Smogon will be hosting its fifth charity bowl in order to raise funds to provide aid for the disasters that are ongoing in Libya and Morocco. Libya is experiencing severe flooding from Storm Daniel, and the death count has already passed 11,000. Morocco on the other hand experienced a 6.8 magnitude tremor that has already taken over 2,500 lives. Those numbers are only increasing as the days go on, and thousands of people need help. We will be raising funds for the International Medical Corps foundation.
The tournament will take place this Sunday, September 24th, at 12PM (noon) EST (GMT -4). You can join us for this tournament as a participant, or follow the action live on our Twitch streams at twitch.tv/smogonu. Smogon will be raising money via donations throughout the event, so we are encouraging all participants and spectators to donate whatever you can spare. You will be able to donate through Twitch itself in this event when the stream is live. You can also donate right now if you so choose! You can donate at Smogon's Twitch, link here.
FORMAT
The Smogon Charity Bowl will consist of two brackets that will merge into a single bracket from Round Four of the tournament onwards. The tournament will be single elimination, best-of-one. The format will be Scarlet and Violet OU.
Players will be randomly divided into two groups. Each group will play in a live best-of-one tournament, following the same rules and format as the Smogon Tour. From Round 4 onwards, players will play in one bracket.
All games will take place on the official Smogon Tournament server at http://smogtours.psim.us/.
General Smogon Tour rules:
- You must have a Smogon forum account to sign up for this tournament. You cannot participate if you do not post in the signup thread. Proxy signup posts are not allowed.
- When signups for this tour is posted, post as quickly as you can to ensure a place in the tournament. It is up to the discretion of the host on when sign-ups will be closed. On ******* (our current forum software), YOUR POST NUMBER IS NOT ALWAYS ACCURATE. Please do not attack the host or on SmogTours if your post number implies you should have been in the tournament and you are not.
- Substitute players will only be applied in the first round and as deemed necessary by the host.
- If you have signed up successfully, you must stay for the entire tournament unless you have lost.
- You may change teams between rounds without penalty. You are, in fact, encouraged to do so to prevent your opponents from knowing your team in advance.
- Do not hassle the host(s) of the current tournament.
- The format is Scarlet and Violet. The current status of the appropriate standard ladder will function as the prevailing tier list. If you have any question about whether a particular Pokemon is banned or not in any particular tier, reference the banlist of the appropriate ladder on PS! with '/tier'. This is not confusing. There will be no exceptions.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two (2) of the same species of Pokemon on their team, based on National Pokedex number. For example, a player cannot have two Koffing on their team.
- Sleep Clause: A player cannot put two or more different opposing Pokemon to sleep using attacks that induce sleep to opposing Pokemon.
- Evasion Clause: A player cannot increase their Pokemon's evasion stat with a move that specifically increases evasion. Items or indirect boosts do not break this clause.
- OHKO Clause: A player cannot use a move that has a chance of instantly KOing an opposing Pokemon. For example, Horn Drill or Sheer Cold are illegal moves.
- Timer Clause: If a player exhausts the timer, that player loses. SmogTours staff will not turn the timer off in any circumstance.
- Self-KO Clause: If a player uses a recoil move to cause a draw, that player wins. If a player uses Explosion, Selfdestruct, Destiny Bond, or Perish Song to cause a draw, that player loses. If a draw would be caused by a hold item or ability that causes recoil to the opponent, the player that controls the Pokémon with the hold item or ability wins. (This clause helps determine the winner of what would be called a tie in DPP. Later generations do not apply this clause, because their cartridge mechanics will prevent ties from happening.)
- Endless Battle Clause: A player cannot use a combination of items / moves / abilities to force a game that will never end (example: Recycle / Leppa Berry / Heal Pulse, etc).
- Moody Clause: A player can not use the ability Moody.
- Swagger Clause: A player can not use the move Swagger.
The winner of the Charity Bowl will receive a prize banner to appear on their Smogon account. In addition, the following Pokemon Showdown prizes are being offered, courtesy of PS! Staff:
- A custom avatar.
- The ability to recolor your PS username.
- The ability to claim an unused PS username.
The prize banner will appear under the user’s custom title and state that they are the winner of the Smogon Charity Bowl. The winner will be allowed to choose from a range of colours.
The custom PS avatar must meet all ordinary rules for custom avatars, and is subject to Marty's approval.
The PS name recolor will allow you to change your PS username color to the color of another account that you own.
Regarding claiming an unused PS username, only names that have not been used for three or more years are eligible to be claimed.
The custom PS avatar must meet all ordinary rules for custom avatars, and is subject to Marty's approval.
The PS name recolor will allow you to change your PS username color to the color of another account that you own.
Regarding claiming an unused PS username, only names that have not been used for three or more years are eligible to be claimed.
We strongly encourage all entrants to donate at least $5. However, if you are unable to give at this time, you will still be able to participate in this tournament.
Again, you can show your support here: twitch.tv/smogonu.
Thank you all.
Round 1
DO NOT USE OGERPON-HEARTHFLAME
LpZ vs Malekith
Zygarde12 vs Welli0u
Wanony vs Guille
Leru vs Eeveeto
Brigtel vs tofa
Ewin vs swellow is stronk
TheNewGuyM8 vs Super Venusaur
Uber45 vs Irene_dabest
KillaLeston vs AIRedzone
Ox the Fox vs feen
MasterJ007 vs Buhrito
alejofer1534 vs wesh papillon
SushiSlice vs ignister
Javi vs derppudding404
velvet vs MultiPokemon
PigWarrior19 vs Scuffy
Slaty fildrong vs Maxouille
RaiZen1704 vs Typical_bastard
savantdota vs airfare
z0mOG vs Light DN
Bayleefsuriano vs HYpertonix
Frablz vs sayyonara
jetou vs Skyrio
Prismo vs Niko
Ina fable vs Fakee
PKS Young Laddery vs hunter.
Abyssal Ruins vs Srn
Chlora vs Ashbala
Baloor vs Hacker
Cam vs COALLA123456789
Wolf vs A Hero's Destiny
PumpkinSpy17 vs Reze
Wait2Seconds vs jb291
luisin vs Simasnitrogen
ecidueye_shiniy.-. vs Bye 3
Corperate n vs Rytho
Nalorium vs Robert
Kat_XIII vs Bye 6
Coconut vs HydreigonTheChild
Waffleztastegood vs Bye 8
Tempo di anguria vs Shaneghoul
ima vs Bye 10
fatBatman vs Bye 11
Chloe vs Bye 12
FalseScyther vs MatLaTomate
Kate vs Ash KetchumGamer
ACR1 vs Wigglytuff
Agera vs Juanpa
Anonymous43567 vs umbry
Tanish vs Bye 18
AXV vs raf
Abbehat vs Elias PSY
DarkBegin vs BP
silver grace vs Nat
PsiKowboj vs Bye 23
Kenzy vs Bye 24
FlipsideDos vs DAHLI
Longestbanana vs Bye 26
Wamr vs Bye 27
Gondra vs Bye 28
mimilimi vs Bye 29
Alhen vs Bye 30
Teamo505 vs DKM
zioziotrip vs Bye 32
DO NOT USE OGERPON-HEARTHFLAME
Round 2
Nat vs. Wolf
Longestbanana vs. Super Venusaur
Baloor vs. Eeveeto
jb291 vs. Juanpa
Gondra vs. ignister
PigWarrior19 vs. Kat_XIII
luisin vs. Tanish
Reze vs. Brigtel
Alhen vs. Waffleztastegood
zioziotrip vs. Ox the Fox
Chloe vs. velvet
Wigglytuff vs. airfare
PsiKowboj vs. z0mOG
FalseScyther vs. sayyonara
wesh papillon vs. ecidueye_shiniy.-.
umbry vs. Ashbala
Bayleefsuriano vs. Skyrio
AIRedzone vs. Elias PSY
HydreigonTheChild vs. DKM
raf vs. Uber45
Shaneghoul vs. Corperate n
Cam vs. BP
derppudding404 vs. Ina fable
Niko vs. Abyssal Ruins
RaiZen1704 vs. PKS Young Laddery
mimilimi vs. Kenzy
ima vs. fatBatman
Welli0u vs. Wamr
Maxouille vs. Ash KetchumGamer
LpZ vs. FlipsideDos
Robert vs. swellow is stronk
Guille vs. Buhrito
Round 3
wesh papillon vs. Wolf
airfare vs. RaiZen1704
mimilimi vs. HydreigonTheChild
Cam vs. PigWarrior19
Skyrio vs. umbry
Reze vs. Chloe
Uber45 vs. Ina fable
Alhen vs. sayyonara
Welli0u vs. Corperate n
fatBatman vs. AIRedzone
(Maxouille vs Ash KetchumGamer) vs. Buhrito
Tanish vs. Ox the Fox
Robert vs. z0mOG
Baloor vs. Longestbanana
LpZ vs. jb291
(Niko vs Abyssal Ruins) vs. Gondra
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