Welcome to the ninth iteration of the largest NU tournament, the NU Open! Almost a year has passed since Nobody won the NU Open over established players blarghlfarghl and Skelos. It's now finally time to crown a new champion in the realm of
Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Grand Slam rules can be found here.
- Standard SS NU.
- Best-of-three, single elimination.
- Battles should take place on Pokemon Showdown!
- SS cartridge win conditions are in place; there are no ties.
- Tiers are locked at the beginning of each round.
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, not to be turned off even in the case of a player disconnecting as we now have a separate disconnection timer (more details here). The timer may not be turned off in any circumstance.
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 in such cases are not allowed.
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.
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, not to be turned off even in the case of a player disconnecting as we now have a separate disconnection timer (more details here). The timer may not be turned off in any circumstance.
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 in such cases are not allowed.
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.
Good luck to all competitors!
Round 3
micromorphic vs lax
Pohjis vs Ayk157
Juno vs ZoroDark
Count Riario vs TheFranklin
tko vs Luthier
Ninjadog vs CBU
Askov vs termi
Enzo Gorlami vs bugzinator - extension
Let's Rumble Shall We vs Skysolo - extension
Garay oak vs Pheo'
Nat vs IRazvann
Oibaf vs Haru
UltraBallz vs Elias PSY
yovan33321 vs McMeghan - activity win
Roseybear vs TSR
SaDiSTiCNarwhal vs Vulpix03
Pepeduce vs Reje - activity win
ACR1 vs Chloe
Socrates1O1 vs Sjneider
GunGunJ vs rozes - extension
Abejas vs mael
Loki vs IoSonoNeon
Drookez vs banks
TheDarkSwirl vs Ren-chon
xray vs Vaboh - extension
Osh vs Gentle Berserker
jeronipuff vs Dflo
KmjNext vs zugubu royale - activity
NEWAL vs dfmetal
Raichy vs Xizaaa
Kiyo vs Luck O' the Irish - extension (playing tonight)
Cheese5555 vs Aloopuriza
Maki's Fox vs TDK
Mr.Bossaru vs GW
Xiri vs Serpi
Splash vs vani
RahelGamer03 vs davidTheMaster
pj vs l'habitat
Feliburn vs Santu
the pharoah vs Haruno
Renny vs Energy - extension
Tenshinhan vs Ho3nConfirm3d
Dankoc vs SputnikGT - activity
PureJules vs ggggd - activity
Meri Berry vs Amaranth
The LpZ vs pokeisfun - extension
Heysup vs Shrug
Star vs Confide
Skipkan vs Expulso
halaman95 vs egalvanc
Moutemoute vs ProDigeZz
TopLel TopKek vs Serene Grace
John W vs ForgottenOnes - extension
Lopunny Kicks vs EviGaro
elpresidento vs Davon
kythr vs Chokepic
Insult vs Klinklang AV - activity win
PinkDragonTamer vs Forsendi
Malekith vs Marshall.Law
Djokra vs Mikaav
KW vs SANJAY
xerovis vs
snaga vs ToastedBunzzz02 - extension
Nowh vs TaxiCab
The deadline for Round 3 will be July 19th at 11:59 PM GMT-4. Extended pairings have until the end of Tuesday (GMT-4). Make sure to contact your opponent ASAP. In addition, CONTACT YOUR OPPONENT VIA VM AND POST IN THIS THREAD IF YOU ARE SCHEDULING OVER DISCORD. I cannot keep track of PMs I am not included in and you are responsible for reporting things that I cannot access.
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