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.
Winners bracket
MTB vs VibrantCheese
Frozoid vs ToasterBoi420
Ktütverde vs Mr.Bossaru
SlasherYT vs Inder
Seldanna vs pichus
The White Room vs LuckyAlex
swag god vs NB402141
Royal1604 vs Guard
1729is56time vs 6smallgenius6
Lamen vs Nevelle
FlameCharging vs TL The Legend
Fc vs Samurai1a
Bananaaa vs 3Ndy
jb291 vs Ethrik Denki
June vs Nael222
SpaceSpeakers vs Dockiva~~
UnCreative127 vs Farce Of The Death
r3ds vs Nick
xiaofengds vs Geysers
yovan33321 vs Island's Madness
martinvtran vs Quick top 500 tho
Bye 1 vs Skooma
hewisawesome vs What should by name be?
AIsang vs Alpha1013
Manan999 vs entrocefalo
Pokemh vs Patrick980
Bread Sandwich vs eliana.
ponchlake vs lese Want to be a speake
Marshme1to vs cleffa hater
Archiiiie17 vs TheBrightRising
Wizard Rex vs glizzygobiler
Jhnfui vs RL
Losers bracket
gabetarver444 vs It's classified
Sevcon vs sonic obama
ItsMiniflaX vs ink sans
sarvan1306 vs Corey198
lilchinoch vs MarshyYT
airroid vs eXit!
Jr21montoya vs Sailorgreatest
aloalopokemoniago vs Bombzed11
joshua8232 vs LoD Shiddo
valeri! vs Concept Everything
Dragonillis vs PrimalKyogre
Ace of goats vs Deeplover24
Jezzey vs Lolnoobs
lotiasite vs Bye 1
YTcat vs Bye 2
verynicegames vs Bye 3
Mewtuber vs Bye 4
Shadowdragon87REAL vs Bye 5
Swat101510 vs Bye 6
cookicrashers vs vs Bye 7
Trade vs LegendSimisear
aerobro13 vs Bye 9
facepalm2r vs Bye 10
ZeroPokemonWonder vs Bye 11
HedgeHogHoyn vs Bye 12
DUck445 vs Bye 13
MVVR vs Bye 14
shadowtime2000 vs Bye 15
MultiPokemon vs Bye 16
Iranagsen vs Bye 17
Nineveh vs Bye 18
T3rm0sss vs Bye 19
Deadline to get your matches done is Sunday 29th Jan 11:59 pm GMT -5
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