Welcome to the fifth edition of The Ubers Homefield Advantage, a Type B tournament in the Ubers Circuit 2025. Players will sign up with a generation of their choice for a Bo3 single-elimination tournament, with the first game locked to SV 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: SS Ubers, 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 SV 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 SV Ubers will also result in your homefield tier being randomized.
Deadline for signups is 20th June 11:59 pm -4 or when we hit a good number.
Tournament-Specific Rules
The home player can choose from one of the following tiers to be played: SS Ubers, 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.
SV 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.
- Moody Clause
- Bans: King's Rock, Calyrex-Shadow
- 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
Note: If your tier is randomized, it will only be randomized once during sign ups, not per round, for clarification!
Reminder that SV 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 SV Ubers will also result in your homefield tier being randomized.
Deadline for signups is 20th June 11:59 pm -4 or when we hit a good number.
