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 Three
estra vs Plague
zaeoy vs Poek
Ampha vs lax
AJ vs emoxu9
Skarpherim vs Ryu
entrocefalo vs OranBerryBlissey10
Fc vs tom holland
big tony 2014 vs DAHLI
jay vs zS
Tenebricite vs feen
Django vs Beemo666
StepC vs Metallica126
elodin vs QT
Let's Rumble Shall We vs toshimelonhead
Aurist vs Elfuseon
LOOR vs Colin
mind gaming vs Magician
Gaucho vs DugZa
PolloAriosto vs Thiago Nunes
Rejector vs 16BR
Suzukaaa vs JustFranco
Megastar54 vs Flabeauf
Lime vs Rubyblood
Confide vs RTM
robjr vs sufys
Peum vs Shiba
King Billu vs Vulpix03
Tbp24 vs Sulfura28
Kate vs SoulWind
Paul Robeson vs Irene
KarliTheFrenshie vs RoyalReloaded
E-create vs akxhdwy
mclagno vs Drud
wesh papillon vs Star
agenS vs Xiri
iNasty vs Lightniong
crying vs seraphz
fish anemometer vs TosteTheKnowing
691 vs Meru
etern vs Elgino
Stories vs Ninja
DripLegend vs kimer
Mannuraj vs Leni
eifo vs FakeFan0
Cammellia白山茶 vs Icemaster
naere vs scionicle
Heatranator vs Drookez
Leroipolux1 vs Fogbound Lake
DD Joe vs Bloshh
Archduck vs koopa003
Esteb4n vs moomlight
Lycans vs asa
Mirak vs TheLegendaryJ
Ming549 vs SeaLife
SEROO vs Enzonana.
MichaelderBeste2 vs PigWarrior19
freezai vs ThauanXBB
leoperi vs vikvik33
Sofasportler vs Falancies
Feliburn vs fade
lolebruh vs slowpr0
Arcanine1929 vs THE_CHUNGLER
VyoletRayn vs Tuthur
sayyonara vs pdt
The deadline for this round is Sunday, June 1st at 10:00 PM EDT (GMT -4).
Extension deadline is Wednesday 11pm GMT-4!
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