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Welcome to the Draft League Summer Seasonal! This is a Type A tournament in the 2024 Draft League Circuit and will provide points toward this year's Draft League Championship, and will be hosted by Nyx and Happygate. This tournament will take place in the [Gen 9] Tera Preview Draft tier on Pokémon Showdown! and battles will take place in a swiss followed by a single elimination bracket.
Round Seven
You can find all matchups with drafts here: https://spo.ink/summer_seasonal_2024_matchups
The challenge code for this event is: /chall gen9terapreviewdraft @@@ -Last Respects, -Baton Pass, -King's Rock, - Quick Claw, -Razor Fang, -Shed Tail
When challenging your opponent please use this code.
Given the Swiss nature of this tour, there are NO EXTENSIONS. Anyone who is dropping will be phased out at 3 losses, they will still be given matchups.
Games are due at 11pm GMT-4 on Sunday, 11th August
This thread and all future Summer Seasonal 2024 threads should be considered the final ruling in case of discrepancy between threads, Discord announcements, and Google spreadsheets. Contact a host if you have any questions or spot an error. We are human, after all.
Welcome to the Draft League Summer Seasonal! This is a Type A tournament in the 2024 Draft League Circuit and will provide points toward this year's Draft League Championship, and will be hosted by Nyx and Happygate. This tournament will take place in the [Gen 9] Tera Preview Draft tier on Pokémon Showdown! and battles will take place in a swiss followed by a single elimination bracket.
- You have up to 90 points with which to draft 8 Pokémon. Costs are listed on your pool’s tab on the drafting spreadsheet.
- If a Pokémon is picked by someone else, you may not pick it.
- For the first round, there is a 12 hour timer. After the first round ends, there will be a continuous 6 hour timer within which you must pick, or you will be skipped, and will be required to make-up your pick when you are next online. All timers are off between 10pm-7am local time (check your pools pinned message for local time).
- Your timer will halve every time you are skipped. It is recommended to leave picks (with backups) with your pool moderator to avoid this.
- Once the draft is over, you must declare two Tera Captains. They may not cost more than 25 points total. They are the only Pokémon on your draft that may Terastallize.
- The following complex bans are in place:
- No Pokémon may use the move Last Respects
- No Pokémon may use the move Shed Tail. - The following Pokémon may not be Tera-Captains:
- Baxcalibur
- Blaziken
- Darkrai
- Deoxys-Speed
- Dragonite
- Enamorus-Incarnate
- Garchomp
- Gouging Fire
- Iron Bundle
- Iron Valiant
- Kyurem
- Latios
- Latias
- Ogerpon-Hearthflame
- Palafin 
- Regieleki
- Roaring Moon
- Sneasler
- Terapagos
- Ursaluna-Bloodmoon
- Volcarona - The following Pokémon have access to all of their forms (although you may only bring up to 1 to each battle):
- Pikachu
- Basculin 
- Oricorio 
- Toxtricity 
- Indeedee 
- Basculegion 
- Oinkologne 
- Maushold 
- Squawkabilly 
- Tatsugiri 
- Dudunsparce 
- If a Pokémon that is available in SV is untiered, please ask a host.
- Smogon’s Species Clause applies to your draft.
- Prior to the start of the top 32 top cut, there will be a redraft.
- All games must be played in the [Gen 9] Tera Preview Draft tier on smogtours.psim.us or psim.us. Be aware that each game on smogtours starts a timer automatically and cannot be turned off.
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- SV cartridge win conditions are in place; there are no ties.
- Each set is a best-of-one set.
- The following clauses apply:
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokémon with the same National Pokédex number on a team.
- Sleep Clause: If a player has already put a Pokémon on their opponent's side to sleep and it is still sleeping, another one can't be put to sleep.
- Evasion Clause: A Pokémon may not hold an item, use a move or possess an ability that can increase their evasion stat
- OHKO Clause: A Pokémon may not have the moves Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill, or Sheer Cold in its moveset.
- Moody Clause: A team cannot have a Pokémon with the ability Moody.
- Endless Battle Clause: Players cannot intentionally prevent an opponent from being able to end the game without forfeiting.
- Baton Pass Clause: A Pokémon may not have Baton Pass in its moveset. - Quick Claw, King's Rock and Razor Fang are banned.
- Any items unreleased in SV are banned.
- Replays must be posted to the round thread.
About Activity Decisions
Activity Decisions / Coin Flips: In the event that there is an uncompleted match at the deadline, and an extension has not been requested, it will be coin flipped unless one or both of the players involved in the match specifically request an activity win and explain sufficiently why they deserve to win over their opponent. Attempting to schedule a battle is required in order to receive the win by activity. To make it clear that you are requesting an activity win when you post, you must open your post with "Activity Win Request" in bold.
For example, if you believe your opponent is making an unfair request and that they don't deserve the activity win over you, you can either make your own request or quote their post and explain why they don't deserve it. You should try to make your activity win request posts at least 24 hours before the deadline to give your opponent a reasonable opportunity to contest it with their own activity win request.
Please note that all extension requests and activity claims must be posted to the thread, and that all of these will be judged on a case by case basis.
[Credit to the Official Smogon Tournament hosting team for the base form of this rule.]
Activity Decisions / Coin Flips: In the event that there is an uncompleted match at the deadline, and an extension has not been requested, it will be coin flipped unless one or both of the players involved in the match specifically request an activity win and explain sufficiently why they deserve to win over their opponent. Attempting to schedule a battle is required in order to receive the win by activity. To make it clear that you are requesting an activity win when you post, you must open your post with "Activity Win Request" in bold.
For example, if you believe your opponent is making an unfair request and that they don't deserve the activity win over you, you can either make your own request or quote their post and explain why they don't deserve it. You should try to make your activity win request posts at least 24 hours before the deadline to give your opponent a reasonable opportunity to contest it with their own activity win request.
Please note that all extension requests and activity claims must be posted to the thread, and that all of these will be judged on a case by case basis.
[Credit to the Official Smogon Tournament hosting team for the base form of this rule.]
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 as wide a swathe of time 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 time zone, ideally as GMT offset.
If either host catches news of ghosting or some other sort of nefarious play, we reserve the right to investigate to the full limits of our ability.
When scheduling, offer as wide a swathe of time 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 time zone, ideally as GMT offset.
If either host catches news of ghosting or some other sort of nefarious play, we reserve the right to investigate to the full limits of our ability.
Round Seven
6-0
Nozzermat vs Habaduh
sablolol vs AgencyIsOwn
CM_Metro vs MoneyGuy9559
ConquestGanda vs MysticNyan
5-1
urban vs 22SavageHut
KCric12 vs Iride
Hacker vs aagarocks
Mihowk vs Armo
Meta vs Ace98121212
TheFallenShooriken vs CoolEvan1098
crow crumbs vs PZZ
kiliminati vs maki
gorex vs s1lveryo
Msousagamer vs Kec Meister
Dracogon vs Shade1x
Baddy vs jscurf
abriel vs Fabio_59
vinithewini vs titofm22
drizzle vs SoulTheChampion
Battlestorm vs WelcomeWinters
Azcelerator vs IMCOOKiNG
JCMShadow vs joshcudi
vmnunes vs DJS
Gengar_Mask vs Haildras
LatiGOD vs Thuxhunt
4-2
Roller K vs MegaMando
guigaxs2000 vs Zooch
Real Mareep vs Steven Stone 007
Blitzburgh vs choptch
idkup vs a fairy
Noah Aloha vs Frixel
Dr. Geo vs apologies
t_zard06 vs yedla
Jesse504 vs powergo1
velvet vs Drookez
Masoon vs gengariza
scionicle vs ElevatedGodlynessOfficial
Genhui vs Big Pharma
64 Squares vs Kloen
Lucas2543 vs Scribble
SolarBeam vs chi yu later
Tjb145 vs Bye
pattek vs GoldenCyber
ExtremeHD vs Stefaan
Wenlas vs Ryan&Ditto
Crisite vs Hikertoad
TrainerDin011 vs wughead
catast vs Palkia62
SoggyDoggySage vs burrg
ultraplayer vs Paying Attenton
Tempest200 vs Addison0727
TPH vs TwentyTwan
tazapls vs ButterCHOKE
ThunderOBolt vs ZDen
DaSpoofy vs Quarante8
PA vs hedja
VoidOfDarknesss vs Adriyun
Deranged_Lime vs Knight Sky
GammaGoGamma vs l3ssth4n3
DiamondScyther vs Angad
thenuttman vs Xocov
a12qsd too vs Star
not mishmesh vs termnal
empoleon9000 vs Obviously_JBOB
Vholtninja vs Techno
ItsNimXD vs Shikshtenaan
J-Sauce vs Rasche
zomb™ vs Akuu
Milkshook vs Professor Shuckle
Yahoodles vs dillanplay
Reaper Dude vs Blazene
Phonytail vs TheSourOne999
pkcc vs ogalbina
xGinesect vs Paxerion
Diviniya vs Tommathan
garchompsimp02 vs Ac130gaming
Andrew M vs Mqgnetic
ComputerWhiz vs I love Bagon
SnipyNoob vs iiFWM
TheRam7 vs DJblak
PaperRuby vs Bye
Nozzermat vs Habaduh
sablolol vs AgencyIsOwn
CM_Metro vs MoneyGuy9559
ConquestGanda vs MysticNyan
5-1
urban vs 22SavageHut
KCric12 vs Iride
Hacker vs aagarocks
Mihowk vs Armo
Meta vs Ace98121212
TheFallenShooriken vs CoolEvan1098
crow crumbs vs PZZ
kiliminati vs maki
gorex vs s1lveryo
Msousagamer vs Kec Meister
Dracogon vs Shade1x
Baddy vs jscurf
abriel vs Fabio_59
vinithewini vs titofm22
drizzle vs SoulTheChampion
Battlestorm vs WelcomeWinters
Azcelerator vs IMCOOKiNG
JCMShadow vs joshcudi
vmnunes vs DJS
Gengar_Mask vs Haildras
LatiGOD vs Thuxhunt
4-2
Roller K vs MegaMando
guigaxs2000 vs Zooch
Real Mareep vs Steven Stone 007
Blitzburgh vs choptch
idkup vs a fairy
Noah Aloha vs Frixel
Dr. Geo vs apologies
t_zard06 vs yedla
Jesse504 vs powergo1
velvet vs Drookez
Masoon vs gengariza
scionicle vs ElevatedGodlynessOfficial
Genhui vs Big Pharma
64 Squares vs Kloen
Lucas2543 vs Scribble
SolarBeam vs chi yu later
Tjb145 vs Bye
pattek vs GoldenCyber
ExtremeHD vs Stefaan
Wenlas vs Ryan&Ditto
Crisite vs Hikertoad
TrainerDin011 vs wughead
catast vs Palkia62
SoggyDoggySage vs burrg
ultraplayer vs Paying Attenton
Tempest200 vs Addison0727
TPH vs TwentyTwan
tazapls vs ButterCHOKE
ThunderOBolt vs ZDen
DaSpoofy vs Quarante8
PA vs hedja
VoidOfDarknesss vs Adriyun
Deranged_Lime vs Knight Sky
GammaGoGamma vs l3ssth4n3
DiamondScyther vs Angad
thenuttman vs Xocov
a12qsd too vs Star
not mishmesh vs termnal
empoleon9000 vs Obviously_JBOB
Vholtninja vs Techno
ItsNimXD vs Shikshtenaan
J-Sauce vs Rasche
zomb™ vs Akuu
Milkshook vs Professor Shuckle
Yahoodles vs dillanplay
Reaper Dude vs Blazene
Phonytail vs TheSourOne999
pkcc vs ogalbina
xGinesect vs Paxerion
Diviniya vs Tommathan
garchompsimp02 vs Ac130gaming
Andrew M vs Mqgnetic
ComputerWhiz vs I love Bagon
SnipyNoob vs iiFWM
TheRam7 vs DJblak
PaperRuby vs Bye
You can find all matchups with drafts here: https://spo.ink/summer_seasonal_2024_matchups
The challenge code for this event is: /chall gen9terapreviewdraft @@@ -Last Respects, -Baton Pass, -King's Rock, - Quick Claw, -Razor Fang, -Shed Tail
When challenging your opponent please use this code.
Given the Swiss nature of this tour, there are NO EXTENSIONS. Anyone who is dropping will be phased out at 3 losses, they will still be given matchups.
Games are due at 11pm GMT-4 on Sunday, 11th August
This thread and all future Summer Seasonal 2024 threads should be considered the final ruling in case of discrepancy between threads, Discord announcements, and Google spreadsheets. Contact a host if you have any questions or spot an error. We are human, after all.
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