The PU Open II - Finals [won by Star]

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Welcome to the second ever PU Open! We've been gone for a couple of years, but this tier is back and better than ever. There hasn't been a PU Open since the mid-ORAS days, so good luck in being the first to take home PU's new new and improved biggest event!

Tournament Rules:
  • General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
  • Grand Slam rules can be found here.
  • Standard SM PU.
  • 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, 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
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.
That aside, feel free to get back to me (or a tournament director if, for some reason, you don't really trust my judgement) if you still have any questions regarding this tournament (or Grand Slam in general) after reading this post. Since this is Smogon's biggest individual PU tournament, I'm expecting a lot of excellent moments, a high level of competition and, eventually, a deserving winner!

The last 3/8ths of signups were randomized as usual, which means it is possible that you signed up earlier than someone else who is playing while you have a substitute. Since we have a lot of substitutes, make sure to contact your opponents as early as possible so you aren't subbed out. I WILL ALSO BE SUBSTITUTING PEOPLE OUT WHO DO NOT CONTACT THEIR OPPONENTS BY WEDNESDAY

Last but not least, aside from points towards qualifying for Grand Slam playoffs, this tournament is part of the PU Tournament Circuit, so points for that will also be awarded accordingly depending on how well you do.

Good luck to all competitors! Replays are required this round, if you don't post them you can't get the win

Finals


Teddeh vs Star

I know star's on vacation and this won't happen before a Sunday deadline, just don't hold up playoffs please
 
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won in 2 ggs
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen7pu-454135
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogtours-gen7pu-454136

i expected pu to be p trash going into the tour tbh but i was pleasantly surprised and had a lot of fun building my own teams esp in later rounds. Big thanks to all the ppl who helped me throughout (especially Finchinator and Eternally) and all the other ppl who put up w/ my incessant testing of whatever new garbage i built when it came to semis/finals. perhaps i wont go undrafted in pupl next year :pirate:
 
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