Welcome to the UUbers Swiss 2! This will be a swiss tournament with a final knockout bracketin the Ubers UU format, to celebrate the format's 1-year anniversary since it was created on reddit! This is a sequel of UUbers Swiss, which was discord-only tournament from before we were smogon recognized. From experienced players from its roots to Smogon folk curious about the format and everybody in between, this tournament is for you! The games will be a best of three held in the Ubers UU format on Pokemon Showdown. All replays must be posted to the round's thread for a win to count, and each round will take one week.
View the current bracket here! Feel free to play your bracket early, but do not post until the proper weeks thread is up.
Here are some useful Ubers UU resources:
- Sample Teams
- Viability Rankings
- Speed Tiers
Here are some Smogon tournament resources:
- Tournament Rules
- Scheduling Guidance
- Smogtours [will automatically save your replays!] and Smogtours server information
SV Ubers UU Banlist: Found here, Pokémon in the "Banned by Usage" and "Banned by the community" categories are not allowed to be used. Any change in tiering will not take effect until the following round.
Sleep Clause: A player cannot put two or more different opposing Pokémon to sleep using attacks that induce sleep to opposing Pokémon.
Species Clause: A player cannot have two of the same Pokémon on their team. For example, a player cannot have two Koffing on his or her team.
Evasion Clause: A player cannot use the moves Double Team or Minimize in their Pokémon's movesets.
OHKO Clause: Players cannot use Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, or Fissure in any of their Pokémon's movesets.
Team Preview: Players must turn on the Team Preview feature where players can view the opposing team's Pokémon and choose their lead Pokémon.
Timer Clause: If a player exhausts the timer, he/she loses.
Endless Battle Clause: Any moveset on any Pokémon that is capable of intentionally causing an endless battle is banned from competitive play. Check this thread for more information.
Baton Pass Clause: The move Baton Pass is banned outright.
Sleep Clause: A player cannot put two or more different opposing Pokémon to sleep using attacks that induce sleep to opposing Pokémon.
Species Clause: A player cannot have two of the same Pokémon on their team. For example, a player cannot have two Koffing on his or her team.
Evasion Clause: A player cannot use the moves Double Team or Minimize in their Pokémon's movesets.
OHKO Clause: Players cannot use Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, or Fissure in any of their Pokémon's movesets.
Team Preview: Players must turn on the Team Preview feature where players can view the opposing team's Pokémon and choose their lead Pokémon.
Timer Clause: If a player exhausts the timer, he/she loses.
Endless Battle Clause: Any moveset on any Pokémon that is capable of intentionally causing an endless battle is banned from competitive play. Check this thread for more information.
Baton Pass Clause: The move Baton Pass is banned outright.
About Activity Decisions
Activity Decisions / Coin Flips: In the event that there is an uncompleted match at the deadline, 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.
Host discretion will be applied for all unplayed games. This means that an activity win will not be automatically granted if you post, and a lack of post does not automatically result in a coinflip.
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.
Host discretion will be applied for all unplayed games. This means that an activity win will not be automatically granted if you post, and a lack of post does not automatically result in a coinflip.
Prize Pool
This tournament is eligible for a community-funded prize pool, and will be listed here if/when a prize pool is contributed. Contact KineSquared on Smogon (or Discord at KineSquared) if you wish to contribute to a prize pool.
$50 - KineSquared
$100 - Finchely
$600 - Jusfordlolz
Prize pool will be distributed as such to the knockout rbacket finishers:
Out at 9th (top 16) - $10
Out at 5th (top 8) - $25
Out at 3rd (Top 4) - $45
2nd place finisher - $100
1st Place Finisher - $380, more than half the entire prize pot!
In addition, the first place winner will feature in a youtube video on the Ubers UU Channel that covers the tour!
Deadline for these matches is Sunday, January 5th, at 23:59 EST (GMT -5). Deadline for last weeks extensions is Wednesday, January 1st at 23:59 EST (GMT -5).
Playing for elimination:
Ewin vs Rasche
Frito vs Finchely
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