Welcome to this 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 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
Match ups:
zben vs.
dibs vs. Marination
(Loser of Plas vs jonago) vs.
Osh vs. EviGaro
Go0d vs. Mikaav
Drangonn. vs. Heldinho
cielbakasan vs. Akashi
PILZ vs.
Lennart vs. Robino2
Erzengel vs. Ho3nConfirm3d
InoriIzumi vs. allstarapology
3xsquadd vs. Askov
Big Camel vs. byronthewellwell
Vulpix03 vs. Djokra
Randomnick vs. (Loser of Pepeduce vs
LordST vs.
TheJFrenzy vs. (Loser of
SANJAY vs.
Skipkan vs.
Kyuss vs.
(Loser of SergioRules vs JackedBomber) vs. Ov3r Ac3
c kai vs. rob.
coolio1223 vs.
double switches vs. Jhonx~
LaBalladeDesCieux vs. Chrisloud1
Anime Sans vs. trc
LordKira00 vs. Magma
CKW vs. @Bye1
Ernestofp13 vs. @Bye2
twigster vs. @Bye3
ShuckleDeath vs. @Bye4
sand1234 vs. @Bye5
Activity Wins:
Marination vs Santu
MJ vs Ov3r Ac3
BloodAce0107 vs King Billu
coolio1223 vs Thyst
Magearna8000 vs Eternal Spirit
Vulpix03 vs j0gurt
Coin flipped the games that didn't get done + nobody called activity.
Extension deadline is at 7pm EST on January 24'th
The full Round Deadline is at 7pm EST on January 28'th
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