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Hey everyone, welcome to the second installment of the YouTube RandPoke Tournament! The format is a best of three in Gen 8 OU. Teams consist of 2-3 random Pokemon determined via the !randpoke command. The rest of the Pokemon are the players’ choice.
Players will be pitted against each other, seeded based on their points in the qualifying rounds. Replays are not mandatory but advised for potential disputes, so save them if you’d like to avoid that. There will be a two week long qualifying period, with a maximum of 16 players being able to qualify. Upon qualifying, you’ll be sent an invite to a discord server (optional) that will update you on the current random Pokemon, help schedule with opponents and stay in contact with moderators and tournament organizers.
- This is a standard SWSH OU tournament.
- Teams are required to have the Pokemon displayed via !randpoke.
- This tournament is double elimination.
- Players will play a best of three series for each round.
- Players can switch teams between each game in their series.
- Matches are to be played on the main Pokemon Showdown server or on smogtours.
- Ghosting is banned.
- Scouting—for yourself and for another user—in the qualifying rounds is banned.
- Sleep Clause: A player cannot put two or more different opposing Pokémon to sleep using attacks that induce sleep to opposing Pokémon.
- Species Clause: A player cannot have two of the same Pokémon on their team. For example, a player cannot have two Koffing on his or her team.
- Evasion Clause: A player cannot use the moves Double Team or Minimize in their Pokémon's movesets.
- OHKO Clause: Players cannot use Horn Drill, Guillotine, Sheer Cold, or Fissure in any of their Pokémon's movesets.
- Team Preview: Players must turn on the Team Preview feature where players can view the opposing team's Pokémon and choose their lead Pokémon.
- Timer Clause: If a player exhausts the timer, they lose.
- Endless Battle Clause: Any moveset on any Pokémon that is capable of intentionally causing an endless battle is banned from competitive play. Check this thread for more information.
- Baton Pass Clause: The move Baton Pass is banned outright.
- Uber Clause: Players may not use any items, moves, abilities, or Pokemon that appear on Smogon's OU Ban List. If the tiers change or new items, abilities, moves, or Pokemon become available in the middle of a round, the changes will take effect in the following round. There will be an announcement in the relevant round if this occurs.
- Schedule with your opponents privately or with the #scheduling channel.
- If a match is not completed by the deadline, they will be granted an extension. If players do not play with the extension provided, the match will be declared dead and a coin flip will decide the victor.
The 2-week qualifying round will go as follows:
There will be 2 tournaments in each time frame, meaning upwards of 6 tournaments per day and 84 tournaments throughout the qualifying round. Semi-finalists, the runner-up, and the winner of the room tournaments will receive points that will put them on a leaderboard. Accounts must be registered to earn points. We will not be putting your alts on the leaderboard. If you placed in a tournament with an alternate account, let us know and we can offer one point transfer. Below are the time frames at which tournaments will be made and the points players receive based on player participation.
There will be 2 tournaments in each time frame, meaning upwards of 6 tournaments per day and 84 tournaments throughout the qualifying round. Semi-finalists, the runner-up, and the winner of the room tournaments will receive points that will put them on a leaderboard. Accounts must be registered to earn points. We will not be putting your alts on the leaderboard. If you placed in a tournament with an alternate account, let us know and we can offer one point transfer. Below are the time frames at which tournaments will be made and the points players receive based on player participation.
2 tournaments in each time frame (GMT-4) |
6AM - 8AM |
3PM - 5PM |
9PM - 11PM |
- 24+-man: 3, 5, 8
- 16-man: 2, 4, 6
- 8-man: 1, 3, 5
- Less than 8 players: 1, 2, 3
After 2 weeks pass by, the tournament qualifiers will end. The top 16 players will be seeded based on how many points they earned.
The tournaments held will also use !randpoke right before the tournament, and players are required to use the random Pokemon for their points to count. If someone does not bring the random Pokemon, they’ll be disqualified as soon as possible.
During the top 16 bracket:
The tournaments held will also use !randpoke right before the tournament, and players are required to use the random Pokemon for their points to count. If someone does not bring the random Pokemon, they’ll be disqualified as soon as possible.
During the top 16 bracket:
- Each game in the best of three (including game three) will have different random Pokemon. They will be posted as the round goes up, so players know in advance.
Lastly, to encourage participation and completion of games, we will have a few prizes for the winner: a custom avatar or name color change, and a nomination for voice in the YouTube room.
Room prize winner (^) in the YouTube room • The winner of the tournament will receive the room prize winner (^) role, no matter if their room activity was low.
Link to YouTube room: https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/youtube
Qualifiers will begin August 30 in the YouTube room and will end on the September 13th. Good luck!
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Room prize winner (^) in the YouTube room • The winner of the tournament will receive the room prize winner (^) role, no matter if their room activity was low.
Link to YouTube room: https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/youtube Qualifiers will begin August 30 in the YouTube room and will end on the September 13th. Good luck!
>>>SPREADSHEET<<<
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