Welcome to the third edition of The Ubers Homefield Advantage, a Type B tournament in the Ubers Circuit. Players will sign up with a generation of their choice for a Bo3 single elimination tournament, with the first game locked to SS Ubers. The loser of that game will then play their opponent in the generation they signed up with - giving them "homefield advantage".
Tournament-Specific Rules
The home player can choose from one of the following tiers to be played: USM Ubers, ORAS Ubers, BW Ubers, DPP Ubers, ADV Ubers. Your generation of choice is locked starting from round one, meaning you cannot change it from round to round, make sure to choose wisely!
MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR GENERATION OF CHOICE IN YOUR SIGN-UP POST, OR ELSE YOUR HOMEFIELD GENERATION WILL BE RANDOMIZED FOR THE DURATION OF THE ENTIRE TOURNAMENT AND YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO CHANGE IT, NO EXCEPTIONS!
Note: If your tier is randomized, it will only be randomized once during sign ups, not per round, for clarification!
Reminder that SS Ubers cannot be picked because it is already locked as the first tier to be played, you may only pick from the tiers listed above. Signing up with SS Ubers will also result in your homefield tier being randomized.
Signups close in a week or when we hit a good number.
Tournament-Specific Rules
The home player can choose from one of the following tiers to be played: USM Ubers, ORAS Ubers, BW Ubers, DPP Ubers, ADV Ubers. Your generation of choice is locked starting from round one, meaning you cannot change it from round to round, make sure to choose wisely!
- This tournament will be Single Elimination.
- All rounds will be Best of Three. You may switch teams in between battles of the same set.
- Matches are to be played on Pokemon Showdown!, preferably on the smogtours server.
- General tournament rules and clauses apply.
- Smogon-Wide Clauses still apply. Check out any Generation-Specific clauses below.
- Please save your replays. It is recommended to play on the Smogon Tournaments server due to its ability to automatically save replays.
SS Ubers:
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on his team.
- Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize are banned. (No other evasion boosting things are banned).
- OHKO Clause: The moves Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, and Fissure are banned.
- Endless Battle Clause: Forcing endless battles is banned
- Sleep Clause: Limit one foe put to sleep
- Baton Pass Clause: The move Baton Pass is banned outright.
- HP Percentage Mod: HP is shown in percentages
- Dynamax Clause: You cannot dynamax.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on his team.
- Evasion Clause: Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize are banned. (No other evasion boosting things are banned). The exception to this is BW Ubers
- OHKO Clause: The moves Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, and Fissure are banned.
- Endless Battle Clause: Forcing endless battles is banned
- Sleep Clause: Limit one foe put to sleep
- SleepTrap Clause: A Pokemon cannot use a move that can inflict sleep status on the opponent if it has the ability Shadow Tag.
- Rayquaza is not permitted to Mega Evolve.
- Baton Pass Clause: The move Baton Pass is banned outright.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on his team.
- Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize are banned. (No other evasion boosting things are banned).
- OHKO Clause: The moves Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, and Fissure are banned.
- Endless Battle Clause: Forcing endless battles is banned
- Moody Clause
- Sleep Clause: Limit one foe put to sleep
- Swagger Clause: Swagger is banned
- SleepTrap Clause: A Pokemon cannot use a move that can inflict sleep status on the opponent if it has the ability Shadow Tag.
- Rayquaza is not permitted to Mega Evolve.
- Sleep Clause: Limit one foe put to sleep
- Species Clause: Limit one of each Pokémon
- Moody Clause: Moody is banned
- OHKO Clause: OHKO moves are banned
- Endless Battle Clause: Forcing endless battles is banned.
- Evasion Moves Clause: Evasion moves are banned
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two Pokemon with the same PokeDex number on his team.
- Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize are banned. (No other evasion boosting things are banned).
- OHKO Clause: The moves Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, and Fissure are banned.
- Endless Battle Clause: Forcing endless battles is banned
- Sleep Clause: Limit one foe put to sleep
- Sleep Clause: Limit one foe put to sleep
- Species Clause: Limit one of each Pokémon
- OHKO Clause: OHKO moves are banned
- Evasion Moves Clause: Evasion moves are banned
- Endless Battle Clause: Forcing endless battles is banned
- Wobbuffet / Wynaut + Leftovers is banned
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: The matches must be played on either the Smogtours server or the Main PS! server if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the host(s) and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing on Smogtours.
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
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.
Scheduling
Use VMs to schedule with your opponent to make it easier for me to track activity calls when needed, and use this guide to ensure you don't lose via activity or coinflip. If you use other methods to contact your opponent outside of VMs, then post in this thread confirming you're in contact with your opponent; otherwise, it's not necessary. Extensions for those with time conflicts will only be given when proof is provided of scheduling with their opponent in the beginning of the round, so do not schedule last minute expecting to be compensated in case of timezone conflicts or be given an activity win over your opponent.
I know that was a lot to read, but it is all necessary for me to have posted here so everyone can see it in the case of a dispute. I don't want any confusion or any problems
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: The matches must be played on either the Smogtours server or the Main PS! server if both parties agree to that. Other servers are not sanctioned by the host(s) and playing in them might result in your game not counting. Protect yourself from that by playing on Smogtours.
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
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.
Scheduling
Use VMs to schedule with your opponent to make it easier for me to track activity calls when needed, and use this guide to ensure you don't lose via activity or coinflip. If you use other methods to contact your opponent outside of VMs, then post in this thread confirming you're in contact with your opponent; otherwise, it's not necessary. Extensions for those with time conflicts will only be given when proof is provided of scheduling with their opponent in the beginning of the round, so do not schedule last minute expecting to be compensated in case of timezone conflicts or be given an activity win over your opponent.
I know that was a lot to read, but it is all necessary for me to have posted here so everyone can see it in the case of a dispute. I don't want any confusion or any problems
MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR GENERATION OF CHOICE IN YOUR SIGN-UP POST, OR ELSE YOUR HOMEFIELD GENERATION WILL BE RANDOMIZED FOR THE DURATION OF THE ENTIRE TOURNAMENT AND YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO CHANGE IT, NO EXCEPTIONS!
Note: If your tier is randomized, it will only be randomized once during sign ups, not per round, for clarification!
Reminder that SS Ubers cannot be picked because it is already locked as the first tier to be played, you may only pick from the tiers listed above. Signing up with SS Ubers will also result in your homefield tier being randomized.
Signups close in a week or when we hit a good number.
