PU PU Fall Seasonal - Round 3

Akir

Akir

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Special thanks to UberSkitty for doing the first 2 rounds!

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Welcome to the Fall SM PU Circuit Seasonal! Entering in this seasonal earns you points for an overall PU leaderboard and will go towards your chances to win the coveted PU Circuit Ribbon
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Specific Rules:
  • This is a standard SM PU tournament.
  • This tournament will be a double elimination tournament.
  • If you drop out of the tournament immediately after losing in winner's bracket, you will be banned from future PU circuit tournaments, and potentially risk being infracted.
  • All rounds will be best of three.
  • 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 replays of the match, regardless of whether you confirm that your opponent won, your series will be coinflipped unless you can provide replays. We will not disqualify both players, but we will coinflip the series, not because we don't believe that you played, but because the replay rule ensures everyone is on an even playing field, as stated. If you wish for your replays to stay hidden, you may PM them to me instead.
  • PU is a usage based tier. Essentially you can use anything that is not in a higher tier; NU effectively serves as the PU banlist. However, there are several Pokemon banned from PU which are not in NU or a higher tier; aka BL4.
Standard Rules and Clauses
  • Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on his team.
  • Sleep Clause: You cannot inflict sleep upon more than one member of the opposing team.
  • Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize 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.
General Tournament Rules:
  • 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 stall" 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.


Sam I Yam vs. Taskr
MartAlvarez vs. Xiri
Alkione vs. TJ
Jmash324 vs. TSR
KevinELF vs. Pepeduce
Teddeh vs. EviGaro
Chloe vs. Chrisloud1
HJAD vs. Slowbroth
soTsoT vs. InoriIzumi
Arcobaleno vs. Not Miyan
PILZ vs. poh
naruto(sage) vs. Megazard
akaFila vs. banks
Drud vs. Skipkan
zugubu royale vs. Havens
Ktütverde vs. Robert Alfons

Deadline is Sunday, November 11th, at 11pm EST (GMT -4)!​
 
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Teddeh

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Sam I Yam vs. Taskr - I love you sam but taskr plays more PU and knows the meta inside and out
MartAlvarez vs. Xiri - Xiri always seems to do well in these tournaments, am backing him to take the win over someone i'm not familiar with.
Alkione vs. TJ - I'm pretty sure TJ is top 3 PU at the moment, he does very well against the lesser known players as well.
Jmash324 vs. TSR - TSR is a better overall player, jmash will have better teams. I'd say that tsr will be able to outplay a bad match up imo.
KevinELF vs. Pepeduce - Pepe is a top 5 player atm, am expecting him to do well this tour though kevin is not a free win.
Teddeh vs. EviGaro - X
Chloe vs. Chrisloud1 - Chris will take this imo, though chloe is really up to date with current meta.
HJAD vs. Slowbroth - HJAD is my lesser being, he is always going to do well, just not as well as me
soTsoT vs. InoriIzumi - sotsot has been around for a couple of years, made playoffs in a few tours before such as nult and i don't know the other player in this match up, hence gonna back the more known player.
Arcobaleno vs. Not Miyan - Arcobaleno is underrated, definitely one of the better PU players around.
PILZ vs. poh - I love poh, would never predict against him
naruto(sage) vs. Megazard - Megazard is a top pu player despite awful set choices and bad teams most of the time. When will you learn that you can recycle teams frequently and building a newer shitter team isn't always a good idea. tut tut
akaFila vs. banks - hard to judge this one since i haven't seen either play pu, though banks has a bit more tournament experience.
Drud vs. Skipkan - drud probably has a higher player ceiling though i'm unsure of his pu prowess.
zugubu royale vs. Havens - zugubu may have a temper, but he always qualifies for playoffs of these tours and no-one expects him to do well since he likes to run his mouth a lot of the time. Generally speaking zugu is a top 5 player on his day, but definitely needs to work on his PR skills.
Ktütverde vs. Robert Alfons - Definitely the highlight match up... Fagtron fresh from snake is free to put his building ideas to good use whilst ktut - though he has some quite terrible opinions on the metagame is definitely a top 5 pu player at the moment. A hard choice to decide from but I think ktut is more up to date on PU at the moment, though fagtron has the player ceiling to take this one quite easily.

Would like to see a few more people do predictions since they make these rounds quite fun in single elim tours n_n
 
HJAD

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yo broth cant make scheduled time tonight, i cant make monday / tuesday / wednesday due to work restrictions but we can both do thursday. We both agreed that we'd try to have an extension till thursday, and if thats not possible he said he was cool with me taking the win otherwise
 
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