RBY RBY Ladder Tournament II

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RBY LADDER TOURNAMENT PS! ROOM​

Rules and Tournament Format

General Tournament Rules
  • This is a standard RBY OU tournament
  • This will be a Ladder Tournament into Single Elimination, Best of Three, Top 16 Playoffs
  • Ladder Portion Rules
    • This tournament will be hosted on the regular Pokemon Showdown! RBY OU ladder. All qualification will be done on this ladder. The Top 16 players (described below) will advanced to a single elimination, best of three playoffs.
    • You need to make a new alt account for this tournament. Your alt name must begin with RBYHB. For example, I may register the alt "RBYHB Amaranth" for laddering. To give us a way to identify each account, please include in your sign-up post your alt name in plain text, as well as a picture of your laddering alt. You are not required to make a new alt for each ladder cycle.
    • In order to sign up for the RBY Ladder Tournament II, please create a post in this thread listing your alts. You are allowed ONLY ONE ALT; you may replace your current alt with a fresh one by editing your post to include your new alt only in the first three days of a cycle, and doing so will completely forfeit your old alt's eligibility to qualify for the playoffs. If an alt in the Top 4 at the end of a cycle is not registered in this thread at the time the cycle ends, it will be ignored.
    • You must create and register a new alt in this thread before you play any battles on it.
    • The ladder portion of the tournament spans 4 cycles lasting 7 days each. The cutoff times for each cycle are listed below; at the cutoff time, one of the moderators will take a screenshot of the ladder. In order to qualify for the playoffs, your alt must be among the top 4 newly made alts in thr screenshot. If a player in the top 4 of a given cycle is already qualified, their alt will be ignored when counting the top 4 alts for that cycle. Cycles will have adjusted end times to give players from different regions and timezones a better chance at being on at the end of the cycle.
      • In order to break potential ties, the unrounded ELO of each player who qualifies in a given cycle will be recorded in order to break any potential ties. Your unrounded ELO can be found by using the following URL: https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/~~showdown/action.php?act=ladderget&user=[your username here]
      • For the playoffs stage, players will be seeded by their ELO at their respective screenshot time
    • All ladder games involving a player with a RBYHB prefix are forced to be public. If you have the "Don't allow spectators" box checked when you start a RBYHB game, your game will be public and you will be met with this message: "This battle is required to be public due to a player having a name starting with 'RBYHB'."
  • Playoffs Portion Rules
    • 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!. Smogtours is mandatory for the entirety of playoffs.
    • Replays are required for all matches.
    • Activity calls will be made by me, potentially with neutral assistance from a RBY Moderator or Tournament Director. Coin flips will be done publicly on PS!
    • In the event that something is added to or removed from the RBY OU metagame in the middle of a round, that change will be in effect starting the next round.
  • General Rules
    • Do not cheat. Cheating will result in a disqualification. Additional punishments may be applied as necessary. Cheating includes, but is not limited to:
      • Asking your opponent to forfeit on the ladder
      • Ghosting or being ghosted by another player (e.g. while playing a set, asking for advice about what plays to make)
      • Manipulating match outcomes (e.g. throwing a match in exchange for Smogon likes)
    • Do not harass or insult your opponents. I reserve the right to disqualify anyone breaking this rule. Additional punishments may be applied as necessary.
Standard Rules and Clauses
  • Standard Clauses / Mods
    • Desync Clause Mod: Desyncs changed to move failure.
    • Sleep Clause Mod: Limit one foe put to sleep
    • Freeze Clause Mod: Limit one foe frozen
    • Species Clause: Limit one of each Pokémon
    • OHKO Clause: OHKO moves are banned
    • Evasion Moves Clause: Evasion moves are banned
    • Endless Battle Clause: Forcing endless battles is banned
    • HP Percentage Mod: HP is shown in percentages
  • Banned Moves
    • Dig, Double Team, Fissure, Fly, Guillotine, Horn Drill, Minimize
  • Banned Pokemon
    • Mew, Mewtwo
Prize

This tournament will award points towards the 2025 RBY OU Circuit, which awards a ribbon to the winner of the entire circuit. If you win the tournament itself, you also get a spot in the RBY Hall of Fame!

Resources

RBY Discord
RBY Resources
RBY OU Sample Teams

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Cycle Start & End Times + Qualifiers
(all times GMT+0)

Cycle 1
START | Monday, March 10th at 6:00 AM
END | Monday, March 17th at 11:59 AM

Qualifiers
Laroxyl - RBYHB ooo (elo 1631.738)
Lusch - RBYHB Lusch (elo 1630.201)
King Billu - RBYHB KB (elo 1624.686)
oligen1 - RBYHB oligen1 (elo 1616.443)

Cycle 2
START | Monday, March 17th at 11:59 AM
END | Sunday, March 23rd at 6:00 PM

Qualifiers
chuva de perereca - RBYHBcrit (elo 1633.135)
Kaz - RBYHBoom (elo 1632.195)
Sceptross - RBYHB Wisdom (elo 1620.378)
Vileman - RBYHB Vile (elo 1617.269)

Cycle 3
START | Sunday, March 23rd at 6:00 PM
END | Sunday, March 30th at 11:59 PM

Qualifiers

spies - RBYHBmiss (elo 1639.026)
JustFranco - RBYHB majara (elo 1629.988)
GirlsSeeGhosts - RBYHB Siffrin (elo 1619.968)
Louna - RBYHB Louna (elo 1619.944)

Cycle 4
START | Sunday, March 30th at 11:59 PM
END | Sunday, April 6th at 6:00 AM

Qualifiers

Serpi - RBYHB Serpi (elo 1620.310)
Green on fire - RBYHB Fire Red (elo 1593.302)
Tarvold - RBYHB AnyDecentTeam (elo 1587.849)
Maris Bonibell - RBYHBonibelle (elo 1583.574)
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RULE AMENDMENT
Based on feedback from last year, we are amending the rules to disallow holding multiple alts. Under last year's rules, players could get multiple accounts near qualification range and then take risks to climb further on one of them while having the other as a safe fallback. This was something that rewarded excessive grinding more than playing ability.

As a result, the old rule:
You are allowed an unlimited number of alts, so don't worry about starting over with a new one; just remember to follow the name format for each alt you create
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is replaced with

You are allowed ONLY ONE ALT; you may replace your current alt with a fresh one by editing your post to include your new alt only in the first three days of a cycle, and doing so will completely forfeit your old alt's eligibility to qualify for the playoffs.
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This will prevent scenarios where players can raise multiple accounts to use as 'fallbacks'; if you need to play to take risks and enter top 4, you will just need to go for it like everyone else.
 
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