Approved by scpinion
Welcome to the Monotype Seasonals! This tournament is the first tournament of the Season! Entering in this seasonal earns you points for an overall Monotype leaderboard. After four seasonals, the top 16 players on this leaderboard will enter a seeded playoffs, where the winner of the tournament will become the Monotype champion! There may also be other prizes in store, which are still being discussed.
SPECIFIC RULES
- This is a standard Monotype tournament
- This tournament will be Double Elimination
- All 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. If neither player posts or at least saves replays of the match, the game will be coinflipped regardless of whoever won.
- Baton Pass Clause: Limit one Baton Passer, can't pass Spe and other stats simultaneously
- Swagger Clause: Swagger is banned
- Same Type Clause: Pokémon in a team must share a type
- Sleep Clause Mod: Limit one foe put to sleep
- Species Clause: Limit one of each Pokémon
- OHKO Clause: OHKO moves are banned
- Moody Clause: Moody is banned
- Evasion Moves Clause: Evasion moves are banned
- Endless Battle Clause: Forcing endless battles is banned
- HP Percentage Mod: HP is shown in percentages
- Identity: I expect many battles to be completed under alts. This can be bad for tournament security, and thus I will make this clear: If I hear any whispers of identity theft (battling as someone you are not) or proxy battling (helping someone else battle through pm) I will not be pleased and I will take severe actions.
- Scouting: Next, I do not want to hear anything about counterteaming, at all. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any blatant scouting. There is a difference between "[user] is known for using Fire-type" and "let me follow [user] around all day to watch all his battles since I am his opponent". I expect a lot of the former and none of the latter. I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. Everyone will have access to your replays from earlier rounds though.
- 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.
Loser's Bracket:
jiggle vs Suspensse
Bondie vs Zenji
Eniigma vs Flares.
Mysterious M vs ArkenCiel
scpinion vs The Excadrill
TheOfficialVodoom vs Melodic Dystopia
Shining Yin vs Dece1t
Dream Eater Gengar vs TheAce22
Saltiest Man Alive vs PenQuin
terrors vs DelRio
Zangooser vs Animus Majulous
Thimo vs Nirvana_
AV8 vs Chakra
fran17 vs Crestfall
6TI vs juleocesar
P0werSurge vs Mtkmit
Alliance - Rabz vs passion
Typhozzz vs Gunner Rohan
truedrew vs Matame
Or1hara Izaya vs EnemyJurist
Rimz vs Shiba
Sanjay. vs Knigkt
Offline_Dating vs Entei.
Bouki vs Acast
Yaksok vs TheThorn
Sae Sae vs czim
MiyoKa vs Crimson Torrent
White Lion18 vs Paleo
dolphindude14 vs Disbelief
Megazard vs Zaettsu
Melle2402 vs average fella
Epic_Mewtwo gets a bye!
Extension deadline is 29th May
Overall Deadline is 2nd June
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