Welcome to the 2025 RU Winter Seasonal! This Type A tournament is the opening tournament of the 2025 RU circuit, therefore a great opportunity to start gaining a consistant amount of points in the race to the 2025 RU Ribbon. Replays are not required for round 1 but are strongly requested.
Specific Rules:
- This is a standard SV RU tournament.
- Matches are to be played on PS!, preferably on the smogtours server.
- The format for this tournament is best of three, double elimination.
- Any tier changes that occur during a round will not be in effect until the following round.
- Replays are not required for the early rounds, but they are encouraged and useful to have, so be sure to properly save them for proof of your victory.
- Changing teams between games is allowed.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on their team.
- Sleep Clause: You cannot inflict sleep upon more than one member of the opposing team.
- Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize 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, draws will be enforced after 1000 turns.
- Identity: I expect many battles to be completed under alts. This can be bad for tournament security, and thus I will make this clear: If I hear any whispers of identity theft (battling as someone you are not) or proxy battling (helping someone else battle through pm) I will not be pleased and I will take severe actions.
- Scouting: Next, I do not want to hear anything about counterteaming, at all. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any blatant scouting. There is a difference between "[user] is known for using stall" and "let me follow [user] around all day to watch all his battles since I am his opponent". I expect a lot of the former and none of the latter. I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. Everyone will have access to your replays from earlier rounds though.
- 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.
Winners Bracket
Elvira vs 691
Metallica126 vs hidin
eifo vs memedose46
Flames Of Elixir vs SValore
tipulipa vs Incognition
zaeoy vs teamo
entrocefalo vs EviGaro
AlejanDraco vs Arcanine1929
FlamPoke vs lihj
Mindnight vs StreetBoom
Ryu vs Flabeauf
JuanSG vs Guille
TomatoZause vs Hacker
Showl vs Heatranator
bocoaa vs Call me PK
big tony 2014 vs Lyra
mestreoscar vs Django
Lilo vs j0nathan
hi.naming is hard vs Baddy
Cielau vs SPHZ
Sir Tetris vs yingzhi4896
giove97 vs AceTeaaa
Ninja vs LittEleven
fish anemometer vs TheFranklin
no way iz vs Dlanyer
sayyonara vs Txunt!
Squeeby vs HoopsspooH
MachJacob vs MatLaTomate
Wishing vs Canard
Jojen vs horriii
des121 vs feen
dot pearl vs Sibartzy
CaniçoPensante vs LBN
Seyhura vs robjr
Drud vs Mister McLovin
Oathkeeper vs AhmedxWaleed
GhostlyPlanets vs Don Bork
colorednaem vs Daharan
DugZa vs Uta The Clown
akxhdwy vs atomicllamas
Ampha vs mentalsoft
gulch vs THE_CHUNGLER
Donnel vs Yovan
doso749 vs sufys
abra xdd vs tom holland
Winterbub vs Airi
TyCarter vs Slip
violet river vs cessation
Scizornite vs Oculars
JojoOui vs huuh
Charmriah vs MemphisDepay
Feliburn vs Wappy.kBs
GoldCat vs NDK
Vaporeonds vs jackuzzler
Wildfiree vs Miyoko
dunoks vs toinha
hoyssxo vs Tuthur
Xiri vs naere
Slikkles vs Evie
Huargensy vs SpaceSpeakers
AlyssaVGC vs SEROO
Mik3ymon vs Mollymiltoast
Sabella vs angelthesaucegod
Mok3s vs adorluigi
Losers Bracket
Bouff vs wangyu
zastra
Flareblitzkreig
Fernanch
Ming549
Toxinalpaca
Seed Sower
Cam
FastCarVroom!!!
OllyPokemon
Dead by Daylight
ExguardiaN
ySagaz_
Cloudznn
kimer
MrAldo
Nemosse
Rarelyme
JesusGP
ImaRando2000
toytean
iNasty
Dusk
King Billu
Thiago Nunes
Vortex!
Sulfura28
MrGhost1724
Shivam_Z
Landon
B1Kharma
Mister Magnus
Suzukaaa
Saadhak
Nashrock
diamondx011
Wilfry 95
Zsynaps
TakingNotesKinda
Freya
Man Alive!
Saint_Rez
Aurora Pearl
etern
btboy
tachi
Hats
waterfals
Maia
Toto
HeroSabis
JustFranco
mclagno
Alisyem
BlackU-turn
Arakd’eau ㋛
Der Sweitzer
cen344uu
OriginYuan
lighthouses
Taco Biotech
Kindyy
Intergers
LovelyLuna
Winners: https://www.smogon.com/tools/bracketmaker/view/15542/
Losers: https://www.smogon.com/tools/bracketmaker/view/15543/ (size raised to 128)
Losers: https://www.smogon.com/tools/bracketmaker/view/15543/ (size raised to 128)
This round will end at 11:59 PM on Sunday, January 19th, GMT-5.
Extensions until Wednesday, January 22th can be granted by asking me.
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