The tenth iteration of the largest LC tournament, the LC Open, has begun! Under a year has gone by since Kingler defeated LilyAC in the finals of the ninth LC Open, and the time has come to find a new champion. Many players will enter but only one can come out on top. I wish you all the best of luck!
Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Grand Slam rules can be found here.
- Standard SS LC.
- Best-of-three, single elimination.
- Battles should take place on Pokemon Showdown!, on the Smogtours server.
- SS cartridge win conditions are in place; there are no ties.
- Tiers are locked at the beginning of each round.
this stuff is just the abbreviated version, for the full list of rules for Smogon Tournaments check here
Identity
About playing on alts: It is entirely allowed to play on an alt other than your own main forum name, though if your opponent wishes to confirm your identity, you must log on to your main alt to show them you are who you claim to be. This is to prevent people from pretending to be who they're not.
About playing on different servers: Tournament matches must be played on the Smogtours server. The Main PS! server is also acceptable if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the TD team and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing in Smogtours, where we also have the power to recreate games that end due to DC's.
Scouting
On scouting opponents: Going through your opponents replays of tournament and ladder games is entirely allowed, as long as a game is public there is nothing preventing you from watching it. An exception to this is abusing powers granted to you by being staff on Smogon or PS! to gain access to information a normal user wouldn't have access to, which is strictly forbidden.
On leaking teams: Divulging private information about someone's planned team to their opponent is never allowed, and will be heavily sanctioned. Requesting that such information be divulged is also grounds for punishment. Keep your scouting to publicly available information and you'll be fine.
Timer Clause / Disconnections
On the Timer: The timer must stay on throughout the whole battle.
On Timeout losses: A player that loses by having all his time run out loses the game. This is only not the case if the player that received the timeout loss can be verified to have suffered a True Disconnection. Rematches are only allowed if there was a True Disconnection.
On True Disconnection: The TD team has a secret threshold of seconds that your timer must be at or above, from the moment you disconnect, for a timeout loss to be considered a True disconnection. If your game is determined to be a true disconnection if you played on Smogtours and contacted a TD before the room expired your game will be recreated up to the point the disconnect happened. It is the responsibility of the player that disconnected to get a TD into the room before it expires.
Identity
About playing on alts: It is entirely allowed to play on an alt other than your own main forum name, though if your opponent wishes to confirm your identity, you must log on to your main alt to show them you are who you claim to be. This is to prevent people from pretending to be who they're not.
About playing on different servers: Tournament matches must be played on the Smogtours server. The Main PS! server is also acceptable if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the TD team and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing in Smogtours, where we also have the power to recreate games that end due to DC's.
Scouting
On scouting opponents: Going through your opponents replays of tournament and ladder games is entirely allowed, as long as a game is public there is nothing preventing you from watching it. An exception to this is abusing powers granted to you by being staff on Smogon or PS! to gain access to information a normal user wouldn't have access to, which is strictly forbidden.
On leaking teams: Divulging private information about someone's planned team to their opponent is never allowed, and will be heavily sanctioned. Requesting that such information be divulged is also grounds for punishment. Keep your scouting to publicly available information and you'll be fine.
Timer Clause / Disconnections
On the Timer: The timer must stay on throughout the whole battle.
On Timeout losses: A player that loses by having all his time run out loses the game. This is only not the case if the player that received the timeout loss can be verified to have suffered a True Disconnection. Rematches are only allowed if there was a True Disconnection.
On True Disconnection: The TD team has a secret threshold of seconds that your timer must be at or above, from the moment you disconnect, for a timeout loss to be considered a True disconnection. If your game is determined to be a true disconnection if you played on Smogtours and contacted a TD before the room expired your game will be recreated up to the point the disconnect happened. It is the responsibility of the player that disconnected to get a TD into the room before it expires.
Battle Clauses:
- Evasion Clause
- OHKO Clause
- Sleep Clause
- Species Clause
- Timed Battle
- Team Preview
- Contact your opponent as soon as possible upon the round going up. Activity cases are going to be handled in a very strict manner.
- When scheduling, offer a wide selection of times when you are available to play. 1 hour of activity on one or two weeknights is unlikely to be considered acceptable.
- Schedule specifically - do not schedule for "Friday afternoon" or "Sunday morning", pick a date, a time and note the timezone.
- If I catch news of ghosting or some other sort of atrocious behavior, I reserve the right to investigate to the full limits of my ability in conjunction with the TD team provided there is adequate evidence to warrant it.
Last but not least, aside from points towards qualifying for Grand Slam playoffs, this tournament is part of the LC Tournament Circuit, so points for that will also be awarded accordingly depending on how well you do.
Good luck to all competitors!
Round 2
kythr vs Mikaav
Felines vs Aberforth
Lilburr vs STarsAma
TheFranklin vs Surfy
Distrib-PS vs brewfasa
kjdaas vs Sciroccoo
Raichy vs ToastedBunzzz02
CBU vs xtra$hine
Maple vs fran17
Wail Wailord vs iss
toytean vs Eniigma
SoulWind vs EnzoLapras
Nat vs Omnnislash
tazz vs Serene Grace
SANJAY vs Maki
Enzonana. vs Staxi
Dragonillis vs Santu
bulufan14 vs Acselsior13
S1nn0hC0nfirm3d vs Horny Miltank
Meta vs mncmt
HT vs EternalSnowman
Elfuseon vs alive
Luthier vs gorex
Void vs TDK
yovan33321 vs London13
Meri Berry vs Meru
Emlee vs califlour
Albinson vs PinkDragonTamer
tko vs Maxomega
Chazm vs CDW Enrique
King Leo V vs GoldCat
z0mOG vs Expulso
zeriloa vs Eternal Spirit
Drafeu-kun vs jm2202
Riku Sakuraba vs fitzy72
Xizaaa vs Star
Enzo Gorlami vs umbry
natu vs DC
Amukamara vs KJLX
CMDoge vs PureJules
weird mon vs Perish Song
Blimax vs Alpha Rabbit
LilyAC vs martha
GotCookies vs Roseybear
(Winner of Shrug vs BurntZebra) vs Laroxyl
Ktütverde vs Ninjadog
PyProd vs OCFrey
Punny vs KSG
Pepeduce vs Fc
Eeveeto vs Beraldinhoo
McSim vs Mysterious M
Xiri vs Fardin
Mike Cometa vs Drud
Kipkluif vs vivalospride
Raahel vs Bouff
Regnite vs 7u9i2
(Winner of bb skarm vs Vulpix03) vs Boat
Dlanyer vs Gray
EviGaro vs NHelioX7
risi vs AlolaPersian12
frisoeva vs Quantum Tesseract
Osh vs gali
MendeeZ vs Blite
giove97 vs Acehunter1
Corporal Levi vs Corazan
HSOWA vs devin
Blanko vs Ajna
Sharow vs Ahmad Alfatih
Skysolo vs grizzz
Squash vs LpZ
Dinesh Raj Gujjula vs Toadow
Leo vs Jytcampbell
Algeria vs RampageWebber
Laurel vs (Winner of snaga vs Aliss)
Astrø vs false
daunt vs vs Heysup
pigassaultking vs Stareal
Lost Soul vs euFeatured
Accelgor vs BK
Finchinator vs LightScreener
TopLel TopKek vs Youngster_Bill
queso vs Pataozinho
rinnegan418 vs MarcerCyoon
Chloe vs Raj 00
Bushtush vs Spl4sh
Prof.Otaku vs odr
ProDigeZz vs So Noisy
Decem vs jcbc
pj vs Souw
rahul_3301 vs egalvanc
ACR1 vs watashi
TeamCharm vs dahli
KingKdot vs Dflo
TDW vs StitChuu
weakermaker vs Voltix
fakenagol vs Ramolost
Deadline: April 25th 11:59 PM EDT (GMT-4)
Extension Deadline: Wednesday April 21st, 11:59 PM EDT (GMT-4)
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