Welcome to the eighth iteration of the largest PU tournament, the PU Open! Good luck to all competitors!
Tournament Rules:
- General tournament rules and regulations can be found here.
- Grand Slam rules can be found here.
- Standard SV PU.
- Best-of-three, single elimination.
- Battles should take place on Pokemon Showdown!
- SV 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 Moves 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.
That aside, feel free to get back to me (or a tournament director) if you still have any questions regarding this tournament (or Grand Slam in general) after reading this post. In addition to being able to earn points through the PU Open towards qualifying for Grand Slam playoffs, it is part of the PU Tournament Circuit, so points for that will also be awarded accordingly depending on how well you do.
Round Two
crying vs Mik3ymon
Tuthur vs bleahey
GlItChEd890 vs fish anemometer
FlamPoke vs StepC
Ara vs Archduck
Astrø vs Colin
BlackKnight_Gawain vs emoxu9
Void vs feen
Kate vs lighthouses
benladil vs FakeFan0
Lycans vs rarre
Vortex! vs PolloAriosto
PrometheusSpark vs koopa003
NDK vs lolebruh
Tenebricite vs damien the genius
ThauanXBB vs luisin
jay vs doso749
King Billu vs fang_anubis
zS vs Canard
VyoletRayn vs Itsalx21
Sofasportler vs Camerdily
AJ vs SEA
Mok3s vs DugZa
estra vs KeshBa54
Gaurav0p vs 16BR
Airi vs Enzonana.
Vertigo vs lax
giove97 vs seraphz
memedose46 vs Ryu
Tytheguy004 vs SeaLife
naere vs LeBomboclats
scionicle vs davidTheMaster
Ninja vs Oathkeeper
zaeoy vs Mada
Nemosse vs akxhdwy
Ljfe vs sufys
Skarpherim vs RichardMillePlain
mind gaming vs Yovan
Blazing vs fade
Mannuraj vs HoopsspooH
Bloshh vs shuixin
Aurist vs DKM
Mentality vs freezai
Ashbala vs Confide
Leroipolux1 vs PorygonBG
KarliTheFrenshie vs AnandPog
Beemo666 vs S1nn0hC0nfirm3d
LBN vs sayyonara
E-create vs Cicada
Fc vs Calmmind75
Metallica126 vs kyuss
Mirak vs Chloe
yunino vs Drud
Lambovino vs vikvik33
ict vs MichaelderBeste2
Rejector vs Fragments
DripLegend vs MethMaster4546
Elfuseon vs jayju
691 vs Breakfastbiscuit
des121 vs PigWarrior19
Xiri vs Longestbanana
TPP vs pdt
Lightniong vs sensei axew
Cam vs Esteb4n
Feliburn vs sugar ovens
Falancies vs Novi339
OranBerryBlissey10 vs DarmanitanDLuffy
Kaboom vs Plague
slowpr0 vs I will always
Mashing vs mclagno
RTM vs bricknermon
Lime vs 5MGMatthew5
Lily vs tom holland
Poek vs benzoslayer
JustFranco vs seed
Irene vs LogIce
Shiba vs Cow
Cammellia白山茶 vs tegan02
leoperi vs Hats
Leni vs Zoyotte
LOOR vs dunoks
TheFranklin vs etern
Magician vs churrojr
WPP2025 vs Icemaster
jackuzzler vs robjr
Nashrock vs TosteTheKnowing
asa vs RichBMS1
SEROO vs TheBulletInMyHead
Micciu vs SoulWind
Corperate n vs RoyalReloaded
Raichy vs Drookez
no way iz vs eifo
Oofhixd vs Fogbound Lake
OnlyAntagonist47 vs Megastar54
Gaucho vs octanoic
Wafflehousegamin vs Let's Rumble Shall We
Sulfura28 vs Woodwood617
winner of (TheRetiredGod vs kimer) vs Robert7437
Thiago Nunes vs Sificon
Don Bork vs entrocefalo
Vulpix03 vs rrrrr12345
DD Joe vs Taka
moomlight vs MrTact1C
wesh papillon vs Blue YM
Heatranator vs B3N99
Meru vs watashi
iNasty vs Raurone
toshimelonhead vs Quinn
zuzhouwawa vs elodin
DAHLI vs Ellairon308
Peum vs Yves Stone
Bergenser vs big tony 2014
Eternal Spirit vs Suzukaaa
Rubyblood vs Zephyri
A Welcome Guest vs Ampha
Kindyy vs Tbp24
Ming549 vs roxie
Paul Robeson vs SpeedyBlu
jjjnkn vs QT
Mistico02@ vs Django
Arcanine1929 vs Fardin
darkprobz vs THE_CHUNGLER
TheLegendaryJ vs z0mb13
Stories vs yandaud
Shucklegigas vs Star
OllyPokemon vs Elgino
Flabeauf vs Nichalho
agenS vs Bye 1
The deadline for this round is Sunday, May 25th at 10:00 PM EDT (GMT -4).
Extension deadline is Wednesday 11pm GMT-4!
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