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Welcome to the first RU Seasonal! This seasonal will be part of the RU Circuit. Entering in this seasonal earns you points for an overall RU leaderboard. After a number of seasonals (depending on activity), the top 16 players of this leaderboard will enter a seeded playoffs, where the winner of the tournament will become the RU champion with a banner to match! There may also be other prizes in store, which are still being discussed.
Specific Rules:
- This is a standard ORAS RU tournament.
- Matches are to be played on PS!
- All rounds will be a best of three in this double elimination tournament, and you are free to switch teams during your series.
- If you drop out of the tournament immediately after losing in the winner's bracket or just drop out of the winner's bracket, you will be banned from future RU circuit tournaments and are subject to a possible infraction.
- Replays must be saved and posted when confirming your win/loss. If neither the winning nor losing party posts replays, the match will be coin-flipped regardless of confirmation of result from either party. This is to ensure that everyone is on an even playing field, and in general, access to a library of quality replays is a good tool to track the development of the metagame that will possibly be used to fuel several other resources.
- In the case that a ban is made or a Pokemon moves up from RU to another tier or down to RU from another tier through usage during the middle of a round, the tier change(s) will not be taken into effect until the proceeding round begins.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on his 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.
- Identity: I expect many battles to be completed under alts. This can be 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. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any blatant scouting. There is a difference between "[user] is known for using stall" and "let me follow [user] 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. I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. Everyone will have access to your replays from earlier rounds though.
- 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.
- Use VMs to schedule with your opponent to make it easier for me to track activity calls when needed. 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 (first 2-3 days). Do not schedule last minute expecting to be compensated in case of timezone conflicts or be given an activity win over your opponent.
- Round 3 will end on July 20th at 11:59 PM EST
TSR vs. Paraplegic
tjdaas vs. DaRizzleTheMan
Andrew M vs.
Arch€r vs. Lord Death Man
263 Lorda Floterchai vs. Bye 21 @
265 Akashi vs. Dlanyer @
Coverride vs.
megaqwer:D
omastar vs.
269 -Snow vs. Mr. Mendes @
270 Threw vs. Confluxx @
271 Aurora vs. Bye 18
DTC vs.
273 IroUmi vs. Wando @
274 p2 vs. Bye 57
275 GreenGogoatttt vs. Bye 6 @
277 braveswin11 vs. Aberforth @
Gastrik vs.
279 trollface.jpg vs. Bye 22
280 cryalot vs. Marcop9923 @
281 qwily vs. Bongi @
282 Syncrasy vs. Mold @
283 LightningLuxray vs. qsns @
287 TraceofLife vs. Bye 14
288 Teamcali15 vs. NaCl
289 Meru vs. Alice Kazumi
290 Swagnezone vs. Toxicroak-a-Cola
291 AV8 vs. passion
Drangonn. vs. King UU
292 Rayzark vs. miltankmilk @
MegaStarUniverse vs.
294 BigBoy038 vs. Littlelucario @
295 Cheryl. vs. Bye 11 @
Endal vs.
297 SOMALIA vs. Devin Ryan @
298 NOVED vs. Pohjis @
299 trash vs. xXEricXx @
Hyogafodex vs.
301 ZANBAKUResh vs. Panther5001 @
303 Sir_Bagel vs. Bye 19 @
307 rnbs vs. Bye 7 @
308 Zyo vs. Lord Booty Milk @
310 The50mph vs. CorruptedOmega @
311 Drud vs. Bye 23 @
312 Accelgor vs. MoxieCrocs @
313 Chras vs. Natural Talent @
315 NotSoClutch vs. Sanjay. @
316 Contact vs. Kableye @
Sorry if you dropped out of the tournament and you are still in this, tbh I didn't keep track of drop outs beyond activity wins (cwl).
Also once again ignore unnecessary @'s and the numbers I blame challonge and notepad being mediocre programs, thank you :).
To clarify why this is only losers, its because losers bracket has to play twice as many matches than winners, this makes keeping track of scores easier and also means that winner of winners bracket won't be waiting for like 4 weeks after winning winners to play the overall winner match up. Good luck.
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