -Rillaboom, -Walking Wake, -Zamazenta, -Earth Power, -Flip Turn, -Freeze-Dry, -Ice Beam, -Knock Off, -Spikes, -Taunt, -Thunder Wave, -Toxic, -Volt Switch, -Booster Energy, -Light Clay, -Protosynthesis, -Clefable, -Corviknight, -Darkrai, -Dragonite, -Maushold, -Primarina, -Samurott-Hisui, -Slowking-Galar, -Weavile, -Focus Blast, -Glare, -Sticky Web, -Unaware, -Quark Drive, -Blissey, -Ceruledge, -Chansey, -Garchomp, -Garganacl, -Glimmora, -Hydreigon, -Ogerpon-Cornerstone, -Ting-Lu, -Close Combat, -Dragon Dance, -Meteor Beam, -Roost, -Scale Shot, -Stealth Rock, -Tera Blast, -Heavy-Duty-Boots, -Chlorophyll, -Swift Swim, -Regenerator, -Draco Meteor, -Intimidate, -Levitate, -Focus Sash, -Leftovers, -Life Orb, -Belly Drum, -Calm Mind, -Nasty Plot, -Azumarill, -Blaziken, -Deoxys-Defense, -Greninja, -Heatran, -Kleavor, -Kommo-o, -Meowscarada, -Moltres-Galar, -Ninetales-Alola, -Pecharunt, -Politoed, -Sinistcha, -Skarmory, -Ursaluna, -Zapdos-Base - 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 can be played on Dragon Heaven, using the Banhammers Cycle 3 format. Since there are no custom elements, games can also be played on the main Showdown server (or SmogTours) using the challenge command in the spoiler tag above.
- For those who do play on the main server, do note that bringing something that's banned will result in an automatic game loss for every game you brought something banned in. Make absolute sure that the challenge command is used when playing on the main server.
- Replays are mandatory. It's highly recommended that you both upload AND download the replay, for preservation purposes.
- If metagame changes occur during the middle of a round (such as balance changes), they will take effect in the next round.
- 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
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