Draft Autumn Seasonal 2025 - Round 3

[Princess Autumn]

Amazing art by Xephyire !​

The Draft League subforum is launching its next tournament, Autumn Seasonal 2025, our flagship SV individual tour! This is a Type A tour for the 2025 Draft League Circuit and will provide points toward this year's Draft League Championship. Games will take place in the [Gen 9] Draft tier on Pokémon Showdown with the Tera Type Preview rule enabled! This tour will use a Swiss schedule bracket, where all players with an X-2 or better record will progress to a single elimination bracket. The tournament's hosts are Princess Autumn, Happygate, iPetBigfoot, and TwentyTwan.

The following spoilers will cover signup information and rules for the tournament.

Draft Rules

• For the first round, there is a 12 hour timer. After the first round ends, there will be a continuous 6 hour timer within which you must pick, or you will be skipped, and will be required to make-up your pick when you are next online. All timers are off between 10pm-7am local time (check your pool's pinned message for local time).
• In order to help speed up the first few rounds of the draft for everybody, tournament staff will impose a 24 hour check in. What that means is this:
  • From the commencement of the draft until 24 hours after, every single competitor will need to reach out to their pool mod (either in drafting channel discussion thread, or Discord DM)
  • This message can be simple "I'm here for pool X and ready to draft", no need to be elaborate
  • Any competitor who has already made a pick does not need to check in.
  • Any competitor who has not checked in with their pool mod by the time check-in is over in 24 hours will be replaced.
• Your timer will halve every time you are skipped. It is recommended to leave picks (with backups) with your pool moderator to avoid this.
  • It is the responsibility of the player to inform the other members of the pool if they have left a pick with the pool mod so the players can properly notify the pool mod it is your turn to pick. The pool mods are not responsible for watching every pick at every hour of the day waiting to input your pick.
  • If you are skipped by the other players when you left a pick but did not inform them that you did, the skip is justified.
  • If the pool mod does not respond in a timely manner, notify an online Moderator for further assistance.
• You have up to 90 points with which to draft 8 Pokémon. Costs are listed on your pool’s tab on the drafting spreadsheet.
• You have up to 28 points with which to draft 2-3 Pokémon as Tera Captains. The Tera cost of a Pokémon is listed to the right of its name and the Tera cost takes away from both your Tera budget and overall budget.
• If a Pokémon is picked by someone else, you may not pick it.
• The following complex bans are in place:
  • No Pokémon may use the move Last Respects.
  • No Pokémon may use the move Shed Tail.
• The following Tera bans are in place:
  - Baxcalibur
  - Darkrai
  - Deoxys-Speed
  - Dragonite
  - Garchomp
  - Gouging Fire
  - Iron Bundle
  - Iron Valiant
  - Kyurem
  - Latias
  - Latios
  - Ogerpon-Hearthflame
  - Palafin
  - Regieleki
  - Roaring Moon
  - Sneasler
  - Terapagos
  - Ursaluna-Bloodmoon
  - Volcarona
• The following Pokémon have access to all of their forms (although you may only bring up to 1 to each battle):
  - Basculin
  - Meowstic
  - Oricorio
  - Toxtricity
  - Indeedee
  - Basculegion
  - Oinkologne
  - Maushold
  - Squawkabilly
  - Tatsugiri
  - Dudunsparce
• If a Pokémon that is available in Scarlet and Violet is untiered, please ask a host.
• Smogon’s Species Clause applies to your draft.

Battle Rules

• All games must be played in the [Gen 9] Draft tier on smogtours.psim.us or psim.us with the Tera Type Preview rule enabled. Be aware that each game on smogtours starts a timer automatically and cannot be turned off.
• General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
• SV cartridge win conditions are in place; there are no ties.
• Each set is a best-of-one set.
• The following clauses apply:
  - Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokémon with the same National Pokédex number on a team.
  - Sleep Clause: If a player has already put a Pokémon on their opponent's side to sleep and it is still sleeping, another one can't be put to sleep.
  - Evasion Clause: A Pokémon may not hold an item, use a move or possess an ability that can increase their evasion stat. This includes the move Acupressure.
  - OHKO Clause: A Pokémon may not have the moves Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill, or Sheer Cold in its moveset.
  - Moody Clause: A team cannot have a Pokémon with the ability Moody.
  - Endless Battle Clause: Players cannot intentionally prevent an opponent from being able to end the game without forfeiting.
  - Dynamax Clause: Pokémon cannot Dynamax or Gigantamax.
  - Baton Pass Clause: A Pokémon may not have Baton Pass in its moveset.
• Quick Claw, King's Rock and Razor Claw are banned.
• Any items unreleased in SV are banned.
• Replays must be posted to the round thread.

Activity Win Rules

About Activity Decisions

Activity Decisions / Coin Flips: In the event that there is an uncompleted match at the deadline, and an extension has not been requested, 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.

Please note that all extension requests and activity claims must be posted to the thread, and that all of these will be judged on a case by case basis.

[Credit to the Official Smogon Tournament hosting team for the base form of this rule.]

Game Scheduling Recommendations

Contact your opponent as soon as possible upon the round going up. Activity cases are going to be handled in a very strict manner.

When scheduling, offer as wide a swathe of time when you are available to play. 1 hour of activity on one or two weeknights is unlikely to be considered acceptable.

Schedule specifically - do not schedule for "Friday afternoon" or "Sunday morning", pick a date, a time and note the time zone, ideally as GMT offset.

If either host catches news of ghosting or some other sort of nefarious play, we reserve the right to investigate to the full limits of our ability.

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New for this Seasonal: This seasonal will implement an extra round to the Swiss, this means that top cut will be 1 round shorter. This is in a bid to reduce the length of the single elimination phase and give X-0 and X-1 competitors more of a safety net. This may result in the sole X-0 player being paired down with an X-1 player in the final round, but both will guaranteed make it through to the top cut.

ROUND 3
2-0
watashi vs Xev
FogHorn vs Swagata Mitra
Isa vs Raycen25
kumiko vs flyingpannn
Lord Ninjax vs Meta
P is For Penguin vs Magikarp Soup
Idyll vs mrrrmonkeee
ellysux vs dragonboltbum
Black117 vs Ryueen
The Diabolic Gift vs krono101
Wildcat Formation vs Vazquez 2.0
Battlestorm vs IMCOOKiNG
Portrait or Ruin vs Coconut | 椰果
Deranged_Lime vs pkcc
StreetCredCookie vs DiamondScyther
Thootjuh vs Xocov
66Ben vs ultraplayer
Shengineer vs Musa Sensei
Mysterious Player vs Natesgr8r yk
Scribble vs LillianOfficial
WreckItMike vs thebeardydragon
ZDen vs FritzThePancake
Moron5 vs zomb™
Rasche vs WhiteRaven
Stories vs RuanTheBuilder
Nick6564 vs ogalbina
Mister McLovin vs Mada
KCric12 vs Mushroom-Flower
Lucas2543 vs churrojr
64 Squares vs SammyCe123
Puckbud vs iiFWM
Shaad Skyel vs Roller K
s1lveryo vs Hydra_Y21
himynameisbobert vs lokerlad
pop5isaac vs DJS
gengariza vs TheRageSmogon
Fraolain vs Happygate
charlieum vs klyze
LatiGOD vs Lin
santygrass vs Jiggypoo
Greyveee vs JCMShadow
Neil445 vs Azcelerator
Lizardu vs Sy1h
Chemical_Jackfruit vs sylvea
Cielau vs hgc1110
Steven Stone 007 vs Genhui
Iride vs scionicle
Jadinobambino vs Flapple1
Truthankamon vs lavaskull100
Shadow2054 vs mia asf
Princess Autumn vs Donbozo
Ollitoed vs random_goodness
MonkeBoi215 vs FlutterFliss
Ninja Mob vs Almighty Rye
Obviously_JBOB vs mbf
not mishmesh vs AlephSubZero
SEROO vs LeBomboclats
TwentyTwan vs gze
Tjb145 vs softlock
Celeste vs streganona8
Saaaaakill vs J-Sauce
GentlemanThomas vs Big Pharma
Sad Skooma Cat vs rawbraines
kaminjaw vs pfizer lord ozai
Jurassicpig44 vs Tytheguy004
mikejohns vs 35b
DJisKxng vs An Agent of Chaos
Jamaarkques vs TheCMC
Ultrxviolet vs DiAlpen
Jamieon vs ReverseTracebacks
Zenom vs Bio_hazz
passionfruit_fan vs ChronosXZ
jjgalz vs MrNeptoon (paired up)

1-1
Edgar vs seajsea
The Dovahneer vs JRoberts
powergo1 vs Xopas
chimp vs BurningMonSoul
takuaa vs gary buster holmes
Fish and Chips vs foodv_v
dawnmidst vs floweronbread
Glue vs Arc_Atoika
carrilero vs PikachuRTM
Jay vs Wooper Person
Kairak vs Rissoux
kirby6728 vs januwuary
King Choco vs Lennart
Scoutting144 vs Megastar54
squinn vs Tsuki
Hikertoad vs Lou2697
LegendarySerperior vs Stefaan
AceTrainerOrange vs PZZ
Nefertum vs Volt Spectre
James Black vs Dacruize
thunderbug vs Aleksanteri
EcHoDood vs OhioGengar
DJblak vs Zazami
aaga vs toastrgophr
Nozzermat vs Gengar_Mask
Hys vs smalltroll
mayo vs logical
The K Tank vs Hamish150
SageSpike vs TheCyanYoshi4
Hacker vs fredadore
sqoiche vs simpleton
Gulchittious Boi vs Maansibmac
BurnTheSky vs Seandog
bobbiswas vs goatasaur
ThunderOBolt vs DiabeticRaichu
Tommathan vs Bowas
Spoontech vs catast
The Consort vs Burigo
KHD59Gaming vs Sir.dee
Donnel vs Zygarde12
doogalhh vs EmperorAry
Clb7 vs TheMutantSpaceDancer
PrettyMan vs Kyasper
Sieeeffmon vs huuh
AccidentalNinja vs Mokratha
choptch vs Marshy.
Blastgamer77 vs SpouseOwner69
BigBadKii vs Scarcity2K
Sky Master11 vs LOQP
fathalpert vs Babydragonzard
Fabio_59 vs Sakibara
Tuff Tuff vs BagelJohn
Sibwind vs hunpoko
Quin4949 vs kerbecs
Slyish vs CoolEvan1098
Rex Slayer vs Reaper Dude
dtGray vs TheRam7
porcupine21 vs Vish_1806
Babyhuey vs SneakySnek
Empire_Sharky vs platanopower420
P McGee vs CoffeeBeanz2
Maxomega vs sickandtired54
Crysite vs Ghostke
Fc vs Eager99
JustOut459 vs Lux2821
pattek vs Dr. Geo
P2gyorg vs Gensuzu
HaunterBoy28 vs Pioji_2
Kingsous vs kyrogeniz
JD Twigs vs Peregrine_ST
Crystal Methyd vs VoltyPichu
Techno vs e1i
Professor Shuckle vs Down By VI
Mok3s vs Fierce Flamethrower
a12qsd too vs Ryan&Ditto
Hamborgor vs breifmanny
benjaboynl vs joemonke
40kultra vs ~Undead~
ZebstrikemDown vs Heinny
Laperers vs spiralBB
Amaske vs Dobesito
ThinkingSceptile vs yamdunk
GoldenCyber vs Paying Attenton
SlickPanther vs tsuki11
AgencyIsOwn vs Xyjen
bricknermon vs Bolas 4688
VoidOfDarknesss vs samuelthestrong
Vholtninja vs TheHelixFossil1
Elsquidwardo85 vs faygoes
bronzo vs umbreoffxd
Avacodoh vs nelluc
burrg vs theuncultured
Rem2y vs pixie909
hjj no vs jadeskarlettdragon
Shade1x vs givorscasanova
PTKmoekyuun vs Ace98121212
HisuAvalugg vs hammy3581
Nashrock vs uh_exe
jscurf vs children game pro
ALG Spies vs HayesL
vmnunes vs Yahoodles
OdinRM vs Ghoul in PJs
Saint_Rez vs Samebrrbrr
DriteWhake vs steinbaum
LogIce vs Nankzen
PokeFan4125 vs A Mild Migraine
vengabenga vs ParmesanBruh
yerdunc vs GeorgeeKushh
Nayjar vs Abocado24
InfiniteT vs Viggywuzheer
Dunes vs impersonxtor
1yr vs bigredblue
Paxerion vs HSK7
Luxanse vs General Snorunt
SoggyDoggySage vs SouthernCavern
Phonytail vs subzero_slammer
Baws381 vs PowBoltaSaurua
Rosewood vs sebtct
Bleedal vs Shellymonic
goldmason vs cardinals29
Skyhops vs babble
eliminathan vs Rose Mountain
pugonison vs nejiboston
TheSourOne999 vs octanoic
royzer vs SinOfWrath
SIrKill vs Rexalis
Jhonny69 vs berna-
FlamPoke vs TulipRU
TubeKnight vs Grimmettz
paysa vs Goatles
VashStravos vs NateAim
Starrk01 vs AKhant
Freeday vs PolarPallas
TrainerDin011 vs GoruneK
ahyer23 vs Bastien_YG
PivotVortex vs Darkley076
Murp3 vs Enfermo Mental
angolano06 vs voltorblover483762
Bruno7 vs Lattana
TheWireHD vs JinF
Vic B. Thique vs ruffneck
alak250 vs Judeck
OminousPotato00 vs mayoouran2 (paired up)

0-2
toshimelonhead vs Domum
a fairy vs LC04
6Roggenrolas vs Treyunt
CyndaKill-SH vs Lord Da Spam
Haildras vs GavX
urban vs PlasmaAdminMolten
EviGaro vs Quarante8
iPro vs Sizzlipede & Snom
Guille vs Thomas18
Azery vs PuttPuttFan
Ninjasker vs Senkusu
Chowd vs Delta4
BluecoatsSnare vs The_Answer
Astoria vs Brayz
Elgino vs yfy
Yahia vs yedla
RacsoZeta vs Vaami
SSBKaioken10_Aryan vs pinkes
c1utch vs Edentical
Superperson00 vs Tamamo
sablolol vs 7ayakum
Sol_Katti vs CG12
OCDracoz vs leafora!
TWiTT vs zereffu
Itchy vs Maiesk
EntryHazardous vs E Man
Xx_CheckM8_xX vs xGinesect
Sandanlp vs GOATED im_m0rtal.
Elevated vs Pikamatthew
EriCadalzo vs Munchie2ff
Fernanch vs Karlkashi
ReeApple vs pkmnphil
ComputerWhiz vs WombatBaby
DonMarto vs yousuf
Wartionzz vs karrottensirup
Razorgliscor vs ragnarokrebirth
yuramas vs truekyoto
Hiusi guy vs Finalcrusader15
UrsaaMajor vs FSoup
AaronTheBaron vs PrinceofUnderworld
ACExDiscostu93 vs burstslinky
ButterCHOKE vs Waermeflasche
Raika vs ElysianSoul
Funnell vs Blazene
SamPamJamLam vs Flameorbjolt
kurse vs cactusway
cicepece11 vs xSuko
olivia vs ManbaStrike15
PaperRuby vs dgrgrnd
GabrieLopez vs ShadowStricker911
XDill-V vs Firechicken1
GamerOfTheYear2020 vs LoyaltyXZ
Ayatou vs MK29
Lathias57 vs aura1000
hourglassflipper vs Burning290
Kloen vs yabuslay
daddydaveslidinintourdms vs RamzaB
hattorivt vs Cyber Catnap
joshcudi vs hovicaa
Fud vs Foreigner in Zeal
guigaxs2000 vs MizuriKip
EgotisticalElekid vs TKSanity
jaymens_ vs Pannawit12235
jparks vs jecotto03
Gangesztan vs Memphis Ursaluna
jozar vs Naox
Rena475 vs AndreBenito
sladearrow vs RealBlackbeard
slayerholfen vs Doncon123
aeth vs Ryu u Sirox
MuffinOfMagic vs Shttrdbckbrds
AppleFish vs sladebmk98

You can find all matchups with drafts here: https://spo.ink/autumn_seasonal_2025
The challenge code for this event is: /chall gen9draft @@@ TeraTypePreview, -Last Respects, -Baton Pass, -King's Rock, - Quick Claw, -Razor Fang, -Shed Tail
When challenging your opponent please use this code. (Paste it into a direct message with them)

Given the Swiss nature of this tour, there are NO EXTENSIONS. Anyone who is dropping will be phased out at 3 losses, they will still be given matchups.
Games are due at 10pm GMT-4 on Sunday, 21st September
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This thread and all future Autumn Seasonal 2025 threads should be considered the final ruling in case of discrepancy between threads, Discord announcements, and Google spreadsheets. Contact a host if you have any questions or spot an error. We are human, after all.

 

[Itchy]

my opponent has dropped from the tournament, proof on their wall

 

[Spoontech]

It seems like some mistakes have happened in matchup making. Should we continue to scedule or wait until further notice?

Can people with a ‘correct’ score continue to scedule?