Henlo gamers ٩(๑•◡-๑)۶ Welcome to the ninth iteration of the GSC Cup!
Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Smogon Classic rules can be read here.
- Standard GSC OU.
- Best-of-three, single elimination.
- Battles should take place on Pokemon Showdown!
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: Tournament matches must be played on the Smogtours server. The Main PS! server is also acceptable if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the TD team and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing in Smogtours, where we also have the power to recreate games that end due to DC's.
Scouting
On scouting opponents: Going through your opponents 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
On the Timer: The timer must stay on throughout the whole battle, not to be turned off even in the case of a player disconnecting as we now have a separate disconnection timer (more details here). The timer may not be turned off in any circumstance.
On Timeout losses: A player that loses by having all his time run out loses the game. This is only not the case if the player that received the timeout loss can be verified to have suffered a True Disconnection. Rematches in such cases are not allowed.
On True Disconnection: The TD team has a secret threshold of seconds that your timer must be at or above, from the moment you disconnect, for a timeout loss to be considered a True Disconnection. If your game is determined to be a True Disconnection if you played on Smogtours and contacted a TD before the room expired your game will be recreated up to the point the disconnect happened. It is the responsibility of the player that disconnected to get a TD into the room before it expires.
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: Tournament matches must be played on the Smogtours server. The Main PS! server is also acceptable if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the TD team and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing in Smogtours, where we also have the power to recreate games that end due to DC's.
Scouting
On scouting opponents: Going through your opponents 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
On the Timer: The timer must stay on throughout the whole battle, not to be turned off even in the case of a player disconnecting as we now have a separate disconnection timer (more details here). The timer may not be turned off in any circumstance.
On Timeout losses: A player that loses by having all his time run out loses the game. This is only not the case if the player that received the timeout loss can be verified to have suffered a True Disconnection. Rematches in such cases are not allowed.
On True Disconnection: The TD team has a secret threshold of seconds that your timer must be at or above, from the moment you disconnect, for a timeout loss to be considered a True Disconnection. If your game is determined to be a True Disconnection if you played on Smogtours and contacted a TD before the room expired your game will be recreated up to the point the disconnect happened. It is the responsibility of the player that disconnected to get a TD into the room before it expires.
- Evasion Clause
- OHKO Clause
- Sleep Clause
- Species Clause
- Timed Battle
- Freeze Clause
- Sleep Trap Clause: Pokemon can't have (Sing/Sleep Powder/Hypnosis/Lovely Kiss/Spore) + (Mean Look/Spider Web) in the same moveset
- Trap Pass Clause: Pokemon can't have (Mean Look/Spider Web) + Baton Pass in the same moveset
BIG loven vs Athena's Myth
BlazingDark vs mael
Hiro' vs Longestbanana
Mister McLovin vs TDR
Ashbala vs baddummy
Infinite Misery vs Twinkling Titanite
damflame 3 vs watashi
Luigi vs Eeveeto
Sage vs RaiZen1704
Irene-2002 vs Corperate n
w_r vs Mr.378
Maxouille vs phosphor
Concept Everything vs DKM
Exiline vs Reymedy
Aberforth vs TibarnWasTaken
Nael222 vs ManuelOliveira
Pideous vs Groudon
Malekith vs Fluore
Drifting vs lolebruh
erz vs Monai
1 True Lycan vs Raichy
elodin vs Real FV13
BluBirD vs BIHI
leoperi99 vs Deezcastforms
Kenix vs BeeOrSomething
Azphiel vs swordstrike
Confide vs Conflict
16bit vs DanceOfHearts
Jhonx~ vs Heysup
Excal vs shiloh
sparks bloom vs BrunnoGreen
Garay oak vs Lionyx
BIG WILL vs Tenebricite
TheDougArt vs awyp
cherryb0ng vs z0mOG
Kiryu Gaming vs romanji
Koalacance vs Vileman
Mysterious M vs Mendeez
Sharow vs Welli0u
Knight who says "Ni" vs Siatam
Thor vs decis
false vs Mashing
melancholy0 vs Jirachee
Heika vs pj
le LLiolae vs Fakes
Nalorium vs Grabby
hellpowna vs Star
Linkin Karp vs Lazuli
Rubyblood vs monchooo
Flyte vs Estarossa
Laurel vs Leru
ABR vs twash
Genesis7 vs Ophion
Fakee vs Sly Solo
Adri vs sablolol
GLFGno7 vs nightcore
Quarante8 vs vani
Steve Angello vs LORD SAGIS
Zerkas vs MrSoup
damien the genius vs Bughouse
Lily vs SoulWind
Shakaji vs johnnyg2
Yves Stone vs DugZa
Leo vs gorex
The deadline for this round is Sunday, August 6th @ 11:59 pm GMT -4.
Replays will be required to verify your win from now to the conclusion of the tournament. Failure to do so will result in a invalid win.
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