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Welcome to the VGC subforum's inaugural Draft tour! Hosted by Chromate, Nyx and Robbie35646, the tournament will take place using the [Gen 9] VGC 2023 Regulation C format present on the main Pokémon Showdown! server.
Below are the rules for the tournament. Please be mindful of the Activity Wins Rules section, as Battle Pools will not be granted extensions.
- You have up to 110 points with which to draft 10 Pokémon. Costs are listed on your pool’s tab on the drafting spreadsheet.
- If a Pokémon is picked by someone else, you may not pick it.
- For the first round, there is a 12 hour timer. After the first round ends, there will be a continuous 6 hour timer within which you must pick, or you will be skipped, and will be required to make-up your pick when you are next online. All timers are off between 10pm-7am local time (check your pools pinned message for local time).
- Your timer will halve every time you are skipped. It is recommended to leave picks (with backups) with your pool moderator to avoid this.
- The following Pokémon have access to all of their forms (although you may only bring up to 1 to each battle):
- Basculin 
- Oricorio 
- Toxtricity 
- Squawkabilly 
- Tatsugiri 
- If a Pokémon that is available in SV is untiered, please ask a host.
- Species Clause applies to your draft.
- All games must be played in the [Gen 9] VGC 2023 Regulation C tier on psim.us.
- All three matches must be opened before the first game starts, with the same teams.
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- SV cartridge win conditions are in place; there are no ties.
- Each set is a best-of-three set.
- Rulings regarding team legality can be found here, under 1.2.1 -> 1.4.1.
- Team sheets will be closed with the exceptions of all Pokémons' Tera Types.
- Replays must be posted to the pool/round thread, please mention the result, your opponent's name and your pool number.
- Rankings within pools may not be 100% accurate as the spreadsheet does not track head-to-head results. Players are ranked based upon: most wins, head-to-head, battle differential.
About Activity Decisions
Activity Decisions / Coin Flips: In the event that there is an uncompleted match at the deadline, it will be coin flipped unless one or both of the players involved in the match specifically request an activity win and explain sufficiently why they deserve to win over their opponent. Attempting to schedule a battle is required in order to receive the win by activity. To make it clear that you are requesting an activity win when you post, you must open your post with "Activity Win Request" in bold.
For example, if you believe your opponent is making an unfair request and that they don't deserve the activity win over you, you can either make your own request or quote their post and explain why they don't deserve it. You should try to make your activity win request posts at least 24 hours before the deadline to give your opponent a reasonable opportunity to contest it with their own activity win request. LOGS OF YOUR SCHEDULING MUST BE POSTED OR CLAIMS WILL BE REJECTED.
[Credit to the Official Smogon Tournament hosting team for the rule.]
Activity Decisions / Coin Flips: In the event that there is an uncompleted match at the deadline, it will be coin flipped unless one or both of the players involved in the match specifically request an activity win and explain sufficiently why they deserve to win over their opponent. Attempting to schedule a battle is required in order to receive the win by activity. To make it clear that you are requesting an activity win when you post, you must open your post with "Activity Win Request" in bold.
For example, if you believe your opponent is making an unfair request and that they don't deserve the activity win over you, you can either make your own request or quote their post and explain why they don't deserve it. You should try to make your activity win request posts at least 24 hours before the deadline to give your opponent a reasonable opportunity to contest it with their own activity win request. LOGS OF YOUR SCHEDULING MUST BE POSTED OR CLAIMS WILL BE REJECTED.
[Credit to the Official Smogon Tournament hosting team for the rule.]
Format:
You must play all games using the following challenge code (which you can use by pasting it into the DMs of your opponent on PS!):/challenge gen9vgc2023regulationc @@@ Tera Type Preview
All three matches must be opened before the first game starts, with the same teams.
If a game is challenged without the code, you must rechallenge using the code, or you will forfeit that game. There will be no gentlemen's agreements.
Matchups
Ciqarettan vs DanMNC
trace vs SizzleySnom
winteredsoul vs Bananacrazy111
Mogo vs a12qsd too
Jay is decent vs Psycho782
HgsBoson vs Feyy
Krow-Lucha vs Chromate
sempra vs Mx3
The drafts for each matchup in this round can be found at this link:
https://spo.ink/vgc_draft_i_bracket_matchups
All games must be complete by 11:59PM GMT-0 on Sunday, June 11, 2023. Incomplete games will be resolved by the hosts following the Activity Win Rules above.
REPLAYS ARE MANDATORY.
This thread and all other VGC Draft I threads should be considered the final ruling in case of discrepancy between threads, Discord announcements, and Google spreadsheets. Contact a host if you have any questions or spot an error.
Ciqarettan vs DanMNC
trace vs SizzleySnom
winteredsoul vs Bananacrazy111
Mogo vs a12qsd too
Jay is decent vs Psycho782
HgsBoson vs Feyy
Krow-Lucha vs Chromate
sempra vs Mx3
trace vs SizzleySnom
winteredsoul vs Bananacrazy111
Mogo vs a12qsd too
Jay is decent vs Psycho782
HgsBoson vs Feyy
Krow-Lucha vs Chromate
sempra vs Mx3
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