- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Grand Slam rules can be found here.
- Standard SM NU.
- Best-of-three, single elimination.
- Battles should take place on Pokemon Showdown!
- SM 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, only being turned off in the case of a player disconnecting, and in that case will only be turned off for 5 minutes (keep in mind that this is a interim solution while we wait on PS! developers). The timer may not be turned off in any other 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, only being turned off in the case of a player disconnecting, and in that case will only be turned off for 5 minutes (keep in mind that this is a interim solution while we wait on PS! developers). The timer may not be turned off in any other 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
General recommendations:
- 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 as wide a swathe of time 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 nefarious play, 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.
Uxali vs (Hassin627 vs King Billu)
Roseybear vs soTsoT
Quantum Tesseract vs Cynara
pilz0311 vs Sage
frisoeva vs himeringo
esche vs Amukamara
(majaspic22 vs Trace) vs Pynapel
miltankmilk vs Wabane
Osh vs ima
Melle2402 vs DoNotStealMyName
Jrdn vs (Necrozma vs sand1234)
Karppi vs Mikaav
ILoveMilk vs Charmflash
Googly vs Kushalos
jake vs Lextrevis
So Noisy vs (The Kyle vs PurpleGatorade)
Go0d vs King Wynaut
Sacri' vs ggggd
Kingler12345 vs Exiline
Rapture vs BigBoy038
JCM. vs L1ppe1
HarrisIsAwesome vs Ed
false vs Hogg
Sabella vs Shaneghoul
Pohjis vs (Mix vs Gunner Rohan)
Syncrasy vs Jarii
Sjneider vs John1240
taranteeeno vs Garay oak
qsns vs Alfredo_Rivero
Tszuki vs Finchinator
Plas vs Twixtry
Jase Duken vs DEG
xujing691691 vs Holiday
Kebab mlml vs Snou
Luigi vs Dundies
Eternally vs Lord PRXTTY FLVXKO
Eramoth vs Thorister
Ren-chon vs EviGaro
Reje vs Laz
HT vs (HANTSUKI vs Dlanyer)
Lycans vs Le Chapelier Fou
Roadside Art vs Teddeh
CantoakaChris vs (Serene Grace vs TonyFlygon)
FlamingVictini vs Chokepic
zben vs roman
Count Riario vs pokeisfun
BlueIvy vs dodmen
(Fille vs IPF) vs Welli0u
36/48 completed
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
We will be trying to move back into a Sunday-Sunday schedule to match the other Opens, so this week will be slightly shorter. If you need the extra day this week (or an extension in general), please be sure to communicate with your opponent and with me, and I'll do my best to accommodate your situation.
Deadline is Monday, August 13th at 11:59pm (GMT -4)
Extension deadline is Friday, August 10th at 11:59pm (GMT -4)
Please challenge and play your games in gen7nu. Also, I will smack you if you post "contacted".
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