Art by Bummer
Welcome to the first RU Seasonal! This seasonal will be part of the RU Circuit. Entering in this seasonal earns you points for an overall RU leaderboard. After a number of seasonals (depending on activity), the top 16 players of this leaderboard will enter a seeded playoffs, where the winner of the tournament will become the RU champion with a banner to match! There may also be other prizes in store, which are still being discussed.
Specific Rules:
- This is a standard ORAS RU tournament.
- Matches are to be played on PS!
- All rounds will be a best of three in this double elimination tournament, and you are free to switch teams during your series.
- If you drop out of the tournament immediately after losing in the winner's bracket or just drop out of the winner's bracket, you will be banned from future RU circuit tournaments and are subject to a possible infraction.
- Replays must be saved and posted when confirming your win/loss. If neither the winning nor losing party posts replays, the match will be coin-flipped regardless of confirmation of result from either party. This is to ensure that everyone is on an even playing field, and in general, access to a library of quality replays is a good tool to track the development of the metagame that will possibly be used to fuel several other resources.
- In the case that a ban is made or a Pokemon moves up from RU to another tier or down to RU from another tier through usage during the middle of a round, the tier change(s) will not be taken into effect until the proceeding round begins.
- 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.
- Use VMs to schedule with your opponent to make it easier for me to track activity calls when needed. If you use other methods to contact your opponent outside of VMs, then post in this thread confirming you're in contact with your opponent; otherwise, it's not necessary. Extensions for those with time conflicts will only be given when proof is provided of scheduling with their opponent in the beginning of the round (first 2-3 days). Do not schedule last minute expecting to be compensated in case of timezone conflicts or be given an activity win over your opponent.
- Due to the significant number of signups, round one will end on July 5th at 11:59 PM EST
TSR vs. Bye 79
failsohard vs. Bye 16
Welli0u vs. Bye 15
tjdaas vs. Bye 48
Ryoma Nagare vs. Bye 47
Arch€r vs. Bye 64
Vai Lusa vs. Bye 31
PD vs.
sand1234 vs. Bye 63
Lorda Floterchai vs.
MAlkaviano vs. Bye 32
cuzzie vs. Natural Talent
Akashi vs. Bye 72
MoxieCrocs vs. soTsoT
OminousDraco vs. Bye 23
Coverride vs. Bye 8
megaqwer:D vs. Bye 55
omastar vs. Bye 40
Advantage vs.
-Snow vs. Bye 71
FlamingVictini vs. Bye 24
Threw vs. Bye 7
Aurora vs. Bye 56
Umbra Soul vs.
truedrew vs. Bye 39
DTC vs.
YABO vs. Bye 76
IroUmi vs.
SunnyORAS vs. Bye 19
p2 vs. Bye 12
GreenGogoatttt vs. Bye 51
-AFAR- vs.
Leru vs. Bye 44
-Tsunami- vs. Panther5001
braveswin11 vs. Bye 67
Samqian2 vs.
Gastrik vs. Bye 28
Feliburn vs.
RawMelon vs. Bye 60
slurmz vs. Bye 35
Devin Ryan vs. cryalot
qwily vs. Bye 75
Robert Alfons vs.
Senpai D.M vs. Bye 20
Syncrasy vs. Bye 11
LightningLuxray vs. Bye 52
Bionic Puppy vs. Littlelucario
Level 56 vs. Bye 43
Nintendi vs.
nLTk vs. Bye 68
Drangonn. vs. Bye 27
passion vs. Gatorboy
Yoda2798 vs. Bye 59
Teamcali15 vs. Bye 36
Starmei vs.
Hairy Toenail vs. Bye 78
NaCl vs. Meru
Swagnezone vs. Bye 17
Jethalal vs. Bye 14
Rodriblutar vs. Bye 49
AV8 vs. King UU
Rayzark vs. Bye 46
fran17 vs.
MegaStarUniverse vs. Bye 65
Sacri' vs.
BigBoy038 vs. Bye 30
Zarif vs. qsns
Cheryl. vs. Bye 62
Rattled Snakes vs.
Gunner Rohan vs. Bye 33
Endal vs.
SOMALIA vs. Bye 73
Cherub Agent vs. Bye 22
NOVED vs. Bye 9
trash vs. Bye 54
DennisEG vs.
Hyogafodex vs. Bye 41
Jarii vs. Bye 70
Entei. vs. ZANBAKUResh
Matame vs. Bye 25
TonyFlygon vs. Bye 6
Sir_Bagel vs. Bye 57
Bye 80 vs. atomicllamas
Lord Esche vs. Bye 38
ManOfMany vs. Bye 77
Huston vs. gorex
Twixtry vs. Bye 18
Mishimono vs. Bye 13
Nameless12 vs. Bye 50
Zyo vs. Bye 45
Natalie. vs. Mr. Mendes
TheThorn vs. Bye 66
The50mph vs. Bye 29
Chill Shadow vs.
Drud vs. Bye 61
all falls down vs.
Accelgor vs. Bye 34
Chras vs. Bye 74
Kiyo vs. Solgaleo
Confide vs. Bye 21
Wind Ice vs. Bye 10
Camilas vs. Bye 53
Contact vs. Bye 42
Dundies vs. Bye 69
Melle2402 vs. Trade
Brophlosion vs. Bye 26
Megazard vs. Bye 58
Take Azelfie vs. HQuaze
ClaimingRobin vs. Bye 37
Double01 vs.
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