Welcome to the very last seasonal tournament of the 2019 Ubers Tournament Circuit, the third edition of the Ubers Spring Seasonal! This seasonal, like other tournaments that compose this year's circuit, will award points towards a general Ubers leaderboard which will ultimately award the 2019 Ubers Ribbon (if you have any doubts over the ribbon system, check out this thread)!
SPECIFIC RULES
- This is a standard USM Ubers tournament
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!, preferably on the smogtours server.
- This tournament will be Double Elimination.
- All rounds will be Best of Three. You may switch teams in between battles of the same set.
- 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 or at least saves replays of the match, both players will suffer an automatic game loss. (If you were in losers' when you played, you are both out. If you were in winners', the winner is in losers' and the loser is out.) There may be some exceptions to this rule.
- Every round, I may choose several games as the Highlight Matches.
- Any eventual tier changes will only take effect in the following round.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on his team.
- Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize are banned. (No other evasion boosting things 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.
- Moody Clause
- Sleep Clause
- SleepTrap Clause: A Pokemon cannot use a move that can inflict sleep status on the opponent if it has the ability Shadow Tag.
- Rayquaza is not permitted to Mega Evolve.
- The move Baton Pass is banned.
Identity
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.
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.
VMs are the only thing that matter for activity. Use this guide to ensure you don't lose via activity or coinflip.
I RESERVE THE RIGHT TO COINFLIP ANY GAME WITHOUT PROPER SCHEDULING PROTOCOL FOLLOWED.
Please let me know if there are any mistakes with the pairings.
Winners' Bracket:
Melee Mewtwo vs squinn
Aurora vs Velvet Blood
dice vs daunt vs
Decision Makers vs entrocefalo
Megazard vs absdaddy
byronthewellwell vs Royal1604
Evuelf vs Drogba In Shenhua
benbe vs ADF Test
EternalSnowman vs Mega zygarde-100%
Real FV13 vs The Dovahneer
Amir vs Thiago Nunes
DracoMaster Dab vs Ismail
Confide vs Ernestofp13
Cam vs SOMALIA
Chill Shadow vs frisoeva
Hassin627 vs Lux92
GotCookies vs Holy Ghost
Spl4sh vs 22$G BIG$Z
Melle2402 vs TheDarkSwirl
Staxi vs Peli
CKW vs Drakus04
Bouki vs GW
Xiri vs Dark Shion
Lord Thorx vs p2
Hugo Barrington vs Node
Pananalibs vs SiTuM
TheJ3estPenguin vs Highlord
roman vs Paradise Seeker
7shoes vs HKT
neomon vs Eramoth
Wamr vs didi
Kyogre is GR8 vs Queen's Rose
Terracotta vs Descending
l'habitat vs So Noisy
iry vs Garay oak
Investor-A vs Mysterious M
Sets vs Ackler
Ryan37 vs White Leaves
-RDKB- vs Thimo
SilvioGiovanna vs DarkAngeallenq.q
Africanoid vs L3mN
MashedPotatoes vs Jase The World
Gorfield vs PurpleGatorade
small jin vs Exiline
Jinoo Daddy vs cromagnet42
Lazy_bread27 vs Tikkito
Dockiva~~ vs KyogreF4N
PrAiSe GrOuDoNiSm vs Oiseau Bleu
Losers' Bracket:
Blim vs Ed
FLCL vs TioDragonite
WreckDra vs leo568
skysolo14 vs perfect minun
Balto vs loving1096
Sas0 vs Bouff
Akashi vs sanv
qwily vs Sevenfive75
SANJAY vs LaBalladeDesCieux
Heaxys vs Zesty43
fourmi vs Rhmsitb
ithrowrocksatkids vs Marination
zugubu royale vs Game Moderator
Catalystic vs hyeun
Sitonai vs Lord Crucify
frogger1387 vs Sacred Wings
StepC vs Mack Knife
AFuckNotBeingGiven vs Sakaweed
Jeffis vs PokemonHunter2002
MSnt vs -Wind
Sificon vs Plas
pazza vs JLK 17
Ehvrim vs Misterioussaint
wehavecancer vs Minougarou
AlolaPersian12 vs Akamask
Dragonflo vs hs
Ismakhil vs InkPupil
RCred403 vs King Billu
lolipopkongpuppy5 vs AnythingGoesLegend
imjustgray vs orch
Batt' vs London Beats
abriel gabram vs Alkione
The Thunderbirds vs LuluDzn
Ladder Jesus vs Nowh
TheUndeclared243 vs Pearl
saucemaster vs Pohjis
Iam8husband vs Lasen
b1ondie vs Laeyth
Manaliz_ vs Bye
iampie vs Bye
Bhris Brown vs Bye
Samqian vs Bye
I am bu vs Bye
RaJ.Shoot vs Bye
Oro e Diamanti vs Bye
Squash17 ^_^ vs Bye
Rasengan777 vs Bye
Blitzle say vs Bye
Highlight Matches:
Melee Mewtwo vs squinn
byronthewellwell vs Royal1604
iry vs Garay oak
The deadline for this round is Wednesday, May 8th, at 11:59 PM EST.
The extension deadline for incomplete Round 1 matches is Wednesday, May 1st, 11:59 PM EST
Good luck to everyone!
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