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 13th at 11:59 PM EST
Ryoma Nagare vs.
197 Arch€r @vs. Paleo @
Vai Lusa vs.
sand1234 vs.
Akashi
202 OminousDraco @vs. Coverride @
FlamingVictini vs.
207 Aurora @vs. Umbra Soul @
truedrew vs.
YABO vs.
210 SunnyORAS @vs. p2 @
RawMelon vs.
slurmz vs.
qwily
218 Senpai D.M @vs. Syncrasy @
219 LightningLuxray @vs. Bionic Puppy @
221 nLTk @vs. ryan @
222 Drangonn. @vs. Gatorboy @
Yoda2798 vs.
Teamcali15
Hairy Toenail vs.
Swagnezone
227 Rodriblutar @vs. AV8 @
230 BigBoy038 @vs. Zarif @
Gunner Rohan vs.
SOMALIA
234 Cherub Agent @vs. NOVED @
235 trash @vs. DennisEG @
237 Jarii @vs. ZANBAKUResh
238 Matame @vs. TonyFlygon @
Lord Esche vs.
ManOfMany vs.
Twixtry vs.
Nameless12 vs.
Zyo
245 TheThorn @vs. TTFTW @
246 The50mph @vs. Chill Shadow @
247 Drud @vs. all falls down @
249 Chras @vs. Solgaleo @
Camilas vs.
252 Contact @vs. Chakra @
Dundies vs.
254 Brophlosion @vs. LSB @
Megazard vs.
ClaimingRobin
MAlkaviano vs cuzzie
Losers Matchups:
Everyone who lost r1 gets a bye.
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