Welcome to the first 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
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. If you do not wish replays to be seen at all, you may PM them to yogi 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Matchups:
Alpino 2.0 vs. Nailec
Splashbrutha vs. dibs
Pepeduce vs. LordST
PranksterCat vs. allstarapology
Teddeh vs. Amane Misa
lhce628 vs. Sam I Yam
TJ vs. tonithetourguide
Conor3197 vs. Drowsy Drowzee
Chrisloud1 vs. Arifeen
Senpai D.M vs. roman
Toy Time King vs. Rapture
Taskr vs. OminousDraco
King Billu vs. zoowi
Havens vs. eifo
Skipkan vs. Huston
Mysterious M vs. TheInnocentNerd
5gen vs. Ganso
Zesty43 vs. King Wynaut
Ktütverde vs. zugubu royale
Hijasu vs. Lakeredman
byron the bab bab vs. HJAD
amber lamps vs. Xiri
ScrubLord2407 vs. S poi re
Many vs. Plas
(Moon) Angelo vs. SergioRules
Inferno Monferno vs. Anty
KingPiloswine vs. SOMALIA
Escoffier vs. Alpha Rabbit
cb aaron judge vs. HaxBro.K
Regrets vs. zben
starry blanket vs. Jeffis
gz[/USER] vs. Aaronboyer
Descending vs. SANJAY
Drud vs. Hubriz
Dj Breloominati♬ vs. pilz0311
Arcobaleno vs. Robert Alfons
Magearna8000 vs. zikam
Kiyo vs. KingOfKingsKevin
Specs Jigglypuff vs. Akir
Chloe vs. Shaneghoul
Megazard vs. EviGaro
Pohjis vs. Raseri
aybekay vs. tazz
Tack :] vs. Plans
Harpp vs. Dundies
Blitzburgh vs. jklioe
Osh vs. Dark Wolfgang
neomon vs. cielbakasan
Moosical
Complexities
Haund
Amphareixon
czim
love chants
Dlanyer
Azumarill
Complexities
Haund
Amphareixon
czim
love chants
Dlanyer
Azumarill
Deadline: 12 midnight 1st of July GMT+1
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