Most of our tours recently have been all too serious. The PU circuit, suspect tournaments, PUPL, they all make me think back to the simpler times when PU was nothing more than a modest OM. Here to embrace how weird and casual PU can get is the PU+OMs tour, featuring a different PU mashup each round. We'll be taking the PU banlist you've come to know and love and superimposing it over the format of various different metagames. I believe there was an original version of this hosted sometime in ORAS, but I could not find the thread to credit the original host.
Rounds 1-5 will follow this list of mashups in increasing round order: PU STABmons, PU 1v1, PU Doubles, PU AAA, PU Monotype. These types of tours normally get enough people for 5 rounds but if enough people sign up for 6, the final round will be a bo5 of all of the previous mashups.
- Each mashup will function the same way: playing under the non-PU metagame's ruleset (format, clauses, move/item/combination bans), but with the PU banlist enforced. For example, in PU 1v1 I could not use a Focus Sash because it is banned in USUM 1v1. This includes abilities like Drizzle and moves like Aurora Veil.
- The matches will be played in the format of their respective metagame. PU 1v1 will be played in the USUM 1v1 format, etc.
- PU Doubles, PU STABmons, PU AAA, and PU Monotype will be best of 3. PU 1v1 will be best of 5.
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown. Playing on OM side servers will lead to your match being invalidated and force a replay or a coinflip.
- Replays must be publicly viewable, ideally under your main. This should not be particularly onerous considering the metagames likely will not be being played after the round they're introduced in. Just post the things.
General Tournament Rules:- Identity: I expect many battles to be completed under alts. This can be bad for tournament security, and thus I will make this clear: If I hear any whispers of identity theft (battling as someone you are not) or proxy battling (helping someone else battle through pm) I will not be pleased and I will take severe actions.
- Scouting: Next, I do not want to hear anything about counterteaming, at all. Do not complain about it. I also don't want to hear about any blatant scouting. There is a difference between "[user] is known for using stall" and "let me follow [user] around all day to watch all his battles since I am his opponent". I expect a lot of the former and none of the latter. I give permission to all battlers to ask any person spectating their battle to leave if they do not want them watching. Everyone will have access to your replays from earlier rounds though.
- Timer Clause: As for taking long between moves, if your opponent asks you to hurry up, please oblige. If you are doing a damage calc for a key turn that is one thing, but prolonging every move is suspicious and annoying. Don't do it. Furthermore, Battle Timeout is a rule for a reason. If you run out of time, you lose, simple as that. It does not matter what your opponent says. Do not battle if you think you will have to leave mid battle, and instead reschedule for a better time.
- Disconnections: Finally, in the case of a disconnect, the decision is in the hands of the player who did not disconnect. The options are: redo the battle move for move, redo the battle with the same teams but different moves, or redo the battle with completely different teams. If the battle was without a doubt over, they may also take the win. Any suspicion that a disconnect was committed on purpose to redo a match may be appealed to me, and if I feel this happened there will be severe consequences, don't do it.
Signups will last until about Sunday depending on volume
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