Welcome to the fourth iteration of the largest PU tournament, the PU Open! Last open was a wild ride through a constantly changing, DLC-impacted metagame but now we're calling all hopefuls to see who can take home the gold in a more stable version of slam's lowest tier. Still, I'd be remiss not to remind entrants that PU is looking to have some large changes between signups and round 1 with April's shifts right around the corner. Good luck to all competitors!
Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Grand Slam rules can be found here.
- Standard SS PU.
- 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 2
Shrug vs Quaze
Star vs Blanko
Vulpix03 vs Squash
the pharoah vs Monsareeasy
Chaitanya vs Mysterious M
tlenit vs ctproonie217
spanishlines vs Serene Grace
TopLel TopKek vs dahli
Maple vs Toadow
Procopius vs Ainzcrad
MendeeZ vs Zesty43
Eeveeto vs TMM
Enzo Gorlami vs Cam
Teddeh vs Elfuseon
Royal1604 vs (afakedugong vs rahul_3301)
p4P1//0n vs Laurel
LordST vs Bag of Trixx
weird mon vs snaga
ima vs Alkione
Ajna vs frisoeva
Meru vs KSG
Quantum Tesseract vs umbry
Vaboh vs Fakee
watashi vs Kink
Corazan vs Prof.Otaku
ProDigeZz vs false
Rewer vs pj
odr vs robjr
Perry vs DC.
bulufan14 vs Drud
CBU vs MZ
DC vs SoulWind
Youngster_Bill vs Luthier
Boat vs zoowi
TheFranklin vs Aurella
Wingless vs LpZ
Kris vs Xiri
iNoLife vs Nahomitsoa
crucify vs TDK
Malekith vs Yves Stone
Marshall.Law vs Regnite
HJAD vs Hockey1
ThrohTheMan vs Ktütverde
queso vs ToastedBunzzz02
Charmflash vs Poek
Toy Time King vs PureJules
beatiful vs EternalSnowman
Souw vs 5gen
Mac3 vs CathyUwU
tko vs Lambovino
Potatozq vs zS
Quite Quiet vs Perish Song
lotiasite vs eifo
Draphirion vs Ismail
Pannuracotta vs gorex
QWILY vs Feliburn
avarice vs bb skarm
Zephyri vs anime sans
TeamCharm vs KarliTheFrenshie
Accelgor vs Lilburr
giove97 vs kythr
brewfasa vs GW
daniYSB vs Smalls
velvet vs ambipom unviable
Chloe vs natu
fakenagol vs miraage
gglrg vs Kitten Milk
Decem vs zeriloa
(naruto(sage) vs Maxomega) vs e~t~h~e~y
Sacri' vs Antares
I Eat Snoms vs xtra$hine
gum vs Santu
(PinkDragonTamer vs lighthouses) vs Greybaum
jcbc vs Osh
Adaam vs Landon
BloodAce vs Eternal Spirit
Expulso vs WSun1
Raichy vs Estarossa
Ninja vs BK
Wamr vs z0mOG
Sensei Axew vs Bouff
PrinceOfAllTacos vs EviGaro
termi vs S1nn0hC0nfirm3d
Maki vs RampageWebber
Oathkeepre vs lockjaw
yovan33321 vs Kate
DraKeyTT vs maroon
Acselsior13 vs Mr.Bossaru
NHelioX7 vs Roseybear
TONE vs Confide
devin vs pattek
Niko vs Punny
The Disco Devil vs GoldCat
Pepeduce vs Amukamara
Pataozinho vs SOMALIA
Micaiah vs Finchinator
Deadline: April 25th 11:59 PM EDT (GMT-4)
Extension Deadline: April 21st 11:59 PM EDT (GMT -4)
Earlier today the PU Council banned Omastar, Kingler, and Clawitzer. They are all illegal for this round. Do not use them.
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