Tournament-Specific Rules
The home player can choose from one of the following tiers to be played: SV UU, SS UU, SM UU, ORAS UU, BW UU, DPP UU, ADV UU, GSC UU, RBY UU. 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.
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.
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.
Round 1:
[BW] FoulplayG vs Druidus_VGC [SV]
[SV] Corporate Donkey vs ySagaz_ [SS]
[SM] Ampha vs billclintonlol [SV]
[SV] liliou vs krwozen [ADV]
[SV] Pengui123 vs Kapper [SV]
[GSC] BigFatMantis vs SneakySnek [SV]
[BW] Mindnight vs Notily [SV]
[ORAS] TakingNotesKinda vs Catcus [SV]
[SV] Nikebeamz vs Lana [SV]
[SS] dunoks vs feen [GSC]
[ORAS] Fathiryxi vs Megastar54 [SV]
[SV] kimer vs Mik3y [SV]
[ORAS] hxmo vs Corperate n [DPP]
[SV] Meru vs agenS [SM]
[BW] Mister McLovin vs Bye 1
[SM] Calmmind75 vs Bye 2
[GSC] Estarossa vs Bye 3
[SS] Lyra vs Bye 4
[SS] Thunder Pwoell vs Bye 5
[SM] avarice vs Bye 6
[SM] rylon vs Bye 7
[SS] lihj vs Bye 8
[SV] Wanony vs Bye 9
[DPP] Cam vs Bye 10
[GSC] KeshBa54 vs Bye 11
[SV] Sabella vs Bye 12
[SS] alkerin vs Bye 13
[SM] Xiri vs Bye 14
[SM] DKM vs Bye 15
[SS] Baddy vs Bye 16
[SV] memedose46 vs Bye 17
[SM] eifo vs Bye 18
[ORAS] Ineros vs Bye 19
[SV] s moNino vs Bye 20
[SV] mintwinter vs Bye 21
[SS] NDK vs Bye 22
[SV] vinicria vs Bye 23
[ADV] ThatOneApple vs Bye 24
[RBY] PHB11677 vs Bye 25
[ADV] BlackKnight_Gawain vs Bye 26
[SS] Jojen vs Bye 27
[SV] HydreigonTheChild vs Bye 28
[SV] StFirezim vs Bye 29
[SM] Elfuseon vs Bye 30
[SV] Amomeupaieminhamae vs Bye 31
[ORAS] doso749 vs Bye 32
[SM] Tbp24 vs Bye 33
[SS] zepocareca vs Bye 34
[SS] 38baby vs Bye 35
[SV] Goro Yagami vs Bye 36
[SV] paysa vs Bye 37
[SV] LityL vs Bye 38
[SM] mipc vs Bye 39
[SM] Adrift vs Bye 40
[SV] Spy1198 vs Bye 41
[SM] Flareblitzkreig vs Bye 42
[SM] etern vs Bye 43
[SM] IlTempoGigante vs Bye 44
[SV] Ayatou vs Bye 45
[RBY] Tree69420 vs Bye 46
[SV] Cyrakii vs Bye 47
[ADV] eeriespell vs Bye 48
[SS] digo vs Bye 49
[BW] spell vs Bye 50
Subs deadline is going to be Wednesday, October 15th at 11:59 PM GMT+2. Round 1 deadline is going to be Sunday, October 19th at 11:59 PM GMT-4.
