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Welcome to the first ever SS Ubers Cup tournament within the 2023 Ubers Tournament Circuit, which will give Type C points! This tournament, like the many other tournaments that compose this year's circuit, will award points towards a general Ubers leaderboard which will ultimately award the 2023 Ubers Ribbon (if you have any doubts over the ribbon system, check out this thread and this thread)!
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Welcome to the first ever SS Ubers Cup tournament within the 2023 Ubers Tournament Circuit, which will give Type C points! This tournament, like the many other tournaments that compose this year's circuit, will award points towards a general Ubers leaderboard which will ultimately award the 2023 Ubers Ribbon (if you have any doubts over the ribbon system, check out this thread and this thread)!
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Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Standard SS Ubers.
- Best-of-three, single elimination.
- Battles should take place on Pokémon Showdown!
- SS cartridge win conditions are in place; there are no ties.
- Tiers are locked at the beginning of each 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.
- Sleep Clause: Limit one foe put to sleep.
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
You are expected to know and follow all general tournament rules. Also check out this thread.
VMs are the only thing that matter for activity. Use this guide to ensure you don't lose via activity or coinflip.
Round 1 Matchups:
rubycandy vs Farce Of The Death
Marshme1to vs giove97
Uber45 vs lou dort
entrocefalo vs Alozy
Fc vs velvet
1729is56time vs March Fires
8142e33 vs TTK
TDR vs lotiasite
ORCA-Z vs Aberforth
Seanobiwan vs svzera
Alpha1013 vs LBN
Shuwri vs skimmythegod
i am a mcrib vs The White Room
SpaceSpeakers vs IoSonoNeon
realaccountami? vs Mannuraj
Mysticwind vs 7u9i2
YasuKe vs Aldrich
Royal1604 vs Drud
Liquidocelot vs leoperi99
Churielix vs Raph369
ox04 vs boris69
SiTuM vs Some Thug
memedose46 vs PatheticAce
Concept Everything vs GeniusFromHoenn
Meminger21 vs Nyx
Siddakid vs VictorySymbol
oversway vs Frozoid
A Welcome Guest vs Icemaster
Ainzcrad vs Dark Shion
Mister Magnus vs s7a
What should by name be? vs byulharang
Mr.Bossaru vs shadowtime2000
Luispeikou vs Arvinraj K III C
juninxisl vs Tal
kiritofps vs sychillz
Rhmsitb vs lolebruh
FatFighter2 vs ToasterBoi420
Eledyr vs Mister McLovin
Inder vs DKM
Taka vs The Strap
Deadline is Monday 4th of August 2pm @ GMT+10.
Replays are required!
Replays are required!
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