Welcome to the seventh iteration of the largest PU tournament, the PU Open! Good luck to all competitors!
Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Grand Slam rules can be found here.
- Standard SV PU.
- Best-of-three, single elimination.
- Battles should take place on Pokemon Showdown!
- SV cartridge win conditions are in place; there are no ties.
- Tiers are locked at the beginning of each round.
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: Tournament matches must be played on the Smogtours server. The Main PS! server is also acceptable if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the TD team and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing in Smogtours, where we also have the power to recreate games that end due to DC's.
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
On the Timer: The timer must stay on throughout the whole battle, not to be turned off even in the case of a player disconnecting as we now have a separate disconnection timer (more details here). The timer may not be turned off in any circumstance.
On Timeout losses: A player that loses by having all his time run out loses the game. This is only not the case if the player that received the timeout loss can be verified to have suffered a True Disconnection. Rematches in such cases are not allowed.
On True Disconnection: The TD team has a secret threshold of seconds that your timer must be at or above, from the moment you disconnect, for a timeout loss to be considered a True disconnection. If your game is determined to be a true disconnection if you played on Smogtours and contacted a TD before the room expired your game will be recreated up to the point the disconnect happened. It is the responsibility of the player that disconnected to get a TD into the room before it expires.
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: Tournament matches must be played on the Smogtours server. The Main PS! server is also acceptable if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the TD team and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing in Smogtours, where we also have the power to recreate games that end due to DC's.
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
On the Timer: The timer must stay on throughout the whole battle, not to be turned off even in the case of a player disconnecting as we now have a separate disconnection timer (more details here). The timer may not be turned off in any circumstance.
On Timeout losses: A player that loses by having all his time run out loses the game. This is only not the case if the player that received the timeout loss can be verified to have suffered a True Disconnection. Rematches in such cases are not allowed.
On True Disconnection: The TD team has a secret threshold of seconds that your timer must be at or above, from the moment you disconnect, for a timeout loss to be considered a True disconnection. If your game is determined to be a true disconnection if you played on Smogtours and contacted a TD before the room expired your game will be recreated up to the point the disconnect happened. It is the responsibility of the player that disconnected to get a TD into the room before it expires.
Battle Clauses:
- Evasion Clause
- OHKO Clause
- Sleep Moves Clause
- Species Clause
- Timed Battle
- Team Preview
- Contact your opponent as soon as possible upon the round going up. Activity cases are going to be handled in a very strict manner.
- When scheduling, offer a wide selection of times when you are available to play. 1 hour of activity on one or two weeknights is unlikely to be considered acceptable.
- Schedule specifically - do not schedule for "Friday afternoon" or "Sunday morning", pick a date, a time and note the timezone.
- If I catch news of ghosting or some other sort of atrocious behavior, I reserve the right to investigate to the full limits of my ability in conjunction with the TD team provided there is adequate evidence to warrant it.
That aside, feel free to get back to me (or a tournament director) if you still have any questions regarding this tournament (or Grand Slam in general) after reading this post. In addition to being able to earn points through the PU Open towards qualifying for Grand Slam playoffs, it is part of the PU Tournament Circuit, so points for that will also be awarded accordingly depending on how well you do.
Round Two
skierdude101 vs Star
sasha vs yovan33321
TVVFG vs TheFranklin
Kaboom vs Wernher_1
RyuSnowシ vs Thiago Nunes
Kiyo vs Ryuji
Drud vs scionicle
waterfals vs Novax
Felilou vs Xocov
Career Ended vs LpZ
feen vs Morge
PolloAriosto vs Aberforth
Prinplup fiction vs giove97
Scottie vs Taka
TPP vs Ina fable
bleahey vs Lime
Baloor vs JabbaTheGriffin
OranBerryBlissey10 vs fade
atomicllamas vs Nichalho
Geomancy vs AS Saint Priest
Hubriz vs Rozith97
Mada vs Let's Rumble Shall We
S1nn0hC0nfirm3d vs Arcanine1929
Akaru Kokuyo vs 691
Zokuru vs EviGaro
Clorodulce vs Corvy
DugZa vs Floss
a.stupid.casual vs B0by
Welli0u vs Astrø
Elfuseon vs Skarpherim
jaymens_ vs KneeStealer
Trade vs Scarf Kricketune
Sificon vs soulgazer
UnzipsCrogre vs Suzuya
egalvanc vs rubycandy
Django vs Metallica126
Guille vs Kate
Tuthur vs LegitEU
Medeia vs Hera
TakingNotesKinda vs Chloe
Lily vs RainLiquidation
Javi vs Fc
Brain Paralysis vs Fluore
plznostep vs mncmt
ishtar vs Wearth
Sylveon used calm mind vs JustFranco
mathixd1 vs sleid
robjr vs zS
GetPilfered vs pdt
Wilski780 vs BlackKnight_Gawain
Royal5888 vs damien the genius
KarliTheFrenshie vs crying
Danny vs zoowi
UzumakiFox vs Azluc On Top
kimerCat vs Kenix
Magician vs MichaelderBeste2
Optical Real vs xavgb
MAVERICK SHOOTERS vs cherif18
Drifting vs NDK
Malekith vs passion
competitiveZero vs Cojack
z0mOG vs GBD777
freezingjuice vs lax
SoulWind vs DripLegend
Ferenia vs Monstrr07
Feaniix vs GentleSpook
avarice vs jyusaan
Wamr vs etern
entrocefalo vs NewYorkNinjas
Icemaster vs Cielau
false vs LillianOfficial
bricknermon vs DAHLI
ARTYMASION vs sufys
eternal ocean vs sugar ovens
Finchinator vs Trout In Space
Kin+ak (✧∇✧) vs Enzonana.
yandaud vs eifo
Seraphz vs fish anemometer
Fragments vs kythr
Mashing vs Oathkeeper
Corperate n vs Shoot
Hockey1 vs Beleth
aptedepresence vs Holy Cheetos
Aurist vs teal6
LustfulLice vs usernameinserted
velvet vs abriel
Emre Mor 9 vs Micciu
Ming549 vs Ngammer
Herwak vs compfan
Baddy vs Flying Beagle
MagearnaTheBoss vs Fernanch
roxie vs Don Bork
MZ vs chuggachuggachooo
koopa003 vs elodin
CHEESETHE vs dunoks
Jushiix vs Eeveeto
Deadline for extensions is Wednesday, May 29th at 11:00 PM GMT -4.
Deadline for this round is Sunday, June 2nd at 11:00 PM GMT -4.
