Welcome to the ZU Seasonal! This will be a double elimination tournament in the ZU format, as part of the inaugural Unofficial Metagames Circuit! This tournament will earn you points for the year-long circuit! This tournament will also be a Type A tournament as part of the 2024 ZU Circuit. This will be a double elimination best of three tournament held in the ZU format on Pokemon Showdown. All replays must be posted to the round's thread for a win to count, and each round will take one week.
Here are some Smogon tournament resources:
- Tournament Rules
- Scheduling Guidance
- Smogtours and Smogtours server information
Standard Rules and Clauses
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.
Evasion Clause: Bans abilities, items, and moves that boost Evasion.
About Activity Decisions
Round 12
FINALS-
Scarf Kricketune vs big tony 2014
While I believe our combatants are aware of the rules, i will explain for the viewers at home. SK because he stayed in winners bracket, only has to win one bo3. Big Tony would need to best SK in two bo3s to be crowned the zu seasonal champion. Best of luck to both
No hard deadline because this is finals but aim for by end of next week if at all possible?
Here are some Smogon tournament resources:
- Tournament Rules
- Scheduling Guidance
- Smogtours and Smogtours server information
Standard Rules and Clauses
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.
Evasion Clause: Bans abilities, items, and moves that boost Evasion.
About Activity Decisions
Activity Decisions / Coin Flips: In the event that there is an uncompleted match at the deadline, it will be coin flipped unless one or both of the players involved in the match specifically request an activity win and explain sufficiently why they deserve to win over their opponent. Attempting to schedule a battle is required in order to receive the win by activity. To make it clear that you are requesting an activity win when you post, you must open your post with "Activity Win Request" in bold.
For example, if you believe your opponent is making an unfair request and that they don't deserve the activity win over you, you can either make your own request or quote their post and explain why they don't deserve it. You should try to make your activity win request posts at least 24 hours before the deadline to give your opponent a reasonable opportunity to contest it with their own activity win request.
Host discretion will be applied for all unplayed games. This means that an activity win will not be automatically granted if you post, and a lack of post does not automatically result in a coinflip.
For example, if you believe your opponent is making an unfair request and that they don't deserve the activity win over you, you can either make your own request or quote their post and explain why they don't deserve it. You should try to make your activity win request posts at least 24 hours before the deadline to give your opponent a reasonable opportunity to contest it with their own activity win request.
Host discretion will be applied for all unplayed games. This means that an activity win will not be automatically granted if you post, and a lack of post does not automatically result in a coinflip.
Round 12
FINALS-
Scarf Kricketune vs big tony 2014
While I believe our combatants are aware of the rules, i will explain for the viewers at home. SK because he stayed in winners bracket, only has to win one bo3. Big Tony would need to best SK in two bo3s to be crowned the zu seasonal champion. Best of luck to both
No hard deadline because this is finals but aim for by end of next week if at all possible?
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