Welcome to the Anything Goes Winter Seasonal! This seasonal is a type A tournament that will be included in the 2023 AG tournament circuit; learn more about it here. Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here, or below.
- This is a standard SV Anything Goes tournament.
- Best of three, double elimination.
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!
- Do not make baseless activity posts, get in contact with your opponent and report missed times / scheduling issues only.
- All the usual Smogon rules regarding activity, timer, disconnection, and ghosting rules apply.
- Replays are not required until the last couple of rounds, but you should save them in the case of a disagreement; it is the only way to settle disputes!
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 opponent's 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 opponent's 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.
Matchups:
Bombzed11 vs Nael222
Mewtuber vs Alpha1013
3Ndy vs DUck445
LuckyAlex vs MarshyYT
HedgeHogHoyn vs SpaceSpeakers
Dockiva~~ vs aloalopokemoniago
Deeplover24 vs Bananaaa
xiaofengds vs Lolnoobs
What should by name be? vs Sevcon
1729is56time vs gabetarver444
ToasterBoi420 vs sonic obama
valeri! vs UnCreative127
eXit! vs Ktütverde
shadowtime2000 vs eliana.
Trade vs yovan33321
TheBrightRising vs ItsMiniflaX
Patrick980 vs T3rm0sss
Jhnfui vs facepalm2r
glizzygobiler vs airroid
Inder vs lotiasite
ZeroPokemonWonder vs Bread Sandwich
Geysers vs MVVR
Swat101510 vs Royal1604
Concept Everything vs Mr.Bossaru
AIsang vs MultiPokemon
Shadowdragon87REAL vs Quick top 500 tho
Jezzey vs entrocefalo
Samurai1a vs YTcat
Manan999 vs lilchinoch
ponchlake vs Corey198
It's classified vs Marshme1to
RL vs PrimalKyogre
6smallgenius6 vs cookicrashers
Island's Madness vs joshua8232
MTB vs LoD Shiddo
Ace of goats vs Fc
Ethrik Denki vs ink sans
Iranagsen vs pichus
verynicegames vs Frozoid
jb291 vs Sailorgreatest
Jr21montoya vs swag god
TL The Legend vs Bye 1
r3ds vs Bye 2
Pokemh vs Bye 3
Seldanna vs Bye 4
SlasherYT vs Bye 5
Dragonillis vs June
The White Room vs Bye 7
VibrantCheese vs Bye 8
sarvan1306 vs Archiiiie17
NB402141 vs Bye 10
Skooma vs Bye 11
FlameCharging vs Bye 12
hewisawesome vs Bye 13
martinvtran vs Bye 14
Farce Of The Death vs Bye 15
Guard vs Bye 16
Lamen vs Bye 17
Nick vs Bye 18
Bye 24 vs Bye 19
cleffa hater vs Nineveh
Wizard Rex vs Bye 21
aerobro13 vs Nevelle
lese Want to be a speake vs Bye 23
The deadline for this round is Sunday, January 22nd at 11:59 GMT -4.
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