Welcome to the 2025 RU Summer Seasonal! This seasonal is a Type A tournament of the 2025 RU Tournament Circuit; thus one of your best chance to earn enough circuit points in the hope of competing for the 2025 RU Ribbon! Replays are not required until Round 2. This tour is hosted by seed.
Specific Rules:
- This is a standard SV RU tournament.
- Matches are to be played on PS!, preferably on the smogtours server.
- The format for this tournament is best of three, double elimination.
- Any tier changes that occur during a round will not be in effect until the following round.
- Changing teams between games is allowed.
- Replays are required for this round, so be sure to properly save and post them for proof of your victory.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on their 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, draws will be enforced after 1000 turns.
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.
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.
Winners Bracket (proof of bracket):
Evie vs Ming549
DKM vs demixelz
Cielau vs Ara
ExspeedDnite vs Cammellia白山茶
TheFranklin vs Elvira
Mik3ymon vs Corperate n
Drud vs Slikkles
Paprikaflow vs colorednaem
Esteb4n vs Miyoko
GCGoat vs akxhdwy
JoelXLeaf vs Vortex!
Showl vs Airi
BlackU-turn vs Flabeauf
Nemosse vs Xiri
liliou vs THE_CHUNGLER
KeshBa54 vs Canard
Losers Bracket (proof of bracket):
lighthouses vs JesusGP
Shadow079 vs Hairoll
KapnCankles vs Cpt.Douglas
StreetBoom vs feen
Ampha vs digo
Daharan vs [Winner of FlamPoke vs JuninxZ9]
shreyashhy vs Keaton53
Lilo vs [Winner of hi.naming is hard vs OranBerryBlissey10]
Elfuseon vs Wappy.kBs
gregoreturns vs Kingler
Sneakyplanner vs Baddy
HoopsspooH vs [Winner of rylon vs Jojen]
dunoks vs Corvikafka
average alcoholic vs Txunt!
hedera__helix vs Heni-san
zause vs Tytohbird
The deadline for this round is <t:1755489540:F>. Good luck!
The deadline to complete games granted extension from Round 5 is <t:1755143940:F>.
