Stratos
Banned deucer.
The commencement thread for this tour can be found here, with details on scoring and the playoffs that will follow the conclusion of these three cups.
SPECIFIC RULES
- This is a standard XY Doubles OU tournament. Here is the main XY DOU resource.
- This tournament will be Single Elimination.
- Rounds will be Best of Three. You may switch teams in between battles of the same set.
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!
- To encourage the development of the metagame, and so that everyone is on an even playing field, all matches must have replays recorded. Only games shown in a replay will be counted.
- If you are found signing up under more than one alt, you will be banned from circuit events for life.
- Activity calls will be made by me, potentially with neutral assistance from a TD / the other Classic hosts. Coin flips will be done on PS!
- In the event that something is added to or removed from the Doubles OU metagame in the middle of a round, that change will be in effect starting the next round. Don't count on it lol.
- 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.
- Swagger Clause: Swagger is banned.
- Uber Clause: Anything that appears on Doubles OU's banlist is banned. This is the banlist for Doubles OU:
- Mewtwo
- Lugia
- Ho-oh
- Salamence-Mega
- Kyogre
- Groudon
- Rayquaza
- Jirachi
- Dialga
- Palkia
- Giratina
- Giratina-Origin
- Arceus
- Reshiram
- Zekrom
- Kyurem-White
- Xerneas
- Yveltal
- Dark Void
- Gravity and sleep moves with below 100% accuracy
- Soul Dew
Post in or free at last, free at last, thank God almighty Skymin is free at last to join!
Signups will close on June 21 at 9:59pm Eastern time (GMT-4). NOTE TIME CHANGE. I'm a working man and can't stay up till midnight to post the next round.
