Henlo gamers ٩(๑•◡-๑)۶ Welcome to Round 2 of the GSC Cup!
Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Classic rules can be found 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
RealJester vs Rokhan
Fakee vs TopLel TopKek
SoulWind vs vani
Malekith vs EviGaro
Lilburr vs Yves Stone
Bughouse vs Earthworm
64 Squares vs Tachibana
Bouff vs eden
TonyFlygon vs Bdlc
crying vs MendeeZ
Garay oak vs Fakes
BKC vs Monsareeasy
Oibaf vs toytean
watashi vs roystopror
TC vs Quarante8
Sagisolar vs byronthewellwell
Siatam vs Ninja
Ruft vs Kenix
London Beats vs Amaranth
Jhonx~ vs Exiline
Ophion vs GaryTheGengar
Hyogafodex vs shiloh
PDC vs false
afakedugong vs D4 Repertoire
Gilbert arenas vs twash
Justamente vs Spl4sh
Luigi vs dice
Zenadark vs SiTuM
mc56556 vs HSA
Jisoo vs So Noisy
Reeece vs Rubyblood
MTV BRATVA vs gorex
Rodriblutar vs Star
kael vs Nazip
mikmer vs zeefable
zioziotrip vs pkThunderbolt
Vileman vs Drogba In Shenhua
Eeveeto vs ziloXX
Lord Thorx vs McMeghan
Dragon Claw vs beatiful
Hockey1 vs Serpi
Eo Ut Mortus vs NEON_Voyager
Altina vs Nails
MichaelderBeste2 vs Souw
Aliss vs CKW
Mana vs Lionyx
spies vs Nalorium
Trick Nyck vs Ninjadog
frisoeva vs Cosmo'Star
Fear vs bruno
ABR vs Dflo
Groudon vs Raahel
Hayburner vs p4P1//0n
Chaos23333 vs 16bit
sulcata vs Estarossa
Stareal vs Mr.378
susciety vs Vaboh
TPP vs Finchinator
RaiZen1704 vs robjr
Raiza vs Conflict
Nael222 vs AnnaMyers
Flawless Nazgul vs Blui
Heysup vs obii
DraKeyTT vs Koalacance
Deadline is September 5th at 11:59 PM (GMT -4).
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