taken over from Expulso by the approval of McMeghan
Tournaments are a great way for moderately experienced users to bolster their battling skill, and for good players to become great players. Unfortunately, most of the tournaments on this forum are for OU, leaving players of other tiers (Ubers, UU, RU, NU, LC) feeling left out. Thus, I have decided to create a tournament encompassing three of those—ORAS UU, RU, and NU. Here's how it works!
There will be three single elimination, 32-man tournaments in each of those tiers. The top four from each one of those tournaments will be seeded according to their placement in those tours, and will then compete in a 12-man tournament to determine the winner. This last tournament will be Bo3, with 1 battle from each tier, UU, RU, and NU. Once that tournament finishes, we'll have the winner, who will undoubtedly be versatile in all three of those lower tiers!
Definitions of Standard Clauses: (these clauses apply across all Smogon tiers)
Disconnections and Timer Clause: In live tournaments with short time constraints such as the Smogon Tour, if a player disconnects or times out, the opponent may take the win. In other tournaments, if a player disconnects and contends that they could still win, the optimal solution is to recreate the exact situation the disconnection occurred at during the battle. If 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.
Simulator Glitches: Any battle mechanics not properly implemented in the simulator used for a tournament battle are fair game, unless explicitly banned by that tournament's rules. Illegal movesets that are not restricted by the simulator fall into this category as well. However, this does not include faulty tier scripts; for example, if there was a bug in the BW OU tier script that allowed you to use Drizzle and Swift Swim on the same team, taking advantage of this would result in disqualification in that battle. If a game breaking glitch is discovered, we will make a blanket tournament ban on that glitch via an announcement in the Tournaments forum until it is fixed.
Ghosting: The player in a tournament battle should be the one making their own decisions. Do not tell a player what move to make in a tournament battle (i.e. do not "ghost" them), and do not make your moves based on another person's suggestions. If we are made aware that someone playing a tournament battle is making some of their moves based mainly on the suggestions of someone else, punishments may be handed out to both parties involved.
Identity: Pretending to be another player in relation to a tournament battle is strictly prohibited. Do not try to impersonate or play as another player.
Rule Breaking: If a player breaks a rule during a battle, they are disqualified from that particular battle. If it was a single battle in a series, they will still have the opportunity to play the rest of the series.
Draws: If a battle ends in a draw in an elimination tournament or another tournament format that is unable to handle draws, there should be a rematch between the players with the option for both players to change teams.
Forfeiting: A player may forfeit their battle during or after the battle, as long as the result has not been confirmed by the host. If a player forfeits before a battle commences in the first round of a tournament, they are eligible for substitution if appropriate. We highly recommend that you do not forfeit your tournament battles just because you got lucky, but we do not enforce this.
Host / Tournament Director Decisions: The host may make a judgment call on the outcome of a battle with a disputed result, even if one player has broken the rules. If you believe the host has made an unjust decision, you may inform the Tournament Director responsible for the tournament of the situation and request that they make a final call on it.
Sportsmanship: If a player displays exceedingly poor sportsmanship before, during, or after a tournament battle, they may be disqualified or otherwise punished.
- Sleep Clause: If a player has already put an opposing Pokémon to sleep using a sleep inducing move and that Pokémon is still sleeping due to that sleep inducing move, the player cannot put another opposing Pokémon to sleep using a sleep inducing move.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two of the same species of Pokémon on their team, based on the National Pokedex Number. For example, a player cannot have two Koffing on his or her team.
- Evasion Clause: Players cannot use Double Team or Minimize in any of their Pokémon's movesets.
- OHKO Clause: Players cannot use Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, or Fissure in any of their Pokémon's movesets.
- Timer Clause: If a player exhausts the timer, he/she loses.
Disconnections and Timer Clause: In live tournaments with short time constraints such as the Smogon Tour, if a player disconnects or times out, the opponent may take the win. In other tournaments, if a player disconnects and contends that they could still win, the optimal solution is to recreate the exact situation the disconnection occurred at during the battle. If 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.
Simulator Glitches: Any battle mechanics not properly implemented in the simulator used for a tournament battle are fair game, unless explicitly banned by that tournament's rules. Illegal movesets that are not restricted by the simulator fall into this category as well. However, this does not include faulty tier scripts; for example, if there was a bug in the BW OU tier script that allowed you to use Drizzle and Swift Swim on the same team, taking advantage of this would result in disqualification in that battle. If a game breaking glitch is discovered, we will make a blanket tournament ban on that glitch via an announcement in the Tournaments forum until it is fixed.
Ghosting: The player in a tournament battle should be the one making their own decisions. Do not tell a player what move to make in a tournament battle (i.e. do not "ghost" them), and do not make your moves based on another person's suggestions. If we are made aware that someone playing a tournament battle is making some of their moves based mainly on the suggestions of someone else, punishments may be handed out to both parties involved.
Identity: Pretending to be another player in relation to a tournament battle is strictly prohibited. Do not try to impersonate or play as another player.
Rule Breaking: If a player breaks a rule during a battle, they are disqualified from that particular battle. If it was a single battle in a series, they will still have the opportunity to play the rest of the series.
Draws: If a battle ends in a draw in an elimination tournament or another tournament format that is unable to handle draws, there should be a rematch between the players with the option for both players to change teams.
Forfeiting: A player may forfeit their battle during or after the battle, as long as the result has not been confirmed by the host. If a player forfeits before a battle commences in the first round of a tournament, they are eligible for substitution if appropriate. We highly recommend that you do not forfeit your tournament battles just because you got lucky, but we do not enforce this.
Host / Tournament Director Decisions: The host may make a judgment call on the outcome of a battle with a disputed result, even if one player has broken the rules. If you believe the host has made an unjust decision, you may inform the Tournament Director responsible for the tournament of the situation and request that they make a final call on it.
Sportsmanship: If a player displays exceedingly poor sportsmanship before, during, or after a tournament battle, they may be disqualified or otherwise punished.
Particiants were determined by the first 60% of the slots going to the first signups, and then the rest being randomized among the remaining signups.
UU Tournament
Celeberty vs Prankster.
DaSpoofy vs Cnorth26
davidTheMaster vs Minus
Arifeen vs Chameleon.
teal6 vs Heatedline
Erick17 vs hairy toenail
praj.pran vs Qwilphish
Sacri' vs Zeno;
byronthewellwell vs SwedishBiscuit
DropTheBass vs rural
Bouffalant vs Brendannn
Gene Sp. vs Damnosaur
Decision Makers vs dodmen
Christo The Gr8 vs DC.
Century Express vs OGWanka
xShiba vs Omfuga
RU Tournament
Rowan vs migzoo
Wesleyxd vs fran17
Crestfall vs EonX
Lasagne vs Geotal
Sweep vs Natural Talent
lighthouses vs Zebraiken
Neil. vs zdrup15
Unlucky Desperado vs jaiho
Scythe. vs MikeDawg
During Summer vs trc
pokebasket vs FullLifeGames
DKFirelord vs Hantsuki
Red dragonn vs Redmaxxx
xastify vs mael
LightningLuxray vs Void
scald vs ZANBAKUResh
NU Tournament
ajadanje vs metaphysical
Letmeshine- vs Tricking
NotHyunation vs iplaytennislol
candyflip vs Kiyo
Can-Eh-Dian vs Drum'n'Bass
The Quasar vs Mr.378
DatSwagDoe vs tazz
Haruno vs hollywood
Panure vs Mega-Swampert
HeiDoe vs scorpdestroyer
Finchinator vs NocturOP
NaCl vs Fortune
SparksBlade vs kingler12345
HJAD vs Tom0410
Steakburgers vs Orphic
Brick Small. vs FLCL
Deadline for Round 1 is Sunday, June 7th at 11:59pm EDT. Matches are Best of One.
If you cannot play for any or do not want to be a part of this, please let me know ASAP so I can get a sub in, as there are quite a few of them. (I can't expand to 48 man tournaments because it would leave either 9 or 18 ppl in the top cut, both of which are very bad, and there was not enough signups for 64)
if i made any mistakes please let me know ASAP
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