Welcome to the NU Open.
Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Grand Slam rules can be found here.
- Standard BW2 NU.
- Best of three, single elimination.
- The banlist for this tournament is the same as the NU ladder of the Smogon University server of Pokemon Showdown.
- If tier changes occur during the middle of a round, they will take effect in the subsequent round.
- Battles should take place on Pokemon Showdown! unless both players agree otherwise.*
Identity
I expect many battles to be completed under alts and I expect many battles to be completed on other servers to prevent scouting. These kind of factors are pretty bad for tournament security, and thus I will make this clear: If I hear any whispers of identity theft (battling as someone you are not) or proxy battling (helping someone else battle through pm) I will not be pleased and I will take severe actions.
Scouting
Next, I do not want to hear anything about counterteaming, at all. It is the silliest thing I have ever heard, any battler worth their marbles has more than one team. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any forceful scouting, whether it be spying on another teams irc channel or following your opponent around on PO. There is a difference between "ipl is known for using stall" and "let me follow ipl around all day to watch all his battles since I am his opponent". I expect a lot of the former and none of the latter.
With that said, I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. However, given the fact that this is the big stage, I am sure a lot of people want to watch, so don't be too mean.
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. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment.
Disconnections
If a player disconnects and either player contends that they could still win, the optimal solution is to recreate the exact situation the disconnection occurred at during the battle. If it is agreed between players that this is not feasible due to unreasonable battle length, highly improbable circumstances, or some other reason, the player who did not disconnect may choose to rematch with either the same teams or (the option to use) new teams. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment. Do not do it.
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.
I expect many battles to be completed under alts and I expect many battles to be completed on other servers to prevent scouting. These kind of factors are pretty bad for tournament security, and thus I will make this clear: If I hear any whispers of identity theft (battling as someone you are not) or proxy battling (helping someone else battle through pm) I will not be pleased and I will take severe actions.
Scouting
Next, I do not want to hear anything about counterteaming, at all. It is the silliest thing I have ever heard, any battler worth their marbles has more than one team. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any forceful scouting, whether it be spying on another teams irc channel or following your opponent around on PO. There is a difference between "ipl is known for using stall" and "let me follow ipl around all day to watch all his battles since I am his opponent". I expect a lot of the former and none of the latter.
With that said, I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. However, given the fact that this is the big stage, I am sure a lot of people want to watch, so don't be too mean.
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. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment.
Disconnections
If a player disconnects and either player contends that they could still win, the optimal solution is to recreate the exact situation the disconnection occurred at during the battle. If it is agreed between players that this is not feasible due to unreasonable battle length, highly improbable circumstances, or some other reason, the player who did not disconnect may choose to rematch with either the same teams or (the option to use) new teams. Timing out is still classified as a loss, unless the reason for timing out is a disconnection. If there is any suspicion that a disconnect was carried out deliberately to take advantage of this rule in any way, we reserve the right to exercise a harsh punishment. Do not do it.
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.
Battle Clauses:
- OHKO Clause
- Sleep Clause
- Species Clause
- Timed Battle
- Team Preview
Participants:
Use VMs to contact each other: this will allow me to track activity much more easily. Also hanging out in #gslam on IRC is cool.
BKC vs The Leprechaun
DC. vs Pocket
Bad Ass vs Treecko
HSA vs Haund
Zebraiken vs Bloo
atomicllamas vs 1996ITO
Dice vs Django
RT. vs Moose V
Nelson vs Royalty
Limitless vs Mafreel
TyranitarPhantom vs DetroitLolCat
Brap vs Malekith
New Breed vs kael
Metal Sonic vs Eo Ut Mortus
fatty vs ~Greencore
TPO3 vs Jayde
Sidfrid vs Chieliee
Wepwnemon vs Fuzznip
King Of Random vs Darkloic
Cicada vs Imanalt
Soulwind vs cxinlee
davidness vs Terraquaza
Reiku vs kokoloko
PDC vs Ciele
Hack He Must vs Kenny
Ruppy vs Annoyer
blarajan vs Thatsjustpeachy
august vs Afro Smash
pokebasket vs SilentVerse
Soulgazer vs Enguarde
Nefask vs undisputed
Silvershadow234 vs kingmitus
ebeast vs Sweet Jesus
AB2 vs Mew
Bryce vs CyberObin
Celever vs Cherub Agent
Tyrano vs Heist
aerialace TM40 vs The Quasar
Ryanor vs PasY_G
Fiction. vs FLCL
Hot N Cold vs Orphic
TheFourthChaser vs DittoCrow
Brammi vs Level 51
LonelyNess vs Dcae
~Mercury~ vs Raichy
ZodiacTheKid vs Raiza.
Kushalos vs Raseri
Demonkiller vs papai noel
Deadline is 10 days from this post, Sept 25th. This is a strict deadline.
Let me know if there are any typos in your name. I tried to catch most of them.
Highlight Matches
Bloo vs Zebraiken
ebeast vs Sweet Jesus
For those that want their battle livecasted:
http://smogon.com/forums/threads/livecasted-battle-compendium.3487261/#post-4799641
The current standings are available here: http://goo.gl/rkS0M7
*Note: If you're uncomfortable playing on Pokemon Showdown, matches can be played on Pokemon Online v2.
Thanks to Zracknel for contributing the artwork for the tournament!
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