Welcome to the very first seasonal tournament of the 2025 Ubers Tournament Circuit, the tenth edition of the Ubers Winter Seasonal! This seasonal, like other tournaments that compose this year's circuit, will award points towards a general Ubers leaderboard which will ultimately award the 2025 Ubers Ribbon!
Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations.
- 2025 Ubers Circuit information.
- Best of three, double elimination.
- This tournament will use the standard SV Ubers banlist, which can be found on Smogon's strategy dex.
- If metagame changes occur during the middle of a round, they will take effect in the subsequent round.
- Battles must take place on Pokemon Showdown! or the SmogTours server
- SV cartridge win conditions are in place; there are no ties.
- Replays are recommended to prevent disputes but are not mandatory unless otherwise stated.
- 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.
VMs are the only thing that matter for activity. Use this guide to ensure you don't lose via activity or coinflip.
Round One
Pengu vs Hats
des121 vs Django
Wooperxyz_ vs hidin
King Billu vs Shion
skimmythegod vs MemphisDepay
Cutecat1122 vs The Dovahneer
Hacker vs LillianOfficial
JuninxZ9 vs wssi
giove97 vs Ampha
TPP vs Skyiew
Santouss vs SBPC
mentalsoft vs realaccountami?
sayyonara vs Mok3s
LBN vs aurora
Princess Autumn vs Silent Waltz
SEROO vs etern
Emre Mor 9 vs AM
Aberforth vs Icemaster
Blazing vs GhostlyPlanets
LFXR vs Rei
Charmriah vs Spirit Hand
ilikeeatingcrayons vs ox04
Waruchuu vs Saadhak
Swas vs Jmaz001
Sagdiyev vs Kate
FunnyValentine2 vs Lasen
horriii vs Mr.Umbreon09
Fc vs Staxi
Ainzcrad vs sufys
NotVeryCake vs Masterkong_366
Magician vs Your mom op.
jjjnkn vs Crossia
Wilfry 95 vs entrocefalo
Melbelle vs HoopsspooH
jackuzzler vs Yelou
Jojen vs OreoSpeedruns
Gallinova vs gephicka
ZowwyCafé♪ vs Tempo di anguria
ThePlumber7 vs JojoOui
Sami vs TTTech
RichardMillePlain vs emoxu9
FlamPoke vs Frito
Terracotta vs Ashlaka
doso749 vs Lana
Donnel vs Cao Jie
Nashrock vs Jhonx~
Squeeby vs The Strap
Slaw Goodman vs Elian
tachi vs vxr
Slender3008 vs Vertigo
Photom1234 vs jb291
feen vs Toryyy
Zerotti vs Taka
ClaireC vs txitxas
el poeta vs faeezparker
Stories vs dunoks
NDK vs MirrorSaMa
Lightniong vs Airi
The White Room vs StreetBoom
DD Joe vs SpaceSpeakers
Cam vs Zcarlett
Citrus Sailor vs DAHLI
Pokemh vs Quinn
Thiago Nunes vs TrueNora
The deadline for this round is Sunday, January 19th at 11:59 PM GMT-5
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