Rules:
- This is a standard XY Doubles OU Tournament - rules and discussion for the metagame can be found here.
- The tournament is single-elimination, with 2 week rounds. with each half of the bracket staggered by one week to ensure that games are likely to happen every weekend. This will be achieved by giving half of the bracket a three-week round 1. This may seem excessive for a single-elimination tournament, but we'd like to encourage building and active metagame development; also, it's better to ensure that players are able to adequately prepare for and schedule matches for such a large prize pool.
- Rounds will be Best of Three. You may switch teams in between battles of the same set.
- The tour will not be seeded.
- To encourage the development of the metagame, and so that everyone is on an even playing field, all matches must have replays recorded. If neither player posts replays of the match, both players will suffer an automatic game loss.
- Incidents of ghosting / multiple signups carry their standard penalties. Players currently tour-banned cannot enter.
- Activity calls will be made by me, with assistance if needed from DOU tierleaders and a TD. Flips will be done on PS!
- In the event that something is added to or removed from the XY Doubles OU metagame in the middle of a round, that change will be in effect starting the next round.
- Endless Battle Clause: Players cannot use any moveset on any Pokémon capable of intentionally causing an endless battle. Thus:
- A Pokémon may not carry Recycle and hold a Leppa Berry in conjunction with Heal Pulse and Milk Drink, Moonlight, Morning Sun, Recover, Roost, Slack Off, Soft-Boiled, or Wish.
- A Pokémon may not hold a Leppa Berry while carrying Recycle and Pain Split.
- A Pokémon may not hold a Leppa Berry while carrying Recycle and Fling.
- Evasion Clause: Players cannot use the moves Double Team or Minimize.
- Moody Clause: Players cannot use a Pokémon with the Moody ability.
- OHKO Clause: Players cannot use the moves Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill, or Sheer Cold.
- Species Clause: Players cannot have two Pokémon with the same Pokédex number on the same team.
- Swagger Clause: Swagger is banned
- Mewtwo
- Lugia
- Ho-oh
- Kyogre
- Groudon
- Rayquaza
- Dialga
- Palkia
- Giratina
- Giratina-Origin
- Shaymin-Sky
- Arceus
- Reshiram
- Zekrom
- Kyurem-White
- Xerneas
- Yveltal
- Jirachi
Players cannot use the following moves:
Players cannot use the following moves on the same team:
- Gravity and sleep moves with below one hundred accuracy
Players cannot use the following items:
Round 1B Bracket:
TUO vs bye
qsns vs StepC
kungkaleb vs Darkdevil
Ade50 vs DugZa
Hachimaki98 vs bye
Croven vs laptops
FlamingVictini vs bye
Human vs PoliLoco
Yay vs bye
Pigeons vs txitxas
SMB vs Vinc2612
stax vs Tricking
Gotheru vs bye
Nido-Rus vs Elise
Chill Shadow vs bye
zugubu royale vs miltankmilk
BIHI vs bye
marilli vs TSR
Jucherz vs Choupa Chouiken
z0mOG vs Quantum Tesseract
DaWoblefet vs bye
leo05051998 vs Vulpix03
raf vs bye
Weegah vs Charmflash
Hijasu vs bye
nightcore vs obii
Yuichii vs ORASwag
Mikaav vs Pak
Mr.GX vs bye
GenOne vs soTsoT
EclipseOwlVGC vs bye
Laz vs fakenagol
for transparency, here is the challonge: https://challonge.com/two_fifths_compromise
the deadline is Monday, March 11th, at 11:59 Eastern Time (GMT -4)
