Welcome to the first edition of UM Swiss, a Type A tournament in the UMs Circuit. Players will have the opportunity to play up to three times, with three losses removing a player from the tournament. Each week, a random UM (from this year's circuit) will be selected as the first game of a Best-of-3 set. The loser of each game picks the next tier. This may be edited or have more information later maybe, I stole it from Homefield and made some adjustments.
Tournament-Specific Rules
Swiss means that everyone plays someone of the same record (0-0, 2-1, 7-2, etc) when possible. Three losses eliminates you from the tournament. After a number of rounds indicated by the signups (structure list coming later), the remaining players will be put into a single-elimination Top Cut to determine the winner.
Each match is Best of 3, with the first game's metagame being randomly selected from this year's UM Circuit tiers. The loser of the first game picks the metagame for the second game. If a third game is needed, the loser of the second game picks the metagame for the third game. SV ZU, SV NFE, SV 2v2 bo5, SV Ubers UU, SV Anything Goes are the accepted tiers for this tournament.
1-0:
Dorron vs RoFnA
winner of (big tony 2014 vs Fc) vs Imperial
Squeeby vs Nashrock
Shing vs Fragments
teal6 vs King Griffin
winner of (avaluggsimp vs RL) vs Finchely
Baddy vs BloodAce
Plebster vs emoxu9
0-1:
binary search vs Uta The Clown
Havocknight vs fake tom numbers
Maybca☆〜ゝ。∂ vs Shadow079
AmoghOp vs Maarck
SwordIsBored vs Maia
loser of (big tony 2014 vs Fc) vs Medeia
loser of (avaluggsimp vs RL) vs LovelyLuna
Blanched vs zastra
First game:
Extension DL: Wednesday, 18th september 11:59pm GMT+2
Deadline for this round 2: 23th september 11:59pm GMT+2
Reminder: This round on, no extensions can be provided.
Tournament-Specific Rules
Swiss means that everyone plays someone of the same record (0-0, 2-1, 7-2, etc) when possible. Three losses eliminates you from the tournament. After a number of rounds indicated by the signups (structure list coming later), the remaining players will be put into a single-elimination Top Cut to determine the winner.
Each match is Best of 3, with the first game's metagame being randomly selected from this year's UM Circuit tiers. The loser of the first game picks the metagame for the second game. If a third game is needed, the loser of the second game picks the metagame for the third game. SV ZU, SV NFE, SV 2v2 bo5, SV Ubers UU, SV Anything Goes are the accepted tiers for this tournament.
- This tournament will be Swiss.
- All rounds will be Best of Three. You may switch teams in between battles of the same set.
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!, preferably on the smogtours server.
- General tournament rules and clauses apply.
- Smogon-Wide Clauses still apply.
- Please save your replays. It is recommended to play on the Smogon Tournaments server due to its ability to automatically save replays.
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.
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.
Gave the win to following people:
SwordIsBored : the oppo did not show on the time of the schedule
Shing: the oppo gave the win
SwordIsBored : the oppo did not show on the time of the schedule
Shing: the oppo gave the win
1-0:
Dorron vs RoFnA
winner of (big tony 2014 vs Fc) vs Imperial
Squeeby vs Nashrock
Shing vs Fragments
teal6 vs King Griffin
winner of (avaluggsimp vs RL) vs Finchely
Baddy vs BloodAce
Plebster vs emoxu9
0-1:
binary search vs Uta The Clown
Havocknight vs fake tom numbers
Maybca☆〜ゝ。∂ vs Shadow079
AmoghOp vs Maarck
SwordIsBored vs Maia
loser of (big tony 2014 vs Fc) vs Medeia
loser of (avaluggsimp vs RL) vs LovelyLuna
Blanched vs zastra
First game:
Extension DL: Wednesday, 18th september 11:59pm GMT+2
Deadline for this round 2: 23th september 11:59pm GMT+2
Reminder: This round on, no extensions can be provided.
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