PU 2024 PU Circuit Playoffs - Finals (won by Xiri)

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Congrats to the Top 16 players in the PU Circuit for making it this far! All of this year's tournaments have finally led to this point. Now the Top 16 players will play to determine the winner of the Circuit, who'll be awarded with the PU Circuit Ribbon!

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Tournament-Specific Rules
  • This is a standard SV PU Single Elimination bo3 Tournament.
  • Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!, preferably on the smogtours server.
  • General tournament rules and clauses apply.
  • Smogon-Wide Clauses still apply.
  • You may switch teams in between battles of the same set.
  • All matches must have replays saved and posted within the thread. All matches must be played publicly.
  • Any tier changes that occur after this post, if any, will not affect this tournament.
  • PU is a usage based tier. You can essentially use anything that is not in a higher tier or banned; anything in PUBL or higher is banned and cannot be used.
Standard Rules and Clauses
  • Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on their team.
  • Sleep Clause: You cannot inflict sleep upon more than one member of the opposing team.
  • Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize are banned.
  • OHKO Clause: The moves Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, and Fissure are banned.
  • Endless Battle Clause: Anything capable of intentionally creating an endless battle is banned.
Other tournament rules you should be aware of!
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.

About playing on different servers: The matches must be played on either the Smogtours server or the Main PS! server if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the host(s) and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing on Smogtours.

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

Timer Clause: As for taking long between moves, if your opponent asks you to hurry up, please oblige. If you are doing a damage calc for a key turn that is one thing, but prolonging every move is suspicious and annoying. Don't do it. Furthermore, Battle Timeout is a rule for a reason. If you run out of time, you lose, simple as that. It does not matter what your opponent says. Do not battle if you think you will have to leave mid battle, and instead reschedule for a better time.

Disconnections: Finally, in the case of a disconnect, the decision is in the hands of the player who did not disconnect. The options are: redo the battle move for move, redo the battle with the same teams but different moves, or redo the battle with completely different teams. If the battle was without a doubt over, they may also take the win. Any suspicion that a disconnect was committed on purpose to redo a match may be appealed to me, and if I feel this happened there will be severe consequences, don't do it.

Scheduling

Use VMs to schedule with your opponent to make it easier for me to track activity calls when needed, and use this guide to ensure you don't lose via activity or coinflip. If you use other methods to contact your opponent outside of VMs, then post in this thread confirming you're in contact with your opponent; otherwise, it's not necessary. Extensions for those with time conflicts will only be given when proof is provided of scheduling with their opponent in the beginning of the round, so do not schedule last minute expecting to be compensated in case of timezone conflicts or be given an activity win over your opponent.

I know that was a lot to read, but it is all necessary for me to have posted here so everyone can see it in the case of a dispute. I don't want any confusion or any problems.
1. DugZa
2. eifo
3. OranBerryBlissey10
4. Xiri
5. kyuss
6. Ampha
7. fish anemometer
8. MZ
9. Drud
10. asa
11. Star
12. LpZ
13. Scarf Kricketune
14. sufys
15. plznostep
16. feen

FINALS
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Winner of (Xiri vs MZ) vs asa

This round will be Bo5 december meta, January shifts will NOT be in effect.

No clear deadline but get it done in a timely fashion, please!
 
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Xiri vs MZ - Both bring whack teams that get blown up by something common but try and circumvent it with offensive pressure. I think Xiri's latest teams are even more extreme than MZ's in this aspect. I do probably have a preference for the down to earth but different team so I'll bold MZ, who's had a great year in PU as a whole. Hoping to see a fireworks set with 5 crazy games!

Xiri vs asa - I think asa has enough to outsolid the zany ideas in xiri's builder, which could even be a hindrance if asa is prepared. She claims xiri bops her on ladder but when you run it back with the ladder demon in tour you often win with the extra timer and whatnot. Xiri's level of play is overall probably the highest here, and it is a bo5, but these teams man idk...

MZ vs asa - MZ has better chances imo. asa won all 3 of her games last round with variations of HO, and lost with the more balanced picks (she did get unlucky in the orthworm game). I think if MZ locks in a nice anti offense he should be able to outplay enough or get good mu. Extremely close though, MZ teams are usually really weak to specific threats and the counterplay is just a tera or offensive play, if asa can lock that in she'll have rgeat chances.

Also asa vs Star video from last round!
 
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